02-11-2010, 04:24 AM
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comfortably numb...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetée
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Polish, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovak
Other Scripts: Марта (Bulgarian, Serbian)
Pronounced: MAHR-tah (Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech)
Cognate of MARTHA
From Aramaic מרתא (marta') meaning "lady, mistress". In the New Testament this was the name of the sister of Lazarus and Mary of Bethany. It was not used in England until after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer was Martha Washington (1731-1802), the wife of the first American president George Washington.
information courtesy of: Behind the Name: the Etymology and History of First Names
also, what happened here? wasn't this originally the title of one of squeeeb's threads? |
then there's:
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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