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.

Some old characters, like The Three Bears and Little Plum, have more recently made a return.

Lithograph of the " Three Little Maids " from The Mikado

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

Prominent examples in the US include the so-called Little Three, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin, and Little Ivy colleges in New England, the surviving, predominantly female Seven Sisters colleges along the northeastern seaboard, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, but similar institutions are found all over the country.

* 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Three more albums followed: 1985's Little Creatures ( which featured the hit singles " And She Was " and " Road to Nowhere "), 1986's True Stories ( Talking Heads covering all the soundtrack songs of Byrne's musical comedy film, in which the band also appeared ), and 1988's Naked.

Through Silly Symphonies, Disney also created his most successful cartoon short of all time, The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ).

* 1934: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: Three Little Pigs ( 1933 )

Williams forms part of the historic Little Three colleges, along with Wesleyan University and rival Amherst College.

** Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.

Three Little Beers featured the team employed at a brewery who then run amuck on a local golf course to win prize money.

The Three Little Pigs was included in The nursery rhymes of England ( London and New York, c. 1886 ), by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps.

In 1985, Faerie Tale Theatre recreated The Three Little Pigs, starring Jeff Goldblum as The Wolf, and Billy Crystal, Stephen Furst, and Fred Willard as the pigs.

The 1989 parody, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, is presented as a first-person narrative by the wolf, who portrays the entire incident as a misunderstanding ; he had gone to the pigs to borrow some sugar, had destroyed their houses in a sneezing fit, ate the first two pigs to not waste food ( since they'd died in the house collapse anyway ), and was caught attacking the third pig's house after the pig had continually insulted him.

The 1992 Green Jellÿ song, Three Little Pigs ( and its claymation music video ) sets the story in Los Angeles.

The 1993 children's book The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig inverts the cast and makes a few changes to the plot: the wolves build a brick house, then a concrete house, then a steel house, and finally a house of flowers.

In an advert in the British newspaper The Guardian, the aftermath of the Three Little Pigs tale is told in the style of modern news media coverage, including social media reaction and the sociopolitical consequences of the story.

In 2003 the Flemish company Studio 100 created a musical called Three Little Pigs ( Dutch: De 3 Biggetjes ), which follows the three daughters of the pig with the house of stone with new original songs, introducing a completely new story loosely based on the original story.

* The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, parody book

* SHORT STORY-The Three Little Pigs

* The Story of the Three Little Pigs in The nursery rhymes of England, by Halliwell, pp. 37 – 41 on Archive. org

* The Three Little Pigs: Pleasure principle versus reality principle, from: The Uses of Enchantment, The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, by Bruno Bettelheim, Vintage Books, NY, 1975

* 19th century versions of the Three Little Pigs story

* The Golden Goose Book: The Story of the Three Little Pigs from Google books

* Three Little Pigs The fairy tale, lushly illustrated in The Colorful Story Book of 1941.

" from Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), substituting the name of the celebrated English author ( 1882 – 1941 ).

" from Walt Disney's animated version of The Three Little Pigs.

Records Karloff made for the children's market included Three Little Pigs and Other Fairy Stories, Tales of the Frightened ( volume 1 and 2 ), Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and, with Cyril Ritchard and Celeste Holm, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes, and Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

In the biography of her father, The Story of Walt Disney ( Henry Holt, 1956 ), Diane Disney Miller explains that the first complete storyboards were created for the 1933 Disney short Three Little Pigs.

" from rival studio Disney's Three Little Pigs, released the same year as Duck Soup.

or the Love For Three Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful, imaginative, colorful, and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet, The Stone Flower.

Three seconds flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moderate mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events.

Three quarters to 1 acre of good land is enough for raising fruits and vegetables for home use, and for a small flock of chickens, a cow, and two pigs.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

Three years later it was found in nature, although it is the least abundant element in the Earth's crust among the non-transuranic elements, with an estimated total amount of less than at any given time.

He is certainly retired at the time of Three Act Tragedy ( 1935 ) but he does not enjoy his retirement and comes repeatedly out of it thereafter when his curiosity is engaged.

* 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid.

In Futurama Season 4, Episode 16 " Three Hundred Big Boys ", Kif gives Amy a watch that is shortly after swallowed by a whale named Mushu.

The constellations of the Zodiac of western Asia and Europe were not used ; instead the sky is divided into Three Enclosures ( 三垣 sān yuán ), and Twenty-eight Mansions ( 二十八宿 èrshíbā xiù ) in twelve Ci ( 十二次 ).

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

During the Three Weeks use of musical instruments is traditionally prohibited.

In the BBC Three Sitcom Mongrels the character of Destiny is an Afghan Hound.

When an AMRAAM missile is being launched, NATO pilots use the brevity code-Fox Three.

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the Matins service in Eastern Orthodoxy, and of Lauds on Sundays and feast days in Catholicism.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

* A baldric features prominently in Chapter 4 of Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, in which D ' Artagnan has his nearly-disastrous first encounters with Porthos ( who is wearing one ), Aramis, and Athos.

Three general possibilities are that a person, possibly named Zephaniah, prophesied the words of the book of Zephaniah ; the general message of a Josianic prophet is conveyed through the book of Zephaniah ; or the name could have been employed, either during the monarchic or post-monarchic period, as a ‘ speaking voice ’, possibly for rhetorical purposes.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Three APIs are available — a Direct Persistence Layer which is " Plain Old Java Objects " ( POJO ); one which is based on the Java Collections Framework ( an object persistence approach ); and one based on the traditional Berkeley DB API.

In the play, he is at first an ally to Macbeth ( both are generals in the King's army ) and they are together when they meet the Three Witches.