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Coloured cut from a children's book published in New York, c. 1850 (Dunigan's edition). Dick Whittington and His Cat is the English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London. [1] The legend describes his rise from poverty-stricken childhood with the fortune he made ...
The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories is a collection of seven illustrated stories by children's author Dr. Seuss published by Random House on September 27, 2011. Though they were originally published in magazines in the early 1950s, they had never been published in book form and are quite rare, described by the publisher as "the literary equivalent of buried treasure". [1]
CATS: With the help of Federation government forces, CATS has taken all of your bases. CATS: All your base are belong to us. CATS：せいぜい 残 （ のこ ） り 少 （ すく ） ない 命 （ いのち ） を、 大切 （ たいせつ ） にしたまえ・・・・。 CATS: Treasure what little time you have left to live...
A pelisse was originally a short fur-trimmed jacket which hussar light-cavalry soldiers from the 17th century onwards usually wore hanging loose over the left shoulder, ostensibly to prevent sword cuts. The name also came to refer to a fashionable style of woman's coat -like garment worn in the early-19th century.
This October, it jumped off the medium-sized screens and headed to the big screen. "Cat Person," the new film based on the short story by Kristen Roupenian, is reviving the discourse that took ...
Both wear royal mantles. A royal mantle, or more simply a Mantle, is a garment normally worn by emperors, kings or queens as a symbol of authority. When worn at a coronation, such mantles may be referred to as coronation mantles. Many princes also wear such a mantle. Sometimes the mantles are worn only once, but in other instances they may be ...
Today, epaulettes have mostly been replaced by a five-sided flap of cloth called a shoulder board, which is sewn into the shoulder seam and the end buttoned like an epaulette. From the shoulder board was developed the shoulder mark, a flat cloth tube that is worn over the shoulder strap and carries embroidered or pinned-on rank insignia. The ...
On the illustration appears the English "The young man and his cat", while in the Latin explanatory text it reads De Cata in Fœminam mutate (The cat changed into a woman). Jean de la Fontaine wrote a separate version of this fable, also under the title "The cat changed into a woman" ( La chatte metamorphosée en femme , II.18), in which he ...