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Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert and Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan, along with Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville and Ron Cook. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's The ...
The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy (French: Sans dessus dessous) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889.It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later.
NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy [2]) is a field galaxy [3] and an irregular galaxy [4] discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. [5] It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years, or about half the size of the Milky Way. [6] NGC 1313 lies within the Virgo Supercluster. [7]
A Topsy-Turvy doll is a double-ended doll, typically featuring two opposing characters. They are traditionally American cloth folk dolls which fuse a white girl child with a black girl child at the hips. Later dolls were sometimes a white girl child with a black mammy figure.
Topsy-Turvy, a 2002 album by The Apex Theory; Topsy Turvy (Guitar Shorty album), a 1993 album by Guitar Shorty "Topsy Turvy", a song from the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Topsy Turvy, a video in the Disney Sing-Along Songs series; Topsy Turvy (Young Fresh Fellows album), a 1985 album by Young Fresh Fellows
Netherlandish Proverbs (Dutch: Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
Topsy Turvy was the second album by rock band Young Fresh Fellows. It was released in 1985 on PopLlama. It was the band's first album to feature longtime member Jim Sangster on bass. [2] The album was given a positive review by Rolling Stone Magazine, in their July 17, 1986 issue.
In The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture, [3] Vincent Robert-Nícoud introduces the mundus inversus by writing (p. 1): . To call something ‘inverted’ or ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is, above all, to label it as abnormal, unnatural and going against the natural order of things.