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2 unusual facts about Arrow, Warwickshire


Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway

He was buried in Arrow, Warwickshire, and with no heirs, his titles became extinct on his death.

Thomas Billing

In 1477 Billing tried Burdet of Arrow, Warwickshire, a dependent of the Duke of Clarence, for treason, committed in 1474, in saying of a stag, 'I wish that the buck, horns and all, were in the king's belly,' for which he was executed.


Abaris Golden Arrow

The craft derives its name from a legendary arrow, carried by the ancient Greek sage Abaris the Hyperborean.

Amazon-class frigate

The Amazon class frigates, or Type 21 frigates, comprising eight ships - the Amazon, Antelope, Active, Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent and Avenger - launched from 1971 to 1975

Anthony Morgan of Kilflgin

By the death of his half-brother, Colonel Thomas Morgan, who was killed at the Battle of Newbury 20 September 1643, he became possessed of the manors of Heyford and Clasthorpe, Northamptonshire; and had other property in Momouthshire, Warwickshire, and Westmoreland.

Arrow Dynamics

Arrow reached additional milestones over the years by introducing the first suspended roller coaster in almost a century, The Bat, which opened in 1981, and the world's first hypercoaster, Magnum XL-200, which opened in 1989.

Australian barracuda

The Australian barracuda, arrow barracuda, Australian sea pike, sea pike, snook, or shortfin barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae, is a barracuda of the genus Sphyraena, found between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in semiprotected areas.

BBC Midlands

BBC West Midlands, the BBC English Region covering the West Midlands metropolitan county, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and parts of Northern Gloucestershire

BFI National Archive

The J. Paul Getty, Jr. Conservation Centre in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, named after its benefactor, is the base for much of the restoration work, while approximately 140 million feet of unstable nitrate film and all the master film collection held on acetate or other media is kept separately at a BFI storage site at Gaydon in Warwickshire.

Chris Hodgetts

Chris Hodgetts (born 6 December 1950 in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire) is a British former racing driver.

Danik

Porcelain-skinned sage of Quin, mentoring both Arwyn, as she collects the remaining pieces of Ayden's arrow, and Mordath, in his quest to conquer the world.

Diane-Louise Jordan

She married violinist Giles Broadbent in July 2007 in the chapel of Rugby School, Warwickshire.

Diego de Rojas

He died shortly afterwards in 1544 from the effects of a poisoned arrow in Santiago del Estero.

East Meadow Fire Department

Arthur Brisbane, the famous publisher, donated his 1920's Peirce Arrow touring car to the fire department.

Edward Cromwell Disbrowe

Disbrowe's younger daughter Jane Harriet married Henry Christopher Wise of Woodcote House, Leek Wootton, Warwickshire, member of Parliament.

Elizabeth Hatton

In the early 1590s Elizabeth married firstly, Sir William Newport alias Hatton (1560-1597), the son of John Newport (d.1566) of Hunningham, Warwickshire, and his wife, Dorothy Hatton (d.1566x70), the sister of Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton.

Elkington, Northamptonshire

It is from this village that many of the Elkington branches of that surname are supposed to have been descended, mostly the Leicestershire and Oxfordshire/Warwickshire branches come from that region.

Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton

He succeeded to the barony on his father's death in 1729 and inherited estates at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (where he lived) and at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire.

George Beresford-Stooke

Beresford-Stooke was born on 3 January 1897 in Priors Marston, Warwickshire, on 15 January 1914 he enrolled in the Royal Navy as a Paymaster Lieutenant.

George Byrne

His uncle, James Byrne, had a more substantial first-class career, captaining Warwickshire between 1903 and 1907.

Has a Good Home

# "An Arrow in the Side of Final Fantasy" – 2:45 (Kazumi Totaka, Owen Pallett)

History of Kaohsiung

During this time, Lin was told by a feng shui master named Wu Ban-hsien (吳半仙) that if he were to bury his deceased father in a "dragon cave" near modern day Jiali, leave an offering of an arrow upon the altar

Janusz Żurakowski

On 20 February 1959, the infamous "Black Friday", Żurakowski, along with the approximately 15,000 employees of Avro and Orenda plants learned that the Diefenbaker government had precipitously cancelled the Avro Arrow program and its Orenda Iroquois engine.

John Eardley-Wilmot

Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783–1847), Governor of Tasmania, MP for Warwickshire North 1832–1843

John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton

He was the surviving son of Sir John Harington (later created Baron Harington of Exton in 1603) and his wife, Anne Keilway, daughter of Robert Keilway, Surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and was born at Combe Abbey, near Coventry, Warwickshire, in April 1592.

