There were new yellow curtains, bright as a child's life ought to be, a new bedspread, lively with hopping rabbits, and hanging from the ceiling was an airy Mother Goose Mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze.

Thomas once confided that the poems which had most influenced him were Mother Goose rhymes which his parents taught him when he was a child:

Busey was born in Goose Creek ( now Baytown ), Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia ( née Arnett ), a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

Mother Goose was a moderate success, and allowed Baum to quit his door-to-door sales job ( which had had a negative impact on his health ).

Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston.

Unfortunately, they did not have a recognisable lead singer like Yes, ELP or Genesis ( The Snow Goose was entirely instrumental ) which limited their success.

Robertson's first agents were not a success ; Giraffe ( George Graf ) was never really used and Gander ( Kurt Goose ; MI5 had a thing for amusingly relevant code names ) had been sent to Britain with a radio that could only transmit, not receive.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

Mauro's Easy Riser was used by the man who became known as " Father Goose ," Bill Lishman.

Sir Christopher Wren has since the eighteenth century been claimed by the Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, one of the four founding Masonic Lodges of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717, to have been its Master at the Goose and Gridiron at St. Paul's churchyard, while he was rebuilding the cathedral: he is said to have been " adopted " on 18 May 1691 ( that is, accepted as a sort of honorary member or patron, rather than an operative ).

Carl used the original German spelling of " Goose ," which one of a few spellings was " Ganz ," but also Gantz, Gans, and so on.

* The Hughes H-4 Hercules was made mostly of birch wood, despite its better-known moniker, " The Spruce Goose ".

Fanny Coot was first mentioned in the Donald Duck comic strip of May 9, 1938 where Gus Goose first appeared.

After many months, Ed was working the hills east of the San Pedro River when he found pieces of silver ore in dry wash on a high plateau called Goose Flats.

The vein of silver ore was near the San Pedro River Valley, on a waterless plateau called Goose Flats.

Goose River Village ( as it was known until 1852 ), was originally part of the Megunticook Plantation, incorporated in 1791 as Camden.

In 1979 an agreement was brokered between the towns of Swanville, Frankfort, Searsport and Goose River Hydro, Inc.

The right, or north side of the store, was devoted primarily to wearing apparel for the entire family and included such items as “ Beaver ” hats, “ Star ” and “ Red Goose ” shoes, works shirts and “ Test ” overalls.

2005's Goose Festival Prince was Ethan Hayes, Princess Ashlyn Jones, and Queen Ashly Lentz.

Portair Field was used as a terminal for early commercial transcontinental flights, flew passengers in the Ford Trimotor “ Tin Goose ” by day, and used Pullman trains for night travel.

A second obelisk was erected at the centre of another patte d ' oie or ' Goose Foot ' beyond the cascade to west of the Villa.

The first community established in the Goose Lake Valley was New Pine Creek in 1869, with a post office established December 8, 1876.

Prior to 1910 it was located in the northwest portion of Saint James Goose Creek Township, Berkeley County.

Bacardi acquired the Cazadores blue agave tequila brand in 2002 and in 2004 purchased Grey Goose, a French made vodka, from Sidney Frank for $ 2 billion.

After petitioning the British Crown in 1697 for the right to own land in the Baronies, they prospered as gentlemen planters on the Goose, Ashpoo, Ashley and Santee River plantations they purchased from the British Landgrave Edmund Bellinger.

In 1948, DC-3 N49363 was purchased from Arnold Air Service, Sikorsky S-43 N53294 and Grumman G-21 Goose N95468 was also purchased.

In 1957, S-43 N53294 was traded in, Curtiss C-46 Commandos N1302N and N10012 were purchased from Cordova Airlines and Grumman G-21 Goose N1513V leased from Interior Airways.

The state purchased 1, 208 ( 4. 88 km² ) acres of land, at a cost of $ 1, 115, 000 from Weyerhauser, for the park and Goose Creek State Park was opened to the public in September 1974.

The boat was then purchased by Howard Hughes and used as a chase boat for the one and only flight of his Spruce Goose aircraft.

In the early 1980s Wrather purchased, restored and made tourist attractions of the Spruce Goose and the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.

The firm was founded in 1992 by Tom Scott to market the Glass Goose amphibious aircraft, a substantially revised version of the Aero Composites Sea Hawker design that Scott purchased the rights to after the previous manufacturer ceased business.

