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Fiddler's Green, the Glossary

Fiddler's Green is an after-life where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire.^[1]

81 relations: A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, Afterlife, Archie Fisher, Armor (magazine), Billy Budd, Bounding Main, Cockaigne, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Demons & Wizards (band), England, Ernest K. Gann, Fiddle, Fiddler's Green (band), Firebase Fiddler's Green, Fort Cavazos, Fort Knox, Fort Moore, Fort Sill, Frederick Marryat, Friday (novel), Friends of Fiddler's Green, G. K. Chesterton, George A. Romero, Gord Downie, Grammy Awards, Helmand River, Herman Melville, Land of the Dead, Lincolnshire, List of The Sandman characters, Maddy Prior, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Marley's Ghost (band), Minneapolis, Minnesota, Naval Base Point Loma, Neil Gaiman, North Shields, OB Rag, Order of the Spur, Pan Books, Paradise, Patrick O'Brian, Performance and Cocktails, Pirates of the Caribbean (film series), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (soundtrack), Plain and Simple, Post Captain (novel), ... Expand index (31 more) »
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words

A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words is a dictionary of slang originally compiled by publisher and lexicographer John Camden Hotten in 1859.

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Afterlife

The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body.

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Archie Fisher

Archie Macdonald Fisher (born 23 October 1939) is a Scottish folk singer and songwriter.

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Armor (magazine)

ARMOR is the professional journal of the U.S. Army’s Armor Branch, published by the Chief of Armor at Fort Benning, Georgia, training center for the Army's tank and cavalry forces (United States Army Armor School).

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Billy Budd

Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891.

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Bounding Main

Bounding Main is an American a cappella quintet focusing on traditional sea shanties and maritime music.

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Cockaigne

Cockaigne or Cockayne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of luxury and ease, comfort and pleasure, opposite to the harshness of medieval peasant life.

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Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) is an American non-profit organization formed in 1986 to protect the First Amendment rights of comics creators, publishers, and retailers covering legal expenses.

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Demons & Wizards (band)

Demons & Wizards was a power metal band conceived as a side-project by Blind Guardian vocalist Hansi Kürsch and Jon Schaffer, the guitarist for Iced Earth.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernest K. Gann

Ernest Kellogg Gann (October 13, 1910 – December 19, 1991) was an American aviator, author, sailor, and conservationist.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Fiddler's Green (band)

Fiddler's Green is a German band that plays Irish folk music.

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Firebase Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green was an expeditionary fire base in Afghanistan built by the United States Marine Corps.

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Fort Cavazos

Fort Cavazos is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas.

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Fort Knox

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown.

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Fort Moore

Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) is a United States Army post near Columbus, Georgia.

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Fort Sill

Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.

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Frederick Marryat

Captain Frederick Marryat (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) was a Royal Navy officer and a novelist.

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Friday (novel)

Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein.

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Friends of Fiddler's Green

Friends of Fiddler's Green is a Canadian folk music group based in Toronto founded in 1971 and still active as of 2018.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.

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George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero Jr. (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017) was an American-Canadian film director, writer, editor and actor.

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Gord Downie

Gordon Edgar Downie (February 6, 1964 – October 17, 2017) was a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer, and activist.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Helmand River

The Helmand (also spelled Helmend, or Helmund, Hirmand; Pashto/Persian: هیرمند / هلمند; Greek: Ἐτύμανδρος, Etýmandros; Latin: Erymandrus) is the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Land of the Dead

Land of the Dead (also known as George A. Romero's Land of the Dead) is a 2005 post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by George A. Romero; the fourth of Romero's six Living Dead movies, it is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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List of The Sandman characters

This is a list of characters appearing in The Sandman comic book, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

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Maddy Prior

Madelaine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.

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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

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Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and is one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the United States.

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (commonly referred to as MCRD) is a United States Marine Corps military installation in San Diego, California.

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Marley's Ghost (band)

Marley's Ghost is a band based in Washington and Northern California which has existed since the mid-1980s and has recorded 12 albums.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Naval Base Point Loma

Naval Base Point Loma (NBPL) is located in Point Loma, a neighborhood of San Diego, California.

