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100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park

Los Carpinteros created Free Basket, which is located near the park's private parking area.

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

In another Three Stooges short, We Want Our Mummy (1939), as Moe and Larry are looking for the lost sarcophagus of King Rootin Tootin, Curly claims that he found “A tisket, a tasket—that green and yellow basket.”

Aeschynanthus speciosus

Aeschynanthus speciosus, also known as the Basket plant, is a species of flowering plant in the family Gesneriaceae.

Ajit J. Khubani

He has been featured on many talk shows like The View, Chelsea Lately, Dr. Phil, The Wendy Williams Show, The Today Show and CBS Early Show among others, displaying and demoing his products like the PedEgg, Pasta Boat, Chef Basket, and BottleTop.

Avadana

While including accounts from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka ("Basket of Discipline"), this literature also includes a large number of Sanskrit collections, of which the chief are the Mahāsaṅghika's Mahāvastu ("Great Book"), and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadanasataka (Century of Legends) and Divyavadana (The Heavenly Legend).

BAC Mirande

Basket Astarac Mirande was a French women's basketball club from Mirande.

Basket Creek Cemetery

Basket Creek Cemetery' is a historic cemetery in Douglasville, Georgia.

Basket Lattes

Basket Lattes Montpellier Agglomération (BLMA) is a French women's basketball club from Lattes, Montpellier Agglomération.

Boban Janković

Janković scored a basket on a drive to the hoop while being guarded by Panathinaikos player Fragiskos Alvertis.

Boeda Strand

Boeda Strand (June 22, 1834 - June 22, 1928) was the "Head Basket Weaver" of the Snohomish tribe.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Charmanwati

The basket floated from the river Aswa to the river Charmanwati, and from the Charmanwati it passed to the Yamuna, and so on to the Ganges (3:306) and reached the city called Champapuri the capital of Anga Kingdom.

Chiswick Eyot

Chiswick Eyot was used during the industrial revolution mostly for the growing of grass and osiers (basket willows, used for basketry, furniture, cart-making, as well as cattle fodder).

Christmas Price Index

The Christmas Price Index chose the items in the popular Christmas carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as its market basket: a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers.

Dardanelles and Freel Roadless Areas

Also growing is the toxic dogbane, or Indian hemp, used by Native Americans in basket-weaving and for bowstrings.

David Aliu

Aliu was the first person to score a basket at the ECHO Arena in Liverpool.

Dunk

Slam dunk, type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim

Eames House

As for the interior design, the Eameses' collection includes, among others, Isamu Noguchi floor lamps, Japanese kokeshi dolls, Chinese lacquered pillows, a Native American basket full of woven grass stems.

Eduard Spelterini

Subsequently, Spelterini moved to the United Kingdom, where he performed together with an American aerial acrobat going by the name of Leona Dare who would perform acrobatic acts suspended under the basket of Spelterini's balloon during the flights.

Franjo Arapović

One of Arapović's most well-known moments was during the first half of the gold medal game between Croatia and the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics, when Arapović caught a pass from Toni Kukoč while driving toward the basket and made a running two-handed slam dunk to give Croatia a 25-23 lead over the Dream Team.

Fries with That?

For example, Pattie uses a unique studying technique, which involves shooting a piece of paper into a makeshift basket in order to learn specific historical events such as July 1, 1867 (Canadian Confederation).

George James Hopkins

On the 1922 morning that Taylor's body was found, Charles Eyton instructed Hopkins to remove a basket of documents from the murder scene, and Hopkins obeyed.

Gersemia rubiformis

Juvenile basket stars (Gorgonocephalus eucnemis) are often found clinging to the coral and hiding in the interstices.

Henri Fantin-Latour

The painting "A basket of roses" was used as a cover of New Order's album "Power, Corruption & Lies" in 1983.

Historical immigration to Great Britain

Mostly speakers of a dialect of the Romani language (a language very similar to Sanskrit and other Indic languages) and initially mainly travellers largely working as Hawkers, Basket Weavers; also as Ostlers, Jockeys and many other occupations working with horses.

