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20 unusual facts about Bray


Bacon ice cream

Heston Blumenthal, a chef who owns The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire and is famous for creating unusual dishes by following the principles of molecular gastronomy.

Bray-sur-Somme

On 1 September 1944, Bray-sur-Somme was liberated by units of the United States Army.

Bray, Botswana

It is located in the eastern part of the district, on the border with South Africa opposite a village of the same name in that country.

Château Le Manais

Le Manais, a château at Ferrières-en-Bray near Gournay-en-Bray in Normandy, was a three-story building in extensive farmlands.

Darville

Darville (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer from Bray, Berkshire who played in major matches during the 1740s.

Gilbert Buatère

He was the eldest son of a petty, but rich, lord of Carreaux, near Avesnes-en-Bray in the region of Rouen.

Ikanga

Ikanga is also the twin parish of the Holy Redeemer Church in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

John Hathorne

He did publish several works in 1830 under the Hathorne name, and his assumption of the modified spelling may have been an echo of the family's ancestral name from Bray, Berkshire, England.

John Winthrop Hackett

Hackett was born near Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, the eldest child of the Rev. John Winthrop Hackett, M.A., and his wife, Jane Sophia Monck, née Mason (daughter of Henry M. Mason, LL.D.).

Katrina Elam

Katrina Ruth Elam (born December 12, 1983 in Bray, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

Kenneth William Junor

On 23 April 1918, Junor fell victim to German ace Egon Koepsch of Jagdstaffel 4, who shot him down at Bray-sur-Somme.

Lady Catherine Gordon

In 1510, Lady Catherine obtained letters of denization and that same year, on 8 August, was given a grant of the manors of Philberts at Bray, and Eaton at Appleton, both then in Berkshire.

Mary Rose Callaghan

Eventually moving back to Ireland, Callaghan now lives in Bray, where she teaches and writes.

Matt Britton

Matt Britton (born 29 November 1973 in Bray) is an Irish former football player and current manager of Arklow Town in the Leinster Senior League (soccer).

Raoul de Houdenc

Modern scholarship suggest he is probably to be identified with one Radulfus from Hodenc-en-Bray.

Renaud-Bray

The chain was founded in 1965 by Pierre Renaud and Edmond Bray, with the opening of its first store on Côte-des-Neiges Road in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The chain began its expansion in 1978, opening other branches in Montreal (on Laurier Avenue, Saint Denis Street, Park Avenue, and Peel Street).

Singerie

In France the most famous such rococo decor are Christophe Huet's Grande Singerie and Petite Singerie decors at the Château de Chantilly; in England the French painter Andieu de Clermont is also known for his singeries: the most famous decorates the ceiling of the Monkey Room at Monkey Island Hotel, located on Monkey Island in Bray-on-Thames, England.

SS Basildon

The vessel was armed as a DEMS ship by soldiers of the Royal Lancashire Regiment and rescued soldiers from the Bray-Dunes area of the beach during Operation Dynamo.

The Return of the Soldier

Chris tells her the story of a romantic summer on Monkey Island, where Chris at the age of twenty fell in love with Margaret, the daughter of the innkeeper on the island.


Anthony Farindon

In 1634 Farindon was presented by John Bancroft, bishop of Oxford, to the vicarage of Bray, Berkshire; and in 1639, through the interest of William Laud, he obtained in addition the post of divinity lecturer in the Chapel Royal at Windsor.

BBC Wales Today

Former presenters of Wales Today include: Noreen Bray; John Darran; Sara Edwards; Gail Foley; Jayne James; Rees Jones; Patrick Hannan; Brian Hoey; Bob Humphrys; Vincent Kane; Jason Mohammad; Chris Morgan; David Parry-Jones; Betsan Powys; Penny Roberts; Simon Pusey; Tim Rogers.

Bray Daly railway station

Between the 1984 inauguration of DART and November 1990, a diesel shuttle train (initially a 201 class or 121 class locomotive with former AEC railcars converted to push–pull stock, later an 80 class train leased from Northern Ireland Railways) operated between Bray and Greystones, connecting with DART services.

Bray Daly railway station (Stáisiún Bhré / Uí Dhálaigh in Irish) is a station situated in Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland.

