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- LESSON 10 THINGS II
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- Use capitals to identify intangible or symbolic items:
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- 1. Awards, honors, and prizes -> Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize.
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- 2. Treaties or laws -> Treaty of Paris, Fifth Amendment.
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- 3. Wars, battles, medals or revolutions ->
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- War of the Roses, Battle of Midway, Boxer Rebellion, Purple Heart.
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- 4. Government bodies (national) ->
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- United Nations, British Commonwealth,
- the House (of Representatives), the Fed, the Soviet Union
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- 5. Commercial firms (e.g. companies, corporations) ->
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- Kmart, American Can, Microsoft, TWA,
- Big Blue (IBM), Ma Bell (AT&T),
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- Do you know for whom the Nobel Peace Prize is named? He was
- Alfred Nobel, a Swedish munitions maker. The 1952 winner was
- Albert Schweitzer of France. He was a missionary surgeon in
- Africa.
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- The Civil War is also known as the "War Between the States" and
- the "War for Southern Independence." It began in April of 1961
- when Confederate artillery batteries fired upon Fort Sumter.
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- A 1963 agreement between Britain, the Soviet Union, and the
- USA to prohibited testing of nuclear weapons in outer space,
- under the sea, or in the air was called the Nuclear Test Ban
- Treaty. However, it allowed testing under ground.
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- The blockade of Yorktown by the French fleet was
- instrumental in the defeat of British General Cornwallis
- during the American Revolutionary War.
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- Did you know there was once a political party called the
- "Know-Nothings"? (You may still think they exist but they do
- not.) Its official name was the American Party. They
- operated in secrecy and would only answer "I know nothing."
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- Can you imagine the difficulty a student of American English
- would have understanding the following:
- "I worked for Ma Bell before working for Big Blue although
- both are listed on the Big Board."
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- They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall
- drink alcohol," but there were two words they had forgotten.
- Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol
- to excess."
- (Source: "Animal Farm", book, George Orwell)
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- What Tolstoy could not stand was the Corsican's inflated
- egotism: Napolean the hero and the leader of men. "War and
- Peace" was Tolstoy's opportunity of showing him up, which he
- did with an inimitable twinkle.
- (Source: "An Introduction to the Russian Novel", Lavrin)
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