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Eisenhower jacket E Eisenhower jacket – китель «эйзенхауэр» (до пояса, с нагрудными карманами) The Eisenhower jacket or “Ike” jacket is a waist-length, military jacket of World War II origins. Called the Jacket, Field, Wool, M-1944, it was commissioned by then General Dwight Eisenhower as a new field jacket for the US Forces in Northern Europe. The WWII-era jacket was based on the British Army tailor-made officer’s “Battle Dress” jacket of the same era. Eisenhower jacket Eisenhower was born in 1890, the third of seven boys. All of the boys were called “Ike”, such as “Big Ike” (Edgar) and “Little Ike” (Dwight); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name. By World War II, only Dwight was still called “Ike”. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. “Et tu, Brute?” – «И ты, Брут?» (предсмертные слова Юлия Цезаря) A Latin phrase often used poetically to represent the last words of Roman dictator Julius Caesar to his friend Marcus Brutus at the moment of his assassination. It can be variously translated as “Even you, Brutus?”, “And you, Brutus?”, “You too, Brutus?”, etc. Immortalized by Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” (1599) (Act III, Sc. 1), the quotation is widely used in Western culture to signify the utmost betrayal. On March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BC, Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar’s close friend. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly spoke those words and resigned himself to his fate. Caesar’s last words are not known with certainty and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike. The version best known in the English52