Mowgli: Quick Facts

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Animated scene from The Jungle Book (1967) showing Mowgli reaching for a banana as Baloo the bear bends a tree to help him in a lush jungle setting.

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A Mad Tea Party. Alice meets the March Hare and Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" (1865) by English illustrator and satirical artist Sir John Tenniel.

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Sherlock Holmes explaining to Dr. Watson what he has deduced from the pipe left behind by a visitor (see Notes); engraving from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Yellow Face by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand Magazine, London, 1893.

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