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wiki-illiam #107: q7
7:
i: Where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
There is a statue of Wilf 'Golden Boy' Mannion, apparently NOT sculpted by one Keith Maddison, at MIDDLESBROUGH FC, so this is still unsolved! (BK believes this is WRONG)
ii: What was named, literally, Salt-pans by the Romans?
The Roman name for MIDDLEWICH was Salinae, the Salt Pans or Salt Workings (BK)
iii: Where do a few surviving hedges keep alive our lost Elysium?
JBetjeman said this of MIDDLESEX (PM)
iv: As what did an American president describe the Libyan dictator?
Reagan called Gadaffi the "Mad Dog of the MIDDLE EAST" (AMME)
v: Where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance?
Two lensmakers from MIDDLEBURG in Holland claimed they invented the telescope: Hans Lippershey filed the patent (rejected), but Zacharias Jansen is said to have built a refracting telescope years before (PJ)
vi: Where can a little-changed double row of trees still be seen 322 years after its capture on canvas?
Meindert Hobbema painted The Avenue at MIDDELHARNIS in 1689 (PM)
vii: In which Study did Sir James, disappointingly, marry Celia instead of her sister?
MIDDLEMARCH – A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE (JA)
viii: What on first sight was thought to be a classically educated crotalid?
In Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno, the Mad Gardener sings: "He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK" (DDD)
ix: Whence did the Spitfires fly during The Battle of Britain?
From MIDDLE WALLOP (BK)
x: Who dramatised a notorious cutter of purses?
Thomas MIDDLETON wrote Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl (PJ and BoB)
i: Where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
There is a statue of Wilf 'Golden Boy' Mannion, apparently NOT sculpted by one Keith Maddison, at MIDDLESBROUGH FC, so this is still unsolved! (BK believes this is WRONG)
The Roman name for MIDDLEWICH was Salinae, the Salt Pans or Salt Workings (BK)
JBetjeman said this of MIDDLESEX (PM)
Reagan called Gadaffi the "Mad Dog of the MIDDLE EAST" (AMME)
Two lensmakers from MIDDLEBURG in Holland claimed they invented the telescope: Hans Lippershey filed the patent (rejected), but Zacharias Jansen is said to have built a refracting telescope years before (PJ)
Meindert Hobbema painted The Avenue at MIDDELHARNIS in 1689 (PM)
MIDDLEMARCH – A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE (JA)
In Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno, the Mad Gardener sings: "He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK" (DDD)
From MIDDLE WALLOP (BK)
Thomas MIDDLETON wrote Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl (PJ and BoB)
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Apart from the legions (~7) of links I did not get sufficiently interested to click, the Maddison wp page has an ENTIRE pile of sportspeople, a recent bass player for Mudhoney, a Canadian arachnologist, a female British composer who may have been the lover of Gabriel Fauré (easily the most kwq-likely circumstances among the lot I thought until I found nothing)...
There's also John Maddison Morton, a farcewright whom I mention only bcz an opus of his is entitled Box and Cox, which some of you might find vaguely fnarringly amusing, but which reminded me of a particular parametrization of the power transform (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-Cox-Transformation).
No Golden Boys in sight, though, so (i) remains a mystery...