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unusual facts about Calves' Head Club


Calves' Head Club

The first mention of it is in a tract reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany entitled "The Secret History of the Calves Head Club".


Amathole Mountains

The word Amatole means ‘calves’ in Xhosa, and Amathole District Municipality, which lies to the south, is named after these mountains.

Calf Point

The headland was charted and named in 1911 by the Northern Party, led by Victor Campbell, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named because of the great number of young seals, known as calves, distributed nearby this headland.

Earl Wood

The solution the team arrived at is the G-suit, which has air bladders situated at the calves, thighs, and abdomen of the wearer.

Eva Saxl

The book "Beckman's Internal Medicine" described the methods that Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best first used to extract insulin from the pancreases of dogs, calves, and cows in 1921.

Henri Pépin

More formal studio pictures show him in the slightly effete, Oscar Wilde-like, pose of gentlemen-displaying-their-calves.

Phalaris angusta

Calves that eat the grass develop neurological signs such as tremors and convulsions and gross examination of their brain tissue reveals large blue-green lesions.

Western moose

Western moose females will have, on average, one or two calves at once.


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