Bray Hill

Bray Hill (Lowland Scots: Brae a slope) formerly a country lane known as the Great Hill during the time of the ownership of the Duke of Atholl.

For the 1934 and 1935 automobile car races held in the Isle of Man, the whole length of Bray Hill from its junction with Stoney Road was part of the Mannin Moar Course.

Bray Park, New South Wales

Bray Park is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Carson Ellis

Under Wildwood, written by Colin Meloy (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, September 25, 2012)

Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg

In 1870 King Ludwig II. appointed Bray again Minister of State of the Exterior and President of the Council of Ministers.

Deanne Bray

A California native, Bray broke into the entertainment industry after she was discovered performing with a deaf dancing group called "Prism West" at a deaf festival at California State University, Northridge, where she earned a B.A. degree in Biology.

Denys Bray

Early in 1929 Bray was responsible for the plans for the evacuation by air (a novel method at that time) of the women and children, and then of the Minister, Sir Francis Humphreys, and his staff as part of the Kabul Airlift.

Great Beauty

A Great and Terrible Beauty, 2003 fantasy novel by American writer of young adult literature, Libba Bray; first volume in Gemma Doyle Trilogy takes place in 1895, as young title character experiences clairvoyant visions associated with ancient order of powerful women known as "the Order"

Holyport

Stirling Moss, the famous racing driver, lived in the village, and was a member of the Bray and Holyport Scout Group.

Jim Bray

Jim Bray (born February 23, 1961, Upland, California) was a competitive artistic roller skater.

John Jefferson Bray

On his mother's side, Bray claimed a collateral relationship to the third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson.

Krestovsky Island

Svetlana Kuznetsova, is the best-known contemporary Russian tennis player coming from the Krestovsky island tennis tradition of Russian champions, started by the Scot MacPherson, his sons as well as Mikhail Sumarakoff-Elston and George Bray in the late 19th century.

LETTERS

In addition to the Author and Germaine Pitt (or 'Lady Amherst', unrelated to any of Barth's previous novels), the correspondents are: Todd Andrews (from The Floating Opera), Jacob Horner (from The End of the Road), A.B. Cook (a descendent of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse).

Mahdi Bray

Bray served on the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Alliance and the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, and is a National Co-convener of Religions for Peace-USA.

In a May 2005 column in the Weekly Standard, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross wrote about his May 14, 2005, debate with Bray on PAX-TV's Faith Under Fire program.

Mary Kay Bray Award

The Mary Kay Bray Award is given by the Science Fiction Research Association for the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.

Mary Pipher

Mary Elizabeth Pipher, PhD, (born October 21, 1947), also known as Mary Bray Pipher, is an American clinical psychologist and author, most recently of The Green Boat, which will be published by Riverhead Books in June 2013.

Open Heart Symphony

"Let the Ass Bray" was reportedly written after Mann and Kelly attended a Radiohead concert at which Thom Yorke angrily refused an audience member's request to play "Creep" even though it was Radiohead's only notable hit single at the time.

PowerCity

Power City is an Irish electrical retailer of consumer and electronic goods with branches in Blanchardstown, Coolock, Tallaght, Finglas, Fonthill, Sallynoggin, Drogheda, Bray and Naas.

Richard Bray

Bray was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 1992, and served in the Indiana House of Representatives 1974 to 1992.

Touchen End

The graveyard attached to Holy Trinity remains in use under the parish of Bray and is notable for the grave of William Thomas Forshaw VC.

Victor Bray

Victor owns a large race team, Team Bray, which is sponsored primarily by Sidchrome, his long-time sponsor.

Walter Crocker

He was born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the eldest son of Robert Crocker and Alma Bray.

Walter de Riddlesford

Walter de Riddlesford (birth date unknown –1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176.

Waxies' Dargle

In the 19th century, during the Summer, the gentry of Dublin would travel out to Bray and Enniskerry with their entourages and have picnics on the banks of the River Dargle.

William C. Byham

Bill Byham, co-founder (with Dr. Douglas Bray), chairman and CEO of Development Dimensions International (DDI) is an

William G. Bray

Bray was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1975).