The Golden Bird A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow…
(Encyclopedia) Crane, Walter, 1845–1915, English designer, illustrator, and painter. As a painter he is grouped with the later Pre-Raphaelites, but he is better known for his illustrations of the…
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Walt Disney and his team of 570 animators began work on this classic of all classics in…
The Juniper-Tree Long, long ago, some two thousand years or so, there lived a rich man with a good and beautiful wife. They loved each other dearly, but sorrowed much that they had no…
The Reception Candide and Cac... What Happened to Our Two Trav... How Candide Killed the Brother of His Dear Cunegund Never while I live shall I lose the remembrance of that…
(Encyclopedia) James, Saint, d. c.a.d. 43, in the Bible, one of the Twelve Apostles, called St. James the Greater. He was the son of Zebedee and the brother of St. John; these brothers were the…
(Encyclopedia) Babbitt, Natalie, 1932–2016, American children's book author and illustrator, b. Dayton, Ohio, as Natalie Zane Moore, grad. Smith College, 1954. She illustrated The Forty-Ninth…
“in the Old English law, were persons who by mutual oath covenanted to share each other's fortune.” (Burrill.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sworn at…
(The) Castor and Pollux, who were born at Amyclæ. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Amyclaean SilenceAmundeville A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…
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