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unusual facts about Boswell's Tavern


Boswell's Tavern

A few colonial troops were captured at the tavern in March 1781 by British colonel Banastre Tarleton in an attempt to capture Jefferson and to disrupt meetings of the Virginia legislature.


Alexander Druzhinin

He translated three of Shakespeare's plays; King Lear, Coriolanus and Richard III; he published a series of essays entitled Boswell and Johnson, about English life in the eighteenth century; and he wrote a life of George Crabbe which included numerous extracts from his poetry.

Andrew Crosbie

An office-bearer ('Assassin') of The Poker Club, and a friend of Boswell and Johnson, Crosbie was the basis of the character Councillor Pleydell in Sir Walter Scotts's novel Guy Mannering.

Bathtub gin

The Simpsons episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" features Homer and Bart mixing and brewing alcohol, including gin, in various bathtubs in the basement and secretly supplying and distributing it to Moe's Tavern via an elaborate delivery system to avoid detection.

Beers Ago

It was released in March 2012 as the third single to his fifteenth studio album, Clancy's Tavern.

Bob Wooler

Others include; "Mr Showmanship" for Rory Storm, "The Panda-footed Prince of Prance" for Faron, leader of Faron's Flamingos, "The Sheik of Shake" for Karl Terry, of Karl Terry and the Cruisers, and "The Boswell of Beat" for Bill Harry, editor of Mersey Beat.

Boswell, Pennsylvania

(For a more detailed discussion of the strike, see the wiki for Jerome, Pennsylvania.)

Merchants Coal, and the related Orenda Coal, were subsidiaries of Hillman Coal and Coke Company of Pittsburgh, the same firm that built the neighboring town of Jerome, Pennsylvania.

Burke's Tavern

Near the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the Union Brigadier General Thomas Alfred Smyth of Delaware, wounded at the Battle of High Bridge was brought to the house, where he died on April 9.

Corriechatachan

Boswell recorded that; “Dr Johnson was much pleased with his entertainment here. There were many good books in the house: Hector Boethius in Latin; Cave's Lives of the Fathers; Baker's Chronicle; Jeremy Collier's Church History; Dr Johnson's small Dictionary; Craufurd's Officers of State, and several more…”

Cyrus McCormick Farm

The farm is near Steele's Tavern, Virginia and Raphine, Virginia, close to the northern border of Rockbridge County, Virginia and Augusta County, Virginia, and is currently a museum run by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station of Virginia Tech.

Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development

He also served as Legislative Assistant for Representative Leonard Boswell, focusing primarily on Rep. Boswell’s work on the House Agriculture Committee, and as a Clerk for Justice Jerry Larson of the Iowa Supreme Court.

Fuller's Tavern

It opened as a tavern house in 1806 and is one of the few remaining inns of those built along the Great Western Turnpike in the late 18th century.

Gypsy Girl

It centred around a gypsy girl (Freya Boswell) and her family, who lived in a typical gypsy caravan on the corner of a typical suburban street.

Hall's Tavern

Hall Tavern, Cambridge, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Hec Fowler

Norman Boswell "Hec" Fowler (October 14, 1892 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – July 30, 1987 in Peterborough, Ontario) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, most notably for the Victoria Cougars of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.

Hill's Tavern

The tavern was built by Stephen and Thomas Hill, the founders of Hillsborough (now Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania).

Jack Kapp

Other artists followed, including the Mills Brothers, Boswell Sisters, Earl Hines, Ted Lewis, Isham Jones and the Dorsey Brothers.

Jermaine Woods

In 2000, however, he made a comeback, beginning with a victory by a four round decision over Thomas Allen, exactly three years to the day that he lost to Boswell.

Jimmy Boswell

Gillingham manager Archie Clark also signed four other players who had served with Boswell at Barton Stacey and played alongside him in the unit football team, namely Jackie Briggs, George Forrester, Hughie Russell and Vic Hole.

John B. Whitehead

John Boswell Whitehead (August 18, 1872 in Norfolk, Virginia - November 16, 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American electrical engineer and a professor at Johns Hopkins University as well as the dean of the School of Engineering.

