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...t1=Judith A. |title=Robots That Kill: Deadly Machines and Their Precursors in Myth, Folklore, Literature, Popular Culture and Reality |date=2019 |publish In American comic books, a character typically has dual identities, one overt ...

{{Short description|Fictional dog}} ...laying truant and tries to bring him back to school.<ref>''[[The Dandy]]'' in issue 280, dated 25 November 1944</ref> ...

{{Short description|Fictional warship in The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells}} ...h was the sole torpedo ram to see service with the Royal Navy from 1881 to 1903. ...

...story of the subject. In particular, nothing is said about dream sequences in literature, and only one sentence addresses anything other than film|date=S A '''dream sequence''' is a technique used in [[storytelling]], particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story. Th ...

| education = [[University of Graz]]<br />(PhD, 1903; Dr. phil. hab., 1912) ...e = Untersuchungen zur Gegenstandstheorie des Messens (Investigations in the Object Theory of Measurement) ...

{{Short description|Revision of existing facts in succeeding works of fiction}} ...mes]]'s return in ''[[The Adventure of the Empty House]]'' after his death in an earlier story, ''[[The Final Problem]]'', fighting his enemy, [[Professo ...

...ord Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes'', 1997.</ref> The character also appears in a pantomime tracing its roots to 1806.<ref name=JS>Jeri Studebaker, ''Break ...se's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle'', helped perpetuate the name both in Britain and the United States. ...

...evolver]]s), and is suitable for [[concealed carry (USA)|concealed carry]] in a [[pocket]] or a similar small space.<ref name="McLeod">{{cite book |autho ...0s and 1990s, resulted in a resurgence in the popularity of pocket pistols in the United States, creating new markets for small, simple, reliable, concea ...

...[[pamphleteer]], [[journalist]] and [[playwright]], who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the li ...t]] leader Dugué de la Fauconnerie, who hired him as private secretary and introduced him to ''L'Ordre de Paris''. ...

{{Short description|Fictional character created by J.R.R. Tolkien}} ...rage in Middle-earth|Northern courage]] that Tolkien made a central virtue in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. ...

...inexplicably kind to white slaveowners, especially based on his portrayal in pro-compassion dramatizations. This led to the use of ''Uncle Tom'' — somet At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of [[minstrel s ...

...Alice in one of [[John Tenniel]]'s illustrations for ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' | first = ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (1865) ...

{{Short description|Fictional short story character}} ...a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, [[Bunny Manders|Harry "Bunny" Manders]]. ...

...rt description| Classification of films based on similarities in narrative elements}} ...e and the demise of the new frontier.}}</ref> Pictured: [[Clint Eastwood]] in the [[Spaghetti Western]] film ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' (1964).|alt=]] ...

|productions = 1902 Chicago<br>1903 Broadway<!-- MAJOR MARKET PRODUCTIONS ONLY, PLEASE --> ...been lost, although it was still well-remembered and in discussion at MGM in 1939 when the [[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|classic film version of the st ...

...mes popularized the crime fiction genre. The Adventure of the Empty House, 1903]] [[File:Maurice Leblanc - The Crystal Stopper.jpg|thumb|[[Arsène Lupin]] in ''[[The Crystal Stopper]]'' (1912)]] ...

{{Short description|Term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent}} ...{{cite book|author=Parama Roy|title=Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xp82 ...

{{Short description|Fictional protagonist in Oz novels}} ...(''[[Return to Oz]]'')<br/>[[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] (''[[The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True]]'')<br/>[[Ashanti (singer)|Ashanti]] (''[[The Mu ...

...tween the [[California Gold Rush]] of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890. The genre is commonly associated with [[Americana (culture)|folk tale ...national history and identity of the [[United States]]. [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] populations were often portrayed as ave ...

{{short description|Fictional libertine}} ...e als Don Giovanni in Mozarts Oper - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Don Juan in [[Mozart|Mozart's]] opera ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', a painting by [[Max Slevogt ...