The Grey Ghost – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey KG PC
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Lord_Charles_T.Bergamot
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:The_Grey_Ghost! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grey,_2nd_Earl_Grey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Grey_tea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_the_Gray_Ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa(BB-61)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Ghost
The Grey Ghost, Lord Charles T. Bergamot of Marleybone, has reopened Nepeta Mine in the Rubal Wastes. He plans to restart the Qhatnip trade and export Qhatnip to Marleybone, evidently to sell to the Felines there.After a battle with your wizard, the Grey Ghost abandons his plans.
He leaves the Qhatnip trade to Bobak and returns to Marleybone.
The Grey Ghost has multiple instances of reference, including but not limited to; a 1950s TV show, a band fronted by Ruby Starr, a character from Batman: the Animated Series, Roosevelt Williams (a Blues pianist), the USS Iowa BB-61, and a Rolls-Royce model.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey KG PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834. He was a descendant of the House of Grey and the namesake of Earl Grey tea. Grey was a long-time leader of multiple reform movements. During his time as prime minister, his government brought about two notable reforms. The Reform Act 1832 enacted parliamentary reform, greatly increasing the electorate of the House of Commons.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 led to the abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire via a program of compensated emancipation. Grey was a strong opponent of the foreign and domestic policies of William Pitt the Younger in the 1790s. In 1807, he resigned as foreign secretary to protest against George III’s uncompromising rejection of Catholic emancipation. Grey finally resigned as prime minister in 1834 over disagreements in his cabinet regarding Ireland, and retired from politics. Scholars rank him highly among British prime ministers, believing that he averted much civil strife and enabled Victorian progress.
Earl Grey tea is a tea blend which has been flavored with oil of bergamot. The rind’s fragrant oil is added to black tea to give Earl Grey its unique taste. It is commonly believed to be named after Grey, although the term was apparently first used decades after his death. On a side note, Tea, Earl Grey, Hot is the beverage choice of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
According to the Grey family, the tea was specially blended by a Chinese mandarin for Lord Grey, to suit the water at Howick Hall, the family seat in Northumberland, using bergamot in particular to offset the preponderance of lime in the local water. Lady Grey used it to entertain in London as a political hostess, and it proved so popular that she was asked if it could be sold to others, which was how Twinings came to market it as a brand.
“Beware the Gray Ghost” is the eighteenth episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It was directed by series regular Boyd Kirkland and was first aired on November 4, 1992. The episode features guest star Adam West, best known for his portrayal of Batman in the 1960s Batman television series. West plays an actor known for his role as the Gray Ghost, a character that resembles Batman antecedent The Shadow.
USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa. Owing to the cancellation of the Montana-class battleships, Iowa is the last lead ship of any class of United States battleships and was the only ship of her class to serve in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
During World War II, she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Mers El Kébir, Algeria, en route to a conference of vital importance in 1943 in Tehran with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. When transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, Iowa shelled beachheads at Kwajalein and Eniwetok in advance of Allied amphibious landings and screened aircraft carriers operating in the Marshall Islands. She also served as the Third Fleet flagship, flying Admiral William F. Halsey’s flag at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
During the Korean War, Iowa was involved in raids on the North Korean coast. It was during the Korean War that she garnered the nickname, “The Grey Ghost”.
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost name refers both to a car model and one specific car from that series. Originally named the “40/50 h.p.” the chassis was first made at Royce’s Manchester works, with production moving to Derby in July 1908, and also, between 1921 and 1926, in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Chassis no. 60551, registered AX 201, was the car that was originally given the name “Silver Ghost”. Other 40/50 hp cars were also given names, but the Silver Ghost title was taken up by the press, and soon all 40/50s were called by the name, a fact not officially recognized by Rolls-Royce until 1925, when the Phantom range was launched.
The current list of all the (known) Mirage references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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