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6 unusual facts about "straw" hat


Chek Jawa

The seven-storey viewing tower called the Jejawi tower allows visitors to view the tree canopy and observe birdlife such as the Collared Kingfisher and Straw-headed Bulbul.

George Meyer-Darcis

Georges Meyer-Darcis was the son of a world famous straw goods manufacturer (Sogin & Meyer).

Lake Sylvester System

Some 2262 km2 of the lake system and its surrounds has been identified as a by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it has supported breeding colonies of the Letter-winged Kites and over 1% of the world populations of Plumed Whistling-Ducks, Grey Teals, Hardheads, Little Black Cormorants, Australian Pelicans, Straw-necked Ibises, Eurasian Coots, Oriental Plovers, Gull-billed Terns and Flock Bronzewings.

North Victorian Wetlands

They sometimes support over 1% of the world populations of Freckled Ducks, Straw-necked Ibises, Black-fronted Dotterels, Banded Stilts and Red-necked Avocets.

Petrine Archer-Straw

Her most recent degrees came from the Courtauld Institute at the University of London, where she earned an M.A. in Art History and Ph. D (Art History Modern, Negrophilia 1994-95).

Reedy Lake

In spring Straw-necked Ibis, Australian White Ibis and Royal Spoonbills form large breeding colonies, sometimes of up to 10,000-20,000 birds.


Baccalaureate School for Global Education

She has appeared in major roles at the Zurich Opera and sang the role of La Modista in the New York premiere of Nino Rota's The Straw Hat.

Bouchon

According to the dictionary Le petit Robert, this name derives from the 16th century expression for a bunch of twisted straw.

Dave Foster

According to Charles R. Cross in his 2001 Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, Cobain's final straw with Foster came after Foster was arrested for assaulting the son of the mayor of Cosmopolis, Washington, which landed him in jail for two weeks, and caused him to have his driver's license revoked, and being fined thousands of dollars in the victim's medical expenses.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Bob's infatuation with Elvira also infuriates his love interest Patty who, with the help of several members of the school board and PTA sabotage Elvira's good name and her attempts to open a late night film fest using Bob's theater, the last straw breaking when in a Flashdance scene, she is covered in tar instead of a bucket of water and feathered by Patty, humiliating her.

Fady Joudah

In 2012, Joudah published Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems, a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan translated from Arabic, which won the 2013 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Gradan

Another method, almost the same, used in Uist was when the grain end of the sheaf was put into the flame of the fire, and when the chaff and ends of the straw were well alight, the sheaf is held over a clean-swept part of the hearth, or over some vessel, when the grain drops off.

Haste to the Wedding

It was a free adaptation of Eugène Marin Labiche's Un chapeau de paille d'Italie ("The Italian Straw Hat").

Haymarket, London

This practise continued to the reign of William III, by this time, carts carrying hay and straw were allowed to stand in the street and sell free of tolls.

Henry Bradford Nason

His father, Elias Nason (born at Walpole, Massachusetts, in 1768; died at Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1853), was a manufacturer of straw and cotton goods, a merchant, and served his town, Foxborough, as justice of the peace and as representative in the Massachusetts General Court.

Hypsopygia glaucinalis

They have been found in some fairly unusual locations, such as Buteo nests, straw and thatching, and discarded paper.

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze

Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (literally translated as The Florentine Straw Hat but usually titled in English language productions as The Italian Straw Hat) is an opera by Nino Rota to an Italian-language libretto by the composer and Ernesta Rota, based on the play Le chapeau de paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche and Marc Michel.

Jim Kacian

Renga-Daddy: A Kasen Renga between Basho, Boncho, Kyorai and Shiho in the manner of Tristan Tzara based on "The First Winter Rain" from The Monkey's Straw Raincoat in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Basho's Death; Frogpond XIX:1 ISSN.

Joe Charboneau

Long before Dennis Rodman came on the scene, Joe had a tendency to dye his hair unnatural colors, as well as open beer bottles with his eye socket and drink beer with a straw through his nose.

Joseph Marie Jacquard

British economist Sir John Bowring met Jacquard, who told Bowring that at one time he had been a maker of straw hats.

Junior Bonner

He accepted the project, concerned with being typed as a director of violent action (at the time, The Wild Bunch was his most renowned film and Straw Dogs was in preparation to be released to theaters).

Kaydeross Railroad

These included the paper mills and bag factory of "Paper Bag King" George West, the famous Ballston Scythe & Axe Works of Isaiah Blood, the paper box mill of the National Folding Paper Box Company, and the straw paper mill of Chauncey Kilmer (later the Cottrell Paper Company).

