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A shilling of George III, king at the turn of the 19th century.. The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, [1] is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of one shilling given to recruits to the armed forces of the United Kingdom in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, although the practice dates back to the end of the English Civil ...
The song became popular in the United States under the name "Kiss of Fire" after English language words written by Lester Allen and Robert Hill were added to the song. The English version of the song was first recorded by Louis Armstrong , and later became a number 1 charting song with over a million record sales for singer Georgia Gibbs .
Delilah Dirk is a series of action adventure graphic novels following adventures of the titular character, Delilah Dirk. [1] Written and illustrated by Tony Cliff, Delilah Dirk started as a webcomic, [2] and now consists of three full graphic novels and one shorter story.
"Sex on Fire" is the first single released from American rock band Kings of Leon's fourth studio album, Only by the Night. The song gave Kings of Leon their first number-one single in Australia, Finland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, charting at the top spot on digital downloads alone in the latter country, before its physical release.
Most of the lyrics came from a 19th-century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal appearance at Rochdale. It was one of three songs from the Sgt. Pepper album that was banned from playing on the BBC, supposedly because the phrase "Henry the Horse" combined two words that were individually known as slang for heroin.
The lyrics are alluded to in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, scene 1, when Grumio asks Curtis to prepare a warm fire for guests. [ 4 ] In the Netherlands the song is known as " Brand in Mokum [ nl ] " ("Fire in Amsterdam") [ 5 ] [ circular reference ] , which is said to refer to the Amsterdam revolt against Napoleon in 1813.
"MLK" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and is the tenth and final track on their 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire. An elegy to Martin Luther King Jr., it is a short, pensive piece with simple lyrics ("Sleep/Sleep tonight/And may your dreams/Be realized/If the thundercloud/Passes rain/So let it rain/Rain down on me").
The main chorus is sung by the entire cast of M*A*S*H in the episode "War of Nerves" (Season 6, episode 5) during a stress-relieving "bon-type-fire". The song is briefly heard in a scene of new army recruits marching in a parade in the 1930 film A Soldier's Plaything.