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  Knickerbocker on the Lake (Milwaukee, WI) - Hotel Reviews - TripAdvisor
We were very lucky to stay at the Knickerbocker this past weekend.
We actually had not intended to stay at the Knickerbocker, but we had issues with another hotel and had to switch to this hotel.We had a lovely room on the first floor.
The Knickerbocker is an elegant trip to a bygone era.
www.tripadvisor.com /Hotel_Review-g60097-d100995-Reviews-Knickerbocker_on_the_Lake-Milwaukee_Wisconsin.html   (1007 words)

  
  Knickerbocker glory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A knickerbocker glory is a very elaborate ice cream sundae that is served in a large tall glass, particularly in the United Kingdom.
The knickerbocker glory was first described in the 1930s and contains ice cream, jelly (jello), fruit and cream.
It is so called, as is it traditionally designed to appear as a column of horizontal stripes - often alternating red and white - so as to resemble long stockings called knickerbockers, which were once popular amongst young girls.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Knickerbocker_glory   (201 words)

  
 What is a Knickerbocker Glory?
The knickerbocker glory is a very elaborate ice cream sundae that is served in the United Kingdom.
A knickerbocker was a descendant of the original settlers from Holland.
Knickerbockers, or knickers, are also old-time knee-length men's pants that nowadays are seen on the rare golfer.
www.angelfire.com /mi3/cookarama/knickerglory.html   (578 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: KNICKERBOCKER, TX
Knickerbocker is at the junction of Farm roads 2335 and 584, six miles from the Irion county line and eighteen miles west of San Angelo in southwestern Tom Green County.
In the late 1890s Knickerbocker had two cotton gins, two saloons, two flsmith shops, an undertaker, two general stores, two hotels, stage line stables, a sanatorium, and a population of 250.
Knickerbocker declined with the coming of the automobile and all-weather roads.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/KK/hnk19.html   (543 words)

  
 Texas Judiciary Online - HTML Opinion
to Knickerbocker personally and holding him personally liable for filing a fraudulent lien; (3) excluding evidence that Centurion was “in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Texas Board of Professional Engineers”; and (4) submitting a jury instruction that Centurion and Knickerbocker assert constituted an impermissible comment on the weight of the evidence.
Knickerbocker testified that, after McCollum refused to pay for work that Centurion had done, Knickerbocker, on Centurion’s behalf, filed the mechanic’s and materialman’s lien against the entire 53-acre tract of land.
In their fourth issue, Centurion and Knickerbocker contend that the trial court erred in submitting a definition of “employee” and “independent contractor” in question number 1 without the additional instruction that “Centurion was not required to direct the detail” of Jones’s work.
www.1stcoa.courts.state.tx.us /opinions/htmlopinion.asp?OpinionId=81210   (3820 words)

  
 Knickerbocker
The Knickerbocker trademark stud is attached to the left ear and is presented in an old-fashioned window candy bag.
The Knickerbocker trademark stud is attached to his left ear.
Libby (10") is wearing a magnificent red and white striped bow at her neck and she is sculpted in navy blue mohair.
www.cybeartoys.com /BearsKnickerbocker.html   (3097 words)

  
 News Crossroads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Knickerbocker’s mother says her son became more out-going when he began writing in high school.
Knickerbocker says one reason he’s glad he made the change is it has given him an opportunity to work for Eau Claire’s student newspaper … The Specator.
Knickerbocker says that while his passion will always be sports, he would like to try writing politics in the future.
www.uwec.edu /mdorsher/VoteSmart/Knickerbockerbroadcast.htm   (533 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Theatre Announces Spring Films / Current / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College
Tickets for films at the Knickerbocker are $6 for regular admission and $5 for senior citizens, and may be purchased at the door.
Updated information may be obtained by calling the Knickerbocker Information Line at (616) 395-7403 or visiting www.hope.edu/arts/knick.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St. in downtown Holland.
www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/8522   (663 words)

  
 Gay owned inn in Big Bear Lake, California, USA - Knickerbocker Mansion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Knickerbocker features nine standard bedrooms, each with private baths and queen beds and two large luxury suites with private baths, king beds, fire places and spa tubs.
The interior of the Knickerbocker Mansion is warm, cozy and historic.
While the feeling is much more elegant than when the Knickerbocker family lived in the house, it still has the original rustic charm and ambiance.
www.purpleroofs.com /knickerbocker-ca.html   (775 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Family Home Page and Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
You have probably wondered how Knickerbocker has become such a widely recognized name and how you might be related to such a famous tribe.
Every Knickerbocker is related - the name was concocted by our common 17th century immigrant ancestor, Harmen Jansen Van Whye.
The site was occupied by Knickerbockers for 250 years.
www.knic.com   (180 words)

