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unusual facts about Blythe


Richard de Montfichet

In 1223, his lands were again for a time seized by the king in consequence of his presence at a prohibited tournament at Blythe.


Anne Langton

She was born to Thomas and Ellen Langton in the Yorkshire Dales, but within a few months, they moved to Lancashire, where she was raised in a mansion named Blythe Hall, near Ormskirk.

Arizona and California Railroad

In 1914, the California Southern Railroad (not to be confused with the earlier railroad linking Barstow and San Diego) was incorporated to build 42.2 miles from a point known as Blythe Junction (Rice) to reach Blythe via a passage between the Big Maria Mountains and the Little Maria Mountains.

Bill Blythe

Bess Blythe's forbears were among the founders of the Republic of Texas.

Blythe Airport

Although this air carrier never served Blythe, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) conducted jet training flights from the Blythe Airport on occasion.

Air West was then renamed Hughes Airwest which in turn eventually ceased all passenger service from Blythe.

Blythe Hill Fields

Blythe Hill Fields is the title of a track by singer songwriter Ceri James, of the Welsh group The Mountaineers.

Christopher Blake

Blake first came to the attention of television audiences in 1972 when he was cast as Gilbert Blythe in the 1972 BBC mini-series of Anne of Green Gables.

Colorado River Indian Reservation

In 2005, the reservation began proposing a new hotel and casino near Blythe, citing the location along the river and Interstate 10, with the help of the governments of that city and the state of California.

Daniel Blythe

After several years writing stories for the small press, Blythe began his professional career writing for the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels, and very soon moved on to have his own original work published.

Subsequently Blythe branched out into non-fiction with 2002's The Encyclopaedia Of Classic Eighties Pop, a humorous reference guide published by Allison & Busby, which led to a stint co-presenting the music show 80s Night on BBC Local Radio in the North of England.

David Conrad

Continuing with his stage career, Conrad made his Broadway debut as Blythe Danner's much younger lover in a revival of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea in 1998.

Edward Payson Ripley

Ripley, California, was a town named after him when the Arizona and California Railroad's Blythe Branch was originally intended to be a shortcut to San Diego until his retirement/death as the branch reached to the town in 1920.

Gilbert Blythe

In the CBC Television film adaptations of the 1980s, Gilbert Blythe is portrayed by Jonathan Crombie.

John Dean Blythe

His grandfather, James Blythe, was a notable Scotch schoolmaster at the village of Limekilns, about fifteen miles from Edinburgh.

Mescalerolemur

It was first named by E. Christopher Kirk and Blythe A. Williams in 2011 and the type species is Mescalerolemur horneri.

Re-Ment

Targeted at the adult collecting community, these 1:6 scale toys are typically displayed in dioramas and dollhouses or used with action figures and fashion dolls such as Blythe or Barbie.

Rosemary Timperley

Still writing, she left her job as a teacher to become a staff writer for Reveille magazine in 1949, editing the personal advice column (under the pen name Jane Blythe), readers' letters and writing a number of stories, feature articles and book reviews.

Sion Blythe

Blythe moved to Alabama in 1816 and settled on Canoe Creek in St. Clair County.

The TKO Horns

More recently Blythe has been a member of Irish-American rock group Black 47.

To market, to market

In the novel, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, Percy Blythe recites the line "Home again, home again, jiggety jig" at the beginning of the chapter titled "Three."

Wicked Wicked Games

This romantic melodrama starred Tatum O'Neal as Blythe Hunter, a beautiful scorned woman, whose boyfriend Theodore Crawford (Clive Robertson) left her twenty-five years ago to marry someone else.


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