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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 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement was a series of anti-government [d] and pro- democracy [e] protests in Bangladesh, spearheaded primarily by university students. Initially focused on restructuring quota-based systems for government job recruitment, the movement expanded against what many perceive as an authoritarian government when ...
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.
Internet meme. An Internet meme, or meme (/miːm/, "MEEM"), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs, and other viral content.
Simone Biles is poking fun at herself by re-creating the intense stare that became a meme during the 2024 Paris Olympics. The gold medal-winning gymnast, 27, posted a funny video Aug. 19 on TikTok ...
A picture is worth a thousand words. 1913 newspaper advertisement. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that ...
Pepe the Frog (/ ˈpɛpeɪ / PEP-ay) is a comic character and Internet meme created by cartoonist Matt Furie. Designed as a green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body, Pepe originated in Furie's 2005 comic Boy's Club. [ 2 ] The character became an Internet meme when his popularity steadily grew across websites such as Myspace, Gaia Online ...
Jamie Wilkinson (right) and Kenyatta Cheese at ROFLCon II, 2010. Know Your Meme was created in December 2007 as a series of videos which were part of the vlog Rocketboom.It was founded by employees Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree and Jamie Wilkinson, and Rocketboom CEO Andrew Baron in their spare time, when host Joanne Colan could not finish the current season of Rocketboom. [3]