  
 The Best Live Music Venue in Lafayette, Indiana - The Knickerbocker Saloon
The Knickerbocker Saloon, founded in 1835, is noted as "Indiana's Oldest Bar".
The Knickerbocker provides quality live entertainment and events.
Every Monday we hold totally free Texas Hold'em Tournaments, in which players compete for points and prizes, on the weekends we have live music.
www.knickerbockersaloon.com   (143 words)

  
 Gotham Gazette -- Ask Mother Knickerbocker
First, while "Knickerbocker" indeed means "baker of marbles," it also refers to the short pants ("knickers") that the Dutch settlers wore upon their arrival to New York in the 1600s.
As in "lost their..."?) Father Knickerbocker became the symbol of New York, in the way that Uncle Sam is now the symbol of America.
Knickerbockers became a common term for the original European families who settled the city, the old-stock Dutch and Huguenots, to contrast with those upstart immigrants, the Yankees.
www.gothamgazette.com /motherk.shtml   (3046 words)

  
 The Knickerbocker Snowstorm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
View looking down at the rescue effort at the Knickerbocker Theatre after the roof of the theater collapsed under the weight of 28+" of snow, January 29, 1922.
Crandall’s Knickerbocker Theatre on the morning after its roof collapsed under the weight of a 28-inch snowfall, January 29, 1922.
Clearing away the rubble inside the Knickerbocker Theatre after the roof and balcony collapsed on the audience as intermission was ending.
www.weatherbook.com /knickerbocker.html   (215 words)

  
 PAINE KNICKERBOCKER DIES -- EX-FILM AND DRAMA CRITIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Knickerbocker's writing was distinguished by the grace, wit, scholarly perception and unfailing social integrity that in 1963 won him the Director's Guild of America's annual Critic's Award, "the Oscar of movie criticism."
Knickerbocker was perhaps proudest of his part in doing justice to fl theater and championing fl actors in the 1950s and 1960s, when they were still given little notice in major newspapers.
William Paine Knickerbocker -- he did not use his first name -- was born in New York City on March 16, 1912, the son of Reginald and Molly Knickerbocker.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/16/PKGM9DCVHK1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment   (586 words)

  
 HAUNTED HOLLYWOOD 7!
The Knickerbocker Hotel was built was in 1925 and throughout the tumultuous decade of the 1920’s, it played a key role at the heart of Hollywood.
He now eked out a painful and lonely existence at the Knickerbocker, spending most of his time in the hotel bar, talking to anyone who was sad enough to listen to him.
In March of 1966, he was walking into the Knickerbocker when he dropped dead of a heart attack on the sidewalk outside.
www.prairieghosts.com /hollywood7.html   (4063 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Genealogy Index Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I hope to provide a centralized Genealogy site for all those interested in researching their Knickerbocker Roots.
Knickerbockers in The Social Security Death Index - (A - K)
Knickerbockers in The Social Security Death Index - (L - Z)
www.knic.com /genealog.htm   (57 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Today, it may be just an apartment house for senior citizens, but back in the 1920's, the Knickerbocker Hotel was at the heart of Hollywood - and it played a key role in Tinseltown history for decades.
On March 3, 1966, he was coming back to the Knickerbocker when he dropped dead of a heart attack on the sidewalk in front of the hotel.
The Knickerbocker is located just one block west of the Capitol Records building.
www.seeing-stars.com /Landmarks/KnickerbockerHotel.shtml   (816 words)

  
 Descendants of Danyell Broadley of Bingley, Yorkshire - tobc05 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Peters, Eleanor Bradley, Bradley of Essex County, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1915, 191,.
Peters, Eleanor Bradley, Bradley of Essex County, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1915, 193,.
Peters, Eleanor Bradley, Bradley of Essex County, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1915, 193, 194,.
www.bradleyfoundation.org /genealogies/Bingley/tobc05.htm   (655 words)

