The Humpty Dumpty Circus [SEP] production company
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Circus clown


day and influenced circus clown well into the 20th century. In 1867, he created his masterpiece, "Humpty Dumpty", giving over 1,000 performances on Broadway. His character in this production was a distinctive American anti-hero and helped Humpty Dumpty become the most popular pantomime productions of the time. The slapstick form known as pantomime had been a Broadway staple since before the Civil War, but it reached a peak of popularity during the 1860s and 70's. These shows placed figures from Mother Goose stories in wildly varied settings
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods


January 2000, it was then sold to the Canadian firm Small Fry, formally adopting the name Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc. In 2006, the company was acquired in a takeover bid by Old Dutch Foods. After the acquisition, Humpty Dumpty potato chip products were rebranded as Old Dutch potato chips. Old Dutch Foods kept the Humpty Dumpty label though, and still sells all their flavors of chips in the USA. In Canada only the snack line, and not the potato chip line, appears under the Humpty Dumpty label. Humpty
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The Humpty Dumpty Circus


The Humpty Dumpty Circus was an animated short film made by director and producer J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith, the Anglo-American founders of Vitagraph Studios. The short has been thought to have been the first film to use the stop-motion technique, based on an estimated release date of 1897 or 1898. The film featured a circus with acrobats and animals in motion. According to Smith, they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls, which had jointed limbs so they could be balanced in place.
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods


only in the USA) "Regular", "BBQ", "Ketchup", "Dill Pickle", "Salt and Vinegar", "Buffalo Wings & Cheese" and for a limited time was selling "Chedder & Sour Cream" during the winter months of 2011. The current Humpty Dumpty Potato ridged chip line of products include (only in the USA) "Regular", and "All-Dressed". The company announced it will close its Quebec-based Montreal Humpty Dumpty plant (in operation since
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Schoenhut doll


following year, it only produced toy pianos. The Schoenhut Company began producing dolls as early as 1903 with the production of the Humpty Dumpty Circus set, featuring lady and gentleman acrobats, a lion tamer, a lady circus rider, and a ringmaster. In 1908, Rolly Dolly dolls were created, which featured pear-shaped bodies with weights inside that allow the toy to bob back and forth without tipping over. A fifty-three piece set called Teddy Roosevelt's Adventures in Africa was also made, based on the Smithsonian
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Humpty Dumpty (pinball)


Humpty Dumpty is a historically important pinball machine released by Gottlieb on October 25, 1947. Named after Humpty Dumpty, the nursery rhyme character, it is the first pinball machine to include flippers — invented by Harry Mabs  — distinguishing it from earlier bagatelle game machines. "Humpty Dumpty" had six of these flippers, referred to as "flipper bumpers" by the company. However, unlike modern pinball tables, they faced outward instead of inward and were not placed at the bottom of the table near the main outhole. Like
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods


Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods is an American food company, operating as a subsidiary of Old Dutch Foods, that packages and sells snack foods. The company is named after the nursery rhyme character and features the character as the company logo. Humpty Dumpty Potato Chip Company, Inc. was founded in 1947 in Scarborough, Maine, USA by George Robinson and Norman Cole, producing ketchup-flavoured and sour-cream-and-clam-flavoured chips, among others. The company was acquired by Borden, Inc. in February 1989. In
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods


, Jalapeño, Salt and Vinegar, BBQ, and Cheddar. The current Humpty Dumpty snack line of products include "Bacon & Hickory Potato Sticks", "BBQ Corn Chips", "BBQ Ringolos", "Ketchup Ringolos", "Chedacorn", "Cheese Sticks", "Cruncheez" (in both Regular and Nacho Cheese), "Party Mix" (Original, Cheesy, and All Dressed), and "Sour Cream & Onion Rings". The current Humpty Dumpty Potato chip line of products include (
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Humpty Dumpty


, Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before. /poem In 1842, James Orchard Halliwell published a collected version as: poem Humpty Dumpty lay in a beck. With all his sinews around his neck; Forty Doctors and forty wrights Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights! /poem The modern-day version of this nursery rhyme, as known throughout the UK since at least the mid-twentieth century, is as follows: poem Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King
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Colchester


with a cross. Colchester is a widely credited source of the rhyme Humpty Dumpty. During the siege of Colchester in the Civil War, a Royalist sniper known as One-Eyed Thompson sat in the belfry of the church of St Mary-at-the-Walls ("Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall") and was given the nickname Humpty Dumpty, most likely because of his size, "Humpty Dumpty" being a common insult for the overweight. Thompson was shot down ("Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
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Humpty Dumpty


following parallel lines... were propounded as a riddle ... Humpty-dumpty, reader, is the Dutch or something else for an egg". A manuscript addition to a copy of "Mother Goose's Melody" published in 1803 has the modern version with a different last line: "Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again". It was published in 1810 in a version of "Gammer Gurton's Garland" as: poem Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall, Humpti Dumpti had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more
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Humpty Dumpty (magazine)


