Brilliant alphabet book from the days of Brittania. Printed in Holland in 1899.
Available here
via (the ever entertaining) Chapati Mystery
But then there’s this:
And you wonder if Mrs. Ernest Ames is being tongue and cheek…
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Freddy ‘Mustapha’ Mercury
Check out Queen’s brilliant, hysterical song ‘Mustapha’. I could not be sure, but Freddie Mercury is singing in Arabic, Persian and English, mashing names of prophets with ‘As-salam-alalikum’. The song is part of the Queen’s 1978 album Jazz, and they performed it live regularly.
In live performances, Mercury would often sing the opening vocals of “Mustapha” in place of the complex introduction to “Bohemian Rhapsody“, going from “Allah we’ll pray for you” to “Mama, just killed a man…”. However, sometimes the band performed an almost full version of the song from the Crazy Tour in late 1979 to The Game Tour [...]