Mehmed Spaho

This mission was also received by the Minister of War, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, to whom Spaho explained the Memorandum of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which it was explained that the requests made on requisition of cattle, hay, straw, wool and etc. were undue.

Miriam Wolfe

Cole, puzzled at first when he saw a young girl in a straw hat and Buster Brown haircut, hired her as soon as he heard the spine-chilling, cackling laugh which became her trademark.

Mount Barker, Western Australia

St Werburghs Chapel was built in 1872 with walls made from chopped straw and clay and woodwork formed from local jarrah.

Pons Sublicius

The pontiffs and the magistrates were carrying straw effigies of bound men, also called Argei, which the Vestals threw into the Tiber.

Poppy juice

Poppy tea, a water extraction of dried opium poppy seeds, fruits, or straw

Rose Nylund

It was stated that she was valedictorian in her high school graduation (fourth out of nineteen, and was chosen valedictorian because she drew the longest straw), she attended St. Paul Business School, Rockport Community College, and St. Gustaf University, but also that she had never graduated from high school (due to a case of mono).

Ryuhoku, Kumamoto

The town's output is mainly agricultural, with the major crops being nashi pears, strawberries, glutinous rice, and igusa straw for making tatami mats.

Sabal causiarum

As its common and scientific names suggest, its leaves are used in the manufacture of "straw" hats.

Saxon Siberia

Apart from a few otherwise very bleak places (such as Jöhstadt, Satzungen, Kuhnheyde, Neudorf, Joh. Georgenstadt, Wiesenthal etc.) where potatoes, cabbages, turnips and oats are grown (albeit the latter hardly ripens but is at least used to produce the necessary straw for cattle), not a single potato grows, let alone a kernel of corn.

Sheila Keith

Her stage career took her from repertory theatre at the Bristol Old Vic and Pitlochry, to West End appearances including Noël Coward's Present Laughter, Mame with Ginger Rogers, An Italian Straw Hat, Anyone For Denis?, and Deathtrap.

Skirt

A straw-woven skirt dating to 3,900 B.C. was discovered in Armenia at the Areni-1 cave complex.

Straw dog

The band Something Corporate has a song titled "Straw Dog" on their 2002 album Leaving Through the Window.

Professor John N. Gray's book of trenchant essays is titled Straw Dogs (John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Granta Books 2002, ISBN 1-86207-512-3)

Strohfiddel

Xylophone, based on the German term strohfiedel, referring to the straw bundles (stroh) which supported the keys.

Surakiart Sathirathai

In July 2006 a straw poll was held among the UNSG candidates and Dr. Surakiat placed third, behind Ban Ki Moon from South Korea and Shashi Tharoor from India.

Syd Straw

A frequent backup singer and contributor to duets with other musicians, Straw has also maintained an intermittent acting career, appearing on the television shows The Adventures of Pete & Pete and Tales of the City.

The daughter of actor Jack Straw (The Pajama Game), she began her career singing backup for Pat Benatar, then took her distinct voice to the indie/alternative scene and joined the Golden Palominos (also including Michael Stipe, Matthew Sweet, and Anton Fier).

The Uncle Al Show

In the summer of 1949, then-General Manager Mort Watters asked Lewis (hired on two months earlier as WCPO's first art director) to host an hour-long filler show called Al's Corner Drugstore, in which Lewis, dressed in a soda jerk's uniform, would take phone-in requests for songs which he would play on his accordion, which would later become one of his many trademarks along with his straw boater hat.

The Windblown Hare

The Three Pigs, reading their own story in a book of fairy tales, decide to circumvent the story by selling both the straw house and the wooden house before the Wolf can blow them down.

Thomas de la Rue

In 1816 he left Guernsey for London where he initially established a business making straw hats.

Threskiornis

The Straw-necked Ibis differs from the other species in having dark upperparts, and is some times placed in the separate genus Carphibis (Jameson, 1835) as Carphibis spinicollis.

Turkey in the Straw

In the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius J. Reilly bemoans America's love of "Turkey in the Straw", complaining that "grimy undergraduates and grammar school children are always chanting it like sorcerers!"

Wagyu

Designed to mimic the diet that Japanese cattle were receiving, Wagyu cattle in the United States are fed a mixture of corn, alfalfa, barley and wheat straw.

Wreath money

In some European cultures, notably Germany, a virgin bride was entitled to wear a wreath of myrtle flowers; a non-virgin bride, on the other hand, had to wear a wreath made of straw.

Yefim Kopelyan

He performed the bright characteristic roles in the films The Elusive Avengers, Intervention, Eternal call, Straw cap, read author's text in the television series Seventeen Moments of Spring.


