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"Limerick Rake" is a traditional Irish song whose composer is disputed. The lyrics are set to the tune of an earlier song titled "Agus fagaimid siúd mar atá sé". [1] The lyrics likely date to the late 18th century, as attested by the use of the place-name "Castletown Conyers" (which was still seen referred to by its former name "Castletown McEnyry" as late as 1763 [2]) and the mention of ...
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
While trying to retrieve it at night, they were caught by the revenue men, but explained themselves by pointing to the moon's reflection and saying they were trying to rake in a round cheese. The revenue men, thinking they were simple yokels, laughed at them and went on their way. But, as the story goes, it was the moonrakers who had the last ...
French frigate Poursuivante raking the British ship of the line HMS Hercule in the action of 28 June 1803. In naval warfare during the Age of Sail, raking fire was cannon fire directed parallel to the long axis of an enemy ship from ahead (in front of the ship) or astern (behind the ship).
English translation Meaning Pirunu kale diya nosele (පිරුණු කළේ දිය නොසෙලේ) A vessel filled with water does not make a noise when shaken. Those with little knowledge talk too much, while the well-informed remain silent.
Mallow, c. 1901. "The Rakes of Mallow" is a traditional Irish song and polka.The song is about the rakes from the town of Mallow, a town in County Cork. [1] The song was written about the Creagh family who came from Doneraile, seven miles away.
Moola Venkata Rangaiah, Indian film producer; Moola Narayana Swamy (born 1950), Indian film producer and entrepreneur; The Fabulous Moolah (1923–2007), ring name of professional wrestler Lillian Ellison
Raking (also called "raking ratio estimation" or "iterative proportional fitting") is the statistical process of adjusting data sample weights of a contingency table to match desired marginal totals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]