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unusual facts about Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway



2007 in birding and ornithology

There were eleven deliberate killings by illegal poisoning of Red Kite in Scotland in 2007; although incidents appear to have decreased in the Dumfries and Galloway Red Kite project area.

Agriculture in Scotland

The biggest plantations and timber resources are to be found in Dumfries and Galloway, Tayside, Argyll and the Scottish Highlands.

Annandale distillery

Annandale Distillery is a whisky distillery producing single malt Scotch whisky produced in Annandale, Scotland.

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Annadale-on-Hudson is the fictional hometown of the X-Men character Jean Grey in Marvel Comics.

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas

The lordships of Annandale and Bothwell were annexed by the crown, Galloway to Margaret Douglas, and the Douglas lands and earldom passed to William's great-uncle James Douglas, Earl of Avondale, who was himself implicated, with Sir William Crichton, in the murder of the young earl.

Archibald Thorburn

He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman (both in Nature in Art's collection), and he encouraged the young Donald Watson when he came to visit him in Dumfries and Galloway.

Baron Vaux of Harrowden

He resides at Rusko, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, and is a farmer and a former councillor for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Big Burns Supper

The Big Burns Supper (launched in 2011) is an annual contemporary arts festival held in Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Breast cancer survivors' dragon boating

Paddlers for Life Scotland South West was formed in March 2010 and is based on Loch Ken, Dumfries and Galloway.

Charles Annandale

Charles Annandale (1843–1915) was a Scottish editor, primarily of reference books.

Chiromantis simus

Chiromantis simus (common names: Assam Asian frog, Assam tree frog, Annandale's tree frog, Annandale's pigmy tree frog) is a species of frog in the Rhacophoridae family found in Bangladesh and northeastern India (in Assam, Mizoram, and West Bengal states).

Clan Bruce

Bruce appears to have sided with the Scots during the Battle of Stirling Bridge but when Edward returned victorious, to England after the Battle of Falkirk, Bruce's lands of Annandale and Carrick were exempted from the lordships and lands which Edward assigned to his followers.

Claudia Chan Shaw

She was born in Annandale in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and studied visual communications design at Sydney College of the Arts and export marketing at Monash University.

Closeburn railway station

Closeburn railway station was a railway station in Dumfries and Galloway north of Dumfries, serving a rural community with Wallace Hall school and Closeburn Castle nearby.

Daxton Monaghan

In 2009 Daxton joined Sydney musicians and entertainers Andy Kent from You Am I, Jeff O'Connell from Headache, Shayne Pinington and Adam Yee from Smudge for a series of gigs at the Annandale Hotel under the name “The baby baby baby baby yeah yeah yeah's,” a Cult tribute band.

Edward Irving

His mother's side, the Lowthers, were farmers or small proprietors in Annandale.

Eskdalemuir Observatory

The Eskdalemuir Observatory is located near Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Gabriel Caste

Caste attended elementary school at Von E. Mauger Middle School and middle school at Ethel Hoppock Middle School Caste began acting at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, where he was involved in various Shakespearean stage plays.

Gargleblast Records

On 11 June 2007 the label released "Live At The Annandale Hotel" by seminal Glasgow band Life Without Buildings, and released "This Is What Makes Us", the debut album by Foxface on 5 November.

Gretna Green

It is in Dumfries and Galloway, near the mouth of the River Esk and was historically the first village in Scotland, following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh.

Hymenopus coronatus

Cott quotes an account by Annandale of Hymenopus coronatus which he reports hunts on the flowers of the "Straits Rhododendron", Melastoma polyanthum.

James Chace

In 1990, he was appointed Professor of Government at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, in upstate New York.

Jess Cliffe

He grew up in New Jersey and went to North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey before attending Virginia Tech from 1999-2003.

Kelly Link

She has taught or visited at a number of schools and workshops including Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey; the Imagination Workshop at Cleveland State University; New England Institute of Art & Communications, Brookline, Massachusetts; Clarion East at Michigan State University; Clarion West in Seattle, Washington; and Smith College, near her home in Northampton.

Liddesdale

Liddesdale was also an historic district of Scotland, bordering Teviotdale to the east, Annandale to the west and Tweeddale to the north, with the English county of Cumberland across the border to the south.

LUMA Foundation

The Foundation engages in long-term collaborations with institutions like the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), CCS Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York), Serpentine Gallery and Tate Modern (London), the Kunsthalle Zürich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland).

Malcolm MacQuillan

As part of Robert de Brus's 1307 expedition into Annandale and Galloway, led by Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, an Irish sub king, Sir Reginald de Crawford and Malcolm, consisting of 1000 men and eighteen galleys they sailed into Loch Ryan and landed near Stranraer.

Minnesota State Highway 24

State Highway 24 serves as a northeast–southwest route in central Minnesota between Litchfield, Kimball, Annandale, Clearwater, and Clear Lake.

Moffat Hills

Westward beyond the valley of the River Annan (Annandale) lies the main west coast corridor running northwards into Scotland, carrying the west coast railway line and the M74 motorway.

New South Wales state election, 1950

Two members of Lang Labor: James Lang (Auburn) and Lillian Fowler (Newtown) were still in the Assembly and they both stood for re-election.

New York State Route 9G

The former routing of NY 9G from Annandale-on-Hudson to Mount Rutsen Road along River Road is now maintained by Dutchess County as part of CR 103.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

A chance meeting with Nelson Annandale, then the director of the Zoological Survey of India, at the 1920 Nagpur session of the Indian Science Congress led to Annandale asking him to analyse anthropometric measurements of Anglo-Indians in Calcutta.

Rheged

Place-name evidence from Dunragit (possibly "Fort of Rheged") suggests that, at least in one period of its history, Rheged extended into Dumfries and Galloway.

Rikki Ducornet

In the March 24, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly, in an article titled "Back To Annandale", it was postulated that Ducornet was the apparent inspiration for the 1974 Steely Dan hit "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", because of a friendship songwriter Donald Fagen had with Ducornet while he attended Bard.

Thomas de Kirkcudbright

He was apparently a nutritus, or foster son, of Robert V de Brus, Lord of Annandale, and seems to have been closely linked in some way to Adam de Kirkcudbright, the man who held the church of Dalton in Annandale.

TSS Caledonian Princess

Built for the North Channel route from Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, to Larne, County Antrim, linking the west of Scotland with Northern Ireland, she was the first car ferry on the route.

Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Public school students in grades 9 through 12 attend North Hunterdon High School in Annandale as part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.

Students in grades 9 through 12 attend North Hunterdon High School in Annandale as part of the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.

Wars of Scottish Independence

It was at this point that Robert Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale (father of the future King Robert the Bruce) was appointed by Edward as the governor of Carlisle Castle.

Whithorn F.C.

Whithorn Football Club were a football team from the village of Whithorn, in The Machars area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

William Shepherd Allen

In later life he shared his time between Woodhead Hall in England and his property Annandale near Morrinsville in New Zealand.


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