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Criticizing French socialists in the 1880s, the French Marxist Jules Guesde coined the term "possibilist" to describe what he considered the opportunists and futilely moderate strategy of Paul Brousse and his followers In response, socialist leader Brousse gladly dubbed Guesde and his supporters the "impossibilists" as an emblem of intransigence...
Croissants first appeared in Vienna, Austria, in 1683, when the city's bakers created the distinctively crescent-shaped pastries to commemorate the barricaded city's successful stand against a besieging army of Ottoman Turks. The shape of the pastries was derived from the crescent emblem on the Turkish flag, which the Viennese citizens, in effect, symbolically devoured by driving off the Turks. The U.S. boom was started when Vie de France and other stores began making sandwiches with croissants. Says Michel Rebeilleau, manager of Au Croissant Chaud in Washington: "Ten years ago was ze time for ze crepe...
...ever less than humane and fair-minded in presenting the torments of the bedeviled worldly. Indeed, he strikes one as being among the world's most scrupulous directors, a man whose instinct for the play of light and the unobtrusively correct camera set-up is as much an emblem of his integrity as his choice of themes...
...flag was mysteriously thrown down in front of the marchers. Before the troops could be halted and a startled official could retrieve it, the red banner was trampled upon as well. Hojjatoleslam Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, later apologized for the desecration of the Soviet emblem, saying it had all been "a plot to sabotage the revolution's diplomacy...
...imaginary building, but the scene of a fantastic history. Ruisdael painted the castle at least five times, and his intrigue with the ruins--which the Prince of Orange destroyed to prevent it from falling into the hands of Spanish invaders--suggests that for him the castle was an emblem of Holland's successful fight for independence from the Spaniards...