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  2. Old Major - Wikipedia

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    In the 1999 version (voiced by Peter Ustinov), Farmer Jones slips in mud while investigating the sounds coming from the barn, setting off his shotgun and indirectly hitting Major in his backside so that he staggers backward and falls from the top of the barn to his death. Major is broadly based on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. [5] [1] [6]

  3. Jones (Animal Farm) - Wikipedia

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    Instigated by Old Major who is 12, the animals rebel by driving out Mr. Jones, his wife and his workers, and removing him from power, supposedly ending the days of extreme hunger and hard labour. In the second chapter, an exiled Jones lives at the Red Lion Inn, where he feels sorry for himself and commiserates with sympathetic and perplexed ...

  4. William Blinn - Wikipedia

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    Blinn was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Clare Allen and Pearl Ariel (Schaeffer) Blinn. [2] Blinn began his career in television in the 1960s. As a screenwriter, Blinn wrote episodes of Rawhide, Gunsmoke, The Rookies, Here Come the Brides, and Shane (where he was also story editor), [3] and Fame (where he also served as executive producer). [4]

  5. List of speeches - Wikipedia

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    1880: Dostoyevsky's Pushkin Speech, a speech delivered by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in honour of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. 1890–1900s: Acres of Diamonds speeches by Temple University President Russell Conwell, the central idea of which was that the resources to achieve all good things were present in one's own community.

  6. Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

  7. Origin of speech - Wikipedia

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    Agent-based computer models take the perspective of self-organisation at the level of the speech community or population. The two main paradigms are (1) the iterated learning model and (2) the language game model. Iterated learning focuses on transmission from generation to generation, typically with just one agent in each generation. [65]

  8. Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address - Wikipedia

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    Modern writers and historians generally consider the speech to be a masterpiece and one of the finest presidential inaugural addresses, with the final lines having earned particularly lasting renown in American culture. Literary and political analysts likewise have praised the speech's eloquent prose and epideictic quality. [12] [13]

  9. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    In the original draft of the Bill of Rights, what is now the First Amendment occupied third place. The first two articles were not ratified by the states, so the article on disestablishment and free speech ended up being first. [1] [2] The Bill of Rights was proposed to assuage Anti-Federalist opposition to Constitutional ratification.