Begging
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| - | '''Begging''' is to entreat earnestly, implore, or supplicate. It often occurs for the purpose of securing a material benefit, generally for a gift, donation or charitable donation. When done in the context of a public place, it is known as "panhandling", perhaps because the hand and arm are extended like the handle of a cooking implement, and not infrequently, a kitchen implement such as a pot or cup may be used. | + | '''Begging''' is to entreat earnestly, implore, or supplicate. It often occurs for the purpose of securing a material benefit, generally for a gift, donation or charitable donation. When done in the context of a public place, it is known as "[[panhandling]]", perhaps because the hand and arm are extended like the handle of a cooking implement, and not infrequently, a kitchen implement such as a pot or cup may be used. |
| ==Notable beggars== | ==Notable beggars== | ||
| * [[Bampfylde Moore Carew]], self styled King of the Beggars | * [[Bampfylde Moore Carew]], self styled King of the Beggars | ||
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| * [[Mendicant Orders]] | * [[Mendicant Orders]] | ||
| * [[Poor law]] | * [[Poor law]] | ||
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| + | *[[Alice Liddell as a beggar-maid]] (1858), a photo by Lewis Carroll | ||
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Begging is to entreat earnestly, implore, or supplicate. It often occurs for the purpose of securing a material benefit, generally for a gift, donation or charitable donation. When done in the context of a public place, it is known as "panhandling", perhaps because the hand and arm are extended like the handle of a cooking implement, and not infrequently, a kitchen implement such as a pot or cup may be used.
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Notable beggars
- Bampfylde Moore Carew, self styled King of the Beggars
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Gautama Buddha,the founder of Buddhism accepted alms from people to survive
- Gavroche Thenardier in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
- Lazarus
- Nicholas Jennings in Thomas Harman's Caveat for Common Cursitors
- Ryan Larkin
- Shabkar Tibetan itinerant monk
- So Chan, Chinese folk hero of Drunken Fist
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See also
- Aggressive panhandling
- Alms
- Begging letter
- Belisarius
- Busking
- Fundraising
- Internet begging
- Mendicant Orders
- Poor law
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In art
- Alice Liddell as a beggar-maid (1858), a photo by Lewis Carroll
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