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A "bully pulpit" is a conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. This term was coined by United States President Theodore Roosevelt , who referred to his office as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda.
[11] His father's sudden death in 1878 devastated Roosevelt. [12] He inherited $60,000 (equivalent to $1.66 million in 2023), enough on which he could live comfortably for the rest of his life. [13] Theodore Roosevelt as an undergraduate at Harvard University circa 1877. His father, a devout Presbyterian, regularly led the family in prayers.
Correspondence table of Crimean Tatar alphabets in Latin and Cyrillic during transtition to Cyrillic, 1938. In the USSR, cyrillisation or cyrillization (Russian: Кириллиза́ция, romanized: kirillizatsiya) was a campaign from the late 1930s to the 1950s to replace official writing systems based on Latin script (such as Yanalif or the Unified Northern Alphabet), which had been ...
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt. Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States of America. Not only a politician and statesman, he was also a soldier, conservationist ...
He first publicly uttered the phrase in March of the same year in relation to his reputation for holding state Senators accountable. Roosevelt added clarification to the meaning of the saying. [7] If you simply speak softly the other man will bully you. If you leave your stick at home you will find the other man did not.
The Cyrillic alphabet and Russian spelling generally employ fewer diacritics than those used in other European languages written with the Latin alphabet. The only diacritic, in the proper sense, is the acute accent ́ (Russian: знак ударения 'mark of stress'), which marks stress on a vowel, as it is done in Spanish and Greek.
When Roosevelt attempted to speak with a native German, he had to apologize after botching the attempt. [31] While not fluent in the language, Roosevelt was also able to read Italian. [33] Though he at one point studied Greek and Latin, Roosevelt found both languages a "dreary labor" to translate. [34]
American XL bully dogs are back in the headlines following a horrific attack on a young girl in Birmingham that also injured two men. The breed will be banned by the end of the year following a ...