'Gansett gained a footnote in racing history when it buried Charlie Boy, the most popular horse since Brass Monkey, in its infield.

For use with petrol-electric, and subsequently diesel-electric, vehicles, air horns were developed about 1918, and today they vary from single-note instruments to those producing as many as five chiming pitches.

The Upright Man, the chief of the crew, arose from his chair, donned his gown of state, a very ancient brocade dressing gown, filched, most probably, from the wardrobe of some strolling player, grasped his baton of office, a stout oaken truncheon, and sallied forth.

The use of the somewhat more closely related ehrhartoid species, Oryza rufipogon, increased the bs value to 76 %.