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2 unusual facts about Emily Pohl-Weary


Helena Kvarnstrom

Her photographs have been used as the cover image for the John Maxwell Coetzee book, In the Heart of the Country as well as Emily Pohl-Weary's A Girl Like Sugar.

Willow Dawson

It was through Girls Who Bite Back that she met collaborator / author Emily Pohl-Weary.


Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham

1704 was the year that the Queen became weary of the Duchess's frequent absences from the Court, and her political lectures – Sarah was a Whig and Anne was a Tory, and Sarah wanted Anne to appoint more Whig ministers, the majority of which were in favour of the Duke of Marlborough's wars.

Bedtime for Democracy

The title of the album is a reference to the 1951 comedy film, Bedtime for Bonzo starring Ronald Reagan, and perhaps also reflects the weary band's bitterness in the aftermath of the financially and emotionally draining trial they were being subjected to at the time over the controversial art included with their previous album.

Bluetonic

It contains the notable lyric: 'When I am sad and weary/and all my hope is gone/I walk around my house/and think of you with nothing on', adapted from the poem 'Celia Celia' by Adrian Mitchell.

Boonpong Sirivejjabhandu

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop who had been also been a hero of the prisoners, ordered a report on 'the condition of Mr. Boonpong, injured Thai civilian, who had done so much for prisoners of war.

Chunchanakatte Falls

It is also said that when Sita Mata was tired and weary and wanted to have a bath, Lord Ram directed Lakshman to fire an arrow at a rock, once Lakshmana fired the arrow, water in 3 different shades started pouring out, one with turmeric, one with oil and one with shikakai (fruit for hair - natural shampoo).

Don the Beachcomber

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star while setting up rest camps for combat-weary airmen of the 12th and 15th Air Forces in Capri, Nice, Cannes, the French Riviera, Venice, the Lido and Sorrento at the order of his friend, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

In her essay A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium, published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Bailey describes how Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, inventor of the Wardian case, had published during the mid 19th century a report on the "Use of Closed Cases in Illness", explaining the benefit of a terrarium to bed-ridden patients in order to "beguile many a weary hour".

Everyman's War

As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig, Germany, a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war.

Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg

Weary of the long struggle with the Duchy of Pomerania, he abdicated in 1470 in favour of his younger brother Albert Achilles, he retired to the Bayreuth Principality and died one year later in Neustadt an der Aisch.

Gloria Whelan

In 1972, weary of the hectic pace of life in Detroit, the Whelans moved to a cabin on Oxbow Lake in the woods of northern Michigan, outside the small town of Mancelona.

Gobowen

The name Gobowen is believed to originate from Gob (a pillow) and Owen (Owain Glyndŵr) who was believed to have rested his weary head there.

Gresham Poe

According to Harper's Weekly, "Poe's presence seemed to rejuvenate the Tigers, and for the last 10 minutes of the contest they fairly outplayed the weary Elis. The ball was twice carried half the length of the field, but the whistle blew before Princeton could score." he graduated from Princeton in 1902.

Harmony No Harmony

Margot Kidder is an actress famed for her parts in the Superman movies, and also for a highly-publicised mental breakdown in 1996 (suiting the somewhat weary nature of the song's lyrics).

History of breakfast

The Iliad notes this meal with regard to a labor-weary woodsman eager for a light repast to start his day, preparing it even as he is aching with exhaustion.

Houston Lightning

The Lightning's logo is one of the few in American sports to contain a verse from the Bible; the verse cited is Isaiah 40:31: "They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength, they will soar as with eagles' wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint." (NAB)

Hypsicratea

"...always manly (androdes) and extremely bold, the king consequently liked to call her Hypsicrates. At that time taking possession of a clock and horse of a Persian man she neither flagged in body before the distances they ran nor did she weary of tending the body and horse of the king, until they came to a place called Sinor, which was full of the king's coins and treasures."

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

As adjutant-general he performed his duties efficiently during the weary months of waiting and sickness at Gallipoli and at Varna, and also at the battles of Alma and Inkerman.

John Warr

John in fact in these two Tests took one for 281, which caused a few of us thereafter childishly to hum in his presence the Ancient and Modern Hymn number 281, 'Lead us Heavenly Father, lead us', with emphasis on the lines "Lone and Dreary, Faint and Weary, Through the Desert thou did'st go."

Kings Domain, Melbourne

A statue of Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop is made from bronze, granite and metal spikes from the Burma-Thailand Railway in 1995 by Peter Corlett.

Kings of the Evening

Homer Hobbs (Tyson Beckford) rents a room in a boarding house run by a firm hand (Lynn Whitfield), a beautiful yet weary woman who has had a hard life.

Madeleine Peyroux

The album opens with one of her best-known songs, a cover of Leonard Cohen's, "Dance Me to the End of Love", also featuring covers of Bob Dylan ("You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"), Elliott Smith ("Between The Bars"), and Hank Williams ("Weary Blues"), among others.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a mediocre review explaining that the "third look at the quintessentially middle-American Griswold family, led by Clark and the very patient Ellen is only a weary shadow of the original National Lampoon's Vacation."

Noelani Pantastico

Her family moved from Hawaii to Colorado, then New Hampshire and eventually settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she began her formal ballet training at the age of eleven at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet founded by Marcia Dale Weary.

Richard Loo

He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles.

World Weary

"World Weary" is a popular song written by Noël Coward, for his 1928 musical, This Year of Grace, where it was introduced by Beatrice Lillie.


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