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2 unusual facts about Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond


Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

The island was visited in 1772 by Sir Joseph Banks, who remarked that the stone was a coarse kind of basalt, very much resembling the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as noted in (Pennant's Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides).

Faujas' Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et aux Îles Hébrides (1797) contains anecdotes about Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. John Whitehurst, including an amusing account of The Dinner of an Academic Club (the Royal Society), which was translated into English (2 vols., 1799).


Ameen Faheem

"I have always been fond of the poetry of Maulana Rumi, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, and Sachal Sarmast. Their poetry has left a deep impact on my life. I have learned from them (Poets) to be loyal, to be loved, in good or rainy days"

Andrii Goncharuk

He enjoys playing tennis, reading literature on history and is fond of Shih Tzu dogs.

Archangels Don't Play Pinball

The play uses the metaphor of a pinball machine—a new innovation in Italy at the time of and one of which Fo and his wife Franca Rame were fond— to convey mechanisation and conspicuous consumption.

Ben Lilly

He was one of the most accomplished houndsmen at the time in North America, and was strict but fond of his packs of hounds, mostly Southern catahoula and coonhound breeds.

Bryophyllum

It is also called the "Goethe Plant" since the famous writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — who also was an amateur naturalist of some repute — was "passionately fond" of this plant and liked to give the baby plantlets as gifts to friends who visited his home.

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

To protect her reputation, as well as the reputation of her unborn child, Carla has raised the girl to believe her mother is the widow of an army Captain named Eddy Campbell, a name she borrowed from a can of soup (she is very fond of Campbell's soups).

David Danskin

He was still fond enough of Arsenal to attend their games, and his son Billy used to sell programmes at their Manor Ground as a child.

Dear Lemon Lima

After numerous unsuccessful attempts at erasing fond memories, she resolves to win Philip back at Nichols Academy (named after Yoonessi's alma mater, Nichols School), a close-minded preparatory school where the Georgey family is legendary.

Devil May Cry: The Animated Series

Known for his cocky banter when on a job, he is fond of strawberry sundaes and pizza without olives.

DJ DB

The shows concept of a non genre, non decade specific show, was sparked by the fond memory of DB growing up listing to the late John Peel in London.

Dress to Kill

He is particularly fond of Steve McQueen's role in the film, and goes to great lengths to explain how inaccurate his escape through Central Europe actually is ("within fifteen minutes he's on the borders of Switzerland. This is from Poland! And if you don't know the geography, it goes Poland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Venezuela, Africa, Bali, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and then Switzerland.").

Federico Cantú Garza

He was especially fond of 15th-century French poet François Villon, but also read much of the work of Alfonso Reyes, Renato Leduc, Efraín Huerta, Jean Nicolas, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Lord Byron, Goethe, André Malraux, and Paul Éluard .

Fierce Heart

Capaldi was not as fond of Fierce Heart as his other works, and as little as five years after its release he was publicly professing that he thought it fell too much into the adult alternative vein.

George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

At all times Lord Bramwell had been fond of controversy and controversial writing, and he wrote constant letters to The Times over the signature B. (he also signed himself at different times Bramwell, G. B. and L. L.) He joined in 1882 the Liberty and Property Defence League, and some of his writings after that date took the form of pamphlets published by that society.

Hank Levy

He was especially fond of the music of the stage as it came through bebop: Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern.

Juan de Alfaro y Gamez

He was fond of travelling, was well versed in literature, wrote poetry, and some interesting notes on the lives of Becerra, Céspedes, and Velazquez.

Karin Schubert

Karin Schubert was a longtime resident of Manziana, between Rome and Viterbo, where she lived with her numerous dogs she was very fond of.

KFIZ

WFON, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, which used the call sign KFIZ-FM from November 1993 to February 2004

KFIZ-TV, a defunct television station (channel 34) in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States

Kildalton Castle

Kildalton was sold in 1922 to John Talbot Clifton, a well-to-do landowner from Lytham, Lancashire who was passionately fond of shooting and foreign travel.

Kyle Lake

Lake was a big fan of the movies Garden State and Phone Booth, and did an annual sermon series called "God in the Movies." He was also fond of the band Coldplay.

