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unusual facts about The Pale



John Plunkett, 3rd Baron of Dunsany

In 1474 he was a founder member of the Brotherhood of Saint George, a short-lived military guild which was charged with the defence of the Pale (the part of Ireland under secure English control), and which was for some years the only English standing army in Ireland.

Milo Sweetman

In 1374 he defeated an attempt by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, William de Windsor, to dispense with the Irish Parliament by ordering the clergy and laity of the Pale to attend the English Parliament.

Nicholas Netterville, 1st Viscount Netterville

Although an enemy accused them of being "but a mean family" the Nettervilles had been in Ireland since c.1280 and established at Dowth since before 1500; they were related to many of the leading families of The Pale including Lord Howth and the Luttrells of Luttrellstown Castle.


see also

A. glauca

Agoseris glauca, the pale agoseris, prairie agoseris or short-beaked agoseris, a flowering plant species native to North America from Alaska to Ontario to New Mexico

Astragalus scaphoides

The pale yellow flowers open in May and are visited by several species of bumblebees and solitary bees, including species from the genera Osmia and Anthophora.

Business Unusual

Some of the plot elements of Business Unusual (the Pale Man and the Irish twins Ciara and Cellian) form part of a trilogy of novels which began in Gary Russell's Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Scales of Injustice and concluded in his PDA Instruments of Darkness.

Copper Hoard Culture

Paul Yule, Beyond the Pale of Near Eastern Archaeology: Anthropomorphic Figures from al-Aqir near Baḥlāʾ, Sultanate of Oman, Man and Mining – T. Stöllner et al. (eds.) Mensch und Bergbau Studies in Honour of Gerd Weisgerber on Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Bochum, 2003, 537–542, ISBN 3-921533-98-8.

Diarmuid Lawrence

In 1990, his direction of Beyond the Pale won him the Golden Gate Award for Best Television Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Elyne Mitchell

Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the Australian Alps around Mount Kosciuszko in southern New South Wales and northern Victoria, the Snowy Brumby books recount the life of the pale palomino brumby stallion Thowra from his birth in The Silver Brumby (first published 1958) to Silver Brumby Whirlwind.

G. alba

Gentiana alba, the pale gentian, white gentian or cream gentian, a herbaceous flowering plant species

Glaucous

Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning "bluish-grey or green", from the Greek glaukós) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus), Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens), Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and Glaucous Tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa).

James Shulman

His dissertation, which examined how heroes made decisions in the complex world of Renaissance epic poetry, received the John Addison Porter Prize in 1993 and forms the basis of The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic (University of Delaware Press, 1998).

Jocotoco Antpitta

Its closest relative appears to be the Chestnut-naped Antpitta and the Pale-billed Antpitta, with which it forms a group of antpittas with uniform breast plumage and smoky-grey flanks.

Louis Bayard

His next novel, The Pale Blue Eye, is a murder mystery set at West Point in 1830, where the young Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet.

Macrosoma hedylaria

The pale chestnut brown color of the apex helps to distinguish M. hedylaria from M. conifera.

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Around that time, she also co-founded Beyond the Pale: The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour, a radio program aired weekly on WBAI (99.5 FM) which “mixes local, national, and international political debate and analysis, from a progressive Jewish perspective with the voices and sounds of contemporary Jewish culture”.

Menetries's Warbler

It is similar to female Sardinian and Subalpine Warblers but has plainer tertial feathers and more contrast between the pale back and dark tail.

Michael Taussig

He argues that we live in a state of emergency, citing Walter Benjamin, that is not ‘an exception but the rule.’ To show the universality of the nervous system he takes his reader through the heights of Macchu Picchu, the world of Cuna shamans, and the pale world of New York’s hospital system.

Pale Green Triangle

Graphium evemon, a sister species commonly known as the Lesser Jay but sometimes also referred to as the Pale Green Triangle

Pale-edged stingray

German biologists Johannes Müller and Friedrich Henle originally described the pale-edged stingray from seven syntypes, in their 1841 Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen.

The pale-edged stingray or sharpnose stingray (Dasyatis zugei) is a species of stingray in the family Dasyatidae, found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from India to the western Malay Archipelago and southern Japan.

Pale-faced Bulbul

The Pale-faced Bulbul is a distinctive subspecies of the Flavescent Bulbul which is sometimes considered a full species, Pycnonotus leucops.

Pale-footed Bush Warbler

The Pale-footed Bush Warbler usually associates with Themeda grasslands.

Papilio brevicauda

The pale green to creamish-green larva has black bands between segments with yellow spots on the black bands (these spots are orange in Cape Breton Island).

Sanford B. Dole

In Hawaiian, the pale and hair-like Spanish moss is called ʻumiʻumi-o-Dole, meaning "Dole's beard".

Synemon selene

The Pale Sun-moth (Synemon selene) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Temnora argyropeza

It is very similar to Temnora marginata marginata, but the forewing upperside is lacking the pale oblique line.

Tenome

Pan's labyrinth (El laberinto del Fauno, "Faun's Labyrinth"): In the Spanish movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, the main character (Ofelia) is given a second task which consists in retrieving an ornate dagger from the dungeon of a character known as "the Pale man", which resembles the Tenome.

The Dark Poets

Gary Lucas Album Beyond The Pale features many "Dark Poets" productions.

Following the release of Beyond the Pale"- Some Bizzare released 'the Judgement at midnight' (originally from their collaboration with Gary Lucas) on the Some Bizarre double album "The Only Failure is to Cease to Try" -

The Pale King

The first academic conference about The Pale King took place at the University of Antwerp in Belgium from September 22 to 23, 2011.

The Well's on Fire

Les Fradkin covered "Fellow Travellers" as part of a "Beyond The Pale" Compilation.

Thick-billed Flowerpecker

Unlike the Pale-billed Flowerpecker, it does not swallow the berries of Loranthus (some species now in genus Dendrophthoe) and instead wipes the seeds on a branch and feeds on the epicarp.

White tuna

Albacore tuna, Thunnus alalunga - the pale-fleshed tuna favoured by the canning industry, also known as shiro maguro, bin-naga maguro, or bincho maguro