Location: Cairns Along the Harbour Lights boardwalk in a city best known for being Australia's jumping-off point for trips to the Great Barrier Reef, Craig Squire overlays native ingredients with regional fare to create dishes like emu wantons, green ant gravlax and wattleseed pavlova.
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Warning to Wantons is a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Donald Wilson and starring Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon and David Tomlinson.BFI.org The screenplay, written by art historian James Laver and the director, was based upon Mary Mitchell's 1934 novel A Warning to Wantons, subtitled 'A fantastic romance - setting forth the not undeserved but awful fate which befell a minx.'Mary Mitchell (1934). A Warning to Wantons.
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She appeared in the 1941 stage musical Lady Behave. Other wartime stage roles include Vernon Sylvaine's Women Aren't Angels and Warn That Man. Her final film was a supporting role in the comedy Warning to Wantons in 1949.
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Prostitution may well have been a normal aspect of medieval urban life; in John Stow describes Love Lane as "so called of Wantons". The more graphic Gropecunt Lane, however, is possibly the most obvious allusion to sexual activity.
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The novels The Wantons (1957), Terror (1958) and Nightmare (1960) have a contemporary setting of social discontent, while Cruel Lips (1956), Kidnap (1961) and Adam and Eve (1961) are thrillers. In a few years, Marcus van Heller became the most prolific and mysterious pen name from the "Traveller's Companion" series. "In the netherworld of erotica, the name Marcus van Heller approaches the stature of legend" (portrayal by John de St. Jorre in his book about the history of Olympia Press).
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He said he wanted to make the film as it gave him a chance to appear in a comedy. Fuillere arrived in London in mid February. She had been learning English for three months, a process interrupted by appearing on the Paris stage in The Eagle Has Two Heads which had been a huge success. She was one of a number of French actors appearing in British films at the time, others including Nila Parely in Snowbound, Anne Vernon in Warning to Wantons, and Anouk in The Golden Salamander.
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Faithless wives and wantons were punished and put back on the 'right track' by forcing them first to wash in Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, then to run round Scorhill circle three times, then they had to pass through the Tolmen stone and finally they went up to the Grey Wethers stone circle where they knelt and asked forgiveness. If the stones remained standing then all was well, but if their penance was not sincere then a stone would fall and crush them.Hippisley Coxe, Anthony E. (1973). Haunted Britain. Pub. Hutchinson. .
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In his History of Boston, Dr. Caleb Snow wrote that one of the officers attending the hanging, Edward Wanton, was so overcome by the execution that he became a Quaker convert. The Wantons later became one of the leading Quaker families in Rhode Island, and two of Wanton's sons, William and John, and two of his grandsons, Gideon and Joseph Wanton, became governors of the Rhode Island Colony. Humphrey Atherton, a prominent Massachusetts official and one of Dyer's persecutors, wrote, "Mary Dyer did hang as a flag for others to take example by." Atherton died on 16 September 1661 following a fall from a horse, and many Quakers viewed this as God's wrath sent upon him for his harshness towards their sect.
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Wanton was an advocate of paper currency, and as treasurer he issued 264,000 pounds in bills of credit.Bicknell, 1072 In 1745 and again in 1747, Wanton was elected as the governor of the colony, each time for a one-year term. During his two short terms the British were fighting the French, and a good part of the war was being carried out in the American colonies. The Wantons were Quakers, who generally abrogated war, but John Bartlett, the editor of the Rhode Island Colonial Records wrote, "although Mr. Wanton was a Quaker, he was a belligerent one, and fully equal to the emergency..."Bicknell, 1072 Most of the dealings of his two administrations concerned military and naval affairs such as raising troops, equipping privateers, and supplying war materiel.
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