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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.
Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
In 1967, journalist Jess Stearn authored a Cayce biography titled The Sleeping Prophet. [ 121 ] [ 122 ] A book on Cayce and Atlantis was published in 1968. In 1968, Curt Gentry 's novel The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California told of a cataclysmic California earthquake that had been foretold by Cayce in 1941.
This deal has Steve Cohen’s fingerprints all over it. This would never have come to pass under the old Mets ownership. A big reason that Soto’s mega-deal reached the $765-million threshold is ...
San Francisco's yearly per-tent cost of "safe sleeping villages" $34,000 Portland, Oregon's estimated yearly per-tent cost of running yet-to-be-established, city-sanctioned tent encampments
Shigenori Nishikaichi, the pilot who became the center of the Niʻihau incident. On December 7th, 1941, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi, who had taken part in the second wave of the Pearl Harbor attack, crash-landed his battle-damaged aircraft, an A6M2 Zero "B11-120", from the carrier Hiryu, in a Ni'ihau field near where Hawila Kaleohano, a native Hawaiian, was standing. [5]
Michael Likosky and Laura Norén 26 April 2012 - Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University Law & Public Finance Center on Selection Filter
A Times story in 1937 chronicled Frank Critzer's efforts to build a home under Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert. The article made a point of saying that an Oldsmobile helped make the trip from L.A ...