Lavinia Byrne

Her great-uncle, J. F. Byrne, captained Warwickshire in first-class cricket and was full back of the England rugby union team

London Outer Orbital Path

In countryside locations the waymarks consist mostly of a simple white disc mounted on a wooden post, with a directional arrow and flying kestrel logo in blue and text in green.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Middle Quinton

About two-thirds of the site is in Warwickshire and one-third in Worcestershire and lies in both the parliamentary constituencies of Stratford-upon-Avon and Mid-Worcestershire, represented by Nadhim Zahawi MP and Peter Luff MP respectively.

Narwee, New South Wales

The main street of Narwee is Broad Arrow Road, which runs from King Georges Road in Beverly Hills to just past Bonds Road in Riverwood.

Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety

She can summon a bow and arrow which acts like Cupid's arrow, causing anyone to fall in love with the first person they see.

Peter's Pence

There is isolated evidence that in some parishes, payment of Peter's Pence did indeed resume during Mary's reign, for instance in Rowington, Warwickshire, where the church accounts for 1556 record the collection of 54s.

Philip Russell Rendel Dunne

A member of White's, the Turf and Jockey clubs, Dunne was Joint Master of the Warwickshire Hounds from 1932 to 1935, retiring when elected a Conservative and Unionist Member of Parliament for the Stalybridge and Hyde division of Cheshire at the 1935 general election, with a majority of 5,081 over Labour.

Professor Ivo

Professor Ivo appears in Arrow, portrayed by Dylan Neal, as the employer of the crew of a ship called Amazo.

Robert Weingard

Weingard supervised the PhD thesis Explaining Time's Arrow (1997) of Craig Callender, now professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Ronnie Arrow

After reviewing the video, Arrow argued with officials while a sports intern from KLFY-TV filmed the incident.

Sacriston

Melvyn Betts (born 1975), ex Durham, Warwickshire and Middlesex cricketer, born in Sacriston.

Sagitta

α Sge: also known as Sham, this yellow bright giant star of spectral class G1 II (with 4.37m) lies at a distance of 610 light-years and together with β Sge (also 4.37m) forms either the feathers of the shaft or the two-pointed arrow once used in the Roman army.

Second Opium War

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

Studley College

Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.

The Flame and the Arrow

The Flame and the Arrow is a 1950 American adventure film made by Warner Bros. and starring Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat.

Thomas Courtenay, 6th Earl of Devon

Courtenay married, at Coventry, Warwickshire, shortly after 9 September 1456, Mary of Anjou, illegitimate daughter of Charles, Count of Maine.

Thomas New

He was born near Studley, Warwickshire and arrived in Sydney on the Troubadour in June 1843 with his parents Cornelius and Rebecca New and his sister Emily.

Tiger Smith

Originally an employee with the Cadbury confectionery firm in Birmingham, he was first engaged by Warwickshire as a professional in 1904 but played only irregularly for over half a decade owing to the presence of Lilley behind the stumps.

United States military nuclear incident terminology

In the 1994 film True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger's character Harry Tasker calls a "Bright Boy Alert" for the impending detonation of a stolen Russian warhead on U.S. soil by terrorists, although this presumably should be termed a "Broken Arrow" event since it involves a nuclear incident unlikely to result in nuclear war.

University Hospital Coventry

It is part of the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which also includes the Hospital of St. Cross that is situated in Rugby, Warwickshire.

Vic Wunderle

In the semifinals, he barely defeated Magnus Petersson of Sweden, scoring 108-107 in the 12-arrow match to advance to the gold medal final.

Vividred Operation

The next day, after Rei goes off on her own and Akane and the others are informed of a strategy to pinpoint the source of the arrows, another Alone (Bacteriophage) appears, which Rei powers up with another arrow.

WCOA-FM

In 1993, WJLQ shifted to Urban Adult Contemporary as "Magic 100.7", which lasted only about a year before the station became "Arrow 100.7" with a classic rock format on April Fools' Day 1994, with the WWRO call letters being assigned on April 22, 1994.

World's Finest Team

Green Arrow supported her decision and they both journeyed to the Justice League Headquarters to use the Transmatter Machine, the device used to travel from Earth-One to Earth-Two.

YMCA Camp Flaming Arrow

Camp Flaming Arrow is a year-round camping retreat in Hunt, Texas and is under ownership of the YMCA of Greater San Antonio for children ages 6–16 years old.


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