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unusual facts about shanty


Dead Time: Kala

Kala (Dead Time: Kala), or also known as (The Secret) is a 2007 Indonesian film noir thriller directed by Joko Anwar and starring Fachri Albar, Ario Bayu, Shanty and Fahrani.


Ace Crawford, Private Eye

Shera Danese as Luana, a singer at The Shanty who lusted after Crawford.

Banana Boat

In the years 2002-2007 Banana Boat, working in collaboration with the Municipal Cultural Center in Łaziska Górne (Poland), acted as the organizer of the International Festival of Seasong and Shanty "Zęza";

Cyrano Fernandez

The movie is based on the romantic triangle between Cyrano (Edgar Ramirez), Cristian (Pastor Oviedo) and Roxanna (Jessika Grau) during the turbulent riots between a group of drug dealers and the neighbours of a shanty town in Caracas.

Drunken Sailor

Another American sailor of the 1870s, Frederick Pease Harlow, wrote in his shanty collection that "Drunken Sailor" could be used when hauling a halyard in "hand over hand" fashion to hoist the lighter sails.

Ernest W. Barrett Parkway

The North Barrett Reliever consisted of reconnecting the severed portions of Big Shanty Road, which from I-75's construction in the early 1970s until July 2012 ran only from Bells Ferry Road west under I-575 to Busbee Parkway.

Fiddler's Green

In the traditional shanty "New York Girls," as recorded by Tom Lewis on 1995's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Singer!, the last line sung by the sailor is, "Commend our bones to Davy Jones, our souls to Fiddler's Green."

Gabby Pahinui

It was impoverished at the time, very much resembling a shanty-town with small cluttered buildings and tin roofs falling apart.

Hardy Town, Gibraltar

The huts soon became a shanty town, situated out of range of the Spanish land batteries at a spot near the southern end of the peninsula, between the Naval Hospital and the South Barracks on the road leading to Europa Point (now Europa Road).

Kara Hui

In the early years, Hui's family resided in the poor shanty town of Rennie's Mill.

Mandy Salter

Mandy ends 1992 homeless and sleeping in a makeshift shanty.

Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio

After his school days where he often "sagged off" (Liverpool slang for skipping class), Shanty began working and meets his future bride, Mary Dee.

Port Isaac

Since the 1980s the village has served as backdrop to various television productions, including the ITV series Doc Martin and is home to the group Fisherman's Friends, sea-shanty singers.

The Ryans and the Pittmans

It is based on a traditional English capstan shanty, "Spanish Ladies", which describes headlands sighted on a sailor's homeward voyage through the English Channel.

The Saucy Arethusa

This song and the story of the ship is also the basis of a song by The Decemberists entitled "Shanty for the Arethusa".

William Ratigan

Ratigan made his home in Charlevoix, Michigan where he operated a small used bookstore in a fish shanty called The Dockside Press. In his latter years, he would spend winters in Dunedin, Florida.


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