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John Waugh died in July 2018 and was survived by his wife Barbara, three children and six grandsons. Following his notable contribution to South African rowing, numerous trophies at the South African National Schools Championship Regatta are named after him including the John Waugh Trophy for Boys U14 Octuples, Waugh Trophy for Boys U14 Single Sculls and John Waugh Plate for Girls U14 Octuples.
Green states that in the 1800s, there was a riverboat based on the Berg River, also named Alabama (Alibama), that once a year used to deliver reeds to the harbor of Cape Town. Weavers used the reeds to braid bridal beds for Cape Malay brides; at Cape Town harbor, they sang: "There comes the Alibama . . . the Alibama that comes across the sea ...
"Boolavogue" is an Irish ballad commemorating the campaign of Father John Murphy and his army in County Wexford during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was composed by Patrick Joseph McCall in 1898, the centenary of the Rebellion.
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The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
"Sloop John B" (originally published as "The John B. Sails") is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription was published in 1916 by Richard Le Gallienne , and Carl Sandburg included a version in his The American Songbag in 1927.
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President Biden took a departing jab at Trump, saying that what the president-elect did was a "genuine threat to democracy.". Ahead of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol ...