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28 unusual facts about Aberdeen


Aurora, South Dakota

However, if it wishes to compete at the district tournament, it must compete against its intra-district 1 opponents, which are Brookings, Aberdeen, Watertown, and Huron.

Balgownie transmitting station

Balgownie transmitting station is a relay transmitter of Durris, situated in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, and covering Tillydrone, Woodside, parts of Old Aberdeen and the Abbey Road area of Torry.

Bastrop Academy

Professor William J. Hancock of Aberdeen, Mississippi became the first headmaster at the Academy, and the Bastrop Female Academy was incorporated.

Brian Binnie

The family returned to Scotland when Binnie was five, and lived in Aberdeen (his father taught at Aberdeen University) and later in Stirling.

Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen

The Capitol Theatre is a former cinema and variety house on Union Street in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Cresbard, South Dakota

The services these businesses represent can now be found in neighboring towns, such as Aberdeen, South Dakota which is 40 miles away.

Frederick Baltimore Calvert

In 1829 he became elocutionary lecturer of King's College, University of Aberdeen and gave lectures on oratory, poetry, and other literary subjects in the large towns of Scotland and England.

Frederick Darwent

He was made a Canon of St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen in 1971; and was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1973 to 1978.

Fredrick McGhee

McGhee was born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Abraham McGhee and Sarah Walker, who were slaves.

Future developments in Aberdeen, Scotland

The majority are to upgrade the poor transport infrastructure of the city or to modernise the city centre, particularly around Union Street.

Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland

The first BBC radio broadcast in the Gaelic language was aired throughout Scotland on Sunday 2 December 1923; this was a 15-minute religious address by Rev. John Bain, recorded in the High United Free Church in Aberdeen.

Glentanar F.C.

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Harold K. Schneider

Harold K. (Hal) Schneider (1925–1987), a seminal figure in economic anthropology, was born in 1925, in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Henry J. Watt

He entered the University of Aberdeen in 1896, graduating with a Master's degree in philosophy in 1900.

Karl Bendetsen

Karl Robin Bendetsen (October 11, 1907 – June 28, 1989) was born in Aberdeen, Washington.

New Aberdeen Stadium

In April 2009, the Arena Project Board recommended a site in Nigg for the new stadium.

Patrick Milne

This was sited on Union Street, Aberdeen and the house was called Crimonmogate, the same name as his estate in Lonmay.

Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd

Mr Strachan took the dismissal decision under the Aberdeen human resources’ department’s guidance, and the hearing was carried out in Aberdeen and the redundancy payment made like under UK law.

Rocky King Detective

These episodes have been screened at the non-profit Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention held annually in Aberdeen, Maryland.

Something in the Way

It was thought that "Something in the Way" was written during a time in which its author, singer Kurt Cobain, was homeless and slept underneath a bridge in his native town, Aberdeen, (Washington).

Stord Airport, Sørstokken

In early 1992, Air Stord started a route to Stavanger, which corresponded with the morning departures to London and Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.

Thomas J. Clark

The production of the coal needed for these heaters violated city smoke regulations and forced Stewart and Clark to build a new plant in Aberdeen, Illinois, about 25 miles west of Chicago.

Undergraduate gowns in Scotland

At the University of Aberdeen, and particularly within the predecessor King's College the gown (or toga rubra) has had varied fortunes over the years.

Union Bridge

Union Bridge, Aberdeen, the world's largest single-span granite bridge, over the Denburn valley, connecting the east and west ends of Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland

Union Bridge, Aberdeen

Union Bridge is a bridge on Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Wellington Suspension Bridge

The Wellington Suspension Bridge (also known as the Chain Bridge and Craiglug Bridge) is a suspension bridge crossing the River Dee from Ferryhill to Craiglug in Aberdeen, north east Scotland.

An Act of Parliament was eventually obtained by the Heritors of Nigg and the Road Trustees in 1828 for a bridge to replace the Craiglug Ferry.

Wilma Cozart Fine

Wilma Cozart Fine (March 29, 1927, Aberdeen, Mississippi – September 21, 2009, Harrison, New York) was an American record producer who, with her husband, C.


Aberdeen Donside by-election, 2013

The Aberdeen Donside by-election, 2013 is a by-election that was held for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Aberdeen Donside on Thursday 20 June, following the death from cancer of the constituency's MSP, Brian Adam.

Advanced Business Solutions

The organisation operates from 10 UK locations in Cobham, Aberdeen, Aylesbury, Bridgwater, Gateshead, Harpenden, Huntingdon, Northampton, Manchester and also maintain offices in Boston, MA

Ancient universities of Scotland

In modern times, former college names may refer to specific university buildings, such as the King's College and Marischal College buildings in Aberdeen, the Old College and New College at Edinburgh and the 'Old College' to refer to the former buildings of the University of Glasgow before its move in the 19th century to Gilmorehill.

Blelack

Blelack House is situated 30 miles west of Aberdeen, near the village of Logie Coldstone, 3 miles north of the River Dee in the Cromar, a basin of agricultural land carved out of the Grampian foothills.

Capital Radio Sierra Leone

Capital Radio is a Sierra Leone radio station based at the Mammy Yoko Business Park in Aberdeen, Freetown.

CGS Aberdeen

At about 13:00 Aberdeen was approaching the Black Ledge, about one and a quarter miles from Seal Island, when she struck the wreck of the trawler Snipe, which had sunk the previous June.

City Star Airlines

City Star Airlines started operations on 28 March 2005 with one aircraft flying between Aberdeen, Scotland (Aberdeen Airport) and Oslo (Oslo Gardermoen Airport) in cooperation with and on the AOC of domestic airline Landsflug in Iceland.

Cove Rangers F.C.

On Friday, 30 July 2010, an article was placed in, the local Aberdeen paper, the Evening Express that Stewart Milne, the chairman of Aberdeen F.C., had bought their home ground Alan Park.

Craig Hignett

His stay at Aberdeen was short lived, only lasting six months, before signing for Barnsley for £800,000 in 1999.

David Blaustein

Blaustein continued to attend college full-time, work at both radio stations and create and co-host a popular talk show on the campus radio station, WBNY-FM, called "Misinformation." Mr. Blaustein's co-host was novelist Micah Nathan, author of Simon and Schuster's Gods of Aberdeen.

Derek McInnes

Derek John McInnes (born 5 July 1971 in Paisley, Renfrewshire) is a Scottish football player and manager, who is currently the manager of Aberdeen.

Dirk Reuyl

In 1944 he left McCormick Observatory and became head of the Photographic Division at the Ballistic Research Laboratory of the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland.

Dyce

The area of Aberdeen has sports facilities including the local junior football team Dyce F.C who currently play in the Scottish Junior Football Association North Region and the cricket team.

Easson

Frederick Easson (1905–1988), Scottish Episcopal Church bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland, United Kingdom

Elaine C. Smith

During Christmas 2009, Smith played Fairy Godmother in the pantomime Cinderella in Aberdeen and returned there over Christmas 2010 to play the Evil Queen Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty.

Fillan

See also Historical Notices of St Fillan's Crozier, by Dr John Stuart (Aberdeen, 1877).

Gareth Mitchelson

Other notable performances have included participation in many Folk Festivals and Fiddlers Rallys, in the Capitol Theatre and His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, several Royal performances, commission pieces for Scottish Dance Traditions (Generating Heat & Funky Faeries), twice appearing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles and several TV Hogmanay Shows.

Gordon Chisholm

Poor league form and a 3–2 defeat against Aberdeen in the third round of the Scottish Cup, after having led 2–0, led to Chisholm being sacked on 10 January 2006 by Dundee United chairman Eddie Thompson.

History of education in Scotland

He assisted in the reconstruction of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in order to do for St Andrews what he had done for Glasgow, he was appointed Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1580.

International School of Aberdeen

The American school in Aberdeen provided American education curricula for Nursery and Pre-Kindergarten - 12 students living in the Aberdeen area, as well as to kids from the former US/RAF Naval Base at Edzell, near Brechin, beginning with the 1986-87 school year.

James Baker House

James B. Baker House, Aberdeen, Maryland, listed on the NRHP in Maryland

James Souttar

The son of William Souttar, of Edenville, Aberdeen, Souttar worked in Gothenburg (1863) and Stockholm (1863-6), in Sweden, and his works there include The English Church at Wallingatan in Stockholm, 1865–66, later moved to Diplomatstaden.

