X-Nico

unusual facts about Dolly's Cay


Dolly's Cay

The cay is used for nesting by Bridled Terns, Sooty Terns, Sandwich Terns, and Royal Terns, which were last verified by James Parnell in 1998.


Adolphus Williamson

Frederick Adolphus "Dolly" Williamson (1830 – 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Bernard Siegel

Ian Wilmut described Mr. Siegel as an “unsung hero” in his book, After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning.

Billy doll

Billy and Carlos donned drag in 1999, with Billy dressed in a gingham checkered pantsuit as "Dolly" and Carlos as "Carmen" in a polka dot outfit reminiscent of those worn by Carmen Miranda.

Bob Dyer

Bob and his wife, Dolly, were probably, after Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, the most recognised double act in Australia in the 1960s.

Bull trout

My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time (middle 1870s) was called 'Dolly Varden', a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.

Cher... Special

Other segments of Cher...Special include guests Dolly Parton and Rod Stewart, cast as neighbors in an apartment building, performing their hit songs "Two Doors Down" (Parton) and "Hot Legs" (Stewart); Cher and Dolly having a conversation by reciting lyrics from pop songs; and Cher working by day in a boring secretarial job but dancing at night in the discos.

Children of Rain

At the encouragement of Music City mogul Buddy Killen, producer of R&B immortal Joe Tex and countless country stars, including Dolly Parton, Dottie West and Roger Miller, Pam and Alan Ross moved to Nashville in late August of 1969.

David Hirst

David Hurst (born 1926), British-German actor, best known as Rudolph the headwaiter in Hello, Dolly

Dolly Bindra

Dolly Bindra was known for creating scenes in Big Boss reality show where she was a contestant, and Dolly was the cause of many fights in the show.

Dolly Rathebe

During a photo-shoot for Drum magazine at a mine dump, Dolly and the white photographer, Jürgen Schadeberg were arrested under the Immorality Act, which forbade interracial relationships.

Dolly Shahine

Dolly Shahine was named after the famous American country singer Dolly Parton.

Dolly Singh

Dolly has been published in anthologies alongside many eminent personalities which includes A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Gulzar, Ruskin Bond, Irshad Kamil, and Kapil Sibal.

Dolly Varden trout

The Dolly Varden trout S. malma is found in coastal waters of the North Pacific from Puget Sound north along the British Columbia coast to the Alaska Peninsula and into the eastern Aleutians, along the Bering Sea and the Arctic Sea to the Mackenzie River.

Eileen McCallum

Other notable roles include playing Dolly in the television version of Tony Roper's The Steamie and guest appearances in programmes such as Rebus, Still Game and New Tricks.

Gary Thieltges

Thieltges' PowerSlide, a wirelessly controlled camera dolly that rides on super rigid track, was used by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki in the famous car ambush scene in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.

Holly Dolly

Holly Dolly's debut album: "Pretty Donkey Girl", was also released in 2006, including cover versions of "La Isla Bonita" by Madonna and "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin.

Honky Tonk Angel

Honky Tonk Angels, a 1993 country album by Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette

Ice in the Bedroom

It features several Wodehouse characters from earlier books, including Drones Freddie Widgeon and Oofy Prosser, and the trio of criminals, "Chimp" Twist and "Soapy" and "Dolly" Molloy.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

In November 2007 Joe and his wife Dolly attended the funeral services for Porter Wagoner in Nashville, TN.

After 40 years in the country music business Joe retired to his family farm in Warsaw with his wife Dolly in 1990 where he is a hometown hero.

Just Between You and Me

"Just Between You and Me", a song by Charley Pride, covered by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton on their album of the same title

Lock Martin

For scenes where he was supposed to physically lift Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie, they were either held up by wires, a hidden dolly or replaced with lightweight dummies.

Loring Smith

Smith's most memorable Broadway role came nearly three years later when he portrayed Horace Vandergelder in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, with Ruth Gordon as Dolly, Arthur Hill as Cornelius and Robert Morse as Barnaby.

The 1958 film version starred Shirley Booth as Dolly, Anthony Perkins as Cornelius and Robert Morse retained as Barnaby.

Mary Lee's Corvette

Rolling Stone critic David Fricke wrote that "the bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice has the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde."

