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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. [1]

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A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.

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A. J. Langguth

Arthur John Langguth (July 11, 1933 – September 1, 2014), known as A. J. Langguth, was an American author, journalist and educator, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Ada Leverson

Ada Esther Leverson (née Beddington; 10 October 1862 – 30 August 1933) was a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle.

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Adam Frost (writer)

Adam Frost (born August 21, 1972) is a British author, best known for his children’s books Ralph the Magic Rabbit (shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize) and The Epic Book of Epicness (winner of the Blue Peter Book Award).

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Aerated Bread Company

The Aerated Bread Company Ltd (A.B.C.) was a company founded and headquartered in the United Kingdom.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series that was hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock; the program aired on CBS and NBC between 1955 and 1965.

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Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Alice is a fictional character and protagonist of Lewis Carroll's children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

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Andrew Birkin

Andrew Timothy Birkin (born 9 December 1945) is an English screenwriter, director and occasional actor.

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Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.

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Arthur Jacobs

Arthur David Jacobs (14 June 1922 – 13 December 1996) was an English musicologist, music critic, teacher, librettist and translator.

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Arthur Porges

Arthur Porges (20 August 1915 – 12 May 2006) was an American author of numerous short stories, most notably during the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death.

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Atilola Abdulsalam Tunde

Salam Atilola (born 2 February 1996 in Saki) is a Nigerian football player who currently plays for Manzini Sundowns F.C. in the Swazi Premier League.

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Badakhshan

Badakhshan (Pashto/بدخشان, Badaxšân; Бадахшон, Badaxşon;;, Dungan: Бадахәшон, Xiao'erjing: بَا دَا کْ شًا, Ming dynasty era Chinese name- 巴丹沙) is a historic region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.

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Baseball Bugs

Baseball Bugs is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny.

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Battle of the Ancre

The Battle of the Ancre was fought by the Fifth Army (Lieutenant-General Hubert Gough), against the German 1st Army (General Fritz von Below).

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Battle of the Kalka River

The Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на річці Калка, Битва на реке Калке) was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai the Valiant, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities, including Kiev and Galich, and the Cumans.

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Bayswater

Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London.

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Beasts and Super-Beasts

Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914.

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Ben Daniels

Ben Daniels (born 10 June 1964) is an English actor.

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Blood sausage

Blood sausages are sausages filled with blood that are cooked or dried and mixed with a filler until they are thick enough to solidify when cooled.

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Book burning

Book burning is the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context.

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Borzoi

The borzoi (literally "fast"), also called the Russian wolfhound (Ру́сская псовая борзая), is a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris).

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Breakfast of Champions

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday, published in 1973, is the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.

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Bystander (magazine)

The Bystander was a British weekly tabloid magazine that featured reviews, topical drawings, cartoons and short stories.

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Chartreuse (liqueur)

Chartreuse is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605.

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Children of Wonder

Children of Wonder is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories edited by William Tenn, published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 1953.

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Clovis

Clovis may refer to.

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Clovis (given name)

Clovis is the modern conventional French (and thence English) form of the Old Frankish name *Hlōdowik "famous in battle" (Old High German: Chlodowig) equivalent to the modern forms Louis (French), Lodewijk (Dutch) and Ludwig (German).

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Comic novel

A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction.

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Comics Code Authority

The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation, to allow the comic publishers to self-regulate the content of comic books in the United States.

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Comus

In Greek mythology, Comus (Κῶμος) is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances.

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Courier (Quarterly)

The Courier was a magazine published in Britain during the period 1938-1951, by Norman Kark Publications, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London.

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Cultural depictions of elephants

Elephants have been depicted in mythology, symbolism and popular culture.

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Curzon Street

Curzon Street is located within the exclusive Mayfair district of London.

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Dandy

A dandy, historically, is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.

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Danger! and Other Stories

Danger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Daunt Books

Daunt Books is a chain of bookshops in London, founded by James Daunt.

