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  2. Newspaper hawker - Wikipedia

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    London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...

  3. Newsboy - Wikipedia

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    Newsboy or news boy may refer to: Newspaper hawker, a street vendor of newspapers; Paperboy or papergirl, youngsters who distributed newspapers to subscribers; People

  4. Newsboys' strike of 1899 - Wikipedia

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    The leadership of the newsboy strike was less centralized than most unions, with boys in each neighborhood feeling more loyalty to the other boys in their area than to the centralized leadership. [2] That said, some boys were more influential than others, organizing rallies, acting as spokespeople for the strike, and being interviewed by papers ...

  5. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - Wikipedia

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    The Meaning of Life was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. [29] While the Cannes jury, led by William Styron, were fiercely split on their opinions on several films in competition, The Meaning of Life had general support, securing it the second-highest honour after the Palme d'Or for The Ballad of Narayama. [30]

  6. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  7. Paperboy - Wikipedia

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    Paperboy license for boys under age 14 in 1970 when girls were not allowed to deliver newspapers in New York State. The paperboy occupies a prominent place in the popular memory of many countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Japan.

  8. The Meaning of Life (2005 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Meaning of Life is a 35mm animated short film, written and directed by Don Hertzfeldt in 2005. The twelve-minute film is the result of almost four years of production and tens of thousands of drawings, single-handedly paper animated and photographed by Hertzfeldt.

  9. The Crimson Permanent Assurance - Wikipedia

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    Typically of how the Pythons would weave previously "terminated" plot lines into later scenes in their projects (such as "The Spanish Inquisition" in Flying Circus, or the repeated references to swallows in Holy Grail), The Crimson Permanent Assurance suddenly re-emerges in the middle of The Meaning of Life. After the donor scene, the film ...