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President-elect Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense -- and he is eminently quotable.
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.
A general order issued by George Washington on February 20, 1776, when he was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, directed that "it is necessary that every Regiment should be furnished with Colours" and the "Number of the Regiment is to be mark'd on the Colours, and such a Motto, as the Colonel may choose, in fixing upon which, the ...
On December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an inspirational statement was made by Don McNeill during the NBC radio broadcast of Don McNeill’s Breakfast Club. His statement ended: ...and also don’t forget, sometimes you can strike a giant who is dozing momentarily, when the giant is awakened, look out.
The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.The biographer Michael Ainger, however, doubts that Gilbert intended a caricature of Wolseley, identifying instead the older General Henry Turner, an uncle of Gilbert's wife whom Gilbert disliked, as a more likely inspiration for the satire.
A New York Times best-selling author, Hegseth has frequently commented on military policy and suggested one of his first orders of business would be firing any generals who supported the Pentagon ...
American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army [69] Mad Mike Hoare: 1919–2020: 100: Irish soldier and mercenary [70] James D. Hughes: 1922–2024: 101: American Air Force general [71] Frederick Augustus Irving: 1894–1995: 101: American Army general and West Point Military Academy Superintendent [72] Albin F. Irzyk: 1917 ...
The start of the game A map of A Mind Forever Voyaging world by Aaron A. Reed from 50 Years of Text Games project. The story is set in the United States of North America, which is similar to the real-world United States, in the year 2031. The player controls PRISM, the world's first sentient computer. [2]