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Helen Stratton illustration, 1899. On a freezing New Year's Eve, a poor young girl, shivering, bareheaded and barefoot, unsuccessfully tries to sell matches in the street.. Afraid to go home because her father would beat her for failing to sell any matches and not earning even a single penny, she huddles in the alley between two houses and lights matches, one by one, to warm herse
Hive is a bug-themed tabletop abstract strategy game, designed by John Yianni [2] and published in 2001 by Gen42 Games. The object of Hive is to capture the opponent's queen bee by having it completely surrounded by other pieces (belonging to either player), while avoiding the capture of one's own queen. [3]
The New York Times Spelling Bee, or simply the Spelling Bee, is a word game distributed in print and electronic format by The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games. Created by Frank Longo, the game debuted in a weekly print format in 2014. A digital daily version with an altered scoring system launched on May 9, 2018.
The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of ...
The Little Match Girl Passion is a choral work by David Lang, based on the 1845 Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Little Match Girl". It is influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (1727) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2008. [1]
Les petites filles modèles (English: Good Little Girls) is a novel for children by the Countess of Ségur first published in May 1858. It is the second book of a trilogy (sometimes called the Fleurville Trilogy), with Sophie's Misfortunes (1858) and Les vacances (English: The Holidays) . Hachette was still selling 20 000 copies of this novel ...
William Blake, The Little Girl Found, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1794 "The Little Girl Found" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. In the poem, the parents of a seven-year-old girl, called Lyca, are looking desperately for their young ...
A version from Abruzzi (The Clever Girl) begins with an old lady blessing the newborn peasant girl with "beauty and wit", but otherwise remains a realistic tale. [ 12 ] A scholarly inquiry by Italian Istituto centrale per i beni sonori ed audiovisivi ("Central Institute of Sound and Audiovisual Heritage"), produced in the late 1960s and early ...