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  2. Mathematical folklore - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, folk mathematics, or mathematical folklore, is the body of theorems, definitions, proofs, facts or techniques that circulate among mathematicians by word of mouth, but have not yet appeared in print, either in books or in scholarly journals.

  3. Fair Charlotte - Wikipedia

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    The report claimed that the incident in question happened on January 1, 1840, and likened it to a story called "Death at the Toilet" from Passages from the Diary of a London Physician (1838), [5] which tells of a young woman who is determined to go a ball despite the fact that she suffers from heart problems; because of cold weather in her room ...

  4. Matty Groves - Wikipedia

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    It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 in the Roud Folk Song Index. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least 1613, and under the title Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is one of the Child ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child .

  5. Pala (folk art) - Wikipedia

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    Pala is a cultural folk ballad form of Odisha, derived from Sanskrit and Odia literature. [1] [2] It is performed by a group of five or six people, consisting of a 'gayaka' (main singer), a 'bayaka' (drummer), and a 'palia' (chorus). The gayaka has a 'chamara' (fly-whisk) in his left hand, which he flourishes, and a pair of cymbals in his right ...

  6. Ballad - Wikipedia

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    Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.

  7. Lady Franklin's Lament - Wikipedia

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    "Lady Franklin's Lament" first appeared as a broadside ballad around 1850. [2] Found in Canada, Scotland, and Ireland, the song was first published in 1878 in Eighteen Months on a Greenland Whaler by Joseph P. Faulkner. [2] The song may have been inspired by the traditional Irish ballad "The Croppy Boy", which is set during the 1798 rising ...

  8. Fair Mary of Wallington - Wikipedia

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    Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington (Roud 59, Child 91) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [1] Francis James Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. [2] The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant (variant C) is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston". [3]

  9. Fair Annie - Wikipedia

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    A lord tells Fair Annie to prepare a welcome for his bride, and to look like a maiden. Annie laments that she has borne him seven sons and is pregnant with the eighth; she cannot look like a maiden.