Which of the Wombles was named after a European Country?
"original four, perhaps because they appeared after the successful television series began. In ""The Wandering Wombles"", the setting moved from Wimbledon Common to Hyde Park in central London. However ""The Wombles to the Rescue"" saw them return to Wimbledon Common. Four of the books were illustrated by Margaret Gordon. ""The Wombles at Work"" (1973) was illustrated by Barry Leith, who worked on set design for the original FilmFair series. The appearance of the Wombles in the books followed the design of the Ivor Wood TV puppets, with the exception of original editions of ""The Wombles"" (1968) and first printings of"
"Wombling Free Wombling Free is a 1977 British film adaption of the children's television series ""The Wombles"". Based on the popular BBC children's series, this film charts the adventures of the Wombles, a colony of small litter-picking creatures who live in Wimbledon Common in 1970s London, England, United Kingdom. The film begins with Great Uncle Bulgaria Womble telling the story of how Wombles have always been cleaning up after humans from the very beginning with Adam and Eve, and how Wombles continue to clean up after humans for generations up to the present day all around the world, including the"
"would, however, change with her creation of the Wombles. 'The Wombles of Wimbledon Common' were inspired by her daughter Kate’s mispronunciation of 'Wimbledon,' when Beresford took her children to Wimbledon Common for a Boxing Day stroll. That same day, Beresford made out a list of Womble names. Many characters were based on her family: Great Uncle Bulgaria her father-in-law, Tobermory her brother (a skilled inventor), Orinoco her son, and Madame Cholet her mother. The Wombles’ names came from sources as varied as the town where Beresford’s daughter went on a French exchange and the name of the college attended by"
"South Africa, USA, and Zimbabwe. Stumbles Stumbles (also spelt Stumbels) is a family name probably originating in the United Kingdom but nowadays also found in Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the United States. ""A Dictionary Of British Surnames"" lists a ""Gervase atte Stumble"" of 1296 and a ""Juliana Stumbel"" of 1311 and suggests a meaning (derived from Old English ""stumbel"") of ""Dweller by the tree-stump"". The name was found relatively frequently in the West Country especially the South Hams region of Devon from the early 18th century. It is now rare in the United Kingdom but found more commonly"
"Stumbles Stumbles (also spelt Stumbels) is a family name probably originating in the United Kingdom but nowadays also found in Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, and the United States. ""A Dictionary Of British Surnames"" lists a ""Gervase atte Stumble"" of 1296 and a ""Juliana Stumbel"" of 1311 and suggests a meaning (derived from Old English ""stumbel"") of ""Dweller by the tree-stump"". The name was found relatively frequently in the West Country especially the South Hams region of Devon from the early 18th century. It is now rare in the United Kingdom but found more commonly in Australia, New Zealand, Canada,"
"Europe by mobile eastern groups from the steppe land, such as the Huns and Alans. The name also derives from the Medieval legends of a Land of Darkness often perceived in the legends to be in a roughly analogous location to its Warhammer counterpart. The Dark lands also have a substantial population of Ogres and their goblinoid slaves, the Gnoblars. Estalia is a fictional realm in the Warhammer World setting and appears in games from Games Workshop. Estalia is the Warhammer equivalent of the Iberian peninsula. The region's kingdoms, cultures and political situation are modelled after medieval Spain and Italy."
"failure. American actor James Newman is her great-nephew. Elisabeth Beresford Elisabeth ""Liza"" Beresford, MBE (; 6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010) was a British author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a family with many literary connections, she worked as a journalist but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. The strong theme of recycling was particularly notable, and the Wombles became very popular with children across the world. While Beresford produced many other literary works, the Wombles remained her best-known creation. Beresford was born on 6 August 1926"
"as the Northern English boggart, Scottish bogle, French goblin, Medieval gobelinus, German kobold, and English Puck. Likewise, the names of many European spirits may derive from the word ""kobalos"". The word entered Latin as ""cobalus"", then possibly French as ""gobelin"". From this, the English ""goblin"" and Welsh ""coblyn"" may derive. Kobalos The kobalos (pl. kobaloi) (Ancient Greek: Κόβαλος, plural: Κόβαλοι) was a sprite from Greek mythology, a mischievous creature fond of tricking and frightening mortals. The kobaloi were companions of Dionysus and could shapeshift as Dionysus in the guise of Choroimanes-Aiolomorphos. According to one myth, they robbed Herakles while he"
"""*gobelin"", similar to Old French ""gobelin"", already attested around 1195 in Ambroise of Normandy's ""Guerre sainte"", and to Medieval Latin ""gobelinus"" in Orderic Vitalis before 1141, which was the name of a devil or daemon haunting the country around Évreux, Normandy. It may be related both to German ""kobold"" and to Medieval Latin ""cabalus"", or ""*gobalus"", itself from Greek κόβαλος (""kobalos""), ""rogue"", ""knave"", ""imp"", ""goblin"". Alternatively, it may be a diminutive or other derivative of the French proper name ""Gobel"", more often ""Gobeau"", diminutive forms ""Gobelet, Goblin, Goblot"", but their signification is probably ""somebody who sells tumblers or beakers or"
"Elisabeth Beresford Elisabeth ""Liza"" Beresford, MBE (; 6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010) was a British author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a family with many literary connections, she worked as a journalist but struggled for success until she created the Wombles in the late 1960s. The strong theme of recycling was particularly notable, and the Wombles became very popular with children across the world. While Beresford produced many other literary works, the Wombles remained her best-known creation. Beresford was born on 6 August 1926 in Paris, France. Her father was writer J."
