Whirlaway

Whirlaway (April 2, 1938 – April 6, 1953) was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse. The chestnut horse was sired by English Derby winner Blenheim II, out of the broodmare Dustwhirl. Whirlaway was bred at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Trained by Ben A. Jones and ridden by Eddie Arcaro, Whirlaway won the U.S. Triple Crown in 1941.

He was voted the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt in 1940 by Turf & Sports Digest magazine. The rival Daily Racing Form award was won by Our Boots.

Background

Jimmy Jones, son of the colt's trainer, recalled that "Whirlaway was a creature of habit. You had to create habits for him. So we created the habits we wanted him to do." The champion colt had a habit of "bearing out," drifting toward the middle of the racetrack, during the latter part of his races and losing as a result. In preparations for the Kentucky Derby, this had been such a problem that trainer Ben A. Jones fitted the colt with a full-cup blinker over his right eye. In Whirlaway's final workout before the Derby, Jones cut a small hole in the blinker so that the horse had a tiny field of vision. Jones positioned himself ten feet off the inner rail and told jockey Eddie Arcaro to ride the horse through that space. Whirlaway was able to see his trainer, Arcaro was able to keep him on a straight path, and Whirlaway won the Kentucky Derby by tying the current (as of 2015) record margin of 8 lengths.

Whirlaway (album)

Whirlaway (1999) is the fourth and final full length studio album released on CD by Tadpoles and is the first Tadpoles' album to be released by a label other than the band's own Bakery Records. Australian independent label, Camera Obscura Records, licensed and released the album worldwide. As a promotion in 1999, an edited MP3 version of the song "Whirlaway" was given away free from by Camera Obscura Records through their website. Additionally, this was the first studio album by Tadpoles not produced by Mark Kramer (Shimmy Disc) at Noise New Jersey, although Mark Kramer did record the album's final track, Horse and Buggy at New York City's Knitting Factory. The album was recorded by Pete Drivere at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, Ohio and features a cover version of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes classic, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere.

Track listing

  • "Frances The Dancer" (Max/Parker) – 5:04
  • "Lyman Bostock" (Kramer/Max) – 5:01
  • "Crash Of The Bug" (Parker/Max) – 7:53
  • "Jimmy Colored Glasses" (Parker) – 5:38
  • Golden (band)

    Golden is an American rock band formed in 1993 on April 7th in Oberlin, Ohio. Since Golden's members are also involved with other, more well-known bands, Golden is often considered more of a side project than a full-fledged band in its own right.

    Golden's sound is an amalgamation of many rock styles, but also includes rhythms and influences of many styles from around the world (likely due to guitarist Ian Eagleson working as an ethnomusicologist).

    Members

  • Ian Eagleson - guitar, vocals (member of Extra Golden)
  • Alex Minoff - guitar, vocal (member of Weird War, Extra Golden, The Make-Up and Six Finger Satellite)
  • Jon Theodore - drums (ex-member of The Mars Volta and Royal Trux, currently a member of Queens of the Stone Age)
  • Phillip Manley - bass (member of Trans Am and The Fucking Champs)
  • Discography

    Albums

  • Here comes the Golden Fuzz (Slowdime, 1997)
  • Golden (Trans Solar, 1998)
  • Super GOLDEN Original Movement (Slowdime, 1999)
  • Golden Summer (Slowdime, 2000)
  • Apollo Stars (National Record Label, 2002)
  • Gold (color)

    Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of yellow-orange color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold.

    The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).

    The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold and in 1423 to refer to blond hair.

    Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold-tone. In heraldry, the French word or is used. In model building, the color gold is different from brass. A shiny or metallic silvertone object can be painted with transparent yellow to obtain goldtone, something often done with Christmas decorations.

    Metallic gold

    Gold (metallic gold)

    At right is displayed a representation of the color metallic gold (the color traditionally known as gold) which is a simulation of the color of the actual metallic element gold itself—gold shade.

    Kasakela Chimpanzee Community

    The Kasakela chimpanzee community is a habituated community of wild eastern chimpanzees that lives in Gombe National Park near Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. The community was the subject of Dr Jane Goodall's pioneering study that began in 1960, and studies have continued ever since. As a result, the community has been instrumental in the study of chimpanzees, and has been popularized in several books and documentaries. The community's popularity was enhanced by Dr Goodall's practice of giving names to the chimpanzees she was observing, in contrast to the typical scientific practice of identifying the subjects by number. Dr Goodall generally used a naming convention in which infants were given names starting with the same letter as their mother, allowing the recognition of matrilineal lines.

    Podcasts:

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    Golden Rule

    by: Powderfinger

    Golden rule,
    That applies to you.
    A zero sum,
    Puzzle of our love.
    Even just to say the name was bitter on the tongue,
    Well the boy sailed off to riches and the girl sailed off with none.
    Another in a broken line of love that she had known,
    Another silver tongue but mercury hearted bag of no good bones.
    A beauty queen,
    Fraying at the seams,
    Could never be,
    Quite enough for me.
    Even just to say the name was bitter on the tongue,
    Well the boy sailed off to riches and the girl sailed off with none.
    Another in a broken line of love that she had known,




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