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Kipling did not invent the expression "paying someone Dane-geld"; but it has become attached to him, even in books of quotations. In the 1930s, it was invoked against the British government's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany. [4] [7] In 1984, Margaret Thatcher quoted Kipling (Stanza 6) in her Conservative Party speech in Brighton.
The forefathers of the Americans did not leave their native country, and subject themselves to every danger and distress, to be reduced to a state of slavery: they did not give up their rights; they looked for protection, and not for chains, from their mother country; by her they expected to be defended in the possession of their property, and ...
Bond slackers" (the popular term at the time for people who did not buy war bonds, or did not buy them in sufficient quantity) could be run out of town, [46] might lose their jobs, [47] have their property stolen [48] or vandalized, [49] might be tarred-and-feathered, [50] otherwise tortured, [51] coated in paint, [52] threatened with murder ...
Image credits: Flares117 Another interesting fact about the family who couldn't sleep comes from Redditor u/Potatoe_expert.Science writer and author of the book about said family The Family That ...
Most people pay little attention to the Federal Reserve and monetary policy. But they have an outsized impact on your bank accounts. The Fed didn’t budge on rates.
He also didn't have sound explanations for past statements casting doubt about vaccines, comparing the CDC's work to "Nazi death camps," saying it "highly likely" Lyme disease was a military ...
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. The World English Bible translates the passage as: "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill." For a collection of other versions see BibleGateway Matthew 5:17.
Simpson was later found liable for Nicole and Ron's deaths in a civil suit filed by their families and ordered to pay them $33.5 million. ... Simpson didn’t state what kind of cancer he had been ...