She traveled throughout the United States delivering more than 1000 patriotic speeches, the most famous being the powerful address An Apostrophe to the Flag, that she delivered at a national Daughters of the American Revolution convention.

Apostrophe is often used to convey extreme emotion, as in Claudius's impassioned speech in Hamlet.

Perhaps his best-known recording with Zappa is the title track of the 1974 album Apostrophe ('), a jam with Zappa and Tony Duran on guitar and Jack Bruce on bass guitar, for which both Bruce and Gordon received a writing credit.

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Among the station's more endearing traditions was the broadcasting of the entire " Don't Eat the Yellow Snow " suite that makes up the bulk of the first side of Frank Zappa's " Apostrophe " LP, when the Washington area would experience its first snowfall of the season.

John Richards, of the Apostrophe Protection Society, said that the change was " just plain wrong " and " grammatically incorrect " while the move sparked outrage on Twitter, involving debate on whether the move was grammatically incorrect or not.

He fought long crusades to highlight what he perceived to be a decline in the standards of modern English ; for example, he founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of such solecisms as " pound's of apple's and orange's " in greengrocers ' shops.

In 1973 Frank Zappa and manager Herb Cohen closed the Straight and Bizarre labels and established a new imprint, DiscReet Records, retaining their distribution deal with Warner Bros. Zappa's next album Apostrophe (') ( 1973 ) became the biggest commercial success of his career, reaching # 10 on the Billboard album chart, and the single " Don't Eat The Yellow Snow " was a minor hit and ( at the time ) his only single to make the Hot 100 chart.

* Healey Willan, An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts Vancouver Chamber Choir ; Jon Washburn, conducting.

See footnote 1 for the table of contents .< ref > From the table of contents for Harmonium in Frank Kermode and Joan Richards, editors, ix-xi :< ul >< li > Earthy Anecdote < li > Invective Against Swans < li > In the Carolinas < li > The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage < li > The Plot Against the Giant < li > Infanta Marina < li > Domination of Black < li > The Snow Man < li > The Ordinary Women < li > The Load of Sugar-Cane < li > Le Monocle de Mon Oncle < li > Nuances of a Theme by Williams < li > Metaphors of a Magnifico < li > Ploughing on Sunday < li > Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges < li > Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores < li > Fabliau of Florida < li > The Doctor of Geneva < li > Another Weeping Woman < li > Homunculus et La Belle Etoile < li > The Comedian as the Letter C < li > From the Misery of Don Joost < li > O Florida, Venereal Soil < li > Last Look at the Lilacs < li > The Worms at Heaven's Gate < li > The Jack-Rabbit < li > Anecdote of Men by the Thousand < li > The Silver Plough Boy < li > The Apostrophe to Vincentine < li > Foral Decorations for Bananas < li > Anecdote of Canna < li > Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds < li > Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb < li > Of the Surface of Things < li > Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks < li > A High-Toned Old Christian Woman < li > The Place of the Solitaires < li > The Weeping Burgher < li > The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician < li > Banal Sojourn < li > Depression Before Spring < li > The Emperor of Ice-Cream < li > The Cuban Doctor < li > Tea at he Palaz of Hoon < li > Exposition of the Contents of a Cab < li > Disillusionment of Ten O ' Clock < li > Sunday Morning < li > The Virgin Carrying a Lantern < li > Stars at Tallapoosa < li > Explanation < li > Six Significant Landscapes < li > Bantams in Pine-Woods < li > Anecdote of the Jar < li > Palace of the Babies < li > Frogs Eat Butterflies.

He also provided artwork, graphics, and / or design for Cruising with Ruben & the Jets, Uncle Meat, Hot Rats, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East-June 1971, 200 Motels, Just Another Band from L. A., Waka / Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe ('), Roxy & Elsewhere, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury, Zoot Allures, Tinseltown Rebellion, the Does Humor Belong in Music ?, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, Playground Psychotics, Ahead of Their Time, Cheap Thrills, Mystery Disc, Son of Cheep Thrills, Threesome No. 1 slipcase art, and Threesome No. 2 slipcase art.

