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1940: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, a phrase used by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in 1897 but popularized by Winston Churchill in the first of three inspirational radio addresses during the opening months of World War II. 1940: We Shall Fight on the Beaches, from the second radio talk by Winston Churchill, promising to never surrender.
Rick Blaine is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz), Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact), James Bond (Dr. No and Goldfinger), Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard), Scarlett O'Hara (Gone with the Wind), and The Terminator (The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day) have two quotes each.
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes.
The 50 greatest moments in hip-hop history. August Brown, Kenan Draughorne, Mikael Wood, Keith Murphy, Julian Kimble ... 50th anniversary was to enumerate 50 moments that shaped the culture, one ...
History isn’t all heroes, celebrations, and groundbreaking discoveries. Behind the triumphs are moments of unimaginable pain and tragedy, events many would prefer to forget. But as uncomfortable ...
An 1885 Robert Harris painting, A Meeting of the School Trustees, depicted in the 1992 Heritage Minute episode "Rural Teacher", on the benefits of pedagogy. The Heritage Minutes is a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history.
Debates are a time for the public to truly get a sense of their nominees. It is believed that debates can truly make, or break a candidate. Here are some of the most iconic moments from debate ...
Decisive Moments in History (German: Sternstunden der Menschheit, lit. 'Stellar Moments of Humankind') is a 1927 history book by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig . [ 1 ] It started off with only five miniatures in its first edition and grew to a collection of 14 with later editions.