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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Cheese-eating surrender monkeys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insulting descriptive phrase, referring to the French, which gained brief notoriety among conservatives in the United States in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
The "surrender" element of the phrase seems most likely to refer to the rapid collapse of French military resistance in 1940 in the face of the German Blitzkrieg, and the subsequent collaboration by the Vichy government.
The implicit characterization of the French as cowards, and the description of the Battle of France as a surrender is regarded by many as highly offensive.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys   (418 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Surrender
Surrender is when soldiers give up fighting and become prisoners of war, either as individuals or when ordered to by their officers.
United States Army policy states that surrendered persons should be treated according to the "5 S:s" until turned over to higher authority.
Surrender is the title of a 1999 album by the Chemical Brothers.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Surrender   (214 words)

  
 SELF-SURRENDER in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
All religions imply some conception of surrender of self to deity, ranging in ethical quality from a heathen fanaticism which impels to complete physical exhaustion or rapture, superinduced by more or less mechanical means, to the high spiritual quality of self-sacrifice to the divinest aims and achievements.
Esther was ready to surrender her life in pleading for the safety of her people (Est 4:16).
As a corollary to surrender to God, the Christian must surrender himself to the welfare of his neighbor, just as Christ pleased not Himself (Rom 15:3); also to leaders (1 Cor 16:16), and to earthly rulers (Rom 13:1).
www.bible-history.com /isbe/S/SELF-SURRENDER   (1058 words)

  
 definition of surrender   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
www.brainydictionary.com /words/su/surrender226749.html   (263 words)

  
 Japanese Instrument of Surrender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Representatives of Japan stand aboard the USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender.
The date is sometimes known as Victory over Japan Day, although that designation is more frequently used to refer to the date of Emperor Hirohito's announcement of the acceptance of the terms of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15.
As witnesses, U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, who had surrendered the Philippines, and Britsh Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, who had surrendered Singapore, received two of the six pens he used to sign the instrument.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender   (461 words)

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