* Pongo the Pirate, puppet character from Gerry Anderson's TV series Torchy the Battery Boy ( 1958 – 1959 )

The gibbons ( hylobatidae ) and orangutans ( genus Pongo ) were the first groups to split from the line leading to the humans, then gorillas followed by the chimpanzees and bonobos.

After passing the Pongo de Huaracayo ( or Guaracayo ), the cerros, or hills, gradually disappear, and for a distance of about the river is full of islands, and there is nothing visible from its low banks but an immense forest-covered plain known as the selva baja (" low jungle ") or Peruvian Amazonia, home to indigenous peoples such as the Urarina of the Chambira Basin, the Candoshi, and the Cocama-Cocamilla peoples.

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.

* Pongo Twistleton, book character from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred stories from the 1930s to 1960s

* Janice " Pongo " Footrot, comics character from Murray Ball's strip Footrot Flats ( 1975 – 1994 )

When Scotland Yard is unable to determine the thieves or find the puppies, Pongo and Perdita use the " Twilight Bark ", normally a canine gossip line, to ask for help from the other dogs in London.

The Millers won four Association pennants during the 1910 – 23 tenure of " Pongo Joe " Cantillon, then were managed from 1924 – 31 by another legend, Michael Joseph Kelley, one of the great figures of American Association history.

** Pongo, a dog originally from the strip Polly Wolly Doodle and her Great Big Poodle.

Pongo is already in residence and has committed two rank floaters: accidentally smashing a whatnot from Sir Aylmer's collection of African curios, and ( in the course of demonstrating how Brazilian natives kill birds with rude slings ) smashing a coveted bust of his host.

The original character had sung a song which began: " My name is Ali Bongo and I come from Pongo, pong-tiddley-pongo land.

The Yavari River runs from Peru to Brazil, the Putumayo River serves as part of the border with Colombia, and the Ucayali and Marañón rivers penetrate Loreto after going through the Pongo de Manseriche.

* Caricatures of Fats Waller and the Mills Brothers sing a scat-style rendition of the song in the cartoon " The Isle of Pingo Pongo " from the Merrie Melodies series.

Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile as well as in the short stories " Uncle Fred Flits By " and " Tried in the Furnace ".

Using the strings that manipulate the puppet, suspend him from the light fixture by tying the strings to the lamp base.

However, from about 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state.

), one or two popular comedians, a singing star, a hot jukebox favorite, a figure from the legitimate theater, and for the kids, a visit with puppet " Topo Gigio, the little Italian mouse.

Four Feather Falls was the third puppet TV show produced by Gerry Anderson for Granada Television, from an idea by Barry Gray.

Another puppet ( from the waist up ) was also designed that had a nozzle in the mouth to spray out liquid mist simulating Godzilla's fire breath.

Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert " Nick " Nicholson from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November.

The Mughals suffered sever blow due to invasions from Marathas and Afghans due to which the Mughal dynasty were reduced to puppet rulers by 1757.

After Soviet forces remained in Eastern and Central European countries, with the beginnings of communist puppet regimes in those countries, Churchill referred to the region as being behind an " Iron Curtain " of control from Moscow.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

By June 2003, the lower house of Parliament announced that President Akayev and two other " puppet " leaders of Kyrgyzstan, from the Soviet era, would be given lifetime immunity from prosecution, raising the prospect of Akayev finally stepping down.

Article 11 allows a clear distinction between sovereign and puppet states, the latter ones being excluded from international recognition of statehood.

Salò, a nickname for the Italian Social Republic ( RSI ) ( because Mussolini ruled from this northern town rather than from Rome ), which was a puppet state of Nazi Germany.

* Middle-Eastern theatre – the most popular forms of theatre in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre ( which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions ) and live passion plays known as ta ' ziya, in which actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history.

The Second East Turkistan Republic was a Soviet puppet Communist state which existed from 1944 to 1949 in what is now Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.

* April 6 – WWII: Sarajevo is liberated from the Nazi Germany and Nazi Croatia ( German puppet state ) by the Yugoslav Partisans.

Apart from another short occupation by Venice ( 1527 – 1529 ), Ravenna was part of the Papal States until 1796, when it was annexed to the French puppet state of the Cisalpine Republic, ( Italian Republic from 1802, and Kingdom of Italy from 1805 ).

Louis himself obtained much support from the Imperial Free Cities and the knights and successfully resisted Charles, who was widely regarded as a papal puppet (" rex clericorum " as William of Ockham called him ).

Instead, the attacker acts as a " puppet master ," instructing clients of large peer-to-peer file sharing hubs to disconnect from their peer-to-peer network and to connect to the victim's website instead.

* November 17 – ( Julian calendar ) John Balliol is selected by King Edward I of England as King of Scotland from among 13 candidates ; Edward then treats John as a puppet ruler and Scotland as a vassal state, eventually provoking the Wars of Scottish Independence, commencing in 1296.

This convention was an idea borrowed from the puppet handlers of bunraku theater, who dressed in total black in an effort to simulate props moving independently of their controls.

* Giant Phoenix puppet from 2001 NY Village Halloween Parade

He has arms so long that additional puppeteers are required to guide them ; this design enabled Henson to work the Dr. Teeth puppet while another performer acted as Dr. Teeth's ' hands ' in order to play the keyboard.

In 1967, Hetherington was consulted by the Foundation ; and, with the initial notion of strongly augmenting the work of the Dental Health Educators, he was responsible for establishing the " Smiley's Good Teeth Puppet Theatre ", starring a new puppet, Smiley (" a little boy who gets toothache because he has not looked after his teeth properly "), that delivered performances based on a script that had been produced in collaboration with the Foundation, that featured all of its desired preventive dentistry messages.

The show, and its associated Good Teeth Club — to which Hetherington, having emerged from behind the puppet stage, would invite the delighted children to join at the end of each of his performances ( Anon, 1970 ) — was immensely popular with the school children immediately it began its operation.

The 6000 SUX was designed by Gene Winfield of Winfield Rod & Custom, while Chiodo Brothers Productions fabricated and animated the dinosaur puppet in the 6000 SUX commercial.

The original producer, Gavin Disney, left the program in the 1980s and Somers then jointly formed his own production company, Somers Carroll Productions, with on-screen partner Ernie Carroll, the performer of Somers ' puppet sidekick Ossie Ostrich.

Muppets Tonight is a live-action / puppet television series created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets.

The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss is an American live-action / puppet television series based on characters created by Dr. Seuss, produced by Jim Henson Productions.

In 2001 Channel Seven Productions enlisted puppeteer and puppet builder Warren Duxbury to rebuild Agro when the original Agro had deteriorated beyond repair.

He has written both book and music for Other Hand Productions ' puppet productions of Snow Queen and Pinocchio.