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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Mountebank may refer to: A charlatan who sells phony medicines from a platform; Monte Bank, a card game; The Mountebanks, a comic opera by Alfred Cellier and W. S ...
The larger Sunday crossword, which appears in The New York Times Magazine, is an icon in American culture; it is typically intended to be a "Wednesday or Thursday" in difficulty. [7] The standard daily crossword is 15 by 15 squares, while the Sunday crossword measures 21 by 21 squares.
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.
Belphegor the Mountebank is a 1921 British silent film directed by Bert Wynne and starring Milton Rosmer, Kathleen Vaughan and Warwick Ward.It is based on the play Belphegor, the mountebank : or, Woman's constancy from the 1850s by Charles Webb.
Fatal Attractions is a documentary series broadcast on Animal Planet from 2010 until 2013. First aired in 2010, the show focused on humans who have kept animals as unconventional pets that have turned out to be dangerous and sometimes fatal. The program's last new episode aired in February 2013. No new episodes were made around the end date.
After the show, guests are invited to meet and pet some of the animals. The show's rotation of animals has varied throughout the years, including otters, horses, orangutans, and skunks. [2] [3] [4] Animal performers that have appeared throughout the attraction's run have starred as: Babe; Beethoven; Max in The Grinch; Frank the Pug in Men in Black
Sharp began writing about the daily New York Times crossword puzzle as practice for a possible website for a comics course. [6] [10] He writes under a pseudonym—Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld—that was originally a nickname invented during a family trip to Hawaii; his real-life identity was outed in 2007.