John Longmuir

His Maiden Stone of Bennachie (Aberdeen, 1869), on the Maiden Stone monolith, put a tradition connected with it into verse.

Jonathan Gould

During 1999–2000 Gould generally remained the first-choice goalkeeper at Parkhead despite the arrival of Dmitri Kharine, and picked up another Scottish League Cup winner's medal when Celtic defeated Aberdeen 2-0 in the final on 19 March 2000.

Kilsyth Rangers F.C.

Some famous players to have played for the team are Drew Jarvie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, St. Mirren), William Wallace (Heart of Midlothian, Celtic), Frank McGarvey (St.Mirren, Liverpool, Celtic), David Stewart (Leeds United), Pat McMahon (Celtic, Aston Villa), George Mulhall (Aberdeen, Sunderland), Jim Storrie (Airdrieonians, Aberdeen, Leeds United), Gary McStay (Falkirk) plus many more.

Łukasz Załuska

Referee Iain Brines was also hit by a coin thrown from the Aberdeen supporters' end.

Malcolm Kpedekpo

Playing for Aberdeen as a schoolboy and later while at university, Kpedekpo left football to move to Australia working for KPMG.

NESTRANS

Nestrans has sought assurances that additional slots released at London Heathrow Airport are retained for domestic flights from peripheral airports such as Aberdeen.

North Tonight

The programme was aired from Grampian's main studios at Queens Cross in Aberdeen until the station moved to new, smaller studios in the West Tullos area of the city in 2003.

ORDVAC

J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Paddy Moore

After an impressive performance for the FAI XI against the Netherlands in May 1932, Moore, together with Joe O'Reilly and Jimmy Daly, was one of three Irish players from that team who were then signed by Aberdeen.

Robert Laws

His father, Robert Laws snr of Old Aberdeen, and his mother, Christian née Cruikshank of Kidshill in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, both attended St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen.

Robert Morison

Born in Aberdeen, Morison was an outstanding scholar who gained his Master of Arts degree from the University of Aberdeen at the age of eighteen.

Robert Rait

Rait was born on 10 February 1874 in Narborough, Leicestershire, although the family moved shortly afterwards to Aberdeen.

Roy Thomson

Roy Hendry Thomson (1932-2009), Knight of the Order of Saint John, and prominent citizen of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Salem Ramaswami Mudaliar

Ramaswami halted at Edinburgh on way to Aberdeen to listen to the speech of the liberal leader William Ewart Gladstone while he regarded the speech given by John Bright at Birmingham as the best he had ever listened to in life.

Scott Davie

He usually provides commentary on Aberdeen home matches and will often commentate on Dundee United or Inverness Caledonian Thistle home matches when Aberdeen are away from home or not in action.

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise has approximately 1,100 staff and operates from 13 offices - Aberdeen, Bellshill, Clydebank, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, Glenrothes, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Selkirk and Stirling.

Shenmue II

On the outskirts of Aberdeen is Queens Street, a pleasant area that is lined with brownstone houses, reflecting Hong Kong's British governors.

Station Park, Forfar

The ground, as the name suggests, was once close to the town's railway station, situated on the Caledonian Railway's main line from Aberdeen to Glasgow and London, but this station was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching cuts.

Stoneywood

F.C. Stoneywood, a football club from the Stoneywood area of Aberdeen

Wellington Suspension Bridge

Aberdeen was undergoing rapid expansion in the early 19th century and landowners in Torry, the Menzies family of Pitfodels, wished to capitalise on the opportunities arising from the establishment of the turnpike road between Aberdeen and Stonehaven in 1799.

Wilfred Currie

Educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1933, Currie was a curate at St John’s Aberdeen and then Priest in charge of St Mark’s in the same city.

William Garden Blaikie

His father, James Ogilvie Blaikie, had been the first provost in Aberdeen of the reformed corporation.

William Laurence Brown

In 1795 the magistrates of Aberdeen appointed him to the chair of divinity, and soon after he was made principal of Marischal College.