"and Lolland, which became known jointly as Videslev. When the Jutes were fighting Emperor Augustus they called upon Dan to help them. Upon victory, they made him king of Jutland, Funen, Videslev and Skåne. A council decided to call this new united land ""Danmark"" (Dania) after their new king, Dan. Saxo relates that it is the legendary Danish King Dan, son of Humbli, who gave the name to the Danish people, though he does not expressly state that he is also the origin of the word ""Denmark"". Rather he tells that England ultimately derives its name from Dan’s brother Angel."
"it could be from Germany or Bohemia. The name was known as """" in Bavaria. In Poland, the dance was also known as ""Polka Tremblante"" or just ""Tramblanka"". In Portugal, a form of schottische called ""xoutiça"" or ""xote"" has become heavily standardized for folklore displays. The pairs in groups of four, six or eight, form a circle and dance embraced all together. The circle starts to rotate until a moment when the pairs pass; that is, the pairs that are opposite each other switch places crossing each other in the centre of the circle. They continue to pass successively two"
"and coined Cambria based on the Welsh name for it. The Welsh word Cymru (Wales), along with Cymry (Welsh people), was falsely supposed by 17th-century celticists to be connected to the Biblical Gomer, or to the Cimbri or the Cimmerians of Antiquity. In reality it is descended from the Brythonic word ""combrogi"", meaning ""fellow-countrymen"". The term thus conveys something like ""[land of] fellow-countrymen"". The use of Cymry as a self-designation seems to have arisen in the post-Roman Era, to refer collectively to the Brythonic peoples of Britain, inhabiting what are now Wales, Cornwall, Northern England, and Southern Scotland. It came"
"also often referred to in the media as the Wombles from the mid-1970s onwards. Following the FA Cup victory in 1988, the term Crazy Gang also started to be applied; originally to the players, though over time to the club as a whole. The club introduced a character mascot in 2000, a Womble named Wandle the Womble. However, following the relocation of the club in 2003, the owners of the Wombles brand refused to renew the licensing agreement in protest at the move. Three years later, a deal was agreed that saw a similar character named Haydon the Womble appear"
"The Men from W.O.M.B.L.E. The Men From W.O.M.B.L.E. is an album by British acid-house band, Alabama 3, released on 29 November 2013 on Hostage Music Ltd. It was recorded at Jamm Studios in Brixton, London. W.O.M.B.L.E is an acronym, standing for WORLD OF MILITANT BEAT LIBERATING EXECUTIONERS - a commitment to keep terrorizing the music industry with their subversive approach. The album references children's TV series The Wombles and its theme tune about ""‘Underground, overground, wombling free'"". Rob Spagg a.k.a. Larry Love, vocals said '""something that you have to establish as a musician, is whether you are underground or overground."
