• Timbuctoo is a series of 25 children's books, written and illustrated by Roger Hargreaves, better known for his Mr. Men and Little Miss series. It was...
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    Timbuctoo is an unincorporated community in Yuba County, California. It lies northwest of Smartsville, at an elevation of 397 feet (121 m). Timbuctoo...
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    Timbuctoo, New York, was a mid-19th century farming community of African-American homesteaders in the remote town of North Elba, New York. It was located...
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  • French-Mauritanian film Timbuctoo, an 1829 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray Timbuctoo (novel), a 2012 novel by Tahir Shah Timbuctoo, a series of children...
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  • children's books. He created the Mr. Men series, Little Miss series and Timbuctoo series, intended for young readers. The simple and humorous stories, with...
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  • Timbuctoo is a 1933 British comedy film, co-directed by Walter Summers and Arthur B. Woods for British International Pictures, and starring Henry Kendall...
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    recent years. Major English-language works have employed the spelling 'Timbuctoo', and this is considered the correct English form by scholars; 'Timbuctou'...
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  • Timbuctoo is the fictional account of the illiterate American sailor Robert Adams' true life journey to Timbuktu, and his arrival in Regency London. The...
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    Besides making substantial donations of both land and money to create Timbuctoo, an African-American community in North Elba, New York, he was involved...
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    After his return to England, de Neumann became known as "The Man from Timbuctoo". In March 1942 U-68 sank a Welsh cargo steamship, SS Allende, off the...
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  • characters) was published. A similar series of animal characters known as Timbuctoo started in 1978. After Hargreaves's death in 1988, his son Adam Hargreaves...
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    Timbuctoo is an unincorporated community in Westampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Located along the Rancocas Creek, Timbuctoo was settled...
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    grandmother. In the introduction to his Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, Caillié described how as a teenager he had been fascinated by books on...
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    Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson) Premier Quartette 4228 Timbuctoo Al Bernard 4229 4230 Good-Bye – Lady Billy Spencer & James 4231 Caresses...
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    traveling via the New York Adirondacks, sometimes via Black communities like Timbuctoo, New York, entered Canada via Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence River, or...
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    a detailed description in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo: The town of Jenné is about two miles and half in circumference; it is...
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    Félix (1896). Timbuctoo the mysterious. New York, Longmans, Green and Co. Henrik Clarke, John. “The University of Sankore at Timbuctoo: A Neglected Achievement...
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    (published 1826; dated 1827 on title page; written with Charles Tennyson) "Timbuctoo" (for which he won chancellor's gold medal and was printed in Prolusiones...
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  • Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. In Tahir Shah's 2012 historical novel Timbuctoo, based on the 1816 memoir The Narrative of Robert Adams, C. Hoare & Co...
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    in The Champion. Clarke commented that the book "might have emerged in Timbuctoo." Keats's publishers, Charles and James Ollier, felt ashamed of it. Keats...
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    Retrieved 8 November 2016. El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeny (1820). An account of Timbuctoo and Housa: Territories in the interior of Africa. pp. 222–. ISBN 9781613106907...
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    to poor black men, in so remote a location that Brown later called it Timbuctoo, and decided to move his family there to establish a farm where he could...
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    the institution of marriage and hypocrisy. One of his earliest works, "Timbuctoo" (1829), contains a burlesque upon the subject set for the Cambridge Chancellor's...
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    A plan of Timbuctoo around 1896, showing the house where Laing recuperated, between the Djinguereber and Sidi Yahya mosques...
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    JSTOR 3336477. Caillié, René (1830), Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824–1828...
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    Horstville Oak Valley Oregon House Rackerby Sicard Flat Strawberry Valley Timbuctoo Waldo Junction Woodleaf Condemned Bar Plumas Landing Round Tent The population...
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  • 800 camels. Caillié gives this description of Araouane: El-Arawan like Timbuctoo possesses no resources of its own. It is the entrepot of the salt of Toudeyni...
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  • library and the house. One day, he meets a man from an unknown land called "Timbuctoo", another of Narayan's creations, the land being similar to the US. The...
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    This parcel later became known as the "Freed Slave Utopian Experiment," Timbuctoo. Shortly before his execution in 1859, John Brown asked to be buried on...
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    Host 52 episodes 1998 The Ben Elton Show Himself 8 episodes 1998–2000 Timbuctoo Narrator & all characters except Giant Squeak CITV 26 episodes 2000 Cinderella...
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