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  2. Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript

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    Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty Had a great fall. And all the king's horses And all the king's men Can't put Humpty Dumpty Together again. Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent Indolent qui ne sort cesse Indolent qui ne se mène Qu'importe un petit d'un petit Tout Gai de Reguennes. A ...

  3. Humpty Dumpty - Wikipedia

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    Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such.

  4. Siege of Colchester - Wikipedia

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    The siege is commonly believed to have inspired the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, which is said to have been the nickname of a large Royalist cannon strategically placed on the wall next to St Mary's Church. The Parliamentary bombardment of 14 July damaged the wall, causing "Humpty Dumpty" to be destroyed.

  5. Humpty Dumpty really does fall off the wall at amusement park

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    On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...

  6. A long-forgotten Alice in Wonderland-inspired garden gets ...

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    The walled enclosure guarded by Humpty Dumpty since the 1930s is being restored thanks to the efforts of a ... He was a Harvard-trained Wall Street lawyer and direct descendant of William Penn’s ...

  7. Siege of Gloucester - Wikipedia

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    [61] [62] After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, King Charles II ordered Gloucester's walls to be demolished. [63] In 1956 Professor David Daube suggested that the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty originated from a siege engine used at Gloucester, based on a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was ...

  8. Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories - Wikipedia

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    A pilot episode, the story of "Humpty Dumpty", was produced in 1987 along with other episodes. The series was considered for a network slot in 1987, but was passed on. The first release of the series came in 1988 through a home video release as part of Jim Henson's Play-Along Video series. The video featured three episodes of the show, "Little ...

  9. Your Social Security Checks Will Go the Furthest in These 10 ...

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    Image source: Getty Images. The 10 states where Social Security checks cover the most. To determine how far Social Security goes in each state, I compared the average annual benefit in each state ...