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Ahmad Belal

After 5 years of absence Belal was called up for the Nile Basin Tournament held in Egypt in January 2011, he participated in the first two group matches but failed to score and lost his starting line-up place, however he returned at the semi-finals against Kenya scoring a hat-trick and giving an awe inspiring performance that helped Egypt get a 5-1 victory.

Albuquerque Isotopes

In the NBC series The Voice, music producer Adam Blackstone wore an Albuquerque Isotopes hat during Season One Battle Rounds preparations.

Alex Dawson

Dawson was the last player to score a hat trick in an FA Cup semi-final, back in 1958 when Manchester United beat Fulham 5–3 in a replay at Highbury.

Barsaat Ki Ek Raat

Next day, while crossing a bridge, Kaaliram and his thugs meet a mysterious stranger (Amitabh Bachchan) on a mule, whose face is completely covered in a Sombrero-type hat popular in that region.

Baton Rouge Capitals

Capitals' biggest win came in a 5-1 home victory over Atlanta Blackhawks, defender Joe Tait scoring the club's only hat-trick of the season.

Beauty for Sale

When she leaves, she discovers her hat has been chewed up by Mrs. Smallwood's Pekingese.

Beaver hat

Emperor Norton I wore a beaver hat decorated with a peacock feather and rosette.

Bee Cave, Texas

Tie-in literature for the class-based multiplayer shooter video game Team Fortress 2 lists the Engineer, an amiable Texan in a hard hat and with a penchant for building murderous contraptions, as a native of Bee Cave.

Bobble

Bobble hat, a knit beanie hat with a "bobble" (pom pom) at the top

Dave Goelz

He also performed the puppetry for various characters, including Sir Didymus and Wiseman's Hat (both voiced by David Shaughnessy) in Labyrinth.

Dick Solomon

At the end of the episode, Bug's father (portrayed by David DeLuise's father Dom DeLuise) walks into Dick's office wearing a fedora flanked by two brutes (portrayed by DeLuise' real-life sons Michael and Peter) who seem to have a connection to the mob.

E.I.N.S.

The sentence "Wer keine Angst vor dem Teufel hat, braucht auch keinen Gott" (Who doesn't fear the devil, doesn't need a god) comes from the novel "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco, 1980).

Ellis Whately

In the Eton v Harrow match of 1900 at Lord's, he took three Harrow wickets in the first innings and five in the second, including a hat-trick.

Federfechter

In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat or lance, but the coat of arms accorded to the brotherhood by Rudolf II displays two arms each holding a quill (schreibfeder), inducing the Grimms to speculate that the brotherhood may merely have originated as the fencing guild of the professional scribes.

Fotdella

The fotdella was an instrument invented and constructed by Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller, an American one-man band musician, who needed an accompaniment instrument beyond the usual high-hat (foot-operated cymbal) or bass drum favored by street musicians.

Freddie Bunce

After missing the first three games of the following season, Bunce scored his first career hat-trick, in a 6–1 win over Brentford at Vicarage Road on 30 August 1960.

Hanswurst

Stranitzky's Hanswurst wore the garb of a peasant from Salzburg, with a wide-brimmed hat on.

Hard Hat Area

Hard Hat Area is the eighth studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 1993 through Polydor Records (Japan) and Fred Bloggs Music (United Kingdom), and in 1994 through Restless Records (United States); a remastered edition with expanded liner notes was reissued on May 15, 2012 through MoonJune Records.

Jazz at the Hi-Hat

# "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) - 5:00 additional track on CD release

Joanna Jeffrees

Joanna Jeffrees has recently filmed the role of the Nursemaid in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher- The murder in Angel lane', alongside Olivia Colman and Paddy Considine, directed by Christopher Menaul for Hat Trick Productions and ITV.

Johan Franzén

That was the Wings' first playoff hat trick since Darren McCarty did it six years prior (18 May 2002) — also against the Avalanche — in 2002.

Johannes Mutters

The Uruguayans disputed the involvement of a Dutch referee, and, consequently, Marcel Slawick was drawn from a hat.

Jon Lormer

In 1959 he appeared in Lawman as Harry Tate a newspaper editor, in "The Big Hat".

Kettle hat

When helmets reappeared in World War I, the kettle hat made its comeback as the British and U.S. Brodie helmet (often called tin hat), as well as the French Adrian helmet.

Last Time in New York

He is also ashamed to wear a Packers jersey and a Cheesehead hat.

