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unusual facts about Bryn, Akershus



2007 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament

Four Stanford players were named AVCA All-Americans: Junior Foluke Akinradewo, senior Bryn Kehoe, and junior Cynthia Barboza took home first team honors while freshman Alix Klineman was placed on second team.

Arnes

Årnes, the administrative centre of Nes municipality, Akershus, Norway.

Baron Gerard

There have been three baronies created for descendants of the Gerard family who resided at Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire and Kingsley, Cheshire, in the 13th century.

Berthe Marti

Education and degrees: Baccalauréat, Gymnase classique Cantonal, Lausanne, 1922; Licenciée-ès-lettres (in Latin and English literature), University of Lausanne, 1925; MA in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1926; PhD in Latin, Bryn Mawr College, 1934.

Bogstadvannet

Bogstadvannet is a lake between the city of Oslo and the municipality of Bærum, Akershus, Norway.

British Youth Opera

The President is Sir Thomas Allen and Vice-Presidents include Dame Felicity Lott, Maestro José Cura and Bryn Terfel.

Bryn

It was a "safe house" for the English Roman Catholic martyr and saint Edmund Arrowsmith and is reputed to be the burial place of his remains.

Bryn (or Brynne) Hall dates from the fourteenth century but has been the seat of the Gerard family since the thirteenth century or earlier.

Bryn Athyn College

Some recent Bryn Athyn College productions include The Glass Menagerie, Antigone, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Wit, Into the Woods, The Crucible, The Miracle Worker, and more.

Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania

Bryn Athyn is also the site of the General Church affiliated Academy of the New Church, which is the parent organization of the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools, Bryn Athyn College, a divinity school, and the Swedenborg Library (which was named in honor of Emanuel Swedenborg).

Bryn Chapman

Bryn Lawton Chapman (born 1982) is a former beauty queen and young operatic soprano who is a former Miss Indiana representative and a top-ten finisher in the 2004 Miss America pageant.

Bryn Hall Colliery

Bryn Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield in Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

Bryn Mawr School

In 1926 Rosabelle Sinclair established the first American women's lacrosse team at The Bryn Mawr School, bringing the Native American game to the United States from St Leonards School in Scotland (where it had arrived from Canada).

Bryn Station

In the Norwegian version of the board game Monopoly, Bryn is the fourth railway station on the board, in the spot corresponding to Short Line (Atlantic City version) or Liverpool Street station (London version).

Passenger service to Bryn consists of the local slow train between Asker and Lillestrøm Station (line 400).

Bryn Williams

Cardiff Blues, Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby player Martyn Williams appointed Bryn as one of the 7 Patrons of his Spirit of Wales testimonial year in 2010, to help raise money for vulnerable children and cancer victims.

Bryn, Akershus

Bryn is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway.

Connah's Quay

Schools in Connah's Quay include Connah's Quay High School, Bryn Deva Primary, Wepre Primary, Brookfield Primary and Golftyn Primary.

David Del Tredici

Del Tredici was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for In Memory of a Summer Day, the first part of Child Alice, recorded by Phyllis Bryn-Julson and the Saint Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin for the Nonesuch label.

Emily Cheney Neville

After receiving her A.B. from Bryn Mawr, she worked for the New York Daily News and the New York Daily Mirror newspapers.

F. Melius Christiansen

Fredrik Melius Christiansen, the son of a Norwegian factory worker, was born in Eidsvold, municipality in Akershus county, Norway and emigrated to the United States at the age of 17.

Fortification Upgrades

During the summer of 1675, 1800 men were kept at work on the fortresses at Akershus, Fredrikstad, and Fredrikshald.

Gjettum

Gjettum is a neighbourhood in Bærum, Akershus, Norway.

Håkon Tysdal

Håkon Tysdal (born 17 February 1947) is a Norwegian writer from Enebakk in Akershus.

Henry David Leslie

The couple moved to Mary's family home, now known as Bryn Tanat Hall, at Llansanffraid, near Oswestry on the Welsh border.

