From Alice to Oz -A character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the Cheshire Cat.......
Cheshire is also the name of a county in NW England.....in London there is a pub called the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub.....
Charles Dickens frequented this pub which was popular for its gloomy charm, supposedly where he got a few of his characters for A Tale of Two Cities......
Charles Dickens also had a pet raven named Grip.....the Ravens are the American Football team of Baltimore.......
Baltimore is where Edgar Allen Poe spent the latter part of his life (his poem "The Raven" was the inspiration for naming the football team the Ravens).......
Edgar Allen Poe also wrote a news article about hot air balloons called "The Balloon Hoax" all about a man who lied about flying over the ocean in 3 days in a hot air balloon......
the hot air balloon is what the wizard from The Wizard of Oz flies away in abandoning Dorothy in Oz, but we all know she wasn't really abandoned.
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is in London.
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