Manfred Kremser

He has worked for decades with the Folk Research Centre on documenting the Kélé religion in the Fond Assau area.

Manmohan Ghose

During this time in London Ghose met many other members of the "Rhymers' Club" set such as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, who were both very fond of him.

Maran

People in Southern Part of India and predominantly Tamil people who are fond of this language's taste use to name their descendants with this name, for instance, Dayanidhi Maran, Tamil Maran, ManiMaran, Marudhamaran, ElaMaran, Murasoli Maran etc.

Margit Sandemo

Besides these she is fond of Star Wars films, thriller film The Silence of the Lambs directed by Jonathan Demme and earliest episodes of TV-series The X-Files.

Michael Coveney

His book The Aisle is Full of Noises (Nick Hern Books 1994), a spirited diary of a year in the theatre, was withdrawn following complaints of potential libel from Milton Shulman; although, as reported in The Times of 21 September 1994, Coveney "thought the comments were in the spirit of the book. I rather regret that Milton, of whom I am actually rather fond, didn't take them in that spirit." Most copies of the book had been sold before the withdrawal.

Newstead, New York

In 1831, the town's name was changed to "Newstead", reportedly on the advice of Abigail Fillmore, who was fond of the poetry of Lord Byron.

Norma Precision

The name was chosen because one of the Enger brothers was very fond of the opera Norma by Bellini.

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

Older than America

Adam Beach as John Goodfeather, Fond du Lac Reservation police officer and Rain's fiance

Pétange railway station

From here the line runs up the hill to Fond-de-Gras.

Robert H. Dicke

Annie, of Scottish descent, was born in Barrow-in-Furness in England in 1920 and as a young girl immigrated to Rochester, NY, via Australia and New Zealand, of which Annie had very fond memories.

Roehampton Club

King Alfonso XIII of Spain was so fond of playing at the club he paid for a grandstand to be built on top of the clubhouse for his entourage to use.

Singlestick

American President Theodore Roosevelt and his friend General Leonard Wood were fond of this sport and used to emerge from a contest quite bruised from their rounds.

Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet

He was fond of horses and hunting and used to drive 4 Greys into the City from his house in St James Place, which he had purchased in 1802 with Samuel Rogers the poet; Sir John taking two-thirds and Mr Rogers one-third.

Spring Breakout

Michael meets with Cal Cullen again, and wins him over by pretending to have fond memories of Sugarfoot, despite the fact that it was off the air before he was born.

Streatham Park

Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who was fond of a summer house in the grounds.

Taytay, Palawan

He found the natives fond of cockfighting, long before this pastime was seen or even heard of in the Western Hemisphere.

The Curse of the Cat People

Lewton grew up not far from Tarrytown, where the story is set, and was fond of ghost stories such as "The Headless Horseman" (Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") which is cited in The Curse of the Cat People.

Tomata du Plenty

He was fond of quoting an old review by Rex Reed, "No talent is not enough," but hundreds of avid fans disagreed.

University of Minnesota Old Campus Historic District

The buff-colored sandstone is from quarries near Banning State Park, while the red sandstone is from the Fond du Lac formation.

Valentina Chebotaryova

Chebotaryova grew fond of the grand duchesses and had personal sympathy for the Tsarina, but also blamed Alexandra and her reliance on Grigori Rasputin for the political upheaval that followed.

Vicia cracca

Owners of pet birds such as Budgerigars often use Cow Vetch as a nutritious food; the birds are especially fond of the seeds but may also eat the foliage.

Vincent Piazza

He had originally unsuccessfully auditioned for a different part, but Brett Simon, the film's director, was fond of his performance in Rocket Science and so suggested that he take on another role.

Vindaloo

The TV series Red Dwarf main character Dave Lister is fond of vindaloo to the point of near gastronomic obsession, choosing it above all other dishes whenever available.

WPVS-LP

The launch by TBN of WWRS from Mayville did not affect W16BS as that station's signal was blocked by the Kettle Moraine range east of Fond du Lac, blocking any signal from entering Sheboygan and leaving TBN to continue to operate W16BS.

Yusuf Hamied

Affectionately called Yuku by his close friends, Hamied is fond of Western classical music and has been close friends with the world-famous conductor Zubin Mehta since boyhood.


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