It has been suggested that this was a reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly arranged to have placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, in front of Costello at a state dinner.

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

" Roaring Meg ( cannon ) | Roaring Meg ", a surviving example of a civil-war Mortar ( weapon ) | mortar

* Musty, A. E. S. ( 2007 ) Roaring Meg: Test Firing a Copy of Colonel Birch's Civil War Mortar.

It has been suggested that it was a spur of the moment reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, before an affronted Costello at a state dinner.

Finally, in late June, the Royalist fled, having observed a Parliamentarian army, including a Roaring Meg siege cannon approaching the town.

Fairfax's men began to dig trenches towards the castle, and used these to move mortars forward, probably including the famous " Roaring Meg ", bringing the interior of the castle into artillery range.

Kawarau River with Roaring Meg hydro station

The Roaring Meg Hydro Scheme discharges into the Kawarau, and at times the lower station has been flooded by the river.

Below these are the dangerous Nevis Bluff, Citroen and Roaring Meg sections.

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 ".

* Roaring Meg ( cannon ), any of several large siege cannon

* Roaring Meg hydro scheme, a hydroelectric scheme on the Kawarau River in New Zealand

* Roaring Meg ( Stevenage ), a retail park in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

* Roaring Meg ( waterfall ), a waterfall in the Daintree National Park in North Queensland, Australia

:* rugged mountain peaks and gorges with swiftly flowing rivers and spectacular waterfalls ( e. g., Thornton Peak, Mossman Gorge, Roaring Meg Falls );

During the Civil War he commanded Goodrich Castle, defending it against the Parliamentarians until July 1645 when Colonel John Birch finally broke the defences using the famous cannon Roaring Meg.

In English, proper names in their primary application cannot normally be modified by an article or other determiner ( such as any or another ), although some may be taken to include the article the, as in The Gambia, The Roaring Forties, or the Rolling Stones.

And while Roaring Spring's patriarchal management may have desired orderly community development, it did not impose a blatantly class-structured environment on its work force.

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It may be as long and general as the medieval era or as limited as one decade — the Roaring Twenties, for example.

Champagne stirrers are today particularly associated with the ostentation of the Roaring 20s, and stirrers from this period especially may be admired or collected as antiques.

The increase in secularization during the ' Roaring Twenties ', as automobiles became widespread, and availability of electricity and electrical appliances and such, may have had its effect too.

The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, Young Mr. Lincoln, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, Babes in Arms, Gunga Din, and The Roaring Twenties.

The Roaring Twenties is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s, characterizing the era's distinctive cultural edge in most of the world's major cities for a period of sustained economic prosperity.

In the Southern hemisphere, because of the stormy and cloudy conditions, it is usual to refer to the Westerlies as the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties according to the varying degrees of latitude.

The Christmas 2007 issue, in which Aunt Meg owns an impressive personal collection of Nazi memorabilia, suggests that she may share his political allegiance.

It may easily be seen, therefore, why Simeon the Just should be termed a survivor of this body, for, according to the tradition current in the circle of scholars, it was this high priest, and not his grandfather Jaddua, who met Alexander the Great, and received from him much honor ( see Yoma 69a ; Meg.

" " Meg " may either be a reference to Margaret of Denmark, Queen of James III of Scotland, or simply an alliteration, while Mons was one of the locations where the cannon was originally tested.

However, it is possible that between the last episode of the series and the film, he was drenched in water from the river Lethe, so he may have forgotten about Hercules until Meg brought him up.

Some locals refer to Metheringham as ' Meg '.

We concluded that we may refer workers to the fieldwork ( but not the packing shed work ) provided we give them written notice of the packing shed dispute.

The following items may be specified in actual or symbolic form in the operands of those instructions which refer to the particular items: channel, unit, combined channel and unit, combined arm and file, unit record synchronizers, inquiry synchronizers, and alteration switches.

On the other hand significant facts may be concealed -- she may mean I or everybody, as it did with the tense and irritable woman mentioned before, may refer to a specific person.

The term altruism may also refer to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others.

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