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unusual facts about Wild, Wonderful Purgatory



A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

The unidentified narrator recites the tale as told by Bedloe, delivered after his late return from one of his customary long rambles in the Ragged Mountains, "the chain of wild and dreary hills that lie westward and southward of Charlottesville."

Andrist

There are two mountains called Andrist in Switzerland: Wild Andrist (means "wild Andrist") has an altitude of 2849 m asl; Zahm Andrist (means "tame Andrist") has an altitude of 2648 m asl.

Arthur Worthington

John Dunmore: Wild Cards: Eccentric Characters from New Zealand's Past: Auckland: New Holland: 2006: ISBN 1-86966-132-X

Baulk Head to Mullion

The SSSI contains several plant species listed in the Red Data Book of rare and endangered plant species, such as Hairy Greenweed, the moss Pottia starkenna, part of the Pottiaceae family, Fringed Rupturewort (Herniaria ciliolata) and the only recently recorded instances of wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum).

Beka Lamb

Beka's father (Bill Lamb) cuts down Beka's favorite tree (a bougainvillea) as a sign that the wild ways Beka had picked up must stop at once when she finally tells him that she has failed her exam.

Bekisar

The male is used in East Java, Bali and the surrounding islands in popular vocal competitions; this practice has caused the decline of wild Green Junglefowl populations.

Big year

In 1953, Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher took a 30,000 mile road trip visiting the wild places of North America.

Buck Jam Tonic

Buck Jam Tonic is a double album of improvised music by John Zorn, Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura released on the Japanese Wild Disc label in 2003 and consists of one disc mixed in Tokyo and another mixed in New York City.

Cascade, Colorado

Grouse, squirrels, birds and some wild animals are native to the canon.

Chief Blue Horse

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months.

Cincinnati Red

He soon renamed himself to Cincinnati Red and joined the National Wrestling Conference, where he debuted on March 17, 1995 in a three-on-one handicap match, which he, RJ Rodriguez and The Wild Renegade lost to SWAT.

Clianthus puniceus

The species is critically endangered in the wild, known only on Moturemu Island in the Kaipara Harbour.

Coastal plain cooter

Coastal cooters are frequently exported for consumption and the pet trade, with about 60% wild caught individuals and 40% captive bred.

Coclé Province

Coclé is also home to APROVACA orchid conservation center, which conducts orchid conservation activities, including orchid reintroduction into the wild and a sponsorship program for the Panamanian national flower Peristeria elata.

Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song

"Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind) is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta, The Wigwam, sometime before 1847. Alexander Lee composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!

Dagny Tande Lid

She is also represented in several of the popular papers and books by Danish-Canadian botanist Erling Porsild, including Edible plants of the Arctic (1953), Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957), and Rocky Mountain wild flowers (1974).

Domestic sheep predation

The only wild animal known to attack sheep in New Zealand is the rare, unusual kea parrot endemic to the country's South Island.

Donagh O'Leary

He has been a member of many UK bands including The Wild Frontiers, Dave Vanian & The Phantom Chords, Naz Nomad & The Nightmares, Tenpole Tudor and played as a session player with Marc Almond and Peter Perrett.

Dorothea Diana of Salm

Wild- and Rhinegravine Diana Dorothea of Salm (25 July 1604 in Criechingen – 19 December 1672 in Wörth) was the daughter of Wild- and Rhinegrave John IX of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen and his wife, Baroness Anna Catherine of Criechingen and Puttigny.

Dymock

Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.

Empty World

The death of the girl (and earlier her 4 year old brother) leaves Neil the sole survivor of Winchelsea, and after deciding that Winchelsea is becoming dangerous - due in part to packs of wild dogs - he leaves for London, taking first a manual Mini which he has difficulty driving, followed by an automatic Jaguar.

Francis Hallé

In 2010, he and Luc Jacquet have started to collaborate for a Wild-Touch film project, La Forêt des pluies, a documentary about primary forests.

Frank Lentini

His career spanned over forty years and he worked with every major circus and sideshow including Barnum and Bailey and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Galanthus

Louise Glück wrote a poem called "Snowdrops" in her book, The Wild Iris.

Great Smokies Wildflower Pilgrimage

The Spring Wild Flower Pilmgrage is a week long event held in Great Smoky Mountains National Park annually in late April.

Greifensee, Zürich

The excellent condition of the timber relicts allows dendrochronological dating to the year 1051 B.C. Weaving spindles made of clay, tools, needles and fishing hooks from bronze, charred wild apples and cereals have been conserved.

