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Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! as: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. [1]
Sleeping Giant (Ontario), a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula, Ontario, Canada; The Sleeping Giant (Abercraf), local name for hill called Cribarth, Powys, Wales; The Sleeping Giant, a hill near the village of Kinloch Rannoch in Perth and Kinross, Scotland; The Sleeping Giant, a rock formation in the Nausori Highlands, Fiji; The Sleeping ...
God pity us if she wakes. Let her sleep!’ The commonest figure of speech concerning the Empire has been that of a sleeping giant: ‘the awakening of China’ is a stereotyped phrase." [10] 1927: "China’s asleep. Let her sleep. When she awakes, she’ll shake the world" [11] The cover of Time magazine (1 December 1958) says "Let China sleep ...
For decades, UNC has been labeled a “sleeping giant” in football. It’s time to accept the Tar Heels are awake, and this is who they are. N.C. State, meanwhile, proves its grit. Again.
The term “sleeping giant” gets bandied about a lot, but no one denies A&M is one. Eight games doesn’t get you anything, of course. Neither does one great season. A&M needs a long-term leader ...
One Tree Hill alum Bethany Joy Lenz has been candid about her “recovery” after a decade in a cult. “I was in a cult for 10 years,” Lenz said during a July 2023 episode of her “Drama ...
Locals refer to the mountain as "The Sleeping Giant," due to its resemblance to the profile of a prone person at sleep when viewed from Mount Werner or Steamboat Springs, and have created legends to explain this appearance. [3] [4] [5] There are at least six other summits also named Elk Mountain in Colorado.
With signing of Juan Soto, Mets and owner Steve Cohen show that the sleeping giant in Queens is now fully awake. Russell Dorsey. December 9, 2024 at 2:03 AM.