Old york
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Poets and poetry
Iron
Rhymes with these
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Ivar the boneless showed some spine when he led the Scandinavians on raids if York in the 9th century 

The vikings

100

Pierce brosnon and Meryl Streep sang “sos” on the soundtrack of this 2008 movie

Mama mia

100

Joy Harjos “when the world as we knew it ended” refers to this date when “two towers…went down, swallowed by a fire dragon”


9/11

100

It’s the “beastly” name for iron obtained directly from a blast furnace and poured into molds

Pig iron

100

2 parallel ropes attach to a horizontal bar to make up this acrobatic apparatus 

Trapeze 

200

After this king won at Hastings, york was “seething with discontent” ;he would soon match in and build 2 castles

William the conqueror 

200

Looks like Steve McCroskey picked the wrong week to quick smoking, drinking, amphetamines, and sniffing glue in this 1980 comedy

Airplane

200

In an Edna st. Vincent Millay poem, this “burns at both ends; it will not last the night”

Candle

200

The iron type of these objects like the 60 ton hobo one in Africa seen here is made up of mostly iron  

A meteorite 

200

To breath with difficulty and with a whistling sound

wheeze

300

York came to be when members of times ninth this set up camp and called it eboracum 

romes ninth legion

300

Steve Martin, Chevy chase, and Martin short, collectively; now turn your head and cough

The Three amigos 
300

Poems by him include “Harlem” “crossing Jordan” and “the weary blues”

Langston hughes

300

At about 1,000 feet it was the tallest iron structure in the world when it was completed in 1898

the Eiffel Tower 

300

To identify someone vile or unethical, “ball” or “bag” can follow this word 

Sleeze

400

After battling the picts in 305, this “great” man was proclaimed emperor of Rome in york

Constantine 

400

Tom hanks wrote and directed this 1996 film about a band of one-hit wonders

That thing you do

400

One of Joseph brodskeys best-known poems is “elegy for” this “death be not proud” poet 

John donne

400

This symbol for the chemical element comes from the word for “iron” in latin

Fe

400

Idiomatically these may “fall on deaf ears”

Please

500

Yorks Franciscan order if greyfriars was dissolved by Henry the VIII in 1538 as part of this period of religious upheaval 

the reformation 

500

What the dickens?! Mark lester wanted a little more out of life in the title of this 1968 film

Oliver

500

A poem by Stevie smiths says “I was much further out than you thought and not waving but” doing this

Drowning 

500

Thomas Paine got the 1st patent for an iron bridge, to span this river that meets the Delaware at Philadelphia- - it was never built

The schuylkill

500

It’s an ornate decoration just below a buildings roof

Freeze

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