was Harold Schwartz. In January 1980, both "Humpty Dumpty" and "Children’s Digest" came under the ownership of the nonprofit Saturday Evening Post Society. When "Children's Digest" was merged with "Jack and Jill" in 2009, "Humpty Dumpty" was continued. Today, Jennifer Burnham edits "Humpty Dumpty" under the direction of Steven Slon. "Humpty Dumpty" is one of two children's publications in the U.S. Kids family of magazines, which are published by the Children’s Better Health Institute
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Humpty Dumpty


daughter of the king, having witnessed Humpty's "death" and her father's soldiers' efforts to save him. In Neil Gaiman's early short story "The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds", the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving other characters from popular nursery rhymes. Robert Rankin used Humpty Dumpty as one victim of a serial fairy-tale character murderer in "The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse" (2002). Jasper Fforde included Humpty Dumpty
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History of animation


technique indicate it was likely from a smaller film company. J. Stuart Blackton was a British-American filmmaker, co-founder of the Vitagraph Studios and one of the first to use animation in his films. "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" (1898?) by Blackton and Albert E. Smith may have been the first stop-motion film. Use of an animation technique cannot be verified since the film is lost. According to Smith, they used his daughter's set of small circus dolls, which had jointed limbs
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Humpty Dumpty (magazine)


’s mission is to promote the healthy physical, educational, creative, social, and emotional growth of children in a format that is engaging, stimulating, and entertaining for children ages 2 to 6. "Humpty Dumpty" Magazine (then called "Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine") was launched by George J. Hecht and "Parents" magazine in October 1952. Originally, it was a sister publication to "Children's Digest", aimed at a younger audience than the latter publication. The first editor of "Humpty Dumpty"
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Humpty Dumpty


in the siege of 1648. In 1648, Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall. The story given was that a large cannon, which the website claimed was colloquially called Humpty Dumpty, was strategically placed on the wall. A shot from a Parliamentary cannon succeeded in damaging the wall beneath Humpty Dumpty, which caused the cannon to tumble to the ground. The Royalists (or Cavaliers, "all the King's men") attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to
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Humpty Dumpty


I" use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you "can" make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all." Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


Hell free card from the Secret Six. In the "" storyline, Humpty Dumpty is recruited by Black Mask as part of a group of villains aiming to take over Gotham. During the "Batman: Leviathan" storyline, Humpty Dumpty masquerades as Santa Claus as part of a plan to get stolen toys to the children at the Rainbow House Shelter. He is approached by a man named Abuse who asks if he knows about any missing children. Worried that he will be found out, Humpty Dumpty knocks Abuse unconscious and flees
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Humpty Dumpty


below: score vorbis="1" \new Staff « \clef treble \key bes \major { %\new Lyrics \lyricmode { » /score The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's "Juvenile Amusements" in 1797 with the lyrics: poem Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Four-score Men and Four-score more, Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before. /poem William Carey Richards (1818–1892) quoted the poem in 1843, commenting, "when we were five years old ... the
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Humpty Dumpty


"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" twice mentions Humpty in its lyrics with the line "just like Humpty Dumpty, I'm gonna fall." Similarly, in an extra verse in one version of ABBA's "On and On and On", Humpty Dumpty is mentioned as being afraid of falling. In the Taylor Swift song "The Archer", it makes its way to the bridge with the line "all the king's horses, all the king's men couldn't put me together again
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Humpty Dumpty


is: poem Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again. /poem It is a single quatrain with external rhymes that follow the pattern of AABB and with a trochaic metre, which is common in nursery rhymes. The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first recorded by composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs" (London, 1870), as outlined
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Humpty Dumpty


's horses And all the King's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. /poem According to the "Oxford English Dictionary", in the 17th century the term "humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person. The riddle may depend upon the assumption that a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, whereas an egg would
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Sylvan Goldman


they purchased five grocery stores and formed a new company called "Standard Grocery." They soon implemented the lessons they had learned in Tulsa and with their profits purchased the faltering "Humpty-Dumpty" grocery store chain in 1934. Alfred died in 1937. In 1943, Sylvan merged the two brands into one company: "Standard-Humpty Dumpty". Concerned with alleviating the difficulty women had with the self-serve concept as they often had to handle both the shopping basket and children, he developed what was to become
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History of animation


so they could be balanced in place. This toy set was most likely the popular "Humpty Dumpty Circus" produced by Schoenhut Piano Company between 1903 and 1930. "The Enchanted Drawing" (1900) is considered to be the first film recorded on standard picture film that included some sequences that are sometimes regarded as animation. It shows Blackton doing some "lightning sketches" of a face, cigars, a bottle of wine and a glass. The face changes expression when Blackton pours some wine into the face's mouth and
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Humpty Dumpty


stage productions of pantomime versions, music, and rhyme. The character is also a common literary allusion, particularly to refer to a person in an insecure position, something that would be difficult to reconstruct once broken, or a short and fat person. Humpty Dumpty has been used in a large range of literary works in addition to his appearance as a character in "Through the Looking-Glass", including L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose" (1901), where the rhyming riddle is devised by the
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Humpty Dumpty


