Western stories popularized the phrase in expressions such as “many a redskin bit the dust that day” (Webster’s Third). It is also said to have gained currency during World War II in R.A.F. circles. Today the phrase is used figuratively in reference to the defeat, disaster, or fail...
Spanish / Español Select a language: megadeath [ˈmegəˌdeθ]N→muertefde un millón depersonas Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005...
After retiring from professional baseball (he played in Mexico's Pacific League until he was 44), he became a sports broadcaster for Spanish-language radio and TV. He became a U.S. citizen in 2015, at a naturalization ceremony just three-and-a-half miles from Dodger Stadium. Lynda Obst ...
Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil Wardoi:10.31390/CWBR.20.2.20Chris MackowskiLouisiana State University Libraries
aThe American Civil War was the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths, and an undetermined number of civilian casualties, ending slavery in the United States, restoring the Union, and strengthening the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and...
In addition to jazz standards, he also brought back traditional songs from his childhood, building a repertoire of Haitian and Spanish folk songs and calypso, trying out material at the famed Village Vanguard. Belafonte landed a recording contract. "Calypso" brought his singing everywhere. He was...
"Today we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone – 500,071 dead. That's more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined," he said. The newly-inaugurated president also held a candle-lighting cer...
(Bill Nunn) that takes a match to the tension that simmers beneath the unbearably hot Brooklyn summer ofSpike Lee’sDo the Right Thing. Named for the boombox he carries, Radio Raheem is killed by police after a fight breaks out in Sal’s, the Italian-American pizza shop where Lee’s ...
While Bush sends American men and women to their deaths in a war based on lies, as countless Iraqis are being killed, maimed, or left homeless, with 40 million citizens living below poverty level in the country he's supposed to lead, Bush contemplates his future earnings....
More people died in two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US than in 40 years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The toll dwarfs the estimated 675,000 deaths during the 1918-19 Spanish Flu outbreak. The 1 million is also more than the number of American deaths from World War I, World ...