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  2. A. E. Coppard - Wikipedia

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    Coppard was born the son of a tailor and a housemaid in Folkestone and had little formal education. [1] He grew up in difficult, poverty-stricken circumstances; he later described his childhood as "shockingly poor" and Frank O'Connor described Coppard's early life as 'cruel'. [2]

  3. Grape toxicity in dogs - Wikipedia

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    The reason some dogs develop kidney failure following ingestion of grapes and raisins is not known. [3] Types of grapes involved include both seedless and seeded, store-bought and homegrown, and grape pressings from wineries. [4] A mycotoxin is suspected to be involved, but none has been found in grapes or raisins ingested by affected dogs. [5]

  4. Dionysus - Wikipedia

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    In the Mediterranean summer, marked by the rising of the dog star Sirius, the weather becomes extremely hot, but it is also a time when the promise of coming harvests grow. Late summer, when Orion is at the center of the sky, was the time of the grape harvest in ancient Greece. Plato describes the gifts of this season as the fruit that is ...

  5. Peter's vision of a sheet with animals - Wikipedia

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    A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or sheet, ὀθόνη, othonē) contained unclean animals, Peter declined. The command was repeated two more times, along with the voice saying, "What God hath made clean, that call not thou common" (verse 15) and then the vessel was taken back to heaven (verse 16).

  6. List of Whitest Kids U' Know episodes - Wikipedia

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    Heaven - In a B&W sequence, (Trevor) finds himself in heaven with a beautiful fairy, a car, and a puppy in a hatbox. "Ask your doctor about suicide." "Ask your doctor about suicide." I Want to Kill the President - Trevor flirts with danger in a PSA about it being illegal to state one's desire to kill the President of the United States of ...

  7. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    When disaster struck Autonous and his family, Zeus and Apollo took pity in them and changed them into birds. Autonous became a stone-curlew (oknos in Greek, meaning "slow", because he was slow in saving his son Anthus). The family's unnamed manservant became a heron, although not the same heron as Erodius, another of Autonous's sons, turned into.

  8. The Grape Escape - Wikipedia

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    The Grape Escape is a board game released in 1992 by Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) and licensed by Rehtmeyer Inc. [1] The game was intended to entertain younger audiences of 5+ years old. [2] In 2010, Hasbro released a game called Smashed Potatoes with the same game play, but with potatoes instead of grapes (probably because of Parker Brothers ...

  9. Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth - Wikipedia

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    The Aztec day sign Itzcuintli (dog) from the Codex Laud. Dogs have occupied a powerful place in Mesoamerican folklore and myth since at least the Classic Period right through to modern times. [1] A common belief across the Mesoamerican region is that a dog carries the newly deceased across a body of water in the afterlife.