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David Paisley

David Paisley (born 2 February 1979) is a Scottish actor, especially well known for roles as midwife Ben Saunders in Holby City, Ryan Taylor in Tinsel Town and most recently Rory Murdoch in River City.

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Debi Gliori

Debi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish writer and illustrator of children's books.

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December 18

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Die boek van spoke

Die Boek van Spoke (Lit. The Book of Ghosts) is an anthology of ghost stories that was compiled and translated into Afrikaans by South African author François Bloemhof.

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Diogenes Verlag

The Diogenes Verlag (short: Diogenes) is a Swiss publisher in Zurich, founded in 1952 by, with a focus on literature, plays and cartoons.

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Dirty Pretty Things (band)

Dirty Pretty Things were an English band fronted by Carl Barât, a member of The Libertines.

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Dornford Yates

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer (7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960), whose novels and short stories, some humorous (the Berry books), some thrillers (the Chandos books), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

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Dresden Zoo

Dresden Zoo or Zoo Dresden, is a zoo situated in the city of Dresden, Germany.

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Edward Eager

Edward McMaken Eager (June 20, 1911 – October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction.

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Edward FitzGerald (poet)

Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

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Edwardian era

The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long-term trends from the 1890s to the First World War.

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Emlyn Williams

George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

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England Invaded

England Invaded is a collection of imaginative fiction, including invasion literature, from the Victorian and Edwardian periods, edited by British author Michael Moorcock.

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Esme (disambiguation)

Esmé is a French given name.

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European polecat

The European polecat (Mustela putorius) – also known as the common ferret, black or forest polecat, or fitch (as well as some other names) – is a species of mustelid native to western Eurasia and north Morocco.

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Fallen Angels (play)

Fallen Angels is a comedy by the English playwright Noël Coward.

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Frank Knopfelmacher

Frank Knopfelmacher (Vienna, 3 February 1923 – Melbourne, 17 May 1995), was a Czech Jew,Knopfelmacher, Andrew (subject's son): at pwhce.org, 21 March 2002.

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Gabriel-Ernest

"Gabriel-Ernest" is a 1909 short story by British writer H. H. Munro, better known as Saki.

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Gerald Savory

Gerald Douglas Savory (17 November 1909 – 9 February 1996) was an English writer and television producer specialising in comedies.

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Gmina Bielsk Podlaski

Gmina Bielsk Podlaski is a rural gmina (Polish:gmina wiejska) in Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship.

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Graphic Classics

Graphic Classics is a comic book anthology series published by Eureka Productions of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin.

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Great Ghost Tales

Great Ghost Tales is an American horror television series that aired Live from July 6 until September 21, 1961.

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Heather Chasen

Heather Jean Chasen (born 20 July 1927) is an English actress.

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Hector (given name)

Hector is an English, French, Scottish, and Spanish given name.

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Hector Munro

Hector Munro or Monro may refer to.

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Henry Furst

Henry Furst (New York, October 11, 1893 – La Spezia, August 15, 1967) was an American journalist, writer, playwright and historian.

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Hideo Ishiguro

, Japan is a Japanese actor who is noted for his roles as Kai in the 2007 Kamen Rider Den-O and as Gai Kurenai in the 2016 Ultraman Orb.

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Horror comics

Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.

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Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist.

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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester

Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester, KG (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English nobleman, soldier, and literary patron.

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Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II

A hypothetical Axis victory in World War II is a common concept of alternative history and counterfactual history.

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In the Grip of Terror

In the Grip of Terror is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin.

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Interloper

Interloper, Interlopers or The Interlopers may refer to.

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Invasion literature

Invasion literature (or the invasion novel) is a literary genre most notable between 1871 and the First World War (1914) but still practised to this day.

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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1820 in three volumes and subtitled A Romance.

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James Elroy Flecker

James Elroy Flecker (5 November 1884 – 3 January 1915) was a British novelist and playwright.

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John Collier (fiction writer)

John Henry Noyes Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born author and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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John Wood (English actor)

John Wood, CBE (5 July 1930 – 6 August 2011) was an English actor noted for his performances in Shakespeare and for his long association with Tom Stoppard.

