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9 unusual facts about whip


Carlos Enríquez Gómez

A transposition of the Rape of the Sabine Women to the Cuban fields, it is said that Enríquez had a horse brought to his workshop, tied Sara Cheméndez (his female model at the time) to the horse and had the animal lashed, in order to have a more realistic scene for the painting.

Gilbert Wilson

Gilbert "Whip" Wilson (born 1947), member of the New Jersey General Assembly

Helen Jones

In the cabinet reshuffle of October 2008, Helen Jones was promoted to a junior Government role in the position of Assistant Government Whip.

Jacob D. Green

Jacob at one point in time stole a couple of sweet potatoes, his master found out and ordered him to deliver a letter which he was sure contained an order to lash him.

Lucie Charlebois

She is the current MNA for Soulanges and Chief Government Whip.

Mary Creagh

In June 2009 she was made an assistant Government Whip in the Department of Health.

Michael O'Neal

O'Neal was twice elected to the office of Republican Whip.

Whip-Smart

Phair was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone on the week Whip-Smart was released, and by 1994 and 1995, she made a frequent number of television appearances, including the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and MTV's 120 Minutes.

Whip-Smart is the second album by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released in 1994, the follow-up to Phair's critically well received debut, 1993's Exile In Guyville.


Adrian Sanders

Following the 2001 election, Sanders was made the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Tourism, and was subsequently moved to the position of Deputy Chief Whip of the Party in Parliament.

Ballydehob

He won the NWA World title from Jim Londos in Boston on 30 June 1935, and was known as the "Irish Whip" in celebration of his famous throwing technique.

Baron Crofton

He sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Representative Peer from 1840 to 1869 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the three Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and in Benjamin Disraeli's first government.

Baron Ebury

His grandson, the fifth Baron, served as a government whip from 1939 to 1940 in the government of Neville Chamberlain.

Baron Raglan

His second but eldest surviving son, the second Baron, served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli.

Big Brother México

Congressman Jorge Kahwagi, minority whip of the Mexican Green Party in the Chamber of Deputees (equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives) of Mexico's Congress, shocked and angered many people in Mexico when he asked to be excused from his post in Congress to be sequestered for months inside the Big Brother House.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

Candice Nelson

She also served as a Special Assistant to former Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston and as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

The protagonist is 19-year-old Richter Belmont (Jin Horikawa), heir to the whip Vampire Killer and Simon Belmont's direct descendant.

Clive Betts

Betts was made an opposition whip under Tony Blair in 1996, and after the 1997 general election, he entered the government as an Assistant Whip.

Der Wixxer

At some point, a tourist couple from Bitterfeld gets lost in the woods and witness a murder: the Monk with the Whip gets overrun by a truck.

Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland

After Tony Blair became leader in 1994, he was keen to appoint a new Chief Whip and asked Foster to stand aside, in return for the promise of a seat in the Cabinet if and when Labour returned to power.

Diadema

Damon diadema, a species of arachnid, sometimes known as the tailless whip scorpion

Earl of Swinton

Lord Swinton notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (deputy chief government whip in the House of Lords) from 1982 to 1986 in the Conservative administration of Margaret Thatcher.

Egg Fu

He was a Chinese Communist agent, inexplicably shaped like an egg the size of a house, with a Charlie Chan-like speech pattern, who used his mustaches as whips against his enemies.

Francis Beckett

He has written a biography of his own father, John Beckett, a Labour MP from 1925 to 1931 and whip of the Independent Labour Party group of MPs; later chief propagandist for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and co-founder (with William Joyce) of the National Socialist League, who was interned during the second world war for his fascist activities.

Frank Cook

In the 2005 political year, the Public Whip found Cook to be the 38th most rebellious MP (out of 635) and he had recently become known for his dissent concerning the controversial ID Cards and Racial and Religious Hatred Bill.

