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The practice of throwing a gauntlet in response to a challenge has its origins in antiquity. In Book 5 of the Aeneid, Entelus responds to the challenge of the boxer Dares by throwing his caestus (boxing glove, or gauntlet) into the boxing ring. To "throw down the gauntlet" is to issue a challenge.
Down in the Groove (1988) ... throwing down the gauntlet for most of his peers to release ambitious double albums in the years ahead.
King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan. 20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet.
Lord Eglinton immediately ordered the ladies into carriages, [45] but the knights and their entourages, soon soaked in the squall and covered in mud, marched into the lists down a parade route lined by the umbrella bearing audience. [46] A view of the lists. The tiltyard was designed by Samuel Luke Pratt, with stands to hold 2,000. [47]
Question: (I couldn't find the answer on the Internet. ) If Knight A throws down a gauntlet, and Knight B picks up the gauntlet, does Knight B hand the gauntlet back to Knight A before the fight? If Knight A threw away his gauntlet, he might be forced to fight without it. Or did knights carry spare ceremonial gauntlets for throwing down?
OpenAI's ChatGPT is rolling out a new search tool, taking on Google's search reign with real-time answers and conversational query processing.
The automaker has thrown down a gauntlet for Tesla, which faces a battle to beat 2023's record sales. ... throwing down a gauntlet for Tesla as Elon Musk's company scrambles to meet its own annual ...
The Challenge is a reality competition show on MTV that is a spin-off of two of the network's reality shows: The Real World and Road Rules.The series premiered on April 20, 1998, [1] and was originally titled Road Rules: All Stars.