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Westward Ho! is a seaside village near Bideford in Devon, England. The A39 road provides access from the towns of Barnstaple , Bideford , and Bude . It lies at the south end of Northam Burrows and faces westward into Bideford Bay , opposite Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows .
[1] [2] "Ho!" is an interjection or a call to attract passengers, without a specific meaning besides "hey!" or "come!" [3] The title is also a nod towards the play Westward Ho!, written by John Webster and Thomas Dekker in 1604, which satirised the perils of the westward expansion of London. [1] The full title of Kingsley's novel is Westward Ho!
Westward Ho (or Ho!, or Hoe) is an early Jacobean-era stage play, a satire and city comedy by Thomas Dekker and John Webster that was first performed circa 1604. It had an unusual impact in that it inspired Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston to respond to it by writing Eastward Ho, the famously controversial 1605 play that landed ...
Westward Ho!, a silent film based on the novel of the same name; Westward Ho, starring John Wayne; Westward Ho!, a British public information film; Westward Ho, one in a series of western films known as The Three Mesquiteers
Westward Ho the Wagons! is a 1956 American Western film starring Fess Parker and Kathleen Crowley and produced by Walt Disney Productions.Based on Mary Jane Carr's novel Children of the Covered Wagon, the film was produced by Bill Walsh, directed by William Beaudine, and released to theatres on December 20, 1956 by Buena Vista Distribution Company.
Kingsley School, a private school in Bideford, the town in which Westward Ho! is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of Edgehill College and Grenville College. In 1905, the composer Cyril Rootham wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem Andromeda. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908.
Some of the public health websites that the US government was ordered to restore involving gender and gender identity now carry a warning denying the existence of transgender people.
The Westward Ho was built by Ron's Construction Company, based in Las Vegas. [2] The Westward Ho opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 1963, [3] [4] and was located between the Stardust resort and the future site of the Slots-A-Fun Casino. [5] The rectangular 15-acre (6.1 ha) property stretched west from the Las Vegas Strip to South Industrial Road. [5]