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  2. Boxer (Animal Farm) - Wikipedia

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    Boxer is a character from George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm. He is shown as the farm's dedicated and loyal laborer. Boxer serves as an allegory for the Russian working-class who helped to oust Tsar Nicholas and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually betrayed by the government under Joseph Stalin.

  3. Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

  4. Old Major - Wikipedia

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    Revolutionary Leader of Animal Farm Major , also called the Willingdon Beauty during showings , is the first major character described by George Orwell in his 1945 novella Animal Farm . An elderly Middle White boar, his " purebred " of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change.

  5. London Fields (novel) - Wikipedia

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    London Fields is a blackly comic murder mystery novel by the British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989.The tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the approach of the deadline, or "horrorday", the climactic scene alluded to on the very first page.

  6. From the wild to the farm: the domestication of animals explained

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    Well, humans decided to tame some of them as pets and others for more appetizing reasons many years ago. SEE ALSO: Meet the happiest animal on Earth 14-30,000 BC: Dogs

  7. Snowball (Animal Farm) - Wikipedia

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    Snowball is a character in George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm.He is largely based on Leon Trotsky, who led the opposition against Joseph Stalin ().Snowball is depicted as an intellectual white pig whose leadership, dedication, and feats for Animal Farm is unparallel to any others on the farm, however he is rivaled by Napoleon who has hatred for Snowball.

  8. The longest Uber ride ever was surprisingly long -- and cheap

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    Ultimately, the bill came out to be $294.09 -- pretty cheap compared to the $1,182 that a New York City yellow cab would have charged, but a huge departure from the average 5.4 mile Uber ride.

  9. Snowball's Chance - Wikipedia

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    Snowball - in Animal Farm an allegory of Leon Trotsky; in Snowball's Chance he becomes a hyper-capitalist. Sugarcandy Mountain - the likely allegory for Heaven mentioned by Moses the Raven in Animal Farm. In Snowball's Chance it is renamed the Sugarcandy Lodestar. The language of Snowball's Chance is more over-the-top than that of Animal Farm.