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    Public speaking (redirect from Orations)
    primary form of oration through the mid-20th century. After World War II and the increased use of film and television, the Latin oration style began to...
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  • Olympic Oration or Olympian Oration may refer to: Olympic Oration, a mostly lost speech by Gorgias Olympic Oration (Lysias), Oration 33 by Lysias Olympic...
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  • oration or Funeral Oration may refer to: eulogy funeral sermon, funeral address structured around exposition of a text from the Bible Funeral oration...
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  • Isthmian Oration may refer to: Diogenes or the Isthmian Oration, Oration 9 by Dio Chrysostom Isthmian Oration on Poseidon, Oration 46 by Aelius Aristides...
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    "Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was...
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    public oratory, it was Everett's oration that was slated to be the "Gettysburg address" that day. His now seldom-read oration was 13,607 words long and lasted...
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  • Sir Donald Bradman Oration is an Australian Cricket calendar event which honours the career, contribution and memory of one of the proclaimed greatest-ever...
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  • The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of...
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    The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus...
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  • Rigdon's July 4th oration was a speech delivered by Mormon leader Sidney Rigdon during a 4th of July celebration in Far West, Missouri in 1838. Rigdon...
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    closing words of the graveside oration of Patrick Pearse at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. The oration roused Irish republican feeling...
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  • Dr Charles Perkins Oration has been held by the university, in honour of its first Aboriginal graduate, Charlie Perkins. The orations have been delivered...
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    Harveian Orations in chronological order. Four Harveian Orations were delivered prior to formation of the Society and from 1782 to 1831 the Oration was given...
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  • Funeral Oration was a melodic hardcore punk band from Amsterdam, Netherlands. They were active from 1982–83 until the end of the 1990s, putting out highly...
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    Eulogy (redirect from Funerary oration)
    Consolatio Crowd manipulation Declamation Debate Funeral celebrant Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Glossophobia List of speeches Obituary Panegyric Persuasion...
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  • The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate in Latin) is a public discourse composed in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and...
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  • The HGSA Oration was established in 1990 in order to honour a pre-eminent member of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (HGSA). It is a lecture...
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    to it in various places, and the fact that it is called a July Fourth Oration but was actually delivered on July 5, some confusion has arisen about the...
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  • The Hunterian Oration is a lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, named in honour of pioneering surgeon John Hunter and held on his birthday...
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    The Tenterfield Oration was a speech given by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales at the Tenterfield School of Arts in Tenterfield...
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    Australian continental rail network. Parkes delivered his famous Tenterfield Oration in 1889, which yielded a federal conference in 1890 and a Constitutional...
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    Sermon (redirect from Sermon (oration))
    A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy. Sermons address a scriptural, theological, or moral topic, usually...
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  • Demosthenes's "Funeral Oration" (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It...
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    hindered by the obscurity of his condition. — Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration His family's nobility and wealth allowed him to fully pursue his inclination...
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    A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary...
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    During and after his term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. Fact-checkers at The Washington...
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    Government Printer. 10 June 1872. p. 1872:1125. "About the Kerferd Oration". The Kerferd Oration. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2024. Geoff Browne, A Biographical...
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  • the Heart and the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, delivered the oration. He drew parallels between Lingiari's struggle to be heard by governments...
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    established the Lowitja O'Donoghue Foundation. The Lowitja O'Donoghue Oration is held annually by the Don Dunstan Foundation, in her honour. Lowitja...
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  • Folklore fable fairy tale folk play folksong heroic epic legend myth proverb Oration Performance audiobook spoken word Saying Major written forms Drama closet...
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