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unusual facts about Honey in the Lion's Head


Honey in the Lion's Head

One is Jim Garland’s Depression-era classic, “I Don’t Want Your Millions Mister”, and the other is a Brown original.


2007 in birding and ornithology

Record breaking movement of Little Auk with 18,713 past the Farne Islands, Northumberland on 9 November; 18,900 past St Abb's Head, Borders and 28,803 past the Farne Islands on 11 November.

A Head in the Polls

This episode is the first to heavily feature the character of Richard Nixon's head.

Augustus Brine

Instead in May 1805 he was given command of a unit of the Sea Fencibles, with responsibilities for the coast between St Alban's Head and Puncknowle.

Bernicia

A few important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin or are known by British names elsewhere: Bamburgh is called Din Guaire in the Historia Brittonum; Dunbar (where Saint Wilfrid was once imprisoned) represents Dinbaer; and the name of Coldingham is given by Bede as Coludi urbs ("town of Colud"), where Colud seems to represent the British form, possibly for the hill-fort of St Abb's Head.

Brome County, Quebec

Along Lake Memphremagog in the Township of Potton are three mountains, from north to south, Mount Sugar Loaf, the larger Mount Owl's Head, and Mount Bear.

Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra

CUJO has performed in numerous professional venues in the UK on national tours including the Bull's Head in Barnes, won gold awards in UK-wide big band competitions and has collaborated with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Laurence Cottle (2013), Stan Sulzmann (2012), Steve Waterman (2010), Issie Barratt and Mike Gibbs (2009), and Mark Nightingale (2007).

Carboniferous Limestone

Within Pembrokeshire the Carboniferous Limestone forms the spectacular coastal cliffs at St Govan’s Head along from which are features such as Huntsman’s Leap and the Green Bridge of Wales, a natural arch.

City of Cambridge Rowing Club

Records are scarce for the first part of the twentieth century, with results in both the Bumps and the Eight's Head on the Thames existing from the late 1940s onwards.

Ducklington

Today, Ducklington is notably for the rare Fritillary flower (mainly of the Snake's Head variety), many of which grow in a specially designated meadow just outside the village.

False Bay

Devil's Peak, Table Mountain, Lion's Head and Signal Hill form an amphitheatre along the western edge of the Cape Flats.

Hillhouse Avenue

Wolf's Head, built in 1883, designed by McKim, Mead & White, Richardsonian Romanesque with stepped end gables, former home of Wolf's Head Society.

Lion's Head, Ontario

It is a well travelled holiday spot on the coast of Georgian Bay.

Lisa Cuddy

When Edelstein heard she had to do a strip scene in the episode "House's Head", she called actress Sheila Kelley, wife of Richard Schiff (with whom Edelstein had worked previously on The West Wing and Relativity).

Marsha Dietlein

Dietlein has guest starred on numerous TV shows including Herman's Head, Night Court, Walker, Texas Ranger, Matlock, Without a Trace, Gossip Girl, Third Watch, Law & Order Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Mr. Niko


He has just finished "Blaise le Blasé - Fred's head" for Teletoon and France 2 as Animation Director, and has just finished co-directing a new show for TV Loonland and Carpe Diem Film & TV: "My Life Me".

Old Queen's Head

These ponds, which formed in the area where the Porter Brook meets the River Sheaf, are now gone, but are commemorated in the local names Pond Street, Pond Hill (formerly Pond Well Hill) and Ponds Forge.

Reed Alexander

Also to Reed's credit are several television and movie appearances, including performances in NBC's Will & Grace, Cartoon Network's Out of Jimmy's Head, and the film Magnus, Inc.

Rhodes Memorial

An alternative memorial to him never materialised: a massive "colossus of Rhodes" statue overlooking Cape Town from the summit of Lion's Head, rather like the statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Roberto Benabib

He has also served as a writer on a number of other television series, including Doctor Doctor, Herman's Head, Ally McBeal and Tilt.

Saracen's Head

The Saracen's Head is the name formerly given to a group of late medieval buildings in Kings Norton, Birmingham.

Shooting an apple off one's child's head

One related story turns the motif on its head: after matching him in swimming and in other shooting contests, King Olaf of Norway converted Eindriði Pansa (the Splay-Footed) from heathenry by shooting at either a chess piece or a writing tablet on Eindriði's son's head.

Henning Wulf, or von Wulfen, of Wewelsfleth in Holstein sided with Count Gerhard in 1472 and was banished by King Christian I of Denmark.

Sonargöltr

As Jacob Grimm pointed out, the serving of a boar's head at banquets and particularly at Queen's College, Oxford may also be a reminiscence of the Yule boar-blót.

St Abb's Head

There are at least 10 different kinds of butterfly on the Head including the Northern Brown Argus which is a nationally rare butterfly in the UK.

The butterflies drink nectar from the flowers of the Wild Thyme and the caterpillars eat the leaves of Rock Rose, the areas in which these two plants grow are protected from sheep grazing by fencing.

St. Aldhelm's Chapel, St. Aldhelm's Head

By 1873 the chapel had been reconstructed, the cost being born by the 3rd Earl of Eldon (1845–1926), who also presented the baptismal font.

St. David's Head, Bermuda

It is the easternmost point of the territory, and is located in St. George's Parish.

Three Peaks Challenge

The challenge comprises ascending the three major peaks above Cape Town, namely Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and Lion's Head.

Woggle

The New Zealand Scouts sometimes use a plastic Woggle in the shape of a traditional Maori carved head, more commonly though warranted leaders trained to Gilwell Woggle standard are allowed to wear the "traditional" leather Turk's head woggle.


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