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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.
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.
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 ...
The North Devon Maritime Museum has displays showing the shipbuilding and seafaring history of North Devon. It has seven exhibition rooms in which visitors can explore Hobart's Funnies - the World War II beach landing experiments carried out in the area including the Great Panjandrum, Swiss Roll, amphibious tanks and the 'Frogmen'; sail and steam vessels; shipwrecks; historical exhibits ...
Randolph Caldecott (/ ˈ k ɔː l d ə k ɒ t / KAWL-də-kot; [1] 22 March 1846 – 12 February 1886) was a British artist and illustrator, born in Chester.The Caldecott Medal was named in his honour.
As a challenge, Samuel Foote allegedly wrote The Great Panjandrum, a nonsense poem designed to be particularly difficult to memorise. The word Panjandrum has since passed into the English language. [citation needed] Macklin as Shylock and Maria Macklin as Portia. Jane Lessingham is in the part of Nerissa (pictured at the foot of the dais).
The 1968 and 1970 sketches are lost from the BBC Archives but survive as audio recordings. [5] The 1968 sketch ran for nine minutes. [5] The 1969 sketch ran for twenty minutes, whilst the 1970 and 1972 sketches ran for fifteen minutes each. [5] The "Cornish Floral Dance" was again performed for the Royal Variety Performance of 1975. [50]
A fact from Panjandrum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the deployment of Panjandrum, an experimental British weapon devised during World War II, invariably resulted in the random firing of up to several dozen cordite rockets into the air?