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28 unusual facts about Belmont


African Spir

In the same year, he received the imperial authorization and applied for a certificate of registry at Belmont-sur-Lausanne, where he lived with his family.

Arriva North East

On 1 December 2012 Durham – (Waddington Street) was closed with the completion of the new Belmont depot, despite being only one minute away from Durham bus station.

Bannered routes of U.S. Route 3

It runs from US 3 in Laconia south to US 3 and New Hampshire Route 11 in Belmont, along NH 107 and NH 11A.

Belmont, California

The city's largest hotel is Hyatt House, which in an apartment hotel and caters mostly to a business clientele, due to its proximity to Oracle headquarters.

Belmont, Edmonton

The Clareview LRT Station is located just to the west of the neighbourhood along 137 Avenue.

Belmont, Indiana

John Mellencamp owns a recording studio in Belmont called the Belmont Mall, which is not open to the public but will give private tours to groups of thirty or more if one calls for reservations.

Belmont, North Carolina

He later became postmaster and town depot agent for the new Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway, which was constructed in 1871.

Private schools in Belmont include the middle school and high school programs of Gaston Christian School.

Belmont, Prince Edward Island

Author Lucy Maud Montgomery taught at the Belmont School during the early 20th century.

Belmont, Queensland

Belmont Shire was a larger area than Belmont today with parts now included in the suburb of Carindale and other suburbs.

Belmont, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

It is located to the east of the capital, Kingstown and northwest of Stubbs.

Belmont, Wellington

It borders the Belmont Regional Park (open 8am - dusk) and as such is surrounded by native bush and beautiful views.

Bolton Sailing Club

Bolton Sailing Club (Bolton SC or BSC) is an inland sailing club located close to the village of Belmont in Lancashire to the north of Bolton, Greater Manchester in the West Pennine Moors.

Charles Dunn

Dunn then resumed his law practice settling and living in Belmont, Wisconsin for the rest of his life.

Charles H. Coolidge

During an enemy attack on that day and the following three days, east of Belmont-sur-Buttant in France, Coolidge assumed command of his group and showed conspicuous leadership.

Durham City A.F.C.

Presently the club play at New Ferens Park (also known as The Arnott Stadium) in Belmont on the northern outskirts of the city.

Havelock-Belmont-Methuen

The railway is now run by Canadian Pacific as Kawartha Lakes Railway and its activity today consists of transporting nepheline syenite and crushed basalt rock from two mines north of Havelock operated by Unimin.

Jean Rogers

Rogers was born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Jim de Courcy

James Harry de Courcy (18 April 1927, Newcastle, New South Wales – 20 June 2000, Belmont, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in three Tests on the 1953 Australian tour of England.

Lonely Ol' Night

The song was recorded at Belmont Mall in Belmont, Indiana, was produced by Mellencamp (under the alias "Little Bastard") and Don Gehman, engineered by Gehman and Greg Edward.

Mark Sargent

Mark Sargent now works for himself and along with his wife, owns a Video rental Store in the Newcastle suburb of Belmont.

Martín Chambi

1977 - First work in cataloguing and restoring Chambi's photographic archives, financed by the Earthwatch Foundation (Belmont, Massachusetts) marks the beginning of international recognition of his work.

North Cambridge, Massachusetts

North Cambridge, also known as "Area 11", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Porter Square and the Fitchburg Line railroad tracks on the south, the city of Somerville on the northeast, Alewife Brook and the town of Arlington on the northwest, and the town of Belmont on the west.

Sidney Edward Mezes

He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California on September 23, 1863, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother.

Strawberry Hill, Cambridge

It is bounded by the town of Belmont on the west, Watertown on the south, Aberdeen Avenue on the east, and Fresh Pond on the north.

The Lonesome Jubilee

The sessions for The Lonesome Jubilee took place at Belmont Mall Studio in Belmont, Indiana and started in September 1986 and lasted until June 1987, a period of nine months.

Thomas Oliver Selfridge

Rear Admiral Selfridge died in Waverly (now part of Belmont, Massachusetts).

Winder R. Harris

Born in Wake County (now a part of Raleigh), North Carolina, Harris attended the public schools and St. Mary's College (now Belmont Abbey College), Belmont, North Carolina.


August Belmont, Jr.

In addition to his Kentucky horse farm, in 1908 Belmont established Haras de Villers, a breeding operation near Foucarmont in Upper Normandy, France.

Belmont Books

Belmont Books was owned by the same company that owned Archie Comics.

Belmont High School

Belmont City College, Belmont, Western Australia (formerly Belmont Senior High School)

Belmont Hospital

Established in 1968, it is the only public hospital in the Local Government Area and is located on Croudace Bay Road in the suburb of Belmont.

Belmont Red

Belmont Red is a breed of beef cattle developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) during 1954 in response to the need in the Australian Tropics for cattle which would improve the fertility of Bos indicus cattle.

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

The protagonist is 19-year-old Richter Belmont (Jin Horikawa), heir to the whip Vampire Killer and Simon Belmont's direct descendant.