In December 2010, the Logan Shaw Brewing Company purchased the Wild Goose brand from Flying Dog Brewery, with plans to pair Wild Goose beers with their own craft brews.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

The term nursery rhyme is used for " traditional " poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘ Mother Goose Rhymes ’ is still often used.

Any definition which focuses on amusement leaves us unsatisfied since the feelings experienced by a world class chess player are very different from those of a circle of children playing Duck Duck Goose.

Numerous rarities have also been recorded including Black-browed Albatross and Snow Goose, and a single pair of Snowy Owls bred on Fetlar from 1967 to 1975.

Summer distribution and abundance of Canada Goose using data from the North American Breeding Bird Surveys 1994-2003

* The Golden Goose Book: The Story of the Three Little Pigs from Google books

A Amulet | talisman from the Black Pullet, a late grimoire containing instructions on how a magician might cast rings and craft amulets for various magical applications, culminating in the The Golden Goose | Hen that Lays Golden Eggs.

When the birds are imprinted with her as their Mother Goose, she realizes that unless she and her father can teach the birds a migration route from Ontario to North Carolina, the birds will not be able to survive the winter.

In a two part episode " The Golden Goose " Glomgold almost beats Scrooge at being the world's richest duck with the help of the Golden Goose-until he gets turned into gold himself ; in the series finale, Glomgold makes one last attempt to get richer than Scrooge by sending the metal mites to eat whole money from Scrooge's bin.

* Classic Disney Cartoons and Comic Books: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, Pluto, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Gus Goose, Pete, Ludwig Von Drake, Clara Cluck, Chip ' n Dale, Scrooge McDuck, The Phantom Blot, April, May and June Duck, Humphrey the Bear, Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore, the Brownstone Park Bears, Pluto's Good and Bad Consciences, Red Riding Hood, Toby Tortoise, Max Hare, Flowers and Trees, Santa Claus, Reindeer, Hobo Cookie, Judge Cookie, the Skeleton Dancers, a Merry Dwarf, a Lamp from " The Whoopee Party ", the Lonesome Ghosts, Ferdinand the Bull, Susie the Little Blue Coupe, Professor Owl, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, Babe the Big Blue Ox, Dinah the Dachshund, Louie the Mountain Lion, Salty the Seal, a Rooster, a Hen, Girl Violin, Boy Saxophone, a Robot from " Mars and Beyond ", and various Black-and-White Characters.

The friend and neighbor Gustav Goose from Quack Pack is probably not the same as Cousin Gus since there are very few similarities ( aside from the name and general size of the character ).

Luke the Goose disappeared from the tree.

As of early 2006, these six songs from the first Rutles CD ( which were not on the original LP release ) are credited solely to Neil Innes: " Baby Let Me Be ", " Between Us ", " Blue Suede Schubert ", " Get Up And Go ", " Goose Step Mama ", and " It's Looking Good ".

Surprised to find that a contractual clause forbade them from recording with another label, the band bought out their contract, touring in a beat up van they called, " The Blue Goose " working for more than a year to raise the funds to buy out their contract.

The GCRFPD district encompasses all of the unincorporated areas of Goose Creek from the North Charleston city limits to the area just south of Strawberry Shortstop on Highway 52, the entire industrial area only Bushy Park Road, and many areas along or off Highway 176 up to the rear entrance of the Alcoa ( formerly Alumax ) facility.

He also created the revised logo and record label designs of Blue Goose Records that were used from 1974 onward.

Most of these families came from Goose Creek Township.

Almost the entire Svalbard population of Barnacle Goose overwinters in the Solway Firth area, with many of the birds often at Caerlaverock for part or all of the winter ; their protection by the reserve has enabled the population to recover from just 500 birds in the 1940s, to over 25, 000 now.

Several songs from the early repertoire of the Parliaments would be re-recorded on future Parliament and Funkadelic albums, including " Testify ," " The Goose ," " All Your Goodies Are Gone ," " Fantasy Is Reality ," " Good Ole Music ," " I Can Feel The Ice Melting ," " What You Been Growing ," " I'll Wait ," and " That Was My Girl.

* Goose Goslin ( 1900 – 1971 ), Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder who played for the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns and Detroit Tigers, in a career that ran from 1921-1938