Beachcomber... By the Way was a radio programme that aired from March 1989 to December 1994. There were 18 half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on...
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Look up beachcomber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A beachcomber is a person who practices beachcombing. Beachcomber or Beachcombers may also refer...
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originated in 1917 by Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO as his signature on the column, titled 'By the Way'. The name Beachcomber was then passed to D...
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J. B. Morton (section Beachcomber)
humorous writer noted for authoring a column called "By the Way" under the pen name 'Beachcomber' in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975. G. K. Chesterton described...
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Donn Beach (redirect from Don the beachcomber)
veteran who was the "founding father" of tiki culture. He is known for opening the first prototypical tiki bar, Don’s Beachcomber, during the 1930s in Hollywood...
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Tiki bar (redirect from Eli "The Original Beachcomber" Hedley)
was named "Don the Beachcomber," created in Hollywood in 1933 by Ernest Gantt (who later legally changed his name to "Donn Beach"). The bar served a wide...
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List of BBC Radio 4 programmes (redirect from Think the Unthinkable)
Armstrong and Miller The Atkinson People, spoof profiles Auntie's Secret Box (1996) Beachcomber, by the Way, surreal comedy Bearded Ladies The Big Booth, sketch...
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Beachcombing (category Beachcombers)
searching) the beach and the intertidal zone, looking for things of value, interest or utility. A beachcomber is a person who participates in the activity...
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Keith Moon (redirect from The Beachcombers (band))
up in Wembley and took up the drums during the early 1960s. After playing with a local band, the Beachcombers, he joined the Who in 1964 before they recorded...
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Beachcomber. 2023-09-20. Archived from the original on 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2024-08-06. Peterson, Allison (2024-02-23). "Vashon's new giant troll by...
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in the naming style of J.B. Morton in Beachcomber By The Way. In the first series, these were introduced with the titles of prior publications they had...
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Vessel of Wrath (redirect from The Beachcomber (1938 film))
"The Vessel of Wrath". The film is also known as The Beachcomber in the US. Englishman Ginger Ted is a "dissolute beachcomber" living in a tropical Dutch...
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2017). "Vashon's unlikely hero — the man who prevented the building of a bridge". Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber. Retrieved September 19, 2020. Stein...
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1889) was a British-born beachcomber who settled in pre-colonial Nauru and adopted a Nauruan lifestyle. A convict sentenced to the penal colony on Norfolk...
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The Beachcomber is a 1954 British comedy drama film directed by Muriel Box starring Donald Sinden, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Paul Rogers, Donald Pleasence...
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book creator. Source: List of non-Disney comics by Carl Barks / Carl Barks List of Disney comics by Don Rosa / Don Rosa Donald Duck in comics / Donald...
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Rincewind (redirect from The Luggage (Discworld))
early "'Beachcomber" columns in the Daily Express. In The Colour of Magic, Rincewind acted as a guide for the tourist Twoflower, who hailed from the Agatean...
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Hattie Jacques (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
1968 by appearing with Spike Milligan and Frank Thornton in thirteen episodes of the sketch show The World of Beachcomber, based on the Beachcomber column...
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Sylvia Plath (redirect from Above the Oxbow)
graduation in 1955, she won the Glascock Prize for "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea". Later, at Cambridge, she wrote for the university publication...
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Friendly Floatees spill (redirect from The First Years' ducks)
after the incident, the first Floatees began to wash up along the Alaskan coast. The first discovery consisted of ten toys found by a beachcomber near...
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Sublime (band) (redirect from Jah Won't Pay the Bills)
Hawai'i beachcomber Jack Johnson, Latin-rock eclecticists Ozomatli and progressive hip-hop figures Michael Franti and Gift of Gab on "Look at All the Love...
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Local Hero (film) (category Films directed by Bill Forsyth)
him the sailors were wrong. As the deal nears completion, Gordon discovers that Ben Knox, an old beachcomber who lives in a driftwood shack on the shore...
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for the Navy. His first marriage, Gibbons recalled, became a "casualty of the war,": 103 and in the postwar years he chose the life of a beachcomber on...
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Trader Vic's (category Restaurant chains in the United States)
claimed to have invented the Mai Tai. The other was his amicable competitor for many years, Donn Beach of the "Don the Beachcomber" restaurants. Bergeron...
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labeled as "Don the Beachcomber's Delectable Thirty", which states "this souveneir menu is available at fifty cents". The thirty drinks on the menu are shown...
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Black Press (redirect from The Federal Way Mirror)
Beachcomber. The Tacoma Daily Index was acquired next in 1997. A year later the company purchases Friday Harbor Journal and launches the Federal Way Mirror...
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Jersey Shore (TV series) (redirect from Beachcomber Bar & Grill)
American organizations for the way in which they marketed the show, as it liberally used the word Guido to describe the cast members. The term "guido" is generally...
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Monty Halls (redirect from Beachcomber Cottage)
The Ultimate Guide – 70 of the World's Top Dive Locations (September 2008, Ultimate Sports Publications Ltd) Monty Halls' Great Escape: Beachcomber Cottage...
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Born Stage Door 1938: The Citadel Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Beachcomber To the Victor Sing You Sinners The Edge of the World Of Human Hearts...
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Elsa Lanchester (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
(1936) and later in Vessel of Wrath (US: The Beachcomber. 1938). They both returned to Hollywood, where he made The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) although...
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