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unusual facts about ''Hoss''



1977 NASCAR Winston Cup Series

Donnie Allison fought for the lead as it changed 49 times on a brutally hot day; he fell ill after drinking a bottle of soda and needed a relief driver; Darrell Waltrip arrived in the Hoss Ellington pit and drove the final 40 laps, beating Cale Yarborough and Skip Manning for the win, the final time in NASCAR history a relief driver got the win.

Auschwitz Trial

The trial of camp commandant Höss which took place at the Supreme Court of Poland in Warsaw throughout March 1947 was the actual first ever Auschwitz trial, followed by the trials in Kraków several months later.

Bid Euchre

The names Pfeffer, Hasenpfeffer, and Double Hasenpfeffer (also known as Hoss or Pepper), come from "Hasenpfeffer", a German dish of marinated and stewed trimmings of hare.

DeKalb, Texas

De Kalb was the birthplace of Bonanza star Dan Blocker, who played the character "Hoss Cartwright" on the popular NBC television Western.

Dog Meat Records

It released music from such artists as Hoss, The Philisteins, Powder Monkeys, Splatterheads and others, including some non-Australian musical acts.

Dope Body

2011 was an especially productive year for Dope Body, with their debut full length Nupping coming out on Hoss Records, followed by a split record with Detroit's Child Bite.

Fred Lorenzen

In 1972, he hooked up with Hoss Ellington driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, to little success.

Get down

Use of the term by white Americans since the middle-20th century, though, is credited to the influence of a Caucasian disc jockey, Bill "Hoss" Allen, who used it on his nightly soul music shows on Nashville, Tennessee station WLAC.

Matthew James Higgins

Thackeray dedicated to him his novel The Adventures of Philip, and one of his ballads, Jacob Omnium's Hoss, deals with an incident in Higgins's career.

Michel Georges Sassine

In the post-Taif period Sassine was appointed Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Labor in both the 1990-1992 governments of Salim al-Hoss, and Omar Karami.

Rattlesnake Gunfight

The band continued to gain attention from the skate punk community when Lagwagon vocalist and main songwriter Joey Cape sang on the band's version of Sick from Lagwagon's 1995 album Hoss.

The Heart, She Holler

"Meemaw" Virginia Dare (Judith Anna Roberts) The matriarch of Heartshe Holler, and the bearer of the curse of Heartshe, being unable to die – though Boss Hoss reveals at the end of Season 1 that the real secret curse is that she can die, through unspecified means, and if she does it will result in the destruction of Heartshe Holler.

"Boss" Hoss Heartshe (Jonathan Hadary) – The leader and owner of the town, who died at the beginning of the series after working tirelessly on his extensive video will.


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