horse-knacker
11yard — noun 1 piece of land next to a building ADJECTIVE ▪ front ▪ back (usually backyard), rear (esp. BrE) ▪ church (usually churchyard), farm (usually …
12horses — In folk tradition, horses were regarded as very vulnerable to supernatural attack; in particular, their night sweats and exhaustion were interpreted as due to hag riding by witches or fairies, from whom they must be protected by holed stones.… …
13Harry Paget Flashman — Brigadier General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE (5 May 1822 – 1915) is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser, but based on the character Flashman in Tom Brown s Schooldays , a semi autobiographical work by Thomas… …
14Boxer (Animal Farm) — Boxer is a fictional horse from George Orwell s Animal Farm , he is the farm s most hard working and loyal worker. He serves as an allegory for the Russian working class who helped oust the Czar and establish the Soviet Union, but were eventually …
15Irish Traveller — For other uses of the term see Traveler. Irish Travellers ( ga. Lucht siúil) are an itinerant people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. It is estimated that 25,000 Travellers live in Ireland, between 200,000… …
16Mary Ann Nichols — Born 26 August 1845(1845 08 26) Dean Street, off Fetter Lane, London Died 31 August 1888(1888 08 31) (aged 43) Spouse William Nichols Children …
17Patrick Bergin — Infobox actor caption = Stylized rendition birthdate = Birth date and age|1951|2|4|mf=y birthplace = Dublin, Republic of IrelandPatrick Connolly Bergin (born February 4, 1951) is an Irish actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the menacing… …
18Going a Traveling — is Tale 143 from Grimm s Fairy Tales . Synopsis A long long time ago there lived a mother and her son. The son told the mother that he wanted to go out a traveling. The mother was very worried about it since they were very poor. The son told her… …
19Open Fist Theatre Company — The Open Fist Theatre is both a 501(c)(3) non profit theatre company and 99 seat theatre facility in Theatre Row Hollywood located at 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. The name of the Open Fist Theatre Company comes from two principles: the notion of an… …
20knackered — adj British exhausted. This is not, strictly speaking, a slang word as it derives from knacker , denoting a worn out horse or a slaugh terer of horses, but has come to be seen as slang because of confusion with knackers, in the sense of testicles …
