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unusual facts about cane



Alfred Diete-Spiff

Taking this as a deliberate insult, Diete-Spiff's aide Ralph Iwowari had the reporter's head publicly shaved and had him beaten with 24 lashes of a cane.

Amauta cacica

The Sugar-cane Borer Moth (Amauta cacica) is a moth in the Castniidae family.

Aracaju

Oil wealth, sugar cane cultivation, and more recently tourism continue to stimulate its growing economy.

Artistička radna akcija

Radnička Kontrola members: vocalist Zoran "Cane" Kostić who formed the popular garage punk band Partibrejkers, and drummer Srđan Todorović who later played with Disciplina Kičme, Ekatarina Velika and Kazna Za Uši, and in parallel started a successful acting career

Ayodhya Prasad

In order to earn money for his trip, he acquired some land in Yalalevu, Ba and started cane farming.

It took Ayodhya Prasad until 1950 to rebuild the Kisan Sangh so that it was again the largest farmers' organisation in Fiji with support extending to the northern cane farming areas in Vanua Levu and a new farmers' union allied to the Kisan Sangh active in the Rewa area.

Babushka Lady

In the 1992 film Ruby, the character of Candy Cane, portrayed by Sherilyn Fenn, is shown in Dealey Plaza with a camera and not wearing a babushka scarf.

Billy Tauzin III

Tauzin bested a crowded field in the primary and faced Democratic challenger Charlie Melancon, a long-time lobbyist for the sugar cane industry, in the runoff.

Brother Cane

Lead singer Damon Johnson has been involved in numerous projects since the demise of Brother Cane, including Red Halo, Slave to the System (a band that also features long-time Queensrÿche drummer Scott Rockenfield), and Whiskey Falls.

Bryan, Ohio

However, it is best known for two very famous products made by companies headquartered in the city—Dum Dum suckers made by Spangler Candy Company (as well as much of the world's candy cane production) and the Etch A Sketch (now manufactured in China) made by Ohio Art Company.

Captain Paul Montford

When Jenny Williams and Bela the gypsy were found dead in the woods, with Talbot's silver-headed cane nearby, Montford came to suspect his old friend, not believing his wild story about a wolf biting him.

Charles Thomson

James Searle, a close friend of John Adams, and a delegate, began a cane fight on the floor of Congress against Thomson over a claim that he was misquoted in the "Minutes" that resulted in both men being slashed in the face.

Cocolo

In the Dominican Republic, "Cocolo" is used only to refer to Caribbean descendants who came to the cities of San Pedro de Macorís, Puerto Plata, and other areas to work on the docks and sugar cane plantations at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Cricket bat

The current design of a cane handle spliced into a willow blade through a tapered splice was the invention in the 1880s of Charles Richardson, a pupil of Brunel and the first chief engineer of the Severn railway tunnel.

Ella Du Cane

Ella Mary Du Cane was the third and youngest daughter of politician and colonial administrator Sir Charles Du Cane.

Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

Van Dyck painted one other major portrait of Charles I with a horse: Charles I at the Hunt (Le Roi à la chasse, c.1635, now in the Louvre), which depicts Charles standing next to a horse in civilian clothing, as if resting on a hunt, wearing a wide-brimmed Cavalier hat and leaning on a walking cane, gazing at a coastal scene; a picture of "gentlemanly nonchalance and regal assurance".

Fighting Fascism in Europe. The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War

Having fought earlier as a member of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Spanish Republic against the Fascist forces of General Francisco Franco, Lawrence Cane enlisted in the U. S. Army as a committed anti-fascist and with extensive combat experience.

Green room

In 1735, actor Charles Macklin got into a quarrel with Thomas Hallam (another actor) over a wig and killed the other actor in the green room by accidentally thrusting his cane through Hallam's eye at Drury Lane.

Guatemala, Cuba

In the first half of the 20th century, the village was a sugar cane processing center owned and operated by the United Fruit Company and named in honor of one of the company's founders, Andrew W. Preston.

Hacienda Luisita

Americans brought the centrifugal-based machinery which doubled the production of the estate and therefore did not require the cane to be loaded onto a truck to Laguna to be squeezed in the haciendas there, including those of the Roxas and Zóbel families.

Hey Kid, Catch!

An ad for the Fox TV series House, first aired during the 2011 Super Bowl XLV, parodies the original ad with a similar scene in which Dr. House, played by Hugh Laurie, throws his cane to a young fan played by Preston Bailey.

History of Guadeloupe

They came from the Coromandel Coast, Puducherry, Madras, Calcutta and Malabar, and were hired to work in the sugar cane fields.

Jaapi

Jaapi is made of tightly woven bamboo and/or cane and tokou paat (Trachycarpus martianus a large, palm leaf.

James Keteltas Hackett

Zukor tried to convince Hackett in person, and as Neal Gabler writes, "When Hackett came to visit Zukor, he was the very picture of the faded matinee idol. He wore a fur-collared coat with frayed sleeves and carried a gold-headed cane".

