"Gotham are recalled in a popular nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19695, an adaptation of the tale ""Three Sailors of Gotham"". The lyrics are: <poem>Three wise men of Gotham, They went to sea in a bowl, And if the bowl had been stronger My song would have been longer.</poem> The rhyme was first recorded in ""Mother Goose's Melody"" published around 1765, and from then appeared in many collections. Reminded of the foolish ingenuity of Gotham's residents, Washington Irving gave the name ""Gotham"" to New York City in his ""Salmagundi Papers"" (1807). The most notable use"
"Gotham, Nottinghamshire Gotham ( ) is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of about 1,600, measured at 1,563 in the 2011 census. It is in the borough of Rushcliffe, and has a parish council. The name Gotham comes from the Old English for ""goat home"". The village has a twelfth-century church, St Lawrence's, dedicated to the martyr Lawrence of Rome. The village is most famed for the stories of the ""Wise Men of Gotham"". These depict the people of the village as being stupid. However, the reason for the behaviour is believed to be that the villagers wished"
"and chop firewood with a ladle, etc. Sometimes a trip to Hymylä involves some kind of forfeit: some silly work, trifle money, or suffering. A trip to Hymylä is perceived as a kind of disgrace. The earliest account of the tradition was reported by Cristfried Ganander in his ""Aenigmata Fennica"" (""Finnish Riddles"") in 1783. Over time, places with these names were perceived akin to Gotham, the Three Wise Men were from, a settlement of proverbial fools. Hymylä In Finnish folklore, Hymylä (variants: Himola, Huikkola, Hyvölä, Hytölä, Hämälä, Hölmölä) is a mysterious place for the banishment of a child who failed"
"caused after the war and was not due to enemy action. ""See also British hardened field defences of the Second World War"" Gotham, Nottinghamshire Gotham ( ) is a village in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of about 1,600, measured at 1,563 in the 2011 census. It is in the borough of Rushcliffe, and has a parish council. The name Gotham comes from the Old English for ""goat home"". The village has a twelfth-century church, St Lawrence's, dedicated to the martyr Lawrence of Rome. The village is most famed for the stories of the ""Wise Men of Gotham"". These depict"
"Cadoc Saint Cadoc or Cadog (; also ; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learning, where Illtud spent the first period of his religious life under Cadoc's tutelage. Cadoc is credited with the establishment of many churches in Cornwall, Brittany Dyfed and Scotland. He is known as ""Cattwg Ddoeth"", ""the Wise"", and a large collection of his maxims and moral sayings were included in Volume III of the Myvyrian Archaiology. He is listed in the 2004 edition of"
"to 16 granaries in the village, some of which were much later converted to residential use. The port also prospered as a shipbuilding centre, albeit on a modest scale. At its peak, around 1750, up to 18 vessels might be seen in the harbour at any one time. The reputation of the village was not high, though. John Wesley is famously reported to have described the place as """"a small sea-port town, famous for all kinds of wickedness"""", and much earlier accounts speak of members of the community who added nothing to the commonwealth, and against whom all things must"
"and because of the uneasy peace that existed. His tavern customers included a variety of rowdy outsiders, including ""godless"" fishermen, who were considered undesirables by others on the island. Regardless of what caused Walton and his inn to be the victim of a months-long rain of stones, it was the first major outbreak of apparent witchcraft in America. News of it traveled throughout America and England. Within a few years, accusations of witchcraft would occur in other New England towns, culminating in the famous witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Fort William and Mary was the site of one of the"
"is famous for the battle fought between the Chabhad and the Parmars for a wounded partridge. Chabhhads wanted possession of the partridge, while the Parmars wanted to provide shelter to the wounded partridge. Later there was a big battle between Parmars and Chabhads, this war having historical importance because 140 Parmars got victory against 500 Chabhads of Sayla. The Parmars, while victorious, were sacked by an army from Sindh Province for providing shelter to some outcasts. There is a temple of Almighty Sun called ""Mandavrayji Mandir,"" which is also the spiritual center and ""Kuldev"" of Parmar Rajputs. It is said"
