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The St. Bernard dog, legendary for its mountain rescues, is a popular dog for a pet. It was first bred by the monks of the St. Bernard Monastery in Switzerland, from whom the dog borrowed its name. Around 1050 AD, Saint Bernard of Montjou founded a monastery high in the Swiss Alps, with the Saint Bernard Pass in the valley below. The pass was a popular route for travellers and pilgrims as well as many traders. These traders were the first to bring dogs to the Saint Bernard Monastery until 1125. For the next four hundred years the pass was largely abandoned and few travellers passed the monastery. No new dogs entered the Saint Bernard Monastery, and it was during this time that the Saint Bernard breed arose.
http://ncnc.essortment.com/stbernardsdog_rfmt.htm
Percy Howard Hansen was Danish. He is one of only fourteen men not born British or Commonwealth citizens to have received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. On 9 August 1915 at Yilghin Bumu, Gallipoli, Turkey, Captain Hansen's battalion was forced to retire leaving some wounded behind, owing to the intense heat from the scrub which had been set on fire. After the retirement Captain Hansen, with three or four volunteers dashed forward several times over 300-400 yards of open scrub, under a terrific fire and succeeded in rescuing six wounded men from inevitable death by burning.
http://www.victoriacross.net/award.asp?vc=526
S.O.S Coast Guard (1937): directed by Alan James and William Witney and starring Ralph Byrd, Bela Lugosi and Maxine Doyle. Plot Outline: A mad scientist tries to sell his formula for a disintegrating gas to foreign powers.
Source: IMDb
Coastguard statistics: search and rescue operations: United Kingdom 1998-2002
Hoaxes received: 1214
Persons assisted: 83089
Persons rescued: 25820
Lives lost: 1339
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_transstats/documents/page/dft_transstats_025423.pdf
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation. (William Lloyd Garrison)
The modern man needs to rescue himself from cultural provincialism. (June Singer, US doctor)
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement. (Napoleon Hill)
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. (Ben Hecht, English dramatist, poet)
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Emotional Rescue by The Rolling Stones
See lyrics
Chilli Beans from San Francisco Fire Department
See recipe
The Fire Brigades’ Union is an anagram of Our brief: singed in heat and also I rush engine to bad fire.
Source: Anagramgenius.com
The following two things are both eponyms (the names of objects or activities which are also the name of the person who first produced the object or did the activity):
K ration (a small package of emergency rations; issued to United States troops in World War II) was named after theAmerican biologist and Defence Department researcher, Ancel Keys.
Bowie knife (commonly used in modern times to refer to any large sheath ‘survival knife’ which incorporates a hollow handle that can theoretically be used to carry assorted survival gear) was named after the American pioneer, James Bowie (1796-1836).
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words.html
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally's famous novel is a carefully balanced mixture of fact and fiction. Based on a true story, Keneally utilizes the testimonies of survivors to relate the remarkable account of Oskar Schindler, a supposed Nazi sympathizer who decided that Hitler's violent campaign of murder was profoundly, morally wrong. Schindler began to intercede from within the German system itself. He outsmarted the SS and the Gestapo by secretly harboring thousands of Jews in his factory. Schindler's factory employed Jewish workers and thus saved many who were targeted for deportation to the concentration camps. Oskar Schindler’s personal initiative and courage cost him dearly financially, but his life-saving mission rescued men, women and children from certain death in the gas chambers.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/litRescu.htm
Those who rescue are always crucified. (Mexican)
God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage. (Bulgarian)
Better safe than sorry. (English)
The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth. (Indian)
Falling teaches us to walk safely. (Dutch)
It is safest to sail within reach of the shore. (Dutch)
That's a wise delay which makes the road safe. (Spanish)
The one who rings the fire bell is safe. (Spanish)
Caution is the parent of safety. (Traditional)
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