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The Tortoise and the Hare. " The Tortoise and the Hare " is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. [ 1] The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to ...
Snow White. Snow White is a major character in Fables. She is based on two stories recorded by the Brothers Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red and the more famous Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. [ 1] Snow White was born in a small cottage and lived there with her younger twin sister Rose Red.
Robert Napper is the eldest child of Brian Napper, a driving instructor, and his wife Pauline. [8] Born in Erith, southeast London, Napper was brought up in nearby Abbey Wood. His background was troubled and dysfunctional. The marriage of his parents was violent and Napper witnessed his father abusing his mother.
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Thursday-plus" in difficulty. [6] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
Caladrius ( Roman ) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri ( Jewish ) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh ( Persian mythology ) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird ( Greek ) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
Certificate – X, U, PG, R, G (from the film certificates) Charged – ION. Charlie – C ( NATO phonetic alphabet) Chartered accountant – CA. Chief – CH. Chlorine – CL (chemical symbol) Chromosome – X or Y. Church – CH or CE ( Church of England) or RC ( Roman Catholic) Circa – C.
On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer ...
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