"There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks, in which the name of the island of Nantucket creates often ribald rhymes...
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noted limerick, beginning "There once was a man from Nantucket..". Elin Hilderbrand's novels are set on Nantucket. Nantucket is the setting for the Merry...
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Gene (October 23, 2005). "There Once Was a Man From Nantucket..." The Washington Post. Olson, Bradley (October 18, 2017). "A Comedy Show Thrives by Avoiding...
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File – 1998 single by Beastie Boys rapped in the form of a limerick There once was a man from Nantucket – Opening line to many comic limericks "LIMERICK | meaning...
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Nantucket Nectars, a beverage company Nantucket Corporation, the company that developed the programming language Clipper "There once was a man from Nantucket"...
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Poetry analysis (category Articles with incomplete citations from April 2016)
obscene (possible rhymes that could follow an opening like "There once was a man from Nantucket" are left as an exercise for the reader). Nonetheless, the...
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Deep Space Homer (category Use American English from January 2025)
back handsprings. Homer attempts the same with "There Once Was a Man From Nantucket" but crashes into a wall before he can complete it. Homer watches an...
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Princeton Tiger Magazine (category Use mdy dates from March 2025)
joke. Tiger Magazine also has the first recorded "There once was a man from Nantucket" limerick. A number of its writers and editors later went on to...
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Wings (1990 TV series) (category Nantucket in fiction)
Sandpiper Air on Nantucket Island with his brother Brian. Joe is usually the straight man and the nice guy. He dreamed of becoming a pilot as a child, and became...
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The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. The...
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Clean Comedians (category Use mdy dates from December 2014)
"There Once Was a Man From Nantucket..." The Washington Post. Retrieved December 22, 2014. Jeary, Tony; Kim Dower and J.E. Fishman (2005). Life Is a Series...
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United States lightship LV-117 (redirect from Nantucket Lightship LV117)
LV-117 was a lightvessel of the United States Lighthouse Service. Launched in 1931, she operated as the Nantucket lightship south of Nantucket Shoals...
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written and published in 1838, is the only complete novel by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The...
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Carol Bly (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Agriculture Changing the Bully Who Rules the World (1996) There once was a man from Nantucket, (1950) Beyond the Writer's Workshop: New Ways to Write Creative...
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Essex was an American whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific...
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Charles O'Conor (American politician) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
settled in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died there on May 12, 1884, and was buried at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City. O'Conor was born in New...
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Christopher Reeve (category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
"all over the East, Nova Scotia, and Maine." His favorite ports were Nantucket, Yarmouth, and Christmas Cove in Maine. Reeve began his involvement in...
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contribute. Manning then hung up on the dean. On September 17, 2017, during a public appearance at The Nantucket Project in Massachusetts, Manning said: "I'm...
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October 31 (category Commons link from Wikidata)
unassisted. 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board. 2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying...
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Mary Ellen Pleasant (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
to Nantucket by her father, but she had no memories of life before Nantucket or why she went there. Mrs. Hussey in her shop sold everything from fish...
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Peter Benchley (category Use mdy dates from June 2025)
duty in the Marine Corps, and then became a reporter for The Washington Post. While dining at an inn in Nantucket, Benchley met Winifred "Wendy" Wesson,...
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One Crazy Summer (category Films set in Nantucket)
illustrate a love story for his application. He joins his friends, siblings George and Squid Calamari, to spend the summer on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Martha Summerhayes (category People from Nantucket, Massachusetts)
– May 12, 1926) was an American memoirist. She was a Nantucket, Massachusetts, native who later on in life immigrated to Arizona. A well travelled and...
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George Pollard Jr. (category People from Nantucket, Massachusetts)
was the captain of the whalers Essex and Two Brothers, both of which sank. Following both events, he became a night watchman in his town of Nantucket...
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Anna Mangin (category People from Nantucket, Massachusetts)
laws, was able to free over one hundred Northern-born African-Americans who had been enslaved. It is possible that Annie arrived in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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Thomas Mayhew (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
1682) established the first European settlement on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and adjacent islands in 1642. He is one of the editors of the Bay Psalm...
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Whaling in the United States (category Use mdy dates from December 2020)
area, with a sixth man standing watch at the mast. Once a whale was sighted, whale boats were rowed from the shore, and if the whale was successfully...
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Submerged forest (category Articles with limited geographic scope from August 2019)
in waters over 200 feet deep. A submerged forest was found in Nantucket Sound, off the coast of Massachusetts. In 2012 a submerged bald cypress forest...
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Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts (category Use American English from June 2025)
was the site of an oak grove along the bluffs overlooking Nantucket Sound. Oak Bluffs was the only one of the six towns on the island to be consciously...
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from the jocks, has a "good-and-bad" outburst around him before telling him the truth. Skeet (Jamie Bennett, "There Once Was a Blank from Nantucket")...
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