• A. R. F. Webber suggested that the term may have originated as "pork-barrel knocker". Small-scale mining attracted many Afro-Guyanese before and after...
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  • exhibition of about fifty of his recent sculptures and paintings named Pork Knocker Dreams was staged in England. "Porkknocker" is the name given to gold...
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    museum's artifacts have been there for more than fifty years, like the Pork-knocker, which has been on display for over sixty years. There are also miniature...
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    means of subsistence, the Afro-Guyanese moved into the hinterlands as pork-knocker miners or to urban areas for employment. The emancipated Afro-Guyanese...
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  • Flags For Geebag" Missing N/A 8 June 1958 (1958-06-08) Donald Pleasence (Knocker), Jack MacGowran (Vince), Kenneth Warren (Fred), Lyle O'Hara (Julie), John...
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    Colín, who also thought that the Philippine woman-fish tasted like fatty pork. The bones were made into beads (i.e., strung together), as it was believed...
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  • Piersig as Prime Stuart Stone as Pistol Jaimz Woolvett as Head Knocker Toby Proctor as Mosh Sunny Besen Thrasher as Ultra Pork Richard Yearwood as Zip-Zap...
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  • Spleen" by Art of Noise "The Newgate Wind" by The Bevis Frond "Newgate's Knocker" by Jools Holland "Newington" (hymn tune by William Maclagan) "Newington...
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    of about 3 m (9.8 ft) high and 3.6 m (12 ft) wide. A gilded bronze door knocker, 24.5 cm (9.6 in), is made in the shape of a beast head. The beast head...
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  • person with a red IWW card, such as a person in a union or a hobo Car knocker A railroad yard man who works assembling trains The Carry All Chicago &...
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