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17 unusual facts about Bow


Ancient Society of College Youths

Its members hold regular practices at these towers, as well as at St Pauls Cathedral, St Mary-le-Bow and Southwark Cathedral.

BOW

Bartow Municipal Airport - a public use airport located four miles (6 km) northeast of the central business district of Bartow, a city in Polk County, Florida, United States.

Bow, Devon

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Bow was spiritually divided between the Church of England, the Congregationalists and the Plymouth Brethren.

The name Tracey comes from the 'de Tracey' family - from Tracy-sur-Mer near Bayeux - which settled in the area after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

In addition to St Bartholomew's (Church of England), Bow has both a Congregational Church and a Gospel Hall (Open Brethren).

Coralie Blythe

Born in Bow in London, she was the eldest of three children of William Thomas Blyth (born 1857), a publican, and his wife Jane (née Finley) (1862–1897), an actress.

Fabian Stedman

While in London Fabian became a member of the Scholars of Cheapside, a society of ringing that practised at St Mary-le-Bow; the famous great bell of Bow from the nursery rhyme.

Foster Wikner Wicko

The prototype aircraft was built at the J.F. Lusty's furniture factory at Bromley-by-Bow.

Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway

In the early days, locomotives were bought from outside builders but, from 1863, they were built in the North London Railway's workshops at Bow, London.

Michael Whalley

Michael D. Whalley (November 16, 1953 – March 1, 2008) was a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Belknap 5th District since 2002, after having served the towns of Bow and Dunbarton since 1992.

Muriel Lester

He stayed at Kingsley Hall, the Lesters' foundation at Bow.

North London Line City Branch

The company's main headquarters was at Bow, and from there a connection to the London and Blackwall Railway's route allowed the NLR's trains access to a terminus in the City of London, in this case Fenchurch Street.

Setright Machine

In 1955 it occupied Eastway Works, Eastway, Hackney Wick, London E9 and later moved in 1967 to the Fairfield Works, Fairfield Road, Bow, London E3, suitably adjacent to the London Transport bus garage, although LT used the Gibson Machine (produced by Ticket Equipment Ltd, based on the TIM system).

Sheila Klein

Sheila Klein (Edison) is a sculptor and public artist living and working in Bow, Washington.

Soft-paste porcelain

Recipes were closely guarded, as illustrated by the story of Robert Brown, a founding partner in the Lowestoft factory, who is said to have hidden in a barrel in Bow to observe the mixing of their porcelain.

St Mary-le-Bow

According to tradition a true Cockney must be born within earshot of the sound of Bow Bells (which refers to this church's bells rather than St Mary and Holy Trinity, Bow Road, in Bow, which until the 19th century was an outlying village).

Stephen Marks

In 1978, Nicole Farhi was employed to head up the company’s design studio in Bow, East London.


Adam and the Ants

On 26 January 1980, McLaren convinced the rest of the band – then comprising guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman (who had replaced Warren in November 1979) and drummer Dave Barbe – to leave Adam and the Ants and form Bow Wow Wow, fronted by Annabella Lwin.

Akilam two

Ravana ordered the Sun and Moon to bow their heads when they approach his nation or

Alexander Barkashov

While uninterested in his work, he was passionate about reading books about great conquerors of history (especially Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan), learning karate (even setting up his own club), and making weapons (bows and daggers) with his own hands.

Áns saga bogsveigis

Áns saga bogsveigis, the saga of Án the bow-bender, is one of the legendary sagas called the Hrafnistumannasögur surrounding the relatives of Ketil Trout.

Artemis Chasma

It is named after the Greek virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, the hills, the forest,birth, virginity, fertility, and known to carry a bow and arrow, Artemis.

Assistant Language Teacher

Bruce Feiler, Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991), later published as Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan

Blair Drummond

Blair Drummond House was entirely rebuilt in 1868-72 by James Campbell Walker and again by James Bow Dunn after a fire in 1921-23 and is now a home for adults with learning disabilities run by the Camphill Movement.

Bow frog

Yet the Tourte model of more than three centuries remained the standard, until the introduction of the Galliane frog in 2012 by bow maker Benoît Rolland.

Bow Island, Alberta

"Blues at the Bow Live", located in the historic Bow Theatre, is an internationally renowned live blues venue featuring Grammy and Juno Award winning blues artists.

Bow Kum

When he was unable to produce a marriage license for Bow Kum, she was placed with Christian missionaries under Donaldina Cameron, a Scotswoman who spent much of her life helping young Chinese slave girls escape from tongs.

Bow River

As a result, Alberta's premier, Ralph Klein, established the Bow River Water Quality Council as a provincial advisory body.

Bow Road tube station

The Great Eastern Railway Bow Road railway station, which closed in 1949, stood on the opposite of Bow Road.

Bow shock

In 2006, a far infrared bow shock was detected near the AGB star R Hydrae.

Bow Street, Ceredigion

It would appear that the name is derived from the London street of the same name, and that its application to the small cluster of houses that would become Bow Street was connected with the turnpiking of the main Aberystwyth to Machynlleth Turnpike road from 1770 onwards.

Bundesautobahn 100

The A 100 encloses the city centre of the German capital Berlin, running from the Wedding district of the Berlin-Mitte borough in a southwestern bow through Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg to Neukölln.

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

Charles Grayson

Grayson made his first bow from a lemonwood stave that he won selling tickets to a movie about Art Young's trek across Alaska.

Cheapside Hoard

The location, a row of houses on the south of Cheapside, to the east of St Paul's Cathedral and to the west of St Mary-le-Bow, was owned by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was known as Goldsmith's Row, was formerly the centre of the manufacture and sale of gold and jewellery in medieval London.