, a collection of homophonically translated poetry, includes a version of the rhyme in nonsensical French text, beginning ""Un petit d'un petit, S'étonne aux Halles..."". It has also been used as a common motif in popular music, including Hank Thompson's "Humpty Dumpty Heart" (1948), The Monkees' "All the King's Horses" (1966), Aretha Franklin's "All the King's Horses" (1972), Tori Amos's "Humpty Dumpty" (1992), and
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Humpty Dumpty


originally posed as a riddle. There are also various theories of an original "Humpty Dumpty". One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted as humpbacked in Tudor histories and particularly in Shakespeare's play, and who was defeated, despite his armies, at Bosworth Field in 1485. "Punch" in 1842 suggested jocularly that the rhyme was a metaphor for the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey; just as Wolsey was not buried in
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Humpty Dumpty


his intended tomb, so Humpty Dumpty was not buried in his shell. Professor David Daube suggested in "The Oxford Magazine" of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a "tortoise" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. The theory was part of an anonymous series of
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Humpty Dumpty


he is one. They discuss semantics and pragmatics: Humpty Dumpty says, "my name means the shape I am"; and later: "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' " "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected. "When "
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Humpty Dumpty


Travis's "The Humpty Dumpty Love Song" (2001). In jazz, Ornette Coleman and Chick Corea wrote different compositions, both titled "Humpty Dumpty". (In Corea's case, however, it is a part of a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll called "The Mad Hatter", 1978). In the Dolly Parton song "Starting Over Again", it's all the king's horses and all the king's men who can't put the divorced couple back together again. The 1925 song
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Humpty Dumpty


United States legal opinions, appearing in 250 judicial decisions in the Westlaw database , including two Supreme Court cases ("TVA v. Hill" and "Zschernig v. Miller"). It has been suggested by A. J. Larner that Carroll's Humpty Dumpty had prosopagnosia on the basis of his description of his finding faces hard to recognise. "The face is what one goes by, generally," Alice remarked in a thoughtful tone. "That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty. "Your face is
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Siege of Colchester


a monument marking the site of the execution. The siege is commonly believed to have inspired the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, which is said to have been the nickname of a large Royalist cannon strategically placed on the wall next to St Mary's Church. The Parliamentary bombardment of 14 July damaged the wall, causing "Humpty Dumpty" to be destroyed. Other stories attribute the name Humpty Dumpty not to a cannon but to a Royalist sniper, "One-Eyed Thompson", who occupied the belfry of St Mary's Church
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Turtle (magazine)


"Humpty Dumpty Magazine" (for children ages 5 to 7) and "Jack and Jill" (for children ages 7 to 12). As of the March/April 2014 issue "Turtle" merged with "Humpty Dumpty". Effective with that issue "Humpty Dumpty" was designed for 3 to 5 year olds. Features included the annual U.S. Kids Cover Contest, which has awarded more than $25,000 for school art programs. Each issue of "Turtle" also included age-appropriate games, puzzles and interactive
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Circus clown


, always finding an excuse to transform them into the clown characters of traditional commedia dell'arte (Harlequin, Columbina, etc.). Popular songs were loosely inserted whenever the audience needed a breather. Lavish sets and athletic clowning were expected, along with elaborate ballets. By far the most popular of these pantomimes was Fox's Humpty Dumpty. The plot had young Humpty and his playmates turn into harlequinade characters and romp through a candy store, an enchanted garden and Manhattan's costly new City Hall. Fox's mute passivity set him
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


Humpty Dumpty is a fictional character from DC Comics. Unlike many of Batman's enemies, he is not deliberately malevolent, and is typically portrayed as comic relief. Humpty Dumpty first appeared in the 2003 graphic novel "" and was created by Dan Slott and Ryan Sook. Humphry Dumpler is a hulking man with an egg-shaped head who speaks in rhyme and has a compulsive desire to "repair" that which he considers to be broken. He is shown in flashback to have been the victim of inexplicable, almost supernaturally
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Humpty Dumpty


Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late nineteenth-century England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's "National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs". Its origins are obscure, and several theories have been advanced to suggest original meanings. The character of Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


to the shelter. Once there, Humpty Dumpty begins placing repaired toys in the children's beds until Batman and Robin show up. As Batman questions Humpty, Robin notices that, even with the lights on and all three talking, none of the children have woken up or made a sound. Looking under the covers, Robin discovers that the children are all dead. Enraged, Robin asks Humpty if he killed the children. Humpty says he is innocent, and explains that he found them “near the river” as they
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Humpty Dumpty (magazine)


Humpty Dumpty is a bimonthly American magazine for children 2 to 6 years old that takes its title from the nursery rhyme of the same name. The magazine features short stories, poems, nonfiction articles, games, comics, recipes, crafts, and more. Having been continuously produced for more than 65 years, it is one of the oldest American magazines for kids. As part of the Children’s Better Health Institute—a division of the Saturday Evening Post Society Inc., a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization—"Humpty Dumpty"
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List of Pandora Hearts characters


had wandered into the hole that connected to the Abyss. They found two of the children killed and upon Leo finding a third child, they were attacked by one of the orphans that had lost control of Humpty Dumpty. Attempting to protect Leo, Elliot was skewered by Humpty Dumpty and almost died. Leo stopped Humpty Dumpty and made Elliot drink its blood and pronounce its name in order for Elliot to form a contract and be saved. Elliot forgot everything afterwards, believing that he had only 'slipped, hit his head,
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Stop motion


it was often used to show objects moving as if by magic. The first instance of the stop-motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph's "The Humpty Dumpty Circus" (1897), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life. In 1902, the film "Fun in a Bakery Shop" used the stop trick technique in the "lightning sculpting" sequence. French trick film maestro Georges Méliès used stop-motion animation once to produce moving title
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List of Fables characters


