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  2. Osip Dymov - Wikipedia

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    Osip Dymov (Russian: Осип Дымов) is the central fictional character in the classic Russian story "The Grasshopper" (Poprygunya; 1892) by Anton Chekhov. [1] For generations this character has served to inspire medical professionals as to the standards of dedication expected from them.

  3. Category:The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    Articles related to the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper and its adaptations. It is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.

  4. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, The Grasshopper (1872), National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. Because of the influence of La Fontaine's Fables, in which La cigale et la fourmi stands at the beginning, the grasshopper then became the proverbial example of improvidence in France: so much so that Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) could paint a picture of a female nude biting one of her nails among ...

  5. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal

  6. The Grasshopper (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Grasshopper" was first published in the Nos. 1 and 2 (5 and 12 January 1892, respectively) issues of the Sever magazine. In a slightly changed version it was included into the Moscow-published Novellas and Stories (Повести и рассказы), 1894 collection, and later into Volume 8 of the Collected Works by A.P. Chekhov published ...

  7. Category:Fictional grasshoppers - Wikipedia

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    The Grasshopper and the Ants (film) The Grasshopper & the Ants; H. Hopper (A Bug's Life) I. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow; M. Mr. Bug Goes to Town;

  8. The Grasshopper & the Ants - Wikipedia

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    The Grasshopper & the Ants, by Jerry Pinkney, is a 2015 adaptation of the classic Aesop fable where a grasshopper relaxes through Spring, Summer, and Autumn, while a colony of ants work at gathering food for the Winter, but although initially refusing the grasshopper's request for help, they relent and invite him in to share.

  9. Grasshopper (character) - Wikipedia

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    The second Grasshopper is a fictional, corporate superhero in the Marvel Comics universe who first appeared in the pages of GLX-Mas Special #1, a Marvel Comics one-shot, in 2005. The character was created by Dan Slott and artist Ty Templeton, who based his design on Paul Pelletier's design for the original Grasshopper. [citation needed]