Ajax (cleaning product) (an all purpose cleaner, a bathroom cleaner, and a window cleaner), well known in Australia and New Zealand, are among market leaders. When Ajax was first released in 1947, the commercial for the product was produced by Shamus Culhane. The original Ajax powder slogan was "Stronger than dirt!", a reference to the muscular hero Ajax of Greek mythology. Some Ajax dish soaps now feature the trademarked slogan "Stronger than grease!" which may be a pun on "Greece." Another early slogan was "Ajax... the foaming cleanser!" The first slogan was used again for Ajax Laundry Detergent when introduced in the beginning
Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle day. He is given a token blow and proclaimed the most courageous of all the warriors. A possibly 7th-century Old Welsh poem named "Preideu Annwfyn", the spoils of the Otherworld, contains stanzas alluding to adventures involving Arthur, who is not a king in this poem but a mythological hero. The oblique nature of these allusions are such that the stories must have been well known when "Preideu Annwfyn" was composed. The first such stanza describes the rescue of Gwier from an Otherworld castle. Gwier is equated with another character of Welsh legend, Gwri Wallt Euryn, and the name Gwri may