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Kampfgeschwader 100

Kampfgeschwader 100 (KG 100) was a Luftwaffe medium and heavy bomber wing of World War II, and the first military aviation unit to use an unpowered precision-guided munition in combat to sink a warship on 9 September 1943 with the destruction of the, in the first successful use of the Fritz X armor-piercing, gravity PGM ordnance.

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Kampfgeschwader 26

Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26) "Löwengeschwader" (in English Bomber Wing 26 aka "Lions' Wing" by virtue of its insignia) was a German air force Luftwaffe bomber wing unit during World War II.

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Kate Brooke

Kate Brooke is a British screenwriter.

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Keith Baxter (actor)

Keith Baxter (born 29 April 1933) is a Welsh theatre, film and television actor.

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Laura Poantă

Laura Poantă (born March 10, 1971, Agnita, Sibiu County) is a Romanian physician, medical scientist, author, translator, and painter.

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Leighton Buzzard

Leighton Buzzard is a town in Bedfordshire, England near the Chiltern Hills and lying between Luton and Milton Keynes.

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List of 20th-century writers

This is a partial list of 20th-century writers.

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List of Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes

The following is a list of episodes from the television show Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

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List of books considered the worst

The books listed below have been cited by a variety of notable critics in varying media sources as being among the worst books ever written.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1961–70)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1991–2000)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2011–present)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of English Heritage blue plaques in the City of Westminster

This is a complete list of the 309 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the City of Westminster in London.

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List of English writers (R-Z)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.

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List of fictional cats in literature

This list of fictional cats in literature is subsidiary to the list of fictional cats.

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List of horror fiction writers

This is a list of some (not all) notable writers in the horror fiction genre.

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List of literary initials

A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work.

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List of one-word stage names

This is a list of notable people best known by a stage name consisting of a single word.

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List of pen names

This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work.

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List of people educated at Bedford School

This is a list of people educated at Bedford School.

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List of satirists and satires

Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.

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List of short-story authors

This is a partial list of published short-story authors.

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List of werewolf fiction

This is a list of fiction and media of all kinds of media featuring werewolves, lycanthropy and shape-shifting.

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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Literary Taste: How to Form it is a long essay by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1909, with a revised edition by his friend Frank Swinnerton appearing in 1937.

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Lumber room

The large houses of the wealthy class of Britain commonly had a lot of very old, well-built furniture, more than was to be used in every room at any given time.

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M. John Harrison

Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known for publication purposes primarily as M. John Harrison, is an English author and literary critic.

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March Mammal Madness

March Mammal Madness is an alternate March Madness tournament focusing on simulated combat between non-human mammals, instead of college basketball.

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Marron glacé

A marron glacé (plural marrons glacés) is a confection, originating in southern France and northern Italy consisting of a chestnut candied in sugar syrup and glazed.

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Martita Hunt

Martita Edith Hunt (30 January 190013 June 1969) was an Argentine-born British theatre and film actress.

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Mespilus germanica

Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree, and the name of the fruit of this tree.

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Michael Arlen

Michael Arlen (November 16, 1895 in Ruse, Bulgaria – June 23, 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Տիգրան Գույումճյան), was a British essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter of an Armenian origin, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England.

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Mononymous person

A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a single name, or mononym.

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Mountjoy Prison

Mountjoy Prison (Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security prison located in Phibsborough in the centre of Dublin, Ireland.

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Munro (surname)

Notable people with the surname Munro include.

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Ned Chaillet

Edward William "Ned" Chaillet, III (born 29 November 1944) is a radio drama producer and director, writer and journalist.

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November 14

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November 1916

The following events occurred in November 1916.

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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816.

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Orson Welles discography

This is a comprehensive list of all of the commercially released recordings made by Orson Welles.

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Orson Welles radio credits

This is a comprehensive listing of the radio programs made by Orson Welles.

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Orson Welles Show (radio)

Orson Welles Show (1941–42), also known as The Orson Welles Theater, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater and the Lady Esther Show (after its sponsor), is a live CBS Radio series produced, directed and hosted by Orson Welles.

