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Naval historian and first world war Royal Navy veteran Captain S.W. Roskill assessed the situation at sea as follows: There is no doubt at all that in 1918 Allied anti-submarine forces inflicted a heavy defeat on the U-boats ... the so-called 'stab in the back' by the civil population's collapse is a fiction of German militaristic imagination ...
Although Suetonius, Cassius Dio, and probably Plutarch as well seem to have believed Caesar died without saying anything further, [12] the first two also reported that, according to others, Caesar had spoken the Greek phrase "καὶ σύ τέκνον" (Kaì sý, téknon - You too, child) to Brutus, as (in Suetonius) or after (in Dio) that senator struck at him.
Scroll through to find out what Trump and ten more of the world's most powerful people have to say about ambition, command, and leadership. Melissa Stanger contributed to an earlier version of ...
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Trusted Companions Tried to Kill Me, but Thanks to the Gift of an Unlimited Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge on My Former Party Members and the World (信じていた仲間達にダンジョン奥地で殺されかけたがギフト『無限ガチャ』でレベル9999の仲間達を手に入れて元パーティーメンバーと世界 ...
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2]
In “My Friends,” a woman seeks real-life inspiration for one of the most famous paintings in the world – three tiny figures sitting on a pier. Twenty-five years earlier, three teenagers ...
Kyler Murray - Contract value: $230.5 million - Career NFL record: 34-43-1 - Approximate career value: 62. 2018 Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray was the top pick in the 2019 NFL draft.
Bloch's reference to the life of a dog may have been picked up by The Doors in a verse of their 1971 song "Riders on the Storm": "Into this world we're thrown / Like a dog without a bone." In 2009, Simon Critchley dedicated his column on The Guardian to Heidegger's concept of thrownness and explained it using the aforementioned verse of The ...