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The Funny Little Woman is a book "retold by" Arlene Mosel. Released by E. P. Dutton, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1973, and was illustrated by Blair Lent. [1] " The Old Woman who Lost her Dumplings " was the title of the original tale by Lafcadio Hearn, [2] which Mosel had adapted. [3]
The young Fanny and the "well meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A 1903 edition. Ten-year-old Fanny Price is sent from her impoverished home in Portsmouth to live with the family at Mansfield Park. Lady Bertram is Fanny’s aunt and her four children – Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia – are older than ...
portrait, nude. Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite is a 1974 photograph by Judy Dater. It depicts elderly photographer Imogen Cunningham, encountering nude model Twinka Thiebaud behind a tree in Yosemite National Park. It is considered Dater's most popular photograph and according to the photographer, was inspired by Thomas Hart Benton's painting ...
A 38-year-old woman was near 85 East Drive in the northern end of the park around 5:10 a.m. Saturday when she was approached by an unknown attacker, the NYPD said.
Saida Mashrah,7, was at Ryan Park near Ford Road and the Southfield Freeway with her grandmother when a 73-year-old Detroit man approached her around 3:45 p.m. "A guy came up to me," Mashrah said.
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 442, "The Old Woman in the Woods" (previously, "The Old Man in the Woods"): the heroine survives a robbers' attack by hiding up a tree; a dove flies in and gives her a key which she can use to open three nearby trees; the heroine then goes to the house of an old woman in the woods to fetch a ring; in doing ...
An old woman finds a silver penny while cleaning her chambers and goes to buy a pig, but can't get home when it refuses to go over a stile, she asks: A dog to bite the pig, then on refusal; A stick to beat the dog, then on refusal; A fire to burn the stick, then on refusal; Water to quench the fire, then on refusal;
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken is a 1901 silent short film directed by Edwin S. Porter in collaboration with George S. Fleming.The comic film depicts an unattractive old woman (played by celebrated vaudeville female impersonator Gilbert Saroni) arriving at a photo studio to have her picture taken, and destroying all of the equipment through the power of her ugliness.