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Robert Menzies: Women in War
February 20, 1942 (about 82 years ago)Then Prime Minister Robert Menzies exhorts the Australian people to cast aside, once and for all and in the name of victory, the notion that women ought to perform only genteel tasks
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Clemens von Galen: The First Sermon: We Demand Justice
July 13, 1941 (almost 83 years ago)The transcript below is an English translation of a sermon delivered one Sunday morning at the Church of St. Lambert in Munster, Germany. Though it was the height of Nazi power in Germany, Bishop Clemen von Galen boldly and openly comdemned the Gestapo's tyranny and the arrests that were being ma...
1 people like thisClemens von Galen: The Second Sermon
July 20, 1941 (almost 83 years ago)Bishop Clemens von Galen continues his open rebuke of Gestapo rule and Nazi philosophy, and exhorts his parish to remain steadfast in obeying the Lord, unretaliating yet unyielding.
1 people like thisClemens von Galen: The Third Sermon
August 3, 1941 (over 82 years ago)In this sermon, Bishop von Galen attacks the state's practice of euthanasia and condemns the Nazi doctrine that permits the murder of individuals deemed "unproductive' and of no use to the state.
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Queen Gorgo: Queen Gorgo Addresses the Spartan Council
March 9, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In the midst of war and despite the social constraints on women from the film "300," Queen Gorgon (Lena Headey) speaks to the Spartan council about sending reinforcements to aid her husband's army.
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Robert E. Lee: Declining an Offer
February 21, 2003 (about 21 years ago)General Robert Lee (Robert Duvall) declines an offer to lead an army that will quell the rebellion from the south as depicted in the film Gods and Generals.
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Stonewall Jackson: Address to the 33rd Virginia Regimen
February 21, 2003 (about 21 years ago)In the film Gods and Generals, General Stonewall Jackson (Stephen Lang) announces that the Lincoln Administration requests regimens to be sent to assist in suppressing the southern confederacy.
1 people like thisEleanor Roosevelt: Speech to the India League
April 6, 1952 (about 72 years ago)Eleanor Roosevelt shares her impressions of India, marvelling and musing at the inspiring developments she had witnessed during her trip there.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Pan American Coffee Bureau Series, Program # 11
December 7, 1941 (over 82 years ago)Deviating from the script she had prepared for that week's broadcast, U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt proceeds to address the nation regarding the Pearl Harbor attack, becoming the first public figure to do so.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Speech on V-J Day
August 18, 1945 (over 78 years ago)Eleanor Roosevelt expresses a myriad of emotions as she addresses the nation on Victory over Japan Day - sorrow for the casualties of war, gratitude for the dawning of peace, and a kind of fearful awe of the technology that had brought it all about.
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