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5 unusual facts about Barthélemy


3-inch Gun M5

The 823rd TD, attached to the 30th Infantry Division, played a key role in the successful defence of Saint Barthelemy, destroying fourteen tanks and a number of other vehicles, though at the price of losing eleven of its guns.

Barthélemy

Barthélémy Bisengimana, Congolese chief of staff to President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire

Canton of Marseille – Saint-Barthélemy

It is composed of the part of the 14th municipal arrondissement of Marseille not included within the cantons of Marseille - Saint-Just and Marseille - Notre-Dame-Limite.

Canton of Marseille – Saint-Barthélemy is a canton located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of France.

Saint-Barthélemy, Switzerland

The football manager and former Swiss international player Lucien Favre was born there.


1852 in the United Kingdom

19 October — The last fatal duel on English soil takes place on Priest Hill, between Englefield Green and Old Windsor, between two French refugees, Cournet and Barthelemy, the former being killed.

Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize

L'Adoration des Bergers - d'Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize et du peintre ariègeois Louis Mercadier - Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l' Assomption à Vicdessos.

Barthélémy de Maraclée

Barthélémy de Maraclée was Lord of Maraclea, also known as Khrab Marqiya, a small coastal Crusader town and a castle in the Levant, between Tortosa and Baniyas (Buluniyas).

Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet

Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet (c1812-1872), gardener, horticulturalist and French nurseryman, a pioneer in the acclimatisation of plants on Côte d'Azur, and worked in the garden that Jean-Baptiste Fihle de Sainte-Anne had created in Hyères (Var).

Glenn Meganck

Some of his better known mysteries include: Murder In St. Barts, featuring Gendarme Charles Trenet; and the Tony Kozol series which includes the titles: Still In The Freezer, Skulls Of Sedona (featuring the crystal skulls, Lost In Austin, The Body From Ipanema and Bum Rap In Branson (which featured real-life celebrity/entertainer Jim Stafford as well as the Kewpie dolls of Rose O'Neill).

Gustavia

Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy, the largest town on (and capital of) the Caribbean island of St. Barthélemy

Peter Doroshenko

In the last fifteen years, Doroshenko has organized exhibitions including: Michaël Borremans, Candice Breitz, Maurizio Cattelan, Sam Durant, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers, Andreas Gursky, Luisa Lambri, John McCracken, Mariko Mori, João Penalva, Bojan Sarcevic, Kim Sooja, Pascal Marthine-Tayou, Juergen Teller, Barthélémy Toguo, Salla Tykka and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Rances Barthelemy

Barthelemy defeated Arash Usmanee on January 4, 2013 by a controversial twelve round unanimous decision which many observers thought Usmanee had won and became the #2 contender for the IBF Super Featherweight title.

Swedish overseas colonies

The government did not seek to suppress this: indeed, they ordered Saint Barthélemy's governor, Rosenstein, to salary a Catholic priest to come from Saint Martin twice a month.

Villa Arson

la Villa Arson is located on a hill in the neighbourhood of Saint Barthélemy, in the northern district of the city of Nice, and occupies a vast area of 23,000