Cinderella Moon
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. The protagonist is a young woman living in forsaken circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.Roger Lancelyn Green: ''Tales of Ancient Egypt'', Penguin UK, 2011, , chapter "The Land of Egypt" The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his '' Pentamerone'' in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charle ...
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Alexander Zick
Alexander Zick (born 20 December 1845, Koblenz, Germany – 10 November 1907, Berlin, Germany) was a German painter and illustrator. Alexander was the greatgrandson of the painter and architect Januarius Zick, the son of fresco artist Johannes Zick. He was a student of August Wittig and Eduard Bendemann. Numismatic work In his last years in Berlin, Alexander Zick was the designer of 2 German banknotes, the 5 Mark Reichskassenschein 1904, and the 10 Mark Reichskassenschein 1906. Alexander Zick in: German wikipedia, retrieved 6. December 2013. Gallery File:Dragon Slayer, Alexander Zick (1899).jpg, Dragon Slayer (1899) File:Die Gartenlaube (1894) b 297.jpg, The Garden Arbor (1894) File:Hänsel und Gretel2.jpg, Hänsel und Gretel File:Schneewittchen.jpg, Schneewittchen File:Aschenputtel.jpg, Aschenputtel File:Dornröschen.jpg, Dornröschen File:Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot3.jpg, Schneeweisschen und Rosenrot File:Schneewittchen2.jpg, Schneewittchen "Snow White a ...
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