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unusual facts about Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent



1910 in Ireland

August - The Kalem Company of New York City begins shooting the first of several films partly on location in Ireland, A Lad from Old Ireland, with a filming location around Beaufort, County Kerry.

Anna de Diesbach

Anne Marie Lucie Hedwige de Diesbach-Belleroche (b. September 15, 1844 in Fribourg Switzerland - d. November 10, 1929 in Beaufort-en-Santerre, France) was a French rosarian.

Beaufort Bridge

The Beaufort Bridge is a landmark bridge across Padas River in Beaufort town in Interior Division, Sabah, Malaysia.

Beaufort Castle, Luxembourg

In 1477, Maximilian of Austria transferred the castle to Johann Bayer von Boppard after Johann von Orley-Beaufort committed a breach in trust.

Beaufort Hospital

Gilbert Spencer (Stanley Spencer's younger brother who also served as a medical orderly) recalled his first terrifying moments at Beaufort when he was surrounded by a 'ward full of wounded Gallipoli soldiers, their skins sunburnt and their clothes bleached and the soil of Suvla Bay still on their boots.' (1)

Beaufort railway station, Victoria

Prior to Sunday 14 June 2009 when Wendouree station opened, Beaufort was the only station between Ballarat and Ararat which has an intermediate passenger stop.

Beaufort Series

The Beaufort Series covers the entire Karoo, Transkei, Pondoland, eastern Orange Free State and western Natal, while the overlying Stormberg Series covers the entire Lesotho and surrounding areas.

Beaufort West

The town was founded in 1818 and initially named Beaufort after Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort, who was the father of Lord Charles Henry Somerset, then governor of the Cape Colony.

Beaufort, Blaenau Gwent

Also concerts at La Maison Blance in Oxford and St Mary's Chapel in Westminster.

Cefn Golau

Cefn Golau is a disused cholera cemetery situated on a narrow mountain ridge in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, and located between Rhymney and Tredegar in south-east Wales.

Charles Somerset

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (1660 – 1698), eldest son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort

CSS Beaufort

From May 1862, Beaufort operated on the James River, her commander in November 1863 being Lieutenant William Sharp, CSN.

CSS Lady Davis

On May 19, Lady Davis began her career with distinction by capturing and taking into Beaufort, South Carolina the A. B. Thompson, a full-rigged ship of 980 tons and a crew of 23 out of Brunswick, Maine, whom she encountered off Savannah while on an expedition seeking the U.S. armed brig Perry.

Daniel Augustus Beaufort

Beaufort married Mary, daughter and co-heiress of William Waller, of Allenstown, County Meath.

Edward Somerset

Lord Edward Somerset (1776–1842), British soldier, son of the 5th duke of Beaufort

Frances Rollin Whipper

In 1865, she as illegally refused first class passage on a ferry to Beaufort.

Francis Beaufort

Whereas other wartime officers sought leisurely pursuits, Beaufort spent his leisure time taking soundings and bearings, making astronomical observations to determine longitude and latitude, and measuring shorelines.

George M. Seignious

General Seignious died in Charleston on July 3, 2005; his funeral service took place in Summerall Chapel at The Citadel and he was buried with full military honors at the National Cemetery in Beaufort.

Italian destroyer Nicoloso da Recco

She shot down three Beaufort bombers while escorting a two-freighter convoy on 21 June 1942 off Tunisia.

John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset

When his eldest brother, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, was killed fighting for Lancaster in 1464 at the Battle of Hexham, the next brother, Edmund, succeeded to the Dukedom, and John became "Marquess of Dorset" and "Earl of Dorset", courtesy titles granted to the Beaufort heir-apparent or heir-presumptive.

Katherine Swynford

Their four children had been given the surname "Beaufort" and with the approval of King Richard and the Pope were legitimated as adults by their parents' marriage in 1396.

Kostas Gousgounis

In a 1971 film, titled Sex 13 Beaufort, he co-starred with Lykourgos Kallergis.

Lafayette Building

John Mark Verdier House, also known as Lafayette Building, in Beaufort, South Carolina

Lord Lovat

(Fraser was also created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (titular King James III of England and VIII of Scotland) in 1740.)

