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2 unusual facts about Diggers


Diggers' Song

It is sung to a version of the family of tunes later used for Sam Hall, Captain Kidd and Admiral John Benbow, which according to Roy Palmer was first printed in 1714.

Harry's Gone Fishing

Concerning the 17th Century Diggers movement, it consisted of words by Gerrard Winstanley, set to music by Rosselson and therefore has a joint writing credit.


Albert Dryden

Following a protracted dispute with Derwentside District Council, an enforcement order was to be served on 20 June 1991, with diggers on standby to demolish the house.

Backstage musical

This type of musical was typified in the early films by director and choreographer, Busby Berkeley, including 42nd Street (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934) and the Gold Diggers series (1933, 1935 and 1937).

Charles Hotham

According to historian Geoffrey Blainey "It was perhaps the most generous concession offered by a governor to a major opponent in the history of Australia up to that time. The members of the commission were appointed before Eureka...they were men who were likely to be sympathetic to the diggers."

Ely Calil

In 2006 he sold his Chelsea home, Sloane House, for an estimated £45 million to Sir Anthony Bamford, the JCB diggers boss.

Fighton Simukonda

Simukonda was born in Chingola where he started his football career with Division II side Mimbula Diggers as a defender.

Go Ask Alice

On pages 79–80, the text describes the girl living with a friend in Coos Bay, Oregon, where she enthuses over the Diggers' Free Store and the Psychedelic Shop – both establishments were actually in San Francisco.

Go Down Records

Since 2003 it has released more than eighty albums and vynils by several artists: Karma To Burn, Vibravoid, Fatso Jetson, OJM, The Fuzztones, The Morlocks, Link Protrudi And The Jaymen, Solrize, Dome La Muerte And The Diggers, Rock’n’Roll Kamikazes, The Hormonauts, Small Jackets.

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gold Diggers of 1935 was the third film of the Gold Diggers series of movie musicals, after Gold Diggers of Broadway in 1929 (now lost) and Gold Diggers of 1933, a remake of the earlier film.

Jewish Bolshevism

According to Singerman, The Jewish Bolshevism, which he dubs as item "0121" in his Bibliography, is "Identical in content to item "0120", the pamphlet The Grave Diggers of Russia, which was published in 1921 in Germany, by Dr. E. Boepple. In 1922, historian Gisela C. Lebzelter wrote: "The Britons published a brochure entitled Jewish Bolshevism, which featured drawings of Russian leaders supplemented by brief comments on their Jewish descent and affiliation.

Joseph Cyril Bamford

Bamford also conceived the "dancing diggers," whose 1999 display in Las Vegas stopped the gamblers.

Katherine Dieckmann

Katherine Dieckmann is a film and music video director known for her work with R.E.M. and the feature films Good Baby and Diggers.

Norman yoke

"Seeing the common people of England by joynt consent of person and purse have caste out Charles our Norman oppressour, wee have by this victory recovered ourselves from under his Norman yoake." wrote Winstanley on behalf of the Diggers, in December 1649.

Steelfab

The 800 diggers used the tractor hydraulics to power the digger although a pump system powered by the tractor PTO was offered as an option.

The Block NZ

Shannon instructed them that tne person takes the diggers to the gravel while the other one will do the digging.

The Digger Papers

The Digger Papers was a free collective publication of the Diggers, one of the 1960s improvisational theatre groups in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.

The Gold Diggers

The Gold Diggers (play), a 1919 play by Avery Hopwood, the source material for the 1923 film, as well as Gold Diggers of Broadway and Gold Diggers of 1933

The Last... series

It consists of four books—The Last Polar Bears, The Last Gold Diggers, The Last Cowboys and The Last Castaways.

Walter Huston

The film was based on B. Traven's novel, which told the story of three gold diggers in 1920s post-revolution Mexico.

William Dexter

Dexter was at Bendigo in August 1853, where William Howitt heard him advocating republican doctrines at a meeting of diggers.


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