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  • The origin of the word Pumpernickel is sometimes attributed to Napoleon.

    Pumpernickel | Baking Bites 2005

  • Three of them - including one named "Pumpernickel" that was bedecked in black raiment and carried the casket - were in the cortege to the cemetery three blocks from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

    Madison.com - top 2010

  • I love this very funny fortune Plight of the Pumpernickel received when she cracked open her cookie after dinner at Shanghai Garden in D. C.'s Van Ness neighborhood.

    Funny fortunes, pizza lollipops: D.C. blogs Washington Post editors 2010

  • The section will be edited by local media veteran Michael Gass with assistance from former Hill staffer Arin Greenwood and Pumpernickel blogger Rachel Tepper.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Rick Perry Is The North Star Of Texas Lobbyists Eliot Nelson 2011

  • And also, all the linked characters in such a series have to be Happy Together, or if they have any interesting disagreements, they must be resolved so we can eventually see them be Happy Together oh, he changed so much after his marriage to Julian's cousin's ward, you know the one who escaped France under the auspices of the Purple Pumpernickel--you mean Arthur is the Purple Pumpernickel?

    Romance Series-Itis Victoria Janssen 2010

  • We do have the neocon quarter-wits such as Crusty Pumpernickel on his radio talk show blaming … you guessed it, Clinton.

    The Highway Robber State « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • I spent many recreational hours during my years of graduate school in California in the local dog parks and beaches with Pumpernickel.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • More than once Pumpernickel got herself in dire straits once, trapped on a catwalk heading off a building edge; another time, her leash stuck in the elevator doors as the car began to move.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • I still imagine my own dog, Pumpernickel, looking at me, seeing herself in my eyes.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • I tried other names, like Peter Pumpernickel or Periwinkle, since he was such a magical, fairylike character, but he was not amused.

    When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009

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