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    referred to as "the slipper" by teachers and pupils alike, presumably on account of its similarity to the type of carpet slipper used for parental punishments...
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    the bread because of its flat, oval shape. Ciabatta in Italian means 'carpet slipper'. Ciabatta bread was first produced in 1982, by Arnaldo Cavallari, who...
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  • January 1997). Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs: A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers. University of Nebraska Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8032-8231-5. Simpson...
    19 KB (1,682 words) - 19:36, 2 June 2024
  • New Zealand Slippers. A subsidiary of the company started weaving Axminster carpets in Sydney in 1938, the first time that woven carpet had been manufactured...
    9 KB (864 words) - 03:24, 21 May 2024
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    Monaghan, Jay. Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs: A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers, p. 430 (U. Nebraska Press, 1997). Turner, Justin G. and Turner, Linda...
    59 KB (6,397 words) - 18:49, 25 May 2024
  • him a career as an actor. His first professional engagement was in Carpet Slippers at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, in 1930, while still at RADA...
    9 KB (849 words) - 19:34, 13 April 2024
  • American Civil War (2014) pp 8 (quote), 69–70 Jay Monaghan, Diplomat in carpet slippers: Abraham Lincoln deals with foreign affairs (1945). Norman B. Ferris...
    60 KB (7,659 words) - 20:56, 30 January 2024
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    Roundhill (2000) Spider Sparrow (2000) Just in Time (2000) The Magic Carpet Slippers (2000) Julius Caesar's Goat (2000) Mysterious Miss Slade (2000) Lady...
    12 KB (1,294 words) - 21:35, 25 May 2024
  • loneliness. The myth of pensioners quietly sipping Ovaltine in their carpet slippers is over, with most dating websites including pages of postings from...
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    and flooring of the local bars, leading one hotel owner to supply carpet slippers to all river drivers who entered his hotel. The "jacks" earned $1 to...
    22 KB (1,656 words) - 00:26, 21 February 2024
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    have every convenience at hand for night requirements, even down to carpet slippers. Blinds and curtains give a home-like comfort to the windows. Books...
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  • faulted Weiner for portraying Allen Dulles as "a doddering old man in carpet slippers" rather than the "shrewd professional spy" he knew and for refusing...
    10 KB (981 words) - 05:33, 2 May 2024
  • school career includes an ongoing feud with his housemaster (known as "Carpet Slippers"), receiving beatings and punishments, learning to do what is right...
    19 KB (2,776 words) - 17:30, 14 March 2023
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    Creole women still wear the Jamaican Maroon Kabaslot, Kotoku, and carpet slippers and its derivative, the "print" that is a fusion of older African American...
    112 KB (11,725 words) - 17:56, 5 April 2024
  • feet were so swollen he had had to cut off his boots and was wearing carpet slippers one of the Polish peasants had given him. A peasant family in Skalité...
    157 KB (18,747 words) - 08:32, 14 February 2024
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    with Francis L. Sullivan as Poirot and also featuring Donald Wolfit. Carpet Slippers, December 1930, with Griffith Jones (his debut) and Sebastian Shaw...
    23 KB (1,666 words) - 18:49, 26 August 2023
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    goods, gloves, boots and shoes (including the traditional pantoufle carpet slippers) and cotton goods are also important. There is wholesale and retail...
    102 KB (10,978 words) - 16:21, 19 March 2024
  • army during the First World War. Alf's Button (1920) Egbert (1925) Carpet Slippers (1931) I Do What I Like (MacDonald, 1947) The World of Gilbert and...
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  • he had graced with his hats and trailing scarves, velvet coats and carpet slippers for the last 40 years. McNay, Michael (3 September 2003). "Patrick...
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    Southern History 83.1 (2017): 69–106. excerpt Monaghan, Jay. Diplomat in Carpet Slippers (1945), Popular study of Lincoln the diplomat online Owsley, Frank...
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