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2 unusual facts about Childers


Childers, Queensland

The town made international headlines in June 2000, when an arsonist set fire to the Palace Backpackers Hostel, claiming the lives of 15 tourists.

Christ Church, Childers

Christ Church is a heritage-listed Anglican church located at 24 Macrossan Street (on the corner of McIlwraith Street), Childers, Queensland, Australia.


Albert Meysey-Thompson

Born in York as Albert Childers Thompson, he was the son of Sir Harry Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet (1809–1874) and Elizabeth Anne Croft.

Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire

The Princess Royal visited Childers on 2 July, just a week after the blaze, to meet the surviving backpackers and others involved in the disaster.

Greg Childers

Childers did not run for re-election in the 2012 election, because his Senate district was redistricted and he no longer lived within its new boundaries.

Kaiser blade

In the movie Sling Blade, main character Karl Childers (portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton) recounts an incident from his childhood in which he killed his mother and her boyfriend with this tool.

Margaret Dudley

Rita Childers (1915–2010), second wife of Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland

Marshall University

MU's only non-loss came on a 59-yard field goal with no time left by freshman Barry Childers at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., for a 13–13 tie.

Rita Childers

Rita and Erskine Childers' daughter, Nessa, entered politics in 2004 when she was elected as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Green Party.

However, a political dispute in which a partially deaf Fine Gael minister in the National Coalition government, Tom O'Donnell, misheard a journalist's question about Mrs Childers and confirmed that she would be the next president led the plan to collapse.

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

Warmsworth

The parish of Warmworth included Carr House, where Leonard Childers bred the famous racehorse Flying Childers.


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