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unusual facts about Bony, Aisne


Helen Fairchild

She was buried with full military honours in a cemetery in LeTreport and later shifted to Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in Bony, France.


12th Royal Lancers

On 28 August 1914, 'C' Squadron of the 12th Lancers, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Wormald, made a successful charge against a dismounted squadron of Prussian Dragoons at Moy.

Aisne

In 2007, a large infrastructure for tourist accommodation, the Center Parcs, was built on the Lake of Ailette, close to many tourist attractions such as the Cathedral of Laon, the Chemin des Dames and the Château de Coucy.

Alaincourt

Alaincourt, Aisne, a commune of the Aisne département in France

Arsène Houssaye

Arsène Houssaye (28 March 1815 - 26 February 1896), French novelist, poet and man of letters, was born at Bruyères (Aisne), near Laon.

Arthur F. H. Mills

Captain Mills (Wellington College, Berkshire, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) was wounded in World War I at La Bassée and wrote a pair of books, his first, about that experience: With My Regiment: From the Aisne to La Bassée (J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia, 1916) and Hospital Days (T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1916) under the pseudonym Platoon Commander.

Asian swamp eel

It arose from the Osteichthyes, the first bony fish, whose fossil record dates back to the Triassic period.

Aubrey de Coucy

Aubrey de Coucy was a Norman from Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, Aisne which was the inheritance of his wife, Ada, daughter of Letétard de Marle (himself a son of Count Ivo de Beaumont-sur-Oise).

Bangers and mash

Peter Sellers recorded a song with Sophia Loren, "Bangers and Mash" (1961), extolling their virtues: "No wonder you're so bony Joe, and skinny as a rake. Well then, give us a bash at the bangers and mash me mother used to make".

Belgae

Once he was satisfied his troops were a match for them, he made camp on a low hill protected by a marsh at the front and the river Aisne behind, near Bibrax (between modern Laon and Reims) in the territory of the Remi.

Brown lanternshark

The most important prey of the brown lanternshark are bony fishes (mainly lanternfishes), followed by cephalopods (mainly the squid Watasenia scintillans), and finally crustaceans (mainly prawns such as Acanthephyra).

Caulaincourt

Caulaincourt, Aisne, a commune of the Aisne département, in France

Château de Condé

The Château de Condé is a private estate in Condé-en-Brie, Aisne, France, set in its park with three-hundred-year-old trees, on the Champagne route and 100 km from Paris.

Château de Montgobert

The Château de Montgobert in the midst of the Forest of Retz, near Soissons, in Montgobert, Aisne, Picardy, is a neoclassical French château that was built for Antoine Pierre Desplasses between 1768-1775 on the site of an ancient seigneurie.

Crépy

Crépy, Aisne, a commune of France in the Aisne département

David Victor Belly de Bussy

General David Victor Belly de Bussy (19 March 1768 in Beaurieux – 2 January 1848 in Beaurieux) was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Earl J. Atkisson

This regiment arrived in France on March 10, 1918 and eventually participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse-Argonne operations.

Édouard Pingret

He was born at Saint-Quentin, Aisne, the son of a middle-class family in a mainly agricultural region, but also home to the celebrated General Cambronne and to illustrious notaries and Normandy judges.

Eli Woods

One was Jack Casey—tall and stick-thin, with a bony face and a stammering delivery—who originally appeared as 'Bretton Woods' (named after the site of the famous 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference), and was only later christened Eli (often 'Our Eli').

Erlenmeyer

The bony deformity named Deformity type Erlenmeyer flask because of the similarity to the shape of the flask.

Étrœungt

Étrœungt is bordered by ten other communes, including two from Aisne department: Avesnelles, Boulogne-sur-Helpe, Féron, Floyon, Haut-Lieu, La Flamengrie (Aisne), Larouillies, Rainsars, Rocquigny (Aisne), Sémeries.

Florentine tower of Buire

The Tower of Florentine Buire, located in the commune of Buire in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France, is a former signal box from a height of 50 metres.

Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne

It is located on the heights of the confluence of the Aisne and the Vesle near the communes of Condé-sur-Aisne and Chivres-Val.

Henri Zisly

In 1902, he was one of the main initiators, alongside Georges Butaud and Sophie Zaïkowska, of the cooperative Colonie de Vaux established in Essômes-sur-Marne, in l'Aisne.

Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer

The article carried a purported photo of a seal-like creature with a bony growth protruding from its head.