"Cambriol Cambriol or New Cambriol was the name given to one of North America's early Welsh colonies established by Sir William Vaughan (1575–1641). The area Vaughan had purchased from the Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland in 1616 was all that land on the Avalon Peninsula located south of a line drawn from Caplin Bay (now Calvert) to Placentia Bay (near present-day Gooseberry Cove). Vaughan had called the area New Cambriol — ""a little Wales"" in the New World. In his book ""The Golden Fleece"", an allegory in praise of his colony, makes the following assertion concerning Cambriol: Sir William Vaughan,"
"of the Rumble High Command. Rumbles are clearly a parody of the popular children's characters, the Wombles of Wimbledon Common. On the way the Borribles also meet a particularly vicious parody of Steptoe and Son (which was one of the most popular shows on TV at the time) in the form of Dewdrop, a former Borrible, and his son Ernie. The Adventurers are each assigned the name of the individual target of the High Command that they are to assassinate: Napoleon Boot, the suspicious and cynical Borrible; Chalotte, the tough and brave girl Borrible; Vulgarian (Vulge), frail-looking, but ""tough as"
"been abandoned. Cambriol Cambriol or New Cambriol was the name given to one of North America's early Welsh colonies established by Sir William Vaughan (1575–1641). The area Vaughan had purchased from the Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland in 1616 was all that land on the Avalon Peninsula located south of a line drawn from Caplin Bay (now Calvert) to Placentia Bay (near present-day Gooseberry Cove). Vaughan had called the area New Cambriol — ""a little Wales"" in the New World. In his book ""The Golden Fleece"", an allegory in praise of his colony, makes the following assertion concerning Cambriol: Sir"
"each dedicated to a deity Nehalennia. Over 160 carved stone votives with her image have been dredged up at those sites and several inscriptions in Latin thank her for safe passage on the seas. In Empel there is the remains of a temple to ""Hercules Magusanus"". This was the Romans' Latin name for the supreme god of the Batavians, Donar. Stone votives and broken weapons as symbolic offerings are at the location. Holland: This place name derives from the words ""Holt Land"" which means ""Land of Many Trees"", ""Forest Land."" According to the tradition (""The Legend of the Wooden Shoe""),"
"Zimber Zimber used as a surname and believed to be Germanic but the meaning is undefined. Used as a surname in Eastern Europe since the 17th Century. Zimber may be a variant of the German word Kimber or members of a historic second century Germanic ethnic group. Now called the Cimbri. Kimber (name) is also a forename and surname. Zimber and Zimmer is a German exonym for Cembra and related to the Cimbri ancestry. Zimber may also be a corruption of Zimble(r) or Tsimbl. This was an ancient medieval stringed instrument played by plucking the strings with the fingers or"
"Boombal Boombal (pl. Boombals) is a relatively recent phenomenon of folk dance parties in Belgium, originating in the French bal folk. The partygoers indulge in pair, ring, line, and string dances such as the waltz, polka, An Dro, etc. adapted from the French bal folk scene. The events are seen as a more social and enjoyable alternative to the individualistic dancing that is often seen in modern clubs. There is a very low barrier of entrance due to the emphasis on having fun rather than meticulously performed and complicated dances. Boombal originated in Ghent, Belgium when accordion instructor Wim Claeys"
"Later, a king named Humli sent his son Dan to rule the settlers. After Dan, Vetala was named Denmark. The Ballad of Eric is now regarded as an inauthentic piece of fakelore. Angul (king) Angul (""""Angull"""") was, according to Gesta Danorum, the ancestor of the Angles in Denmark. His father was king Humbli, probably the same as Heimdall, one of Woden's twelve diar in Sigtuna and Gamla Uppsala in Sweden. Already in Jordanes' Getica (written in the 6th century), the Danes, of the same tribe as the Swedes, are said to have emigrated from Sweden to Denmark in ancient times."
"2000 to June 2003, the original Wimbledon F.C. had used a Womble named """"Wandle"""", named after the local River Wandle, as a club mascot. However, in light of the controversy over the moving of the club to Milton Keynes, the licence to use the character was withdrawn by the Wombles' creator, Elisabeth Beresford as a protest. In 2006, AFC Wimbledon agreed a licensing deal for a new mascot to represent the club, once again choosing the character of a Womble due to their famed association with Wimbledon Common. After a naming competition in which the final name was chosen by"
"a plectrum. This instrument is similar to a Psaltery, Dulcimer or Cymbalom. Note: The German word Zimbel is cymbal (music), while Zimbal is Cymbalom. Zimber Zimber used as a surname and believed to be Germanic but the meaning is undefined. Used as a surname in Eastern Europe since the 17th Century. Zimber may be a variant of the German word Kimber or members of a historic second century Germanic ethnic group. Now called the Cimbri. Kimber (name) is also a forename and surname. Zimber and Zimmer is a German exonym for Cembra and related to the Cimbri ancestry. Zimber may"
