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Southern Italian folklore says the best way to survive the bite of the Lycosa tarantula is to fall into a mad, wild, often drunken, circular dance. This dance is called the tarantella.
According to Sicilian and Napoletana culture the bite of the tarantula causes tarantism (named after Taranto a town…
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Contrary to popular opinion, the plump, brown bear is not named after that other plump, brown thing which is flushed down toilets.
The word Pooh is a quite modern word. It is a shortened version of pooh pooh.
Pooh pooh was a common phrase used by children particularly during the…
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Worthless old knicknacks
The cane-bottomed chair
by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
In tattered old slippers that toast at the bars, And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, Away from the world and its toils and its cares, I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs.
To mount…
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Some frabjous nonsense.
The Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll(1832-1898)
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, And shun…
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