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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.
God pity us if she wakes. Let her sleep!’ The commonest figure of speech concerning the Empire has been that of a sleeping giant: ‘the awakening of China’ is a stereotyped phrase." [10] 1927: "China’s asleep. Let her sleep. When she awakes, she’ll shake the world" [11] The cover of Time magazine (1 December 1958) says "Let China sleep ...
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 ...
The Sleeping Warrior — the profile of Arran, [2] here seen from Bute. The Old Man of Hoy in Orkney is a rock pillar that from certain angles is said to resemble a standing man.
Sleeping Giant (Ontario), a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula, Ontario, Canada; The Sleeping Giant (Abercraf), local name for hill called Cribarth, Powys, Wales; The Sleeping Giant, a hill near the village of Kinloch Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland; The Sleeping Giant, a rock formation in the Nausori Highlands, Fiji; The Sleeping ...
Graham Cooper and Adrian Ballinger, California mountaineers whose training for Mt. Everest included sleeping for months in hypoxic tents that mimic conditions at extreme altitude, reached the ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) is the first auction house to specialize in 20th century Modern art and design. Founded by Peter Loughrey in 1992, LAMA especially champions Modern and Contemporary works by California and West Coast artists and designers.