Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vermont Royster offers a possible origin to the phrase attributed to Napoleon, "China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakes the world will tremble". [2] An abridged version of the quotation is also featured in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor. The 2019 film Midway also features Yamamoto speaking aloud the sleeping giant quote.
His poem "The Walloping Window Blind" can be sung to the same tune as Ten Thousand Miles Away, using the same refrain (or with minor changes). [4] It has been variously named "Capital Ship", "Blow, Ye Winds, Heigh-Ho", and "The Walloping Window-Blind". [5] It was called "Capital Ship" by Bounding Main on their 2005 album Lost at Sea. [6]
The motifs A 571 [clarification needed] "Cultural hero asleep in mountain", and E 502, "The Sleeping Army" are similar and can occur in the same tale. [1] A related motif is the "Seven Sleepers" (D 1960.1, [ 2 ] also known as the " Rip Van Winkle " motif), whose type tale is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ( AT tale type 766).
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
God pity us if she wakes. Let her sleep!’ The commonest figure of speech concerning the Empire has been that of a sleeping giant: ‘the awakening of China’ is a stereotyped phrase." [10] 1927: "China’s asleep. Let her sleep. When she awakes, she’ll shake the world" [11] The cover of Time magazine (1 December 1958) says "Let China sleep ...
[2] The mumbling giant, perhaps a lumberjack sharpening his axe, may be compared to the bucks whose course is changed by the firecat poet in "Earthy Anecdote", here replaced by three girls. The poet challenges and changes the ordinary. The yokel may be checked, abashed, and undone. Maybe he is changed.
No one will ever accuse former President Donald Trump of being woke. But over a few hours Monday, he transformed from an uninterested observer at his own hush money trial — eyes shut at times ...
"Wake this sleeping giant!" That is the message voters impacted by poverty, faith leaders and coordinators of the Poor People's Campaign chanted at a press conference held Tuesday in front of the ...