the oldest source of this phrase to be found is in the confessions of jean-jaques rousseau, and he also did not mention her name, only referring to her as a 'great princess'. it is incorrectly attributed to someone else, and is said to exhibit the callousness of monarchy which aggravated the anger of the masses and led to the french revolution.
keeping in mind the law however, at that time, it was not callous.at the time of the origin of the phrase , the law was that, if all the cheap ones were gone then a fancier one had to be sold at the price of the cheap one, thus preventing any trickery by the seller.give me the english translation of the phrase and the person to whom it is incorrectly attributed.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
connect the following
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5.)HE IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF A FAMOUS DICKENS NOVEL.HIS CATCH PHRASE "BAH!HUMBUG" IS OFTEN USED TO EXPRESS DISGUST WITH MANY OF THE MODERN CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS.
6.) During World War II, the U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service sent teams to Europe to gain access to enemy aircraft, technical and scientific reports, research facilities, and weapons for study in the United States. The Air Technical Intelligence (ATI) teams, trained at the Technical Intelligence School at Wright Field, Ohio, collected enemy equipment to learn about Germany's technical developments. The ATI teams competed with 32 allied technical intelligence groups to gain information and equipment recovered from crash sites.
As the war concluded, the various intelligence teams, including the ATI, shifted from tactical intelligence to post hostilities investigations. Exploitation intelligence increased dramatically.
On April 22, 1945, the USAAF combined technical and post-hostilities intelligence objectives under the Exploitation Division with the code name_____.
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