Jack took the Humpty Dumpty parts with him, and did the impossible by putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, using copious amounts of super glue. They found the treasure eventually, but Humpty was captured by Bookburner and forced to join him in his march against the Golden Boughs. After he got himself broken again, Bookburner had him resurrected as an evil version of his former self. Apparently, Humpty recovered, and was back as his old self again in the final "Jack of Fables" story arc. He was killed
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List of Fables characters (Inmates at the Golden Boughs Retirement Village)


fought in the Homelands version of the Battle of Colchester. This is a reference to the history of the nursery rhyme; "Humpty Dumpty" was originally the name of a big cannon used during this battle. Humpty attempted to escape the Golden Boughs again and again until he finally succeeded during the mass breakout orchestrated by Jack; only to get himself shattered when blasting several of Robin Page’s tigers. Since Humpty had promised to lead Jack to a hidden treasure, Jack took the Humpty Dumpty parts with him, and did the
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


bad luck almost since birth, illustrated by countless tragedies through his life. Eventually, he became determined to understand the mechanics of the world around him in an attempt to see what made things go wrong for him and attempt to fix them. In his crimes, Humpty disassembles and reassembles mechanical devices that upset him in some way. The devices he "fixes" cause numerous accidents, such as a subway train derailing. Humpty Dumpty's final crime is to adjust the gears in a clock tower, causing one of its hands
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Albert E. Smith (producer)


recitations. In 1896, they acquired an Edison Vitascope, and in 1897 Blackton and Smith began producing silent films under the names 'Edison Vitagraph', then the 'Commercial Advertising Bureau'. As 'American Vitagraph', Blackton and Smith came to prominence in 1898 with such films as "The Battle of Manilla Bay" and "Tearing Down the Spanish Flag" (both propaganda shorts inspired by the Spanish–American War), as well as the short film animation "The Humpty Dumpty Circus". In addition to
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Vitagraph Studios


newsreels: Vitagraph cameramen were on the scene to film events from the Spanish–American War of 1898. These shorts were among the first works of motion-picture propaganda, and a few had that most characteristic fault of propaganda, studio re-enactments being passed off as footage of actual events ("The Battle of Santiago Bay" was filmed in an improvised bathtub, with the "smoke of battle" provided by Mrs. Blackton's cigar). In 1897 Vitagraph produced "The Humpty Dumpty Circus", which was the
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Portmanteau


The word "portmanteau" was first used in this sense by Lewis Carroll in the book "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in "Jabberwocky", where "slithy" means "slimy and lithe" and "mimsy" is "miserable and flimsy". Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the practice of combining words in various ways: In his introduction to "The Hunting of the Snark", Carroll uses "portmanteau" when discussing
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Humpty Dumpty


be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as "Boule Boule" in French, "Lille Trille" in Swedish and Norwegian, and "Runtzelken-Puntzelken" or "Humpelken-Pumpelken" in different parts of Germany—although none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English. The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg, possibly because it may have been
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Humpty Dumpty


found. It has been pointed out that the two additional verses are not in the style of the seventeenth century or of the existing rhyme, and that they do not fit with the earliest printed versions of the rhyme, which do not mention horses and men. Humpty Dumpty appears in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" (1872). Alice's remark that he is "exactly like an egg" he finds "very provoking"; Alice clarifies that she said he looks like an egg, not that
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Humpty Dumpty


the same as everybody has—the two eyes,—" (marking their places in the air with his thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under. It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance—or the mouth at the top—that would be "some" help." Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character. American actor George L. Fox (1825–77) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth-century
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Humpty Dumpty


in his novels "The Well of Lost Plots" (2003) and "The Big Over Easy" (2005), which use him respectively as a ringleader of dissatisfied nursery rhyme characters threatening to strike and as the victim of a murder. Humpty Dumpty appears as a lead villain in the DreamWorks animation "Puss in Boots" (2011). The rhyme has also been used as a reference in more serious literary works, including as a recurring motif of the Fall of Man in James Joyce's 1939 novel "Finnegans
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Humpty Dumpty


." Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics. The law describes a process known as entropy, a measure of the number of specific ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of "disorder". The higher the entropy, the higher the disorder. After his fall and subsequent shattering, the inability to put him together again is representative of this principle, as it would be highly unlikely (though not impossible) to return him to his earlier state of
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Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)


initially thought was the Jabberwocky, and meets Humpty Dumpty. The Jabberwocky appears again when Alice can't control her fears, and she flees. As it pursues her the Jabberwocky knocks Humpty Dumpty off of his wall. Alice then meets The White King and his Messenger, Haigha, who bring Alice to see ("The Lion and the Unicorn") who are fighting for the crown. The Lion and the Unicorn call a temporary truce and are intrigued by Alice, whom they perceive as a "fabulous monster". Alice
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Humpty Dumpty


