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  2. The Reivers - Wikipedia

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    The Reivers: A Reminiscence, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. It was published a month before his death. It was published a month before his death. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963.

  3. Border reivers - Wikipedia

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    Reivers at Gilnockie Tower in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from a 19th-century print Notorious raider Walter Scott of Harden's horn, noted in a poem called "The Reiver's Wedding" by Sir Walter Scott. It reads in part: "He took a bugle frae his side,/With names carved o'er and o'er,/Full many a chief of meikle pride,/That Border bugle bore."

  4. The Reivers (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Reivers (also known as The Yellow Winton Flyer in the U.K.) [3] is a 1969 Technicolor film in Panavision starring Steve McQueen and directed by Mark Rydell, based on the 1962 William Faulkner novel The Reivers, a Reminiscence. [4]

  5. Paul Revere's Ride - Wikipedia

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1860, the year he wrote "Paul Revere's Ride", painted by Thomas Buchanan Read. Longfellow was inspired to write the poem after visiting the Old North Church and climbing its tower on April 5, 1860. He began writing the poem the next day. [1] It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

  6. Dale Wimbrow - Wikipedia

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    The poem became a popular clipping passed between people, and the author's credit was often dropped, leading to inquiries as to the author in newspapers as early as 1938. [ 6 ] Ann Landers printed the poem in her column on October 5, 1983, incorrectly attributing it to an anonymous man who died as a result of struggles with drug abuse.

  7. Mark Rydell - Wikipedia

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    He directed Steve McQueen in The Reivers (1969). Rydell and friend Sydney Pollack, who had known each other since they were both actors, formed a company, Sanford Productions, and signed a six picture contract with the Mirisch Brothers. [10] They planned to make Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, which was eventually made in 1979 by other filmmakers.

  8. Jan F. E. Celliers - Wikipedia

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    Jan F.E. Celliers. Jan Francois Elias Celliers, almost universally known as Jan F.E. Celliers, but occasionally as Jan F.E. Cilliers (12 January 1865 – 1 June 1940) was an Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer.

  9. Gavin Dunbar (archbishop of Glasgow) - Wikipedia

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    Dunbar also is known for his "Monition of Cursing" against the Border Reivers of the Anglo-Scottish Border region. George MacDonald Fraser, in his history of the Reivers, The Steel Bonnets, admiringly calls it a "remarkable burst of invective," and says that it places Dunbar "among the great cursers of all time." Priests in all of the parishes ...