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shot heard round the world

  1. A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord . Emerson's words read, “Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world.” In other words, the determination of the colonists at Concord led to the establishment of a new nation on Earth and encouraged worldwide movements toward democracy .


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Mays was on deck in the ninth inning of the third game when Bobby Thomson hit “The shot heard round the world,” the three-run homer that won the National League championship for the Giants.

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By now, dear reader, you know about Noem’s shot heard ’round the world.

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On the recommendation of pitching coach Clyde Sukeforth, Newcombe was relieved by Branca, who then gave up the game-winning home run to Bobby Thomson in the famed “Shot Heard ’Round the World.”

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Organizers squeezed in a weekend of activities at historic sites in the area, including a pep rally, pull-up competition and debate at Faneuil Hall, a ceremony to mark the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and a tug-of-war at the Old North Bridge in Concord, the location of “the shot heard ’round the world.”

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Basically, the e/accs see Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI as a shot heard ’round the world—an insurrection whose fallout shall engender a revolution of unimpeded technological acceleration.

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