Homeosis

Homeotic mutants in angiosperms are thought to be rare in the wild: in the annual plant Clarkia, (Onagraceae), homeotic mutants are known where the petals are replaced by a second whorl of sepal like organs, originating via a mutation governed by a single recessive gene.

Ibrahim Heski

British author and adventurer Rosita Forbes described him as the hero of the region was a wild and gallant freebooter called Ibrahim Agha Huske Tello.

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless ("À bout de souffle"), when Patricia claims to prefer to take "grief rather than nothing"; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney "consoles" Sloan while waiting in front of the school.

Jasminum multipartitum

Starry Wild Jasmine is naturally found in the woodlands of the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal, as well as inland as far as Johannesburg.

Liam Dickinson

He has picked up a reputation as a "wild boy" for his late night partying – his agent, Phil Sproson, said that the reason he regularly moved from club to club was because he was "no angel".

Mal.com

Another episode features Mal filming a program called "Mal vs. Wild" a parody of Man vs. Wild where Mal ingests insects as Bear Grylls does, and in the same episode during an awkward scene they reference Prank Patrol.

Mugger crocodile

In the 1980s, the largest population of wild crocodiles in Tamil Nadu, South India lived in the Amaravathi Reservoir, and in the Chinnar, Thennar and Pambar rivers that drain into it.

Orange Cinéma Séries

Content is provided by exclusive contracts with Warner Bros., HBO, MGM and Fidelity as well as non-exclusive contracts with Gaumont, SND, BAC and Wild Side.

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

For a few minutes, Julia narrates over footage of wild animals (actually taken from the documentary Animals Are Beautiful People).

Pashupati seal

Doris Srinivasan has argued that the figure does not have three faces, or yogic posture, and that in Vedic literature Rudra was not a protector of wild animals.

Peña Bajenza

The formation has several hiking and climbing trails and is home to colonies of Griffon Vultures and other wild birds such the Egyptian Vulture in summer.

PowerHouse Books

They partnered with Charlie Ahearn on Wild Style: The Sampler, a behind the scenes look at Ahearn's 1982 film Wild Style, considered the first hip hop film.

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

So of the Aryan folk; not the Vedas, not the Avestas, not the Iliad, or the Nibelungenlied, or Beowulf, but the marvelous tale of what the Aryan man has lived—how he has subdued the wild and waste lands—how he has made the desert to blossom as the rose—how he has built up empire with ax and plow, and has sailed the unknown paths of the seas—these are his true race epic.

Ray Herman

Orbit's titles included The Westerner (featuring Wild Bill Pecos), Love Diary, Patches and Wanted Comics, and contributing artists included Syd Shores, Bernard Krigstein and Mort Leav.

Robert A. Wild

On September 25, 2013, it was announced that Wild would become interim president of Marquette University effective October 16, 2013, through August 2014, upon the resignation of Rev. Scott Pilarz.

Seen the Light

The video ends with a wild audience applauding 1950s teen idol Fabian Forte, and finally a preacher proclaiming; "When you get to heaven, it'll all be out, and over."

Shaolin Kung Fu

The 1970s television series Kung Fu starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk on the run in the Wild West whose Zen (Ch'an) training is tested along his journey.

Simón de Roxas Clemente y Rubio

For almost two years he travelled about the Granada, Jeréz de la Frontera and Sanlúcar areas collecting samples of wild and cultivated plants, observing agricultural practices, noting soil characteristics, micro-climates, and the adaptation of the flora to their natural environment.

Siniša Martinović

Siniša Martinović (born Tuzla, December 19, 1980) is a Croatian professional ice hockey goaltender who currently plays for the Schwenninger Wild Wings of the 2nd Bundesliga.

Skiu-Kaya

Wheat and vegetables are cultivated by villagers, who also harvest wild seabuckthorn berries.

The Lady Is a Square

Baring and her daughter attend Burn’s concert where to their surprise he performs Handel’s Ombra mai fu with the National Youth Orchestra, to wild applause from his fans.

Türst

While Türst is said to be a ghost in Horw, he is known to be the leader of the wild hunt, who appears in a green hunting suit in Rickenbach.

Wet meadow

A few of many possible examples include species of Rhexia, Parnassia, Lobelia, many species of wild orchids (e.g. Calopogon and Spiranthes), and carnivorous plants such as Sarracenia and Drosera.

Wild gourd

Citrullus colocynthis, thought to be the wild gourd mentioned in the Bible


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