Watergate scandal, referring to the failure of the President's staff to repair the damage once the scandal had leaked out. It was filmed as "All the President's Men" in 1976, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. Similarly, Humpty Dumpty is referred to in Paul Auster's 1985 novel "City of Glass", when two characters discuss him as "the purest embodiment of the human condition" and quote extensively from "Through the Looking Glass". Luis d'Antin van Rooten's 1967 book "Mots d'Heures"
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Marie De Becker


notably in the 1940s films "Mrs. Miniver", "Random Harvest" and "Devotion". De Becker's first stage acting roles were when her family were living in Camberwell, South London. At the age of 19, she played "Joyce" in the 1899 production by J. Pitt Hardacre's Company of "East Lynne" at the Theatre Metropole in Camberwell, when her young brother Harold had a juvenile part as "Little Willie". In 1900 she played "Humpty Dumpty" (the Nurse) in several
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Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories


were original tales written for the show. The general look of the characters was based on the work of Maxfield Parrish, the artist who illustrated Baum's book. The series was originally conceived as a co-production between the Jim Henson Company and Television South West for British television and was first broadcast on Children's ITV in the UK in 1988. A pilot episode, the story of "Humpty Dumpty", was produced in 1987 along with other episodes. The series was considered for a network slot in 1987, but
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Circus clown


apart from the raucous clamor surrounding him, and audiences took the little man to their hearts. Humpty Dumpty was revived several times. Fox eventually gave 1,128 performances in the title role, becoming the most highly paid actor of his time. He initiated the tradition of Wednesday matinee's to take advantage of the show's appeal to children. He is considered by many to be the funniest man of his time. His white face character became an important part of popular American imagery, being used in advertisements and children's books long
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


-thought attempt to "fix" her. He is a model prisoner at Arkham Asylum and is given various small projects to pass the time, such as repairing a broken mirror or fixing Ventriloquist's Scarface dummy. He befriends the financial fraudster Warren White and saves his life from Death Rattle and Two-Face. In "Villains United" Humpty Dumpty joins Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Society. He is seen partaking in the attack upon the House of Secrets. He is one of the villains sent to retrieve the Get Out of
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Through the Looking-Glass


brook together, but at the very moment of the crossing, the Queen transforms into a talking Sheep in a small shop. Alice soon finds herself struggling to handle the oars of a small rowboat, where the Sheep annoys her with (seemingly) nonsensical shouting about "crabs" and "feathers". Chapter Six – Humpty Dumpty: After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in "Jabberwocky".
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The Wacky World of Mother Goose


The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967) is an animated feature film made by Rankin/Bass, written by Romeo Muller and directed by Jules Bass based on Charles Perrault's stories and nursery rhymes. It features Humpty Dumpty, the Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe, and the Crooked Man (the villain). Mother Goose is voiced by Margaret Rutherford. In the land of Old King Cole: Jack and Jill, Simple Simon, Georgie Porgie, Humpty Dumpty, and the others are worried when Mother Goose has
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Polka Dot Shorts


coloured suit patterned with pink roses, a tie with a large H on it, and green boots. Humpty is playful and sometimes a bit mischievous, but he always goes out of his way to help his friends. When the gang start to feel scared or nervous, he often says "Pull yourself together." He is Dumpty's older brother. Dumpty (played by Brunella Battista, voiced by Julie Lemieux): Humpty's younger brother. He is brown coloured with a blue checked nose. He wears a cream
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The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse


him that something is wrong in Toy City - someone is killing the rich and famous PPPs: Preadolescent Poetic Personalities. These PPPs have become rich due to the royalties they receive for their poems, like Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Old King Cole. While on their quest to find the murderer, several PPPs are killed. Humpty Dumpty is boiled with a lens above his pool, Bill Winkie – cheated out of the rights to his nursery rhyme by the writer, but a natural detective –
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All the King's Men


's men", a line taken from the poem Humpty Dumpty (Penn biographer Joseph Blotner also notes, "Like Humpty Dumpty, each of the major characters has experienced a fall of some kind"). The title is derived from the motto of Huey P. Long, whose life was similar to that of Willie Stark, "Every Man a King". But this vicarious achievement will eventually fail; ultimately Jack realizes that one must "go out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time". The novel
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Martin Gardner


posthumously. He also wrote a "Puzzle Tale" column for "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine from 1977 to 1986. Gardner was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club, the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. Gardner often used pen names. In 1952, while working for the children's magazine "Humpty Dumpty", he contributed stories written by "Humpty Dumpty Jnr". For several years starting in 1953 he
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Humpty Dumpty LSD


Humpty Dumpty LSD is the second compilation album by American experimental rock band Butthole Surfers, released in July 2002. All songs were written by Butthole Surfers, except for "Earthquake," which is a cover version of the 13th Floor Elevators song. The album was released on the band's own label, Latino Buggerveil. It offers a wide assortment of demos, unreleased studio tracks and songs originally released on compilations, recorded between 1982 and 1994. Most notably, it contains outtakes from the 1985 sessions for Butthole Surfers' "
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Madison Jones (producer)


