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unusual facts about keg



Keg Johnson

Around 1928, in Kansas City, Keg and Budd played in several bands but by 1930 Keg left for Chicago to play with Louis Armstrong, recording his first solo on Armstrong's Basin Street Blues album.

Keggy the Keg

Keggy is an anthropomorphic beer keg, created in 2003 by members of the college humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, to fill the mascot void that followed the abolition of the Indian mascot in 1971.

Mineola, Iowa

This community on the highlands east of Keg Creek was first established as Lewis City during construction of the Wabash Railroad.

Powder keg

Powder keg is also used in literature as in the lyrics of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart: "We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks".

Powder keg of Europe

The "Powder keg of Europe", sometimes alternately known as the "Balkan Powder Keg", refers to the Balkans in the early part of the 20th century preceding World War I.

Separated Vegetables

Recorded at the Keg, Glover Park, Washington, D.C., June 13, 1977 ("Streets of Your Town", "What Ya Gonna Do About It", "No Money Down", "Creep Skin", "What a Boy Can't Do '77")

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.

The Keg of Nails

The Keg of Nails is a traveling trophy in college football, awarded since 1929 to the winner of games between the Universities of Louisville (U of L) and Cincinnati (UC), cities now connected by Interstate 71.


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