Queen La (Tarzan) is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city located deep in the jungles of Africa.
Queen La (Tarzan) first appeared in the second Tarzan novel, The Return of Tarzan (1913), and reappeared in the fifth, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916), the ninth, Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923), and the fourteenth, Tarzan the Invincible (1930). She is also mentioned in the juvenile Tarzan story Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion (1936), the events of which occur between Tarzan and the Golden Lion and Tarzan the Invincible.
by Snapper2001 October 01, 2018
In Slavic mythology, notsnitsa (Belarusian: начніца, romanized: načnica,1 Polish: nocnica, płaczka,234 Bulgarian: горска майка, ношно, romanized: gorska majka, nošno, Serbian: шумска маjка, бабице, ноћнице, romanized: šumska majka, babice, noćnice,5 Croatian: mrake, vidine, Slovene: nočnine, mračnine, Ukrainian: нічниця, romanized: nichnytsia,6 Russian: ночница, romanized: nochnitsa7), often referred in plural, is a nightmare spirit or demon that torments people and especially children at night.
Other names for notsnitsa in East Slavic languages include kriksy, plaksy, plachky, plaksivicy, kriksy-varaksy, kriksy-plaksy, night hag, night maiden.7
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Roroa is a colloquial Kenyan word for ‘talking’, which comes from a mixed Swahili-English pidgin called Sheng.
Johnny Weissmuller’s portrayal of Tarzan, itself a distinctive character in his own right, did not do as much Roroa as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s original character of the same name.
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Deyassification not only refers to taking the colour out of icons like barbie and the Wizard of Oz’s dorothy, it also refers to the disposability and eventual irrelevance of trendy characters like Barney the dinosaur.
According to Karolina Żebrowska on her YouTube channel, Barbie has undergone a drastic amount of Deyassification thanks to the ill conceived decisions of Mattel’s higher ups.
by Snapper2001 August 09, 2024
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.
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