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2 unusual facts about Jack o' the Green


Jack o' the Green

Jack o' the Green, Jack in the green, role in English-folk-culture traditions for May Day

... is the title of a 2003 album by Jools Holland and his Small World Big Band and friends; it's also the title of a track on that album, co-written by Holland and Suggs (singer) -->


Craig Noel

He fostered the careers of numerous actors and directors who later achieved fame, including Jack O'Brien, Marion Ross, David Ogden Stiers, Kelsey Grammer, Kandis Chappell and Jonathan McMurtry.

Greenfield, California

On February 27, 2008, Greenfield Elementary was placed under "Intensive" help due to the school's failure to raise their Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Results under the No Child Left Behind Act for the past five years by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell.

Herbert Brunwin

In the single first-class match in which he played, Brunwin, a tailender, made two runs before a first-innings declaration in an innings in which team-mates Reginald Taylor, Jack O'Connor and Stan Nichols each scored centuries.

Jack Kent

Jack o' Kent, an English folkloric character based in the Welsh Marches

Jack O'Brian

The House probe, led by Congressional investigator Richard N. Goodwin, resulted in the dramatic admission by the man who had defeated Herb Stempel on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren, that the program was fixed.

Jack O'Brien

Philadelphia Jack O'Brien (1878–1942), American Boxer, former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world

-- doubtful notability; esp. since question of whether things like vital stats are known even to enthusiasts at oddballcomics.com -->, see Sad Sack

Young Jack O'Brien (unknown), American Boxer, younger brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien

Jack O'Shea's

In November 2008, O'Shea's opened a counter in Selfridges food hall, on Oxford Street.

John Smallwood

Jack O'Newbury, born John Smallwood, sixteenth-century cloth merchant and patron of Newbury, Berkshire, England

Long Beach Studios

Long Beach Studios is managed by Jay Samit, a former Sony and Universal executive and Jack O'Halloran, a former boxer and character actor.

Mel Gussow

In 2008, Gussow was inducted posthumously into the American Theater Hall of Fame at the same time as actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, the actors John Cullum, Lois Smith and Dana Ivey, the director Jack O'Brien, the playwright Peter Shaffer, and the librettist Joseph Stein.

Meri Utrio

Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief, Dog of the North (translation to Finnish 1957)

Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief to the Rescue (translation to Finnish 1957)

Jack O'Brien: The Return of Silver Chief (translation to Finnish 1958)

Metro Santa Cruz

The newspaper commemorated its 15th anniversary in April 2009 with a photographic tribute to prominent Santa Cruzans, including wet suit inventor Jack O'Neill, musicians Greg Camp and Dale Ockerman, former California secretary of state Bruce McPherson and others.

Nicholas Rush

Carlyle replied "My style is not what you’ve been doing. I can adapt and I can change and stuff like that, but I don’t think I would necessarily want to specifically for this," further saying he was not in the same mold as Richard Dean Anderson (Jack O'Neill) and Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard).

Pale Horse Coming

He assembles a group of six legendary gunmen (who are based on Elmer Keith, Jack O'Connor, Audie Murphy, Charles Askins, Bill Jordan, and Ed McGivern) with the promise of real action for a just cause and readies them for an assault on Thebes.

Safari Press

In 1987 the company released five titles including With a Rifle in Mongolia by Count Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, From Mount Kenya to the Cape by Craig Boddington, and Hunting on Three Continents by the late Jack O’Connor, which was a compilation of stories from Petersen’s Hunting magazine.

Siôn Cent

In later tradition he was connected to the Marches folklore figure John of Kent or Jack of Kent but this figure is likely to be a combination of several people rather than just him.

Vernon Loeb

He is co-author of the books King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East with Jack O'Connell and All In: The Education of General David Petraeus with Paula Broadwell.

Weatherby Mark V

This is due in part to Roy Weatherby who presented the rifles to royalty, politicians, gun writers and actors including Prince Abdorreza Pahlavi of Iran, Generals James Doolittle (USAF) and Chuck Yeager (USAF), Jack O'Connor, Warren Page, Elgin Gates and Lorne Greene and was able to use this fact as a marketing tool.


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