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  2. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    האַק): Bother, pester (as in the character Major Hochstetter from Hogan's Heroes; a hockstetter being someone who constantly bothers you); a contraction of the idiom Hakn a tshaynik (literally "to knock a teakettle"; Yiddish: האַקן אַ טשײַניק), from the old time pre-whistle teakettles whose tops clank against the rim as the ...

  3. Parable of the Friend at Night - Wikipedia

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    Anonymous artist hired by Pacific Press Publishing Co., 1900. The parable is as follows: He said to them, "Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight, and tell him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,' and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me.

  4. Pester power - Wikipedia

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    Pester power is commonly used by marketing companies to target the 4–6 years old category as they have limited disposable income of their own, and consequently do not have the means to buy goods themselves. [5] The growth of the issue of pester power is directly related to the rise of child advertising. Mr.

  5. ‘You get one split second’: The story behind a viral bird photo

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    The image quickly went viral online, appearing in magazines and on the front page of a national newspaper, the Irish Times. It has since appeared on a bank’s annual report, a cafe mural in ...

  6. William Pester - Wikipedia

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    The site of Pester's original cabin in Palm Canyon was later developed as an Indian trading post, [11] and is now known as "Hermit's Bench". [8] In 1985 Millie Fischer published a booklet about Palm Canyon that included a chapter on Pester, [4] and a biography, William Pester: the Hermit of Palm Springs, was written by Peter Wild and published ...

  7. Rams QB Matthew Stafford played with cracked ribs vs. Eagles ...

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    Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford finished out the season with a rib injury, his wife, Kelly Stafford, confirmed.

  8. Pester - Wikipedia

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    Pester (comics), a Marvel Comics character Professor Pester , the main villain in the animated television series Viva Piñata Rex Pester, a reporter in the animated film The Rugrats Movie

  9. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9, S.244/9, in E-flat major, is the ninth Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt.It is nicknamed the "Carnival in Pest" or "Pesther Carneval" and was composed in 1847.