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Osbert Lancaster

Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author.

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Oyo State

Oyo, usually referred to as Oyo State to distinguish it from the city of Oyo, is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Pan in popular culture

Pan, the Greek deity, is often portrayed in cinema, literature, music, and stage productions, as a symbolic or cultural reference.

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Peggy Feury

Peggy Feury (30 June 1924 — 20 November 1985) (born Margaret Feury) was an actress on Broadway, in films, and on television.

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Penguin 60s

To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released three boxed sets of "Penguin 60s".

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Petits-Chevaux

Petits-Chevaux, French for "little horses", is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors.

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PodCastle

PodCastle is a fantasy podcast.

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Princeton Summer Theater

Princeton Summer Theater was founded in 1968 by a group of Princeton University undergraduates under the name 'Summer Intime' as a high grade summer stock theater company.

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Prion Humour Classics

Prion Humour Classics are a series of small-format hardback novels published by Prion Books in the UK published by Barry Winkleman.

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Raptio

Raptio (in archaic or literary English rendered as rape) is a Latin term for the large-scale abduction of women, i.e. kidnapping for marriage or enslavement (particularly sexual slavery).

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Reginald

Reginald may refer to.

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Reginald (given name)

Reginald is a masculine given name in the English language.

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Rina Satō

is a Japanese voice actress and singer who works for Haikyō.

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Robin Hardy (American writer)

Robin Moore Hardy (born 1955) is the author of more than twenty published books and several unpublished manuscripts.

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Romance at Short Notice

Romance at Short Notice is the second and last album by Dirty Pretty Things, released in the UK on 30 June 2008.

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Romani people in fiction

Many fictional depictions of the Romani in literature and art present Romanticized narratives of their supposed mystical powers of fortune telling, and their supposed irascible or passionate temper paired with an indomitable love of freedom and a habit of criminality.

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Rosalie Parker

Rosalie Parker is an author, scriptwriter and editor who runs the Tartarus Press with R.B. Russell.

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Royal titles of Yoruba monarchs

This is a list of the royal titles of Yoruba monarchs.

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".

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Saki (1962 TV series)

Saki is a 1962 British television series which was produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV.

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Saki (disambiguation)

Saki (1870–1916) was the pen name of Edwardian satirist H.H. Munro.

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Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture

Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture, established by Eugen Sandow in 1898, has been regarded as the first bodybuilding magazine.

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Sanjak of Novi Pazar

The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Novopazarski sandžak; Новопазарски санџак; Yeni Pazar sancağı) was an Ottoman sanjak (second-level administrative unit) that was created in 1865.

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She-wolf

A she-wolf is a female Gray wolf (Canis lupus).

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Shekhar Joshi

Shekhar Joshi (born September, 1932) is a Hindi author, who is also known for his insight into the culture, traditions and lifestyles of people of Uttarakhand.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Sittwe

Sittwe (formerly Akyab) is the capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar (Burma).

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Sketch story

A sketch story, literary sketch or simply sketch, is a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot.

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Someone Like You (short story collection)

Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl.

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Sonia Leong

Sonia Leong (born 7 May 1982) is a british freelance comic artist, illustrator and member of Sweatdrop Studios.

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South African Wars (1879–1915)

Ethnic, political and social tensions among European colonial powers, indigenous Africans, and English and Dutch settlers led to open conflict in a series of wars and revolts between 1879 and 1915 that would have lasting repercussions on the entire region of southern Africa.

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Spine Chillers

Spine Chillers was a 1980 British children's supernatural television series produced by the Jackanory team and broadcast on BBC1.

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Sredni Vashtar

"Sredni Vashtar" is a short story written by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) between 1900 and 1911 and initially published in his book The Chronicles of Clovis.

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Sredni Vashtar (film)

Sredni Vashtar is the 30-minute film adaptation, released in 1981, and written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin based on the short story of the same name written by Hector Hugh Munro.

