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[Note 3] The book also contains picturesque details about the ordinary lives of gremlins: baby gremlins, for instance, are known as widgets, and females as fifinellas, a name taken from the great "flying" filly racehorse Fifinella, that won both the Epsom Derby and Epsom Oaks in 1916, the year Dahl was born.
WASP Dorothy Olsen wears an A-2 jacket with a Fifinella patch. Fifinella was a female gremlin designed by Walt Disney for a proposed film from Roald Dahl's book The Gremlins. During World War II, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) asked permission to use the image as their official mascot, and the Disney Company granted them the rights ...
The FBISE was established under the FBISE Act 1975. [2] It is an autonomous body of working under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. [3] The official website of FBISE was launched on June 7, 2001, and was inaugurated by Mrs. Zobaida Jalal, the Minister for Education [4] The first-ever online result of FBISE was announced on 18 August 2001. [5]
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[2] Dahl wrote his first story for children, The Gremlins, in 1943; the story was also written for Walt Disney, who was interested in turning it into a film that was ultimately never made. [3] This was Roald Dahl's first children's book published, though it was originally not written as such. [4]
When released into theaters on June 15, 1990, Gremlins 2: The New Batch received generally positive reviews but was a box-office bomb, grossing only $41.5 million on a budget of $30–50 million. Since its release, Gremlins 2: The New Batch has developed a strong cult following. [5] [6] [7]
At the end of Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai‘s penultimate episode, Claw was about to Godzilla her way through Shanghai, destroying everything — and everyone! — in her path. If Nuwa was ...
Articles related to gremlins and their depictions in fiction.Gremlins are mischievous folkloric creatures that cause malfunctions in aircraft or other machinery. The term "gremlin", denoting a mischievous creature that sabotages aircraft, originates in Royal Air Force (RAF) slang among the British pilots stationed in Malta, the Middle East, Australia, Canada, and India in the 1920s, with the ...