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Original 1939 poster. Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II.The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.
According to Stone, "By standing firm under interrogation, the Atsuhara peasants had proved their faith in Nichiren's eyes, graduating in his estimation from 'ignorant people' to devotees meriting equally with himself the name of 'practitioners of the Lotus Sutra.'" [52]: 166, 168–169 During this time Nichiren inscribed 114 mandalas that are ...
Faithful, loyal, firm and true Heart bound to heart will beat Year by year, the ages through Until in Heaven we meet. So, farewell, dear Alma Mater May thy name, we pray, Be rev’renced ever, pure, and stainless As it is today. Faithful, loyal, firm and true Heart bound to heart will beat Year by year, the ages through Until in Heaven we meet.
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January 20, 2009 was a cold day in Washington D.C., with temperatures hovering right below freezing, but an estimated 1.8 million people flooded onto the National Mall to see incoming President ...
Some traditions like a Christmas feast and caroling mirror those in other countries, but several Belarusian Christmas rituals and superstitions stand out, according to the tourism agency, such as ...
Many mottos and slogans around the world and throughout history have contrasted freedom and death. Some examples: The phrase "Vivre Libre ou Mourir" ("live free or die") was used in the French Revolution. [11] It was the subtitle of the journal by Camille Desmoulins, titled Le Vieux Cordelier, written during the winter of 1793–1794.
Brigadier-General Stand Watie (Cherokee: ᏕᎦᏔᎦ, romanized: Degataga, lit. 'Stand firm'; December 12, 1806 – September 9, 1871), also known as Standhope Uwatie and Isaac S. Watie , was a Cherokee politician who served as the second principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1862 to 1866.