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  • (Overblown imperial anxiety about such faqirs or akhonds, Pashtun religious leaders, inspired Victorian satirists such as Edward Lear, who began one poem, "Who, or why, or which, or what, Is the Akond of Swat?")

    Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! 2009

  • Her first novel will be called Other Waters… FOR HIKING AND NATURE"I think no place on Earth can be lovelier than this," said Edward Lear, describing Corfu in 1856.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • Burnett says he'll add documentation of the rich history of 8-tracks, including stories of such colorful pioneers as Earl "Madman" Muntz -- who married seven times, named his daughter Tee Vee and invented the 8-track's predecessor, the Muntz Stereo-Pak 4-track tape cartridge; and 8-track inventor Edward Lear, founder of the Lear Jet corporation, where he expressed the importance of leanness in aviation by saying, "I'd sell my grandmother to save one pound."

    Michael Sigman: Eight-Track Museum Gives Slice of Music History a Place in the Sun Michael Sigman 2011

  • Only by going there, after obsessing about it for eight years, did Edward Lear conclude the opposite.

    A Fossil With Flesh Nicholas Shakespeare 2011

  • Burnett says he'll add documentation of the rich history of 8-tracks, including stories of such colorful pioneers as Earl "Madman" Muntz -- who married seven times, named his daughter Tee Vee and invented the 8-track's predecessor, the Muntz Stereo-Pak 4-track tape cartridge; and 8-track inventor Edward Lear, founder of the Lear Jet corporation, where he expressed the importance of leanness in aviation by saying, "I'd sell my grandmother to save one pound."

    Michael Sigman: Eight-Track Museum Gives Slice of Music History a Place in the Sun Michael Sigman 2011

  • Looking out for their pea green boat from Edward Lear's poem?

    Tattenham Corner 2011

  • Her first novel will be called Other Waters… FOR HIKING AND NATURE"I think no place on Earth can be lovelier than this," said Edward Lear, describing Corfu in 1856.

    Insiders' guide to Greece 2011

  • Keith ChaterNorwich• In his enthusiasm for Edward Lear's limericks, Ian McMillan neglects to say that they are the captions to pictures whose simplicity of line revolutionised cartoon, and heralded the work of Saul Steinberg and James Thurber.

    Lear's forgotten past as an artist 2012

  • Looking out for their pea green boat from Edward Lear's poem?

    Tattenham Corner 2011

  • Ian McMillan's welcome reminder of Edward Lear's imminent bicentenary did not mention that Lear "is perhaps the greatest draughtsman of birds in European culture", in the words of Philip Hofer, of Harvard's Houghton Library There was a lad called Lear, 28 December.

    Lear's forgotten past as an artist 2012

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  • See Lear.

    August 4, 2010