In 2010, Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey, the surviving members of Peter, Paul and Mary, requested that the National Organization for Marriage stop using their recording of " This Land is Your Land " at their rallies, stating in a letter that the organization's philosophy was " directly contrary to the advocacy position " held by the group.

" Puff, the Magic Dragon " is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1963 recording.

On making contact Yarrow gave Lipton half the songwriting credit, and he still gets royalties from the song.

The folk song " The Dowie Dens o Yarrow " ( English: " the dismal, narrow wooded valleys of Yarrow ") refers to an ambush and murder that takes place in the locality.

He wrote the song as a wedding gift for Peter Yarrow, and refused to perform it for the public until Yarrow requested it at a concert where his wife was present.

* The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, a traditional Scottish folk song

The documentary video " the YX factor " chronicles the transition from mining to skiing and the influx of " hippies " in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the words of local residents and commentators such as Peter Yarrow and Tom Hayden.

* PRNGs that have been designed specifically to be cryptographically secure, such as Microsoft's Cryptographic Application Programming Interface function CryptGenRandom, the Yarrow algorithm ( incorporated in Mac OS X and FreeBSD ), and Fortuna.

His personal life was largely kept hidden from viewers, although he would occasionally reminisce about his and Albert Square's history, mainly with other characters supposedly born in the area, such as Ethel Skinner ( Gretchen Franklin ), Lou Beale ( Anna Wing ) and later Benny Bloom ( Arnold Yarrow ).

If Hal Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way.

The company was formed in 1972 by way of a purchase of the former Fairfield Shipyard in Govan from Sir Robert Smith, Liquidator of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders ( UCS ), itself a product of the amalgamation of several Clydeside yards ; Fairfields, Alex Stephens, Charles Connell and Company, Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. and John Browns.

Yarrow is considered an especially useful companion plant, not only repelling some bad insects while attracting good, predatory ones, but also improving soil quality.

Yarrow is sweet with a slight bitter taste.

The Yarrow algorithm is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator.

The Yarrow algorithm is explicitly unpatented and royalty-free ; no license is required to use it.

Yarrow is incorporated in Mac OS X and FreeBSD for their / dev / random devices.

Clyde Hill is a city located about 1. 5 to 2 miles east of the City of Seattle and is bordered by the cities and towns of Bellevue, Kirkland, Medina, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point. The population was 2, 984 at the 2010 census.

The town is located on a small peninsula surrounded by Lake Washington, and is near the suburbs of Medina ( to the southwest ), Clyde Hill ( to the south ), Yarrow Point ( on another peninsula to the east ), and Kirkland ( to the northeast ), as well as the city of Bellevue ( to the east ).

Yarrow Point is a town in King County, Washington, United States.

Yarrow Point is located at ( 47. 644212 ,-122. 216684 ).

The principal river in the town is the River Yarrow.

The Black Brook is a tributary of the Yarrow.

Peter Yarrow has frequently explained that " Puff " is about the hardships of growing older and has no relationship to drug-taking.

It is a tributary of the River Ribble and has itself two tributaries, the River Tawd and the River Yarrow.

The Yarrow Water is a river in the Borders in the south east of Scotland.

Its source is St. Mary's Loch and from there the Yarrow Water flows in an easterly direction with a fall of passing the settlements of Yarrow Feus, Yarrow and Yarrowford before joining the Ettrick near to the site of the 1645 Battle of Philiphaugh just west of Selkirk.

The wood of Carterhaugh near the confluence of the Yarrow and Ettrick, is the setting for the ballad " Tam Lin ".

Yarrow is used in FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X ( also as / dev / random )

One of Govan's original yards is one of only two large shipyards to survive on the Upper River Clyde, the other being Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited based in Scotstoun.

After attending the University of Minnesota, Macgregor began to tour the country with various acts and caught the attention of Peter Yarrow from Peter, Paul & Mary.

Yarrow ( Achilea millefolium ), also known as milfoil or tansy is common throughout the Rockies, and will be familiar to European visitors.

The town of Hunts Point, along with neighboring Yarrow Point, has no agreement with the King County Library System precluding residents from this service.

Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

It was to be a short-lived move, for less than 10 years later ( 1906 – 1908 ) Yarrow gradually moving his yard northwards to Scotstoun on the banks of the River Clyde on the west coast of Scotland, closing the London shipyard in 1908.

A 2007 book adaptation of the song's lyrics by Yarrow, Lipton, and illustrator Eric Puybaret gives the story a happier ending with a young girl ( presumed by reviewers to be Jackie Paper's daughter ) seeking out Puff to become her new companion.

Six months later, Hal Yarrow stood in the observation dome of the Gabriel and watched the ball of Earth dwindle above him.

Hal Yarrow was among the last to go into the suspensor and among the first to come out.

Designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the London Yarrow shipyards in 1885, she was transported in parts to Japan, where she was assembled and launched in 1887.

The Daring and Decoy were ordered on 27 June 1892 from John I. Thornycroft & Company at Chiswick, while the Havock and Hornet were ordered five days later from Yarrow at Poplar.

British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and Yarrow Shipbuilders ; the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners ' shares had been converted into.

* January 24 – Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist ( b. 1842 )

* Southern Scots – mid and east Dumfriesshire and the Scottish Borders counties Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire, in particular the valleys of the Annan, the Esk, the Liddel Water, the Teviot and the Yarrow Water.

GEC's major defence related acquisitions included Associated Electrical Industries in 1967, English Electric Company ( including its Marconi subsidiary ) in 1968, Yarrow Shipbuilders in 1985, parts of Ferranti's defence business in 1990, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in 1995 and Kvaerner Govan in 1999.

* Yarrow, P. J.

Weed species, particularly Himalayan Honeysuckle, Yarrow and blackberries, pose a continuing management challenge.

Yarrow grows at low or high altitudes, up to 3500 m above sea level.

Yarrow has also been used as a food, and was very popular as a vegetable in the 17th century.

* Yarrow-160: Notes on the Design and Analysis of the Yarrow Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generator, J. Kelsey, B. Schneier, and N. Ferguson