Terry Pratchett created this round "world" that rests on elephants resting on a turtle
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Discworld (world) - Wikipedia  The Discworld is the fictional setting for all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy novels. ... The sex of the World Turtle is pivotal in proving or disproving a number of ... eight baby turtles, each with four baby elephants and a tiny discworld of their own, ..... In the Round world (following Terry Pratchett's diagnosis of Alzheimer's...
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The Science Behind Discworld's Flat Earth on the Back of a Turtle - io9  Jul 16, 2013 ... The world is flat, and resting on the backs of four elephants who, in turn, ... Welcome to Terry Pratchett's Discworld. ... there is an ancient religion, Omnianism, which believes Discworld is round. .... but because the expanding universe theory rests on inference from ... We made a card for a giant star turtle.
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World Turtle - Wikipedia  The World Turtle is a mytheme of a giant turtle (or tortoise) supporting or containing the world. The mytheme, which is similar to that of the World Elephant and World ... 1500): "A vulture, which has only little strength, rests in the sky holding a ... The British philosopher John Locke made reference to this in his 1689 tract, An...
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terry pratchett - What are the sources of the imagery for the ...  Oct 13, 2011 ... The turtle and elephant bit come from Hindu mythology. ... A few different cultures have turtles/tortoises as well as elephants as part of their creation myths. ... the sacred central mountain of the world, could rest o fhis back and...
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Turtles all the way down - Wikipedia  "Turtles all the way down" is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology ... The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. .... and all together on nothing; as the Hindoos made the world rest on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, and had nothing to put under the tortoise.
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When Privacy Is Theft - The New York Review of Books  Nov 21, 2013 ... The Circle is Dave Eggers's tenth work of fiction, and a fascinating item it is. ... By that time he was already active in the underground worlds of comic strip writing, ... of symposium-like Socratic dialogue by which the central character is .... six years old, its name and logoa circle surrounding a knitted grid,...
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Jabberwocky (Dodgson, set by John Woods Duke, Lee Hoiby, Gary ...  Jun 24, 2015 ... He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The ... Line count: 28. Word count: 164. Notes about...
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Narnia (world) - Wikipedia  Narnia is a fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the primary location for his series of seven ... In Narnia, some animals can talk, mythical beasts abound, and magic is common. ... Narnia was created by the great lion, Aslan, and is filled with talking animals .... In addition, there are talking versions of most of these animals.
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The Woods Between the Worlds from The Magician's Nephew | I'm ...  Digory, Polly, and Fledge in the Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis #narnia #fanart ..... a few special magical rings made of the dust you got from a box made in Atlantis. ... Andrew tricked Polly touching the magic ring that makes anyone go into the .... One of my favouite book series growing up was The Chronicles of Narnia...
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The Tortoise and the Hare, and Other Races between Unequal ...  The Hare laid himself down about Midway, and took a Nap; for, says he, I can ... Source: Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of sop and other Eminent .... but the hare was soon so far ahead that he thought he might as well have a rest. ... Of such as, nearly caught, he's wont to take; ..... The bow priest of the losers went to Mole.
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Fiction - FTP  The story revolves around Fowler, a skeptical British journalist; Phuong, his ... of the Knights of the Round Table (including their quest for the Holy Grail), and .... The Loser RC 36278 by Thomas Bernhard read by Gordon Gould 1 cassette First ...... a character from _The Color Purple (RC 18576)_ and _The Temple of My...
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What is "Earth on Turtle's Back (Onondaga)"? | Reference.com  "Earth on Turtle's Back" is the creation story for the American Indian Onondaga tribe. According to Yale University professor Marcia L. Gerencser, creation stories explain how the world came into... ... EXPLORE OTHER CATEGORIES ... authors of "Keepers of the Earth," in "Earth on Turtle's Back," animals, plants, seasons,...
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Show #5043 - Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - J! Archive  Tolkien once wrote, "I am in fact" one of these "in all but size" ... These large ground-dwelling monkeys native to Africa & Asia have prominent...
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Free Flashcards about GENERAL SCIENCE - StudyStack  THIS ONE OF THE SIMPLE MACHINES CAN BE MADE BY USING A WHEEL ..... ONE REVIEWER SAID, "WONDROUS BEASTS AND SCIENTIFIC POSSIBILITIES" MADE THIS MICHAEL CRICHTON NOVEL "ALLURING", JURASSIC PARK.
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Free Flashcards about AUTHORS - StudyStack  J.R.R. TOLKIEN CREATED MIDDLE EARTH; THIS AUTHOR CREATED MIDDLEMARCH, GEORGE ELIOT. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE IS THE AUTHOR OF...
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The Mock Turtle's Song - Wikipedia  De Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland Carroll pic 36.jpg. "The Mock Turtle's Song", also known as the "Lobster Quadrille", is a song recited by the Mock Turtle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, accompanied by a dance. ... References[edit]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapters 9 and 10, by Lewis Carroll,...
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Stanford Travel Classics ...  Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (Stanford Travel Classics) [Robert ... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was not only a gifted writer, he was also an ... And his timeless exhortation continues to inspire all true travellers: For my ... His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of ..... Made Easy.
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The Chronicles of Narnia(Complete Series) by C. S. Lewis (43 ...  Many stars will grow old and come to take their rest in islands before your people .... right under it (not to one side like the leg of a one-legged man) and at the end of it, ... I made the Duffers into Monopods," said the Magician. .... Other books.
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Lucky we know the Forest so well, or we might get lost  Dec 31, 2010 ... Last night we read the chapter titled, In Which Pooh is Unbounced. ... How Rabbit is a character who can exhibit downright despicable behavior and ... They manage to lose Tigger, or at least leave him alone, and he promptly ... We talk about things we read, and I ask questions and try to point a few things...
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| historical-hogwarts-houses: George Orwell -...  Orwell wrote the last pages of Nineteen Eighty-four in a remote house on the Hebridean island of Jura, which he had bought from the proceeds of Animal Farm.
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PlayShakespeare.com Forum: Background information (Phoenix ...  The Phoenix and the Turtle is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. ... The "turtle" in the title is the turtle dove, not the shelled reptile. ... And kind acceptance of thy Turtle-doue ... Shakespeare introduces a number of other birds, drawing on earlier literature about the "parliament of birds",...