* Maize Quest Fun Park is the " Largest Collection of People-Sized Mazes in the World " with mazes made of fence, rope, stone, turf, corn, Invisible Dog Fencing, Straw Bales, Tiles, Living Bamboo, and Earthen Mounds.

Peckinpah's world is a man's world, and feminists have castigated his films as misogynistic and sexist, especially concerning the shooting of a woman during the final moments of The Wild Bunch, the rape sequence in Straw Dogs and Doc McCoy's physical assault of his wife in The Getaway.

* In the 2006 film Hot Fuzz, one of the characters is mentioned to be an extra in Straw Dogs, and a farm is owned by the Treachers, making it Treacher Farm.

Straw is used mainly for animal bedding.

Straw is an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed.

Straw is an abundant agricultural waste product, and requires little energy to bale and transport for construction.

** Straw is used in cucumber houses and for mushroom growing.

** Straw is resistant to being crushed and therefore makes a good packing material.

Straw for this purpose ( often wheat straw ) is grown specially and harvested using a reaper-binder.

Straw, a dried form of grass, is also used for stuffing, as is kapok.

* Straw man: A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresenting an opponent's position so as to more easily refute it.

What was probably the single largest massacre of Chinese troops occurred along the banks of the Yangtze River on December 18 in what is called the Straw String Gorge Massacre.

The names of some of its leaders, John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, are still familiar in popular culture, although little is known of them.

Jack Straw, then British Foreign Secretary, said: " All of us understand Israel's need to protect itself – and it is fully entitled to do that – against the terrorism which affects it, within international law.

Straw marquetry is a craft very similar to that of wood marquetry, except that straw replaces the wood veneer.

* Jack Straw ( farmer ), Headington Hill, Oxford, England, after whom, Jack Straw's Lane is named

Worksop is home to Mr Straw's House, the family home of the Straw family, which was left by the Straw brothers, William and Walter Straw when their parents died in the 1930s.

The largest regular assemblage of Molly Dancers is at the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival, established 1980, which is held in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, every January.

John Whitaker " Jack " Straw ( born 3 August 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Blackburn since 1979.

John Dawes, a wealthy stockbroker, acquired the site of Jack Straw ’ s Castle together with of surrounding land.

Jack Straw ( probably the same person as John Rakestraw or Rackstraw ) was one of the three leaders ( together with John Ball and Wat Tyler ) of the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, a major event in the history of England.

At the start of 2002, he began working with Andy Nixon and Dan Mckinna, formerly of Straw, and the trio bonded together so well musically that it was decided they would form a group, The Jeevas.

The Spectator described her as, " at heart, an old, isolationist, pacifist Leftist " and called on her to resign, and the New Statesman accused her of allowing the Foreign Office to become subservient to 10 Downing Street after the tenures of Jack Straw and Robin Cook.

In March 2000, Jack Straw was responsible for allowing General Augusto Pinochet to return to Chile.

This would be ironic, as Richard Ingrams in The Independent wondered whether Straw's predecessor as Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, was also removed at Bush's request, allowing Straw to become Foreign Secretary in the first place.

" The BBC reported that former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted that intelligence had shown that the Iraqi regime appeared to be allowing a permissive environment " in which al-Qaeda is able to operate ... Certainly we have some evidence of links between al-Qaeda and various people in Iraq ... What we don't know, and the prime minister and I have made it very clear, is the extent of those links ... What we also know, however, is that the Iraqi regime have been up to their necks in the pursuit of terrorism generally.

However, UK Home Secretary Jack Straw took the responsibility to release him on medical grounds, and refused to extradite him to Spain.

Straw and sawdust are common bedding materials.

In June 2004, the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw stated that US authorities had repeatedly assured him that no detainees had passed in transit through Diego Garcia or were disembarked there .< ref > In October 2007 the all-party Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament announced that it would launch an investigation of continued allegations of a prison camp on Diego Garcia, which it claimed were twice confirmed by comments made by Retired US Army General Barry McCaffrey.

The Straw Hat Revue opened on 29 September 1939, and closed after ten weeks, but it was long enough for critics to take notice of Kaye's work in it.

The film uses two versions of the song " Que Sera, Sera ", the first by singer Syd Straw and another over the end credits by Sly and the Family Stone.

In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Ames Straw Poll of August 1999, he finished eighth.

In 1999 the then Home Secretary Jack Straw introduced a controversial bill to limit the right to trial by jury.

Lamorna was the location used for the shooting of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller Straw Dogs.

* Frith, Simon, Straw, Will, Street, John, eds, ( 2001 ), The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55660-0.

Many of his films, such as Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ( 1973 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ), remain controversial.

Peckinpah was forced to do a 180-degree turn and traveled to England to direct Straw Dogs ( 1971 ), one of his darkest and most psychologically disturbing films.

Straw Dogs deeply divided critics, some of whom praised its artistry and its confrontation of human savagery, while others attacked it as a misogynistic and fascistic celebration of violence.

In May 1971, weeks after completing Straw Dogs, he returned to the United States to begin work on Junior Bonner.

He had met Gould in England while filming Straw Dogs, and she had since been his companion and a part-time crew member.

* June 12 – Peasants ' Revolt: In England, rebels from Kent and Essex, led by Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, meet at Blackheath.

( 1971 ), Straw Dogs ( also 1971 ), and Papillon ( 1973 ) were followed by Lenny ( 1974 ), for which Hoffman received his third nomination for Best Actor in seven years.

Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat.

** Straw may be fed as part of the roughage component of the diet to cattle or horses that are on a near maintenance level of energy requirement.

Straw or hay briquettes are a biofuel substitute to coal.