John Boswell

Irish historian and journalist Jim Duffy, praised Boswell's work in his "Rite and Reason" column in the The Irish Times.

John M. Brower

Brower moved to Oklahoma and settled in Boswell, Choctaw County, in 1907 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, agricultural pursuits, and stock raising.

Kittrell, North Carolina

Kittrell's Depot was a railroad depot named for George Kittrell and his wife, Elizabeth Boswell Kittrell, who donated the land for a Raleigh and Gaston Railroad station.

Laurence Boswell

Laurence Boswell (born 1959) is a theatre director, whose credits include Ben Elton's Popcorn, Madonna in her London stage debut, Eddie Izzard in a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Hayden Christensen, Freddie Prinze Jr and Anna Paquin for West End debuts in This Is Our Youth, which, in 2002, ran concurrently with Up for Grabs, featuring Madonna.

Leo's Tavern

The first concert of the series (May 2010) will feature Glen Hansard, Paul Brady and Sarah Siskind, and will be hosted by Moya Brennan.

The pub was reopened by Moya Brennan with her parents and siblings with music from the family, Cormac de Barra, Sinéad Madden and local musicians.

Marion L. Boswell

Marion L. Boswell (October 1, 1923 – August 9, 2002) was an American Air Force lieutenant general who was assistant vice chief of staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C., and also serves as chairman and senior Air Force representative, United States Delegation to the Military Staff Committee, United Nations.

Mayhew, Indian Territory

Mayhew, Indian Territory, located two miles north of present-day Boswell, Oklahoma, was the seat of government of the Pushmataha District of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory.

Newton Gang

Then in 1916 Willis robbed a bank in Boswell, Oklahoma in the company of a gang he joined in Durant, Oklahoma, taking just over $10,000 and escaping on horseback.

Park House Museum

This store lasted 25 years before they sold the property to Zarko and Bessie Vucinic, the owners of Duffy's Tavern.

Pete's Tavern

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, "Spin City" and Sex and the City.

Poetry Bookshop

The Poetry Bookshop operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the Bloomsbury district of central London, from 1913 to 1926.

Richard Boswell

Richard Boswell (born April 18, 1985 in Friendship, Maryland) is a stock car driver.

The son of former NASCAR Busch Series driver Dickie Boswell, Richard Boswell was selected to replace current Busch Series driver Shane Huffman in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup.

Scott Boswell

Scott Anthony John Boswell (born September 11, 1974 in Fulford, York, North Yorkshire, England) is an English cricketer, who until his retirement specialised as a medium-fast bowler.

Sophie Winkleman

Winkleman's stage career includes a spell at the Royal Shakespeare Company where she played Veronique in Laurence Boswell's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast and a summer in Bath with the Peter Hall Company playing a variety of roles including Archangela in Gallileo's Daughter, a new play by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Violet in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman and Charlotte in Don Juan directed by Thea Sharrock.

Stoopnagle and Budd

He did the goofy quiz show Quixie Doodles on Mutual and CBS (1941-44), continuing through the 1940s with The Colonel (1943), Stoopnagle's Stooperoos (1943), Burns and Allen (1943), substituting for Bob Hawk (1947), Vaughn Monroe's Camel Caravan (1947-48) and Duffy's Tavern.

The Quick Draw McGraw Show

A detective cat named Super Snooper (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Ed Gardner as the character Archie from the radio show Duffy's Tavern) and his sidekick Blabber Mouse (voiced by Daws Butler, originally voiced by Los Angeles radio announcer Elliot Field).

William Temple

William Johnson Temple (1739–1796) English cleric and essayist, a correspondent of James Boswell

Wright's Tavern

On April 19, the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, when the courthouse bell announced the approach of Major Pitcairn's British troops, the Concord Minutemen assembled at Wright's Tavern.

Yew Hill-Robert Ashby's Tavern-Shacklett's Tavern

The main house was built about 1760–1761, and is a 1 1/2-story, three bay, Colonial-era frame structure.


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