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  2. Who Ate All the Pies? - Wikipedia

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    The chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at the club's goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke, who weighed over 300 lb (140 kg). [1] [2] In his early career he played for Blackwell Colliery, subsequently playing for Sheffield United and Chelsea FC.

  3. The Origin of Species (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Pelevinsky Darwin, as one would expect from a natural-scientific legend, senses a non-human beginning in the beast. In Darwin's Origin of Species, a classic work, the origin of species through natural selection, or the preservation of favored breeds in the struggle for life, is represented as the consequence of a "scientific" experiment. [10] [6]

  4. On the Origin of Species - Wikipedia

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    On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) [3] is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. It was published on 24 November 1859. [4]

  5. Origin of Species (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Origin of Species, or The Good Son, a 2016 novel by You-Jeong Jeong; The Origin of Species, a 2008 novel by Nino Ricci "The Origin of Species" (short story), a 1993 story by Victor Pelevin; Origin of the Species, an Amazing Spider-Man comics collection

  6. File:Origin of Species 1859 facsimile.pdf - Wikipedia

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  7. William Foulke (footballer) - Wikipedia

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    William Foulke (12 April 1874 – 1 May 1916; sometimes spelled Foulk, Foulkes), nicknamed Fatty, was an English professional cricketer and footballer.Foulke was renowned for his great size [1] and weight, reaching perhaps 24 stone (152 kg; 336 lb) at the end of his career, although reports on his weight vary.

  8. Georgie Porgie - Wikipedia

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    And a Cheshire dialect version was quoted in 1887 with the variant "picklety pie" in place of Halliwell's "pumpkin pie". [ 5 ] But by 1884 a version had appeared in which the third line read "When the boys came out to play", [ 6 ] and it was this reading which Iona and Peter Opie chose to perpetuate in their day in The Oxford Dictionary of ...

  9. Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    Denslow illustration of Simple Simon and the pie man. The rhyme is as follows; Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Let me taste your ware. Said the pieman to Simple Simon, Show me first your penny; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, Indeed I have not any. Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale;