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War artist Thomas Lea's The Two-Thousand Yard Stare An exhausted U.S. Marine exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the Battle of Eniwetok, February 1944. The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare ) is a phrase often used to describe the blank , unfocused gaze of people experiencing ...
The 2006 St. Lawrence leg of the hunt was officially closed on 3 April 2006; sealers had already exceeded the quota by 1,000 animals. [65] On 26 March 2007, the Newfoundland and Labrador government launched a seal hunt website to counter "misinformation about the sealing industry that is [published] by international animal rights organizations ...
The first known instance of the phrase "a thousand points of light" appears in Arthur C. Clarke 's short story "Rescue Party," initially published in Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1946: One entire wall of the control room was taken up by the screen, a great black rectangle that gave an impression of almost infinite depth.
Dispatches is a 1977 book. The phrase "thousand yard stare" starting appearing in books in 1945. While Dispatches may have been a significant book in terms of the Vietnam War and two movies based on it it does not seem significant in terms of the phrase "thousand yard stare." -- Marc Kupper | talk 19:40, 1 November 2017 (UTC) Reply.
The Hundred Flowers Campaign, also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement (Chinese: 百花齐放) and the Double Hundred Movement (双百方针), was a period from 1956 to 1957 in the People's Republic of China during which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by Mao Zedong, proposed to "let one hundred flowers bloom in social science and arts and let one hundred points of view be expressed in ...
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
List of Deadliest Catch episodes. Deadliest Catch is a documentary television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab, bairdi crab, and opilio crab fishing seasons. The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska ...
The $100,000 bill, a gold certificate from Series 1934, is the largest denomination banknote ever produced in the United States; it was printed to facilitate transactions between Federal Reserve Banks, and was never issued for usage by the public. Gold certificates were first authorized under the Legal Tender Act of 1863, but unlike the United ...