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Bald Guy" in musicological circles. A pun off his name, it is a fitting description of his characteristically sporadic style of composition ...

Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy ...

once having been "useless" to him (a pun on Onesimus's name, which means "useful"), and having done him wrong. The dominant ...

Kerényi believes the story of Hyrieus to be original, and that the pun on Orion was made for the myth, rather than the other way around. ...

John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...

as "The Axis Of Weasel," a pun on the "Axis of Evil." A popular cynical office poster states, "Eagles may soar, but ...

The term was coined as a pun by the Russian poet, Nikolai Glazkov, in the 1940s based on an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing ...

Penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating single specimen ... pronunciation of the Chinese penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating ...

Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...

the world's earliest known marketing pun, Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum). Graffiti carved on the walls shows ...

in a city called "Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," is also believed by many to be fictional. However ...

Chapman, whose adventures always end in an elaborate pun, and "the Brother," and "the Da." Some of these characters (in particular ...

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Yisrael BaAliyah ("Israel for aliya," or a pun, "Israel on the rise") promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into Israeli society ...

* Yi Pun, nephew of the admiral and witness of the war, mentions briefly in his biographical record that the upper part (roof deck) was covered ...

the tension with a funny comment, a pun, or an unexpected twist to the story. The comic situations portray fundamental human experiences, such ...

and Bāna) for the sake of the pun. We must then assume that the later spelling subsequently replaced the earlier in the gotra lists and elsewhere. ...

surname is "Zhen," which is a pun on "real".) ... the Xues' maid, born Zhen Ying-lian (a pun on "she who is to be ...

quot; for ducks), as well as to make a pun on the relationship between Munster and its provincial capital, Cork, in the passage "Three quarks ...

The German-language title is a pun on the phrase Mann mit Eigenschaften—literally "man with qualities"—equivalent to the English ...

Castor (the French word for "beaver"), a pun derived from the resemblance of her surname to "beaver." Although Sartre and Beauvoir ...

and the occurrence of the scallop is simply a pun on the name of the armiger, or for other reasons. == Taxonomy and list of genera == ...

as the Latin name of his order, Dominicanus is a pun on "Domini Canus," the "Lord's hound." Dominic was reportedly brought ...

thought, forms of thought we all use. The title is a pun untranslatable in English. In French, pensée means both "thought" and "pansy ...

The famous pun "give great praise to the Lord, and little laud to the devil" is a warning to Charles attributed to the official court ...

They have also been referred to using a Latin pun, as "Domini canes," or "The Hounds of God," a reference to the order's ...

even in its own time. Even its title contains a lewd pun. It is based on several plays by Jean-Baptiste Molière, with added features that 1670s London ...

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic novel ...

Samuel's mother Hanna seems to be making a pun on this word when she says to Eli the priest: The LORD has granted me what I asked [sha'al ...

imperial) was later added (Reichskristallnacht) as a pun on the Nazis' propensity to add this prefix to various terms and titles like Reichsführer ...

buried on the beach. Here, the name Kidd is a pun to the word "kid," meaning child. *In Corunna, Ontario, Canada, the first weekend ...

Moon, whose name is Usagi Tsukino, a Japanese pun on the words "rabbit of the moon." A Korean myth similar to the Japanese counterpart also ...

literal translation, while Magister Ludi is a Latin pun meaning "master of the game" and also the name of a prominent character in the book. ...

jovial, Gioconda was a nickname for the sitter, a pun on the feminine form of her married name Giocondo and her disposition. Gabriele Bartz, Art and ...

season. The result was No Sirree! (the name being a pun of the European revue Le Chauve Souris), "An Anonymous Entertainment by the Vicious Circle ...

to Howth Castle and Environs….” (with vicus a pun on Vico) and ends, “A way a lone a last a loved a long the.” In other words, the first sentence ...

William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation who retired in ...

According to Genesis [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ...

react with carbon to form PuC, nitrogen to form PuN, and silicon to form PuSi2. Like other actinides, plutonium readily forms a dioxide plutonyl ...

called Guerra de zapa ("War of Zapa"), a pun on the expression Trabajo de zapa, which means hidden work done slyly towards some particular ...

simple ephemeral nature of the verse but also a pun on the French verb panser, meaning to dress or bandage a wound. His wounds still needed soothing ...

the "sorrowful knowledge" (a pun on Nietzsche's "The Joyful Knowledge") with which the book is concerned is "the ...

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his ...

informal and showing intimacy called "apna pun" in Urdu) and the plural form āp (formal and respectful). Similarly, verbs, for example, "come ...

in Tolkien's The Notion Club Papers is a pun on this. undergraduate John Jethro Rashbold, and Old Professor Rashbold at Pembroke; Carpenter ...

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lord of the flies, is most likely to be a deliberate pun, by the anti-Hadad writer, on the term Ba'alzebul, meaning prince Ba'al, i.e. Hadad ...

Henry VI, part 3, along with the pun "Shake-scene," identifies Shakespeare as Greene’s target. {| class="toccolours" style ...

sold over 30,000 copies. It was centered on the pun alluding to Trandafiloff's name—trandafir cu of în coadă (lit. "a rose ending in ...