Margaret Beaufort

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford (c. 1427–1474), the daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (second creation) and the mother of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon (c. 1409–1449), the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the mother of both Thomas Courtenay, 14th Earl of Devon and John Courtenay, 15th Earl of Devon.

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon

Margaret Beaufort was the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c.1371 – 16 March 1410), by Margaret Holland (c.1385/6 – c.1439/40), the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Alice Arundel.

Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours

Her large dowry included border provinces of Genevois, Faucigny as well as Beaufort which would become the property of the mainline House of Savoy.

Moravian Burial Ground

The Burial Ground is located in the grounds of Lindsey House in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, just off Milman Street (near Moravian Place), near Cheyne Walk and Beaufort Street.

Newport River

The Newport River is a small river in North Carolina that runs approximately twenty kilometers southeast through the town of Newport with its mouth opening into Bogue Sound, between Morehead City and Beaufort.

No. 14 Squadron RAAF

On 6 January 1944 a Beaufort piloted by No. 14 Squadron's commanding officer, Wing Commander Charles Learmonth, crashed during an exercise with United States Navy warships off Rottnest Island; Learmonth and the other three airmen on board the aircraft were killed.

North Carolina Highway 306

On the other side of the river, the route immediately and abruptly comes to its northern terminus at NC 92 and NC 99, still in Beaufort County.

North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve

Therefore, NOAA and the state of North Carolina created a multi-component reserve with the following sites: Currituck Banks (960 acres near Corolla), Rachel Carson (2,625 acres near Beaufort), Masonboro Island (5,097 acres near Wrightsville Beach) and Zeke’s Island (1,165 acres near Kure Beach).

Raid at Combahee Ferry

The Raid at Combahee Ferry was a military operation during the American Civil War; it was conducted on June 1 and June 2, 1863, by elements of the Union Army along the Combahee River in Beaufort and Colleton counties in southeast South Carolina.

Rainbow Serpent Festival

The more recent festivals have been held on farmland in the vicinity of Beaufort, Victoria.

Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland

Lady Joan Beaufort died in 1440, and eventually a settlement was reached in 1443 which, according to Pollard, represented a 'crushing defeat' for Neville, who regained the barony of Raby but was forced to concede the rest of the disputed lands to Salisbury.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff

The current ecclesiastical terrority of the diocese comprises the local government areas of Cardiff, Bridgend, Vale of Glamorgan, Newport, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Herefordshire.

Sara Blizzard

Blizzard was recently seen performing in the BBC drama The White Queen (TV series) as a lady in waiting to Lady Margaret Beaufort played by Amanda Hale.

Smith Airport

Michael J. Smith Field serving Beaufort, North Carolina, United States (FAA: MRH)

South Carolina Highway 128

Also known locally as Savannah Highway, SC 128 serves as a principal arterial for the unincorporated Shell Point as well as providing a southern route serving Port Royal, Parris Island and the Sea Islands east of Beaufort.

South Carolina Highway 170

Beginning in Beaufort at an angular intersection with US 21 Business, the road is known as Robert Smalls Parkway for approximately five miles as it travels in a southwesterly direction across Port Royal Island.

The Unnatural Combat

Beaufort Senior is the governor of Marseilles in France; his son, Beaufort Junior, is in love with, and beloved by, Theocrine, the daughter of Malefort Senior, the admiral of Marseilles.

Turbine-class destroyer

On 3 July 1942, while escorting three freighters from Taranto to Benghazi along with the Navigatori class destroyer Da Verrazzano, Euro and Turbine shot down two Beaufort bombers.

U.S. Route 21

In the Beaufort area, US 21 passes by the entrances to Parris Island and MCAS Beaufort, the major Marine Corps installations in the area.

Vince Graham

He was deeply inspired by the beauty and social cohesion of Beaufort, and impressed by the property values of renovated homes in its historic district and those of nearby Charleston and Savannah.

William H. Upham

Some two years after the death of his first wife, Mary Kelly, in 1912, Upham (then 73) undertook a voyage along the Atlantic coast, that was forced by storm to harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina.

WJWJ

WJWJ-FM, a radio station (89.9 FM) licensed to Beaufort, South Carolina, United States

Xanthian Obelisk

He also sought the collaboration of Colonel William Martin Leake, a noted antiquarian and traveller and, with others, including Beaufort, was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society.


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