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unusual facts about The Bottle


Alabama State Route 147

In 1939, the state of Alabama constructed the original segment of SR-147, connecting U.S. Highway 29 in downtown Auburn to what was then U.S. Highway 241 (now US-280) at The Bottle.



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1720 in poetry

Edward Ward, The Delights of the Bottle; or, The Compleat Vintner

A Wizard of Mars

Young Wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan become part of an elite team investigating the mysterious, long-sought 'message in the bottle' that holds to the first clues to the long-lost inhabitants of Mars.

Allagash Brewing Company

The technique calls for two fermentations, the first in the fermenting tanks and the second in the bottle itself (a process known as the methode champenoise).

Carnival Legend

On August 21, 2002, during the christening ceremony, Judi Dench took three attempts to smash the bottle against the ship's hull, aided by ship's captain Claudio Cupisci.

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

Chelsea Bun House

The bottle-conjuror is exhibited in a toy of his own age; portraits are also displayed of Duke William and other noted personages; a model of a British soldier, in the stiff costume of the same age; and some grotto-works, serve to indicate the taste of a former owner, and were perhaps intended to rival the neighbouring exhibition at Don Saltero's.

Do the Motion

With U was used in a Lipton Tea commercial (the beginning of BoA's endorsement by Lipton) and showed BoA drinking a new flavor of the iced tea on a grass covered hillside and then jumping and dancing in the field with the bottle.

Dysbarism

But if we move quickly to a lower ambient pressure, then the gas comes out of our blood and tissues violently, in large bubbles, like to the difference between slowly opening a bottle of soda (dropping the pressure in the bottle slowly down to sea level), versus ripping the cap off quickly.

Egg Harbour

The main objections were to the bottle neck at the Darwin/Goose Green isthmus, which was heavily guarded by Argentine troops, and would have prevented an effective assault on Stanley.

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

Robert Louis Stevenson admired Fouqué's story "The Bottle Imp" and wrote his own version (The Bottle Imp)

Goofy Groceries

This gorilla stares at the female performers and smiles, he then begins his attack attempting to abduct one of the "Can Can Dancers"; Jack Bunny sees this and rides a bottle of "Horse Radish" while an army of "Navy Beans" and "Turtle Soup Turtles" shoots at the gorilla, who defends himself with a Roman candle while at one point destroying the bottle of Horse Radish that Jack is riding.

Grenadine

The 1971 song "Brown-Eyed Woman" written by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia and performed by the Grateful Dead contains the lyrics: Brown-eyed women and red grenadine/the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

Insurgency weapons and tactics

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline/petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

Jaime Crespo

He is also the guitarist and front man of the musical group The Bottle Rockets which have been best described as loud, interpretive Americana (the Stooges meet Lightnin' Hopkins).

Oregon Bottle Bill

The 2007 legislature also created a task force, charged with making recommendations for further updating of the Bottle Bill to the 2009 legislature.

Plymouth Gin

The front of the bottle depicts the ship, Mayflower, based upon the fact that when the Pilgrim Fathers set out for their journey to the new world, bad sea conditions and damage forced them to put into Plymouth harbour for shelter and essential repairs.

Reverse vending machine

The bottle/can is then automatically rotated; the bottle/can is then scanned by an Omnidirectional UPC Scanner, which scans the beverage container's UPC.

Rothaus

Tannenzäpfle literally means "little fir cones" and is a reference to the shape of the bottle.

Sailor Jerry

As the bottle is emptied, additional Pin-up girls designed by Sailor Jerry are visible on the inner side of the label.

Tap the Bottle

"Tap the Bottle" is the first single released from the Young Black Teenagers' second album, Dead Enz Kidz Doin' Lifetime Bidz.

The Beer Store

In the film Strange Brew the McKenzie Brothers visit a Brewers Retail store demanding a refund after they attempt to return a bottle of beer that contained a mouse (the mouse was however placed in the bottle by the brothers).

The Bottle Inn

It was named The Bottle Inn sometime late in the 18th Century when it became the first inn in the area to sell bottled beers.

The Holy Modal Rounders

While working for his wife, Betsy Wollheim, as submissions editor of DAW Books Stampfel formed the Bottle Caps, releasing Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps (1986) and The People's Republic of Rock n' Roll (1989), as well as an album of standards, You Must Remember This (1994).

The Well-Groomed Bride

Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years.

Year of the Comet

The bottle changes hands several times as the parties race across Europe from the Scottish Highlands to Èze.