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    The Merry Gang was a group of aristocrats associated with the court of Charles II of England during the Stuart Restoration of 1660. The gang was centred...
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    (1660–1688) at the court of King Charles II. They were typified by the "Merry Gang" of courtiers, who included as prominent members John Wilmot, George Villiers...
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  • need of him in the House of Lords. Back in London, Rochester finds his "Merry Gang" friends, George Etherege and Charles Sackville, in a bawdy house. Rochester...
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    dissolute, and utterly charming". He was one of a handful of court wits, the "Merry Gang" as named by Andrew Marvell. Sometime after the end of April and her last...
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    conversation, and "extravagant frolics" as part of the Merry Gang (as Andrew Marvell described them). The Merry Gang flourished for about 15 years after 1665 and...
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  • The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon...
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  • leader of the "Merry Men" (though this is never recognised by anyone outside the group). She is by far the most intelligent of the gang, but often lets...
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    same name, which depicts the Earl of Rochester and the orbit of the "Merry Gang". Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex...
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    James Gang was an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. The band went through a variety of line-up changes until they recorded their first...
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    Buckingham was one of the archetypal Restoration rakes, part of the "Merry Gang" of courtiers whose other members included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester...
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  • Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a 1966 crime film written and directed by Bernard Girard, and starring James Coburn. It marked Harrison Ford's film debut...
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    Earl of Rochester, Charles Sedley and the Earl of Dorset (part of the "Merry Gang", as Andrew Marvell called them), who wished to express their appreciation...
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  • Henry Street Gang was a Chicago street gang of the late nineteenth century. Formed by Chris Merry in the early 1890s, the Henry Street Gang was based in...
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  • to a pulp by loyalist thugs... And then there was Lenny Murphy and his merry gang, the Shankill Butchers, who for years in the mid-1970s abducted, tortured...
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    for. Sedley was reputed as a notorious rake and libertine, part of the "Merry Gang" of courtiers which included the Earl of Rochester and Lord Buckhurst...
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  • fiction of Friar Tuck, who, whilst being a "large, merry body" was also the leader of his own "merry gang of murderers and thieves". John Maddicot has concluded...
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  • steal a wooden wing, a fragment of the long-lost merry-go-round of the Merciful Sisters. Scipio asks the gang to help stake out the mansion where the wing...
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  • Jesus & The Gang Dogsledding Merry F#%$in' Christmas (Live) Denis Leary – spoken vocals Merry F %$in' Christmas at AllMusic Soundtrack of Merry F %$in' Christmas...
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  • (Phil Cornwell), a cheery denizen of the forest who (along with his not so merry men) serves as an antagonist to Arthur since an encounter with the Singing...
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  • incapacitates Morgan's gang using a hatchet, thereby emerging as the unlikely hero of the day, and restoring order to Peaceful Gulch. Merry Mavericks was filmed...
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  • It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie is a 2002 American musical fantasy comedy television film directed by Kirk R. Thatcher and written by Tom Martin...
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    Christmas" due to the enduring popularity of her holiday music, particularly Merry Christmas (1994), the best-selling holiday album, and its single "All I...
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  • requests a ride and comes off an adult. Just as Scipio gets off the merry-go-round, the gang's fence Barbarossa arrives, intending to take his payment. As revenge...
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    called "The Merry-Go-Round" because according to Herc, it takes one "back and forth with no slack." Herc stated that he first introduced the Merry-Go-Round...
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    Impressment (redirect from Press-Gang)
    Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is a type of conscription of men into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation...
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    Merry Anders (born Mary Helen Anderson; May 22, 1934 – October 28, 2012) was an American actress who appeared in a number of television programs and films...
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    Home 4 tha Sick features a song written by Naughty by Nature. The track "Merry Muthaphuckkin' Xmas" features Menajahtwa, Buckwheat, and Atban Klann as...
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  • album, and fifth album of new material released by the funk band Kool & the Gang. The album was released in November 1972, but did not make the Billboard...
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  • Those Merry Souls (Chinese: 時來運轉) is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy horror film directed by Lau Kar-wing and starring Yuen Biao and Eric Tsang. The film...
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  • Mickey's Merry Men (reissued as Mickey's Brigade) is a 1930 short film in Larry Darmour's Mickey McGuire series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed...
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