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The prankster Till Eulenspiegel, depicted with owl and mirror (title page of the Strasbourg edition of 1515) Eulenspiegel Memorial in Kneitlingen. Till Eulenspiegel (German pronunciation: [tɪl ˈʔɔʏlənˌʃpiːɡəl]; Low German: Dyl Ulenspegel [dɪl ˈʔuːlnˌspeɪɡl̩]) is the protagonist of a European narrative tradition.
Sol Trigger (Japanese: ソールトリガー, Hepburn: Sōru Torigā) is a role-playing video game developed by Imageepoch for the PlayStation Portable. It was released in Japan on October 4, 2012. It was released in Japan on October 4, 2012.
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (German: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, pronounced [tɪl ˈoʏ̯lənʃpiːɡl̩s ˈlʊstɪɡə ˈʃtraɪçə]), Op. 28, is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Richard Strauss. Dedicated to his friend Arthur Seidl, it was first performed on 6 May 1895 by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne conducted by Franz ...
Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded a musical parody that uses themes from Gioachino Rossini's William Tell Overture.It was recorded along with sound effects and humorous horse race calls performed by Doodles Weaver, in the style of the famous announcer Clem McCarthy.
"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive / Genesis port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game .
Allan Salisbury (born 1949), known professionally as Sols, is an Australian comic book writer, best known for his newspaper comic Snake Tales. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Salisbury's other creations include Lennie the Loser and Fingers and Foes , the latter helping to establish Salisbury in the United States.
The sol, later called a sou, is the name of a number of different coins, for accounting or payment, dating from Antiquity to today. The name is derived from the late-Roman and Byzantine solidus . Its longevity of use anchored it in many expressions of the French language .