I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket

"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

In a basket

The Mill Inn located Withington is locally credited with creating the "chicken in a basket" dish.

Julia Parker

Julia F. Parker (born 1928), Pomo-Miwok basket weaver from California

Luca Banchi

He was promoted to head coach of the Basket Livorno in Serie A2 .

Makah people

Cedar roots were used in basket making, while canoes were carved from whole trees to hunt seals, gray whales and humpback whales.

Marcello Dell'Utri

On May 15, 2007, the Appeal Court in Milan sentenced Dell'Utri and Mafia boss Vincenzo Virga to two years each for attempted extortion of Trapani Basket Ball team by Publitalia, the Fininvest concessionaire.

Mark Dodgson

With colleagues David Gann and Ammon Salter at Imperial College London, he identified the emerging role of ‘innovation technology’ – a basket of technologies used to increase the speed and efficiency of innovation.

Milwaukee Does

Joanne Smith scored the league's first basket on a perimeter jump shot and an assist from Brenda Dennis, with the game ball presumably earning a place of honor in the Smithsonian Institution, as surmised by the Chicago Tribune.

Pāli Canon

The second category is the Sutta Pitaka (literally "basket of threads", or of "the well spoken"; Sanskrit: Sutra Pitaka, following the former meaning) which consists primarily of accounts of the Buddha's teachings.

Paris-Levallois Basket

It was founded in 2007 with the merger of Paris Basket Racing, from the city of Paris, and Levallois Sporting Club Basket, from the nearby commune of Levallois-Perret.

Pollen basket

Karl von Frisch and other bee researchers have observed that individual honey bees vary in their efficiency in packing pollen into the pollen basket; some are more efficient, others less.

Pottenstein, Bavaria

According to legend, while she was being threatened, the eggs and lard in her basket were transformed into beautiful roses — a local adaptation of the famous Miracle of the roses.

SAV Vacallo Basket

SAV Vacallo Basket is a professional basketball club based in Vacallo, Switzerland.

Scafati Basket

Scafati Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Harem Scafati, is an Italian basketball club from the town of Scafati, Campania.

Shibden Hall

The hall has a variety of restored workshops, including a brewery, a basket-weaving shop, a tannery, a stable and an extensive collection of horse-drawn carriages.

Societa Veroli Basket

Societa Veroli Basket, also known for sponsorship reasons as Prima Veroli, is an Italian professional basketball team from the town of Veroli.

Sutor Basket Montegranaro

Sutor Basket Montegranaro, also known for sponsorship reasons as Fabi Shoes Montegranaro, is an Italian League professional basketball club from the town of Montegranaro, Marche.

The Cotton Jones Basket Ride

Cotton Jones (formerly The Cotton Jones Basket Ride), is an indie folk band, with elements of psychedelic folk, dream pop, baroque pop, and Americana (music), based in Cumberland, Maryland and currently signed to Suicide Squeeze Records.

The Last of the Baskets

Created by John Stevenson the programme was about a factory worker Clifford Basket (played by Ken Jones) who inherited a title of the Earl of Clogborough, a rundown mansion at Little Clogborough-in-the-Marsh and a faithful servant Bodkin played by Arthur Lowe.

Underwater basket weaving

US Punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song Anarchy Camp.

Linkedin adopted "skill endorsement" in 2012, and in response to the arbitrary nature of those skill attributions, some LinkedIn participants began to list "Advanced Underwater Basket Weaving" as a skill, thereby exercising some control over their online profile.

USO Mondeville

Union Sportive Ouvrière Mondeville Basket is a French women's basketball club from Mondeville playing in the Ligue Féminine de Basketball.

Wide Right II

Torretta was drilled as he released the ball, but Thomas was able to sneak behind Clifton Abraham and make a basket catch.

You Rang, M'Lord?

Henry Livingstone (Perry Benson) Bootboy – Henry was abandoned as a child in a basket on the steps of the Livingston Road Orphanage, in which institution he remained until the age of 14, when he was taken into the Meldrum house as bootboy.


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