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unusual facts about Pig-Pen


Pigpen

Pig-Pen, a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts


Aldo Zargani

It has won three Italian awards (Ischia International Journalism Award, Premio Acqui Storia, Premio Sant'Anna di Stazzema) and was shortlisted for four prestigious literary prizes (Premio Viareggio, Premio Pisa, Premio Lucca and Pen Club Award).

Arapawa Pig

The Arapawa Pig is a feral breed of domestic pig (Sus scrofa) found on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

C.J. Stone

Christopher James Stone (born 16 June 1953), pen name C.J. Stone, is best known for his columns in The Guardian Weekend and The Big Issue.

Cauldron-Born

In the end, Ellidyr, son of Pen-Llarcau, gave his life in this manner.

Chistorra

In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are two different sorts of txistorra; one of them made only of pork meat and another made of lungs, boned pig head and the pancreas, called berika.

Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary

The most common mammal species of this sanctuary are – Hoolock Gibbon, slow loris, Pig-tailed Macaque, Stump-tailed Macaque, Capped Langur, Asian Elephant, Tiger, Black Panther, Leopard, Gaur, Chinese Pangolin, Himalayan Black Bear, Himalayan Squirrel, Leopard Cat, Clouded Leopard, Porcupine, Crab Eating Mongoose, Sambar, Sun bear, Binturong, Barking deer, Golden cat, marbled cat etc.

Dieter Cunz

He is also said to have co‑authored several detective novels or Kriminalromane in collaboration with Oskar Seidlin and Richard Plant (1910–1998) under the collective pen‑name of Stefan Brockhoff (q.v.).

Enver Mamedov

Enver Mammadov's mother's maiden name was Ivanov, and he occasionally used it as his pen name during his media career.

Filth Pig

The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor.

Georges-Paul Wagner

He has defended in court Jean-Marie Le Pen, as well as members of the OAS terrorist movement who tried to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle at Le Petit-Clamart in 1962.

Harcourt Mortimer Bengough

In his memoirs he gives an interesting account of his adventures in the realm of sport — pig-sticking, tiger-shooting, and pursuing other forms of game in India and elsewhere.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Hog calling

In "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", by P.G. Wodehouse the Empress of Blandings misses her first keeper, Wellbeloved, when he is sent to jail for a spell; her pining is worrisome to her owner (Lord Emsworth), with the big show approaching, until she is pepped up by James Belford's hog calling techniques, returning to her trough with enough gusto to take her first silver medal.

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

Iran Teymourtash

She became an active member of PEN International and André Malraux's International Association of Writers for the Defense of Culture.

Jack Mapanje

PEN's president, US novelist Larry McMurtry, stated that "the point of the award is to generate enough heat so Mapanje gets out of jail".

James Otis

James Otis Kaler (1848–1912) (pen name: James Otis), American journalist and author of children’s literature

Joaquin Dominguez

He inititally joined the Murrayfield team on a trial basis in September 2013, before putting pen to paper on a contract running until summer 2013, after impressing Head Coach Alan Solomons.

Joyce Carlson

Carlson created a pen-and-ink portfolio of her sketches several months after she began working at Disney, and presented it to her employers.

Katherine Marlowe

Katherine Marlowe, the pen-name of novelist Charlotte Vale-Allen

Lamy

Notable author Neil Gaiman wrote his book American Gods with his Lamy 2000, which he refers to as his "novel writing pen".

Le Pig-Al Patrol

The Inspector tries to stop a band of motorcyclists led by "Pig Al" from disturbing the peace.

Lib.ru

On April 1, 2004 the "KM Online" media company, which is known for forming its own library by copying texts from the other electronic libraries, issued a lawsuit against Maksim Moshkow's Library in the name of Eduard Gevorkian, Marina Alekseyeva (pen-name "Alexandra Marinina"), Vasili Golovachov and Elena Katasonova.

Mark Slouka

In 2011, Slouka received the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Essays from the Nick of Time.

Miserden

The battle and siege scenes in Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters (a pen name of Edith Pargeter) are set in the castle built by the Musard family, given the name of "La Musarderie" in the novel.

Misterton, Somerset

Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1853 - 1920) an English novelist under the pen name Helen Mathers was born in the village.

Moby Doll

Moby Doll was shown to the public in a pen at Burrard Drydocks but was listless and did not eat for the first two months in captivity.

Moccus

"Moccus" is a Gaulish word for "pig" or "hog", and Moccus may have been the protector of boar hunters among the tribe of the Lingones, where he was invoked at the tribal centre, Langres.

Pen-y-Bont railway station

The station is located closer to the villages of Crossgates and Fron than it is to Penybont itself, and is now the closest station to the town of Rhayader, about 9 miles to the west.

Pendennis

Pen, heartbroken, leaves home to study at St Boniface's college in Oxbridge.

Peter Pindar

Peter Pindar, a pen name of John Wolcot (1738–1819), satirist, born in Dodbrooke in Devon

Peter Spier

Like other children's illustrators such as Beatrix Potter or Christopher Wormell, Peter Spier demonstrates his talent and skills as an artist/illustrator using pen, ink and watercolour on paper.

Pig Business

Controversy also surrounds the half-owned Smithfield Foods pig sheds near the village of La Gloria, Mexico, where as many as 1,800 villagers living near the plant had already complained of respiratory problems and 400 had been treated before the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Pig-tailed macaque

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)

Pig's trotters

In the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Sybil Gordon (Alice Krige) are out to dinner when Sybil orders "her favorite" and Harold says, "for two".

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病).

Questionable Content

Penelope Gaines (often called Penny or Pen-pen over her objections, or will have her name pronounced to rhyme with "Antelope" to similar objections) is an employee of Coffee of Doom.

Richard Foster

Kendell Foster Crossen (1910–1981), American writer who used the pen-name Richard Foster

Sengkang Riverside Park

The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree, Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.

Simeon Ivanov

In February 2012, Ivanov was close to signing with A PFG club Vidima Rakovski, but eventually put pen to paper on a contract with second division side Akademik Sofia.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer hired to pen the script was Eric Bress, who has written scripts for the television show, Kyle XY.

The Eyes of the Dragon

Michael Taylor and Jeff Vintar will pen the script, with Taylor and Bill Haber as executive producers.

The Pingry EP

The EP features various rough demos of songs that would later be featured on their first full-length album, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, as well as two live tracks recorded at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan (one of which was merely a banter track), and one recorded live on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR Radio in Detroit, Michigan.

The Relief of Belsen

Eventually, after a raid on the hospital by the Luftwaffe, Gonin challenges Johnston's competence, calling him a "pen-pusher", but he has loyal friends who point to his past bravery.

Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

In his song "Lyon Presqu'île" on the album The Superb, Benjamin Biolay (born in Villefranche-sur-Saone) includes "round in pen" in his view of the main monuments of the city.

Tracy Tormé

"The Royale" and "Manhunt" went through such significant rewrites and treatments before being filmed that Tormé insisted he not be credited directly; using the pen names Keith Mills and Terry Devereaux respectively.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Welsh Dragon

Note that Arthur's father was named Uther Pendragon ('Pendragon': 'Pen' (Head) and 'Dragon', being translated by Geoffrey as "dragon's head").


see also

Tickler file

More recently the concept was re-introduced to popular culture through various self-help books as Pam Young and Peggy Jones' 1977 book Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pig-Pen to Paradise, FlyLady Marla Ciley, Chris Crouch's book Getting Organized, David Allen's 2002 book Getting Things Done and Merlin Mann's website 43 Folders, whose name comes from one popular method for maintaining a tickler file.