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Storyteller

Storyteller, story teller, or story-teller may refer to.

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Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

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The Black Mass

The Black Mass was a horror-fantasy radio drama produced by Erik Bauersfeld, a leading American radio dramatist of the post-television era.

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The Book of Fantasy

The Book of Fantasy is the English translation of Antología de la Literatura Fantástica, an anthology of appromixately 81 fantastic short stories, fragments, excerpts, and poems edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo.

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The Bull

The Bull may refer to.

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The Golden Argosy

The Golden Argosy: The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language is an anthology edited by Charles Grayson and Van H. Cartmell, and published by Dial Press in 1955.

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The Graphic Canon

The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press) is a three-volume anthology, edited by Russ Kick, that renders some of the world's greatest and most famous literature into graphic-novel form.

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The Hunters (novel)

The Hunters is James Salter's debut novel and a tale of USAF fighter pilots during the Korean War, first published in 1956.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Mercury Theatre on the Air

The Mercury Theatre on the Air (first known as First Person Singular) is a radio series of live radio dramas created by Orson Welles.

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The Nerd

The Nerd is a two-act comedy written by American actor/playwright Larry Shue.

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The Open Doors

The Open Doors is a short British film based on a short story 'The Open Window' by Saki (H. H. Munro).

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The Rape of the Sabine Women

The Rape of the Sabine Women was an incident in Roman mythology in which the men of Rome committed a mass abduction of young women from the other cities in the region.

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The Supernatural Reader

The Supernatural Reader is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff and Lucy Conklin.

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The Watched Pot

The Watched Pot (alternative title The Mistress of Briony) is a romantic comedy play by Saki and Charles Maude published in 1924.

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The Weird

The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

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The Westminster Alice

The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published by the Westminster Gazette of London.

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The Westminster Gazette

The Westminster Gazette was an influential Liberal newspaper based in London.

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Thiepval Memorial

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave.

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Timothy Ackroyd

Sir Timothy John Robert Whyte Ackroyd, 3rd Baronet (born 7 October 1958), known as Timothy Ackroyd, is an English actor.

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Tobermory

Tobermory may refer to.

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Tobermory Cat

Tobermory Cat is the name of a celebrity ginger cat used as an "evolving, interactive artwork" by Scottish artist Angus Stewart.

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Tobermory, Mull

Tobermory (Tobar Mhoire) is the capital of, and the only burgh until 1973 on, the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

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Tottenham Court Road

Tottenham Court Road (occasionally abbreviated as TCR) is a major road in the Fitzrovia district of Central London, running from St Giles Circus to Euston Road.

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Ulrich

Ulrich, is a German given name, derived from Old High German Uodalrich, Odalric.

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W. L. George

Walter Lionel George (20 March 1882, Paris, France – 30 January 1926) was an English writer, chiefly known for his popular fiction, which included feminist, pacifist, and pro-labour themes.

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Weird fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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When William Came

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by the British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in November 1913.

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Whitaker's Almanack

Whitaker's is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom.

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William Mervyn

William Mervyn Pickwood (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the bishop in the clerical comedy All Gas and Gaiters, the old gentleman in The Railway Children and Inspector Charles Rose in The Odd Man and its sequels.

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Works based on Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have been highly popular in their original forms, and have served as the basis for many subsequent works since they were published.

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100th Independent Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment

The 100th Shipborne Fighter Aviation Regiment (Military Unit Number 45782) was an aviation regiment of the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy.

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1870

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1870 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1870.

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1870 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1870 in the United Kingdom.

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1902 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1902.

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1902 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1902 in the United Kingdom.

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1904 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1904.

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1904 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1904 in the United Kingdom.

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1911 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1911.

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1912 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1912.

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1913 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1913.

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1914 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1914.

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1916

Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix.

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1916 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1916.

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1916 in poetry

—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1916 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1916 in the United Kingdom.

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1971 in comics

This is a list of comics-related events in 1971.

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5th Air Army

The 5th Air Army was an air army of the Soviet Air Forces and later the Ukrainian Air Force.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki

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