Hindley Green

Hindley Green is one of five communities (the others being Abram, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Bryn and Hindley) served by the Hindley Neighbourhood Policing Team, based at Bamfurlong Police Station.

Hope Emily Allen

After Bryn Mawr, she went to Radcliffe to begin studying for her Ph.D, during which time she enrolled at Cambridge University in 1910 for a semester to study English literature.

Ila Detention and Security Prison

Ila Detention and Security Prison (Norwegian: Ila fengsel og forvaringsanstalt) is a prison in Ila in Bærum municipality in Akershus county, outside the capital city of Oslo in Norway.

Lakeridge, Washington

Its boundaries extend from Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood on the north, to Lake Washington on the east, to unincorporated Bryn Mawr on the southeast and unincorporated Skyway on the southwest.

Leveling seat

On a county by county basis, however, there were greater disparities: Sogn og Fjordane needed only 3,503 votes to elect one representative from the Liberal Party, while Akershus needed 22,555 to elect one representative from the Socialist Left Party.

Marion Cameron Gray

In 1924 she travelled to the United States under the assistance of both a British graduates scholarship and a Carnegie scholarship to attend Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania from where she gained a Ph.D. under the supervision of Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler.

Milena Jesenská

British Industrial musician Bryn Jones, under the moniker of Muslimgauze included a track named after her in his album Opaques

Narberth, Pennsylvania

Along with the eponymous Bryn Mawr and Paoli Memorial hospitals, Lankenau Hospital, on Lancaster Pike (Route 30) in Wynnewood near the Overbrook border, has traditionally been affiliated with either Jefferson or Hahnemann (now Drexel) colleges of medicine and is always (with Bryn Mawr and Paoli) on the list of the nation's top community hospitals.

Neset

Enebakkneset (also called Neset) in Fet municipality, Akershus, Norway

Oslo Metro rolling stock

In 1996, the work to establish a financing package for new investments in public transport in Akershus and Oslo started.

Pant, Shropshire

Pant has a few notable features: Llanymynech Golf Club is unique as the only 18 hole course in the UK to straddle the border between two countries; Llanymynech Ogof, a copper mine where many Roman artefacts have been found; Bryn Offa Church of England Primary School, a relatively new school built after the closure of four schools in the surrounding area; and a large gin wheel in the village.

Ragnar Søegaard

Ragnar Søegaard is chairman of Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, Norway.

Rhonda Hughes

She and Sylvia Bozeman organized the Spelman-Bryn Mawr Summer Mathematics Program for female undergraduate students.

River Neath

A smaller tributary, the River Clydach, flows southward through the village of Bryn-coch to join the Neath in Neath town centre.

Sherman Fairchild Foundation

Notable Grants: 10 Million Dartmouth College, 10 Million Caltech, 10 Million Columbia, 5 Million Connecticut College, 5 Million MIT, .48 Million Bryn Mawr College

Shuna Scott Sendall

Scholar and one of Malcolm Martineau’s Crear Scholars, and also attended the Lake Placid Institute International Vocal Seminar, working with Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Susan Webb, Ian Partridge, Patricia Macmahon and Jennifer Lane.

Sylvia Bozeman

These include the Spelman Summer Science and Mathematics Institute and the Spelman–Bryn Mawr Summer Mathematics Program with Rhonda Hughes.

Torgeir Bryn

In the U.S., Bryn attended MiraCosta Community College (Oceanside, California) and then Southwest Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas), where he played NCAA college basketball.

Voice of the Beehive

Voice of the Beehive was an Anglo-American alternative pop rock band formed in London in 1986 by Californian sisters Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland.

Vollen

Vollen, Akershus, a village in Asker municipality, Akershus county, Norway

Yngvar Bryn

Yngvar Bryn (17 December 1881 – 30 April 1947) was a Norwegian track and field athlete and pairs figure skater who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics.


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