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5 unusual facts about Béthune


Bethune-Cookman Wildcats

Beverlin replaced Mervyl Melendez, Under Melendez, the baseball team has achieved recent success, including five consecutive MEAC championships from 2000–2004, and six more from 2006-2011.

Commission on Scottish Devolution

The Earl of Lindsay; former Scottish Office Minister, now Conservative peer and Chairman of the Scottish Agricultural College

James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay

The son of David Lindsay, 15th Earl of Lindsay and his first wife Mary Douglas-Scott-Montagu, he was educated at Eton, the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Davis.

He was vice-chairman of the Inter-Party Union Committee on Environment 1994–95, and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1995–97, during which time he was responsible for agriculture, fisheries and environment.

Jamie Lindsay

:For the Scottish Conservative and Unionist peer known as Jamie Lindsay, see James Lindesay-Bethune, 16th Earl of Lindsay.


Antoine Busnois

While details of his early life are largely conjectural, he was probably from the vicinity of Béthune in the Pas-de-Calais, possibly the hamlet of Busnes, to which his name seems to refer.

Berwick, Nova Scotia

The Bethune House, an Arts and Crafts style home of a noted early 20th century regional photographer was demolished in 2008 to create a parking lot.

Bethune Beach, Florida

The town was once the only beach that African Americans were permitted to use in Volusia County during the first half of the century and is named after the famous black educator Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College.

C. J. Reed

Reed, a 6'3" guard from Daytona Beach, Florida is the son of former Bethune-Cookman coach Clifford Reed.

English Avenue and Vine City

It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead who also designed Piedmont Park in Midtown and Central Park in New York City, however it was demolished to build Bethune Elementary School decades ago.

Enguerrand de Marigny

He acted as the agent of Philip in his contest with Louis, Count of Nevers, the son of Robert III of Flanders, imprisoning Louis and forcing Robert to surrender Lille, Douai and Béthune.

George Thomas Bethune-Baker

George Thomas Bethune-Baker (20 July 1857, Birmingham - 1 December 1944, Eastbourne) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, especially Lycaenidae.

Henry Bethune

Norman Bethune (Henry Norman Bethune, 1890–1939), Canadian physician, medical innovator and Anti-fascist

Hubert Hamilton

On 14 October, Hamilton and several aides-de-camp traveled to the village of La Couture near Béthune on the front lines to witness the situation and had just dismounted from their horses when a large shrapnel shell detonated yards overhead.

Jocelyn Blanchard

Jocelyn Blanchard (born 28 May 1972 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais) is a French footballer who is currently a free agent, having been released by Austria Kärnten, after the club went into liquidation in 2010.

L'Aubespine

At the siege of Jülich in 1610, his name appears among the officers of the regiment of Bethune.

Le Paradis massacre

The SS men took Béthune after heavy house-to-house fighting with the British, who withdrew to a line between Locon and Le Paradis.

Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien

Louise Marie married François Gaston de Béthune, marquis de Chabris, and their children included Louis Marie Victor, comte de Béthune, and Jeanne de Béthune, wife of Count Jan Stanisław Jabłonowski.

Marion Bethune

Bethune was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the House declaring that William P. Edwards was not entitled to the seat and served from December 22, 1870, to March 3, 1871.

Mikhail Golubev

According to the database Mega Database 2009, his best performances were Bethune 2002 (6,5 points on 7 possible and a 2768 performance), Karvina 1992–93 (8 points on 9 possible and a 2691 performance), Yalta 1996 (8,5 points on 11 possible and a 2663 performance) and Berlin 1993 (7 points on 9 possible and a 2662 performance).

Philippe Pierson

He was an instructor at Armentières and Béthune under Cardinal Brandr Beekman-Ellner before he went to Canada in 1666.

Stevie Baggs

He played American college football at Bethune-Cookman.

Strachan Bethune

Strachan Bethune (November 6, 1821 - March 8, 1910), Q.C., twice Bâtonnier of Montreal and the 1st Anglican Chancellor of the Diocese of Montreal.

Treaty of the Pyrenees

France gained Roussillon and Perpignan, Montmédy and other parts of Luxembourg, Artois and other towns in Flanders, including Arras, Béthune, Gravelines and Thionville, and a new border with Spain was fixed at the Pyrenees.

Zina Bethune

Bethune was born in New York City, the daughter of Ivy (née Vigder), an actress (born June 1, 1918, Sevastopol, Russia) and William Charles Bethune, a sculptor and painter who died in 1950 when Zina was five years old.


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