The clip for " Montana " was included as a bonus feature of the Classic Albums: Apostrophe (')/ Over-Nite Sensation DVD, which was released on May 1, 2007.

He has appeared on the Classic Albums documentaries on the making of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, Cream's Disraeli Gears, Def Leppard's Hysteria, Nirvana's Nevermind, Metallica's Black Album, Frank Zappa's Apostrophe and Over-Nite Sensation as well as Rush's Moving Pictures and 2112 albums.

Inductees are given a special pencil engraved with the legend " Ms. Butler's Apostrophe Club.

The Athenian wings quickly routed the inferior Persian levies on the flanks, before turning inwards to surround the Persian centre, which had been more successful against the thin Greek centre.

However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea.

The term entropy was coined in 1865 by Rudolf Clausius based on the Greek εντροπία, a turning toward, from εν-( in ) and τροπή ( turn, conversion ).

Due to subterfuge on the part of Themistocles, the Allies lured the Persian fleet into the Straits of Salamis, and the decisive Greek victory there was the turning point in the invasion, which was ended the following year by the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Plataea.

These battles of Salamis and Plataea thus mark a turning point in the course of the Greco-Persian wars as a whole ; from then onward, the Greek poleis would take the offensive.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " accent of ' turning away ', or elision "), through Latin and French.

* As strategos of the Achaeans, the Greek general Philopoemen is responsible for turning the Achaean League into an aggressive military power.

When Greek mythographers attempted to account for the name Pithecusae (“ Ape Islands ”) given to Ischia and Procida by the Bay of Naples, where no monkeys had been seen within human memory, they were reduced to alleging that they must have been deceitful men whom Zeus punished by turning them into apes.

Furthermore, the ascendency of Heraclius in 610, in Constantinople, who truly emphasized the Laventine, and Greek nature of what remained of the Roman Empire, may have contributed to turning the Eastern Roman Empire into the medieval Byzantine Empire.

The climax ( from the Greek word “ κλῖμαξ ” ( klimax ) meaning “ staircase ” and “ ladder ”) or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension or drama or when the action starts in which the solution is given.

In Ancient Greek philosophy and astrology, the climacterics ( Latin, annus climactericus, from Greek ) were certain purportedly critical years in a person's life, marking turning points.

It is similar to the dish called döner kebab, “ turning kebab ”, in Turkish, and the Greek gyros, " turned ", formerly called ντονέρ / doˈner /.

Factors introduced into the discussion include: a breakdown of the transmission in artistic skills due to the political and economic disruption of the Crisis of the Third Century, influence from Eastern and other pre-classical regional styles from around the Empire ( a view promoted by Josef Strzygowski ( 1862-1941 ), and now mostly discounted ), the emergence into high-status public art of a simpler " popular " or " Italic " style that had been used by the less wealthy throughout the reign of Greek models, an active ideological turning against what classical styles had come to represent, and a deliberate preference for seeing the world simply and exploiting the expressive possibilities that a simpler style gave.

A tropism ( from Greek τροπή, trope, " a turning ") is a biological phenomenon, indicating growth or turning movement of a biological organism, usually a plant, in response to an environmental stimulus.

The word trophy coined in English in 1550, was derived from the French trophée in 1513, " a prize of war ", from Old French trophee, from Latin trophaeum, monument to victory, variant of tropaeum, which in turn is the latinisation of the Greek τρόπαιον ( tropaion ), the neuter of τροπαῖος ( tropaios ), " of defeat " or " for defeat ", but generally " of a turning " or " of a change ", from τροπή ( tropē ), " a turn, a change " and that from the verb τρέπω ( trepo ), " to turn, to alter ".

Signs of the zodiac surround the central chariot of the Sun ( a Greek motif ), while the corners depict the 4 " turning points " (" tekufot ") of the year, solstices and equinoxes, each named for the month in which it occurs — tequfah of Tishrei, ( tequfah of Tevet ), tequfah of Ni ( san ), tequfah of Tamuz.

The word comes from Greek thixis, touch ( from thinganein, to touch ) +-tropy ,-tropous, from Greek-tropos, of turning, from tropos, changeable, from trepein, to turn.

In the following days they started occupying mosques and turning them into Bulgarian churches, insulting the religious feelings of the Muslim citizens, who protested to the Greek authorities.

