Jack in the Green, also known as Jack o' the Green, is an English folk custom associated with the celebration of May Day. It involves a pyramidal or conical...
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Jack o' the Green may be: Jack o' the Green, Jack in the green, role in English-folk-culture traditions for May Day "Jack O The Green" (Jools Holland...
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significance into the wild man's grotesque qualities. The Green Knight is also compared to the English holiday figure Jack in the Green. Jack is part of a...
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Jack Green may refer to: Jack Green (cricketer) (1921–2005), Australian cricketer Jack Green (footballer, born 1887) (1887–1963), Australian rules footballer...
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(which she also called the "Green Man") with other "green"-related concepts, such as the "Green Man" pubs, the Jack in the Green folk custom and May Day...
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Jack Green (12 March 1951 – 18 April 2024) was a Scottish musician and songwriter. Green played with T. Rex between 1973 and 1974, then with Pretty Things...
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The green jack (Caranx caballus), also known as the horse jack, is an abundant species of coastal marine fish in the jack family Carangidae. The species...
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1976, finishing "Jack-in-the-Green". All tracks were recorded in Studio 2 of Morgan Studios (except "Jack-in-the-Green", recorded in Studio 3 with Anderson...
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Jack Green (born 6 October 1991) is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 400m distance, along with the hurdles and the 4 × 400 m relay. He...
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English festivals (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Monday in May was created in 1978; May 1 itself is not a public holiday in England (unless it falls on a Monday). Jack in the Green, also known as Jack o'...
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after the American Civil War, he taught his distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey distillery. Green was hired...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in Middle English alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given...
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Jack in the Box, Inc. is an American fast-food restaurant chain founded in 1951, by Robert O. Peterson in San Diego, California, where it is headquartered...
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name may not be Jack as other Yorkshire folklore refers to "Jack in the Green" and more so the name Jack may just be a term for calling the person an unknown...
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ISBN 3-89602-340-3, p. 375. "JACK N. GREEN". www.cinematographers.nl. Retrieved August 28, 2017. Udel, James C.: "Cinematographer Jack N. Green’s Aerial Work Led to...
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May Day (category Modern paganism in the United Kingdom)
include Jack in the Green, and 'dancing the sun up' on May Day morning. Jack in the Green is an English folkloric figure who parades through the streets on...
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the green Jack o' Kent Jack-o'-lantern Jack of all trades, master of none Jack of Fables Jack the Ripper Spring-heeled Jack Stingy Jack Will-o'-the-wisp...
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Jack Doolan (born 28 July 1987) is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Tyler Boyce in the BBC sitcom The Green Green Grass alongside John...
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May Queen (redirect from Queen of the May)
customs in Great Britain, include personifications known as Father May, King of the May, May King, Garland King, Green Man, or Jack in the Green. As part...
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Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey. It is produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee, by the Jack Daniel Distillery, which has been owned by the Brown–Forman...
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Jack Green (born 1953) is an Garrwa artist and environment activist from the Northern Territory of Australia. He uses his art to campaign for land rights...
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professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s...
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and was signed by the Eagles as an undrafted free agent following the 2021 NFL draft. Jack Stoll was born on January 28, 1998, in Lone Tree, Colorado...
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jack green (the name was spelled with lower-case letters) is the pseudonym of Christopher Carlisle Reid (born 1928), an American literary critic who was...
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Jack in the Green: Live in Germany 1970–1993 is a video by English rock band Jethro Tull, released in 2008. It comprises in-concert footage recorded in...
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Legend (1985 film) (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
forest-dwelling paramour, Jack in the Green. Jack teaches Lili to speak to animals, then takes her blindfolded to a forest stream where the unicorns frolic. When Lili...
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Processional giant (category Culture of the Basque Country)
England's most famous gianteering tradition is arguably that of the Jack in the Green, however the country is also host to giants more visually similar to those...
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Jack Green (18 June 1925 – 5 September 2014) was a geologist and geology professor at California State University Long Beach. His active research covered...
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such as Calan Mai in Wales, Mazey Day in Cornwall, and Jack in the Green traditions in England that typically include a ritual battle in some form. Some...
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Bowls (redirect from Crown-green bowls)
or jack. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299. Another manuscript of the same...
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