X-Nico

unusual facts about Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy


Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy

Founded in 1885 in Savannah, Georgia, the school was named for Bishop Gilbert Haven, based on an earlier school founded by Mrs. S.M. Lewis and Mrs. M.C. Bristol of the Atlanta Mission.


1706 in piracy

October - New Providence, a longtime pirate haven during the Buccaneering era, is abandoned after a Spanish raid destroys the church-fortress scattering Governor Nicholas Trott small settlement.

2008–09 Stevenage Borough F.C. season

Just after the half hour mark, Borough doubled their advantage after some poor defending by the FA Trophy holders; with Scott Laird capitalising on a loose pass to send Lee Boylan in on goal to clinically finish past Lance Cronin.

Afghanistan: The Great Game – A Personal View by Rory Stewart

Afghanistan became a safe haven for many terrorist groups and when the twin towers were attacked in New York the United States and its coalition allies entered Afghanistan in large numbers and as Rory Stewart points to the history of Afghanistan, it is an easy country to enter but a difficult one to leave.

Anarchism in Egypt

Many leading figures of the global anarchist movement, including Errico Malatesta, Amilcare Cipriani, Élisée Reclus, Luigi Galleani and Pietro Gori passed through Egypt at various points and for various reasons, owing to its position as a relative safe haven for political dissidents and close proximity to Europe.

Apex Silver Mines

Apex Silver Mines, founded by Thomas Kaplan, from Denver, Colorado was a US-American transnational mining corporation with a tax haven address in the Cayman Islands.

Atlántida, Uruguay

In the nearby resort Villa Argentina, "El Águila" is an enigmatic and attractive stone building that gave rise to several legends, from a smuggler's haven, a Nazi observatory and a "cosmic energy centre".

Bay Colony Railroad

The Bay Colony railroad was chartered on March 31, 1977, with the intent of taking over freight service on former New Haven lines from Conrail, which was planning to abandon service.

Blue Ridge Quartet

1965 The Blue Ridge Quartet (Canaan Records CA-4605/CAS-9605): The Streets Of Gold; Precious Memories; Lord I'm Coming Home; I Dreamed I Searched Heaven For You; Not My Will; Stop And Pray; Lead Me Guide Me; Mansion Can't Be Bought; Suppertime; The Haven Of Rest; How Great Thou Art; Take My Hand.

Brooke Haven

Haven made her silver screen debut in the mainstream feature horror, Detention, directed by Joseph Kahn.

Calliopean Society

For many decades, the Calliopean Society had no physical location, listing itself as located at "1985 Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut 06520." Its 1985 box number had been chosen to refer to the inevitable victory of the West over the collectivist totalitarianism described in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Charlotte York Goldenblatt

She is an art dealer and Smith College graduate (where she lived in Haven-Wesley House and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, although in real life Smith has no sororities) with a Connecticut blue-blooded upbringing.

Chinese Crested Dog

The famous burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee also bred Chinese cresteds, and upon her death her dogs were incorporated into Crest Haven.

Cos Cob Power Station

The "New Haven" chose A.C. electrification as proposed by Baldwin-Westinghouse, with locomotives which could operate on the third-rail D.C. system within city limits, and the A.C. system on the main line.

Duchy of Żagań

The double title, both Prussian and French, served to render the duc de Sagan a neutral party in World War II: his Château de Valençay provided a safe haven for treasures of the Louvre during the German occupation of France.

Eddy Duchin

The film did well in theaters, and was well enough known to be referenced in one of Columbia's Three Stooges shorts: the Stooges' spaceship is about to crash when Joe Besser yelps, "I don't want to die! I can't die! I haven't seen The Eddy Duchin Story yet!"

Edward Salisbury Dana

Until very recently he was physically vigorous and delighted in long walks and climbs both about New Haven and among the hills of Mount Desert Island where he had his summer home.

Edwin Arthur Kraft

Kraft was born in New Haven and studied music at Yale University under Horatio Parker before becoming became the organist at St. Thomas's Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. He then went to Europe for three years, studying organ with Grunecke in Berlin and Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.

Evening Press

Other journalists who worked for the paper were the award-winning journalist and author Clare Boylan, Sean Cronin (sub editor), Matt Farrell (deputy editor) who also went under the pseudonym Sir Ivor with racing tips, Ed Moloney, the financial journalist Des Crowley, Sean McCann, former senator John Horgan and Vincent Browne.

Fair Haven, New Jersey

Fair Haven has an annual Fireman's Fair during the last weekend of summer including Labor Day weekend which attracts a couple of thousand people, including noted musicians Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi.

Hartford and New Haven Railroad

In addition to the New Haven-Springfield route it also served Berlin, New Britain, and Middletown, Connecticut.

Haven't Had Enough

themagazine.ca called the song "somewhat different from their previous material, though it still has the "Marianas Trench feel'".

History of Jamaica

Under early English rule, Jamaica became a haven of privateers, buccaneers, and occasionally outright pirates: Christopher Myngs, Edward Mansvelt, and most famously, Henry Morgan.

