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  2. Quentin S. Crisp - Wikipedia

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    Quentin S. Crisp (born 1972) is a British writer of fiction, essays and poetry. His fiction often has a supernatural dimension, an otherworldly atmosphere or imaginative plot elements that defy a materialist view of realism.

  3. Rhodopis - Wikipedia

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    'rosy-faced'; Ancient Greek pronunciation: [r̥odɔ̂ːpis]) is an ancient tale about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the late first century BC or early first century AD and is considered the earliest known variant of the " Cinderella " story. [ 1 ]

  4. Quentin Crisp - Wikipedia

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    Quentin Crisp's final book, the third and last instalment of his autobiography, written during the last two years of his life. And One More Thing, (2019) Quentin Crisp, edited by Phillip Ward and Laurence Watts, MB Books, 193 pp., ISBN 978-0-692-16809-7. A companion book to Quentin Crisp's The Last Word: An Autobiography. Crisp shares his views ...

  5. The Three Princes of Serendip - Wikipedia

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    "In ancient times there existed in the country of Serendippo, in the Far East, a great and powerful king by the name of Giaffer. He had three sons who were very dear to him. And being a good father and very concerned about their education, he decided that he had to leave them endowed not only with great power, but also with all kinds of virtues ...

  6. List of fictional princesses - Wikipedia

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    Princess Bubblegum: Adventure Time: Princess of the Candy Kingdom. Voiced primarily by Hynden Walch, Isabella Acres and Livvy Stubenrauch when turned younger, and by Paige Moss in the original pilot short. While Princess Bubblegum is the most prominent princess in the princess-laden Adventure Time comics and television show, there are many others:

  7. History of books - Wikipedia

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    In Persia in the mid-1800s, several "mixed-media" codices were created, employing a hybrid range of both handwritten scribed portions and printed matter. [52] By the late 1800s movable type increased in popularity again. [48] In Egypt, the majority of the 10,205 books printed from 1822 to 1900 were through letterpress printing. [48]

  8. List of fictional feral children - Wikipedia

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    The character Danny Budwing (played by Jonah Bobo) suffers a similar fate in the 2005 film Zathura: A Space Adventure. The title character of Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 anime film Princess Mononoke, called San, was raised by a wolf goddess along with her two wolf pups. San is drawn into a deadly conflict between the forest gods and the humans whose ...

  9. Papyrus (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Papyrus is a Belgian comic book series, written and illustrated by Lucien De Gieter. The story takes place in Ancient Egypt. It was first published in 1974 in Spirou magazine in the form of episodes. An animated series was created in 1998 that was two seasons long (52 episodes) and shown on TFOU TV in France and in Quebec on Radio-Canada.