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Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. [1] She also appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme. [2] The character also appears in a pantomime tracing its roots to 1806.
A Chinese goose, a breed derived from the swan goose ( Anser cygnoides ). It has the trinomial name A. cygnoides domesticus. A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals. Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose ...
1806 illustration from "The True History of a Little Old Woman Who Found a Silver Penny". An old woman finds a silver penny while cleaning her chambers and goes to buy a pig, but can't get home when it refuses to go over a stile, she asks: A dog to bite the pig, then on refusal; A stick to beat the dog, then on refusal;
It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 [1] and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. [2] Henry Cole , publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), [ 3 ] and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). [ 4 ]
The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street.It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine.
The Truth About Mother Goose is an animated short film released on August 28, 1957, by Walt Disney Productions. [1] The short was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman in his directorial debut, and Bill Justice, and written by Bill Peet .
Canada goose. The Canada goose ( Branta canadensis ), sometimes called Canadian goose, [2] [3] is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is occasionally found during migration across the Atlantic in northern ...
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.