Sir Walter Scott claimed to have been told a similar story by a woman in Shetland, and based his poem Advertisement to the Pirate upon it.
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In Adam Hochschild's 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost, Hochschild characterizes Afonso as a "selective modernizer" because he welcomed European scientific innovation and the church but refused to adopt Portugal's legal code and sell land to prospectors.
Betty Ren Wright is an author of children's fiction including Christina's Ghost, The Dollhouse Murders, The Ghosts Of Mercy Manor and A Ghost in The House.
Christina's Ghost is a novel written by Betty Ren Wright.
Cinema films he directed included That'll be the day, All Creatures Great and Small, Swallows and Amazons, Sweet William, Hoodwink, The Captain's Doll, Murder Elite and
The locomotive was sold to Isaac Watt Boulton in 1865; he intended to convert it into a standard engine, and commissioned drawings for a new conventional boiler and its conversion into standard gauge.
Her first big debut as, editor and executive producer was the independent film Devon's Ghost, alongside fellow Power Ranger alumnus Johnny Yong Bosch and executive producer Koichi Sakamoto for Gag Order Films, Inc.
In King Leopold's Ghost, author Adam Hochschild speculates that Rom was the inspiration for the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.
Perhaps the most famous incident was in 1942 when Wilhelmina of the Netherlands heard footsteps outside her White House bedroom and answered a knock on the door, only to see Lincoln in frock coat and top hat standing in front of her (she promptly fainted).
Mook has created Animation for Western programs, mostly for Hanna-Barbera and later Cartoon Network, such as SWAT Kats (four episodes from the first season and the entire second season), The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, and Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.
Nan Tuck's Ghost haunts a lane one mile from Buxted, England, known as Nan Tuck's Lane.
With an invisible little girl as his assistant, Gioachino Rossini overcomes the disastrous opening night of The Barber of Seville to give the world one of its most beloved operas.
The Death of Poor Joe the oldest surviving film featuring a Charles Dickens character.
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This footage starts with Bob Cratchit showing someone out of Scrooge's office on Christmas Eve, just before he and Scrooge leave for the night, and ends at a scene showing the death of Tiny Tim.
In what would be the first public performance of the technique known as Pepper's ghost, John Henry Pepper staged a Christmas Eve production of play in 1862 at the Royal Polytechnic Institution (currently known as the University of Westminster) in 309 Regent Street.
In the Ballad of Black-eyed Susan by John Gay, Susan goes aboard a ship in-dock to ask the sailors, where her lover Sweet William has gone.