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In order to bring out the essence of the concept behind "Rice Field" in the music video, Chou chose a rural courtyard house as the filming location to represent his childhood memories. [3] The video tells the story of a middle-aged man, frustrated with work-related stress, venting his frustrations on his wife and children.
Hear them all cheering, Now they are nearing, There's the captain stiff as starch. Bayonets flashing, Music is crashing, As the wooden soldiers march; Sabers a-clinking, Soldiers a-winking, At each pretty little maid. Here they come! Here they come! Here they come! Here they come! Wooden soldiers on parade. Daylight is creeping, Dollies are ...
A Crusade song (Occitan: canso de crozada, Catalan: cançó de croada, German: Kreuzlied) is any vernacular lyric poem about the Crusades. Crusade songs were popular in the High Middle Ages : 106 survive in Occitan , forty in Old French , thirty in Middle High German , two in Italian , and one in Old Castilian . [ 1 ]
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a 2004 television documentary series produced for the BBC.Written and hosted by Terry Jones, each half-hour episode examines a particular medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality.
Nearly every person at Augusta National on Sunday was cheering on Tiger Woods to win the Masters, but one particular patron stood out from the crowd.
Novels centring on minstrelsy have included Helen Craik's Henry of Northumberland (1800), Sydney Owenson's The Novice of St Dominick's (a girl using a minstrel disguise, 1805), Christabel Rose Coleridge's Minstrel Dick (a choirboy turned minstrel becomes a courtier, 1891), Rhoda Power's Redcap Runs Away (a boy of ten joins wandering minstrels ...
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The derivation of the word is uncertain. It may come from the Latin gula, gluttony. [2] It may also originate from a mythical "Bishop Golias", [3] a medieval Latin form of the name Goliath, the giant who fought King David in the Bible—thus suggestive of the monstrous nature of the goliard or, notes historian Christopher de Hamel, as "those people beyond the edge of society". [4]