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Drake and mentioned
In both Korb and Drake, public policy was mentioned as a possible cause of action.
* A city named Drake is mentioned in Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss as one of the communities visited by the traveling circus.
Langley was mentioned in the first episode of the TV series Ashes to Ashes, in February 2008, when DI Alex Drake, played by Keeley Hawes mentions Langley, Virginia, most famous as home to the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Campbell Cove near the entrance of the harbor from Bodega Bay is sometimes mentioned as a possible landing site of Francis Drake on the coast of North America in 1579.
He is briefly mentioned cooing sadly following Professor Xavier's funeral when Bobby Drake ( Iceman ) visited Kitty.
Other rappers such as Mac Miller, Drake, Xzibit, 2Pac, Nas, Dr. Dre, Krayzie Bone, Snoop Dogg, Onyx, Wu-Tang Clan Eazy-E, MC Ren, Eminem, 50 Cent and have mentioned the liquor in their songs.
On October 11, 1930, John Maynard Keynes was arguing in an article for deficit spending to alleviate the Depression and mentioned that Queen Elizabeth had invested Drake's loot — which Drake had given to the crown — for the benefit of the country.
* Cerise is mentioned in the lyrics of The Spectrum Song sung by Ludwig Von Drake on the television show Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: " Blend them all and what do you get?
On that vessel's ship's list are a both mention of a John Drake, close relation of Sir Francis Drake, as well as that of a George Dyer – the same George Dier that is mentioned in Rose-Troup.

Drake and idea
Strong circumstantial evidence supports the idea that Sir Francis Drake located the island on the final lap of his circumnavigation of the world ( 1577 – 1580 ).
On later reflection, Drake didn't like the integrity of the idea and dismissed it.
Dismissing the idea of a design with two upright sails, Drake decided to move the sail by rotation, as moving it linearly would require a mechanical system.
Drake, thanks in part to Sandra's ability to speak Spanish and Rupert's idea of stealing the abandoned shoes of Morgan and using them as bartering goods, was able to secure numerous supplies, while Morgan did not plan as well.
Robert H. Power ( 1926 – 1991 ), co-owner of the Nut Tree in Vacaville, CA, promoted the idea that Drake ’ s New Albion was inside San Francisco Bay near Point San Quentin.
Bawlf supports the idea that Drake completed the " Neahkahnie Mountain Survey.
The community of Albion, British Columbia, now part of the District of Maple Ridge and just across the river from Fort Langley, was named to celebrate the idea that Drake had explored that far north and that British Columbia was, as British colonists would have liked to believe or confirm, the area of Nova Albion.
While in high school, Milnes planned to be an anesthesiologist, but later returned to music, studying music education at Drake University and Northwestern University, with the idea of becoming a teacher.
No one knows how much time and thought was put into the project idea, but eventually permanent charters for the development of the stream were granted by the Commonwealth and signed by Governor Pennypacker on the 30th of March, 1906 ( Drake, 1905 ).

Drake and surfer
* Totally Kyle – A stereotypical laid back hippie surfer named Kyle Rostensan ( played by Drake Bell ) who told nonsense stories, such as describing the time he lost a cordless phone, or about how finding a dead bird made him change his normal route to school.
Darby did not patent his design or any of his subsequent models attached to surfboards, and the Californians Jim Drake ( a sailor ) and Hoyle Schweitzer ( a surfer ) took out the first patent on Drake's Windsurfer design in 1968.

Drake and Hoyle
Illustration from US Patent 3, 487, 800, filed by inventors Jim Drake and Hoyle Schweitzer on March 27, 1968
In the 1960s, Jim Drake was the first to solve many problems of getting the board to sail while Hoyle Schweitzer was the first to be successful in marketing the sailboard.
On 27 March 1968, Hoyle Schweitzer and Jim Drake filed the very first windsurfing patent, which was granted by the USPTO in 1970.
Immediately, Hoyle offered Drake to buy out his half of the patent, and it was only when Hoyle pointed out ownership of the company that the relationship between the pair began to fall apart.
Developed commercially through company Windsurfing International Inc., after Hoyle bought Drake out of his half of the patent for $ 36, 000, he quickly expanded the company thorough licensing the patent internationally.

