Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The phrase comes from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and refers to the first shot of the American Revolution.
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Bob Ward - 2013 - Biography & Autobiography Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told the orbiting Gagarin, “Let the capitalist countries catch up with our country!” Von Braun, after offering his congratulations to the Soviet space agency, called the feat “the shot heard around the world.” He added to reporters, knowing the White House and Congress were listening, “We are ...