Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Lancashire Hotpots are a comedy folk band from St Helens, (historically part of Lancashire), England, formed in 2006. [1] The group perform and record songs about Lancashire, technology and British culture, such as "He's Turned Emo", "Chippy Tea" and "eBay Eck". [2] The group's songs make use of Lancashire dialect.
A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. Co-written (with Eugene Levy), directed, and composed by Christopher Guest, [3] the film is widely acknowledged to reference folk music producer Harold ...
Parsecs are used in astronomy to measure interstellar distances. A parsec is approximately 3.26 light-years or about 3.086×10 16 m (1.917×10 13 mi). Combining it with the "atto-" prefix (×10 −18) yields attoparsec (apc), a conveniently human-scaled unit of about 3.086 centimetres (1.215 in) that is used only humorously.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular ...
William Wallace – Scotland, knight who led a rebellion against England in the early 14th century. Lady Xian – China, warrior, politician, queen of the Hsien. Jan Žižka – Czech knight, commander of Hussite armies in the 15th century. Eleanor of Arborea – Sardinia, judge of Arborea and promulgator of the Carta de Logu.
Founded. 1874. Final issue. 1894. Country. UK. Funny Folks was a British periodical published between 1874 and 1894. It was published in London by Scottish newspaper proprietor James Henderson. It has been called "the first English 'comic' paper", [1] and "the model for all later British comics".
80 Of The Most Hilarious Car-Related Memes For Drivers And Their Passenger Princess To Enjoy. Ilona Baliūnaitė. September 9, 2024 at 1:12 AM. A car is more than just a means of getting from ...