In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

Twenty percent of its capital was owned by the federal government, the Bank's single largest stockholder Four thousand private investors held 80 % of the Bank's capital, including one thousand Europeans.

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The owners of Four & Twenty Blackbirds, a well-known pie shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, are originally from Hecla.

Sometimes there is a theme, such as a place ( e. g. New York Stories, Paris, je t ' aime ), a person ( e. g. Four Rooms ), or a thing ( e. g. Twenty Bucks, Coffee and Cigarettes ), that is present in each story and serves to bind them together.

He is also known for the films Twenty Four Seven, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands and This Is England.

Following the end of her Twenty Four Seven Tour in 2000, Turner made another Guinness World Record by selling more concert tickets than any solo performer in history at the time.

They released two singles-" 45 ", produced by Pickering in 1985, and " Freaky Dancin '", produced by New Order's Bernard Sumner in 1986-before putting out an album produced by John Cale and bearing the title Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile ( White Out ) in 1987.

Their first album, Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile ( White Out ), debuted in 1987 and was produced by John Cale.

The Manx-language name of the House of Keys remains (" The Four and Twenty ").

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* Bill Diver ( Twenty Four Seven, Distant Voices, Still Lives )

" Lynn McSpadden, in his book Four and Twenty Songs for the Mountain Dulcimer, states that some players " tilt the dulcimer up sideways on their laps and strum in a guitar style.

The show's opening ( to the tune of " Four and Twenty Blackbirds ") featured Peggy Marshall and the Holidays singing:

* The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds

For concerts, it has a high capacity, in 1997, during her Falling Into You Tour, Celine Dion played a sold out concert to 75, 000 people & Tina Turner performed 2 sold-out performances at the stadium during her highly successful Twenty Four Seven Tour.

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Private sidings around South Kensington included the Four and Twenty Pies factory to the north east ( now demolished and an industrial park ), a warehouse and silos the east ( open but now not rail served ), and two sidings to the north: Kensington Abattoirs and Kenstore ( the first in the process of demolition, the second now residential )

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Bingham was a location in Midlands film director Shane Meadows ' film Twenty Four Seven, which contained scenes shot at Toot Hill top field, The Linear Walk and Bingham Boxing Club.

Dallas Crane recorded its second album Twenty Four Seven in 2000.

Chris Brodie left the band after the release of Twenty Four Seven, replaced by Pat Bourke in Jan 2001.

* Twenty Four Seven ( 2000 )

On December 6, 2000, music legend Tina Turner played her last concert at the arena for the record breaking Twenty Four Seven Tour, but after popular demand, Turner returned to the arena before a sellout crowd on October 14, 2008, for her Tina!

Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile ( White Out ) was the first album by British band Happy Mondays.

* Four And Twenty Blackbirds ( 1959 )-retitled The Secret of Galleybird Pit in editions published after 1967.

Sir Edward catches sight of a shop over his shoulder called " Four and Twenty Blackbirds " and runs back to the house to confront Martha.

* The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Four and Twenty Blackbirds have been turned into Anime, on the series Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple ( 2004 ).

* German: Ein diplomatischer Zwischenfall ( A Diplomatic Incident ) Ein diplomatischer Zwischenfall ( A Diplomatic Incident ) Die spanische Truhe ( The Spanish Chest ) Der Prügelknabe ( The Whipping Boy ) Vierundzwanzig Schwarzdrosseln ( Four And Twenty Blackbirds ) Der Traum ( The Dream ) Greenshaws Monstrum ( Greenshaw's Monster )

Angels, caricatures of jazz performers Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Jimmie Lunceford, tell Saint Peter that to get people to paradise he will need " rhythm " ( the short's credits list no voice actors, but a member of the all-black jazz group the Four Blackbirds — possibly Leroy Hurt — provides the cartoon's celebrity impressions ).

The all-black jazz group the Four Blackbirds performs the backing vocals for these songs.

* Four & Twenty Blackbirds ( 2005 )

Four years ago, the company's entire line was devoted to neon signs ; ;

Four hundred and fifty pounds was disseminated while the ship was traveling a distance of 156 miles.

Four subjects ( 10% ) did not change even then but needed the additional information that an arm-elevation under these circumstances was a perfectly normal reflex reaction which some people showed while others did not.

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The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

Our endeavor to capture even a faint sense of how strenuous was the fight is muffled by our indifference to the very issue which in the Boston of 1848 seemed to be the central hope of its Christian survival, that of the literal, factual historicity of the miracles as reported in the Four Gospels.

The Big Four, helped by Archie's brother Cambell, was a stop-gap collection of Sketch magazine stories, for money when her husband left.

Four months later, in October, AppleNet was cancelled.

This last great work, the Four Apostles, was given by Dürer to the City of Nuremberg — although he was given 100 guilders in return.

" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.

Between 1220 and 1227, he wrote a Glossa in quatuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ( A Gloss on the Four Books of the Sentences of Peter Lombard ), which was particularly important because it was the first time that a book other than the Bible was used as a textbook during biblical study.

During the Middle Ages, Anthony, along with Quirinus of Neuss, Cornelius and Hubertus, was venerated as one of the Four Holy Marshals ( Vier Marschälle Gottes ) in the Rhineland.

Four years later he was appointed to the chair of chemistry also.

In 1949 the Four Home Unions combined formally to create a Tours Committee and for the first time, every player of the 1950 Lions squad was an international before the New Zealand series.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

It was founded by four senior Labour Party ' moderates ', dubbed the ' Gang of Four ': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.