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Tam o' Shanter (poem) The opening scene of the poem – Tam drinks with his shoemaker friend, souter Johnnie, and flirts with the pub landlady while the landlord laughs at Johnnie's tales. " Tam o' Shanter " is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, at 228 (or 224 ...
Headless horsemen were staples of northern Europe storytelling, featured in German, Irish (e.g., Dullahan), Scandinavian (e.g., the Wild Hunt), and British legends, and included in Robert Burns's Scots poem "Tam o' Shanter" (1790) and Gottfried August Bürger's Der Wilde Jäger (1778), translated as The Wild Huntsman (1796).
Bellevue (/ ˈbɛlvjuː / BEL-vew) is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, located across Lake Washington from Seattle. It is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, and the fifth-largest city in Washington. It has variously been characterized as a satellite city, a suburb, a boomburb, or an ...
2 Tam O'Shanter in Bellevue/Redmond, Washington, United States. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Tam o' Shanter. Add languages. Page contents not ...
Four men were seen fleeing the house; [2] witnesses described them as wearing windbreakers and tam o' shanter hats. [4] Inside, police found 11 guns (five handguns, five long guns, and a shotgun), none of which had been fired recently. [1] Subsequent analysis confirmed that the guns in the house were not used in the massacre. [4]
Downtown L.A.’s Arts District is roaring back to life post-pandemic, and Camphor is the latest addition to the lively scene. Located in the former Nightshade space, Camphor marries French ...
The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred years was the customary working wear of Scottish labourers and farmers. Although a particularly broad and flat form was associated with the Scottish Lowlands, where it was sometimes called the scone cap, [1] the bonnet was also worn in parts of Northern England and became ...
Cutty-sark (witch) Cutty-sark figurehead on the British clipper of the same name. Cutty-sark (18th century Scots for a short chemise or undergarment [1]) is a nickname given to Nannie, [citation needed] a fictional witch created by Robert Burns in his 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter", after the garment she wore. In the poem, the erotic sight of her ...