Despite evidence to the contrary, there are reports, familiar to tourists to Boston, Massachusetts, that the original Mother Goose was a Bostonian wife of an Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665 1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42) who is interred at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.

I still get goose bumps just thinking about it.

I know how to tell a duck from a goose.

Iran is still a golden goose ripe for the plucking.

As Haldane puts it, banking became the goose laying the golden eggs.

To paraphrase an old adage, what is fare for the US goose must be fare for the Chinese gander, even if the goose believes that the gander is becoming a little uppity.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

Shouldn t what is good for the goose also be good for the gander?

There is an annual goose hunt in the spring out of Sachs Harbour.

Early colonial pioneers in New Zealand had sheep aplenty, but goose was relatively scarce.

Goose Creek is a city in Berkeley County in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

The shaking reduced the height of the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an from 45 meters to 43.4 meters.

Birds include Rueppell's Chat, the finch Ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis) , white winged flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi) , and blue winged goose.

Hundreds of thousands of the goose sized chicks are dying with stomachs full of bottle caps and other rubbish, like cigarette lighters ...

Even now, many Americans believe that the simple solution to the nation s problem is just to cut taxes and goose up private consumption.

Four helicopters were seen flying out with some of the special forces who were sent on what has proved to be a wild goose chase.

Ministry of Tofu translated a local news report about restaurant's trick by giving duck plastic surgery, making it looks like goose so as to making bigger profit.

In World War II he was naval control officer for the St. Lawrence, then staff officer operations at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, then senior naval officer at Goose Bay, Labrador.

The fires of the US sub prime mortgage crisis were stoked not just by domestic regulatory failures, but also by a global saving glut, which sent banks on a wild goose chase for yield.

When he was five, he experienced his first airplane flight in Warren, Ohio on July 20, 1936 when he and his father took a ride in a Ford Trimotor, also known as the Tin Goose .

I believe that it is important that the EU carries out such monitoring in non EU states. But what about elections in EU member states? Shouldn t what is good for the goose also be good for the gander?

Of course, images that recall Hitler s goose stepping storm troopers are the last thing that China s leaders have in mind for their Olympics after all, official Chinese nationalism proclaims the country s peaceful rise within an idyll of harmonious development.

T.S. Eliot really said it for me and this should give you goose bumps we shall not cease from exploration and the end of our exploring shall be to return where we started and know the place for the first time.

He asked whether Italy accepted the applicability of the Covenant in situations such as had occurred in Goose Bay, Canada, where low level training flights by the Italian air force had been affecting wildlife, thus jeopardizing the rights of the Innu people.

Founding Organizations Some of the founding organizations for this award are the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land grant Universities (A۰P۰L۰U), the Breakthrough Institute, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), and The Science Coalition (TSC) References External links Golden Goose Awards honor silly science.