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unusual facts about Ballin' Jack


Ballin' Jack

Rabb and Hammon were inspired by the success of their childhood friend, Jimi Hendrix.


Ardeth G. Kapp

During her tenure, Kapp had five different counselors: including Elaine L. Jack, Janette C. Hales and Patricia T. Holland.

Bossalinie

Yukmouth's remake of "Still Ballin" (original created earlier, remix can also be found on Better Dayz) on his 1999 album Thugged Out - The Albulation contains the lyrics : "Cats fakin ya mak...waitin to jack..soon as the day it will pass...aim an infrared at the head of a rapper trying to make a living off a dead man...".

Bruno Bettelheim

Zipes, Jack: "On the Use and Abuse of Folk and Fairy Tales with Children: Bruno Bettelheim's Moralistic Magic Wand", in Zipes, Jack: Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1979.

Donald Bradman's batting technique

Fingelton, Jack (1949): Brightly Fades the Don, 1985 Pavilion Library reprint.

Four flush

The 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack the phrase "a four-flusher" is used to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.

Hickory, Oklahoma

Hickory was the birthplace and childhood home of Zack Mosley, the creator of the comic strip The Adventures of Smilin' Jack, an adventurous aviator, inspired by Mosley witnessing an early plane crash in Hickory.

Homer A. Jack

In the late 1980s, Jack retired from official positions and moved to Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he authored two books and continued to be active in various peace and human rights organizations.

Jim Roper

Roper heard about the first race at a three-quarter mile dirt track in Charlotte, NC by reading a note about it in Zack Mosley's The Adventures of Smilin' Jack comic strip in his local newspaper.

Madame d'Aulnoy

Zipes, Jack When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, ISBN 0-415-92151-1

Mogens Ballin

In May 1892, Ballin went to Saint-Nolff with Verkade, producing a number of small landscapes and many drawings.

Mr. Jack

Apparently at Hearst's request, he shifted his characters from bears to tigers, the emblem of Tammany Hall, creating The Little Tigers.

Richard C. Jack

Ice Pick, Tandem, Panico Productions (studio owned by Julian Doyle - Director of Photography for Brazil, Holy Grail, and other Gilliam-related projects), Blue Sunflower Studios, Uli Meyer Animation, Passion Pictures

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

"Smilin' Jack" was influential in the expansion of NASCAR racing.

Thug Life: Volume 1

Among the notable tracks on the album are "Bury Me a G," "Cradle to the Grave," "Pour Out a Little Liquor" (which also appears in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Above the Rim), "How Long Will They Mourn Me?" and "Str8 Ballin'."


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