In George Orwell’s Animal Farm Boxer the cart-horse represents the peasantry: uneducated but loyal to the Revolution, and badly treated and betrayed by Stalin.
Max Baer, Jr, – Jethro on The Beverly Hillbillies – is the son of world champion heavyweight boxer Max Baer (who went into acting after he retired from the ring).
Dr. Beverly Crusher’s husband Jack was killed while serving under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard’s command aboard the USS Stargazer, several years before the beginning of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Jack Tone Road is a 30-mile north-south, pretty much arrow-straight road in central California between the town of Lockewood in the north and the city of Ripon in the south. The midpoint of this road is about 10 miles east of Stockton. It is claimed to be “still the longest straight road in the San Joaquin County.”
The Jack Tone Ranch is along this road, near the perpindicular intersection of Jack Tone Road and Eight Mile Road.
In 1849 Jack H. (John Henly) Tone arrived in Stockton from New York City with the Audubon Party.
Raggedy-Ass Road is one of streets in the old section of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Ragged Ass Road Yellowknife NT: cool, I just found it on the map. Nitpick, it looks like it’s Ragged Ass, not Raggedy.
But, how on earth did you know or find that? BTW, I’d like to visit Yellowknife when I drive the Alcan one day.
ETA: just double checked the map and Yellowknife is FAR off the beaten path of the Alcan.
Cameron Corner in the far northwest of NSW is the point where the borders of three different states meet (NSW, SA and QLD). As each of these three states is in a different time zone in summer, the New Year can be celebrated thrice within the space of an hour.
David Cameron, 43 at the time he moved into 10 Downing Street, was the youngest British Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool 198 years earlier.
The Downing Centre in Sydney’s CBD is a court complex that houses both the Local Court and the District Court. It is named for Reg Downing, a former Attorney-General of NSW.
The building itself was formerly Mark Foy’s department store.
The British Prime Minister’s quarters and offices are at 10 Downing Street in London, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s are at 11.
The first court house for the Supreme Court of Canada was a disused stable, formerly part of the Parliament buildings.
Mea culpa for the mis-spelling.
Because I’ve been there.
If you do get there, be sure to have the Arctic Char at Bullock’s Bistro, located in a tumble-down shack on the peninsula in the old part of town, looking out onto Great Slave Lake.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=bullocks+bistro+yellowknife&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari
All the comments in the review section are true, even when contradictory!
Three generations of the Street family served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW: Sir Philip (1925 - 1933); his son Sir Kenneth (1950 - 1972) and his son Sir Laurence (1974 - 1988).
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976.
Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.
Actor Robert Urich died at the young age of 55 of cancer. In S.W.A.T. Urich’s character was Officer Jim Street.
S.W.A.T. is an American action/crime drama series about the adventures of a Special Weapons And Tactics (S.W.A.T.) team operating in an unidentified California city. A spin-off of The Rookies, the series aired on ABC from February 1975 to April 1976.
Like The Rookies, S.W.A.T. was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg.
Actor Robert Urich died at the young age of 55 of cancer. In S.W.A.T. Urich’s character was Officer Jim Street.
Cancer (the Latin for ‘crab’) is the fourth smallest of the Zodiac constellations, with an area of 505.872 degrees[sup]2[/sup].
For an airplane pilot to “crab” an airplane is a technique used when landing in a severe crosswind. The plane’s flight direction is directly in line with the runway, but the plane’s nose is pointed sideways, sometimes severely so. When the plane touches down, the contact of its landing gear with the runway then causes the plane and its nose to pivot so that it is pointing straight down the runway, in the same line as its flight direction.
Diagram: Crosswind landing - Wikipedia
(to see some interesting video examples search YouTube for severe crab landing airplane - interesting!)
An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose or hook nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent.
The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus (‘eagle-like’), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle.
A roman à clef (“novel with a key”) is a novel. Where some of the characters are based on real people. Someone who knows who the characters represent in real life has the “key” to the novel.
There are three common clefs in music: G-clef (treble clef), F-clef (bass clef), and the less
common C-clef.
In SATB choral music the notes for the sopranos and altos are generally written in the treble clef and those for the basses are generally written in the bass clef. The tenors’ notes can be written in either clef.