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This was their finest hour. " This was their finest hour " was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government. It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the ...
The final judgment of sinners by Jesus Christ; carving on the central portal of Amiens Cathedral, France.. The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (Hebrew: יום הדין, romanized: Yom ha-Dīn; Arabic: یوم القيامة, romanized: Yawm al-Qiyāmah or یوم الدین, Yawm ad-Dīn) is a ...
The Darkest Hour. The world situation at the beginning of 1941, with colour-coding: Western Allies (independent countries) Western Allies (colonies or occupied) Comintern. Axis (countries) Axis (colonies or occupied, including Vichy France) neutral. " The Darkest Hour " is a phrase used to refer to an early period of World War II, from ...
Zero hour (German: Stunde Null, pronounced [ˈʃtʊndə nʊl]) is a term referring to the capitulation at midnight on 8 May 1945 and the immediately following weeks in Germany. [1] It marked the end of World War II in Europe and the start of a new, non-Nazi Germany . [ 2 ]
The dark night of the soul is a stage of final and complete purification, and is marked by confusion, helplessness, stagnation of the will, and a sense of the withdrawal of God's presence. [note 1] It is the period of final "unselfing" and the surrender to the hidden purposes of the divine will. The final stage is union with the object of love ...
The idiom " the straw that broke the camel's back " describes a minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction due to the cumulative effect of previous small actions. It alludes to the proverb "it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back". This gives rise to the phrase " the last straw ", or " the final ...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a 2022 novel by Gabrielle Zevin. "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: A Lockdown Christmas 1603" is the final episode of Upstart Crow, parodying lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. ... and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Expression of surprise towards the attack. During the assassination, senator Tillius Cimber grabbed hold of Caesar's toga and pulled it down from his neck, which signalled to the other conspirators that it was time to attack. According to the historian Suetonius, Caesar shouted out in Latin, " ista quidem vis est! " ("Why, this is violence!"