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The hotel was named the Westward Ho!-tel, and the adjacent villas were also named after the book. As further development took place, the expanding settlement also acquired the name of Westward Ho! [3] [4] The exclamation mark is therefore an intentional part of the village's name. It is the only such place name in the British Isles; [5] Saint ...
[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!, 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
Charles Kingsley's novel Westward Ho! led to the founding of a village by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him.
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (also known as Westward Ho) is a 20-by-30-foot (6.1 m × 9.1 m) painted mural displayed behind the western staircase of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol Building.
European Voluntary Workers (EVW) was the collective name given to continental Europeans invited by the British government to work in the UK in the immediate Post-World War II period, to help people who have become homeless during the war and to support labor shortages in industry.
Noem responded to the criticisms on X for what she called a necessary decision, saying that “Cricket had shown aggressive behavior toward people by biting them, I decided what I did.”
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 ...