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:And Put it in the oven for Baby and me.<ref name="Opie1997">[[I. Opie and P. Opie]], ''[h The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in [[Thomas D'Urfey]]'s play ''The Campaigners'' from 1698, where a nurse says ...

...had barely begun it by the time of [[death of Edgar Allan Poe|his death]] in 1849. ...told as a series of [[diary]] entries, the first being [[New Year's Day]], 1796. The setting is an island off the coast of [[Norway]]. ...

...ame de La Pommeraye from [[Denis Diderot]]'s ''[[Jacques le fataliste]]'' (1796) that tells the tale of a man who is tricked into marrying a [[prostitute]] ...ref>Roy Armes, ''French Cinema'', New York: Secker & Warburg (1985): 116. "In the 1950s Bresson was to renounce the use of professional actors, but here ...

...ted novel. The novel is a romanticized account of [[Pugachev's Rebellion]] in 1773–1774. The title "The Captain's Daughter" has also been used to refer t ...him into military service in [[Orenburg]]. While en route, Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard, but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude ...

...Trocadéro, Paris|Chaillot]] (present-day [[Paris]]), [[Bourbon Restoration in France|France]] ..., he entered the regiment of [[Languedoc]] as a "[[gentleman]] [[cadet]]". In 1776, he embarked for [[French India]].<ref name=Richardson30/><ref name=EB ...

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...oute to [[Port Jackson]], [[Australia]] goes off course and is shipwrecked in the [[East Indies]]. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several d ...successful of a large number of "[[Robinsonade]]" novels that were written in response to the success of [[Daniel Defoe]]'s ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' (1719 ...

...which blocked tall-masts from continuing west, and the Cherry Garden Pier in [[Bermondsey]]. The Lower Pool runs from the Cherry Garden Pier to Limekiln ...heft and pilferage of cargoes were rife, both on the busy open wharves and in the crowded warehouses. The term was later used more generally to refer to ...

...) in his ''Correspondance littéraire'' in Saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in France. ...tesy"/><ref name="goldberg">Goldberg, Rita. ''Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot''. Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|0521260698}}, ...

...by [[Christian Clavier]]. It was the most expensive television miniseries in Europe up to that time, costing an equivalent of ([[USD]]) $46,330,000 to p ...was then re-aired on [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé|Télévision de Radio-Canada]]. In the United States, it aired from April 7 to April 8, 2003, on the Arts and ...

| caption = Illustration from 1796 edition ...ch [[epistolary novel]] by [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]], first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu on 23 March 1782. ...

{{In-universe|date=November 2018}} ...been the scene of deaths, random acts of violence, and other misfortunes. In many episodes of the series, most local characters find it easier to just a ...

...r, [[drawing|draughtsman]], and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain. Fuseli was born on 7 February 1741 in [[Zürich]], the second of 18 children.<ref name="eb1911">{{EB1911|inline=y| ...

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{{Short description|Village in Buckinghamshire, England}} ...lage and [[civil parish]] in southeast [[Buckinghamshire]], England. It is in a group of villages called '''The Chalfonts''', which also includes [[Chalf ...

...e aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day Gothic romance/horror books, films, art, music, and the [[Goth subculture]].<ref name=Allison/> ...Claiming he saw a ghost in the nightmare — which featured a "gigantic hand in armour" — Walpole incorporated imagery from this into the novel, and also d ...