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unusual facts about corky-fruited water-dropwort



Chicano Moratorium

The groups won the early support of the Denver-based Crusade for Justice, led by Rodolfo Gonzales, also known as Corky Gonzales.

Corky Carroll

Bruce Brown invites Corky to join the The Endless Summer promotional tour in order to promote the most famous surf movie of all time.

Corky Hale

From the 1950s through today, Corky has amassed a long list of performance and recording credentials, including sessions, TV shows and concerts with Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elkie Brooks, Tony Bennett, Billie Holiday, Harry James, Peggy Lee, James Brown, George Michael and Björk, to name a few.

Corky McCoy

In 2007, Columbia released the 6-CD box set The Complete On the Corner Sessions that included new illustrations by Corky McCoy.

Cricket dolls

Cricket had a younger brother named Corky, voiced by seven-year-old Edan Gross and released in 1987, and an older sister named Jill (voice actress currently unknown), both of whom operated in pretty much the same way.

Dropwort

The crushed leaves and roots have a scent of the oil of wintergreen (Methyl salicylate).

El Mokhtar

Black Stallion trainer Corky Randall also liked El Mokhtar, and, at Randall's urging, the movie studio bought out the entire 40-member syndicate in order to secure El Mokhtar for the second Black Stallion film.

Frank Scarabino

At the time, Scarabino's criminal activities were labor and construction racketeering, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion and murder, as he reportedly conspired to murder Daniel Annunziatta and even former Acting boss and captain, Gaetano "Corky" Vastola, in the early 1990s on the orders of John D'Amato, who had been recruited by John Gotti into take over the DeCavalcante crime family after the imprisonment of Riggi in 1990.

He was also charged with the murder of Fred Weiss, as well as conspiracy to the attempted murders of Daniel Annunziatta, Gaetano "Corky" Vastola and Louis "Fat Lou" LaRasso.

Hardington Mandeville

The rare French oat-grass is very abundant on the site and the fields are home to a wide variety of plant species, most notably adder's tongue, corky-fruited water-dropwort and large numbers of green-winged orchid.

Hardington Moor

The rare French oat-grass is very abundant on the site and the fields are home to a wide variety of plant species, most notably adder's tongue, corky-fruited water-dropwort and large numbers of green-winged orchid.

Lenticle

Lenticels: small brown corky spots on the surface of stems and roots of plants.

Liberty Village – Somewhere in Heaven

The film was produced and directed by David Sloma and features interviews with residents of Liberty Village, such as "Corky" Laing of the supergroup Mountain, who contributed the music for the film from recordings of his band Cork.

Lloyd Corrigan

Corrigan appeared on dozens of television programs, such as the uncle of Corky played by Darlene Gillespie in the Mickey Mouse Club serial, "Corky and White Shadow."

Mario Cantu

Although Cantu was able to rally support from Chicano activists such as Cesar Chavez and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez through the Mario Cantu Defense Committee, at the end he was convicted to five years probation, which made him the first American ever convicted for this crime.

Memphis-style barbecue

Many national supermarket chains including Walmart and Kroger now carry Corky's Dry Rub and Sauce in their stores.

Metrosideros robusta

The bark is usually brown or grey-brown and rather corky and provides an ideal stratum for the roots of epiphytic plants such as Astelia species and Freycinetia banksii (kiekie).

Water dropwort

Scientists at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Italy claimed to have identified hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata) as the plant responsible for producing the sardonic grin.


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