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In letters home soldiers had called the original valley " The Valley of Death ", and Tennyson's poem used the same phrase, so when in September 1855 Thomas Agnew put the picture on show, as one of a series of eleven collectively titled Panorama of the Plateau of Sebastopol in Eleven Parts in a London exhibition, he took the troops '— and Tennyson's — epithet, expanded it as The Valley of the Shadow of Death with its deliberate evocation of Psalm 23, and assigned it to the piece ; it is not the location of the famous charge, which took place in a long, broad valley several miles to the south-east.
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Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.
Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.
After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that " their interest lay not in the letters but in me.
Beatty's letters home made no complaint about the poor living conditions in Britannia, and generally he was extrovert, even aggressive, and resented discipline.
Of the four fast bowlers in the tour party, Gubby Allen was a voice of dissent in the English camp, refusing to bowl short on the leg side, and writing several letters home to England critical of Jardine, although he did not express this in public in Australia.
The uniforms ' lettering had the same style of letters as the new cap logo with heavily stylized " BREWERS " lettering on the home jerseys and " MILWAUKEE " on the road grays.
Paper was a scarce commodity in the early American west, and women would save letters from home, newspaper clippings, and catalogs to use as patterns.
The early Blickensderfer's " Ideal " keyboard was also non-QWERTY, instead having the sequence " DHIATENSOR " in the home row, these 10 letters being capable of composing 70 % of the words in the English language.
In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.
Private Keefe's World War I letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat ' Em Rough.
He was imbued with the culture of his time and of his country, which was then the only true home of Latin letters and learning.
The user accesses the nearby Ctrl key and then a letter or combination of letters, thus keeping his hands on or close to the typing home row instead of moving them away from it to reach for a specialty key or a mouse.
* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".
This was followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, which dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote home to family members.
His good fortune and letters home lured many of his villagers to jobs in Schreiber.
In letters home, he complained of the treatment of the native Indians by the British officials: " Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute.
After being demobbed ( he had served as a sergeant in the Army Education Corps and spent much of his national service in Germany writing letters home for soldiers ), he went to work as an insurance clerk in the claims and accidents department of the Commercial Union Insurance Company for six years.
The hospital had been casually known by this name since the time of the Civil War, when — in their letters home to loved ones — patients of army hospitals temporarily located on the grounds were reluctant to refer to the institution by its full title.
Later, Kate became quite eccentric, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for Jubilee.
So that the young Louis could send letters back home, Simon-René provided him with an alphabet fashioned from bits of thick leather.
Paine has one last card up his sleeve: he brings in bins of letters and telegrams from Smith's home state, purportedly from average people demanding his expulsion.
After they force Smitty to show them his letters from home it turns out that Smitty is an alcoholic who has run away from his family.
A minimalist view is that he spent his entire life in the cities of his native Asia Minor and of northern Syria, in particular his home town of Tyana, Ephesus, Aegae, and Antioch, though the letters suggest wider travels, and there seems no reason to deny that, like many wandering philosophers, he at least visited Rome.
letters and soldiers
The letters of the common soldiers are rich in humor.
Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.
Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.
Similar comments about officers are to be found in the letters of Northern soldiers.
After his conquest of Naples in 1442, Alfonso ruled by his mercenary soldiers and mercenary men of letters.
The next morning, a British patrol of two dozen mounted soldiers found Lee writing letters in his dressing gown, and captured him.
American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. " Victor " and " Charlie " are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
During WWII, GIs from Massachusetts who were stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in care packages from back home with soldiers from other parts of the U. S. Soon, hundreds of GIs were writing home asking their families to send them some Toll House Cookies, and Wakefield was soon inundated with letters from around the world asking for her recipe.
Zeno caused Ardabur's fall, producing treacherous letters that linked him to the Sassanid King ; Ardabur later bribed some of Zeno's soldiers into trying to kill him.
On this trip he was successful in obtaining letters from Pope Urban VIII forbidding the enslavement of the missionaries under the severest church penalties, and from King Philip IV of Spain, permitting guaraníes to carry firearms for defense and to be trained in their use by veteran soldiers who had become Jesuits.
It has been noted that local girls would gather letters thrown by the soldiers from the train-and forward them to the intended recipients at the Post Office.
* Primary Sources from World War One and Two Database of mailed letters to and from soldiers during major world conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to World War Two.
There is also considerable evidence from Confederate memoirs and letters that the high Union casualties were partially the result of Confederate troops murdering wounded and captured African-American Union soldiers.
In 1952 letters and family pictures were dropped from aircraft urging them to surrender, but the three soldiers concluded that this was a trick.
In the descriptions of ancient travelers, soldiers, or local officials ( most of them are men of letters ) of the phenomenon of miasma, fog, haze, dust, gas, or poison geological gassing were always mentioned.
As reports of the grave registration work became public, the commission began to receive letters of enquiry and requests for photographs of graves from relatives of deceased soldiers.
Radio Belgrade received many letters from Axis soldiers all over Europe asking them to play " Lili Marleen " again.
Dearborn emphatically denied giving orders for any buildings to be destroyed and deplored the worst of the atrocities in his letters, but he was nonetheless unable or unwilling to rein in his soldiers.
Catholic priests instructed the soldiers in mathematics, writing, theology, Latin, Greek, and history, and wrote letters and official document for them.
The Elephantine papyri are caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic, which document a community of Jewish soldiers, with perhaps an admixture of Samaritans, stationed here during the Persian occupation of Egypt.
During her tenure at the White House, she often visited hospitals around Washington to give flowers and fruit to wounded soldiers, and transcribed letters for them to send their loved ones.
Mary had lobbied hard for such a pension, writing numerous letters to Congress and urging patrons such as Simon Cameron to petition on her behalf, insisting that she deserved a pension just as much as the widows of soldiers.
But when the chief censor ( Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett ) was found to have written far more obscene letters to General Chamberlaine, he was discredited: soldiers really did speak that way.
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