A girl is a young female human.

Girl or The Girl may also refer to:

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The Girl is a 1987 British-Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Franco Nero, Bernice Stegers and Christopher Lee.

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A middle-aged man becomes involved with a much younger girl, leading to a scandal.

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The Girl (1939; 1978) is a novel by Meridel Le Sueur set during Prohibition and chronicling the development of a young woman from a naive small-town girl into a participant in a bank robbery.

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It tells the story of a nameless girl from rural Minnesota who works in a bar in St. Paul. Clara, a fellow waitress working as a prostitute on the side, takes the girl under her wing as she learns the rudimentaries of love and sex, but also of rape, prostitution, abortion, and domestic violence. Along with the bar-owner Belle and the labor organizer Amelia, Clara and the girl watch their unemployed men self-destruct one by one under the grinding conditions of the Depression. Impregnated by her lover Butch, the girl secretly defies his demand that she get an abortion, hoping that the money from a bank robbery will enable them to get married. However, Butch and three other men are shot and killed during the crime, and the girl, dependent on state assistance during her pregnancy, is forced into a relief maternity home where sterilization after delivery is routine. Amelia rescues the girl before she has her baby, but fails to save Clara from state-mandated electric shock treatments that shatter her health and her sanity. The novel ends with the climactic conjunction of three dramatic events: a mass demonstration demanding "Milk and Iron Pills for Clara," Clara's death scene, and the birth of the girl's baby. The novel closes as an intergenerational community of women vow to "let our voice be heard in the whole city" (130). Link text

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The Madcap Laughs is the debut solo album by the English singer-songwriter Syd Barrett. It was recorded after Barrett had left Pink Floyd in April 1968. The album had a chequered recording history, with work beginning in mid-1968, but the bulk of the sessions taking place between April and July 1969, for which five different producers were credited − including Barrett, Peter Jenner (1968 sessions), Malcolm Jones (early-to-mid-1969 sessions), and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Roger Waters (mid-1969 sessions). Among the guest musicians are Willie Wilson from (Gilmour's old band) Jokers Wild and Robert Wyatt of the band Soft Machine.

The Madcap Laughs, released in January 1970 on Harvest in the UK, and on Capitol Records in the US, enjoyed minimal commercial success on release, reaching number 40 on the UK's official albums chart, while failing to hit the US charts. It was re-released in 1974 as part of Syd Barrett (which contained The Madcap Laughs and Barrett). The album was remastered and reissued in 1993, along with Barrett's other albums, Barrett (1970) and Opel (1988), independently and as part of the Crazy Diamond box set. A newly remastered version was released in 2010.

"Golden Hair" (Russian: Золотой волос, tr. Zolotoj volos, lit. "a golden hair") is a Bashkir folk tale collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in 1939 in the children's stories almanac Zolotye Zyorna released by Sverdlovsk Publishing House. It was later released as a part of the The Malachite Casket collection. It was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944.

The story introduces Poloz the Great Snake's daughter.

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This skaz was first published together with "The Twisted Roll" in Zolotye Zyorna (Russian: Золотые зёрна, lit. "golden grains") children's almanac in 1939. It was later released as a part of the The Malachite Casket collection on 28 January 1939. This is one of the few stories that are is based on the Bashkirs folklore (another example being "The Demidov Caftans"). Bazhov was very interested in the Bashkirs' tales, and had some more material of that kind, but decided not to publish it. He wrote: "I, for instance, have some Bashkir folklore in reserve, but I don't put it to use because I feel incompetent in the details of their everyday life". The author disliked inventing details and writing about unfamiliar topics.

The Girl with the Golden Hair was a mini-musical that ABBA created, and performed during each of their 1977 European and Australian concert tour shows. Benny and Björn wanted to offer more than "a run through of their hits and assorted album tracks", and this new path "symbolised the boys' departure from the pop mainstream". Although the songs received a "less-than-tumultuous" reception during the first performances of the mini-musical, three of the tracks ("Thank You for the Music", "I'm a Marionette", and "I Wonder (Departure)" were featured as the final tracks on ABBA: The Album in order to have them immortalised. This was the first time a "programmatic theme" had been given to an ABBA album. A fourth song, "Get on the Carousel", was also written for the musical, but was instead replaced by an up-tempo song called "Hole in Your Soul", which was essentially a working of the former work, with "a substantial part of the melody [being] incorporated into [its] middle eight". However, parts of it have survived due to the song's appearance in ABBA: The Movie.