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2 unusual facts about Broom-Hilda


Broom-Hilda

Broom-Hilda (a pun on Brünnhilde) is a witch with green skin, a wart on the end of her nose and long stringy hair.

Thirteen episodes were produced, and the series ran for one season on NBC.


1972 Air Canada Silver Broom

The 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom saw the incident which led to the Curse of LaBonte.

1978 Air Canada Silver Broom

The 1978 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 27 - April 2 at the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

A Red, Red Rose

The song became more popular when Robert Archibald Smith paired it with the tune of "Low Down in the Broom" in his Scottish Minstrel book in 1821.

Ann Ballin

She attended St Hilda's Collegiate School, Waikato Diocesan School, the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury (MA).

Anne Jenkin, Baroness Jenkin of Kennington

Her father is the son of the physicist the 4th Baron Rayleigh by his first wife, Lady Hilda Clements.

Battle of Aguere

The path to reach the tableland from the coast, the path of La Cuesta, in those days was covered by thick vegetation that included Canarian pine, broom, beech, heather, palm trees, dragos, savin and other species, and so the accession up the hill was a dangerous undertaking.

Bert Kruismans

Kruismans was born in 1966 in the village of Sint-Katharine-Lombeek as Bert Hilda Van der Cruyssen and now lives in Meldert, near Aalst.

Black Ladies Priory

In 1535, just before the Dissolution of the Monasteries the priory drew an income from lands and rents in Chillington and Horsebrook, both in Brewood parish, and in Bradley, Broom, Kidderminster, Albrighton, Dawley, and Tong: these were worth £11 1s.

Blackville, South Carolina

Education facilities in Blackville include Macedonia Elementary School, Blackville-Hilda Junior High School, Blackville-Hilda High School, Jefferson Davis Academy, Calvary Fellowship Mennonite, Bamberg/Barnwell County Adult Education, and Barnwell Christian School.

Bobby Broom

Broom began studying the guitar at age 12, taking lessons in the American Folk music style.

Broom filefish

It is also called brush-sided leatherjacket (Australia) or broom leatherjacket (Christmas Island).

C. striatus

Cytisus striatus, the Portuguese broom, a flowering plant species native to the Iberian Peninsula

Cantabrian Capercaillie

The capercaillie also uses other microhabitat types such as broom, meadow and heath selectively throughout the year (Quevedo et al. 2006b, p. 271).

Charles Francis Meade

Meade married Aileen Hilda Brodrick, the daughter of St.John Brodrick (later Earl of Midleton), by whom he had three daughters and a son.

Daffy's Inn Trouble

When Porky calls Daffy over, and gives him a new broom as a present, Daffy throws his hat on the floor in disgust and quits the job.

Delaware's at-large congressional district special election, 1807

However, Broom did not serve this second term, instead resigning as well, before the start of the Tenth Congress.

Donogh O'Malley

O'Malley married Dr. Hilda Moriarty (1922–1991) in August 1947 and together the couple had two children, Daragh and Suzanne.

Elmer Blaney Harris

He moved with his family to Oakland, California, after his father's broom factory burned to the ground.

Eremophila dichroantha

It superficially resembles Broom and usually grows to between 0.6 and 3 metres high.

Frederick Tansley Munnings

Munnings's daughter Hilda Tansley Munnings became a noted ballerina under the name Lydia Sokolova.

Frederick William FitzSimons

Subsequently many similar skulls were unearthed by prominent palaeontologists of the day, including Robert Broom, Alexander Galloway, William Pycraft, Sidney Haughton, Raymond Dart, and others.

Genista Battery

The cave attracted scientific interest including George Busk from London who referring to the cave as "Genista" as a link to its discover as "Genisteae" is the Latin name of the shrub "Broom".

George Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham

Lord Wittenham married Hilda Georgina, daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet, of Netherby in Cumberland, in 1895.

Henry Grubstick

When Henry calls after the party, he is intercepted by Betty's sister, Hilda.

Hesketh Motorcycles

Mick Broom was the development engineer/ test rider as part of the original development team of the Hesketh marque, and was based with the team in the old laundry at Easton Neston.

Hilda Gibson

Hilda Kaye Gibson (1925-30 December 2013) was a member of the Women's Land Army, colloquially known as the Land Girls, during the Second World War, and campaigned to gain official governmental recognition for the service of WLA members.

Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

Hilda Madeline Brassey Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, DBE, JP (16 June 1872 – 29 December 1971) was the daughter of Henry Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson (died 15 July 1898), and granddaughter of the railway pioneer Thomas Brassey.