I Haven't Got a Hat

I Haven't Got a Hat is a 1935 animated short film, directed by Isadore Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies series.

International legal theories

The New Haven School is a policy-oriented perspective on international law pioneered by Myres S. McDougal, Harold D. Lasswell, and W. Michael Reisman.

Interstate 469

Construction was halted in 1991 when crews unearthed a lock that was once used in the Wabash and Erie Canal while constructing the interchange with US 24 east of New Haven.

James Haven

Since 2006, Haven has been the executive board director of Artivist, a festival in Los Angeles that highlights films addressing human rights, animal rights, and environmental issues.

Kamikawa, Hokkaido

Kamikawa also capitalizes on its proximity to Daisetsuzan National Park as many of its townspeople work with Road Construction and Transportation through the Town Municipal Government, and others work in the tourist haven/onsen heaven that is Sōunkyō Gorge (modeled after Whistler, British Columbia, Canada - site of the 2010 Winter Olympics).

Kenya Make a Difference

The volunteers also distributed clothing and hygiene items to families in the surrounding area and spent time helping at the Haven of Hope orphanage in Nakuru.

Laurieton, New South Wales

A Catalina seaplane carrying entertainer Bob Hope was forced to make an emergency landing on Camden Haven adjacent to Laurieton on August 14, 1944.

Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

Marsh Hall

Marsh Hall (Yale University), a building and U.S. National Historic Landmark at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, also known as the Othniel C. Marsh House.

Mary B. Moser

Daughter of Robert and Vila Mae Beck, Mary Margaret was born on October 12, 1924 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

New Haven EP5

All 10 were quickly rebuilt under the trustees' management, but by the time of the New Haven's 1969 inclusion in Penn Central, four were again out of service (and were soon scrapped).

Ogden Codman, Jr.

 Woodward Haven (1908–09) is now occupied by Acquavella Galleries.

On Basilisk Station

However, the other half of the plan is the Sirius, a Haven Q-ship disguised as a freighter, which will flee the carnage and "coincidentally" encounter a Havenite task force.

Prayer Book Rebellion

Eamon Duffy, The Voices of Morebath: reformation and rebellion in an English village, New Haven, Conn.

Raphael Pumpelly

Her sister, Rebecca Kettell Shepard married author and publisher George Haven Putnam, the eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam.

Reunited Kingdom

Elessar finally reconquered the city, and the Reunited Kingdom stretched South along the coast from the Mouths of the Anduin River to the Haven of Umbar.

Rogerius of Apulia

, A. Onnerfors (Berlin 1967); an English translation in R.A. Skelton, T.E. Marston, and G.D. Painter, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (New Haven 1965) 54-101.

Sir Joseph Banks Conservatory

The Conservatory is situated in the grounds of The Lawn, which are a popular green haven and venue for many summer activities.

South Forty-Foot Drain

The main job of the Drain is to gather the waters pumped from the Kesteven Fens, the Holland Fens and the Weir Dyke, a soak dike in Bourne North Fen, alongside the Bourne Eau and River Glen, northwards and eastwards to the Black Sluice at Boston, where they are discharged to the tidal waters of The Haven.

Stantonbury

Bancroft is a haven for birds and one of the best places to see a Common Kingfisher.

Steven A. Boylan

In late October 2007, Boylan became embroiled in a dispute with Glenn Greenwald of Salon Magazine over articles by Greenwald related to the prosecution of the Iraq War by the George W. Bush presidency and a series of emails.

Studio 19

It has been a haven for the Nashville songwriters like Annie Roboff, Craig Wiseman, Marcus Hummon, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and many more to do their demos as well.

Tom Gjelten

Gjelten is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and began his professional career as a public school teacher at the North Haven Community School, North Haven, Maine, and as a freelance writer.

Vladimir Žerjavić

So far, the institutions that have not accepted (or haven't expressed their opinion on the matter) Žerjavić's and Kočović's results of investigation include the Yad Vashem memorial and the Simon Wiesenthal center.

Wilbraham, Massachusetts

One statement within the Wilbraham Town History Book of 1963 states that a trustee of the Wilbraham & Monson Academy was attending Oxford University and found the following in a history book: That the two villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham came into existence because Alfred the Great, an English King who upon hunting wild boar in a very good spot about 60 miles northeast of London, designated that spot as Wild Boar Haven.

WNHC

WTNH, a television station (channel 8 analog/10 digital) licensed to New Haven, Connecticut, United States, which held the call sign WNHC-TV from 1948 to 1971

Yictove

Born Eugene Melvin Turk, Yictove was a proponent of rhymed poetry, who mentored high school students in New Jersey, including those at East Orange High School, performed as a poet in the schools courtesy of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, taught creative writing in public libraries and in the Safe Haven program/YMCA in East Orange, New Jersey, and directed poetry series in New York City's Knitting Factory.


see also