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The Danes thought this an excellent idea – and returned year after year to demand more. In Kipling's words: "if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, you never get rid of the Dane". The practice only ceased in 1016, when the Scandinavian ruler Canute the Great invaded England, won its crown, and established control over the country. [3]
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The seesaw is one of the oldest 'rides' for children, easily constructed from logs of different sizes. The words of "See Saw Margery Daw" reflect children playing on a see-saw and singing this rhyme to accompany their game.
The verses used today are the first of a longer chapbook history first published in 1764. [1] The character of Simple Simon may have been in circulation much longer, possibly through an Elizabethan chapbook and in a ballad , Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty , from about 1685. [ 1 ]
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Crowell was born Grace Noll in Inland Township in Cedar County, Iowa, to Adam and Sarah Noll. [2] She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton , Iowa, and received her B.A. in 1901. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] That same year, she married Norman H. Crowell, with whom she had three sons, Dean, Reid, and Norton.
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.