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A crime lord called Big Brother summons Cheshire Cat from Los Angeles to help him against rival crime lord Baron. [1] Working as an informant, he tells Big Brother where to find Power Man. [2] Cheshire Cat follows Luke Cage and informs Big Brother that he survived his fight with Chemistro. Power Man later storms Big Brother's hideout, where he ...
Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing. The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles (1792): "Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin." The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ...
Cheshire Cat (Thursday Next series), a fictional cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels; Cheshire Cat (comics), a fictional character; Cheshire Cat idiom or opaque pointer, a computer programming technique; Cheshire Cat Eating House, a cafe in the Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire, England; Quantum Cheshire cat, a phenomenon in ...
Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at St Wilfrid's, Grappenhall , near the author's birthplace, might have been an inspiration.
Cheshire makes non-speaking appearances in the fifth season of Teen Titans. This version is a member of the Brotherhood of Evil with the ability to turn invisible save for her mask's eyes and grin, akin to the Cheshire Cat. The Teen Titans incarnation of Cheshire appears in the "New Teen Titans" segment of DC Nation Shorts.
Cheshire Cat is the debut studio album by American rock band Blink-182 (then known as simply "Blink"), released on February 17, 1995, by Cargo Music.The trio, composed of guitarist Tom DeLonge, bassist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Scott Raynor, formed in 1992 and recorded three demos that impressed the San Diego–based Cargo label.
Cheshire (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ ʃ ər,-ɪər / CHESH-ər, -eer) [3] is a ceremonial county in North West England.It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shropshire to the south; to the west it is bordered by the Welsh counties of Flintshire and Wrexham, and has a short coastline on the Dee Estuary.
Cheshire periodically lay under ice until the end of the Younger Dryas ice age about 11,500 years ago. However, primitive tools have been found that date to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP, showing that Cheshire was inhabited at that time, probably by Homo heidelbergensis.