A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions...
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History of Little Goody Two-Shoes is a children's story published by John Newbery in London in 1765. The story popularized the phrase "goody two-shoes" as a...
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also a Mafioso nicknamed Scarpa (Italian for "shoe"), hence his nickname of Scarpuzzedda, or "little shoe". He was born in 1952 in Ciaculli, an outlying...
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Little Shoe, as revealed in the 2009 novel The Scarpetta Factor, which points out that the underlying pun is similar to Caligula, which means Little Boot...
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Shoemaking (redirect from Shoe shop)
individually measured, and return to pick up their new shoes in as little as a day. Everyone needed shoes, and the median price for a pair was about one day’s...
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Chinese numismatic charm (redirect from Little shoe charm)
age. Girls would hang little shoe charms over their beds in the belief that it would help them find love. Chinese little shoe charms tend to be around...
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"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" is a popular English language nursery rhyme, with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19132. Debates over its...
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Little Goody Two Shoes is a video game developed by AstralShiftPro and published by Square Enix Collective. It includes elements of anime-inspired role-playing...
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cane for that purpose. Before going to bed, children each leave a single shoe next to the fireplace chimney of the coal-fired stove or fireplace (or in...
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Shoe polish, also known as boot polish and shoeshine, is a waxy paste, cream, or liquid that is used to polish, shine, and waterproof leather shoes or...
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is (melitzanes) papoutsakia (μελιτζάνες) παπουτσάκια (lit. 'eggplant, little shoe style') which consists of whole small eggplants stuffed with ground meat...
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Sneakers (redirect from Athletic shoe)
(US) or trainers (UK), also known by a wide variety of other names, are shoes primarily designed for sports or other forms of physical exercise but which...
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Horseshoe (redirect from Horse shoe)
A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear. Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed...
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alleged shoe-banging incident occurred when Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk...
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lost her baby and even suggested the title of Little Shoes, Never Worn. In his version of the story, the shoes are being given away rather than sold. He suggests...
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Shoeshiner (redirect from Shoe shiner)
Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective...
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Caleres (redirect from The Buster Brown Shoe Co.)
for shoe manufacturing in St. Louis. At that point, most shoes were manufactured in New England. After four years in his brother’s wholesale shoe business...
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Wire. Only three of the five singles released from this album ("Sweet Little Shoe," "Mason Dixon Line," and "When Love Comes Around the Bend") actually...
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all those who raised their heads, like Pino Greco (aka Scarpuzzedda, Little shoe), Mario Prestifilippo and Vincenzo Puccio ... all that’s left are men...
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example of this is his print Fashionable Contrasts;—or—The Duchess's little Shoe yeilding [sic] to the Magnitude of the Duke's Foot. This was a devastating...
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Baseball-Reference.com. Coffey, Wayne (March 30, 2019). "How Gil Hodges and a little shoe polish helped the Mets to their '69 Miracle ... an excerpt from Wayne...
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Goomba (redirect from Kuribo's Shoe)
one level of Super Mario Bros. 3, Goombas can be seen wearing a shoe called "Goomba's Shoe". Super Mario World replaces the normal Goomba with a more round...
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Nike Air Force (redirect from Air Force 1 Shoe)
athletic shoes made by Nike. It was created by designer Bruce Kilgore and was the first basketball shoe to use Nike's "Air" technology. The shoe is offered...
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A brogan is a heavy, ankle-high shoe or boot. Brogan-like shoes, called "brogues" (from Old Irish "bróc" meaning "shoe"), were made and worn in Ireland...
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Richard Reid (redirect from Shoe bomber)
Colvin Reid (born 12 August 1973), also known as the Shoe Bomber, is the perpetrator of the failed shoe bombing attempt on a transatlantic flight in 2001...
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Footwear (redirect from Flats (shoe))
wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature. Shoes and similar garments ease locomotion and prevent injuries. Such footwear...
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Lucchese with behind him Giuseppe Greco also known as Scarpuzzedda ("little shoe") who shot him to death with an AK-47, leaving him unrecognizable. Three...
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word meaning "little shoes". "Papuc" or "papuç" is a Persian word "pâpuš" (پاپوش) that is also used in Turkish and has the meaning of "shoe" or "slipper"...
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Genesco (redirect from General Shoe)
Tennessee. Founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, the company changed its name to the General Shoe Company in 1931 and became...
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Shoe-throwing showing the sole of one's shoe or using shoes to insult are forms of protest in many parts of the world. Shoe-throwing as an insult dates...
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