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unusual facts about Boots



100 Little Curses

The song made its live debut in mid-2008, during The Nightwatchman's Fabled City tour, when opener Boots Riley would test this one Street Sweeper song.

Adidas F50

Diego Forlán debuted the boots on field in the Europa League Final against Fulham, where he scored both Atletico's goals in their 2-1 AET win.

Amiga Forever

Optional Live CD, based on Knoppix Light (boots a PC or Intel Mac directly into Workbench)

Ancroft

Boots were also made for the British army - the Duke of Marlborough's troops marched to victory shod in Ancroft boots.

Boot

Singer Nancy Sinatra was largely responsible for popularizing the fad of women wearing boots in the late 1960s.

Boot fetishism

The mid-1960s British TV series The Avengers often featured fetishistic clothing, with Emma Peel, played by Diana Rigg, wore boots as a characteristic sign of her as a sexy and strong woman.

Boots on the Ground

Karl Zinsmeister wrote Boots while working as editor of The American Enterprise.

Boots on the Ground by Dusk: Searching for Answers in the Death of Pat Tillman

The paperback edition of Boots on the Ground by Dusk is being released in tandem with the film “The Tillman Story,” a documentary by director Amir Bar-Lev.

Canberra Cavalry

The Canberra Cavalry team mascot is a Yosemite Sam-type character named 'Sarge', with an Australian slouch hat, Cavalry-orange shirt, Auscam pants and brown Army boots.

Chaotic Wrestling

Writing for The Boston Phoenix, columnist Sean Bartlett commented on the "baroque characters" and wrestlers wearing "vinyl boots and fluorescent hot pants".

Combat boot

Since 2000, the Australian Army (As well as other its other Defence branches), primarily uses the Redback Terra Combat Boot as a replacement for the Vietnam War-era General Purpose combat boots.

Denis McLoughlin

He created an eight-page adaptation of General George Armstrong Custer's last stand based primarily on his hazy memory of the film They Died With Their Boots On.

DRL Limited

DRL Limited provides white label kitchen appliance websites for clients including Boots, Next, House of Fraser, allproductsdirect, Screwfix, Empire Direct and B&Q.

Earl McClung

His comrades like Powers and William Kiehn had to shine his boots and pressed his pants for him for a retreat parade after the fights in the Netherlands, because they knew that he would not have done any of these things.

Eleanor Put Your Boots On

Promotion for the single included two videos: one for "Eleanor Put Your Boots On" and one for B-side Wine in the Afternoon (recorded at Trama Studios, São Paulo, Brazil), making the B-side a video-clip-only single.

Emergency contraceptive availability by country

On 12 January 2011, the morning after pill became available over-the-counter without a prescription from Boots pharmacies.

Engineer boot

Billy Joel refers to the popularity of the Engineer Boot in 50's and 60's Greaser culture in his song "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" with the line "I remember those days hanging out/At the village green/Engineer boots, leather jackets/And tight blue jeans"

Enid Justin

Her father was the famed boot-maker Herman Joseph Justin, who manufactured his first pair of boots while working in a Texas barber shop.

Gravity boots

Today, gravity boots are used by the U.S. Army and have experienced a surge in popularity in 2006 with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown praising them as well.

Idiotlamp Productions

Idiotlamp has also produced a number of award winning commercials and viral campaigns, working with leading traditional advertising agencies such as Crispin Porter + Bogusky as well as newer digital agences such as Glue London and Lean Mean Fighting Machine, for clients including Burger King, Boots, AOL, MINI and Virgin Games.

Isaac Stringer

Todd and his wife, Sivan Agam, are the Australian/ British alternative folk duo The April Maze; they have written a song about Stringer's boot-eating story called "The Bishop Who Ate His Boots".

Jackie 60

Founded by DJ Johnny Dynell, writer Chi Chi Valenti, fashion designer Kitty Boots and dancer/choreographer Richard Move, who were later (c. 1995), joined by Brian Butterick AKA Hattie Hathaway.

Johan Devrindt

He played for Anderlecht, Dutch oufit PSV Eindhoven, Club Brugge, Lokeren, Winterslag and La Louviere before hanging up his boots after suffering relegation with second division Tienen.

John Cournos

London is portrayed as plagued by poverty, with black market cigarettes and broken lifts, and the narrator wanders round the Strand exclaiming at the filth of the streets, the idlers and the jealous envy displayed towards his new boots.

Juliet Cowan

In 2010 she appeared in two episodes of PhoneShop as Lance's wife Shelley, as well as in a Christmas advertisement for Boots; an appearance which has evolved into a more recurring role in subsequent commercials for Boots.

