It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.

" ( from " Romance in the Roaring Forties ")

Great Lakes piracy occurred, from 1900 – 1930, on Lake Michigan, through the exploits of " Roaring " Dan Seavey.

The book takes place from spring to autumn 1922, during a prosperous time in the United States known as the Roaring Twenties, which lasted from 1920 until the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Waitiri Station is the major ranch of the Kawarau Gorge and runs from the Bungy Bridge to the Roaring Meg on SH6.

Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ), biking or hiking to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Falls of the McCloud River, Burney Falls, Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake, or visiting the ruins of one of the great nightclubs or speakeasies from the heyday of the Roaring Twenties.

It was thinly disguised as " West Egg ," in counterpoint to Manor Haven / Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh " East Egg " ( the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound ), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.

From there the canal ran along the path of the current Roaring Run Trail, through the entire length of the Borough, entering the Kiskiminetas River again across the river from where the current borough of East Vandergrift is situated.

The village core retains only a few shops and professional offices, but still holds the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and Roaring Spring Water Bottling Company, all of the historic church buildings, the public library ( formerly the Eldon Inn ), the borough building, the post office ( earlier moved from farther up East Main St .).

All three stand directly across the street from the former location of the Roaring Spring Department Store ( ca.

This decorative practice, fairly common on houses built from 1900 to 1920 by the Roaring Spring Planing Mill Co., can be seen in other period buildings around the Morrisons Cove area where the Planing Mill's contractors are known to have worked.

A number of variations exist, such as the Gable Front & Wing and the Gable-Front & T Wing, the latter a local variant that builders from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill seemed to have favored in the 1900s.

These are substantial yet loosely eclectic variations on the Queen Anne and Gothic Revival styles as rendered by builders from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill.

Also adjoining the park at the west side is the surviving building ( 1904 ) from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill Company.

D. M. Bare's influence can be found in practically every aspect of town life: out of his general store in 1864, he developed a department store which became known as " the company store ;", now Roaring Spring Department Store, in 1867, he co-sponsored the construction of the first Methodist Church ; from 1868 to 1883, he served as one of the first postmasters, nominating the village's name change to Roaring Spring in 1868 ; he oversaw the creation of the town's first modern utilities, including the telephone system ( 1880 ), the water supply ( 1892 ), and electrical service ( 1892 ).

The paper company underwrote the cost of extending a line from Altoona to Roaring Spring where the first telephone was installed in the head office of the mill.

Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to, Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.

Instead, Roaring Spring's street pattern evolved episodically from a combination of natural topography, pre-existing land tracts, and the confluence of old country roads at the Big Spring.

D. M. Bare and his cohorts seemed to have envisioned Roaring Spring as a working community of middle-class homeowners plucked from the ranks of shopkeepers, professionals and skilled workers.

The new worker housing built from that year forward took on the same architectural character as Roaring Spring's after 1878.

In the 2005 population estimate, Roaring Spring had a total population of 2, 309, a 4. 5 % decrease from the 2000 census.

Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Office and the " Roaring Twenties " in London, 1924-1929 " Aberystwyth University PhD thesis, 2009

* Saunders, William Jimi Hendrix London Roaring Forties Press.

In the summer of 1795, Charles Dolph, John Carey, and John West began the labor of clearing and plowing lands in the neighborhood of Bucktown or Corners, as this place was long called after the first foot-path opened from Blakeley to the Roaring Brook crossed the Wyoming road at Allsworth ’ s.

" Charles E. Ringling died in 1926, but the circus flourished through the Roaring Twenties.

Colcord's life spanned the American Civil War, the taming of the west, the cattle drives, the Land Runs, the Wright brothers ' flight, World War I, Wiley Post, Will Rogers and Charles Lindbergh, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the transition of Oklahoma City from a frontier prairie to a booming metropolis with skyscrapers, oil fields and airplanes.

" Mary Ann ," composed by calypsonian Roaring Lion ( born name: Hubert Raphael Charles ), was popular with steelbands and revelers during a spontaneous Carnival celebration on V-J Day in Trinidad in 1945, at the end of World War II.

The musical was set in what was then the present day, the Roaring Twenties, and, according to musical theatre historian Gerald Bordman, it was clearly a reflection of that era: " The decade's jazzy sounds, its assertive, explosive beat, its sophomoric high jinks were joyously mirrored ..." The plot hinged on a professor's unexpected generosity: Tom fails Professor Charles Kenyon's astronomy class, and, even though Connie tutors him, he still fails his makeup exam.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

Most of the early Felix cartoons mirrored American attitudes of the " Roaring Twenties ".

Johnson composed many hit tunes in his work for the musical theatre, including " Charleston " ( which debuted in his Broadway show Runnin ' Wild in 1923, although by some accounts Johnson had written it years earlier, and which became one of the most popular songs of the " Roaring Twenties "), " If I Could Be With You ( One Hour Tonight )", " You've Got to Be Modernistic ", " Don't Cry, Baby ", " Keep off the Grass ", " Old Fashioned Love ", " A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid ", " Carolina Shout ", and " Snowy Morning Blues ".

The band played in the moderately jazz-influenced peppy dance band style called " Collegiate Hot " that to many people exemplifies the music of the " Roaring Twenties ".

It rises in southwestern Vermont, in the Green Mountains east of the town of Bennington in Woodford Hollow at the confluence of Bolles Brook and City Stream where it is labeled Walloomsac Brook on maps but is locally known as " The Roaring Branch ".

In this role he was portrayed as a reactionary for his attempts to crack down on night clubs and other aspects of the " Roaring Twenties ".

The Barons set attendance records during the " Roaring Twenties ".

Roaring Creek is home to the first Christian radio station in Belize " My Refuge Christian Radio Station ".

They met at Hopton Heath and were attacked there by the Royalists, whose force consisted of about 1, 100 cavalry, 100 foot and artillery, including a large artillery piece called " Roaring Meg ".

Wellington is in the Roaring Forties and has geography that intensifies the effects of the prevailing winds leading to its nickname " Windy Wellington ".

Barry Michael Cooper of Spin said " My Prerogative " " sounds like gin-drenched, Roaring Twenties swing ".

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

Alligators are a common sight along the scenic Tamiami Trail from Miami to Naples.

Alligators are thought to be an important natural predator, and the absence of muskrats from Florida may in part be the result of alligator predation.

Minnie is announced to take the ice first for her routine, which involves a bell choir and the Alligators from Fantasia as backup skaters.

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators ...: More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire.

The name Alligator-apple derives from the fact that American Alligators sometimes eat the fruit.