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6 unusual facts about wick


Chaplin's Patent Distilling Apparatus with Steam Pump

It is known that from 1864-1870, Xantho operated out of Wick, West Sussex and was permitted to take excursions to sea.

Knucker

An alternative legend has the dragon outwitted by a local farmer's boy, called Jim Pulk or Jim Puttock, said in some versions to be from Wick, after the Mayor of Arundel offered a reward.

Schur product theorem

Using Wick's theorem to develop \langle X i^2 X j^2 \rangle = 2 \langle X i X j \rangle^2 + \langle X i^2 \rangle \langle X j^2 \rangle we have

Wick, Gloucestershire

Nearby Blue Lodge was once the home of Black Beauty author Anna Sewell and Tracy Park on the Bath Road (now a golf club called The Park) was thought to be the inspiration for Black Beauty's Birtwick Park.

Wick, West Sussex

An Alleyway or Twitten that passes by the site of the former True Blue public house, is known locally as 'Dark Alley' due to the black clinker surface laid down along its route.

Wick, Worcestershire

After Parr's death in 1548, the house went to Sir Anthony Babington who was executed in 1588 for his part in the plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I.


Capillary action

Some textile fabrics are said to use capillary action to "wick" sweat away from the skin.

Charles Z. Wick

Wick also established the Voice of America's Radio Marti broadcasting to Cuba; created RIAS TV in Berlin; headed the International Youth Exchange Initiative; established an office within USIA to implement the General Exchanges Agreement between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union; and created the Artistic Ambassador Program with its international young artists' exchanges.

David R. Morrison

David Morrison founded the Wick Festival of Poetry, Folk and Jazz and is the author or editor of numerous works, including books of poetry and essays, and including those on the works of Neil M. Gunn and Fionn MacColla.

Debashis Mukherjee

Mukherjee in collaboration with Werner Kutzelnigg developed such methods starting from his generalized Wick’s theorem.

Donald Shaw Ramsay

He undertook the pipe-majors’ course at Edinburgh Castle under Willie Ross and subsequently became Pipe Major of the 10th H.L.I. out of Wick.

Drew Cam

Both Drew and Kate work hard to advertise the products, but Mr. Wick soon tells them that the viewers do not think they have chemistry, and he replaces Kate with Isabel (Rosa Blasi), another Winfred-Louder employee.

Far North Line

Beyond Golspie, the railway continues along the coast as far as Helmsdale, then inland up the Strath of Kildonan and then across the Flow Country to Halkirk and back to the east coast at Wick.

Harmsworth Park

It was bought and gifted to the town of Wick by a businessman, Leicester Harmsworth, as a recreation park.

Helmut Wick

Returning from this mission to Cherbourg- Querqueville, Wick ordered the aircraft refueled and re-armed.

Highland Amateur Cup

Avoch played Wick Groats in the final on 4 August 2012, at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium, Inverness.

Houses of the Blooded

Wick credits the game system to two chief inspirations: octaNe by Jared Sorensen and the FATE System by Evil Hat Productions.

Ingleby Barwick

Ingleby is derived from Old Norse Englar+by and means 'farmstead or village of the English man', Barwick is Saxon in origin, Bere is Saxon for barley and Wick means farm.

Insurgency weapons and tactics

A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline/petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.

Jesus Christ in comparative mythology

Modern scholars such as Martin Hengel, Barry Powell, and Peter Wick, among others, argue that Dionysian religion and Christianity have notable parallels.

Lighter fluid

Naphtha or white gas, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used in wick type lighters

Matthew Cooperman

Includes a Residency Fellowshipat the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the E. Marvin Lewis Award from WeberStudies, the Wick Chapbook Prize from Kent State, the Billie Murray Denny Poetry Prize,the Jovanovich Prize from the University of Colorado, and five Pushcart nominations.

Nathaniel Wade

Nathaniel Wade, born around 1666, was the third son of John Wade of the Wick-house, Arlingham, Gloucestershire.

Neil J. Gunther

1989, he developed a Wick-rotated version of Richard Feynman's quantum path integral formalism for analyzing performance degradation in large-scale computer systems and packet networks.

New York and Queens

As they arrive at the theater, they are surprised to see that their film has been replaced with The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which Drew's enemy Mimi Bobeck (Kathy Kinney), Mr. Wick and other office workers have come to see.

Rescue 77

The third member of the team, Wick Lobo (played by Christian Kane), is a young, energetic rookie eager to prove himself.

Selly Park

W. H. Auden (1907–1973), who briefly lived in the grounds of Selly Wick House.

Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

Buckmaster was the third son of John Charles Buckmaster, of Ashleigh, Hampton Wick, by his wife Emily Anne (née Goodliffe), and was educated at Aldenham and Christ Church, Oxford.

Sugar pie

The largest producer of these pies is Wick's Pies, whose plant is twenty-five miles north of Richmond, Indiana, in Winchester, Indiana, and makes 750,000 sugar cream pies a year.

Tessa's Troopers

After being diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at age 8, Tessa Wick and her family Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Sarah Wick and Julia Wick founded Tessa's Troopers as a walk team for JDRF's annual Walk to Cure Diabetes in 2000.

Thomas Sweatt

He was linked to the fires though DNA evidence found at two scenes where a finger print, some skin cells on a wick, and a single hair all matched Sweatt's genetic profile.

Ulting Wick

Ulting Wick is a four acre garden in Essex, created around a 16th-century farmhouse.

Vicus

Wych naturally became one of the most widely occurring common placename elements e.g. Wick, Wyck, Hackney Wick, Gatwick, Exwick, Wickham, Aldwych, Dulwich, Ipswich, Norwich, and indirectly York, from Eoforwic via Old Norse Jorvik.

Wick Airport

On 21 May 1941, a photographic reconnaissance Supermarine Spitfire piloted by Flying Officer Michael F. Suckling took off from Wick, and flew to Norway, in search of the German battleship Bismarck.

William W. Wick

In 1844, Wick was re-elected to congress serving until the expiration of the Thirtieth Congress in 1849, not having been a candidate for renomination.


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