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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 ...
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  • Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy ...
    14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
  • once having been "useless" to him (a pun on Onesimus's name, which means "useful"), and having done him wrong. The dominant ...
    9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
  • 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. ...
    11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
  • John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...
    11 KB (1,757 words) - 06:32, 8 April 2024
  • as "The Axis Of Weasel," a pun on the "Axis of Evil." A popular cynical office poster states, "Eagles may soar, but ...
    13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
  • 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 ...
    12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
  • Penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating single specimen ... pronunciation of the Chinese penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating ...
    25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
  • Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...
    13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
  • the world's earliest known marketing pun, Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum). Graffiti carved on the walls shows ...
    14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
  • in a city called "Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," is also believed by many to be fictional. However ...
    14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
  • Chapman, whose adventures always end in an elaborate pun, and "the Brother," and "the Da." Some of these characters (in particular ...
    13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
  • |- | colspan="2" align="center" | [[image:Ga,31.jpg|125px|Typical (melted blob)]]   [[Image:Gallium1_640x480.jpg|130px|Crystallized ...
    15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
  • Yisrael BaAliyah ("Israel for aliya," or a pun, "Israel on the rise") promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into Israeli society ...
    16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
  • * 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 ...
    17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
  • the tension with a funny comment, a pun, or an unexpected twist to the story. The comic situations portray fundamental human experiences, such ...
    16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
  • 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. ...
    17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
  • surname is "Zhen," which is a pun on "real".) ... the Xues' maid, born Zhen Ying-lian (a pun on "she who is to be ...
    35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
  • 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 ...
    22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
  • The German-language title is a pun on the phrase Mann mit Eigenschaften—literally "man with qualities"—equivalent to the English ...
    18 KB (2,958 words) - 01:45, 16 December 2022

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