Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Rendell novel) is derived from an old children's game, whereby one will ask: "Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me went down to the river to play; Adam and Eve were drowned, so who do you think was saved?" When the other participant replies "Pinch-Me", the questioner proceeds to do so! Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (Rendell novel) Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001) is a psychological thriller novel by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. A handsome con man with numerous aliases, including Jerry Leach and Jock Lewis, manipulates three vulnerable women into handing over large sums of money. After he supposedly
Adam and Eve (Dürer) the Prague Castle, the property of collector Rudolf II. During the Thirty Years' War, armies plundered the castle and the panels came to be owned by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. His daughter, Christina, gave the work to Philip IV of Spain in 1654. Later King Charles III ordered in 1777 that the painting be hidden in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. It arrived at its current home, Madrid's Museo del Prado, in 1827, but was not publicly displayed until 1833. Adam and Eve (Dürer) Adam and Eve is a pair of oil-on-panel paintings by German Renaissance