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  2. Ichi-go ichi-e - Wikipedia

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    Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一 期 一 会, pronounced [it͡ɕi.ɡo it͡ɕi.e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been roughly translated as "for this time only", and "once in a lifetime".

  3. The Signifying Monkey - Wikipedia

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    On publication in 1988, The Signifying Monkey received both widespread praise and notoriety. The prominent literary critic Houston A. Baker wrote that it was "a significant move forward in Afro-American literary study" [6] and Andrew Delbanco wrote that it put Gates "at the forefront of the most significant reappraisal of African-American critical thought since the 1960s". [7]

  4. Herri met de Bles - Wikipedia

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    Landscape with a Foundry, oil on panel (between 1525 and 1550), National Gallery Prague. Herri met de Bles, also known as Henri Bles, Herri de Dinant, Herry de Patinir,(c. 1490 – after 1566), was a Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter, native of Bouvignes or Dinant (both in present-day Belgium).

  5. These are the movie quotes everyone gets wrong - AOL

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    The correct quote is 'If you build it, he will come.' 'Wall Street' Though Gordon Gekko definitely thinks greed is good, his quote is actually 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.'

  6. St Crispin's Day Speech - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in the 15th century 'St Albans Chronicle' by Thomas Walsingham. The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67.

  7. André Gide - Wikipedia

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    [41] "Here, as in the oeuvre as a whole, what strikes one first is the variety. Here, too, we see Gide's curiosity, his youthfulness, at work: a refusal to mine only one seam, to repeat successful formulas...The fiction spans the early years of Symbolism, to the "comic, more inventive, even fantastic" pieces, to the later "serious, heavily ...

  8. François d'O - Wikipedia

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    This term originally meant companions, however it began to take on a pejorative meaning as it was used by Henri's enemies. [2] Henri appointed d'O as his master of the wardrobe and first gentleman of the chamber. D'O had a reputation for violence and in 1575 was responsible for the murder of a Huguenot nobleman. [6]

  9. Treaty of Chambord - Wikipedia

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    Entrance of King Henri II in Metz on 18 April 1552. After Emperor Charles V had defeated a number of revolting Protestant princes in the Schmalkaldic War, he in 1548 issued the geharnischt (sharply worded) Augsburg Interim in order to re-integrate the Lutheran movement into the established Catholic Church and to prevent the split of the Empire.