The competing sailors are racing on a short downwind slalom course, have to use duck jibes on all turns, and are required to perform several tricks along the way, such as jump over an obstacle, spock or even front loop.

When he sees a duck watching the sad, heartless Prince Mytho dancing on the water, Drosselmeyer decides to let the story take a new course.

Crossroads is a recreation of an 1872 southern town with several attractions including a modern 4-D movie theater, an adventure mini-golf course, a duck tour ride, stores and restaurants.

The low-lying areas in the vicinity of the river's lower course are a popular destination for duck hunters.

When Boiron's spokeswoman Gina Casey was asked if a product made from the heart and liver of a duck was safe, she replied: " Of course it is safe.

From now on, his was going to be a man's world: the North Woods, duck blinds at dawning, beer and poker and male secretaries.

And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

Madison was involved in the project mainly because he was a delegate to the lame duck Confederation Congress, which was meeting in New York.

It was also known in England that Bradman was dismissed for a four-ball duck by fast bowler Eddie Gilbert, and looked very uncomfortable.

The match was drawn and Woodfull struggled, making 18 and a duck.

On the opening day, Bradman wildly hooked at Bill Bowes ' first ball ( a non-bodyline ball ) and was dismissed for a golden duck, leaving the entire stadium in shock.

The Labrador Duck ( Camptorhynchus labradorius ) was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never common, and is believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.

Although hunted for food, this duck was considered to taste bad, would rot quickly and fetched a low price.

" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, " Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest to his wife.

Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear, where drinkers could, for a fee, go out and take a potshot the ducks.

This meant that, every other year, although a new Congress was elected in November, it did not come into office until the following March, with a " lame duck " Congress convening in the interim.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

The word ened / ænid was inherited from Proto-Indo-European ; compare: Latin anas " duck ", Lithuanian ántis " duck ", Ancient Greek nēssa / nētta ( νῆσσα, νῆττα ) " duck ", and Sanskrit ātí " water bird ", among others.

Pearson's version not only conflated details of both slapping incidents but falsely reported that the private in question was visibly " out of his head ", telling Patton to " duck down or the shells would hit him " and that in response " Patton struck the soldier, knocking him down.

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

In the 1910s, certain boots and shoes used canvas duck fabric for the upper or for the insole, and duck tape was sometimes sewn in for reinforcement.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

Kildare Coot was introduced by artist Romano Scarpa as a highly eccentric fourth cousin of Donald Duck in the story " Sgrizzo, il papero più balzano del mondo " ( roughly translated as " Kildare Coot, the weirdest duck in the world "), first published on October 25, 1964.

In 1963, they began making a series of bizarre beatnik style plastic figurines called the Nutty Mads which included some almost psychedelic creations such as Donald the Demon-a half duck, half madman driving a miniature car.

William Eric Hollies ( 5 June 1912 – 16 April 1981 ) was an English cricketer, who is mainly remembered for taking the wicket of Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test match innings, in which only four was needed for a Test average of 100.

Donald Schön was married to sculptor Nancy Schön who is particularly well known for her installation in the Boston Public Garden of the bronze duck family from McCloskey's children's classic " Make Way for Ducklings ".

Central Park itself is home to " The Log ," a massive log felled in the surrounding countryside which serves to remind the townsfolk of the timber ( and dairy ) driven history of the area, a de Havilland Vampire fighter plane ( opposite the RSL Club ), a cricket pitch ( Sir Donald Bradman played an exhibition match in Wingham in which he was bowled for a duck in the first innings, by Glenn Levine, but made a good fist of it in the second ), some children ’ s play equipment, a drinking fountain commemorating the installation of mains water in the town, a small ornamental waterfall ( which has been filled in with a garden ), and two flag poles at opposite ends of the northern side of the park.

Gilbert famously knocked the bat out of Donald Bradman's hand, before removing him for a duck.

referencing the month in which Spring begins on the northern hemisphere-- and published its first title, Donald Duck, which continues to run to this date .< Ref name = inst > Abril's first magazine lead Civita to claim " It all started with a duck ", parodying Walt Disney's declaration that " I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

The story comes to a head in a theme park, Waldo World ( a clear spoof of Disneyland, but set in New Jersey ), featuring the popular duck of the title ( a parody of Donald Duck ), and its creator, Art Waldo ( Walt Disney ).

* Donald Duck, a cartoon duck created by Walt Disney with a very short temper against 2 chipmunks Chip & Dale.

A misconception about " Disco Duck " is that the voice of the duck itself was provided by Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck in many Walt Disney cartoons, but on several occasions the Disney Company maintained that Nash never contributed to the song.

In 1978, a student cartoonist came up with a new duck image, but students chose Donald as the official mascot by a 2 – to – 1 margin.

In 1999, a German member suggested the name Inducks as a cross between " index " and " duck " ( for Donald Duck ).

* Duck, duck, goose

** Duck ( and duck confit )

Duck Hunt, Clay Shooting mode appears as the second round with the first round being the two duck variation ( the arcade version never had one duck ).

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

Another, completely unrelated, duck with similar ( but even more specialized ) bill morphology is the Australian Pink-eared Duck, which feeds largely on plankton, but also mollusks ; the condition in the Labrador Duck probably resembled that in the Blue Duck most in outward appearance.

* Federal Duck Stamps ( stamps for duck hunting licenses, mainly U. S. with some other countries such as Canada and New Zealand )

Pacific Black Duck displaying the characteristic upending ' duck ' The word duck comes from Old English * dūce " diver ", a derivative of the verb * dūcan " to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive ", because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending ; compare with Dutch duiken and German tauchen " to dive ".

Because the previously used generic term " duck tape " had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand " Duck Tape " and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo.

In 1979, the Duck Tape marketing plan involved sending out greeting cards with the duck branding, four times a year, to 32, 000 hardware managers.

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( Contrary to popular belief, however, Nash did not perform the duck voice for Rick Dees ' " Disco Duck ")

* Cayuga Duck, a breed of domesticated duck developed near Cayuga Lake, New York

* Chester the Duck ( voiced by Frank Welker ) — A duck Penny found.

Invented in 1897, the duck brake, aka Duck Roller Brake used a rod operated by a lever on the handlebar to pull twin friction rollers ( usually made of wood or rubber ) against the front tyre.