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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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    "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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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