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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse with illustrations. The main prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse , while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour.
As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
Swiss folk hero William Tell shows Gessler the bolt he meant to kill him with.. Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann, [1] was a legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff (German: Landvogt) at Altdorf, [2] whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
Abdulmalik Husain, 68, formerly known as Louis Walker, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Deroshia Matthews, 26, and her son, Kamal, 7 ...
William Lester Suff, known over the years as the "Riverside Prostitute Killer" and the "Lake Elsinore Killer," confessed to killing 19-year-old Cathy Small in 1986, Los Angeles County Sheriff's ...
William Tell's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has also been connected with non-European folklore).
While Tell is Swiss, fighting against the Austrians in 1307, Hamm saw his film as a “European story.” “William Tell” was produced by Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions. Germany-based ...