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Teutonic terror tales; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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August 11, 2009
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Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTION A previous answer about red balloons brought to mind the terrifying Germanic fairy tales Luftballon and Struwwelpeter. What are their origins?
STRUWWELPETER is not a fairy tale, but a children's book published in 1845 in Germany. It was written and illustrated by Heinrich Hoffmann, a doctor in Frankfurt. Its most famous translation into English was by Mark Twain.
The book contains a series of rather violent cautionary tales told in verse, and Struwwelpeter is the title of the book as well as its first ...
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State records, confirmations, and habitats of Aradidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from Louisiana, U.S.A.(Report)
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; ...Louisiana is poorly known, with only 5 species (Aradus falleni Stal, Aradus quadrilineatus Say, Acaricoris ignotus Harris and...Subfamily Aradinae Amyot and Serville, 1843 Aradus Fabricius, 1803 This large genus is represented...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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City unearths tomb.(News)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; ...resident, dates between the 2nd Century BC and the 2nd Century AD. Months of detective work led experts to the island city of Aradus on the Ile d'Arwad, off the coast of Syria. Now the artefact, part of a tomb, is being returned to a more appropriate...
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Syrian artefact to be returned
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...piece had originated from. It had been bought in 1995. Months of detective work followed, which eventually led to the city of Aradus, on the island of Arwad, off Syria, a site with a complex Phoenician and Roman history. The piece is unusual because of...
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