Martin Luther King’s life with Suzanne de Passe and Steven Spielberg for DreamWorks. dJE has created a new comic book and graphic novel imprint in order to pre-brand some of its original content. dJE’s first project, Humpty Dumpty, the graphic novel of the upcoming horror film, will be distributed by IDW Publishing, the publishers of the Star Trek, Transformers, and GI Joe comics. Madison is producing the film Humpty Dumpty with Suzanne de Passe and two time Oscar winner Harvey Lowry. Most recently Madison and Suzanne
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List of Shugo Chara! characters


heavily implied that she ends up with Tadase in the anime. Amu gains the Dumpty Key from Yoru and uses it to unlock the Humpty Lock. In some of the later chapters, when Amu opens the Humpty Lock with the Dumpty Key, she and Tadase see more of Ikuto's past. Their journey ends when Amu Character transforms with Diamond, and she and Ikuto fight briefly. Ran, Miki, Su, and Diamond all combine their powers, making Amu character transform into Amulet Fortune and Ikuto character transform into Seven Seas
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List of Pandora Hearts characters


and was knocked out on the ground'. He later overhears his older brothers Claude and Ernest talking about murdering Gilbert and Vincent. They had planned to set fire to their house while their mother, Elliot, and the rest of the household escape, leaving Gilbert and Vincent to burn to death. Elliot, enraged, attempts to come out of hiding to confront them when Ernest adds that they will also kill Leo. Overcome with shock, Elliot unconsciously summoned Humpty Dumpty and killed his brothers. Humpty Dumpty causes him to once
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Humpty Dumpty in Oakland


Humpty Dumpty in Oakland is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick. Originally completed in 1960, but rejected by prior publishers, this work was posthumously published by Gollancz in the United Kingdom in 1986. An American edition was published by Tor Books in 2007. In 1960, 58-year-old Jim Fergesson decides to sell his Oakland-based auto repair business and retire. This threatens to greatly inconvenience his business tenant, used car salesman Al Miller, who rents a lot from Fergesson to sell his
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh


clown makeup of circus performers and legendary 19th-century clown stage actors like Joseph Grimaldi and George L. Fox, the latter of Humpty Dumpty fame. The film was said to have been Chaney's favorite of all his roles. This film was Loretta Young's first major movie role, at the age of fourteen. In interviews near the end of her life, she expressed her gratitude toward Chaney for his kindness and guidance, and for protecting her from director Brenon's sometimes harsh treatment. An eponymous musical theme was written specially
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Humpty Dumpty (House)


"Humpty Dumpty" is the third episode of the second season of "House", which premiered on Fox on September 27, 2005. Dr. Lisa Cuddy's longtime handyman Alfredo falls off her roof, causing breathing problems. After falling off the roof of Cuddy's house, handyman Alfredo begins to have difficulty breathing, and his fingers turn purple. House suggests DIC. Cameron finds Alfredo's blood is not clotting, indicating minor DIC, and Cuddy shocks the staff by ordering Protein C. Alfredo becomes unable to move his arm
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The Big Over Easy


made living things like the verruca. He killed Humpty Dumpty because he was investing in a company which got rid of verrucas. Humpty's wife killed herself because she thought that she had killed him, and Wee Willie Winkie was killed because he was blackmailing him. Jack is not sure about Tom, but thought the evidence is good enough. Mary then calls him into the next room and shows him the body of Carbuncle, shot dead. Jack then remembers the verruca and the puzzle piece. If Randolph was the killer,
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The Big Over Easy


in his house to. They all describe Humpty as a nice egg, who generally kept to himself. Upon inspection of Humpty's room, Jack and Mary find some odd clues: several shares in Spongg Footcare, Reading's Footcare empire, a picture of Humpty with a girlfriend in Vienna, and a 28-foot-long strand of hair. They later interview Laura, Humpty Dumpty's ex-wife. When Jack returns home, he tells his mother that the painting of the cow his mother wanted to sell was fake and
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The Kiralfy Brothers


in 1871, with the pantomime "Humpty Dumpty" at the Olympic, in which the “Kiralfy Troupe,” as they had come to be known, were performing. The reviewers of the production praised both the dancing and the scenery greatly, declaring the latter to be “of exceptional beauty”. This “exceptional beauty” would become a common theme in reviews of the Kiralfy Brothers' productions. The Black Crook In August 1873, the brothers first produced their own musical spectacle, a revival of "The Black Crook
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Herbert Campbell


wrote: Among the productions were: "Babes in the Wood" (1888), "Jack and the Beanstalk" (1889 and 1899), "Beauty and the Beast" (1890 and 1900), "Humpty Dumpty" (1891 and 1903), "Little Bo-peep" (1892), "Robinson Crusoe" (1893), "Dick Whittington and His Cat" (1894), "Cinderella" (1895), "Aladdin" (1896) and the "Forty Thieves" (
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American pantomime


production at Olympic Theatre in New York of "Humpty Dumpty" ran for over 1,200 performances in 1868, becoming one of the most successful American pantomimes. American pantomime, like the British pantomime, incorporates audience participation. In 1993 there was a production of "Cinderella" at the UCLA Freud Theatre, starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. Pantomonium Productions has produced pantomimes annually in New York City since 2004. Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, Texas, has been performing original pantomime-style musicals during the Christmas holidays since 2008: "Panto
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List of Fables characters


a giant egg who can blast away like a cannon, who fought in the Homelands version of the Battle of Colchester. This is a reference to the history of the nursery rhyme; "Humpty Dumpty" was originally the name of a big cannon used during this battle. Humpty attempted to escape the Golden Boughs again and again until he finally succeeded during the mass breakout orchestrated by Jack; only to get himself shattered when blasting several of Robin Page’s tigers. Since Humpty had promised to lead Jack to a hidden treasure,
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Puss in Boots (video game)


