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Provided by the compucert - Having the power to compel conviction; appealing to the mind or to reason; convincing.
- How the fuck.
HTF do you expect to pull that off?
Trivia
What 1942 film's stirring closing lines did President Franklin D. Roosevelt have broadcast on Voice of America, and printed on leaflets dropped over Nazi-occupied territory?
- Mrs. Miniver’s. Its closing lines are part of a sermon delivered in the bombed-out ruins of a church by its vicar, who explains that the war is “not only a war of soldiers in uniform; it is a war of the people, of all the people” to free themselves from “the tyranny and terror that threaten to strike us down.”
- "This was their finest hour": address delivered by PM Winston Churchill to the House of Commons to inspire his embattled nation during WWII (1940)
- Egypt: republic was declared; monarchy abolished (1953)
Today's Birthdays
- Bartolommeo Ammannati (1511-1592): sculptor and architect
- Red Adair (1915-2004): renowned innovator in firefighting
- Isabella Rossellini (56): Italian actress and model; movie critic Roger Ebert (66) was also born on this date
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