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Nice Enough to Eat is a budget priced sampler album released by Island Records in 1969.. Continuing the policy set by its predecessor You Can All Join In, the album presented tracks from the latest albums by established artists including Free, Traffic, and Jethro Tull, and introduced tasters from newer signings to the label, notably Nick Drake and King Crimson.
Like many nursery rhymes, "Jack Sprat" may have originated as a satire on a public figure. History writer Linda Alchin suggests that Jack was King Charles I, who was left "lean" when parliament denied him taxation, but with his queen Henrietta Maria he was free to "lick the platter clean" after he dissolved parliament—Charles was a notably short man.
A hoodie is a type of sweatshirt [1] with a hood that, when worn up, covers most of the head and neck, and sometimes the face. The most common 'pullover' style hoodies often include a single large kangaroo pocket or muff on the lower front, while hoodies with zippers usually include two pockets , one on either side of the zipper, in the same ...
Nightwear – also called sleepwear, or nightclothes – is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping. The style of nightwear worn may vary with the seasons, with warmer styles being worn in colder conditions and vice versa. Some styles or materials are selected to be visually appealing or erotic in addition to their functional purposes.
In The Blacklist 's episode 8 of season 1, "General Ludd", an activist network that plans an attack on the US financial system is led by a man who calls himself General Ludd. On the Disney Channel 's Big Hero 6: The Series , there is a recurring character named Ned Ludd who lives in the woods and abhors modern technology.
Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it: [1] In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night ...
Benighted (released in the United States as The Old Dark House) is a 1927 novel by the British writer J.B. Priestley. [1] [2] Priestley's second published novel, the story explores the post-First World War disillusionment that Britain felt during the time period. [3]
The spines of many Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail.