0:06 The first rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.

0:11 The second rule of Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.

Fight Club was nominated for the 2000 Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, but it lost to The Matrix. Bonham Carter won the 2000 Empire Award for Best British Actress.

0:18 Third rule of Fight Club: Someone yells stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.

0:25 Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight.

0:28 Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas.

The Online Film Critics Society also nominated Fight Club for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Norton), Best Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay (Uhls).

0:32 Sixth rule: no shirts, no shoes.

0:36 Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to.

0:42 And the eighth and final rule: If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Though the film won none of the awards, the organization listed Fight Club as one of the top ten films of 1999. The soundtrack was nominated for a BRIT Award, losing to Notting Hill.

The Romanian Mountain Huntsmen saw action in World War II on the Eastern Front in some of the harshest battles – including the sieges of Sevastopol and Stalingrad – where their performance lived up to their reputation: virtually all their commanders from brigade level and up received the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, with general Mihail Lascăr being the first foreigner to receive Oak Leaves on 22 November 1942. After 23 August 1944, they fought on the Soviet side, notably in the Tatra Mountains.

After the end of the war, one of the first measures taken by the Soviets in occupied Romania was to disband the mountain troops. Shortly after the Soviet occupation troops left Romania in 1958, the Mountain Huntsmen were re-established again as a distinct branch of the Romanian Land Forces.

There are currently two brigades operational, one subordinated to the 1st Infantry Division (the 2nd Mountain Troops Brigade “Sarmizegetusa”), and another one subordinated to the 4th Infantry Division (the 61st Mountain Troops Brigade “General Virgil Bădulescu”). Mountain troops units served several tours of duty during Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The armor is hard and our tanks are fast
And our men are full of courage
The Soviet tankmen are ready for action—
Sons of their Great Motherland.

Refrain:

Thundering with fire, glinting with steel,
The tanks will begin a harsh campaign
When we’re called to battle by Comrade Stalin
And the First Marshal will lead us in this battle!

In keeping our country, we guard
The work of factories and farms
By power of our gun turrets
By our fastness and pressure of fire.

[Refrain]

Let’s enemy, who hidden in ambush, remember
We watch for him, we are on guard.
We want not a foot of foreign land,
But we will not give up an inch of our own land.

[Refrain]

But if the enemy attacks us,
We will beat him everywhere,
Tank drivers will start engines
And drive-by forests, mountains and even on water.

[Refrain]

Verses from Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake, including “Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!” were set to music around 1812 by the songwriter James Sanderson (c. 1769 – c. 1841), a self-taught English violinist and the conductor of the Surrey Theatre, London, who wrote many songs for local theatrical productions during the 1790s and the early years of the 19th century:

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more,
Days of danger, nights of waking.

— The Lady of the Lake, 1810

Scott’s romance was quickly made into unauthorized romantic melodramas. In November 1810, Scott wrote to a friend that The Lady of the Lake was being made into a play by Martin and Reynolds in London and by a Mr. Siddons in Edinburgh. About the same time, Scott received a letter from a friend and army officer who ended his note with a copy of the music of the Boat Song, “Hail to the Chief.”

Lyrics that were written by Albert Gamse are set to James Sanderson’s music, but they are rarely sung.

Hail to the Chief we have chosen for the nation,
Hail to the Chief! We salute him, one and all.
Hail to the Chief, as we pledge cooperation
In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call.

Yours is the aim to make this grand country grander,
This you will do, that is our strong, firm belief.
Hail to the one we selected as commander,
Hail to the President! Hail to the Chief!

The American robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is one of the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.

The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats, and snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln’s speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure. Of these versions, the Bliss version, written well after the speech as a favor for a friend, is viewed by many as the standard text. Its text differs, however, from the written versions prepared by Lincoln before and after his speech. It is the only version to which Lincoln affixed his signature, and the last he is known to have written.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

In Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills notes the parallels between Lincoln’s speech and Pericles’s Funeral Oration during the Peloponnesian War as described by Thucydides. (James McPherson notes this connection in his review of Wills’s book. Gore Vidal also draws attention to this link in a BBC documentary about oration.

According to one version, Wacław Święcicki wrote the song in 1879 while serving a sentence in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel for socialist activity. Another popular version has it written in 1883, immediately upon Święcicki’s return from exile in Siberia. By the beginning of the next decade, the song became one of the most popular revolutionary anthems in Russian-held Poland. The music was written by composer Józef Pławiński, who was imprisoned together with Święcicki, based partially on the January Uprising song “Marsz Żuawów”.

Let us raise boldly our banner,
Even though a storm of hostile elements is howling
Even though sinister forces oppress us today,
Even though everybody’s tomorrow is uncertain.
Oh, this is the banner of the whole mankind,
The sacred call, the song of resurrection,
It’s the triumph of labor and justice,
It’s the dawn of the brotherhood of all peoples!

Forward, Warsaw!
To the bloody fight,
Sacred and righteous!
March, march, Warsaw!

0:05 No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

The troops under Patton’s command received the speech well. The general’s strong reputation caused considerable excitement among his men, and they listened intently, in absolute silence, as he spoke. A majority indicated they enjoyed Patton’s speaking style. As one officer recounted of the end of the speech, “The men instinctively sensed the fact and the telling mark that they themselves would play in world history because of it, for they were being told as much right now. Deep sincerity and seriousness lay behind the General’s colorful words, and the men well knew it, but they loved the way he put it as only he could do it.” Patton gave a humorous tone to the speech, as he intentionally sought to make his men laugh with his colorful delivery. Observers later noted the troops seemed to find the speeches very funny. In particular, Patton’s use of obscene humor was well received by the enlisted men, as it was “the language of the barracks”.

0:35 Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

The speech became an icon of popular culture after the 1970 film Patton, which was about the general’s wartime exploits. The opening of the movie saw actor George C. Scott, as Patton, delivering a toned-down version of the speech before an enormous American flag. It began with a version of Patton’s “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country …” quote. Scott’s iteration omitted much of the middle of the speech relating to Patton’s anecdotes about Sicily and Libya, as well as his remarks about the importance of every soldier to the war effort. In contrast to Patton’s humorous approach, Scott delivered the speech in an entirely serious, low and gruff tone. Still, Scott’s depiction of Patton in this scene is an iconic depiction of the General which earned Scott an Academy Award for Best Actor and was instrumental in bringing Patton into popular culture as a folk hero.