Chris Hersch

From 2004 to 2012, Chris Hersch taught guitar, banjo, and general music at many schools in the Boston area: Powers Music School (Belmont, Massachusetts), Cape Cod Conservatory (Falmouth MA), Community Music Center of Boston (Boston), Brookline Music School (Brookline, Mass), and BU High School (Boston).

CW46

WJZY Former CW affiliate of Belmont/Charlotte, North Carolina (Now Fox O&O)

Ducks Deluxe

The permanent line-up of the band is now Sean Tyla, vocals and guitar; Martin Belmont, guitar and vocals; Kevin Foster (of Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys and Los Pisteleros fame) bass guitar and backing vocals; and Jim Russell, (ex Stretch, Wild Angels, and The Inmates) on drums.

Elaine Carbines

Carbines was also actively involved in several environmental campaigns, most notably the attempt to stop the move of the Coode Island chemical plant to the environmentally sensitive Point Lillias, and a proposal to build a rowing course on the site of the Belmont Common, another environmentally sensitive area on the outskirts of Geelong.

Falmouth, Virginia

Among the community's significant historic structures is Belmont, the home of American artist Gari Melchers, now a historic house museum administered by University of Mary Washington.

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

He served with the 9th Lancers during the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1901 and was present at the engagements at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River, Magersfonstein, the relief of Kimberley, the advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria and the subsequent fighting in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, where he was badly wounded on Christmas Eve 1900.

Great Divide Snowsports

Mt. Belmont's first trail was built to accommodate the 1942 Northern Rocky Mountain Ski Races, and was selected amongst other surrounding mountains including Elkhorn Peak, Red Mountain, and Mt. Edith.

Harpeth Hall School

In the spring of 1951, Ward-Belmont was forced to close when the board of directors transferred ownership of the school to the Tennessee Baptist Convention.

Hill Prince

In September, he returned to run third in an allowance race at Aqueduct Race Track and then carried top weight to a five length victory in the New York Handicap at Belmont.

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

She grew up in the area known then as "Dopp Neighborhood" and attended the one room "Dopp School" in what is now in the town of Belmont, in Portage County, surrounded by a large family and the experience of her early years in a farm near the wilderness was to mark her for her life.

Mark Ripple

Investors who bought dot-com shares at the height of the boom and horseplayers who bet on War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Smarty Jones at the Belmont all took a loss on their wagers.

Martin Belmont

His first manager and old friend Dave Robinson then suggested he should invite former band-mates to provide vocals on his next recording, resulting in Belmont recording songs with Carrack, Nick Lowe, Carlene Carter, Graham Parker, Sean Tyla, Geraint Watkins, Hank Wangford, Johnny Nicky, Barbara Marsh and Reg Meuross.

McAdenville, North Carolina

High school-age students living south of Interstate 85 attend South Point High School in Belmont, while most of those living north of the interstate attend Ashbrook High School in Gastonia.

Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont House

Construction was still underway when Oliver Belmont died, when Alva announced that she would build an addition that was an exact reproduction of the Gothic Room in Belcourt Castle, to house her late husband's collection of medieval and early Renaissance armor.

Musselburgh, New Zealand

The top of the rise includes several larger homes, notably including Belmont, built in the 1860s for politician and newspaper editor William Cutten.

NYRA

New York Racing Association, The NY State franchisee which runs racing operations at three New York State Thoroughbred racecourses; Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga Racecourse.

Ohio State Route 149

From the interchange until the intersection with US 40, the route is surrounded by small businesses, fast foot restaurants, and the campuses of Union Local High School and Union Local Middle School.

On the Buses

The format of On the Buses was sold to American television, where it was remade by NBC as Lotsa Luck, starring Dom DeLuise as Stanley Belmont with Kathleen Freeman as Iris Belmont, his mum, Wynn Irwin as Arthur Swann, Beverly Sanders as Olive Swann and Jack Knight as Bummy Pfitzer, his best friend.

Peter Rabe

The last books Rabe published before he backed off from his writing career were novelizations of episodes of the television series "Mannix" using the pseudonym "J. T. MacCargo." This was apparently a house name for Belmont, with an unknown author penning the first and third books of the series.

Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad

Just after crossing the river, it traveled up the Belmont Plane, an inclined plane in the current location of West Fairmount Park, and continued west across the eastern part of the state to Columbia, where the Columbia Plane headed down to the Susquehanna River.

Quentin Bryce

While living in Belmont she attended the Camp Hill State School, and there first met her future husband, Michael Bryce.

Sequoia Union High School District

The Sequoia Union High School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving the communities of Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Ladera, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, and Woodside.

Skip Away

After Skip Away was soundly defeated as a four-year-old by Formal Gold in the Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park and in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park, he was given a new rider, Jerry Bailey, who replaced Shane Sellers.

Spring Grand Slam

The Triple Crown — involving the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes — is contested only by three-year-olds who race over distances between 1910 metres (Preakness) and 2400 metres (Belmont).

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing on television

From 2002 to 2004, the Belmont had the highest ratings of any horse race on television.

West Hempstead, New York

Lucien Laurin, award-winning horse trainer who won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths in 1973.