Jean du Quesne, the elder

Others of his direct descendants became senior British military officers, including Major-General Sir Edmund Frederick Du Cane (1830-1903) and General Sir John Philip Du Cane (1865-1947), who was also Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1926 to 1930.

John Du Cane

John Du Cane and Pavel Tsatsouline are also credited with starting the modern kettlebell fitness movement in the USA in 2001 with the manufacture of kettlebells in the US and the creation of the world's first kettlebell instructor certification program.

Kidatu

The primary economic activity is the large Illovo sugar cane plantation and factory which produces 130,000 tons of sugar per year.

La Chonita Hacienda

La Chonita is a 200 + year old former hacienda which is still a working cacao and sugar cane farm along with some tourist services.

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Other Board members: Hugh Bullock, James Cane, Philip Carne, Kay Ellen Consolver, Kevin Fitzmaurice, Paul Gismondi, Anthony Gordon-Lennox, Patricia Hodge, Paterson Joseph, Victoria Legge-Bourke LVO, Timothy Oakley, Mark Schnebli, Sue Stapely, Richard Szpiro, Thomas Vaughan.

Lost frog

Populations of cane toads ahead of their main frontier, such as the former population at Port Macquarie, are believed to be displaced toads moved from areas in Queensland.

Lotus effect

Superhydrophobic and self-cleaning properties can also easily be demonstrated in many other plants, for example Tropaeolum (nasturtium), Opuntia (prickly pear), Alchemilla, cane, and on the wings of certain insects.

Martanda Sydney Tondaiman

In 1938, while travelling between Cannes and Paris, Sydney met with a road accident and was left with a limp, which allowed him to use a Faberge cane that enhanced his already elegant appearance.

Monosodium glutamate

During fermentation, selected bacteria (coryneform bacteria) cultured with ammonia and carbohydrates from sugar beets, sugar cane, tapioca or molasses, excrete amino acids into the culture broth from where L-glutamate is isolated.

Narva culture

One of the most famous artifacts is a ceremonial cane carved of horn as a head of female elk found in Šventoji.

Quincha

Quincha is a traditional construction system that uses, fundamentally, wood and cane or giant reed forming an earthquake-proof framework that is covered in mud and plaster.

Richard Jenrette

Since the 1960s, Jenrette has bought and restored a series of significant historic American homes including Robert William Roper House in Charleston, SC; Millford Plantation in South Carolina; Ayr Mount in North Carolina; Estate Cane Garden on St. Croix; the George F. Baker House in New York City; and Edgewater, in Barrytown, New York.

She Bop

There were many double entendres indicating the song's true meaning, including a magazine that Lauper is staring at titled "Beefcake" and other sexual meanings such as the "self-service" sign and three gas pumps with the signs Good, Better and Nirvana in the cartoon part of the video, the vibrating motorcycle, the "masterbingo" part of the video with "Uncle Siggy" Sigmund Freud as host, and Lauper wearing blackout glasses with a white cane in several scenes of the video.

Sombrero Vueltiao

It is made out of Gynerium sagittatum known locally as caña flecha, a type of cane that grows in the region.

Taito Waqavakatoga

He is better known for his proactive role in organising the harvest of sugar cane in the Labasa and Seaqaqa districts, during a harvest boycott by farmers protesting the 1987 1987 military takeover by Sitiveni Rabuka.

Tatanua mask

Tatanua face masks are normally carved from lime wood and completed and decorated with fibres from sugar cane, wool and other animal hair.

Tavua District

Its main economy is sugar cane, although the establishment of Tavua township was the result of a gold mine in Vatukoula, which is in the interior of Viti Levu but easily accessible from Tavua.

The Landlord's Game

In a 2004 episode of PBS' History Detectives (title: Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane), the show investigated a game board belonging to a Delaware man, having an intermediate version of a game combining elements of The Landlord's Game and Monopoly.

The Medallions

Green – who walked with a cane as a result of childhood polio – put together a singing group with three friends from Fremont High School, Andrew Blue (tenor), Randolph Bryant (baritone), and Ira Foley (bass), and named them the Medallions because of his own penchant for wearing medallions around his neck.

The Price of Sugar

The documentary shows the poor working conditions in the sugar cane plantations, and political control exerted by the Vicini family to stifle efforts to change the situation.

The Sugarman 3

The band has released three studio albums—Sugar's Boogaloo (1998), Soul Donkey (2000), and Pure Cane Sugar (2002)—and one compilation album, Sweet Spot (2001).

Thunee

Ramsamy Naidoo, the sardar at the sugar cane estate of De Charmoy and Angel at La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, and his friends are credited with inventing the exciting six-card game during 1872.

William Macmichael

Macmichael's The Gold-Headed Cane was published anonymously in 1827 with biographies of the owners of a cane carried by John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Anthony Askew, William Pitcairn and Matthew Baillie.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).


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