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Wild Bill ция на запоздавшую новость; шекспировское выражение из комедии «Виндзорские проказницы») W. Shakespeare used the phrase when Queen Anne was alive in “the Merry Wives of Windsor”. Wild Bill – «Дикий Билл», популярный герой американского Дикого Запада James Butler Hickok (1837–1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach driver, then became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas Wild Bill Hickok in 1869 and Nebraska. He fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor, and professional gambler. Between his law-enforcement duties and gambling, which easily overlapped, Hickok was involved in several notable shootouts. He was shot and killed while playing poker in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Wild Bill’s present-day grave site monument. Territory (now South Dakota). William Crichton – Уильям Кричтон, символ веры в справедливость и естественный отбор лидеров; достойный восхищения The butler in James M. Barrie’s “The Admirable Crichton” (1902), he believes in the justice of the social order and the natural selection of leaders. His own abilities make him leader of a group of upper-class people stranded on an island. “The Admirable Crichton” is a 1957 British comedy film based on J. M. Barrie’s stage comedy of the same name. 174