• Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay...
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    William Burke and William Hare, pictured at Burke's trial The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about...
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  • Burke & Hare (also known as Burke and Hare, The Horrors of Burke and Hare and The Body Snatchers) is a 1972 horror film directed by Vernon Sewell and...
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    Its believers chant a mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare on the chanting bead. This mantra...
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  • The Flesh and the Fiends (category Cultural depictions of William Burke and Hare)
    for research from a murderous pair named Burke and Hare. The film is based on the true case of Burke and Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828...
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    Lagomorpha (section Hares)
    1 genus of hare (33 species) and 1 genus of pika (34 species). The name of the order is derived from the Ancient Greek lagos (λαγώς, "hare") + morphē...
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    Award nomination. In the British black comedy Burke and Hare (2010), loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders, Fisher starred opposite Simon Pegg and...
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  • The Greed of William Hart (category Cultural depictions of William Burke and Hare)
    Edinburgh bodysnatchers closely modelled on the real Burke and Hare. However, neither the real Burke and Hare nor the characters of Moore and Hart in the film...
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    The three hares (or three rabbits) is a circular motif appearing in sacred sites from East Asia, the Middle East and the churches of Devon, England (as...
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    Retrieved 26 March 2008. "Landis Heads to the Streets of Edinburgh for 'Burke & Hare'". 23 February 2010. "JOHN LANDIS DISCUSSES "INNOCENT BLOOD" AND HIS...
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    (disambiguation) Burke and Wills Burke and Hare Burke's Peerage, account of nobility, first published in 1826 by John Burke Burke's Landed Gentry, an...
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    Scottish anatomist and ethnologist best known for his involvement in the Burke and Hare murders. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Knox eventually partnered with...
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  • The Doctor and the Devils (category Cultural depictions of William Burke and Hare)
    Sands, Patrick Stewart and Twiggy. It is based upon the true story of Burke and Hare, who in 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, murdered at least 16 people and sold...
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  • January 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016. Johnson, Ben. "The Story of Burke and Hare". Historic UK. Retrieved 24 November 2019. "The Murderous Butler: Archibald...
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  • their name to Hare. "HARE, Thomas (1686-1760), of Stow Bardolph, Norf". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 August 2018. Burke, John. A Genealogical...
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  • Cardew, has to visit California for a few months, Hare is left in charge. He is joined by Dr Tony Burke who proceeds to airily order expensive equipment...
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    devout Anglican, influenced by the Tractarians. Hare differed from Mill in relying heavily on Edmund Burke as a political authority, in particular the Reflections...
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    Also in 2010 he starred in the John Landis directed horror comedy Burke and Hare and portrayed a covert CIA agent in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer...
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    Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are...
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    was cast as William Hare, with Simon Pegg as Burke, in the John Landis black comedy film Burke and Hare based on the Burke and Hare murders in Scotland...
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    Kinsey and portrayed Alexander Monro in the 2010 British black comedy Burke & Hare. In 2024, he had a cameo appearance in the horror film Stream, providing...
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    chanting) of the Hare Krishna mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. After he and his...
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    Downton Abbey: A New Era. In early 2010, he appeared in the comedy film Burke and Hare. In 2011 and 2012, he starred as Ian Fletcher in the award-winning BBC...
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  • Parker's "Love My Baby" (1953), played by Pat Hare, and "Sixteen Tons" (1946) by Merle Travis. Paired with "I Forgot to Remember to Forget", the single reached...
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    nomination for his role in Blue/Orange in 2001. He acted on Broadway in the David Hare plays The Vertical Hour (2006) and Skylight (2015), earning a Tony Award...
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  • Writer Taika Waititi as Sigmund Freud Guy Branum as Serf Board Vendor / Hare Paul Scheer as Bot Seed Vendor Fred Armisen as Glorp Rob Riggle as Roman...
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    2013. Hare 1907, pp. 43–44. Seton-Watson 1902, pp. 23–24, 28–29. Hare 1913, p. 70. Hare 1907, pp. 45–47. Hare 1913, p. 71. Hare 1907, p. 49. Hare 1907...
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    There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) with Peter Sellers. She also performed in Burke & Hare. (1972), playing Marie, and another Sellers film, Soft Beds, Hard Battles...
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    by Henry Daniell) with cadavers for his classes, and makes mention of Burke, Hare, and Dr. Knox, in reference to the West Port murders of 1828. Alongside...
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  • Bridget Emmett J. Scanlan as William Burke Emmet Byrne as William Hare Nadine Lewington as Johanna Kennedy Burke Doug Bradley as Dr. Robert Knox Maimie...
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