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"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
The difference between the perimeter of the inscribed megagon and the circumference of this circle comes to less than 1/16 millimeters. [3] Because 1,000,000 = 2 6 × 5 6, the number of sides is not a product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of two. Thus the regular megagon is not a constructible polygon.
Adds a block quotation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status text text 1 quote The text to quote Content required char char The character being quoted Example Alice Content suggested sign sign 2 cite author The person being quoted Example Lewis Carroll Content suggested title title 3 The title of the poem being quoted Example Jabberwocky Content suggested ...
Megaton Dias (born 1967), a Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and instructor; Megaton , a fictional town built around a nuclear bomb in the video game Fallout 3 "Megaton Punch", a mini-game in the games Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra; Megaton, a superhero anthology self-published by Gary Carlson from 1981 to 1987
A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems or One hundred million million poems (original French title: Cent mille milliards de poèmes) is a book by Raymond Queneau, published in 1961. The book is a set of ten sonnets printed on card with each line on a separate strip.
The poem is typically understood as a mix of hippie counterculture, with its desire for leisure and a return to nature, with Cold War-era technological visions. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Brautigan's publisher, Claude Hayward, said it "caught me with its magical references to benign machines keeping order ...
Catullus 64 is an epyllion or "little epic" poem written by Latin poet Catullus. Catullus' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while employing an appropriately epic tone. Catullus' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while employing an appropriately epic tone.
The rhyme appears in De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1872) along with a discussion of the possibilities that all particles may be made of clustered smaller particles, "and so down, for ever", and that planets and stars may be particles of some larger universe, "and so up, for ever". [2]