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  2. Cabbages and Kings (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Cabbages and Kings is a 1904 novel made up of interlinked short stories, written by O. Henry and set in a fictitious Central American country called the Republic of Anchuria. [1] It takes its title from the poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter", featured in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Its plot contains famous elements in the poem ...

  3. Cabbages and Kings - Wikipedia

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    Cabbages and Kings is a quotation from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and may refer to: Cabbages and Kings (novel) , a 1904 novel by O. Henry Cabbages and Kings (Canadian TV program) , a 1955 Canadian panel discussion television program which aired on CBC

  4. O. Henry - Wikipedia

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    Porter lived in Honduras for six months, until January 1897. There he became friends with Al Jennings, a notorious train robber, who later wrote a book about their friendship. [3] He holed up in a Trujillo hotel, where he wrote Cabbages and Kings, which notably coined the term "banana republic". [4]

  5. The Walrus and the Carpenter - Wikipedia

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    The Walrus said To talk of many things Of shoes and ships and sealing wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings Callo-Callay No work today! We're cabbages and kings Oh, uh, Oysters, come and walk with us The day is warm and bright A pleasant walk A pleasant talk Would be a sheer delight Yes, should we ...

  6. Category:Of Cabbages and Kings albums - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Of Cabbages and Kings albums or lists of Of Cabbages and Kings albums, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Of Cabbages and Kings albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  7. To Whom It May Concern (Bee Gees album) - Wikipedia

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    They recorded the song "Paper Mache, Cabbages and Kings" on 3 January 1972 which was the last song recorded with the Australian drummer Geoff Bridgford. Bridgford was the final non-Gibb brother to be a full member of the group. He left the group before their tour of East Asia and was replaced on tour by Chris Karan. Recording resumed in April ...

  8. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. politics, the term banana republic is a pejorative political descriptor coined by the American writer O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings (1904), a book of thematically related short stories derived from his 1896–1897 residence in Honduras, where he was hiding from U.S. law for bank embezzlement. [34] Bankocracy

  9. Francis Spufford - Wikipedia

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    Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) [1] is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has shifted gradually from non-fiction to fiction.His first novel Golden Hill received critical acclaim and numerous prizes including the Costa Book Award for a first novel, [2] the Desmond Elliott Prize [3] and the Ondaatje Prize. [4]