I know an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why she swallowed a fly Perhaps she'll die. I know an old lady who swallowed a spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She ...

Published 22 May 1797. William Pitt, the Prime Minister, is picking the coin-filled pockets of an old lady, personifying the Bank, whose dress is made of £1 notes. She is sitting on a locked ...

Before the city was named Roanoke, it was the town of Big Lick. And before she became the Grand Old Lady on the Hill, she was a bleak structure on a barren hill, on the wrong side of the tracks.