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5 unusual facts about Belvedere


Belvedere, London

Belvedere lies within the Erith and Thamesmead constituency (MP Teresa Pearce, Labour), and is in the Bexley and Bromley London Assembly constituency, represented by James Cleverly (Conservative).

The Green Chain Walk is largely east-west route along the northern slopes of the ridge, stretching from Plumstead Common to Erith, it provides a shortcut to the Thames Path - to which it is linked in three locations.

Belvedere, Ohio

Belvedere, Ohio is also the name of a fictional town depicted in the novel The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, as well as the 1991 motion picture based on the novel.

Belvedere, South Carolina

U.S. Route 25 (Edgefield Road) is the main road through the community, leading north to Interstate 20 just outside the CDP.

Leopold Figl

His appearance on the balcony of Belvedere Palace waving the signed paper and speaking the words Österreich ist frei! ("Austria is free!"), as rendered by the Wochenschau newsreel, has become an icon in the Austrian national remembrance.


Alexander Stewart Jolly

His Belvedere in Cremorne, New South Wales, is an outstanding example of the California Bungalow style.

Alipore

In 1820, William Carey built the Agri Horticultural Gardens behind the Belvedere Estate and added to the charm of the locality.

Belvedere House

Belvedere House on Belvedere Estate, a house in Calcutta, India that housed government officials in the colonial era

Bristol Belvedere

In 1962 another Belvedere lowered the spire onto the new Coventry Cathedral.

Bugaboo International

In 2012, Bugaboo is listed as a partner of the (RED) campaign, together with other brands such as Penfolds, Belvedere and Apple Inc.

Callender's Cableworks Band

Ltd, later British Insulated Callender's Cables, in Belvedere, south-east London, and performing in London and south-east England.

Dodge Regent

Chrysler of Canada imported polyhead V8 short blocks for use in Canadian Plymouth Belvedere and Dodge Mayfair models.

Earl of Belvedere

The former Belvedere House, Dublin is now part of the renowned teaching establishment Belvedere College, school to the writers James Joyce and Austin Clarke, the stained glass artist Harry Clarke, the patriot and poet Joseph Plunkett who was executed in 1916, the poet Donagh MacDonagh, Volunteer Kevin Barry, and latter-day press and bean baron, Tony O'Reilly.

Government General of Warsaw

The seat of the General Government was located in the Royal Castle, Warsaw, while the governor-general's seat was in the Belvedere palace, Warsaw.

Hershey Run

It rises on the edge of the Belvedere subdivision on the outskirts of Newport, Delaware and flows southward along the western edge of that town.

Maryland Route 129

Park Heights Avenue becomes a four-lane undivided highway shortly before Belvedere Avenue, where the highway passes the western edge of Pimlico Race Course, the site of the Preakness Stakes.

Mercantour National Park

Many of them are perched villages,such as Belvédère at the entrance to the spectacular Gordolasque valley, concealing great architectural riches (numerous churches decorated with murals and altar pieces by primitive Niçois painters).

Miss Belvedere

Miss Belvedere is the nickname given to a new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere sport coupe sealed in a 50-year time capsule and finally unearthed on June 14, 2007.

Napier Gazelle

These helicopter engines were used on the Westland Wessex HAS 1 and HAS 3 (Other versions of the Wessex had 2 Rolls Royce Gnome engines) and the Bristol Belvedere (later Westland Belvedere) transport helicopter.

Old Belvedere

Old Belvedere won the final of the 2011 All-Ireland League defeating Cork Constitution 20-17 on 1 May 2011.

Przegorzały

What is now known as the "Bastion" was built by the Polish Art Historian Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz as his own residence in the 1920s, naming it "Belvedere" after the beautiful view.

William S. Mailliard

He was born in Belvedere, California; attended elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 1933–1935.

Wojtek Drabowicz

He won the Adam Didur-Concours competition in 1988 and both the Belvedere International Competition in Vienna and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1990.

Zoubeir Turki

He founded and directed the Center for Living Art and the Belvedere; furthermore, on the political front, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1979 and a municipal councilor for the city of Tunis.

Żurrieq

Żurrieq is also well known for the belvedere that overlooks the Blue Grotto that can be found seaward end of the Wied Babu.


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