) interrupts, and both fail. Kitty is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Puss tells Kitty his origin story and of his feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a bank robbery; Puss has been on the run since. Humpty convinces Puss to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs. The trio steal the beans from Jack and Jill and plant
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Emily Rigl


at Niblo's Garden, in which Betty had a prominent role. Emily left that long-running show after two years, studied acting, and joined Augustin Daly's company by 1874 as an actress. She was active on the stage in numerous roles on Broadway and in traveling companies at least through 1907. According to "The Oxford Companion to American Theatre", although "never a major star, she was still considered one of the best actresses of her day." Her roles included performances in "Humpty Dumpty"
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Puss in Boots (2011 film)


cat named Kitty Softpaws interrupts, and both fail. Kitty is allied with Humpty Alexander Dumpty, a talking egg and Puss' long-estranged childhood friend from the orphanage where he was raised. Puss tells Kitty his origin story and of his feelings of betrayal for a youthful misadventure when Humpty tricked Puss into helping commit a bank robbery in his hometown of San Ricardo; Puss has been on the run ever since. Humpty eventually convinces Puss to join them in finding the beans and retrieving the golden eggs. The trio steal the
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Hobson-Jobson


words in the dictionary, and at the same time implied dual authorship. Rhyming reduplication (as in "Hobson-Jobson" or "puli kili") is highly productive in South Asian languages, where it is known popularly as an echo word. In English, however, rhyming reduplication is generally either juvenile (as in Humpty Dumpty or hokey-pokey) or pejorative (as in namby-pamby or mumbo-jumbo) and that, further, Hobson and Jobson were stock characters in Victorian times, used to indicate
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Humpty Dumpty (comics)


to fly off, provoking a chain reaction in which dozens of enormous signs crashed to the streets, killing dozens of people. When Batgirl tries to apprehend him, she dislocates her arms. Humpty promptly slips her arms back into their sockets and surrenders to her. Revealing that she had tracked him by his overdue library books, her sole question was why he had borrowed a book on human anatomy. Humpty takes her to his home to reveal he had dissected his abusive grandmother and sewn her back together with bootlace in an ill
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List of Fables characters (Inmates at the Golden Boughs Retirement Village)


impossible by putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, using copious amounts of super glue. They found the treasure eventually, but Humpty was captured by Bookburner and forced to join him in his march against the Golden Boughs. After he got himself broken again, Bookburner had him resurrected as an evil version of his former self. Apparently, Humpty recovered, and was back as his old self again in the final "Jack of Fables" story arc. He was killed when Hillary Page fired her rifle-mounted grenade launcher in a
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Ann Brewster


"Animal Atlas of the World" (1969) written by E.L. Jordan and published by the Hammond Map Company and "The Dell Encyclopedia of Dogs" (1974) distributed by Delacorte Press. "Silver Wolf" (1973) by Paige Dixon has a cover and illustrations by Brewster. "Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children" featured "The Nighthawks" by Helen Hoover and "The Nest Builders" by Hal Borland, both illustrated by Ann Brewster. "What is a Mammal?" (1975) published by
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Jabberwocky


, commenting that he did not know the specific meanings or sources of some of the words; the linguistic ambiguity and uncertainty throughout both the book and the poem may largely be the point. In "Through the Looking-Glass", the character of Humpty Dumpty, in response to Alice's request, explains to her the non-sense words from the first stanza of the poem; however, Carroll's personal commentary on several of the words differ from Humpty's. For example, following the poem, a "rath
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Little Tich


on the tips of the shoes and to lean at extraordinary angles. In the 1890s he developed the Serpentine Dance and had a major success with the Christmas pantomime "Babes in the Wood" in Manchester during the 1889–90 season. In 1891, he was recruited by the impresario Augustus Harris to appear in that years spectacular Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Christmas pantomime "Humpty Dumpty". He starred in a further two productions at the theatre including "Little Bo Peep" (1892) and "Robinson Crusoe" (1893).
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George L. Fox (clown)


as the clown in "Humpty Dumpty", the first American pantomime to be performed in two acts, which some feel has never been equaled since. Over the last decade of his life, Fox would encounter artistic success coupled with financial setbacks. As a manager he often ignored the bottom line when planning a new show and as a result several of his productions that were popular with the public saw little return. This problem was compounded by competition from younger artists who were performing in ever more spectacular productions as each season ticked
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A Gander at Mother Goose


grow?"" to which Mary replies ""I'm terribly sorry, but confidentially, it stinks."". It is then revealed that the garden is full of litter and trash. The page turns to Humpty Dumpty. Humpty, like the rhyme says, falls off the wall and appears unharmed. However, when he gets up it is revealed that the part where his butt cheeks are at are cracked. The next page shows Jack and Jill as a teenage couple. As the narrator recites the rhyme,
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The News at Bedtime


