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2 unusual facts about Anthony Chenevix-Trench


The Land of Lost Content

Chenevix-Trench was known for his substantial tenures as headmaster of Bradfield College, Eton College and Fettes College; he had also taught at Shrewsbury School.

The Land of Lost Content: the Biography of Anthony Chenevix-Trench is a biographical book about the life of British headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench, written by Mark Peel.


1981 Irian Jaya earthquake

The Sunda Trench zone has since produced the July 2006 Java earthquake, while the Great Sumatran fault has not produced an earthquake since the 2004 event.

Al-Mutawakkil al-Mutahhar bin Yahya

This time the mountainous trench of the imam was overrun, and he had to roam around from place to place, eventually establishing himself in Hajjah.

Armageddon

This distinction is observed by Trench, (see Richard C. Trench, New Testament Synonyms, pp.301-2) and is followed by Thayer (see Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 528) and Vincent (see Marvin R. Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, II, 541).

Battle of Gully Ravine

Two soldiers of the 1st Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Captain Gerald O'Sullivan and Corporal James Somers, were awarded the Victoria Cross for recapturing a trench taken by the Ottomans during a counter-attack.

David Trench

The Trench Methadone Clinic and the David Trench Rehabilitation Clinic, both in Hong Kong, are named after him

Geography of Syria

Eastward, the line of al-Ansariyah mountains is separated from the Jabal az Zawiyah range and the plateau region by the Al Ghab valley, a fertile, irrigated trench crossed by the meandering Orontes River.

George Blagge

He and Sir George Carew were nearly killed by sniper fire when they were inspecting a forward trench at the siege of Landrecies, a town occupied by the French early in the campaign.

George Boyd-Rochfort

On 3 August 1915 between Cambrin and La Bassée, France, a German trench-mortar bomb landed on the side of the parapet of the communication trench in which Second Lieutenant Boyd-Rochfort was standing close to a small working party of his battalion.

Gueudecourt

The 10th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the 1st East Yorks (64th Brigade) attacked Gird Trench, but could make no headway, while the 1st Lincolns were stopped by shellfire in the British frontline.

Haven't Had Enough

themagazine.ca called the song "somewhat different from their previous material, though it still has the "Marianas Trench feel'".

Herbert Trench

In 1908 a Dramatic Symphony, opus 51, written by Joseph Holbrooke setting Trench's poem Apollo and the Seaman was performed, under Thomas Beecham.

Houghall

In 2009, heavy rain at the Houghall site caused the River Wear to carve a massive trench through the grounds of the college, some 14 feet deep and 80 feet wide.

John F. Thorson

On that day, in Dagami, Leyte province, in the Philippines, Thorson was wounded while single-handedly attacking an enemy trench, then smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body.

John Hanbury Martin

In 1934, he married Avice Blanaid Trench, daughter of Herbert Trench, but they were divorced in 1938.

Josh Ramsay

Ramsay formed the band Marianas Trench and released their first self-titled EP, which contained songs that would appear on their limited edition video single, the Say Anything EP, their second EP Marianas Trench, and debut album Fix Me.

Maryland State Fair

The organized Maryland racing industry took steps to have the Fair's Thoroughbred racing competition dates transferred to other Maryland tracks in order to re-trench a declining audience, purses and media attention.

Meg: Primal Waters

Also someone behind the scenes of Daredevils has a grudge on Jonas, Michael Maren, and is planning to get revenge on Jonas using his pet Megalodon nicknamed Scarface, so named due to terrible scars caused by a territory dispute with his brother; the same Meg Terry is pursuing (both of which are Angel's litter from the Trench in the last book).

Moston Community Stadium

Ronald Lindsay Johnson (24 September 1889 to 29 May 1917) was serving as an Acting Captain and Divisional Trench Mortar Officer but was mortally wounded by a German shell whilst traveling from Zillebeke Lake.

Oceanic trench

Following Robert S. Dietz’ and Harry Hess’ articulation of the seafloor spreading hypothesis in the early 1960s and the plate tectonic revolution in the late 1960s the term “trench“ has been redefined with plate tectonic as well as bathymetric connotations.

Pacific Ranges

A high rate of sedimentation from the outflow of the three major rivers (Fraser River, Columbia River, and Klamath River) which cross the Cascade Range contributes to further obscuring the presence of a trench.

Parlington Hall

In 1850, Isabella married Colonel Frederick Charles Trench of Woodlawn, County Galway, Ireland.

Power Le Poer Trench

In the history of the Irish church Trench chiefly deserves to be remembered for his activity in promoting the remarkable evangelical movement in the west of Ireland which was known in Connaught as the Second Reformation, and which, chiefly through the agency of the Irish Society, made a vigorous effort to win converts to Protestantism.

