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The cover of The Great Panjandrum Himself. The Great Panjandrum Himself is one of sixteen picture books created by the illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The book was published in 1885 by Frederick Warne & Co. It was the last book illustrated by Caldecott, who died the following year.
This introduced the nonsense term "The Grand Panjandrum" into the English language and the name was adopted for the Panjandrum or Great Panjandrum, an experimental World War II-era explosive device. With Foote's success in writing An Englishman in Paris, Irish playwright Arthur Murphy was moved to create a sequel, The Englishman returned from ...
Panjandrum, also known as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II. It was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including Hajile and the Hedgehog , that were developed by the Admiralty 's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) in ...
The English Review was a London literary magazine launched in 1783 by John Murray I, under the full title English Review, or Abstract of English and Foreign Literature. Its editor was Gilbert Stuart. Initially Stuart wrote much of the Review with William Thomson. He died in 1786. [1] Thomson carried it on, becoming proprietor in 1794.
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May 12 – Amy Lowell, American poet (born 1874) [34] May 14 – H. Rider Haggard, British adventure novelist (b. 1856) [35] June 6 – Pierre Louÿs, French poet (born 1870) July 13 – Margaret Dye Ellis, American social reformer, lobbyist, and correspondent (born 1845) July 15 – Mary Cholmondeley, English novelist (born 1859)
I still can't figure out how to create a disambiguation page, but wiping out my provisional hatnote is not the solution. Please discuss. GcT 08:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC) I have added a link to the wiktionary article for the meaning of the word. (Hohum @) 12:13, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720s and 1730s themselves, who responded to a term that George I of Great Britain preferred for himself. While George I meant the title to reflect his might, they instead saw in it a reflection of Ancient Rome 's transition from rough and ready literature to highly political and highly ...