  
 The Best Live Music Venue in Lafayette, Indiana - The Knickerbocker Saloon
The Knickerbocker Saloon, founded in 1835, is noted as "Indiana's Oldest Bar".
The Knickerbocker provides quality live entertainment and events.
Every Monday we hold totally free Texas Hold'em Tournaments, in which players compete for points and prizes, on the weekends we have live jazz and blues, and the first Tuesday of every month is Speed Dating.
www.knickerbockersaloon.com /main.htm   (146 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Maritime: Projects
Knickerbocker Maritime has been engaged in some very interesting projects.
It is being marketed by Jacques Pierot and Sons, Inc. shipbrokers and Knickerbocker Maritime.
Knickerbocker has worked for several private customers on some VERY interesting programs.
www.knickerbocker-maritime.com /km_projects.htm   (970 words)

  
 Hotel  Knickerbocker  ADDRESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Knickerbocker was built in 1925 as a luxury apartment house.
Later it was converted to a the once-stylish Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel.
Although it was overshadowed for years by its more fabled sibling the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Knickerbocker has a rich history of tinseltown legend.
www.microla.com /ltpages/knickerbocker.htm   (230 words)

  
 Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker Papers 1914-1950.
Knickerbocker was a student in journalism at Columbia University, 1919-1920, and a foreign correspondent for the New York EVENING POST and the Philadelphia PUBLIC LEDGER, and later for the International News Service.
Nevertheless, many of Knickerbocker's reports, cables, and interviews, some unpublished, are present and provide information concerning news events, primarily in Europe, and the operations of his office.
Also, photographs relating to Knickerbocker's works on Russian trade and the Five Year Plan, and of Knickerbocker himself.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/eresources/archives/collections/html/4078991.html   (207 words)

  
 Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker, term used almost synonymously with the adjective “Dutch” in respect to Dutch families and customs and the Dutch region of early New York state.
Herman KNICKERBOCKER - KNICKERBOCKER, Herman (1779—1855) KNICKERBOCKER, Herman, a Representative from New York; born...
L.L. Knickerbocker Reports $.04 Profit for the Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 1997 and $.24 Loss for the Year; $5 Million in Noncash Charges Impact Year-End Results.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0827917.html   (281 words)

  
 Knickerbocker House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Knickerbockers were the landholders in Dutch colonial days.
This was an important status because it held great potential to do many things, such as farming, logging and other endeavors.
With the combined team of teachers, parents and students, the staff of the Knickerbocker House looks forward to the challenge of helping students reach their potential.
bcsd.k12.ny.us /middle/knickerbocker.htm   (177 words)

  
 IgoUgo: Chicago Bed And Breakfast, Chicago Hotels, Chicago Campgrounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Formerly the Regal Knickerbocker, this elegant old hotel still has a certain amount of charm and a good location just a half-block east of the Magnificent Mile.
The Knickerbocker has 14 floors and 305 rooms, but it has the feel of a smaller boutique property.
The Millennium Knickerbocker is not for everybody, but it is a nice older property for those who enjoy its stylish flowery qualities.
www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryAccommodation.asp?type=1&entryID=10810   (779 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Americana: Baseball and Washington Irving's Deft Devices
As Diedrich Knickerbocker, he also gave Americans their first detailed information about Santa Claus in his Knickerbocker’s History of New York, (which, incidentally in later printings after his death in 1859 was illustrated by the talented American artist Maxfield Parrish, much of whose work I greatly admire.).
These rules called for the nine-person team, the baseball diamond, and the elimination of plunking or plugging, which was the practice of putting out runners by throwing the ball at them.
In 1907 banks were totally dependent on their own resources, so when the huge and powerful Knickerbocker Bank in New York City went under, it set off a panic.
www.mrrena.com /knick.shtml   (1542 words)

  
 Knickerbocker Bar and Grill - New York, NY - CuisineNet
A Village place that's been around forever, Knickerbocker has the classic feel of an old steakhouse, with its open room done in dark wood and whimsical antique New York posters.
Knickerbocker Grill is an upscale restaurant that prepares its guests an American cuisine where patrons tend to favor steaks.
Expect the average entrée to cost $12 to $20, and you'll be fine if dressed casual.
cuisinenet.com /info?v=237&/new_york/rest/881.shtml   (216 words)

  
 MS 2335: The Knickerbocker Family Papers, 1964-1978
In this collection, the Knickerbocker Family Papers, 1964-1978, are a resume for Robert Keats Knickerbocker and several forms pertaining to the International Association of University Professors of English (I.A.U.P.E.) and its 1980 conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Kenneth L. Knickerbocker was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1905.
In 1946, Dr. Knickerbocker joined the University of Tennessee faculty as a professor of English.
www.lib.utk.edu /spcoll/manuscripts/ms2335fa.html   (445 words)

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