"The Great Carbuncle" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in December 1835 before being included in the collection Twice-Told Tales...
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Carbuncle (/ˈkɑːrbʌŋkəl/) is another name for a deep red almandine gemstone that has been cut with a smooth, convex face in a method called cabochon....
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carbuncle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A carbuncle is an abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin...
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Pumpkin (section In the United States)
(1837). "The Great Carbuncle". Twice-Told Tales. Hide it [the great carbuncle] under thy cloak, say'st thou? Why, it will gleam through the holes, and...
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"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is one of 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the seventh story of twelve in the...
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Fruit (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
the original on 2024-01-30. Retrieved 2020-05-09. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Carbuncle", in Twice-Told Tales, 1837: Hide it [the great carbuncle]...
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Carbuncle (Spanish: Carbunclo, Carbunco or Carbúnculo) is a legendary species of small animal in South American folklore, specifically in the mining folklore...
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Halloween (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Great Carbuncle", in Twice-Told Tales, 1837: Hide it [the great carbuncle]...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (category Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees)
(1837) "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" (1837) "The Great Carbuncle" (1837) "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (1837) "A Virtuoso's Collection" (May 1842) "The Birth-Mark"...
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artists of the Hudson River School. Nathaniel Hawthorne chose the White Mountains as the setting for his short story "The Great Carbuncle". Other White...
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Twice-Told Tales (redirect from Legends of the Province House)
Rill from the Town-Pump" "The Great Carbuncle" "The Prophetic Pictures" "David Swan" "Sights from a Steeple" "The Hollow of the Three Hills" "The Toll-Gatherer's...
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Sophia Hawthorne (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, to the disapproval of many family members. Sophia wrote in her journal, "It was a great happiness to be able to put her to...
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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (category People of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York)
assisted in the birth by her father, Nathaniel Peabody. Hawthorne wrote about the infant Rose to his friend, Horatio Bridge, comparing her birth to the publication...
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November 1835 issue of The New-England Magazine. The second in the series, "The Great Carbuncle", was published a month later before the series was discontinued...
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Julian Hawthorne (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
morning, who claims to be your nephew and the heir of all our wealth and honors. He has dark hair and is no great beauty at present, but is said to be a...
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in the magazine, including "The Ambitious Guest" (November 1835) and "The Great Carbuncle" (December 1835). The magazine has no connection to The New...
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including the carbuncle gem. In John Milton's Paradise Lost, carbuncle gems form part of the fabric of heaven and, in profane form, are the glowing coal-red...
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African) – Trickster spider Arachne (Greek) – Weaver cursed into a spider Carbuncle (Chilote) – one of its many descriptions is a greenish-red fiery light...
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Poundbury (category New towns started in the 1990s)
the Carbuncle Cup award for ugly buildings. Nonetheless, the project has also received praise. In 2013, on the 20th anniversary of the project, the New...
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Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor (in which it is worn by a noblewoman). In the Sherlock Holmes...
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fiery gem, as ruby or carbuncle; (mineralogy) the Bohemian garnet or fire-garnet"; and carbuncle or carbuncle-stone (from Latin "carbunculus", "small glowing...
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Verbascum thapsus (redirect from Great Mullein)
various V. thapsus-based preparations was recommended for the treatment of warts, boils, carbuncles, hemorrhoids, and chilblains, amongst others. Glycyrrhizin...
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Kitamura, in order to overcome the carbuncle problems of the Roe solver and the excessive diffusion of the HLLE solver at the same time. They developed robust...
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School. A number of his projects, including House Gymnastics, General Carbuncle, and 33 Things to do before you're 10, have taken place in Yateley. Chris...
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Irmandiño revolts (redirect from Great irmandiño revolt)
depending on the chronicle, is that he died of carbuncles.) Another powerful lord, Pedro Pardo de Cela, was executed and his lands incorporated into the royal...
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is the modern gem known as carbuncle (though originally almost any red gemstone was known by this name). The term "carbuncle" is derived from the Latin...
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The Great Subscription Purses were a series of flat horse races in Great Britain run at York Racecourse, usually over a distance of 4 miles, that took...
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Charles III (redirect from Monstrous carbuncle)
proposed extension to the National Gallery in London as a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved friend" and deplored the "glass stumps and concrete...
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Caledonian Road, London (redirect from A5203 road (Great Britain))
accommodate its Victorian facade with the building behind. It was awarded the 2013 Carbuncle Cup for the ugliest building in the United Kingdom. A Chapter Students...
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Miss Trunchbull (redirect from The Trunchbull)
"the axis of evil" and in the 1996 movie, Ms Trunchbull refers to Matilda as "a carbuncle, a blister, a festering pustule of malignant ooze." In the 2022...
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