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  2. The Fox and the Grapes - Wikipedia

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    The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, [1] numbered 15 in the Perry Index. [2] The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable.

  3. La Fontaine's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Fox and the Grapes (Le renard et les raisins, III.11) The Fox and the Sick Lion (Le lion malade et le renard, VI.14) The Fox, the Flies and the Hedgehog, (Le renard, les mouche et le hérisson, XII.13) The Frog and the Mouse (La grenouille et le rat, IV.11) The Fox and the Stork (Le renard et la cigogne, I.18)

  4. Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life.. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.

  5. List of Aesop's Fables - Wikipedia

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    The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well; The Bald Man and the Fly; The Bear and the Travelers; The Beaver; The Belly and the Other Members; The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird; The Bird in Borrowed Feathers; The Boy Who Cried ...

  6. What is behind the tradition of eating 12 grapes on New Year's?

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    Natural bunch grapes with seeds from Alicante add "an element of fun to the tradition of the 12 grapes." The seeds provide a "crunchy touch," the supermarket said .

  7. The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) - Wikipedia

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    One of the rare variations is the painted panel by Léon Rousseau (fl.1849-81) which pictures the fox crouching with one paw on the fallen cheese and bending his head directly upwards to taunt the agitated crow. [46] There is also the 1961 print by the German artist Horst Janssen of a large striped fox looking up at a minute bird on a twig ...

  8. The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human ... - AOL

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    3/5 Cherry Jones is wry and warm in Carrie Cracknell’s revival of Steinbeck’s story about a sprawling clan of dustbowl refugees in the Depression era – but the elements of this three-hour ...

  9. Trump Cabinet picks soften past statements under Senate ... - AOL

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    Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s most vulnerable Cabinet picks are racing to smooth out or overwrite past statements before contentious Senate confirmation fights.