Corfu Channel incident

The fact that the bow section, with dishes intact and stacked shows a rapid sinking, and negates the British claim that the ships, including HMS Volage were not in international waters as claimed so many decades ago.

Crown of Immortality

The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....

Culture of Thailand

Generally the salutation involves a prayer-like gesture with the hands, similar to the Añjali Mudrā of the Indian subcontinent, and it also may include a slight bow of the head.

Curved bow

John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender have written works for the curved bow which explore the new perspectives and potential of it.

Edward C. Papenfuse

His current editorial interest with regard to Wikipedia centers on overseeing his students contributions to Wikipedia, George Washington's bow to civil authority in 1783, Maryland place names (such as Accident, Maryland), Maryland related themes such as the articles on Civil War era including Cipriano Ferrandini, and major national law cases that had their origins in Maryland such as Barron v. Baltimore.

Fahey Flynn

Robert Feder of the Chicago Sun-Times described him as "an avuncular Irishman with a jaunty bow tie and a twinkle in his eye".

Fermi glow

In 2012, data collected from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer satellite and Voyager 1 and 2 indicated that the Sun isn't moving fast enough through its current interstellar environment to have a bow shock.

Gordon Bridson

The New Zealanders continued to attack and the Kiwi rammed the submarine three times, firing at point blank range with its main 4 inch gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon mounted on its bow (acquired unofficially at Noumea for two bottles of gin).

Green Arrow: Year One

He then freed the slaves by taking down China White's organization armed only with Howard Hill's bow (which the earlier party had an auction for) and a dozen arrows.

HMS Queen Mary

Queen Mary mounted eight BL 13.5-inch Mk V guns in four twin hydraulically powered turrets, designated 'A', 'B', 'Q' and 'X' from bow to stern.

Khatuna Lorig

She taught actress Jennifer Lawrence how to shoot with a recurve bow for the 2012 film The Hunger Games.

Knox-class frigate

The anti-submarine capability of the Chi Yang class FFG is provided by its SQS-26 bow-mounted sonar, SQS-35(v) VDS, SQR-18(v)1 passive TAS, MD500 ASW helicopter, Mk-16 8-cell Harpoon/ASROC box launcher, and 4 x Mk46 324 mm torpedoes.

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080–1118) Henry I's consort, who between 1110 and 1118 was responsible for the building of the series of bridges that carried the London-Colchester road across the River Lea and its side streams between Bow and Stratford.

London Buses route 8

The service is currently contracted to Stagecoach London and runs between Bow Church and Tottenham Court Road Station.

MV Holiday Island

Built in 1971 by the Government of Canada for Canadian National Railways (CNR) at Port Weller Drydocks in St. Catharines, Ontario, Holiday Island is designed for the sheltered waters of the Northumberland Strait; as such, her vehicle decks are open on both sides and she lacks a hurricane bow.

Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety

She can summon a bow and arrow which acts like Cupid's arrow, causing anyone to fall in love with the first person they see.

Primeval Hunt

Though the game uses two light guns styled after pump-action shotguns, the player may choose from three weapons in-game: a Bow, Shotgun or Rifle (However, each player is also given a Rocket Launcher with one rocket in it for every level that is capable of killing any one Dinosaur with a single shot).

Ron Przybylinski

Przybylinski has actively trained meteorologists, for example, participating heavily in the National Center for Atmospheric Research COMET training (particularly on bow echoes), as well as mentoring and collaborating with university students, both graduate and undergraduate.

Roy Powell

His composition "Bow Out" was adapted with a piece by David Bedford by the American choreographer Val Caniparoli to create the ballet piece "Bow Out", performed by ballet companies in Oakland, Richmond, Cincinnati and Florida.

Salthrop House

The current house was built to the style of James Wyatt in 1795, with an entrance front to the west comprising three bays with a central bow, whilst the north and east fronts are of four and five bays, constructed in a Georgian style.

Saxton Pope

He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunting, and for his close relationship with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe and the last known American Indian to be raised largely isolated from Western culture.

Self bow

An effective self bow can be made from widely available local material in most inhabited parts of the world, with limited tools whose functions include chopping, shaving, and scraping.

Sensurround

Saga of a Star World (aka: Battlestar Galactica) marked the final bow of Sensurround one year later (1978).

Spirit of New Zealand

In addition, a large silver fern is painted on either side of the bow beneath the name.

SS Blairspey

Lithgows of Port Glasgow built her a new bow, which was launched on 16 February 1942.

Stephanie Chase

Chase plays on a violin made in 1742 by Pietro Guarneri, the ex-Paschell, which she pairs with a bow made by Dominique Peccatte.

Take a Little Ride

Eight days after the song's release, Broken Bow Records released a re-recording of the song, in which the line "a little Shiner Bock" is changed to "a couple Rocky Tops", in reference to Coors beer.

Thomas Frye

With his silent partner, a London merchant Edward Heylyn, he took out a patent on kaolin to be imported from the English colony of Virginia in November 1745, and became manager of the Bow factory from its obscure beginnings in the 1740s.

WHFE-LP

The stations had plans to vastly-increase their coverage area — WHFE had separate application and construction permits that would increase its power to 25 kW and move the transmitter closer to Terre Haute, to cover that city; while WVGO was to increase to 150 kW, broadcasting from near the banks of the Wabash River, using a directional antenna that would transmit a "bow-tie" lobe towards Sullivan and Marshall, Illinois.

William H. Hinton

In the 1980s, Hinton's daughter Carma Hinton, returned to Long Bow to make a series of documentary films, including Small Happiness and To Taste 100 Herbs.