Power MOSFET

Seeking to improve the manufacturing efficiency and reliability of super-junction MOSFETs, Renesas Electronics developed a super-junction structure with a deep-trench process technique.

Regional District of East Kootenay

Other than the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, whose valleys form the bottomlands of the Rocky Mountain Trench, also included in the regional district are the northernmost parts of the basins of the Flathead, Moyie and Yahk Rivers (the Moyie and Yahk are tributaries of the Kootenay, entering it in the United States, and the Flathead is a tributary of the Clark Fork in Montana).

Richard Chenevix Trench

George W. E. Russell described Trench as "a man of singularly vague and dreamy habits" and recounted the following anecdote of his old age:He once went back to pay a visit to his successor, Lord Plunket.

Rouge Bouquet

Rouge Bouquet is a wood in the Forest of Parroy near the French village of Baccarat that was the site of a German artillery bombardment of American trench positions on 7 March 1918 at 3:20 p.m. on the Chausailles sector of the Western Front during World War I.

Samuel Meekosha

On 19 November 1915 near the Yser, France, Corporal Meekosha was with a platoon of about 20 NCOs and men holding an isolated trench.

Santa Julia metro station

Santa Julia station is a trenchmetro station located on Line 4A of the Santiago Metro in Santiago, Chile, between Vicuña Mackenna station and La Granja station in the commune of La Florida.

Say Somethin'

The video resumes with Carey dressed in a long trench-coat, strutting inside Louis Vuitton's flag-ship store on Champs-Élysées.

Sergei Solnechnikov

During training exercises on March, 28 at a Far Eastern military base near the town of Belogorsk, major Solnechnikov pushed a soldier away from an unsuccessfully thrown grenade and threw himself over it after it bounced back into the trench they were in with dozens of soldiers standing nearby.

Siege of Bangalore

Over the next twelve days, two companies of the Madras Pioneers provided sappes for eight batteries, dug several parallels and a trench up to the fort ditch.

South Turkmenistan Complex Archaeological Expedition

In the explorations done at the north mound of Anau, excavation in the Komanov trench at the north end were subject to deep sounding which revealed consecutive layers of buildings.

Storm troopers

Stormtrooper - German Infantry units during World War I trained in "infiltration" and trench assault tactics

Taku Inlet

Norris, Taku, Hole-in–the-Wall, Twin and Tulsequah glaciers emerge out on the southeastern side and flow into the trench of the Taku Inlet and Taku River.

The Land of Lost Content

The book is divided into seven chapters, respectively covering Chenevix-Trench's ancestry and early childhood, his education at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, his military service in the Malayan Campaign during the Second World War, and his successive spells of teaching at Shrewsbury, Bradfield, Eton and Fettes.

Chenevix-Trench had been a widely acclaimed teacher at Shrewsbury School, and subsequently headmaster at Bradfield College, Eton College and Fettes College, but was later criticised for his approach to corporal punishment.

The Road to Glory

The Road to Glory is a 1936 dramatic film depiction of World War I trench warfare in France directed by Howard Hawks, starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore and June Lang, and produced by Twentieth Century Fox.

The Trench

Once in the Trench, they find a prehistoric monster called Kronosaurus that has evolved to hunt in packs and has evolved gills.

Tim Trench

Appearing considerably younger, the tough-talking gumshoe Trench was located in St. Louis with an office above a repertory theatre, overseen by Box-Office Sadie, that consistently screens Humphrey Bogart films.

Trench Chiswell

Chiswell was born Richard Muilman, but assumed the extra surnames of Trench and Chiswell by royal licence on 28 November 1772 after the death of his mother’s brother, Richard Chiswell, when he inherited a fortune of £120,000 and Debden Hall in Essex.

Trench railways

Former British trench railway equipment was put to civilian use rebuilding Vis-en-Artois between Arras and Cambrai.

Ubinas

Ubinas is located 230 km east of the Peru-Chile trench and about 150 km above the Benioff-Wadati plane, where the Nazca plate is subducting at a dip ranging from 20 – 30˚ as characteristic of the CVZ.

Virgin Oceanic

This time, the plan is for a sub that "flies" more akin to an airplane which should allow its solo pilot, Chris Welsh, to not only reach the deepest point on Earth, but to then "fly" along the bottom of the Trench for up to an additional 10 kilometers (6 mi).

William George Constable

During the First World War, Constable served in the Sherwood Foresters for two years, but he suffered severe shell shock when a shell exploded in a trench a few feet from him, burying him alive.


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