Ludwig Quidde

Das hat im Grunde genommen schon Kant vorausgesehen, der die Schaffung eines "ewigen Friedens" nicht etwa von einer Hebung der Moral erwartete, sondern vom Kriege, der so unerträglich werden würde, dass die Menschheit sich genötigt sehen würde, den Frieden zu sichern.

Marguerite Henry

Robert Lougheed; also published as Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Martin Kamburov

Kamburov had an excellent start to the season, netting 10 goals in just 6 games, including a spectacular hat-trick in Loko Sofia's away game against Levski Sofia on April 11, 2009 to help the team from the Nadezhda district to secure a historic 3:0 win.

Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar

During the same year, with the Ljudmila Stratimirović Hat Theater, the band had a successful tour of Slovenia, and on Spring of the following year, the band performed in Zagreb and Ljubljana on the Druga Godba festival.

Nim Li Punit

Nim Li Punit is sometimes known as Big Hat or Top Hat; the name is Kekchi Maya language for "Big Hat", referring to the large elaborate head-dress on a stela sculpture found on site depicting one of the site's ancient kings.

Paris By Night 101

17. Hát Với Chú Ve Con (Thanh Tùng) - Minh Tuyết

Paul W. Bryant Museum

Among the exhibits at the museum are a Waterford Crystal houndstooth hat which commemorates the Coach's head-wear and the Daniel Moore painting used to create the 32-cent U.S. postage stamp which celebrated the life of Bryant.

Peruvian Flamenco

In Peruvian Flamenco men normally wear black trousers, black shirt, a red belt and a Fedora hat.

Rebecca Pawel

She has also mentioned several other influences specific to the "Tejada" series, such as Delano Ames' The Man in the Tricorn Hat, and Carmen Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás (aka The Back Room).

Sainshand

The restored Buddhist monastery Khamariin Khiid (Khamar) is 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city, and Sainshand itself houses a museum dedicated to the nineteenth century monastic and literary figure Danzanravjaa, a prominent leader of the Nyingma (Red Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Schöner Náci

He walked around the Old Town and in particular the stretch from Michael's Gate to the river, in top hat and tails, greeting women with the words, “I kiss your hand” in German, Hungarian and Slovak.

Sharaya J

Sharaya later went on to work with other top choreographers, Laurieann Gibson, Tanisha Scott, Fatima Robinson, Hi-Hat, and Jamaica Craft (formerly one-third of The Goldmind's act So Def).

Shawn Drover

As opposed to many drummers, who cross over their sticks to play the hi-hat with their right hand and snare with their left hand, Shawn instead keeps time with his left hand, keeps a ride cymbal on the left side of his set, and relegates his right hand for snare drum hits (similar to Gene Hoglan and Steven Sweet).

Somen Tchoyi

In a feat revered as 'Tchoyi Story 3' by Baggies fans (referencing the film Toy Story 3) he scored a hat-trick against Newcastle United at St. James' Park on the last day of the 2010–11 season, rescuing a point after being down 3–0 early into the second half.

Spiv

A typical spiv has been described as having: A duck's arse haircut, Clark Gable moustache, rakish trilby hat, drape-shape jacket,, and loud garish tie ... which all represented a deliberate snook cocked at wartime austerity.

St Mary's Church, Walberton

The white slab shows Cook crushed under a fallen tree, watched by a laughing skeleton to the left, a hat-wearing man (who is holding an axe) and Father Time (carrying his traditional scythe and hourglass) to the right, and a company of trumpet-playing angels above.

Sweet Auburn

Originally called the Top Hat Club when it opened in 1938, the club hosted local talent and national acts such as B.B. King, the Four Tops, the Tams and Atlanta's own Gladys Knight.

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat is an animated musical television film and crossover starring Dr. Seuss' famous character,The Cat in the Hat and antagonized by The Grinch from How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

Travis Dodd

On 23 May 2007, Dodd was the first Australian player to score a hat-trick in the Asian Champions League, scoring all three in a 3–0 win against Đồng Tâm Long An.

Trésor Kandol

On 18 November 2006, Kandol scored an injury time winner against Rochdale at Underhill to complete his hat-trick that also saw Barnet win their third consecutive league game.

Uncle Stonehill's Hat

Uncle Stonehill's Hat is a children's album by Randy Stonehill recorded in 2001 and produced by Terry Scott Taylor.

Warpcon

signed first-edition or pre-publication books, slots to appear as drawn by John Kovalic in a Steve Jackson Games card game or in Dork Tower, rare collectible cards, Jayne Cobb's hat (as worn by Adam Baldwin from the TV show Firefly), and even the first ever My Little Cthulhu toy and more are among the things sold in auctions.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).