Regardless of its provenance, the novel's increasingly grim outlook can take readers aback, as characters whom Thackeray — and the reader — at first hold in sympathy are shown to be unworthy of such regard.

Thackeray mentions poets, painters, novelists ( some of the characters are reading Oliver Twist ), politics, and other people, events and things both familiar and obscure to the 21st-century reader — and does so in a natural way that enhances the story.

Named after her father ’ s favorite character — Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray ’ s The Newcomes — she was one of the twentieth century ’ s most elegant, beautiful and gifted actresses.

Meanwhile, many great writers — Byron, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and more — continued to use they and company as singulars, never mind the grammarians.

Nicolas Régnier: Allegory of Vanity — Pandora, c. 1626.

* William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair takes place during the Napoleonic Wars — one of its protagonists dies at the Battle of Waterloo.

* Tina Brown, CBE — columnist, talk-show host, author, and magazine editor, notably of Vanity Fair ( 1984 — 1992 ) and The New Yorker ( 1992 — 1998 )

A 2007 article in the American magazine Vanity Fair called Gábor " a game performer with a wholesome, even cheerful sensuality that can undercut the Continental sophistication that was supposedly her calling card — she can come across like Sally Field doing a party impression of Marlene Dietrich.

Because of the widespread longtime popularity of The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's hazards — whether originally from Bunyan or borrowed by him from the Bible — the " Slough of Despond ", the " Hill Difficulty ", " Valley of the Shadow of Death ", " Doubting Castle ", and the " Enchanted Ground ", his temptations ( the wares of " Vanity Fair " and the pleasantness of " By-Path Meadow "), his foes (" Apollyon " and " Giant Despair "), and the helpful stopping places he visits ( the " House of the Interpreter ", the " House Beautiful ", the " Delectable Mountains ", and the " Land of Beulah ") have become commonly used phrases proverbial in English.

* Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele — longtime investigative reporting team, now with Vanity Fair.

* When maverick cyber-pioneer Hank Asher invented MATRIX, Vanity Fair 050131: " When maverick cyber-pioneer Hank Asher invented MATRIX — a controversial personal-information database — he gave the government a powerful tool for tracking terrorists.

* National Magazine Award Finalist — article about Michael and Arianna Huffington, ( Vanity Fair, November 1994 )

The Viceregal Salute — composed of the first and last four bars of the National Anthem (" Advance Australia Fair ")— is the salute used to greet the governor upon arrival at, and mark his or her departure from most official events, although " God Save The Queen ", as the Royal Anthem, is also used.

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

At one point a model of the futuristic park was pushed together against a model of the international park, and EPCOT Center was born — a theme park with the flavor of a World's Fair.

The concession cost $ 48, 000 to construct, grossed over $ 630, 000, and netted about $ 113, 000 to the Fair — the highest grossing military concession of the Fair.

Bridgwater Fair normally takes place in September — it starts on the last Wednesday in September and lasts four days.

* 1989 — Forest Fair Mall opens with three anchors and 37 specialty stores.

Virgin Atlantic was given immunity for tipping off the authorities and received no fine — a controversial decision the Office of Fair Trading defended as being in the public interest.

Two churches ( Methodist and Presbyterian ) were built and two schools ( The Four Gables School and the Fair Oaks School — the current Community Clubhouse ) appeared by 1910.

The Damascus Community Fair -- a fully agricultural fair that has been in operation since 1940 — attracts thousands of visitors annually in the first weekend of September.

In the early years of Fair Grove, the citizens of the place, and community — mostly Methodists and Presbyterians met to worship under a brush arbor about where a small house of worship was built and afterward a spacious arbor supported by numerous posts and covered with clapboards, served a few years.

On August 27, 1972, the Grateful Dead played a concert — the first " Field Trip "— at the Oregon Country Fair site.

The 1982 World's Fair — the most successful of these projects — became one of the most popular world's fairs in U. S. history with 11 million visitors.

* Round Top Antiques Fair — Outdoor gathering of antiques dealers drawing enormous crowds each Spring & Fall

* My Fair Lady — Julie Andrews singing " I Could Have Danced All Night " and " Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

* " You Are So Fair " with 2 dances — Gus & Dolores with Orchestra

:* Fair rent — meaning rent control: for the first time in the United Kingdom, fair rent would be decided by land courts, and not by the landlords ;

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

The liberal victory perished by the end of 1848 ; the movement became weak due to internal fighting, while the conservatives regrouped, formed an inner group of advisers — including the Gerlach brothers — known as the " Camarilla " around the King, and retook control of Berlin.

While the Magdalene Asylums had been " reforming " prostitutes since the mid-18th century, the years between 1848 and 1870 saw a veritable explosion in the number of institutions working to " reclaim " these " fallen women " from the streets and retrain them for entry into respectable society — usually for work as domestic servants.

By 1848, Ogden and Scammon had raised $ 350, 000 — enough to begin laying track.

* Reflections on a Child's Water Wheel — an Excerpt from Thoreau's 1848 Journal

On July 19, 1848, the morning of the first day of convention, the organizing committee arrived at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel shortly before ten o ' clock on a hot, sunny day to find a crowd gathered outside and the church doors locked — an overlooked detail.

The first people to rush to the gold fields, beginning in the spring of 1848, were the residents of California themselves — primarily agriculturally oriented Americans and Europeans living in Northern California, along with Native Americans and some Californios ( Spanish-speaking Californians ).

* 1848 — Lord Kelvin ( William Thomson )-Kelvin scale, in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale

* 1848 — Lord Rosse studies M1 and names it the Crab Nebula

* 1848 — Edgar Allan Poe offers first correct solution to Olbers ' paradox in Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay that also suggests the expansion and collapse of the universe

The Otago Settlement, sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, took concrete form in Otago in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock ( on the Firth of Clyde ) — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

" The first translation by Augustin Pritchard — published anonymously by Mr. Baillière ( volume I in 1845 and volume II in 1848 ) — suffered from being hurriedly made.

In 1848 Madvig entered parliament as a member of the " Eider-Danish " part — those who desired the Eider to be the boundary of the country.

* Scoffies — Gallatin in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 2: 103 ( 1848 )

* Silas — The Washington Township land that became the community of Silas was purchased in 1848, and the original owner established a church and school.

On 2 December 1851 Louis Napoleon — who had been elected President of France in 1848 — carried out a coup d ' état by dissolving the National Assembly and arresting the leading Republicans.

Susanna ," which became an anthem of the California Gold Rush — in 1848 – 1849.

In 1838 he was transferred to the council of state as master of requests, which post he held through the revolution of 1848 and the coup d ' état till 1860, when he was made senator — a paid office, it must be remembered, and, in effect, a lucrative sinecure.

* Women's rights movement — Founded by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and published a Declaration of Sentiments calling for the social and legal equality of women.

* Abolition movement — The addition of Mexico's former territories in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War reopened the possibility of the expansion of race-based chattel slavery ; the adaptation of the slave system to industrial-style cotton production resulted in increasing dehumanization of black workers and a backlash against slavery in the northern states ; key figures included William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.

The Orléanists indeed continued throughout the Second Republic ( 1848 – 1852 ) and the Empire ( 1852 – 1870 ) to enjoy a marked social and literary prestige, on the strength of the wealth and capacity of some of their members, their influence in the Académie française and the ability of their organs in the press — particularly the Revue des deux mondes, the Journal des débats, and the papers directed by E. Hervé.