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3 unusual facts about Rake


Rake.

It was rumored that the band chose its name from indie rock "supergroup" Velvet Monkeys' album Rake, which was released on Rough Trade Records in 1989, about a year before Rake's first single.

Throughout the 1990s, a relationship cemented via their principal label, VHF Records.

VHF Records

The label was founded by Bill Kellum in 1991, originally to release a single each by his own band, Rake, and that of his friends, Wingtip Sloat.


Agri-Fab, Inc.

Other products made by Agri-Fab are ground-engaging attachments (rock rake, disc cultivator, row crop cultivator, scraper box, tow-behind tiller), an ATV/UTV compatible rough-cut mower, 15 and 25 gallon tow-behind sprayers, and a Mow-N-Vac and Chip-N-Vac (both with Briggs & Stratton engines).

Albert Lieven

He appeared on the London stage in 1939 in the comedy Rake's Progress (Not the later Rex Harrison film of the same title), but was largely acting in films (among them The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943).

Bangers and mash

Peter Sellers recorded a song with Sophia Loren, "Bangers and Mash" (1961), extolling their virtues: "No wonder you're so bony Joe, and skinny as a rake. Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make".

Bromborough Rake railway station

Bromborough Rake railway station is one of two stations serving the Bromborough area of the Wirral, England.

CHDI-FM

Former bands of the month include: Drive By Punch, The Red Threat, Screwtape Lewis, Murder City Sparrows, Jets to Theory, Red Shag Carpet, Our Mercury, Whitey Houston, Mark Birtles Project, Casanova Playboys, Calico Drive, Rake, Ellis, The Surgents, Tim Gilbertson, Hot Panda, Radioforhelp, Greater Than Giants, Portal, Michael Rault and the Mixed Signals, Christian Hansen and the Autistics, and Parachute Penguin.

Danger Theatre

In the final telecast of Danger Theatre on August 22, 1993, Tropical Punch was replaced by a segment entitled 357 Marina del Rey, which starred Todd Field as Rake Rowe and Ricky Harris as Clay Gentry in a spoof of shows centered around private detectives living and working in sun-and-fun vacation locales, such as 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, and Hawaiian Eye.

Despencer

Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer (1708–1781), English rake, politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, founder of the Hellfire Club

Digitoxin

In The Decemberists's song, "The Rake's Song" on the The Hazards of Love album, the narrator murders his daughter by feeding her foxglove.

Elizabeth Polwheele

Her comedy The Frolicks was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre in 1671; it features Claribell, a witty Restoration heroine, and Rightwit, a rake.

Ernest Bour

World premières he presided over included works by Bussotti, Ferneyhough, Górecki, Ligeti, Rihm, Stockhausen and Xenakis, and he gave the French premières of Hindemith's Symphony Mathis der Maler and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and the European premiere of Susman's Trailing Vortices.

Paul Hamburger

He was also coach at Glyndebourne Opera, working on Fidelio, Alceste, The Rake’s Progress, Arlecchino, many Rossini and all the Mozart operas.

Rake and Ramblin' Man

"Rake and Ramblin' Man" is a song written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams.

Robert Heath

From 1629 he was taking an entrepreneurial interest in the lead mines of Derbyshire, engaging Sir Cornelius Vermuyden as partner in a major drainage operation at Wirksworth, at the ore-rich Dovegang Rake.

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Rake takes multiple adrenaline shots, managing to wound one infected soldier and kill another before freeing Dax, but then kills herself because she has also been infected.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

Tony Tough 2: A Rake's Progress

In addition, the game (like other works inspired by Hogarth's The Rake's Progress (as well as his A Harlot's Progress)) follows the regression of the main character and the loss of the qualities which made him human in the first place.

Union of Eclipses

Their secret architect is the vampire god Kanchelsis; they meet in his home, the Lair of the Beast & Mansion of the Rake on the 487th layer of the Abyss.


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