"brought grain into town to have it milled and bought supplies from the general store. Men hauling lead from Western Wisconsin to Milwaukee often stayed in town as well. In 1852, much of the Britts land and additional adjoining lands were acquired by Dr. Philander Byam and his two brothers, and Byam's Addition to Mount Vernon was platted. The Byams came to be infamous for their fraudulent business dealings. They sold to local farmers worthless ""patent rights."" They also sold village lots for exorbitant prices to buyers in New York State using false and misleading sales materials. In one example,"
"a weekly Thursday market and an annual three-day fair at Whitsun. The market and fair both soon ceased, and an eighteenth-century attempt to revive the fair was unsuccessful. The village is famous for the Wortley Top Forge, which dates back to the time of the Industrial Revolution, but is most famous for the notorious highwayman Swift Nick (John Nevison, 1639 - 1684) who was born and raised there. It was really he (and not Dick Turpin) who made the infamous ride on horseback from London to York in order to establish an alibi for a robbery. Until 1987, Wortley was"
"local farmers and businessmen, who were not prepared to fight in battle. The plot was thus deemed a failure, the meeting broke up and all returned to their villages. However, Greathead had turned informer after being overruled in favour of the plans made by Oates and had alerted the authorities, who set in motion the arrest of the twenty-six people. The arrested men were taken to await the assizes in York, where they were remanded in Clifford's tower. Those tried and sentenced to death for treason were Thomas Oates, Samuel Ellis, John Nettleton snr, John Nettleton jnr, Robert Scott, William"
"man that people came to visit him from outside Canewdon in search of magical aid, sometimes ""from great distances"", including men from the Essex village of Dengie, who sought his advice in a wage dispute. Meanwhile, as Maple noted, Canewdon had developed a reputation associating it with witchcraft and magic by the end of the nineteenth century, when it was often thought of as ""The Witch Country"" and avoided by many wagoners who feared having their vehicles bewitched. This was possibly due to its relative isolation from neighbouring settlements, as it was surrounded by marshland, and the insular nature of"
"18 vessels might be seen in the harbour at any one time. The reputation of the village was not high, though. John Wesley is famously reported to have described the place as """"a small sea-port town, famous for all kinds of wickedness"""", and much earlier accounts speak of members of the community who added nothing to the commonwealth, and against whom all things must be secured lest they be stolen. A shift in the course of the river was sometimes, and perhaps falsely, identified as a cause of the decline of the port. This shift occurred on Christmas Day 1806,"
"avoid weighening on the community. According to this legend, one guy, accompanying the old father, decided to forbid his father to jump and to bring him back home, hiding him to the rest of the community. Thanks to his wise advise for agriculture and life in general, he became in a while the richest person of the whole village. He decided than to tell everybody his secret and the tradition was stopped. There are not historical evidences of these sacrifices, however the legend is still told to children as to teach them the importance of old people's words. Although they"
"infamous for being ruthless killers after the pillaging during the wars with Spain where they gained a reputation for torturing and murdering non-combatants. In the face of the invading force, the English militiamen of Nevis fled. Some planters burned the plantations, rather than letting the French have them, and hid in the mountains. It was the enslaved Africans who held the French at bay by taking up arms to defend their families and the island. The slave quarters had been looted and burned as well, as the main reward promised the men fighting on the French side in the attack"
"sacrifice. To which, the chief would not sacrifice his best male warriors. He also send some youth to the valley to bring the soil to him and so they did as requested. The chief elder check the soil and he says the land is very fertile and but not appropriate for vegetation (as the known vegetation knowledge for them). Thus, because of these reasons the people give up to settle in the valley. From there the name ""Dzükou"" or in local dailect ""Dzüko"" came which literally means ""cold heart"" because they gave up to settled. A common misconception is that"
"dairy-farming and took a public-house, The wiseacres who met there attributed his misfortunes to witchcraft, and advised Butterfield to apply to a cunning woman or white witch for a cure. An old woman was fetched from Northamptonshire, and confirmed the suspicion already entertained against Ruth Osborne and her husband John, both harmless old people over seventy years of age. After some ineffectual measures, recourse was had to on expedient which should at the same time deter the Osbornes from their alleged malpractices and benefit Butterfield and the neighbouring publicans. Notice was given by the crier at the adjoining towns of"
