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Vladimir Dal was a famous lexicographer of the Russian Empire whose collection was published in Russian language in the late 19th century as The Sayings and Bywords of the Russian People, featuring more than 30,000 entries. They continue to endure in modern literature and folklore.
In 1995, the similar phrase "Trust and Verify" was used as the motto of the On-Site Inspection Agency (now subsumed into the Defense Threat Reduction Agency). [11]In 2000, David T. Lindgren's book about how interpretation, or imagery analysis, of aerial and satellite images of the Soviet Union played a key role in superpowers and in arms control during the Cold War was titled Trust But Verify ...
Jarosław Grzegorz Pacuła briefly discussed the saying's origins, pointing to older similar sayings in English, such as 18th-century Scottish jurist Lord Braxfield's "Let them bring me prisoners, and I will find them law" and the Russian proverb "If there is a neck, there is a collar" (Была бы шея, а хомут найдётся; or ...
Your own working class will bury you", [11] a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism" (in the Russian translation of Marx, the word "undertaker" is translated as a "grave digger", Russian: могильщик), based on the concluding statement in Chapter 1 of the Communist Manifesto: "What the ...
To hang noodles on the ears (Russian: вешать лапшу на уши, veshat' lapshu na ushi) [a] is a Russian-language idiomatic expression that means to deceive or fool someone. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to journalist Alexander Kleimenov, in both Russian and Ukrainian, it is similar to the English expression to pull somebody's leg , [ 3 ...
Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. ' anecdotes ') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line , which commonly appear in Russian humor . Russian joke culture includes a series of categories with fixed settings and characters.
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
"Say Victory to Mother India" Punjab Regiment "Sthal wa jal" Hindi "By land and sea" "Jo bole So Nihal, sat sri akal"; "Bol Jawala Ma ki jai" "He who cries 'God is truth' is ever happy"; "Say victory to Goddess Jawala" Madras Regiment "Swadharme nidhanam shreyaha" Sanskrit "It is a glory to die doing one's duty" "Veera Madrasi, adi kollu, adi ...