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unusual facts about quill


Quill

Goose feathers are most commonly used; scarcer, more expensive swan feathers are used for larger lettering.


Arthur Moss

In 1917, he returned to Greenwich Village, founding The Quill with partner Harold Hersey and was managing editor and wrote articles.

Ballyvourney

The top 15 surnames (after aggregating for common misspellings) recorded, from greatest to least, are: Lynch, Keleher, Twomey, Healy, Lucey, Quill, Leehane, Murphy, Riordan, Sweeny, Herlihy, Buckley, McCarthy, Creedon, Dinneen.

Birmingham pen trade

In Newhall Street, John Mitchell manufactured pens; he pioneered mass production of steel pens (prior to this, the quill pen was the most common form of writing instrument).

Blotter

Blotting paper, used to absorb ink or oil from writing materials, particularly when quill or fountain pens were popular

Brian Tatler

After the spilt, Tatler joined Thin Lizzy tribute act, Dizzy Lizzy, before joining up with the Celtic rock band, Quill.

Charles Hawes

Born in Clifton Springs, New York, he was raised in Bangor, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1911 where he was "editor of The Quill and a devoted student of the classics".

Covington Latin School

Paul G. Bens, Jr. '80, former Hollywood casting director/producer and author of the Black Quill Award-winning novel "Kelland."

Disability publications in the U.S.

Douglas Lathrop explained in the Society of Professional Journalists The Quill that these rights-based publications sprung up because many in the disability community were tired of the persistent negative media stereotypes of people with disabilities as inspirational or courageous in the mainstream news media.

Edwin Mortimer Hopkins

He was a founder of the Quill Club, the English Journal, and the Kansas Association of Teachers of English.

Federfechter

In their Deutsches Wörterbuch, the Brothers Grimm hold it plausible that it derives from the custom of pinning feathers to one's hat or lance, but the coat of arms accorded to the brotherhood by Rudolf II displays two arms each holding a quill (schreibfeder), inducing the Grimms to speculate that the brotherhood may merely have originated as the fencing guild of the professional scribes.

Gerard Whateley

In 2001, Whateley accepted the chief reporter's position at Seven News, winning the Quill Award for the Most Outstanding News Report for an investigation that revealed a wanted US criminal had lied to enter Australia to win a Melbourne radio station's Valentine's Day competition.

Happy Trails Animation

• 2004: Winter / En Hiver - Animated in a quill pen style; an homage to illustrators like Edward Gorey (Received Telly Award, Crystal Heart Award ).

Hudson's Bay tokens

Before these brass tokens came into use, a Made-Beaver was represented by a stick, porcupine quill, and ivory disc, a musket ball, or anything else agreed upon by trader and trapper.

International School Manila

High-achieving students of ISM High School are eligible for induction into the Cum Laude Society, the National Honor Society, the Tri-M Music Honor Society, the Quill and Scroll Society for high school journalists, and the French Honor Society.

Jack Miller

Jack Miller Center, a non-profit organization founded by the former CEO of the Quill Corporation

Jeffrey Quill

After Jeffrey Quill's death in 1996 the British aviation society, the Air League, created a new award in his name, and since 1997 they have awarded the Jeffrey Quill Medal annually "for an outstanding contribution to the development of air-mindedness in Britain’s youth".

Mammed Said Ordubadi

His famous works include "Dumanlı Təbriz" (Foggy Tabriz) (1933–1948) and "Qılınc və qələm" (Sword and Quill) (1946–1948).

Mike Quill

Quill's IRA record of service was confirmed by his commanding officer John Joe Rice, Kerry 2nd Brigade years later to Quill's widow Shirley.

Noel Alumit

His heralded debut novel, Letters to Montgomery Clift (MacAdam/Cage), received the 2003 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association for literature, the Violet Quill Award from Insight Out Books, the Global Filipino Literary Award from Our Own Voice and the Gold Seal from ForeWord Magazine.

Quill drive

Quill drives were used by many electric locomotives in the United States, particularly those of the Pennsylvania Railroad—their long-lasting GG1 design being perhaps the best known.

Seiki Shimizu

At that time, chartists drew their candlesticks on a scroll of rice paper, from right to left, with a crow quill and India ink ground by hand.

Spaceknights

In Annihilation: Conquest Prologue, Galadorian ships and Spaceknights appear over the Kree homeworld Hala where the space hero Peter Quill (Star-Lord) has arranged for them to demonstrate a new defense program known as "A-ware".

The Porcupine's Quill

Early in The Porcupine's Quill's history, Tim Inkster contacted friends he met during his time at the University of Toronto to publish their work, such as collections of poetry by Ed Carson and Brian Henderson.

Woodward, Oklahoma

Two months later the proclamation admitting Oklahoma as a state was signed by Theodore Roosevelt with the quill from an American Golden Eagle captured near Woodward.


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