think it's about an egg falling off a wall. But really, Humpty Dumpty was a cannon in the English Civil War that one of the sides managed to blow up, and it fell down. So all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again - that's the origins of it. Some of these stories are true, and real news events. Part of the oral tradition of news!" The show has been received well by critics. Tom Cole in the "
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Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions


the only one of its kind to be released under internationally legitimate circumstances. Previously, "Still I Dream of it: Rare Works of Brian Wilson" was a similarly-themed grey area Japanese release now considered by law as a bootleg. The issue of legality is also prominent on "Pet Projects"; some tracks were evidently unavailable due to contractual reasons. Noted absences include Bob & Sheri's "The Surfer Moon" & "Humpty Dumpty", the Castells' "I Do", the Honeys' "The
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Marie Lloyd


was recruited by the impresario Augustus Harris to appear in that year's spectacular Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Christmas pantomime "Humpty Dumpty". She starred in a further two productions at the theatre, "Little Bo Peep" (1892) and "Robinson Crusoe" (1893). By the mid-1890s, Lloyd was in frequent dispute with Britain's theatre censors due to the risqué content of her songs. Between 1894 and 1900, she became an international success when she toured France, America, Australia and Belgium with her solo
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland


"Through the Looking-Glass", Papp and Swados had previously produced a version of it at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Meryl Streep played Alice, the White Queen, and Humpty Dumpty. The cast also included Debbie Allen, Michael Jeter, and Mark Linn-Baker. Performed on a bare stage with the actors in modern dress, the play is a loose adaptation, with song styles ranging the globe. A community theater production of Alice was Olivia de Havilland's first foray onto the stage. Similarly, the
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Harry Randall (actor)


Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in "Humpty Dumpty", as "second Dame" supporting Leno, who was in poor health. Campbell was also in the production. After Leno and Campbell's deaths in 1904, Randall continued for several more years at Drury Lane, in the role of Dame. In 1905 he travelled to Colwyn Bay, Wales, where he appeared on the Victoria Pier in a short sketch entitled "The Plumber". The "Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald" reported that his performance provided
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Colchester


") and, shortly after, the town was lost to the Parliamentarians ("all the king's horses and all the king's men / couldn't put Humpty together again.") Another version says that Humpty Dumpty was a cannon on the top of the church. The church of St Mary-at-the-Walls still retains its Norman tower until the top few feet, which are a Georgian repair. The third rhyme said to have come from Colchester is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which was written by
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Tony Kaye (director)


be credited to 'Humpty Dumpty' instead, and filed a $200 million lawsuit when the company refused. Kaye's second feature, a documentary called "Lake of Fire", was about the abortion debate in the United States. It opened in Toronto in September 2006. The movie was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (though it did not win a nomination), and was nominated for Best Documentary Film at the Independent Spirit Awards, the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, and the Satellite Awards.
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All the President's Men


the President's Men,"" Woodward noted that Redford played an important role in changing the book's narrative from a story about the Watergate events to one about their investigations and reportage of the story. The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty ("All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again"). An allusion similar to that was made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel "All the King's
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List of Shrek characters


Jack and Jill (voiced by Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris) are a married couple. In "Puss in Boots", Jack and Jill are in the possession of the magic beans from the Jack and the Beanstalk story, which Puss, Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty manage to steal to get into the giant's keep. However, it is revealed later that Jack and Jill were in cahoots with Humpty and Kitty to take the Golden Goose and trick Puss into being imprisoned in his home town. But when the Great
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Humpty Dumpty


another part of the wall, but the cannon was so heavy that "All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again". Author Albert Jack claimed in his 2008 book "Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes" that there were two other verses supporting this claim. Elsewhere, he claimed to have found them in an "old dusty library, [in] an even older book", but did not state what the book was or where it was
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Ralph Peer


blues, country and hillbilly artists, and Peer, through his Peer-International company, soon contributed a major part of BMI's catalogue. During and after World War II Peer published songs such as "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" and "You Are My Sunshine" (sung by Jimmie Davis, covered by Bing Crosby and many others), "Humpty Dumpty Heart" (Glenn Miller), "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" (Russ Morgan), "The Three Caballeros" ( Andrews Sisters
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List of Shugo Chara! characters


grant that wish. He possesses the Dumpty Key which pairs with Amu's Humpty Lock which at first did not fit in the keyhole. Like his father, Ikuto is a skilled violinist. He is the current owner of the Dumpty Key, which originally belonged to Aruto, his father, although Tadase's father had it for a little while. His father is presumed to be dead, but Ikuto refuses to believe it and has set out on finding him. As her status as the only daughter of the past president of
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Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods


Dumpty originally sold a variety of potato chip flavors. For the original brand of chips, they included Regular, BBQ, Ketchup, Dill Pickle, Salt and Vinegar, Roast Chicken, Sour Cream and Onion, Smokin' Bacon, and a St-Hubert rotisserie chicken flavor. For their ridged chip line, called Ripples, there were five varieties: Regular, Buffalo Wing, BBQ & Cheddar, Au Gratin, and All-Dressed. And finally, for their line of kettle-cooked chips, flavors featured were Regular
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