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The Night Before Christmas is a 1905 American silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. [1] It closely follows Clement Clarke Moore 's 1823 poem Twas the Night Before Christmas , and was the first film production of the poem.
Edison is an epic poem by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval. [1] It was written in 1927. [2] Later it was included in the poetic book Básně noci (Poems of the Night) which was published in 1930. [3] The main hero of the poem is American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, considered by the author to be a modern genius
The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
The lyric was written as a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord", published in 1860 in The English Woman's Journal. [ 1 ] The song was immediately successful [ 2 ] and became particularly associated with American contralto Antoinette Sterling , with Sullivan's close friend and mistress, Fanny Ronalds , and with British contralto ...
The Edison catalogue advertised it this way: "They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time." Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898) Perhaps in defiance, and "to spice up a film", this was followed by many kiss imitators and take-offs, including Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898 ...
Remembering the fathers in heaven (or wherever you may believe they go after they pass) is important all the time—but especially on Father's Day! Some of the Father's Day quotes you'll read here ...
In the episode, Homer, realizing his life is half-over and that he has not accomplished anything, begins to admire Thomas Edison and decides to create inventions to follow in Edison's footsteps and make his life worthwhile. The idea behind "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" came from Dan Greaney, who assigned John Swartzwelder to write the episode.
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.