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It dates to the 17th century and has since inspired many variations; well-known examples include Any Drink Called For, The Bar Act, Satan's Barman, the Assassin's Teapot and Think-a-Drink. During the temperance movement it became The Obliging Tea Kettle , and the modern Magic Tea Kettle remains a common prop available at most magic stores.
Zeira's arrival in the Land of Israel and his first experiences there have been recorded in various anecdotes. He was small of stature and of dark complexion, for which reason Assi called him "Black Pot", [8] according to an expression current in Babylonia; [10] this name possibly also contained an allusion to his sputtering manner of speech.
Allusion is a figure of speech that covertly or indirectly refers to anything (a person, object, circumstance, etc.) from an unrelated context. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is left to the audience to make a direct connection. [ 3 ]
Powers said the new State of Beer and The Bend Bar are aiming to open by the end of 2024. “The Bend is an opportunity to pull a successful concept into a new location,” Powers said.
The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon), is a cognitive bias in which a person notices a specific concept, word, or product more frequently after recently becoming aware of it.
The terms foobar (/ ˈ f uː b ɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2] They have been used to name entities such as variables, functions, and commands whose exact identity is unimportant and serve only to ...
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The title of Agatha Christie's 1961 novel The Pale Horse is an allusion to Revelation 6:8, where it is the horse ridden by Death. In Army of Darkness comics, published first by Dark Horse Comics and then Dynamite Entertainment, Ash is faced with the Four Horsemen. In DC Comics, the Four Horsemen of Apokolips were foretold in the Crime Bible.