Following the 1974 Greek Cypriot coup d ' état and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) extended and expanded the mission to prevent the dispute turning into war, and UNFICYP was redeployed to patrol the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus and assist in the maintenance of the military status quo.

The language was also learned by the inhabitants of the regions that Alexander conquered, turning Greek into a world language.

Hiller coined these German terms from the Greek words tropos ( turning ) combined with " andro -" ( male ) and " gynaiko -" ( female ), with the addition of the German feminine ending " in ".

It is derived from the Greek ἀντιμεταβολή from ἀντί ( antí ), " against, opposite " and μεταβολή ( metabolē ), " turning about, change ".

The word is originally Greek () and means " those hidden away ".

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

But when he came upon the Bosporus he understood: on the opposite eastern shore was a Greek city, Chalcedon, whose founders were said to have overlooked the superior location only away.

A 2nd century CE Greek known as Heraclitus the paradoxographer --- not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Greek philosopher Heraclitus --- claimed Euhemeristically that Cerberus had two pups which were never away from their father, as such Cerberus was in fact a normal ( however very large ) dog but artists incorporating the two pups into their work made it appear as if his two children were in fact extra heads.

Using the word apocrypha ( Greek: hidden away ) to describe texts, although not necessarily pejorative, implies to some people that the writings in question should not be included in the canon of the Bible.

A diaspora ( from Greek διασπορά, " scattering, dispersion ") is " the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland " or " people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location ", or " people settled far from their ancestral homelands ".

In 1974 the US-backed Greek junta-in power since 1967-partly in a move to draw attention away from internal turmoil and partly unsatisfied with Makarios ' policy in Cyprus, on 13 July attempted a coup to replace him with Nikos Sampson and declare union with Greece.

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Standard patterns of graduation in the arts curriculum offered 3-year ordinary and 4-year honours degrees and separate science faculties were able to move away from the compulsory Latin, Greek and philosophy of the old MA curriculum.

* Narcissus of Greek mythology wastes away while gazing, self-admiringly, at his reflection in water

The Parni, a nomadic Central Asian tribe, invaded Parthia in the middle of the 3rd century BCE, drove away its Greek satraps — who had just then proclaimed independence from the Seleucids — and annexed much of the Indus region, thus founding an Arsacids dynasty of Scythian or Bactrian origin.

Slave revolts occurred elsewhere in the Greek world, and in 413 BC 20, 000 Athenian slaves ran away to join the Spartan forces occupying Attica.

Arteries ( from the Greek ἀρτηρία-artēria, " windpipe, artery ") are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.

Anesthesia, or anaesthesia ( see spelling differences ; from Greek, an -, " without "; and, aisthēsis, " sensation "), traditionally meant the condition of having sensation ( including the feeling of pain ) blocked or temporarily taken away.

The fact that classical Greek authors often used eponymous explanations to explain away names through folk etymology makes it more likely that Ithakos derives from Ithaca rather than vice versa.

Myiagros was a god in Greek mythology who chased away flies during the sacrifices to Zeus and Athena, and Zeus sent a fly to bite Pegasus, causing Bellerophon to fall back to Earth when he attempted to ride the winged steed to Mount Olympus.

The Koine Greek of 1 Thessalonians 4: 17 uses the verb form ἁρπαγησόμεθα ( arpagisometha ), which means " we shall be caught up " or " taken away ", with the connotation that this is a sudden event.

The Latin Vulgate translates the Greek ἁρπαγησόμεθα as rapiemur, from the verb rapio meaning " to catch up " or " take away ".< ref >

The Greeks invented etymologies to associate it with Greek word roots ( one such popular etymology translates the name as " he who washes away care ").

* Achelois ( Greek: Ἀχελωίς, English translation: " she who washes away pain ") was a minor Greek moon goddess.

Some very early Greek sources in the Epic Cycle affirmed that Artemis rescued Iphigenia from the human sacrifice her father was about to perform, for instance in the lost epic Cypria, which survives in a summary by Proclus: " Artemis, however, snatched her away and transported her to the Tauroi, making her immortal, and put a stag in place of the girl upon the altar.