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D4estOn April 18th, 1775 the signal was to tell Paul Revere whether the British were going to approach Lexington by sea or by land. A...
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yes of course you retard roman has the first three letters in Rome duh
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The phrase "Two Heads Are Better Than One" means that if many people work together to do want they want to achieve, more will be...
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Very few details are known of Fibonacci's life; we can't even say for sure in which decades his birth and death occurred, much...
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It means you can find someone higher in status than you to blame for whatever problem has arisen, or been proved to have occurred.
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Mortified. Ashamed. Compromised. Guiltily offended. Humbled.
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1.) Life 2.) Liberty 3.) Pursuit of Happiness 4.) Freedom of Expression 5.) Protection of oneself and ones property
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The British art critic Lawrence Alloway, in 1954. He was married to the feminist realist painter Sylvia Sleigh.
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Many festivals are a reflection of our relationship with the land , fertility, or with spiritual beliefs of various descriptions....
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It is unclear to me who said what you're asking, and it's quite possible that Joseph Campbell or some other academic wrote...
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It is the day Julius Ceasar was assassinated (March 15th, 44BC) The phrase was immortalized by Shakespeare in his play Julius...
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From 1929-1939 Mexicans and Mexican Americans [citizens of the U.S.] were deported. According to the book, Decade of Betrayal,...
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Louis XIV is usually given credit for that quotation. He was nicknamed the 'roi-soleil' (the Sun King) and reigned for 72 years....
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"December 7, 1941, A day that will live in infamy" President of U.S. FD Roosevelt "the only thing needed for the rise of evil is...
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To say that there is no love lost between two people means that they dislike each other.
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Robert F. Kennedy may have said this in a speech somewhere at some time but if he did, he was quoting George Bernard Shaw. What...
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It's just an old saying. The saying comes from the Round Heads being sent to prison in Coventry. Their punishment, besides being...
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some people think of the glass as half empty, some half full, me, i am just thinking "are you going to drink that?"
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one day in his life
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There's an old story Dr. Samuel Mudd pitied John Wilkes Booth, who killed Abraham Lincoln. Mudd treated the broken ankle Booth...
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LOL, 'Off The Hook' is somewhat slang. When used about a girl, boy, movie, drug just about anything... It's saying that the...
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Yes, but mostly on the Central Pacific railroad. they made up most of the working force, and were very efficient. just type in...
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That quote is not quite accurate, but that's the way I've seen it most on the internet. The original is from Lincoln's Jan. 27....
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People don't kill people, people with mustaches do! Thriteen members signed the bill of rights. 13 times 2 is 26, the number of...
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Quote from Benjamin Franklin-fasting means to "go without"; hope means to wish or almost expect that it will happen. well, if you...
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The answer is "a good offense." Added: Ones mind is the primary self-defense tool. Use your ability to think, be aware, look,...
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Carl Von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) was a Prussian soldier best known for his military treatise, 'Von Kriege' (On War) and the...
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It came from the time when cooking was done in a pot and water was boiled in a kettle by hanging them over a fire. They both got...
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Perhaps the expression you want is "limb from limb" and not "from limb to limb."
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It means that retaliation causes more problems than it resolves.
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yes amd john smith was a colonist from England
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Euromast and the cube houses
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Estou a tentar aprender Português (European Portuguese) Estou -> I am a -> particle tentar -> trying aprender ->...
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backward foreward toward untoward
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va·le2 (vā'lē, wä'lā) interj. Used to express leave-taking or farewell. n. A farewell. [Latin valē, sing. imperative of...
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Lysander says it to Hermia in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1, line 134.
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The most common translation would be: "Francamente, querida, me importa un comino. ( roughly, "Frankly, my dear, it's as...
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Queen Elizabeth I of England died in the year 1603. She had been queen for 45 years, which was ages at the time.
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Dick the butcher in Henry VI Part 2 Act 4, scene 4 71-78.
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temporal - 1. earthly (as opposed to spiritual); 2. secular (as opposed to ecclesiastical).
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honesty, bravery, self-control, self-esteem, and unselfishness.
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It's a line from the play of Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis Clos (No Exit). In this play, several characters are left to sit in a...
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"Honesty is the best policy" is one of the most popular maxims in the English language - perhaps the most popular. In a poll...
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I'm in Australia and my dad is a business consultant that helps the department of education...health and those stuff. yes, he's a...
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Do you mean "metaphor"? If so, it means she was afraid--terror-stricken, even. She was so chilled by fear that it was as if her...
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The various forms of this idea derive from the fourth stanza of the critically panned poem "Invictus" by W.H. Henley I am the...
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Type Cabbalism into Google and read the answers there.
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An original signed first edition/first printing RARE 1936 Gone With the Wind book -- $9300.00
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Magic tricks, or illusions, fool the audience by various means. These might include wires, hidden doors, mirrors, smoke, or just...
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This is NOT a professional answer, but in my opinion, what Henry David Thoreau meant when he said that is: If you are good to...
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ignoti non ignorati
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There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
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Space Alien--------------IceHorsee from brown server
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JULIAN of Norwich, a lovely lady who lived from 1342 to about 1416, and whose mystical writings include the mantra 'All shall be...
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Bannana Man, Batman, Burt Reynolds, Bond, Beatles, Billy Joel, Beale, Blobby? There are loads out there! Bob Mc Grath (Bob from...
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No it was potato, which he spelled "potatoe."
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Actually, Andres Bonifacio started the revolution and because Rizal was in favor of Andres, he supported him in the revolution by...
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Think it derives from the similar terms "rich man's family" or "choix du roi" One son--to inherit and rule the estate...no...
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This quote is from The Aeneid by Virgil.
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The quote is originally from Mark Twain = Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910). It has also been...
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Not yeats, William B. Sprague.
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The 3 Musketeers said, "All for one, and one for all!"
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb in 1945. According to...
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home sweet home. Bring home the bacon There's no place like home Bring the point home, Drive the point home etc. hometown hero...
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This was not "stephen grayhm" who was born in 1981. This quote or versions of it go back at least to Poor Richard's Almanac in...
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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks
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"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger...
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"If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it." - George Bernard Shaw "I...
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"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to...
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"It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are." -O. Henry Porter "Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods."...
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"To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware." -David Byrne "There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to...
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"I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex." -John Malkovich "The ultimate end of...
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This phrase originated in a popular song of the 1880s, "Is That Mr. Reilly?" by Pat Rooney, which described what its hero would...
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"This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat." -Walt Whitman "Clowns...
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"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days." -Charles Lamb "Washington's birthday is as...
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"Golf is a good walk spoiled." -Mark Twain "When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't...
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"I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and...
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what...
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"Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown."...
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No, John F. Kennedy did in his inaugeration speech.
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William Wordsworth
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how shoud i know. im only 12
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A Bioweapon or biological weapon is one which releases a poisonous gas. Most people are infected by breathing it in or going near...
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To err is to make a mistake. To make a mistake is human. Humans are not perfect. They make mistakes. To make a mistake is to be...
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"A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats." -Nathaniel Hawthorne "There are no chaste minds. Minds...
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