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  2. The Snake Charmer - Wikipedia

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    The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. [1] After it was used on the cover of Edward Said's book Orientalism in 1978, the work "attained a level of notoriety matched by few Orientalist paintings," [2] as it became a lightning-rod for criticism of Orientalism in general and Orientalist painting in particular, although Said ...

  3. The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) - Wikipedia

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    The Snake Charmer (French: La Charmeuse de Serpents) is a 1907 oil-on-canvas painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a depiction of a woman with glowing eyes playing a flute in the moonlight by the edge of a dark jungle with a snake extending toward her from a nearby tree.

  4. Pied Piper of Hamelin - Wikipedia

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    1592 painting of the Pied Piper copied from the glass window of Marktkirche in Hamelin Postcard "Gruss aus Hameln" featuring the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1902. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German: der Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.

  5. Bagpipes - Wikipedia

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    Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, around the Persian Gulf and northern parts of South Asia.

  6. Snake charmer (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Snake Charmer, an oil-on-canvas Orientalist painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879. The Snake Charmer (Rousseau) , 1907 painting by French artist Henri Rousseau Snake-charmer stone , a picture stone found at Smiss, När socken, Gotland, Sweden

  7. Koringa - Wikipedia

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    Renée Bernard was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1913. [1] [2] She was five feet tall and of French Indochina ancestry.[5] [6] However, her promotional materials claimed that Koringa was born in Rajisthan, India, having been orphaned at the age of three and raised by fakirs who had taught her their skills.

  8. Snake-charmer - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 20 August 2005, at 05:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Nala Damajanti - Wikipedia

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    Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris. French sources identify her as Emilie Poupon (1861–1944), born in Nantey, Jura Department, France.