"often transcribed as Helm) as well-meaning fools. These stories often center around the ""wise"" men and their silly decisions, similarly to the English Wise Men of Gotham or the German Schildbürger. For example: One Jewish Chełm resident bought a fish on Friday in order to cook it for Sabbath. He put the live fish underneath his coat and the fish slapped his face with his tail. He went to the Chełm court to submit a charge and the court sentenced the fish to death by drowning. Most of these stories have become well-known thanks to storytellers and writers such as"
"the place, published in 1920. Plagued by endless gossip-mongering, anonymous and begging letters and outrage from the wealthier of his flock at his assertion that all men are equal in the sight of God, he was finally subject to a serious spiteful campaign and eventually sent for trial for misconduct. He was found not guilty, yet stayed there another thirteen years. Rusper Rusper is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies north of the town of Horsham and west of Crawley. Rusper is the centre of Rusper Parish which covers most of"
"village during his lifetime. Queen Elizabeth I had to step in twice to sort out problems with the village vicars. The first troublesome vicar was Reverend Edmund Tarrell, who was noted for spending too much time in the public houses and not enough time in the Church. The Queen had to intervene after it was reported that the vicar had failed to attend evensong and failing to give the last rites to a woman as he was in a Colchester pub and could not be found. His most serious offence, which he managed to escape, was not reading out King"
"enlisted one hundred and seventy; and when the clergyman, a hard man, who is also the magistrate, saw these creatures kneeling around us, whom he had seldom seen but to commit or punish in some way, he burst into tears"". However, Mr Bere, the curate referred to in this letter, soon became implacably opposed to the school and after years of pressure it was forced to close. Nevertheless, the furore created made the ""Blagdon Controversy"" a milestone of national importance in the development of education for the labouring classes. There are several houses in the village dating from medieval times"
"and sages were troubled by rohilla soldiers out for hunt in the forest. The soldiers used to disturb the havan fire, using it to cook the kill etc. The two soldiers probably came from Alwar. The village, also spelled as Pheena, used to be very important till mid 70s as it was the only one in the area with about 11 small scale sugar factories (crushers), an inter college i.e. a school till 12th. The villagers, did not allow for dispensary or a police station because of their strange belief that these bring trouble. Until now there is none and"
"at Woodsville, the once bustling village within Haverhill, New Hampshire. In the summer of 1913 a large fire destroyed 21 buildings in Newbury. The fire destroyed a church, the public school, the hotel and a number of businesses and residences. Only a change of the wind saved the balance of the town since there was no fire department at that time. In 1958, Newbury gained widespread notoriety after an unpopular farmer disappeared. The discovery of his bound body in the river three months later led to his death being described as a ""lynching"" by newspapers along the East Coast. Two"
"to the Scandinavians for knowing how to run a dairy farm."" Turlock went on to become known as the ""Heart of the Valley"" because of its agricultural production. With the boom came racial and labor strife. In July 1921, a mob of 150 white men evicted 60 Japanese cantaloupe pickers from rooming houses and ranches near Turlock, taking them and their belongings on trucks out of town. The white men claimed the Japanese were undercutting white workers by taking lower wages per crate of fruit picked. In protest, fruit growers briefly threatened not to hire the white workers behind the"
"of the war from educated, often noble residents, which they resented. During a fair at Hautefaye, matters turned ugly when an aristocratic cousin of a young nobleman named Alain de Monéys reported the war was not going well. Many villagers had been drinking and received the news poorly. They attacked the cousin, the Vicomte Camille Maillard Lafaye, son of the mayor of the nearby town of Beaussac. Frightened, the viscount and his party fled. In an alcohol-fueled patriotic fervor, villagers wielding pitchforks and cudgels turned their attention on young Alain. They accused him of being a Prussian plant, a spy,"
