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    Street cries are the short lyrical calls of merchants hawking their products and services in open-air markets. The custom of hawking led many vendors to...
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    Prunus avium (category Flora of Europe)
    the ryse" (i.e. on the twigs) was one of the street cries of London, but conjectures that these were the fruit of "the native wild Cherry, or Gean-tree"...
    22 KB (2,334 words) - 05:35, 18 March 2024
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    Hawker (trade) (redirect from Street hawker)
    advertise by loud street cries or chants, and conduct banter with customers, to attract attention and enhance sales. A hawker is a type of street vendor; "a...
    29 KB (3,324 words) - 13:41, 2 June 2024
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    Costermonger (category Street cries)
    information of little country folks; embellished with sixteen neatly-coloured engravings, London, Dean & Munday, c. 1847; The London Cries in London Street: embellished...
    62 KB (8,465 words) - 06:03, 9 June 2024
  • Hot Cross Buns (song) (category Street cries)
    Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951), p. 197. Hindley, Charles (10 November 2011). A History of the Cries of London: Ancient and...
    5 KB (586 words) - 22:04, 13 March 2023
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    As I was going by Charing Cross (category Street cries)
    origins in street cries and verse of the seventeenth century. It refers to the equestrian statue of King Charles I in Charing Cross, London, and may allude...
    4 KB (492 words) - 12:12, 6 June 2023
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    "Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy-- bu-u-uy!" cries the butcher. "Half-quire of paper for a penny," bellows the street stationer. "An 'aypenny a lot ing-uns."...
    12 KB (1,505 words) - 14:55, 30 May 2024
  • major producer of soap and perfumery by the beginning of the 20th century. By 1910, the company had moved to London's upmarket Bond Street, and Yardley...
    14 KB (1,346 words) - 08:19, 14 May 2024
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    Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics...
    125 KB (10,005 words) - 02:37, 8 June 2024
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    Peddler (redirect from Street peddler)
    Studies Taken of the Lower People, Or The Cries of Paris). In 1757, the first English publication in this genre was The Cries of London Calculated to...
    35 KB (4,550 words) - 18:52, 28 April 2024
  • Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John (category Street cries)
    Christmas Box published in London around 1797. It may be derived from 'Diddle, diddle, diddle Dumpling', a traditional street cry of hot dumpling sellers....
    2 KB (227 words) - 20:00, 31 May 2024
  • Mary Bell (redirect from Cries Unheard)
    detailing the case of Mary Bell Excerpt of Cries Unheard. Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell The case of Mary Bell at crimelibrary.com Crime & Investigation...
    57 KB (7,234 words) - 19:32, 25 March 2024
  • The following is a list of all the episodes that featured in all 14 series of London's Burning (1988–2002). This list includes the original 1986 TV film...
    341 KB (413 words) - 00:58, 15 May 2024
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    and 7,000 prints, including a view of Whitehall and Westminster by Hendrick Danckerts made c.1675, The Cries of London by Paul Sandby, and works by Thomas...
    70 KB (7,372 words) - 11:45, 9 June 2024
  • 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2022. "Dakota Johnson comes out (and cries and cries) in 'Am I Ok?' — Watch the exclusive trailer". EW.com. Retrieved May...
    9 KB (866 words) - 06:38, 7 June 2024
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    Kathy Etchingham (category 1960s in London)
    many of Hendrix's compositions including "The Wind Cries Mary" (penned after an argument between Hendrix and Etchingham), "Foxy Lady" (during one of the...
    7 KB (735 words) - 14:05, 17 January 2024
  • Kent Road" by The Upsetters "Old Lady of Stokey" by Ranking Dread "Old London Cries" from Sailing Along "Old London Town" by Benny Martin "Old River Thames"...
    171 KB (22,287 words) - 06:51, 28 May 2024
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    Adelekan arrived, he was met with boos and cries of "murderer", "Uncle Tom" and "coconut". The crowd stayed in front of the police station hours longer than...
    203 KB (17,516 words) - 08:33, 10 June 2024
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    Pregón (category Street cries)
    marketplaces and fairs. Street vendors and their cries were known in medieval Europe. The numbers of street vendors working in urban areas increased markedly...
    7 KB (945 words) - 16:44, 19 February 2024
  • The Weeping Woman (category Collection of the Tate galleries)
    cries of children cries of women cries of birds cries of flowers cries of timbers and of stones cries of bricks cries of furniture of beds and chairs of curtains...
    24 KB (3,075 words) - 16:04, 4 June 2024
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