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Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics. The law describes a process known as entropy , a measure of the number of specific ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of "disorder".
"When I use a word," replied Humpty-Dumpty in a somewhat disdainful tone of voice, "it means exactly what I like it to mean... no more and no less." "The question," said Alice, "is whether you have the power to make words mean something other than what they mean." "The question," retorted Humpty-Dumpty, "is who will be the master... period." [83]
Galumphing: Perhaps used in the poem as a blend of "gallop" and "triumphant". [22] Used later by Kipling, and cited by Webster as "To move with a clumsy and heavy tread" [24] [25] Gimble: Humpty Dumpty comments that it means: "to make holes like a gimlet." [18] Gyre: "To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope."
Rhyme Time Town is an American children's animated musical television series developed by DreamWorks Animation Television that reimagines classic nursery rhymes from the viewpoints of two preschoolers, Daisy the puppy and Cole the kitten.
On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...
In the land of Old King Cole: Jack and Jill, Simple Simon, Georgie Porgie, Humpty Dumpty, and the others are worried when Mother Goose has to visit her sister who lives beyond the Moon. Meanwhile, Count Warptwist the Crooked Man is up to no good and will stop at nothing to rule the land, so it's up to the good characters to try and stop him.
However, when a number is used, or a word signifying a number (monta- many), the singular version of the partitive case is used. kolme taloa – three houses; and where no specific number is mentioned, the plural version of the partitive case is used taloja; and in the possessive (genitive) talon ovi (the house's door) talojen ovet (the houses ...
Fox as Humpty Dumpty. By the time Fox had reached the age of twenty his apprenticeship had failed, leaving him to return to the family business. He toured for a while with Howard and his sister as L. Fox, playing minor dramatic and comedic roles.