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The protagonists are so dashing, hypercompetent and destined for victory that there isn’t even really any suspense. “The Guns of Navarone” (1961) — an obvious precursor — was at least ...
Jorge Bartolomé Vargas y Celis [2] (August 24, 1890 – February 22, 1980) was a Filipino lawyer, diplomat and youth advocate born in Bago, Negros Occidental, Philippines. He graduated valedictorian from Negros Occidental High School in 1909 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911 and a Bachelor of Law degree with honors in 1914, both ...
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, sometimes referred to as the Third and Fourth Battles of Savo Island, the Battle of the Solomons, The Battle of Friday the 13th, The Night of the Big Guns, or, in Japanese sources, the Third Battle of the Solomon Sea (第三次ソロモン海戦, Dai-san-ji Soromon Kaisen), took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of ...
John Doyle (12 February 1930 – 29 December 2010) was an Irish hurler who played as a left corner-back at senior level for the Tipperary county team. [1] [2] [3] Born in Holycross, County Tipperary, Doyle first played competitive hurling whilst at school in Thurles CBS. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first ...
The Roman triumph ( triumphus) was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the success of a military commander who had led Roman forces to victory in the service of the state or, in some historical traditions, one who had successfully completed a foreign war.
Fortune favours the bold is the translation of a Latin proverb, which exists in several forms with slightly different wording but effectively identical meaning, such as: audentes Fortuna iuvat, [1] audentes Fortuna adiuvat, Fortuna audaces iuvat, and. audentis Fortuna iuvat. This last form is used by Turnus, an antagonist in the Aeneid by ...
The following is an episode list for the anime television series Captain Tsubasa. Of the five series: 1983 TV series had 128 episodes and 4 films (Europe Daikessen & Ayaushi, Zen Nippon Jr., in '85; Asu ni Mukatte Hashire & Sekai Daikessen, Jr. World Cup in '86) 1989 OVA series (Shin) had 13 episodes and 1 other OVA (Holland Youth) 1994 TV ...
The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan . The incumbent in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1909.