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The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]
In an era of strongman politics, when the presidency has become the focal point of all too much passion, there's a lot to be said for James Earl Carter's comparatively modest conception of the ...
"Chamber of Little Ease" in the Tower of London. Little Ease was a prison cell located beneath the White Tower in the Tower of London. [1] [2] The lightless cell was designed 1.2 metres (3 ft 11 in) on a side, meaning that while an adult human could be placed inside, any occupant was prevented from being able to either stand, sit, or lie down, meaning it was impossible for him to find any ...
Baron Munchausen pulls himself out of a mire by his own hair.. In epistemology, the Münchhausen trilemma is a thought experiment intended to demonstrate the theoretical impossibility of proving any truth, even in the fields of logic and mathematics, without appealing to accepted assumptions.
“‘Oh that was a hard phone call, I’m going to sit on the couch and take some nice deep, slow breaths or listen to music.’” O’Halloran says that “a lot of times parents really have to ...
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” — Tony Robbins “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” — H.G. Wells. Short Quotes
Modesty, sculpture by Louis-Léopold Chambard, 1861 Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century. Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others.
United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (an exchange officer from the Royal Air Force), to put the base on alert (condition red, the most intense lockdown status), confiscate all privately owned radios from base personnel and issue "Wing Attack Plan R" to the planes of the ...