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Ho Chi Minh (L3 standing) North Vietnam, and Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (L5 standing) North Vietnam give a farewell party for the US Army intelligence team (OSS) in 1945. They are OSS Maj. Allison Thomas (L4 standing), Rene J. Defourneaux (L2 standing) USA, Allan Squires (L2 sitting) USA, and Paul Hoagland (R1), the medic who saved Ho.
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William Shakespeare's 1594 Romeo and Juliet contains the line, "Live and be prosperous: and farewell good fellow", spoken by Romeo to Balthasar, his friend and servant. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The benediction "live and prosper" is attributed to the 18th-century organized crime figure Jonathan Wild in his 1725 biography written by "H.D.", possibly a ...
Hail and Farewell (a translation of ave atque vale, last words of the poem Catullus 101) is a traditional military event whereby those coming to and departing from an organization are celebrated. This may coincide with a change in command, be scheduled on an annual basis, or be prompted by any momentous organizational change.
This optical arrangement provides the instructor with a number of advantages, among which are: the projector may be placed in front of the class; the brilliant light permits excellent screen visibility without darkening a room; the instructor may place transparent images on the horizontal stage or diagram extemporaneously on it without turning ...
Christ taking Leave of his Mother, by Albrecht Altdorfer c. 1520, one of the treatments with a landscape background.. The subject does not illustrate any Biblical passage, but derives from one of the Pseudo-Bonaventura's "Meditations on the life of Christ" (1308), and the "Marienleben" (German for "Life of the Virgin"; about 1300) by Philipp von Seitz [], also known as "Brother Philipp, the ...
The tale of how the symphony was composed was told by Haydn in old age to his biographers Albert Christoph Dies and Georg August Griesinger. [2]At that time, Haydn's patron Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy was resident, together with all his musicians and retinue, at his favorite summer palace at Eszterháza in rural Hungary.