Miss Dolly Dollars

Miss Dolly Dollars is a musical comedy written in two acts with the book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by Victor Herbert.

Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition

The Keshet was founded in 1996 by a group of leading intellectuals, thinkers and artists, among them Prof. Yehouda Shenhav, Dr. Ishak Saporta, Dr. Yossi Dahan, Dr. Vicki Shiran, Dr. Henriette Dahan Kalev, Dr. Dolly Benhabib, Ms. Shosh Gabay, Prof. Yossi Yona, Hana Azoulay HaSfari and many others.

New York State Theatre Institute

Among NYSTI's count of more than forty-five premiere productions are William Gibson's “Rag Dolly,” which toured to Moscow in 1986 (a later version opened on Broadway as Raggedy Ann) and Paul Shyre's “Hizzoner!,” starring Tony Lo Bianco, which won five Emmy awards in a WNET/13 co-production and later played on Broadway before touring to Moscow in 1989.

Nora Nicholson

In April 1912 Nicholson made her professional stage debut, playing Dolly Clandon in Benson's production of Shaw's You Never Can Tell at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Paremata

The area to the north, which included a subdivision called "Dolly Varden" (named after a Charles Dickens character), is now called Mana because the new Mana Railway Station a little further north was given that name; probably because it is the first point on the rail journey north at which travellers get a view of Mana Island.

Peter Bellamy

Many prominent names in the folk scene collaborated on the project Dolly Collins (a composer, the sister of Shirley Collins), Martin Carthy, Mike Waterson, Norma Waterson, June Tabor, Nic Jones, A.L. Lloyd, Cyril Tawney and Dave Swarbrick.

Ria Brieffies

In the 1990s Brieffies retired from the music industry and became a qualified manicurist/pedicurist, before reuniting with the Dolly Dots in 2007 for a comeback tour which included three concerts to sell-out audiences of 10,000 at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam.

Ronit Roy

He is the eldest son of businessman Brothindranath and Dolly Bose Roy, with his younger brother another TV actor in India, Rohit Roy.

Roy Joseph

Joseph was married to the former Dolly Ishmael (aunt of Manny Ramjohn) and had three daughters.

Seal Cay

The island is located in the north of the archipelago Abaco for 3.3 km to the east of the island of Walker's Cay.

Sha-Kon-O-Hey! Land of Blue Smoke

The song "Sha-Kon-O-Hey!" can be heard in Dolly's Dixie Stampede.

Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge

The Thaddeus Kosciusko Bridge, commonly referred to as the Twin Bridges, just "The Twins", or the "Dolly Parton Bridge", located in the United States, is a pair of identical through arch bridges, made of steel, which span the Mohawk River between the towns of Colonie, Albany County and Halfmoon, Saratoga County, in New York's Capital District.

The Book Lady

Dolly Parton, Miley Ray Cyrus, Keith Urban, Canadian singer–songwriters Sarah Harmer and Justin Rutledge, fiddler Natalie MacMaster and children's author Robert Munsch are featured in the documentary, which chronicles the launch of Parton’s “Imagination Library” in Canada.

The Goon Show running jokes

Bluebottle:"Cor, dolly mixture - thinks - with these-type sweets I could influence certain girls at playtime - that Brenda Pugh might be another Rita Hayworth."

The Michelangelo

The George Hall Orchestra (sometimes called the George Hall Taft Hotel Orchestra) performed from the hotel on Monday through Saturday at noon on CBS Radio, starring Dolly Dawn.

The Mother/Child Papers

The next work is a prose piece titled “The Seven Samurai, The Dolly, and Mary Cassatt.” Ostriker remembers an evening watching Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, trying to compare it to other masculine art works in an attempt to come to a better understanding of the male perspective.

The Tribute Show

In late 2011 Jon was in close contact with the UK Dolly Parton performer Sarah Jayne to use footage of her tours on the show, her partner happened to be another UK entertainer, Andy Crust, who performs with Sarah as Kenny Rogers and are Europe's leading Kenny & Dolly impersonators.

Victorian burlesque

An 1859 burlesque of Romeo and Juliet contained 23 musical numbers, some from opera, such as the serenade from Don Pasquale, and some from traditional airs and popular songs of the day including "Buffalo Gals", and "Nix my Dolly".


see also