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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Cold hands, warm heart [a] Comparisons are odious [a] Count your blessings [a] Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman [a] Cowards may die many times before their death [a] Crime does not pay [a] Cream rises. Criss-cross, applesauce [a] Cross the stream where it is shallowest.

  3. Folk etymology - Wikipedia

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    Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, [ 1] analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation[ 2] – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage. [ 3][ 4][ 5] The form or the meaning of an archaic ...

  4. Glenn Yarbrough - Wikipedia

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    Glenn Yarbrough. Glenn Robertson Yarbrough (January 12, 1930 – August 11, 2016) was an American folk singer and guitarist. He was the lead singer (tenor) with the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963 and also had a prolific solo career. Yarbrough had a restlessness and dissatisfaction with the music industry which led him to question his priorities ...

  5. Peter Noone - Wikipedia

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    Bell, Philips (US) Website. Official website. Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone (born 5 November 1947) [ 1] is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist and actor. He was the lead singer "Herman" in the 1960s pop group Herman's Hermits. In 2019, Noone won the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the Casino Entertainment Awards in Las Vegas.

  6. Folk poetry - Wikipedia

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    Folk poetry in general has several characteristics. It may be informal and unofficial, generally lacks an owner and may "belong" to the society, and its telling may be an implicitly social activity. [1] The term can refer to poems of an oral tradition that may date back many years; [2] that is, it is information that has been transmitted over ...

  7. German folklore - Wikipedia

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    German folklore. German folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in Germany over a number of centuries. Seeing as Germany was divided into numerous polities for most of its history, this term might both refer to the folklore of Germany proper and of all German-speaking countries, this wider definition including folklore of Austria and ...

  8. Carl Sandburg - Wikipedia

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    Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his ...

  9. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke - Wikipedia

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    Alma mater. Shrewsbury School, Jesus College, Cambridge. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke[a] (/ fʊlk ˈɡrɛvɪl /; 3 October 1554 – 30 September 1628) was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman who served in the House of Commons at various times between 1581 and 1621, when he was raised to the peerage. Greville was a capable ...

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