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.

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

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.

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.

An anonymous play was published in London in 1593 entitled " The Life and Death of Jack Straw ," in which Straw, Wat Tyler, John Ball, and others appear as characters.

" He specifically named Lord Levy who was Blair's official representative in the Middle East and Labour Party politicians Peter Mandelson ( whose father was Jewish ) and Jack Straw ( whose great-grandfather was Jewish ).

This should not be confused with the better known Jack Straw ’ s Castle, formerly a pub and now residential flats at Whitestone Ponds, Hampstead, which was named after the semi-legendary leader of the revolt.

A few days later, on 15 June 1381, the elder John Cavendish was seized at Bury St Edmunds and beheaded by a mob led by Jack Straw.

This was to no avail, however, and he was taken to the market place at Bury St. Edmunds and beheaded by a mob led by Jack Straw on 15 June 1381.

The Strawberry Field sign was adapted by the UK band Straw as their logo for 2 years ( 1998 – 99 ).

His 1955 opera Il cappello di paglia di Firenze ( The Florentine Straw Hat ), an adaptation of the play by Eugène Labiche was presented by the Santa Fe Opera in 1977.

On 2 July 2009, Ronnie Biggs was denied parole by British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who considered Biggs to be still " wholly unrepentant.

Their report, Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, was launched in November 1997 by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw.

* A taxi driver in New York who was the subject of the photograph " Boy With a Straw Hat " reportedly said to Arbus about the photograph, without knowing her identity, " Picture of me!

Similarly Straw Dogs was denied video certification and removed from video stores.

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.

Although he began the race with a full war-chest and tied for first place with Dole in the 1995 Iowa Straw Poll, his campaign was fatally wounded when in an upset he lost the Louisiana Caucus on February 7, 1996 to Pat Buchanan ( the final delegate count was 13-8 ).

He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in Straw Dogs ( 1971 ) and as Bob Cratchit in the 1984 telefilm A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott as Scrooge.

* Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63 ( 1972 ; Copper Canyon Press, 2006 ) ( selected and arranged by David Wagoner )

Take Tin Ice-Pots, fill them with any Sort of Cream you like, either plain or sweeten ’ d, or Fruit in it ; shut your Pots very close ; to six Pots you must allow eighteen or twenty Pound of Ice, breaking the Ice very small ; there will be some great Pieces, which lay at the Bottom and Top: You must have a Pail, and lay some Straw at the Bottom ; then lay in your Ice, and put in amongst it a Pound of Bay-Salt ; set in your Pots of Cream, and 93 lay Ice and Salt between every Pot, that they may not touch ; but the Ice must lie round them on every Side ; lay a good deal of Ice on the Top, cover the Pail with Straw, set it in a Cellar where no Sun or Light comes, it will be froze in four Hours, but it may stand longer ; then take it out just as you use it ; hold it in your Hand and it will slip out.

According to The Times, she did not stand up well in comparison with the previous Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw.

St Albans played a role in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381: the peasants, led by a local man William Grindcobbe and Jack Straw, forced their way into the Abbey and demanded a charter for the freedom of St Albans from the Abbot (' Charter of freedom of the villeins of St Alban's forcibly obtained from the Abbot and Convent ', 16 June 1381 ).

( 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 is used mainly for animal bedding.

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

* Straw bales are sometimes used for sediment control at construction sites.

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

** Straw envelopes for wine bottles have become rarer, but are still to be found at some wine merchants.

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.

* The Guild of Straw Craftsmen UK association for all aspects of straw craft

Jack Straw and some of his followers used the site as a temporary headquarters ; consequently the derelict manor became known for the next 500 years as Jack Straw ’ s Castle.

* Jack Straw, Member of Parliament ; former Home Secretary ; former Foreign Secretary ; former Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons ; former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for Justice.

Straw probably began to be used in the Neolithic period when people first began to grow cereals, but once again no direct archaeological evidence of the use of straw for thatching survives in Europe prior to the early medieval period.

* Outdoor scenes for Straw Dogs were filmed in the downtown region in 2009.

A local paper, in jest, referred to Towson as the “ strongly fortified and almost impregnable city of Towsontown ” and downplays the need for the attack, stating, “ the distinguished Straw, with only two hundred and fifty men, has taken a whole city and nearly frightened two old women out of their wits .”

On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, as declared by Resolution 1441's prohibition on giving Iraq new opportunities for compliance, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq ( see 2003 invasion of Iraq ).

Each year in summer the village holds The Oxenhope Straw Race, a team event in which competitors complete a 2. 5-mile course around the village carrying a bale of straw and stopping at each pub on the route for a pint of beer.

Labour politician Jack Straw has speculated: " I say to the Conservatives that if they start to take a mechanical approach, this so-called ' English votes for English laws ' approach, then they will break the Union.

Kabbani allegedly thanked UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in 2005 for the role the UK played in the Middle East, saying: “ We are glad to see changes taking place in the political mechanisms in the Middle East.

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.

During the period that Jack Straw, an MP, was Lord Chancellor, he was officially named as one of the Lords Commissioners, but did not take part in the formal ceremonies of granting Royal Assent and proroguing Parliament.

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.

As Home Secretary, Straw was also involved in changing the electoral system for the European Parliament elections from plurality to proportional representation.

Junctions 1a to 6 were opened 18 December 1997 by Jack Straw, Home Secretary and Member of Parliament for Blackburn.

In Parliament he was a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee for three years from 2001 and has served as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2003-2006 and Foreign Secretary 2006-2007 Margaret Beckett and Lord High Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice 2007-2008 Jack Straw.

Internationally, Richey's case attracted appeals on his behalf from Scottish celebrities such as Irvine Welsh, Robbie Coltrane, Charlie and Craig Reid, members of the Scottish Parliament, Pope John Paul II, former British Home Secretary Jack Straw ( who promised to intervene on his behalf ), former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, actress Susan Sarandon, and organizations such as the European Parliament and Amnesty International.

In response to the commission's findings, the then Home Secretary Jack Straw agreed with Morris and Sutherland that a Bill would be proposed to Parliament in the summer of 1998 to reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16.

In response to the court's findings, the then Home Secretary Jack Straw agreed with Sutherland and Morris that a Bill would be proposed to Parliament in the summer of 1998 to reduce the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16.