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3 unusual facts about Taps


Angelica, New York

In July 1862, at Harrison's Landing (now Berkeley Plantation), Virginia, Norton, as regimental bugler, was the first ever to play "Taps", which was written then and there by Gen. Daniel Butterfield, the regimental commander.

Oliver the Eighth

She tells Ollie, "I hope you have a nice, long sleep", as the butler plays "Taps" on a trumpet.

Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song

The text was adapted from Whitman's Leaves of Grass (the Drum-Taps section), and Swayne (2011) describes it as the last of Schuman's pieces as, "a self-styled occasional progressive".


Boone and Crockett Club

Among the most noteworthy contributions are "The Vanished Game of Yesterday" by Madison Grant, "An Epic of the Polar Air Lanes" by Lincoln Ellsworth, "Aeluropus Melanoleucus" by Kermit Roosevelt, "Taps for the Great Selous" by Frederick R. Burnham, "Volcano Sheep" by G.D. Pope, "Three Days on the Stikine River" by Emory W. Clark, and "Giant Sable Antelope" by Charles P. Curtis.

Brew Keeper

as a Brew-On-Premise (BOP) brewery, later adding taps and a restaurant after it moved to North Ridgeville, Ohio in 2007.

Combretum erythrophyllum

The Southern Black Tit taps the fruit to check if there are larvae inside, when discovered they open the fruit and eat the larvae.

Darryl Ponicsan

Ponicsan also wrote the screenplays for the CBS movie A Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977), the movies Taps (1981), Vision Quest (1985), Nuts (1987), The Boost (1988), School Ties (1992), the HBO movie The Enemy Within (1992), and the CBS series The Mississippi (1983).

David Hewes

He provided the golden spike marking completion of the rail and he also planned connecting the railroad company's wires to Western Union so the taps of the silver hammer driving the golden spike in Promontory Point, Utah could be heard in San Francisco.

Drumagog

In the movie Happy Feet, Animal Logic used Drumagog to replace the taps of human dancers with samples of penguins walking.

Fort Henry, Ontario

Fort Henry was featured on the Popular Syfy network program Ghost Hunters, where members of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (also known as "TAPS") investigated for evidence of Fort Henry's notable paranormal activity.

John Warren Butterfield

Daniel Butterfield - his son, the Civil War General, credited with composing Taps

Mehmet Baransu

The Gendarmerie had obtained warrants for the phone taps by falsely representing the IMEI code numbers of the Baransus' phones as belonging to fictional Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) suspects.

Memorial Day

Charles Ives's symphonic poem Decoration Day depicted the holiday as he experienced it in his childhood, with his father's band leading the way to the town cemetery, the playing of "Taps" on a trumpet, and a livelier march tune on the way back to the town.

Military cadence

A variant of that cadence was used in the 1981 movie Taps filmed in Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne, Pennsylvania in 1980-1981, It appears in two versions in the film, both ending in the same cadence.

Mount Washington Hotel

The hotel was featured in two episodes of the television series Ghost Hunters, when it was searched by the TAPS paranormal investigation team on February 6, 2008.

News UK

The evidence uncovered by The Guardian apparently shows that many more figures were in fact the subject of phone-taps, including Nigella Lawson, Lenny Henry, Gwyneth Paltrow, John Prescott, Boris Johnson and Tessa Jowell.

Pembina oil field

It taps reservoirs in the Cretaceous formations of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin for oil and gas production.

Roto-Rooter

Roto-Rooter is featured in the SyFy television show Ghost Hunters (2004–Present) as the two founders of TAPS work for Roto-Rooter as plumbers in the company's Providence, Rhode Island branch.

Sanders Corps of Cadets Center

Among the exhibits are those honoring Texas A&M traditions such as the 12th Man, Silver Taps and Muster, as well as some of the Corps of Cadets' most cherished traditions: Aggie Band, Final Review, Fish Drill Team, Parson's Mounted Cavalry and Ross Volunteers.

Snare drum

Most modern militaries and scouting groups use the bugle alone to make bugle calls that announce scheduled and unscheduled events of the organization (from First Call to Taps).

Uhuru Kenyatta

Aljazeera's The Stream, which taps into the potential of social media to disseminate news, covered Uhuru's use of Social Media in their show.

Wouter Weylandt

A Bersaglieri band performed "Taps" at the beginning of the stage, while supporters held up condolence messages and replicas of Weylandt's race number, 108, as a token of respect along the route.


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