Ms. Srbljanovic, who was 10 when Josip Broz Tito died, believes her generation must decide whether to be actors in the moral, historical and cultural vortex into which they were hurled or to surrender, letting history pull them along like broken twigs in a rising creek.
It was the largest surrender in the history of the United States Army until the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
Later that day Buckner and Grant met at the Dover Hotel to plan the details of what was, to that point, the greatest military surrender in American history: More than 12,000 Confederate soldiers were to stack their guns on the banks of the Cumberland and board boats headed for Northern prisons.
After more than a decade of outrunning accusations that he had doped during his celebrated cycling career, Lance Armstrong, one of the best known and most accomplished athletes in recent history, surrendered on Thursday, ending his fight against charges that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Despite assembling arguably the strongest defense in program history (surrendering only 176 total points, an average of 13.5 per game) and having a talented offense, West Virginia struggled with consistency all season.
We even made out a whole sentence: "I had a history of surrender!" We predict a less than submissive future.
An administration official told me that the "Guinness Book of World Records" expressed interest in certifying it as the biggest mass surrender of criminals in history.
Sunday at 11 a.m., "The Surrender of Fort Washington," a history of the place sometimes called the "Alamo of the Revolution," meeting at the south entrance of Fort Tryon Park, on Margaret Corbin Plaza, Washington Heights.
At the beginning of my third trimester, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, a pregnancy complication so common as to be almost banal — except I had to prick my finger with a mechanized lancet five times a day, swear off ice cream, fruit and lemonade during the hottest summer in New York history, and surrender my plan for a natural delivery.
"New Yorkers never quit, New Yorkers never surrender, New Yorkers never hide from history, we make history".
