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11 unusual facts about Caledonia


Caledonia

The Caledonian Sleeper is an overnight train service from London to Scottish destinations operated by First ScotRail.

In music, "Caledonia" is a popular folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977 and published in 1979 on an album of the same name; it has since been covered by various other artists, including Amy Macdonald.

Caledonia, North Dakota

When James J. Hill's railroad crossed Traill County, it bypassed Caledonia.

Caledonia's Hardy Sons

#"The Ferryland Sealer" (3min 24sec) is about the seasonal seal hunting expeditions from the southern Newfoundland community of Ferryland.

Charles Easley

Easley served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Third Judicial Court District from 1980–1983, Prosecutor of the Town of Caledonia, and Judge of the Town of Caledonia.

Derek Sherrod

He attended Caledonia High School in Caledonia, Mississippi, where he played for the Caledonia Confederates high school football team.

John Collins House

The John Collins House is an historic residence at Caledonia in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

McNeil v. Wisconsin

After the bail hearing, McNeil was approached by other detectives investigating a murder in Caledonia, Wisconsin, near Racine.

Minnesota State Highway 44

Highway 44 serves as an east–west route between Mabel, Spring Grove, Caledonia, and Hokah in southeast Minnesota.

Minnesota State Highway 76

Highway 76 serves as a north–south route in southeast Minnesota between Caledonia, Houston, and Interstate 90.

Ontario Highway 403

A divided segment of Highway 6 meets the freeway and continues concurrently with it through Hamilton; to the south, Highway 6 travels to John C. Munro International Airport, Caledonia and Jarvis at Highway 3.


347th Rescue Group

Headquarters moved up from New Caledonia at the end of 1943; and the following month the group moved from Guadalcanal to Stirling Island to support ground forces on Bougainville, assist in neutralizing enemy bases at Rabaul, and fly patrol and search missions in the northern Solomons.

Áed mac Cináeda

Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia (1807), and by the New Statistical Account (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

Baillieston St Andrew's Church

The minister of Baillieston St Andrew's Church is a Chaplain at Caledonia Primary School and joint Chaplain at Bannerman High School in Baillieston.

Bearcreek, Montana

At its peak, Bearcreek and the surrounding communities of Washoe, New Caledonia, Chickentown, Scotch Coulee, International, and Stringtown, had a population of about 3,000 people, most of whom worked in the coal mines.

Bighead spurdog

The bighead spurdog has only been recorded from the waters south of New Caledonia, and from seamounts on the Norfolk Ridge in the northern Tasman Sea.

Britannia

In AD 43 the Roman Empire began its conquest of the island, establishing a province they called Britannia, which came to encompass the parts of the island south of Caledonia (roughly Scotland).

Caledonia Consulting

Also at Caledonia was another member of the SPBE, Lynda Gauld a former lobbyist for Pfizer.

Caledonia Consulting is a public affairs and communications firm in Edinburgh which is run by Devin Scobie.

Caledonia Mill

The Caledonia Mill is located on the banks of the Canadian Heritage Grand River, in Caledonia, Ontario Canada.

The Caledonia Mill is a historic mill building located in Caledonia, Ontario, Canada.

Since 2008 the Caledonia Mill has been home to one of the largest winter light displays in Southern Ontario.

Callitropsis

Neocallitropsis (formerly Callitropsis Compton 1922), a monotypic genus endemic to New Caledonia

Cambridge Main Street Bridge

To meet this need, four bridges were built in the area: this bridge, the Freeport Bridge and Bridgeport Bridge in Kitchener, and the Caledonia Bridge (now renamed) in Caledonia.

De Situ Britanniae

William Forbes Skene, in his introduction to Celtic Scotland, written after De Situ Britanniae was debunked, disparaged several once-influential histories that relied on it, including Pinkerton's Enquiry, George Chalmers's Caledonia, Roy's Military Antiquities, and Robert Stuart's Caledonia Romana.

Émile Deplanche

Subsequently, he returned to New Caledonia with Vieillard, where in Noumea, the pair spit company, with Deplanche journeying to Lifou in the Loyalty Islands.

G. salicifolia

Geijera salicifolia, a plant species found in Australia, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea

I Marine Amphibious Corps

General Vandegrift carried on in command of the Corps when its next-designated commander for the invasion of Bougainville, Major General Charles D. Barrett, died following a fall from the balcony of his quarters in New Caledonia.

IAAI

Iaai language, an Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia

J. elegans

Joinvillea elegans, a flowering plant species found in New Caledonia

Jean Armand Isidore Pancher

In 1877, he died in New Caledonia in an area between La Foa and Moindou.

L'Avenir Ensemble

The name l'Avenir Ensemble reflects the party's desire to unite New Caledonians of all ethnic groups (White Europeans, Melanesian Kanaks, Polynesian immigrants, etc.) into a shared future, rejecting the ethnic oppositions of the hitherto dominant parties of New Caledonia (White anti-independence parties vs. Kanak pro-independence parties).

Lincoln Walsh

During the war, he worked with Rudy Bozak at the Dinion Coil Company in Caledonia, New York, developing high voltage power supplies for radar use.

Minnesota State Highway 249

Highway 249 had passed through the communities of Caledonia, Mayville Township, and Crooked Creek Township.

Minnesota State Highway 249 was a highway in southeast Minnesota, which ran from its intersection with State Highways 44 and 76 in Caledonia and continued east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 26 in Crooked Creek Township, south of Reno.

Modoc, Arkansas

The town is well-known due its prominent place in the song "Caledonia Mission", written by Robbie Robertson and performed by The Band on their 1968 debut album Music from Big Pink.

MS Port Link

In March 2011, Stena Line announced the Stena Caledonia and her running partners on the Belfast - Stranraer route (Stena Navigator and Stena Voyager) were to be replaced in Autumn 2011 by the Stena Superfast VII and Stena Superfast VIII chartered from Estonian ferry operator Tallink.

National anthem of New Caledonia

However, you may be looking for Soyons unis, devenons frères, the anthem of New Caledonia formally adopted in 2010.

New Caledonian independence referendum, 1987

By a vote of 325 to 249, the French Parliament passed a law on 15 April 1984 on holding an independence referendum in New Caledonia.

Olivier Saminadin

At the 2003 South Pacific Games he won the 200, 400 and 1500 frees, the 200 fly, the 400 individual medley and the open water race; and was also part of all 3 New Caledonia's relays, each which also won.

Ratu Banuve Tabakaucoro

He also won gold in the 100 meter, 200 meter and 4x100m Relay at the Pacific Games in Nouméa, New Caledonia in September 2011 2011 Pacific Games with a time of 10.52s.

S. elegantissima

Schefflera elegantissima, the false aralia, a plant species native to New Caledonia

Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet

He opposed the proposal of making an addition to the standing army, which parliament adopted; and in the same parliament, during the discussions regarding the colony of New Caledonia in Darién Province, when the question was raised whether the Company's right should be made the subject of an address to the King or of an Act of Parliament, and the former alternative was carried by a majority of 108 to 84, Sir Thomas Burnett was one of the dissenters and protestors.

Star of Caledonia

The Star of Caledonia, also called the Gretna Landmark, is a planned sculpture designed by Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks.

The Rally–UMP

However, the RPCR became the largest party in the New Caledonia and regained first place in the South Province.

Total War: Rome II

The campaign map for Rome II spans from Bactria (Afghanistan) to Lusitania (Portugal) and from Caledonia (Scotland) to Garamantia (in the Sahara).

XPF

CFP franc, the currency used in the French overseas collectivities (collectivités d’outre-mer, or COM) of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna