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Peoria (Ill.) has been an old stand-by with comedians for years—but not only because of the "O" sound. Nor because of the four vowel sounds that give it a nice noisy resonance. But largely, I suspect, because of the fact that it is a whiskey town and a river town and not particularly famous for what is known as the genteel tradition.
The most comprehensive address was given by Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16. [3] The three-hour speech that evening [ 2 ] on the lawn of the Peoria County Courthouse, [ 4 ] transcribed after the fact by Lincoln himself, presented thorough moral, legal, economic, and historical (citing the Founding Fathers ) [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ...
Death marches can also be triggered by misunderstandings between parties, unresolved assumptions, mismatched expectations, and sometimes external change. Management may desperately attempt to right the course of the project by asking team members to work grueling hours (14-hour days or 7-day weeks) or by attempting to "throw (enough) bodies at ...
The fact is that, while Peoria was a butt of jokes on the vaudeville circuit, there is no documented use of "will it play in Peoria?" before Ehrlichman's use in 1969. It was not in fact used in A Night at the Opera, and the literal references to Peoria in Horatio Alger's Five Hundred Dollars have nothing to do with the phrase.
Playing in Peoria: When Jimmy Buffett helped bring streaking to central Illinois On the outbreak's one-year anniversary, the Journal Star began a five-part, front-page series on the incident and ...
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
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