1 Pattycake, a female western lowland gorilla, was born at the zoo in 1972, and was thus the first gorilla successfully born in captivity in New York. 2  She would later move to the Bronx Zoo in 1982, where she would remain until her death in 2013.
Definitions for parting shot. Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word parting shot. Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: parting shot(Noun) An insult or barbed comment issued as the speaker departs or the conversation comes to an end.
The  shot heard round the world  is a phrase referring to several historical incidents, including the opening of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.ccording to Emerson's poem, this pivotal shot occurred at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers killed in the battles of Lexington and Concord fell.