Drake and Schweitzer
The early windsurfing boards were made of foam in the garages of Schweitzer and Drake, with the booms, tees and daggerboards hand crafted in teak.
Schweitzer then sued the company in Canada, where the opposition team again financially backed by Bic included Chilvers and Jim Drake, and Schweitzer lost again.
It is acknowledged in the courts that the separate Eastaugh ( 1946-1949 ), Darby ( 1965 ) and Chilvers ( 1958 ) inventions pre-dated the Schweitzer / Drake patent ( 1968 ).
Schweitzer then sued the company in Canada, where the opposition team again financially backed by Bic included Chilvers and Jim Drake, and lost again.

Drake and who
The first recorded English visitor was Sir Francis Drake in 1586, who reported that the caymanas were edible, but it was the turtles which attracted ships in search of fresh meat for their crews.
Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.
* Matt LeBlanc portrays Joey Tribbiani, a struggling actor and food lover who becomes famous for his role on Days of our Lives as Dr. Drake Ramoray.
In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham — born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset.
She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
This team includes Roberta " Bobby " Drake, a female version of Bobby who is codenamed Aurion and displays ice-based abilities.
* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.
The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.
However, other sources indicate that several of the crew members who continued on from Danger Man to work on The Prisoner considered it to be a continuation, and that McGoohan was continuing to play the character of John Drake.
It was run by the astronomer Frank Drake, who selected Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani as the initial targets.
He later married Downy O ' Drake, his wife in Rosa's stories, who became the mother of three of his children: Scrooge McDuck, Matilda McDuck, and Hortense McDuck.
In 1969, writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Neal Adams rejuvenated the comic book and gave regular roles to two recently introduced characters: Havok / Alex Summers ( who had been introduced by Roy Thomas before Adams began work on the comic ) and Lorna Dane, later called Polaris ( created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko ).
Sir Francis Drake, who would visit the islands four times, and would lend his name to its main channel
She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.
Sir Francis Drake, who had close contact with the sovereign, was responsible for some damage to Spanish shipping, as well as attacks on Spanish settlements in the Americas in the 16th century.
* Francis Drake was an English privateer who attacked many Spanish ships and forts in the Caribbean, including San Juan harbour in 1595.
The islands ' prosperity brought them unwanted attention in the form of a sacking at the hands of many pirates including England's Sir Francis Drake, who in 1582 and 1585 sacked Ribeira Grande.
Others artists who have recorded with the instrument include Buddy Holly (" Everyday "), The Beatles (" Baby It's You "), The Beach Boys (" Girl Don't Tell Me "), The Velvet Underground (" Sunday Morning "), Nick Drake (" Northern Sky "), The Stooges (" Penetration ") and Pink Floyd (" The Gnome " and the re-recorded version of " Mother ", used in the movie The Wall.
There is also a record of an Elizabeth Aguirre of Petersfield, Hampshire ( died 1665 ), who was the second wife of Josias White ( 1573 – 1622 ) of Hornchurch, Essex, brother of John White the ' Patriarch of Dorchester ', and son of a John White of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire ( 1540 – before September 30, 1618 ), who afterwards married a Francis Drake ( 1573 – 1634 ) of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey – a first cousin once removed of Sir Francis Drake ( 1540 – 1596 ) the famous explorer.
* Louise Comfort Tiffany ( 1887 – 1974 ), who married Rodman Drake DeKay Gilder ;
It was, in the fictional universe of Barks and Rosa, first built by Sir Francis Drake, who named it " Fort Drakeborough ".
On the 1963 television airing, Willie inquires about Mickey to Ludwig Von Drake, who also faints, and the instances where Jiminy watches Willie are omitted.

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