"of Slavic origin and entered most Western European languages via the early medieval fur trade. Thus the Russian ""соболь"" (""sobol"") and Polish ""soból"" became the German ""Zobel"", Dutch ""Sabel""; the French ""zibeline"", Spanish ""cibelina, cebellina"", Finnish ""soopeli"", Portuguese ""zibelina"" and Mediaeval Latin ""zibellina"" derive from the Italian form (""zibellino""). The English and Medieval Latin word ""sabellum"" comes from the Old French ""sable"" or ""saible"". The term has become a generic description for some black-furred animal breeds, such as sable cats or rabbits, and for the colour black in heraldry. Males measure in body length, with a tail measuring , and"
"with canaries owing to its 15th and 16th century links to Flemish weavers who had imported the birds to the Low Countries from the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean. By February 1907, the nickname ""Canaries"" had come more into vogue; thoughts that an FA Cup tie against West Bromwich Albion (nicknamed ""Throstles"" after a bird) was ""a bird -singing contest"" were dismissed by the polymath C.B. Fry as ""humbug"" but Bowman and Fry's colleagues in the national press increasingly referred to the team as Canaries. The following season, to match the nickname, City played for the first time in Canary"
"Parts of France (Anjou, Loire Valley, Ardennes, Brittany, Savoie) and Belgium (Ardennes), Liguria in northern Italy, especially between the town of Lavagna (which means ""chalkboard"" in Italian) and Fontanabuona valley; Portugal especially around Valongo in the north of the country. Germany's Moselle River region, Hunsrück, Eifel, Westerwald, Thuringia and north Bavaria (with a former mine open as a museum at Fell); and Alta, Norway (actually schist, not a true slate). Some of the slate from Wales and Cumbria is colored slate (non-blue): purple and formerly green in Wales and green in Cumbria. Slate is abundant in Brazil, the world's second-biggest"
"cups"". Moreover, these proper names are not from Normandy, where the word ""gobelin, gobelinus"" first appears in the old documents. German ""Kobold"" contains the Germanic root ""kov-"" (Middle German ""Kobe"" ""refuge, cavity"", ""hollow in a rock"", Dial. English ""cove"" ""hollow in a rock"", English ""sheltered recess on a coast"", Old Norse ""kofi"" ""hut, shed"" ) which means originally a ""hollow in the earth"". The word is probably related to Dial. Norman ""gobe"" ""hollow in a cliff"", with simple suffix ""-lin"" or double suffixation ""-el-in"" (cf. Norman surnames ""Beuzelin"", ""Gosselin"", ""Étancelin"", etc.) The Welsh ""coblyn"", a type of knocker, derives from"
"J. A. Symonds writes that the gnomic poets mark a transition from Homer and Hesiod to the dramatists and moralists of Attica. Gnomes are frequently to be found in the ancient literatures of Arabia, Persia and India, in Anglo-Saxon/Old English poetry and in the Icelandic staves. Comparable with the Anglo-Saxon examples are the Early Welsh gnomic poems. The priamel, a brief, sententious kind of poem, which was in favor in Germany from the 12th to the 16th centuries, belonged to the true gnomic class, and was cultivated with particular success by Hans Rosenblut, the lyrical goldsmith of Nuremberg, in the"
"byname SIMOS, meaning snub-nosed. The name has spread to England, France, Germany, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the U.S.A., and the name has been in use as a given name in Western Europe from the Middle Ages onwards. The name was no doubt popular because of its associations with the apostle Simon Peter, the brother of Andrew. In Britain, there was confusion from an early date with the Anglo-Scandinavian form of Sigmund, a name whose popularity was reinforced at the time of the Norman Conquest of 1066, by the Norman form of Simmund. Szymański Szymański (feminine: Szymańska, plural Szymańscy) is the"
"the Old French ""gobelin"" via the English ""goblin"". The term goblette has been used to refer to female goblins. Many Asian lagyt creatures have been likened to, or translated as, goblins. Some examples for these: Goblin A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. They are ascribed various and conflicting abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon."
"Weeble Weebles is a trademark for several lines of children's roly-poly toys originating in Hasbro's Playskool division on July 23, 1971. Tipping an egg-shaped Weeble causes a weight located at the bottom-center to be lifted off the ground. Once released, gravity brings the Weeble back into an upright position. Weebles have been designed with a variety of shapes, including some designed to look like people or animals. The popular catchphrase, ""Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down"", was used in advertising during their rise in popularity in the 1970s and during successive relaunches in the early 21st century. The Weebles"
"places. Folklorists have proposed that the mine kobold derives from the beliefs of the ancient Germanic people. Scottish historical novelist Walter Scott has suggested that the Proto-Norse based the kobolds on the short-statured Finns, Lapps, and Latvians who fled their invasions and sought shelter in northern European caves and mountains. There they put their skills at smithing to work and, in the beliefs of the proto-Norse, came to be seen as supernatural beings. These beliefs spread, becoming the kobold, the Germanic gnome, the French goblin and the Scottish bogle. In contrast, Humorists William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin (writing as"