Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 20
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... that in his controversial 1968 speech, Enoch Powell said he seemed "to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood" due to continued immigration to Great Britain, and that the phrase is an allusion to Virgil (pictured) ("Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno")?
... that Xray and Waterloo Sunset are the titles of Ray Davies's two forays into fiction?
... that an urban legend is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them?
... that David Shipman is generally considered to be the real-life inspiration for the character of Natty Bumppo in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales?
... that Patricia Hodge has played the leading role in television adaptations of two of Fay Weldon's novels, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and The Cloning of Joanna May?
... that "Bunburying", a term introduced by Oscar Wilde in the play The Importance of Being Earnest, is the art of inventing a friend whose troubles are so compelling that nobody will question the need to visit that friend at short notice, and for any length of time?
... that Frederick Schiller Faust, better known as Max Brand, created the characters of Dr. Kildare and of Western hero, Destry?
