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  2. The dogs of war (phrase) - Wikipedia

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    In a literal reading, "dogs" are the familiar animals, trained for warfare; "havoc" is a military order permitting the seizure of spoil after a victory; and "let slip" is to release from the leash. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch 's Lives , and the concept of the war dog ...

  3. Chaos (cosmogony) - Wikipedia

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    In both cases, chaos referring to a notion of a primordial state contains the cosmos in potentia but needs to be formed by a demiurge before the world can begin its existence. The use of chaos in the derived sense of "complete disorder or confusion" first appears in Elizabethan Early Modern English, originally implying satirical exaggeration ...

  4. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    The meaning is that something undesirable is going to happen again and that there is not much else one can do other than just endure it. The Log, the humour magazine written by and for Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy, featured a series of comics entitled "The Bohica Brothers", dating back to the early 1970s. [citation needed]

  5. Trump's policy priorities suggest courtroom chaos would ...

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    Trump’s impulsive leadership style and frequent controversial pronouncements played a complicating role in the administration’s many court battles during his time in office.

  6. Chaos theory - Wikipedia

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    As suggested in Lorenz's book entitled The Essence of Chaos, published in 1993, [6]: 8 "sensitive dependence can serve as an acceptable definition of chaos". In the same book, Lorenz defined the butterfly effect as: "The phenomenon that a small alteration in the state of a dynamical system will cause subsequent states to differ greatly from the ...

  7. Mayhem (crime) - Wikipedia

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    After such uses, the term abounded for centuries in journalese, such as reporting "rioting and mayhem", which readers misunderstood as meaning "havoc, chaos or pandemonium", and started the usual modern use of the word "mayhem". There is also the term "general mayhem" which involves a lot of anti-social activities happening.

  8. Chaos - Wikipedia

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    Chaos, a genus of amoebae; 19521 Chaos, an object in space; Chaos terrain, an area of jumbled surface topography in planetary geology; Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics ...

  9. Olethros - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greek mythology, Olethros / ˈ ɒ l ɪ ˌ θ r ɒ s / (Greek: ὄλεθρος) was the personification of havoc and probably one of the Makhai. [citation needed]Olethros translates roughly in ancient Greek to "destruction", but often with a positive connotation, as in the destruction required for and preceding renewal.