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  2. The Four Wise Men - Wikipedia

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    The Four Wise Men (French: Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar) is a 1980 novel by Michel Tournier, published by Éditions Gallimard.Ralph Manheim translated the work into English, and the translation was first published in the United States by Doubleday and Company in 1982, [1] and in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons in 1982.

  3. Corbenic - Wikipedia

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    In the 13th-century Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate) prose cycle, the castle is named as Corbenic for the first time. In the highly Christian mystical Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail, it is the home of the Grail family from the lineages of Jesus' followers Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, whose history is told in the cycle's prologue, the Vulgate Joseph.

  4. Gerald Cockshott - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] His second opera, A Faun in the Forest, for which he also wrote the libretto premiered in 1959 in Westport, Connecticut. [ 1 ] From 1947 to 1964 Cockshott was the senior English master at Whittingehame College , a boarding school for boys in Brighton founded by the British Zionist Jacob Halevy.

  5. Baldwin IV of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    The dying king then ordered that homage be rendered to his nephew as king and to Raymond as regent, to be followed by a solemn crown-wearing ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. [ 103 ] Baldwin IV died, attended by his vassals, [ 104 ] in March 1185 [ 87 ] [ 105 ] or before 16 May 1185 at the latest, when Baldwin V is recorded as the ...

  6. Star of Bethlehem - Wikipedia

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    The Star of Bethlehem is shown as a comet above the child. Giotto witnessed an appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301. The Star of Bethlehem, or Christmas Star, [1] appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew chapter 2 where "wise men from the East" are inspired by the star to travel to Jerusalem.

  7. Michael Maybrick - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] By the early 1870s, Maybrick was singing his own songs, beginning with "A Warrior Bold". Published under the pseudonym Stephen Adams and mostly with lyrics by Fred Weatherly, his songs achieved extraordinary popularity. His early sea song "Nancy Lee" sold more than 100,000 copies in two years.

  8. How Many Miles to Babylon? - Wikipedia

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    The song is repeatedly sung by the character of Rosetta, which helps Lupin figure out how to navigate the traps from within the Tower of Babel and how to find the treasure towards the end of the film. A version of the rhyme is sung in English midway into the film by Naoko Kawai, appearing on the film's original soundtrack as "The Song of Babylon".

  9. The Frogs Who Desired a King - Wikipedia

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    A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...