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The Great Panjandrum Himself is one of sixteen picture books created by the illustrator Randolph Caldecott. The book was published in 1885 by Frederick Warne & Co. It was the last book illustrated by Caldecott, who died the following year.
Close view. Panjandrum, also known as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.It was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including Hajile and the Hedgehog, that were developed by the Admiralty's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) in the final years of the war.
This introduced the nonsense term "The Grand Panjandrum" into the English language and the name was adopted for the Panjandrum or Great Panjandrum, an experimental World War II-era explosive device. With Foote's success in writing An Englishman in Paris, Irish playwright Arthur Murphy was moved to create a sequel, The Englishman returned from ...
Panjandrum is a musical with music by Woolson Morse and words by J. Cheever Goodwin, written for and produced by the DeWolf Hopper Opera Company. It opened on May 1, 1893, at the Broadway Theatre (on 41st Street, now demolished) in New York and closed at the end of September 1893.
The platoon is chosen for fatigues, but Pike and Walker sneak off to listen to the radio; unbeknownst to them, the radio waves push the wheel out of control. (This episode appears to be loosely based on the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development project The Great Panjandrum.)--"
The link could also be changed to The Great Panjandrum Himself, a book based on the same text, and that article (currently a stub) could mention the coinage of the word and its later meanings. -- McGeddon ( talk ) 15:53, 17 September 2016 (UTC) [ reply ]
Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 1899 – 12 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from inferences by his employers (Vickers) or from fellow engineers that he was "not a serious person" [1] or from potentially adverse ...
G. E. Farrow (1862 – c. 1920) – The Wallypug of Why, The Little Panjandrum's Dodo; Gertrude Minnie Faulding (1875–1961) – Old Man's Beard and Other Tales; Tim Federle – Better Nate Than Ever, The Great American Whatever; Eliza Fenwick (1766–1840) – Mary and Her Cat, Visits to the Junior Library