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7 unusual facts about Ceres


Adib Shishakli

On 27 September 1964, Shishakli was assassinated at Ceres, Brazil by Nawaf Ghazaleh, a Syrian Druze who sought revenge for his parents who had died leaving him an orphan during the bombardments of Jabal Druze.

Ceres, California

Andres Raya, a U.S. Marine on leave after coming back from Iraq, was armed with an SKS rifle and opened fire on officers, hitting Officer Ryno and killing Sergeant Stevenson.

Cliff Barrows - the ministry partner and announcer at the Billy Graham evangelistic crusades

Ceres, Fife

The name has led to contact with Ceres, Italy (visited by the local pipe band in the 1970s) and Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa (with which gifts were exchanged in the 1990s).

The parish of Ceres has some biblical place names: Babylon near Muirhead, south of Craigrothie, and Sodom and Gomorrah (locally pronounced Gemorrie) and Purgatory on the road to Pitscottie.

John Rade

John Rade, (born August 31, 1960, in Ceres, California) was a linebacker in the NFL from 1983 to 1991.Was a 8th round draft choice in 1983.

Jumping-Jupiter Scenario

Also few if any bodies larger than Ceres (planetary embryos) could have remained in the asteroid belt at the end of that era.


1108 Demeter

However, Greek-influenced Slavic languages such as Russian had adopted Latin/Italian Cerera for 1 Ceres, and were thus free to use the classical Greek form Demetra for 1108 Demeter.

Astrolog

Astrolog computes the traditional planets, along with minor planetary objects such as Ceres, Juno and Vesta, and uranian objects such as Vulkanus and Russian Proserpina.

Aventine Triad

Against a background of famine in Rome, an imminent war against the Latins and a threatened plebeian secession, the dictator A. Postumius vowed a temple to the patron deities of the plebs, Ceres, Liber and Libera on or near the Aventine Hill.

CAC Ceres

The Commonwealth Aircraft CA-28 Ceres was a crop-duster aircraft manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) between 1959 and 1963.

Ceres Connection

The Ceres Connection is a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated to promoting science education.

Ceres F.C.

Ceres F.C. also known as Ceres-La Salle F.C. is a Filipino association football club based in Bacolod, Negros Occidental and a member of Negros Occidental Football Association.

Ceres High School

Wayne Hardin (born 1927) – College Football Hall of Famer, former football and basketball coach at Ceres High

Ceres Storm

Ceres Storm is a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter.

Ceresco, Michigan

Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce named the community by combining the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing grains, with the first two letters "company".

Cockpen and Carrington Parish Church

Mr Ross was formerly minister at Ceres & Springfield Parish Church in Fife; followed by six years working with Conference of European Churches in Brussels.

Cornelis van der Geest

Other works included in that view are Women at her toilet by Jan van Eyck, a still life by Frans Snyders, Ceres Mocked by Adam Elsheimer, Danaë by Van Haecht, Battle of the Amazons and a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens, Peasant Company with Woman making Pancakes by Pieter Aertsen, Apelles by Jan Wierix and a hunting scene by Jan Wildens.

Cybele

Magna Mater's temple stood high on the slope of the Palatine, overlooking the valley of the Circus Maximus and facing the temple of Ceres on the slopes of the Aventine.

Dutoitea

Three species are recognized, D. pulchra Hoeg 1930 (from the Bloukrans River in the Knysna district, Ceres Subgroup, Lower Bokkeveld Group), D. alfreda Plumstead 1967 (Port Alfred, Weltevrede Subgroup, Lower Witteberg Group) and D. maraisia Plumstead 1967 (Howisons Poort, Witpoort Sandstone, Middle Witteberg Group).

Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt

Poczobutt observed solar and lunar eclipses, comets and asteroids (including Ceres, Pallas, Juno), and calculated geographic coordinates of settlements in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (including Vilnius and Hrodna).

Martin Milmore

By his 20th birthday Milmore received a commission for three giant figures ("Ceres", "Flora" and "Pomona") for the front of the Horticultural Hall in Boston; the restored versions are now on display at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.

Prison de l'Abbaye

The abbaye dated to the earliest era of Paris, when Childebert I (on the site of a temple to Isis or Ceres according to legend) founded a monastery dedicated to the Holy Cross and to St Vincent of Saragossa, which later took the name of its administering bishop Germain of Paris.

Tuolumne River Regional Park

Mancini Park – Located along the south shore of the Tuolumne River bordering Ceres, Mancini Park was developed on land donated by conductor Frank Mancini.

Turin–Ceres railway

The Ferrovia Torino-Ceres (also known as Torino-Valli di Lanzo) is a commuter railroad in the province of Turin (northern Italy) which is currently managed by the Gruppo Torinese Trasporti.


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