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serpent

[sur-puhnt] / ˈsɜr pənt /
NOUN
reptile
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John Kani was on his way to joining the Umkhonto We Sizwe paramilitary wing in 1965 when he took a detour to a Serpent Players drama group rehearsal in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

“This Is Where the Serpent Lives” has all the strengths of that earlier work and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

He went on to work with the Serpent Players, a group of black actors, and performed in black townships, despite harassment from the apartheid regime's security forces.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

Two American Black Hawk helicopters crashed in which city in 1993 during part of Operation Gothic Serpent?

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024

The street we lived on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel




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