In his free time, he joined the amateur dramatic group at the Little Theatre in Mumbles, visited the cinema in Uplands, took walks along Swansea Bay, and frequented Swansea's pubs, especially the Antelope and the Mermaid Hotels in Mumbles.

The Little Mermaid proposed putting someone else ’ s well being before one ’ s own dreams.

Starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid, the Disney Renaissance gave new life to the Film Musical.

Since the general animation renaissance headlined by the likes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Little Mermaid at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, there have been an increasing number of traditional stop motion feature films, despite advancements with computer animation.

* April 25 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark ( Henrik Bruun confesses in 1997 ).

* August 23 – The statue of The Little Mermaid is unveiled in Copenhagen.

It bears a similar cultural significance as Copenhagen's Little Mermaid.

The main new works staged by the company have been The Little Mermaid by Anne Boyd ( 1985 ); Metamorphosis by Brian Howard ( 1985 ); Voss by Richard Meale ( 1986 ); Whitsunday by Howard ( 1988 ); Mer de glace by Richard Meale ( 1992 ); The Golem by Larry Sitsky ( 1993 ); The Eighth Wonder by Alan John ( 1995 ); Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Richard Mills ( 1999 ); Batavia by Richard Mills ( 2001 ); Love in the Age of Therapy by Paul Grabowsky ( OzOpera 2002 ); Lindy by Moya Henderson ( 2003 ); Madeline Lee by John Haddock ( 2004 ); Bliss ( 2010 ) by Brett Dean.

Many characters from Disney animated films ( such as Aladdin, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, and many more ) have appeared on House of Mouse, mostly as patrons and guest star performers.

* The Little Mermaid: Ariel, Eric, Flounder, Sebastian, Ursula, King Triton, Max the sheepdog, Scuttle, and Grimsby.

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote his popular fairy tale " The Little Mermaid " in 1836.

" A large part of the story is told through song and ballet and includes many of Andersen's most famous stories such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid.

* Roland Petit-The Prince in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* Barrie Chase-Ballerina in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* Sylvia Lewis-Ballerina in " The Little Mermaid " Ballet

* The Princess Power Hour ( 2000 – 2007 ): One-hour block featuring episodes of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid.

* The Great Toon Weekend Getaway ( 2007 – 2008 ): Five-hour weekend block featuring shows based on Disney movies, such as Aladdin, Timon and Pumbaa, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New School, and Lilo and Stitch: The Series.

There is a copy of the famous Little Mermaid statue from Copenhagen, as well as one featuring the bust of famed Danish fable writer Hans Christian Andersen.

In particular, today's visitors appreciate the Danish windmills, the statues of Hans Christian Andersen and the Little Mermaid, the half-timbered houses, the Danish rural church, the Round Tower as well as Danish music and folk dancing.

* Mother Penguin and Baby Penguin ( The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea )

Disney followed up Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its commercially successful 1988 fully animated feature Oliver & Company with The Little Mermaid, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale with songs by Broadway composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.

TV animation also brought many theatrical characters to Saturday morning, including Winnie the Pooh, The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

While the film had the misfortune of opening the same day as Disney's The Little Mermaid, it fared much better on home video.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

* The Little Mermaid

A post office named " Little Prairie Ronde " ( after the prairie on whose edge it stood ) was opened in November 1837.

" The Emperor ’ s New Clothes " was first published with " The Little Mermaid " in Copenhagen by C. A. Reitzel on 7 April 1837 as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children.

" The Emperor ’ s New Clothes " was first published with " The Little Mermaid " on 7 April 1837 by C. A.

* M. m. brevirostris Gould 1837 ( Little Shag ).

Sarah Josepha Hale ( author of " Mary Had a Little Lamb ") was its editor from 1837 until 1877 and only published original, American manuscripts.

( Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1837 – 1866 ): I: 402-404.

He worked there until 1837, when he formed his partnership with James Brown under the style of Charles C. Little and Company.

He returned to Little Rock in 1837 and began working in a bank as a cashier.

James Little ( 1837 – 1916 ), who was president from 1886 to 1888, had worked as a ship's surgeon early in his career.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;

Little by little, during the week, Chris and I discovered the crazy unbelievable way Nadine and Wally had lived.

* USS Little Ada ( 1864 ), steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.