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Eliot H. Bryant, World War II U.S. submarine commander [4] Charles B. Momsen, World War II U.S. submarine force commander, inventor of the Momsen lung [4] Stanley Vejtasa, US Navy Fighter Ace of World War II "The Swedish knight" – Sir Sidney Smith, British naval officer in the Napoleonic Wars who was knighted by the Swedish Crown
The war against poshlost' was a cultural obsession of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia from the 1860s to 1960s. In his novels, Turgenev "tried to develop a heroic figure who could, with the verve and abandon of a Don Quixote , grapple with the problems of Russian society, who could once and for all overcome ' poshlost ', the complacent ...
Fop was a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb , [ 1 ] fribble , popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy , fashion-monger , and ninny .
(informal) old man; (informal) boss; football manager (US: soccer coach); Also in US: (professional) chief electrician on a theatrical or film set. gangway * a path between the rows of seats in a theatre or elsewhere (US aisle ; gangway is a naval command to make a path for an officer)
Hendrik Geeraert – Belgium, skipper and World War I resistance fighter known for opening the Ganzepoot after the Battle of the Yser, flooding the polders and halting the German advance. Geronimo – United States, Apache military leader and medicine man, fought the United States army during the late 19th century, defending his homeland and ...
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
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The Siege of Detroit was an early engagement in the War of 1812, where a smaller British-First Nations force, led by Major-General Isaac Brock and Shawnee leader Tecumseh, used bluff and deception to intimidate Brigadier General William Hull into surrendering the fort, the town of Detroit, and a dispirited American force that nevertheless outnumbered the British and First Nations.