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Poland 1892 The city of Lodz in modern Poland came to prominence in the mid-nineteenth century as a textile production center. Part of the Kingdom of Poland, the city was the most important manufacturing center in the Russian Empire and t...
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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior....
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Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top. Guts are a com...
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Smile when it hurts most. It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged....
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Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love....
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Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 In short: in all his ways and walks, whether as touching his own business, or his dealings with other men, he must keep his heart with all diligence, lest he do aught, or turn aside to aught, or ...
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I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do....
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One of the most widely discussed and renowned twentieth-century authors, D. H. Lawrence remains intriguing and problematic in terms of his biography, his writings, and his prophetic role. In his relatively short life, he was a prolific aut...
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Among the 1950s poets who rejected the modernist tradition, D.J. Enright deserves a secure place. Though sometimes associated with The Movement and sharing The Movement's dislike of the esoteric and their cultivation of vernacular diction ...
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Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too....
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Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman....
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Jesus is the man God intended all humans to be....
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Darryl Lynn "D. L." Hughley (born March 6, 1963) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and star of the television sitcom The Hughleys, which ran from 1998 to 2002 on ABC and then on UPN. Most notably, D. L. Hughley is a member of The Or...
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Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light. He who kneels the most stands ...
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...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon......
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to ...
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D. B. Cooper Active: November 2b, 1971 The identity of a man referred to as “D. B. Cooper” has never been discovered. No one knows who he was or what became of him. But on November 24, 1971, he stepped out of a plane and into hi...
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Dorothy Kathleen Broster's writing career spanned the period from just before World War I until just after World War II, and this turbulent period of uncertainty and conflict may well have influenced the attitudes encoded in her work. Her ...
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D. M. Thomas is widely known for his novel The White Hotel, which quickly rose to the top of the best-seller lists after its American publication in the spring of 1981. Yet, he is also an accomplished poet. In his poetry, as well as in his...
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David Wark Griffith (1875-1948), American filmmaker, was a pioneer director-producer who invented much of the basic technical grammar of modern cinema. On Jan. 22, 1875, D.W. Griffith was born at Crestwood, Oldham County, Ky., the descenda...
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"Da" is a Tony Award-winning comedy by Irish playwright Hugh Leonard. The play is largely autobiographical: its protagonist, an expatriate writer named Charlie, represents Leonard himself. The play deals with Charlie's relationships with th...
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Da Ali G Show (2000–2003) was a satirical TV show starring Sacha Baron Cohen as "hip-hop journalist" Ali G. It was directed by James Bobin and Steve Smith. This television article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard fo...
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(2002 pop. 446,000). Da Nang is a large city located on the central coast of Vietnam 973 kilometers (603 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh City and 30 kilometers (17 miles) north of Hoi An. It became an important port city at the end of the nine...
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In Dan Browns new book entitled, "The Da Vinci Code," he presents a strong idea that in order to understand a religion one needs a strong base of knowledge on that religion. This theme is present throughout the entire book in many ways. T...
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Eugène Dabit's corpus of novels and shorter fiction represents one of the more important achievements among the many left-wing French writers of the 1930s. Although he left school at an early age and was largely self-taught, he over...
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Robert Daborne, a minor Jacobean play-wright and clergyman, is of interest today mainly because of his series of letters to theatrical entrepreneur Philip Henslowe, which show Henslowe's relations with the dramatists in his employ and whic...
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Maria Dabrowska is generally regarded in Poland as one of the most prominent Polish prose writers of the twentieth century. She has not, however, gained a similar recognition outside her native country, although her major novel, Noce i dni...
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In Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms (1986) editors Philip Dacey and David Jauss provide an overview of the continuing presence of formal poetry in contemporary writing. Strong Measures brought Dacey and hi...
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GETO-DACIAN RELIGION. The Getae and the Dacians were ancient Thracian peoples who lived in Moesia, on the northern plain of the river Danube, and in the Carpathian Mountains, approximately in the territory of modern-day Romania and Moldova...
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DACIAN RIDERS. The so-called Dacian Riders were associated with a mystery religion of the Getae and the Dacians, peoples of Thracian stock who lived in ancient Dacia (roughly equivalent to modern-day Romania). The cult of the Dacian, or Da...
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As I stand here today in front of you all I want to tell you about someone who means a great deal to me. He is loving and kind, he listens, suggests, and defends. He has the strength of a mountain, and the wisdom of ages. He loved to tell m...
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This theme article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of theme articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. This page has been listed as needing cleanup sin...
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Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) was an Indian political leader and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress. A leading nationalist author and spokesman, he was the first Indian to be elected to membership in the British Parliament....
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DADDY GRACE. Charles M. "Daddy" (1881–1960) Grace was the founder of the United House of Prayer for All People of the Church on the Rock of the Apostolic Faith. A combination of Daddy Grace's grandiosity, his fo...
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Plath's poem "Daddy" describes feelings of oppression from childhood and conjures up the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life...
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Note: this article also contains information about the films based upon the book. Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college ...
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(2001 pop. 220,000). The Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, located in western India, is surrounded by the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. It is a predominantly rural area and has seventy-two villages. Its capital city is Silvas...
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This television article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of TV show articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Dad's Army (1968-1977), British sitcom ab...
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(2000 est. pop. 2.5 million). Taegu is the third most populous city in South Korea (Republic of Korea). The city's origins date back to the Shilla kingdom (57 BCE–935 CE), when it was called Talguhwahyon or Talbulsong. It has...
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(2000 pop. 1.4 million). Taejon, a city of 540 square kilometers, is located in South Ch'ungch'ong Province in South Korea (Republic of Korea). Taejon has been administratively autonomous since its 1995 designation as a �...
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(1821–1898), Korean statesman. Yi Ha-ung, also known as the Taewon'gun, served as the de facto regent of the Yi (Choson) dynasty (1392– 1910) from the time his twelve-year-old son, Kojong, assumed the throne in 1864 un...
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The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green. What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste...
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Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. This fictional character article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of film , literary-work , o...
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This page lacks sufficient introduction or links to Wikipedia . Without such information, it is hard to distinguish this topic from similarly-named topics or to research quotations. You can help Wikiquote by adding it . "We did not decide ...
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SOURCE: Fulton, Helen. “The Love Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym.” Aumla, no. 49 (May 1978): 22-37. In the following essay, Fulton compares and contrasts the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym to that of Chaucer, suggesting that while both are creat...
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