Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world.
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10 Facts About Humpty Dumpty
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Humpty Dumpty is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg, though he is not explicitly described as such.
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Humpty Dumpty was popularized in the United States on Broadway by actor George L Fox in the pantomime musical Humpty Dumpty.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horsesAnd all the King's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted as humpbacked in Tudor histories and particularly in Shakespeare's play, and who was defeated, despite his armies, at Bosworth Field in 1485.
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Professor David Daube suggested in The Oxford Magazine of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a "tortoise" siege engine, an armored frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary-held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War.
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Humpty Dumpty has become a highly popular nursery rhyme character.
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Humpty Dumpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a sequel to Alice in Wonderland from six years prior.
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Alice remarks that Humpty Dumpty is "exactly like an egg, " which Humpty Dumpty finds to be "very provoking" in the looking-glass world.
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Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics.
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