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  2. Mr. Fezziwig - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Fezziwig is portrayed as a jovial, anachronistic man with a large Welsh Wig. [1] In Stave 2 of A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to revisit his youthful days in Fezziwig's world located at the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Dickens uses Fezziwig to represent communal values and a way of life quickly swept away ...

  3. A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Containing songs especially written for the show, the drama was adapted from the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens which had been published just weeks before in December 1843. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] By February 1844 eight other adaptations had already appeared on the London stage, [ 5 ] including A Christmas Carol, or, the Miser's ...

  4. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come - Wikipedia

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    The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.The Ghost is the last of the three spirits that appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption, foretold by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley.

  5. Ebenezer Scrooge - Wikipedia

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    Ebenezer Scrooge (/ ˌ ɛ b ɪ ˈ n iː z ər ˈ s k r uː dʒ /) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Charles Dickens's 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol.Initially a cold-hearted miser who despises Christmas, his redemption by visits from the ghost of Jacob Marley, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come has become a defining ...

  6. Ghost of Christmas Present - Wikipedia

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    Engraving of Old Christmas 1842 - Illustrated London News (December 1842). The Ghost of Christmas Present is described as "a jolly Giant", and Leech's hand-coloured illustration of the friendly and cheerful Spirit, his hand open in a gesture of welcome confronted by the amazed Scrooge has been described by Jane Rabb Cohen as elegantly combining "the ideal, real, and supernatural" with humour ...

  7. Humorous Interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Humorous Interpretation (often shortened to "HI", or "Humor") is an event in competitive middle and high school forensics leagues such as the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and the National Speech and Debate Association. It consists of a piece from any published work, edited to fit within a 10-minute span with a 30 ...

  8. List of speeches given by Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241.

  9. The Husband's Message - Wikipedia

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    "The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.