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17 unusual facts about Blackwood


Aitchison College

The college was formally inaugurated by the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin and Ava on 3 November 1886.

The foundation stone of the main building was laid by the Viceroy, the Earl of Dufferin and Ava on 3 November 1886.

Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

Lord Dufferin was serving as a staff officer in Mandalay, Burma when he was killed in an ambush during a covert mission on 25 March 1945, just a few weeks short of his 36th birthday.

Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902), Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1875–1930), British soldier and Senator of the Northern Ireland Parliament

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.

Lord Dufferin was the fourth son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.

; Viscountess Ednam, the wife of Viscount Ednam (heir to the Earl of Dudley) and a daughter of Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland; and Mrs Loeffler, a well-known society hostess, along with the pilot, Lt. Col. George Lochart Henderson and the assistant pilot, Mr C. D. Shearing.

Helen Zimmern

She would also write for Fraser's Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, St James's, Pall Mall Magazine, the World of Art, the Italian Rassegna Settimanale and various German papers.

Islwyn Borough Transport

A depot in Blackwood High Street was used from 1926 to 1984, when a new depot in Pontllanfraith was opened.

James Wills

From 1822 to 1838 he lived in Dublin and wrote in the Dublin University Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals.

Letters from High Latitudes

Letters From High Latitudes is a travel book written by Lord Dufferin in 1856, recounting the young lord's journey to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen in the schooner Foam.

Luke Prokopec

Kenneth Luke Prokopec (born February 23, 1978 in Blackwood, South Australia) is an Australian-born, right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays.

Mynydd y Grug

The hill is crossed by a number of public footpaths, one of which is a restricted byway linking two cul-de-sac minor roads approaching from Machen to the east and Blackwood to the north.

Suicide Alley

The 'SBS' stands for Sound Bank Studio, the studio in Blackwood where the single was recorded.

Thomas L. Young

While living in Ireland, his father was a gardener for Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin.

William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket

In 1894, he also married Lady Victoria Alexandrina, youngest daughter of the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, by whom he was to have eight children.


1954 Adelaide earthquake

Other major buildings severely damaged included the local church, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, the Adelaide Post Office clock tower and a newly completed hospital in Blackwood which sustained major damage in all its wards and offices (though an operating theatre survived).

Alexander Innes Shand

After contributing during 1867 to the Imperial Review, a short-lived conservative paper edited by Henry Cecil Raikes, he began writing for The Times and for Blackwood's Magazine, and also joined John Douglas Cook's staff on the, Saturday Review.

Andrus, Blackwood and Company

While not songwriters themselves, Andrus and Blackwood were good judges of what CCM radio wanted, developing relationships with Bruce Hibbard, Hadley Hockensmith, Phil Johnson and Tim Sheppard among others.

Bombay furniture

The wood used is Shisham or blackwood (Dalbergia), a hard-grained dark-colored timber which with proper treatment assumes a beautiful natural polish.

Castle of Blood

A journalist challenges Edgar Allan Poe on the authenticity of his stories, which leads to him accepting a bet from Lord Blackwood to spend the night in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve.

Dalbergia melanoxylon

African Blackwood is no longer regarded as ebony, a name now reserved for a limited number of timbers yielded by the genus Diospyros; these are more of a matte appearance and are more brittle.

Small growers in Naples, Florida have been successful in growing African blackwood there.

Easley Blackwood

Easley Blackwood, Sr. (1903–1992), invented the Blackwood convention used in bidding in contract bridge

German whisky

The Blackwood distillery Seeger in Calw-Holzbronn has been producing whisky using wheat since the 1980s.

Islwyn Borough Transport

Prior to its sale in 2010, Islwyn operated 18 local bus routes centred on Caerphilly and Blackwood, taking in Cardiff and Bargoed.

Jan Kochanowski

In 1574, following the decampment of Poland's recently elected King Henry of Valois (whose candidacy to the Polish throne Kochanowski had supported), Kochanowski settled on a family estate at Czarnolas ("Blackwood") to lead the life of a country squire.

Janet Elaine Paul

Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires.

Jeffrey Yong

Jeffrey Yong (born November 29, 1958) is a Malaysian Luthier best known for his use of local Malaysian wood, such as Monkeypod, Rengas and Malaysian Blackwood.

Koroit

The vegetation of Tower Hill was originally a diverse collection of Manna Gum, Blackwood, Black Wattle, Swamp Gum and Drooping Sheoak.

Lois V Vierk

Produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, in association with Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Marion Football Club

In 1920, Sturt joined the Mid-Southern Football Association along with Blackwood and Brighton, winning the Premiership that season.

In 1912, Sturt joined the Sturt Football Association, playing against the Blackwood, Mitcham, Brighton, Sturt Ramblers and Glenelg Imperials clubs.

Melacacidin

Melacacidin is a compound that can provoke contact allergy to Australian blackwood Acacia melanoxylon.

Miners' institute

Slowly returning prosperity to former mining communities has witnessed a revival of some of the institutes, such as those at Blackwood, Llanhilleth and Newbridge, which have rebranded themselves as entertainment or arts centres.

Mount Worth State Park

The wet, mountain rainforest of Mountain Ash (with at least one specimen 90 metres tall, 7 metres wide and approaching 300 years old), Blackwood and Mountain Grey Gum supports a wide variety of plants and animals, such as the tree ferns, wombat, possum, platypus, Crimson Rosella, lyrebird and many others.

Nicola Blackwood

Prior to running for office, Blackwood worked with the Conservative Party Human Rights Group which was set up to find ways for the UK to combat human rights abuses in places like Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and as an adviser to the then Shadow International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.

Nina Blackwood

Blackwood has said that the 1984 John Waite hit single ""Missing You" was written about her, and that Waite has confirmed this fact.

Parliament House, Hobart

In 1940 the current House of Assembly Chamber was constructed, and features a green decor, seating and carpet, with blackwood wooden paneling around the walls.

Pillgwenlly

The opening line 'Libraries gave us power' of the 1996 song A Design for Life, by Blackwood band Manic Street Preachers, was inspired by the legend above the entrance to the former Carnegie Library.

Sarah Blackwood

The band released three albums with Blackwood on vocals: Disgraceful (1995), Goodbye (1997) and Make It Better (2000).

The Blackwood Brothers

The Blackwood Brothers can be heard singing on the radio towards the beginning of the movie Walk the Line (2005)—when Johnny Cash (played by Joaquin Phoenix) was in Memphis.

William Blackwood

The last member of the Blackwood family to run the company was Douglas Blackwood.

During World War II Blackwood was a fighter pilot and at the height of the Battle of Britain recalled looking down from 25,000 feet to see the firm's London office in Paternoster Row ablaze.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun

In 1836 he made his earliest contributions to Blackwood's Magazine, translations from Uhland, and from 1839 until his death he remained on the staff of Blackwood's.

Zephaniah Williams

Williams was born near Argoed, Sirhowy Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, with much of his childhood spent near the then village of Blackwood, also living for some periods in Caerphilly and Nantyglo.