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  • It is a three-act melodrama, probably written as a tribute to Shakespeare's Henry IV plays called Jack o'the Cudgel.

    Culture Maxine 2009

  • This is a man with a proven history of doing what ever it takes to gain, and hang on to power. tip o'the tinfoil hat to digby.

    Would You Step Up To Support a Progressive Challenger to Arlen Specter? 2009

  • But, since you decided to make that play, let's go to the "tale o'the tape" on "iffy" Political Scientist Georg Vanberg: hmmm .... doesn't really LOOK like a political scientist.

    IF you are a political scientist.... 2009

  • This is a man with a proven history of doing what ever it takes to gain, and hang on to power. tip o'the tinfoil hat to digby.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Arbogast on Film: The wearin' o'the green skip to main

    The wearin' o'the green Arbogast 2009

  • Any children born as a result were regarded as divine or as saints - a custom with worldwide parallels English surnames such as Goodman, Jackson or Robinson perhaps derive from similar sacred unions with god in the form of Green Men characters such as Jack o'the Green or Robin Greenwood; I would also suggest that the original sense of 'godparent' and 'godchild' has similar origins.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • In the dance of the Will o'the Wisps, spirits invoked by Méphistophélès to help Faust seduce Marguerite, eight women in white, one in each box, were partnered by male acrobats who dangled from lines and walked up walls.

    Cirque du Met: A Classic Tale Gets the Vegas Treatment 2008

  • Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera The dance of the Will o'the Wisps, features eight women in white partnered with male acrobats who dangle from lines.

    Cirque du Met: A Classic Tale Gets the Vegas Treatment 2008

  • Thanks for the tip o'the hat by Sandy Sand on Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008 at 8: 38: 44 PM

    Kucinich is Still Rockin' My World Toward Peace 2008

  • Finally one o'the Rev's men gave me a fydollabill 'cause I said I was sick of not getting no real money..

    Okay, enough with the shoe shopping. Let's live-blog the big debate. Ann Althouse 2008

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