"for themselves. He is often considered a great philanthropist for his efforts working with his poor countrymen. Unfortunately, the early Baldoon settlers faced a plethora of difficulties: malaria, harsh winters, marshland, lack of food, and American invaders during the War of 1812. By the 1820s the settlement was deemed a failure by Lord Selkirk and other interested parties. The Baldoon settlers, however, did not give up; many of them contributed to the early success and development of the town of Wallaceburg. The Baldoon Mystery is one of Ontario's greatest haunting stories, handed down by word of mouth. The strange events"
"sold by greedy village elders to make way for redevelopment. William Hone's ""Table-book"" includes a contributor's description when he stumbled across the villagers discussing whether or not to tear down the cross. A poem comparing Sawstonites to the Jews, which would today appear to be highly controversial and antisemitic, was subsequently penned, and published in the 1827 journal: The Jews of old, as we've been told—— With harden'd hearts drew lots for parts The modern Jews ——the Sawstonites—— As harden'd as the Israelites—— Thinking they could no longer thrive By Christian means, did means contrive—— Sawston has seen substantial development"
"the Marrow Controversy in the church of Scotland. It is also the birthplace of the philosopher James Mylne (1757-1839) who later taught moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1797 to 1836 and also lectured on political economy. The Carse of Gowrie in which the village is located, is a agricultural district of Perthshire. Kinnaird, Gowrie Kinnaird (, ""high headland"") is a village in Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. It is notable for its 15th-century castle. The four-storeyed, Kinnaird Castle was a stronghold of the Threiplands of Fingask - a local Jacobite family. The castle was restored heavily by then owner"
"and utterly defeated them, taking many captives and looting a famous guchi jar that was thought to have magical properties. This war was famously called ""Bala Besai"" (Great Force) because all people from Skrang and Saribas joined the war or ""Ngayau Lus"" (Extinct War) because the great force attacked not only one longhouse but all longhouses in the Undup to finish them off. The surviving Undup Ibans took refuge in the Kapuas valley and Lingga and later settled in the area of Salimbau. Only under the rule of Brooke did they return to Banting hill, which had meanwhile been settled"
"This village is known as Sahidanagar (Martyr Town) for warriors that laid down their lives for the cause of democracy, socialism and nationality. In the early 1970s, security personnel killed two school students—known jointly as Kameshwar-Kusheshwar now—for their political beliefs. After Durganand Jha, these two teens became martyrs to the cause of democracy in the long-drawn fight against Panchayat for freedom. Few remember their names anymore, but they sacrificed their lives for the freedom of every Nepali. Public memory is phenomenally short, but forgetting the martyrdom of Kameshwar-Kusheswar borders on national ungratefulness. During the People’s Movement of 1990, three rural"
"was a 'sadhu' (a sage, a holy man) who long time ago happen to come to this village and settled by the old village pond. According to folklore,one evening, he went door to door asking for mustard oil with which he could light the 'diya' (lamp made of clay) for his evening prayer to Hindu deities but no one in the village gave him any oil. In his anger he said that from now on wards no mustard oil mill will work in this village. To date there has never been a 'Kohlu'(mustard mill) in this village from that day."
"Simpleton In folklore, a simpleton is a person whose foolish actions are the subject of often-repeated stories. Simpletons are also known as noodles, fools, and gothamites. Folklore often holds, with no basis in fact, that certain towns or countries are thought to be home to large numbers of simpletons. The ancient Greeks told tales of stupid populations in Abdera and other cities; in Germany, men of Schilda are conspicuous in these stories; in Spain hundreds of jokes exist about the supposed foolishness of the people from Lepe; and in England, the village of Gotham in Nottinghamshire is reputed to be"
"as the subject of many stories told today in Uig. The Gaelic byname ""cam"" commonly means ""squint"" or ""blind in one eye""; and according to tradition Dòmhnall Cam lost his eye in a quarrel with Gobha Ban (the smith of Kneep) who put out his eye with a red-hot poker. There are several Lewis places named after him. One such place is a shieling in the parish of Lochs, possibly suggesting a site where his cattle grazed. Another is the stack at Mangersta, where he is said to have hidden from authorities. According to Matheson, tradition current in the 1970s"