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All Along the Watchtower. " All Along the Watchtower " is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. The song's lyrics, which in its original version contain twelve lines, feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.
The N Seoul Tower ( Korean : N 서울타워 ), officially the YTN Seoul Tower[ 1] and commonly known as Namsan Tower or Seoul Tower, is a communication and observation tower located on Namsan Mountain in central Seoul, South Korea. The 236-meter (774 ft)-tall tower marks the second highest point in Seoul and is considered a local landmark.
The Two Towers. The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien 's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is preceded by The Fellowship of the Ring and followed by The Return of the King. The volume's title is ambiguous, as five towers are named in the narrative, and Tolkien himself gave conflicting identifications of the two towers.
Quasimodo (from Quasimodo Sunday [1]) is a fictional character and the titular character of the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) by Victor Hugo.Quasimodo was born with a hunchback alongside several facial deformities and feared by the townspeople as a sort of monster, but he finds sanctuary in an unlikely love that is fulfilled only in death.
An Ivory Tower at St. John's College, Cambridge. The first modern usage of "ivory tower" in the familiar sense of an unworldly dreamer can be found in a poem of 1837, "Pensées d'Août, à M. Villemain", by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, a French literary critic and author, who used the term "tour d'ivoire" for the poetical attitude of Alfred de Vigny as contrasted with the more socially ...
Yaoya Oshichi. Oshichi, ukiyo-e by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 19th century. Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七, c. 1667 – 29 March 1683[ 1]), literally "greengrocer Oshichi", [ 2] was a daughter of the greengrocer Tarobei, [ 1] who lived in the Hongō neighborhood of Edo at the beginning of the Edo period. She was burned at the stake for attempting to ...
Cover of an 1880s edition. Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight is a narrative poem by Rose Hartwick Thorpe, written in 1867 and set in the 17th century. It was written when she was 16 years old and first published in Detroit Commercial Advertiser. [ 1] The poem consists of ten stanzas of six lines each, written in catalectic trochaic octameter; the ...
The song is a moderate up-tempo describing a young man named Billy Bob, who is in love with a young woman named Charlene, both of whom met in high school. One late summer evening, Billy Bob hauls a can of " John Deere green" paint to the top of a water tower and paints the words "Billy Bob loves Charlene," as well as an outline of a heart , on ...