Frankton, Indiana

Albert Henry Vestal, Republican, U.S. House of Representatives and House Majority Whip 1921 to 1937, was born and raised in Frankton.

Garfield Dunlop

Dunlop was appointed deputy government whip after his election, but was not given a cabinet position in the governments of Mike Harris or Ernie Eves.

Gbaja-Biamila

Femi Gbaja Biamila (born 1962), Nigerian lawyer, Action Congress politician, and Minority Whip of the House of Representatives

George Hamilton-Gordon, 2nd Baron Stanmore

After succeeding his father in the barony in 1912 Stanmore served as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) under H. H. Asquith and then David Lloyd George from 1914 to 1922.

Georgia during Reconstruction

African American legislator Abram Colby was pulled out of his home by a mob and given 100 lashes with a whip.

Ian Mearns

In March 2013 Ian resigned as PPS to Ivan Lewis in order to defy the Labour whip and vote against the Jobseekers (Back to Work Schemes) Bill which retroactively changed DWP rules relating to mandatory unpaid labour schemes for the unemployed.

Justin Rowlatt

During his time on Channel 4 News, he was a passenger on the train involved in the Hatfield rail crash in 2000, reporting that he "watched the carriages skid and whip around on the gravel besides the track".

Lida E. Harkins

Harkins was appointed House Majority Whip by former Speaker of the House Thomas Finneran in 2001.

Maritime mobile amateur radio

For FM operation on the 2 m band, the masthead vertical whip that is normally installed for marine VHF operation will provide good omni-directional, vertically polarised signals.

Mark Lennox-Boyd

He served as a government whip and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan

He was Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Tweedmouth from 1906 to 1907 and served in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and later H. H. Asquith as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1907 to 1910.

Meatballs 4

Ricky is the hottest water-ski instructor around and he has just been rehired by his former employer/camp to whip up attendance.

Municipal Reform Party

Frank Goldsmith, representative for South St. Pancras (1904–1910) and whip of the party.

Northern Ireland Conservatives

The sole exception, Stratton Mills, left the UUP and continued to take the whip for a further year, before joining the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

Parren Mitchell

Maryland House of Delegates majority whip Talmadge Branch was an early aide, Delegate Nathaniel Oaks volunteered in Mitchell's early campaigns, as did Delegates Sandy Rosenberg and Curt Anderson.

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes

Returning to politics in 1945, Buchan-Hepburn became Deputy Whip and then, in 1948, Chief Whip.

Ralph E. Chambers

As the R. E. Chambers Company, which he formed from the remains of Harry Traver's bankrupt firm, Traver Engineering, where he had been the chief engineer, he built such famous amusement park and carnival rides and attractions as The Whip, The Caterpillar,

Tadas Blinda

Another has it that his landlord, Duke Oginskis, ordered him to flog some serfs, became angry when he refused, and then struck Blinda with a whip.

Teo Ho Pin

He is also the Mayor of the North West Community Development Council (CDC) and a Deputy Government Whip.

The Girl with the Whip

The Girl with the Whip (German:Das Mädel mit der Peitsche) is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Anny Ondra, Werner Fuetterer and Sig Arno.

The Real Americans

They would continue to confront Los Matadores for the next several weeks with Zeb Colter coming out with a whip, mocking El Torito.

Vardariotai

Unlike the armed members of the Varangian Guard and the Paramonai regiment, they were equipped only with a whip (the manglabion) and a staff (the dekanikion).

Vicki Barnett

Vicki Barnett (born July 8, 1954) is the House Minority Whip of the Michigan State House of Representatives, and former mayor of Farmington Hills, located in Oakland County.

Victoria Square, Montreal

It features Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau outdoor entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station, a statue of Queen Victoria, the "Taichi Single Whip" sculpture by Ju Ming and trees lining its bounding avenues.

Whip Appeal

Jazz musician Charles Earland recorded a cover version of "Whip Appeal" which served as the title track from his 1990 album.


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