Hilda Morley

The influence on the open construction of the poetry of Hilda Morley was not Charles Olson, but Wong May.

Hilda Neihardt

Hilda Neihardt (1916–2004) was one of her father John G. Neihardt's "comrades in adventure," and at the age of 15 accompanied him as "official observer" to meetings with Black Elk, the Lakota holy man whose life stories were the basis for her father's book, Black Elk Speaks and for her own later works.

Hilda Suarez

Hilda Talercio (née Suarez) is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty, portrayed by Ana Ortiz.

Ian Holbourn

During the voyage, Holbourn befriended 12-year-old Avis Dolphin, who was being escorted to school and family in England by two nurses, Hilda Ellis and Sarah Smith.

Jane Gylling

Jane Hilda Charlotta Gylling (born April 6, 1902 in Visby, Gotland – died March 10, 1961 in Örgryte, Västra Götaland) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer.

John Schnatter

John sold his 1972 Camaro Z28, purchased used pizza equipment for $1,600, and removed a broom closet in the rear of the business from which he sold pizzas.

Leod Macgilleandrais

In this version of events, Black Murdoch's brother-in-law was Macaulay of Loch Broom, and the 19th century antiquarian F. W. L. Thomas noted that within this version, this Macaulay appears to be a different individual than the constable of Eilean Donan Castle.

Leonard J. Fick

He also authored a book on the German stigmatic, Therese Neumann, "What about Therese Neumann: A concise background for and analysis of the critical reception accorded Hilda C. Graef's the case of Therese Neumann," The Newman Press, 1951 ASIN, B0007H5KMO In November 1988, Fick authored the definitive history of the Pontifical College Josephinum, The Jessing Legacy, 1888-1988: A Centennial History of the Pontifical College Josephinum.

Marci Shore

She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale.

Mary Treen

Her longest-running role was as Hilda, the maid and baby nurse, in sixty-four episodes from 1962 to 1965 of the NBC and CBS sitcom, The Joey Bishop Show.

N.E.M Ida Hilda Casella Vidori

The Ida Hilda Casella Vidori Educational Center is located in the urban area, in the highway from Palmitos to St Lucia, in the neighborhood Nossa Senhora do Rosário, in the city of Palmitos, state of Santa Catarina.

Operation Matateh

According to Yigal Allon, Operation Broom had a "tremendous psychological impact" on the population of Safed and of the Hula Valley to the north.

Party Poohper

Also, Tigger is cleaning the house with a broom (But he does this overtime which causes Rabbit to say "You're falling behind schedule!".) Before they can finish, however, Rabbit's relatives arrive two hours early ready to party.

Peter Kunhardt

His eldest son, Peter is the Director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, and his daughter, Abby, is a teacher at St. Hilda's & St. Hugh's in Manhattan.

Proto-Sinaitic script

There have been two major discoveries of inscriptions that may be in the Proto-Sinaitic script, the first in the winter of 1904–1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie, dated to circa 1700-1400 BCE, and more recently in 1999 in Middle Egypt by John and Deborah Darnell, dated to the 18th century BCE.

School of the Woods – Montessori

School of the Woods was founded by Dr. Ernest Wood and his wife Hilda Wood who as also a scholar and writer.

Senecio ertterae

Other plants in the sparsely vegetated habitat include Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass), Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass), Mimulus cusickii (Cusick's monkeyflower), Eriogonum vimineum (broom buckwheat), and Phacelia hastata (silverleaf phacelia).

Soul cake

American Hallowe'en composer Kristen Lawrence found two historical tunes associated with soul cakes as she was researching souling songs for her 2009 A Broom With A View album.

St Hilda's Church of England High School

St Hilda's Church of England High School is a Church of England secondary school with a sixth form, located in Croxteth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool (post code: L17 3AL).

Taphrina wiesneri

Taphrina wiesneri is a plant pathogen causing witch's broom formations on Cherry trees (Prunus & Cerasus sp).

The Rubber Band

In Silver City, Nevada during the days of the Wild West, a group of men calling themselves the Rubber Band—among them Walsh, Scovil and the fathers of Clara and Hilda—helped the Marquis, then called George Rowley, escape a lynching in return for a share of the Marquis’ substantial inheritance.

The Whizzard of Ow

Wile E. starts to fall and dials the Acme Flying Broom Customer Survive on his phone for help but gets a recording telling him all operators were busy.

Theodore J. Bauer

Despite his family having lost both its broom factory and farm during the Great Depression, Bauer was able to work his way through school to earn both his B.S. (1934) and M.D. (1933) degrees from the University of Iowa.


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