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 ; ;

* 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.

In 1900, Potter revised her tale about the four little rabbits, and fashioned a dummy book of it-it has been suggested, in imitation of Helen Bannerman's 1899 bestseller The Story of Little Black Sambo.

Only five feet tall, he was called " the Little Flower " ( Fiorello is Italian for " little flower ").

The characters of the town were Grandpa Twink who did little but rest in a chair, Little Jake the only child in town, Ma Jones who run the town store, Doc Haggerty, Slim Jim the bartender of the Denison saloon, Marvin Jackson the bank manager and Dan Morse the telegraphist.

BB's The Little Grey Men ( 1942 ) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.

* The Little Yellow Chicken: An animated little yellow chicken who would always mistake anything and everything for an egg.

Little is known of his campaigns, and there is little archaeological evidence for them.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

Little is known about the Achaemenid Persian invasion of modern-day Pakistan as historical sources and evidence are scant and fragmentary containing little detail.

Gladstone, who saw little value in the Empire, proposed an anti-Imperialist policy ( later called " Little England "), and cultivated the image of himself ( and the Liberal Party ) as " man of the people " by circulating pictures of himself cutting down great oak trees with an axe as a hobby.

In " Robin Hood and the Monk ", for example, he is shown as quick tempered and violent, assaulting Little John for defeating him in an archery contest ; in the same ballad Much the Miller's Son casually kills a " little page " in the course of rescuing Robin Hood from prison.

These include Will Scarlet ( or Scathlock ), Much the Miller's Son, and Little John – who was called " little " as a joke, as he was quite the opposite.

Little by little came to Versailles all those who needed or desired to live close to the maximum power.

" Hogg (" Boss Hogg "), whom Rosco referred to as his " little fat buddy ", " Little Chrome Dome ", " Little Meadow-Muffin ", and several other names.

" Little pig, little pig, let me come in.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. He is sometimes said to be a French variant of the 16th-century Italian Pedrolino, but the two types have little but their names (" Little Pete ") and social stations in common.

Little by little, we will find reasons for sacrificing the many for the happiness of the many, and we will think it was a bargain .”

This was evident after the publication of part one of Little Women when girls wrote Alcott asking her “ who the little women marry .” The unresolved ending added to the popularity of Little Women.

Consequently, episodes devoted to Santa ’ s Little Helper tend to be a little on the sleepy side, even the Simpsons Christmas special that launched the series.

There is little documentary evidence for most of Little Turtle's life, and the exact year and place of his birth are uncertain.

Little by little, he sold off all of the castle's contents.

Little is known about Leofric, as his cathedral town was not a centre of historical writing, and he took little part in events outside his diocese.

Saint Johns, the site of a useful crossing of the Little Colorado River, was originally called El Vadito, ( Spanish for " the little crossing ") by Spaniards as they first explored the area.

Moreover the centralization of our economy during the 1920s, the dislocations of the Depression, the common ethos of Materialism everywhere, all contributed in various ways to the face-lifting that replaced Mike Fink and the Great Gatsby with the anonymous physiognomy of the Little People.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

Teacher training was interrupted during World War II between 1941 and 1943, when Alexander accompanied children and teachers of the Little School to Stow, Massachusetts to join his brother.

Little is known about the production of brass during the centuries immediately after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Focus on the impact of a Little Ice Age on the empire, as the empire, beginning with a sharp drop in temperatures in the 13th century during which time the Mongol leader Kubla Khan moved south into China.

The ' Little Switzerland ' section of the Putney End seen in the background during an Australia national association football team | Australia vs New Zealand national football team | New Zealand friendly in 2005

When the ground became redeveloped, with the standing terraces replaced in 2003-4 ( during Fulham's exile to Loftus Road ) the club applied for a licence to have a designated neutral area, in the rows closest to the Cottage, ( affectionately nicknamed ' Little Switzerland ').

* Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, lived and worked for seven weeks during 1851 as a domestic helper in Dedham

Little was built during the first four centuries of Moorish control ( see Reconquista ).

This exposé of organized crime is set in New York's " Little Italy " during the late 19th century, and focuses on the Black Hand, a group which extorts money upon threat of death.

A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.

Razorbill-like birds were common in the Atlantic during the Pliocene, but the evolution of the Little Auk is sparsely documented.

This was followed by the Little Ice Age, from the 13th or 14th century to the mid 19th century, which was a period of significant cooling, though not everywhere as severe as previous times during neoglaciation.

Different accounts on how " Please, Please, Please " came together vary, one story from Etta James stated that during her first meeting with Brown in Macon, Brown " used to carry around an old tattered napkin with him, because Little Richard had written the words, ' please, please, please ' on it and James was determined to make a song out of it ...".

With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to — about 13, 000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb ( 13 to 16 kt ) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba ( 50 Mt ), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

Jack Little, an engineer, was exposed to it during a visit Moler made to Stanford University in 1983.

Little is known of Polybius ' later life ; he most likely accompanied Scipio to Spain, acting as his military advisor during the Numantine War.

Little interest was expressed by those he spoke to during trips to the United States in 1893 and London in 1894, and an attempt to involve the Germans angered French gymnasts who did not want the Germans invited at all.

Little is certain about the history of the Roman Kingdom, as nearly no written records from that time survive, and the histories about it were written during the Republic and Empire and are largely based on legend.

The advertisements were part of Nike's FIFA World Cup campaign, and featured a secret three-on-three tournament between the world's best football players inside a huge tanker ship, with the Elvis Presley song " A Little Less Conversation " playing during the advertisements.

" Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat ", is a parody of " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star " recited by the Hatter during the mad tea-party, in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Also referred to informally as " St. Francis Xavier Junior College " or " Xavier Junior College " ( XJC ) and colloquially as " Little X ", the St. Francis Xavier University Sydney Campus was situated in Sydney's central business district and saw several buildings opened as a result of growth during its first decade of operation.