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"The Gnome" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales, tale number 91. [ 1 ] It is Aarne-Thompson type 301A, [ a ] The Quest for the Vanished Princesses.
The gnome was later given the name "Gnome Chompski" as a reference to Noam Chomsky and has appeared in the Valve Corporation games Left 4 Dead 2 and Half-Life: Alyx. In 2020 Gabe Newell partnered with Wētā Workshop and Rocket Lab to launch a real-life garden gnome into space.
The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David, el Gnomo and also known as David, the Gnome, is a Spanish animated television series based on The Secret Book of Gnomes, a series of children's books by Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. [1]
Beginning with GNOME 3.8, GNOME provides a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions that provide an Applications menu (a basic start menu) and a "Places menu" on the top bar and a panel with a windows list at the bottom of the screen that lets users quickly minimize and restore open windows, a "Show Desktop" button in the bottom ...
"The Gnome" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. Written by Syd Barrett , it is the eighth song on their 1967 debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song takes place in a fictional gnome world from the perspective of a gnome.
The Gnome-Mobile is a 1967 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on the 1936 book The Gnomobile by Upton Sinclair , it was one of the last films personally supervised by Walt Disney . [ 3 ]
The Gnome King of Oz (1927) is the twenty-first book in the Oz series created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the seventh by Ruth Plumly Thompson. [1] Like nineteen of the twenty previous books, it was illustrated by John R. Neill .
The Troubles of a Gnome (Polish: Kłopoty Kacperka góreckiego skrzata) is a children's book by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. First published in 1926, the novel is set in Cieszyn Silesia and features the titular gnome, Kacperek. According to some literary scholars, it is considered "one of the most beautiful Polish fairy tales".