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Neil Gaiman

Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and screenplays.

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North Shields

North Shields is a town in the Borough of North Tyneside in Tyne and Wear, England.

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OB Rag

The OB Rag (originally the OB People's Rag) was an underground newspaper published between 1970 and 1975 in the Neighborhood of Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, United States.

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Order of the Spur

The Order of the Spur is a Cavalry tradition within the United States Army.

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Pan Books

Pan Books is a British publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

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Paradise

In religion, paradise is a place of everlasting happiness, delight, and bliss.

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Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

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Performance and Cocktails

Performance and Cocktails is the second studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics.

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Pirates of the Caribbean (film series)

Pirates of the Caribbean is an American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler film series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's theme park attraction of the same name.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the soundtrack for the Disney movie of the same title, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

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Plain and Simple

Plain and Simple is a studio album by The Dubliners, the last to be produced by Phil Coulter.

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Post Captain (novel)

Post Captain is the second historical novel in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1972.

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Richard McKenna

Richard Milton McKenna (May 9, 1913 – November 1, 1964) was an American sailor and novelist.

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Rise Up Singing

Rise Up Singing is a popular folk music fake book containing chords, lyrics, and sources.

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Road Apples (album)

Road Apples is the second studio album by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Sailor

A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.

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Sasebo

is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

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Schooner Fare

Schooner Fare is a Maine-based folk band, consisting of Steve Romanoff (vocals, six and twelve-string guitar, five-string banjo), Gregory "Chuck" Romanoff (vocals, twelve-string guitar, tenor banjo), and formerly Tom Rowe (vocals, bass guitar, tin whistle).

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Sing Out!

Sing Out! was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator, and writer.

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Tír na nÓg

In Irish mythology, Tír na nÓg (Tìr nan Òg) or Tír na hÓige ('Land of Youth') is one of the names for the Celtic Otherworld, or perhaps for a part of it. Fiddler's Green and Tír na nÓg are supernatural legends.

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The Big Rock Candy Mountains

"The Big Rock Candy Mountains", first recorded and copyrighted by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a country folk song about a hobo's idea of paradise, a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne.

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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1985.

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The Dreaming (comics)

The Dreaming was a monthly comic series that ran for 60 issues (June 1996 to May 2001) and was revived in 2018.

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The Dubliners

The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners.

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The Irish Rovers

The Irish Rovers is a group of Irish musicians that formed in Toronto, Canada in 1963'Irish Rovers are Digging out those old Folk songs', By Ballymena Weekly Editor, Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, N. Ireland – 20 August 1964 and named after the traditional song "The Irish Rover".

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The Sandman (comic book)

The Sandman is a comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

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The Sandman (TV series)

The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics.

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The Tragically Hip

The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as the Hip, were a Canadian rock band formed in Kingston, Ontario in 1984, consisting of vocalist Gord Downie, guitarist Paul Langlois, guitarist Rob Baker (known as Bobby Baker until 1994), bassist Gord Sinclair, and drummer Johnny Fay.

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The Yetties

The Yetties (John "Bonny" Sartin, Pete Shutler, and Mac McCulloch) were an English folk music group, who took their name from the Dorset village of Yetminster, their childhood home.

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Tim Hart

Tim Hart (9 January 1948 – 24 December 2009) was an English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of British folk rock band Steeleye Span.

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Tim O'Brien (musician)

Timothy O'Brien (born March 16, 1954) is an American country and bluegrass musician.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddler's_Green

Also known as Fiddlers green.

, Richard McKenna, Rise Up Singing, Road Apples (album), Robert A. Heinlein, Rolling Stone, Sailor, Sasebo, Schooner Fare, Sing Out!, Stephen Fry, Tír na nÓg, The Big Rock Candy Mountains, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, The Dreaming (comics), The Dubliners, The Irish Rovers, The Sandman (comic book), The Sandman (TV series), The Tragically Hip, The Yetties, Tim Hart, Tim O'Brien (musician), United States Armed Forces, United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge, Vietnam, Viking Press, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (United States), 2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States).

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