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Born in Laon, Aisne to middle-class parents, he became a lieutenant of the Laon militia, and then entered the French royal army, served in the Seven Years' War campaigns in Hanover (1759), Portugal (1762), and against Pasquale Paoli in Corsica (1771).

Johann von Ravenstein

After capturing the notorious Chemin des Dames, he succeeded, with 10 soldiers, to capture the bridge over the Aisne at Bourg intact.

John Charnley

Charnley's research was based on two different aspects: clinical, for the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis, and biomechanical, with experiments to determine the fundamentals of bony union and the conditions governing the spontaneous regeneration of articular cartilage.

Joost van Vollenhoven

Joost van Vollenhoven (21 July 1877, Rotterdam – 20 July 1918, Parcy-et-Tigny, Aisne) was a Dutch-born French soldier and colonial administrator.

It was during this final assault on Parcy that van Vollenhoven was fatally wounded leading his men into the attack at Montgobert, in the Longpont Forest (Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne).

Juvincourt Airfield

Juvincourt Airfield is an abandoned military airfield, which is located near the commune of Juvincourt-et-Damary in the Aisne department of northern France.

Laon-Athies Air Base

Laon-Athies Air Base is an abandoned military airfield, which is located near the city of Laon in the Aisne department of France.

Le Creuset

Le Creuset was founded in the French town of Fresnoy-le-Grand, Aisne, Picardy, a strategic location at the crossroads of transportation routes for iron, coke and sand.

Longpont Abbey

Longpont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Longpont) was a Cistercian monastery, in present-day Longpont, Aisne, France.

MAKOplasty

MAKOplasty is a surgical procedure for partial knee or total hip arthroplasty using a RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System developed by MAKO Surgical Corp. RIO is cleared by the FDA for use in surgical knee and hip procedures, in which the use of stereotactic surgery may be appropriate, and where reference to rigid anatomical bony structures can be identified relative to a CT-based model of anatomy.

Merwin H. Silverthorn

Subsequently participated in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Aisne-Marne Offensive and Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Montreuil Abbey

Montreuil Abbey, or Montreuil-les-Dames, was a Cistercian nunnery in the Diocese of Laon, France, located at first at Montreuil-en-Thiérache (commune of Rocquigny, department of Aisne) until the 17th century and afterwards in Laon, where it was known as Montreuil-sous-Laon.

Ocepechelon

The feeding apparatus of Ocepechelon, a bony pipette-like snout, is unique among tetrapods and shares unique convergences with both syngnathid fishes (unique long tubular bony snout ending in a rounded and forward directed mouth) and beaked whales (large size and elongated edentulous jaws).

Patella

The patella has convergently evolved in placental mammals and birds; most marsupials have only rudimentary, non-ossified patellae although a few species possess a bony patella.

Paul Claudel

He was born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère (Aisne), into a family of farmers and government officials.

Princess Anne of Orléans

Princess Anne of Orléans (Anne Hélène Marie; 5 August 1906, Le Nouvion-en-Thiérache, Aisne – 19 March 1986, Sorrento) was a member of the House of Orléans and the Duchess of Aosta by marriage.

Rouvroy

Rouvroy, Aisne, a commune in the Aisne département in France

Rozet

Rozet-Saint-Albin, a commune in the Aisne department in Picardie in northern France

Theobald III, Count of Champagne

There was little enthusiasm for the crusade at first, but on November 28, 1199 various nobles of France gathered at Theobald's court for a tournament (in his Ecry-sur-Aisne's castle), including the preacher Fulk of Neuilly.

Third Battle of the Aisne

Reaching the Aisne in under six hours, the Germans smashed through eight Allied divisions on a line between Reims and Soissons, pushing the Allies back to the river Vesle and gaining an extra 15 km of territory by nightfall.

The defense of the Aisne area was in the hands of General Denis Auguste Duchêne, commander of the French Sixth Army; in addition, four divisions of the British IX Corps, led by Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, held the Chemin des Dames Ridge; they had been posted there to rest and refit after surviving the "Michael" battle.

Tsoabichi

Some living caimans such as the Spectacled Caiman have a "spectacle", or a bony ridge between the eyes.

Vesle

Its flow was recorded over a period of 34 years (1967-2000), at Braine, in the department of Aisne.

Weedon Osborne

He was buried in Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.

Wilfried Bony

Bony made his first appearance of the 2012–13 Eredivisie campaign for Vitesse on 12 August 2012 in a 2–2 draw with ADO Den Haag at the GelreDome, equalizing for the hosts less than a minute after Tjaronn Chery had put ADO in front.


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