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unusual facts about Brome—Missisquoi



Albert Bythesea Weigall

Weigall was the fourth son of the Rev. Edward Weigall by his wife, Cecelia Bythesea Brome and was educated at Macclesfield Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford.

Arctic brome

 Bromus inermis; also called, variously Austrian bromegrass, Awnless brome, Hungarian brome, Hungarian bromegrass, Pumpelly's brome, Russian bromegrass, Smooth brome, and Smooth bromegrass

B. arvensis

Bromus arvensis, the field brome, a grass species native to Europe and Asia

Bromus interruptus

After several decades in cultivation, the interrupted brome was re-introduced to a reserve in Aston Rowant in 2004, marking the first known re-introduction of an extinct plant in Britain.

Bundesstraße 244

Bundesstraße 244 (abbreviation: B 244) is a federal road in Germany that branches off the B 4 west of Dedelstorf towards the east and runs through Wittingen, Brome, Rühen, Velpke, Helmstedt, Schöningen, Dardesheim, Wernigerode to Elbingerode, where it ends at the B 27.

Bundesstraße 248

This federal highway was cut in two places by the division of Germany and could not be driven from end to end again until 1989, when the border crossings between Brome and Mellin (on 18 November) and between Salzwedel and Lübbow were re-established.

Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidates, 1993 Canadian federal election

Jean Blaquière (Brome—Missisquoi, Quebec) (Feb 13, 1995) (stepped down as leader, Nov 1995)

Genista Caves

Busk was humorously referring to Genista as the Latin name of the Broom, a Mediterranean shrub, as a play of words with Brome.

Heward Grafftey

Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.

Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon

So his eldest son, Lord Brome, was therefore considered suitable for Louisa (Gordon Castle, 27 December 1776 – Park Crescent, Middlesex, 5 December 1850), the fourth daughter.

Monsieur Thomas

The 1639 quarto bears a commedatory poem written by Richard Brome, and an Epistle to Fletcher's admirer Charles Cotton, also signed by Brome.

The Antipodes

Brome may have pulled hints and suggestions from other travel accounts, since the play refers to the famous English explorers of the day, Sir Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher, Sir Richard Hawkins, and Sir Thomas Cavendish.

The Antipodes is unusual among Brome's plays in having received a prominent modern production, directed by Gerald Freedman.

The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac

The text of the play was lost until the 19th century, when a manuscript was found in a commonplace book dating from around 1470–80 at Brome Manor, Suffolk, England.

The Northern Lass

(Constance hails from Durham and speaks with a Yorkshire accent throughout the play – making her a northern lass. Hers is not the only dialect material in Brome's text: the minor comic character Sir Salomon Nonsense is from Cornwall and speaks with a Cornish accent.)

The Sparagus Garden

Tom and his servant Coulter are from "Zumerzetshire," and inject into the play the kind of dialect humour typical of Brome's drama (Yorkshire dialect in The Northern Lass, Lancashire dialect in The Late Lancashire Witches).

William Warren Lynch

Born near the Village of Bedford, County of Missisquoi, Canada East, the son of Thomas Lynch of County Cavan and Charlotte R. Williams, Lynch attended Stanbridge Academy and entered the University of Vermont in 1861 but did not continue his studies there due to the American Civil War.

Wittingen-Oebisfelde Light Railway

The Wittingen–Oebisfelde Light Railway opened its line from Wittingen to Brome on 15 September 1909 and, on 20 November of the same year, to the terminus at Oebisfelde Nord, the last section of which lay in the Prussian Province of Saxony (today Saxony-Anhalt).


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