How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
End of Watch (novel) End of Watch (novel) End of Watch is a crime novel by American writer Stephen King, the third volume of a trilogy focusing on Detective Bill Hodges, following "Mr. Mercedes" and "Finders Keepers". The book was first announced at an event at St. Francis College on April 21, 2015 under the title "The Suicide Prince". On June 10, the new title "End of Watch" was announced. At the 2015 Edgar Awards, while accepting the award for Best Novel for "Mr. Mercedes", King announced that the novel's antagonist, Brady Hartsfield, would be making a return in this book. The novel was