Ken Tobias

In 1978, he toured Europe, and while there he collaborated on the soundtrack of the Italian spaghetti western Sella d'Argento (Silver Saddle/They Died with Their Boots On), directed by Lucio Fulci.

Knee-high boot

In university ROTC units, some members wear a dress boot reminiscent of a mounted cavalry boot, such as the boots worn by seniors in the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets.

Koolaburra

In 2005, they lost a lawsuit with Deckers Outdoor Corporation about the use of the term "ug" in reference to Australian sheepskin boots.

Major Accident

Major Accident were originally formed in late 1977 in Darlington, though they didn't reach the recording studio until the early 1980s when they recorded an unreleased version of Massacred Melodies (which was later re-recorded to become their first LP) and the single War Boots.

Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More

The show's costume designer, Lori Eskowitz-Carter, provided Sergio Rossi boots worth $1,750 for the episode, while Grace's jewelry was supplied by Martin Katz.

Mary Jane Seaman

Mary Jane Seaman was an actress who played in the provinces before playing Mrs Wellington de Boots in Joseph Stirling Coyne's comedy Everybody's Friend at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in October 1859.

Movin' with Nancy

Produced by Nancy's production company, Boots Enterprises, Inc., and sponsored by Royal Crown Cola, the show was originally broadcast on the NBC television network on December 11, 1967 (8:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern).

Nagagutsu o Haita Neko: Sekai Isshū 80 Nichi Dai Bōken

The main character is the Puss in Boots character from the tale; a cat named Pero (Toei Animation's mascot) He is also known as 'Perrault' in the game, as that was the name of the original author of the Puss In Boots story; Charles Perrault.

Nocona Boots

In addition to Nocona Boots, Justin Brands is the owner of five leading footwear brands including Justin Boots, Tony Lama Boots, Chippewa Boots, and Justin Original Workboots, making it the world’s largest manufacturer of western footwear.

Play It Loud

"We replaced Doc Martens with platform boots. We became more colourful and then it all went berserk - Dave the Superyob with his spacesuits and all the rest. It was a great laugh."

Prehistory of association football

1526 – Henry VIII of England orders the first known purpose made football boots.

Retail in the Republic of Ireland

Notably, many major British 'high street' names now operate in the Republic of Ireland, such as Dixons, Next, Debenhams, Topshop, Boots, Superdrug, Argos, Dorothy Perkins, Maplin, Currys, T.K. Maxx, PC World, Game Stop and others.

Run for Your Life

A 1966 version of "Run for Your Life" performed by Nancy Sinatra was released on her album Boots.

Sasha Dobson

Dobson is now rumored to be working with Jones on an album involving an all-female trio called Puss 'n Boots.

Shane Proctor

Proctor is currently sponsored by Cinch Jeans & Shirts, Corral Boots, Kawasaki and MGM Grand.

Shit kicker

Wellington boots - waterproof, almost knee-high boots made from rubber or PVC

Tansy Rayner Roberts

A sequel, Liquid Gold, and the chapbook novelette Hobgoblin Boots are also both set in 'Mocklore'.

The Ashley Centre

In 2006, a major redesign of the centre was undertaken, to incorporate space for a large new Boots store in the centre.

The Castle of Llyr

Horrified by their inferences from a small pair of abandoned boots, they prepare to leave, but Llyan herself returns settles down just inside the door.

The Curious Room

It also contains a draft of a libretto for an opera based on Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, and five radio plays: "Vampirella", which she then reworked as "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Bloody Chamber collection, "The Company of Wolves", "Puss in Boots" (both reworkings of Charles Perrault's fairy tales) and two "artificial biographies", one of Victorian painter, Richard Dadd, who murdered his father, and the other about Edwardian novelist, Ronald Firbank.

Thorngumbald

The village shopping centre has five shops: a small Boots chemist, a newsagents, family butcher, fish and chip shop and a Spar Convenience store.

Tisza Cipő

At these times, they produced large quantity of boots for the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Defense and the Civil Guard.

Wesco

West Coast Shoe Company, maker of Wesco work boots, based in Scappoose, Oregon

Westcroft

The District Centre houses the Milton Keynes branch of Morrisons and other UK high street names, such as Boots and a Marshall car servicing centre / dealership (Citroen (servicing only), Mazda and Skoda).

Whitgift Centre

The first shop to open was Boots on 17 October 1968, and the centre itself was officially opened in October 1970 by the Duchess of Kent.


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