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51No. 611 Squadron RAF — No. 611 (West Lancashire) Squadron RAF 611 Squadron emblem Active 10 February 1936 15 August 1945 10 May 1946 10 March 1957 Country …
52Le Livre des snobs — The Book of Snobs Le Livre des snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs) Première de couverture de l édition originale …
53hack — Applied to a writer of poor quality stories and other works. The word compares such a writer with a hackney horse, one whose services are for hire to anyone. It often collocates with Grub Street, a street in London which was later re named… …
54Affaire Elizabeth Canning — Portrait monochrome d Elizabeth Canning en robe vers 1820. Elizabeth Canning, née le 17 septembre 1734 et décédée en juin 1773, est une servante anglaise, qui fut au centre d une affaire judiciaire qui compte parmi les plus célèbres débats… …
55Arthur St. John Adcock — (January 17, 1864, London – June 9, 1930), was an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then unknown poet W. H. Davies. Adcock was a Fleet Street journalist for half a century, and editor of The Bookman . According to A.… …
56The Distrest Poet — Infobox Painting title=The Distrest Poet artist=William Hogarth year=c.1736 type=Oil on canvas height=65.9 width=79.1 height inch=36 width inch =31⅛ museum=Birmingham Museum Art Gallery city=Birmingham The Distrest Poet is an oil painting… …
57Paper War of 1752-1753 — In 1752, Henry Fielding started a paper war between the various authors on London s Grub Street. Although it began as a dispute between Fielding and John Hill, other authors, such as Christopher Smart, Bonnell Thornton, William Kenrick, Arthur… …
58Gropecunt Lane — was a name used in English speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. In most cases, the name would appear to derive directly from the words grope (sexual touching), and cunt (female… …
59Hawker Hurricane — Hurricane Hurricane Mk I (R4118), which fought in the Battle of Britain Role Fighter …
60Hack writer — is a colloquial, usually pejorative, term used to refer to a writer who is paid to write low quality, quickly put together articles or books to order , often with a short deadline. In a fiction writing context, the term is used to describe… …
