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unusual facts about Clarens, Free State


Beer in South Africa

Examples of these include the Clarens Beer Festival in Clarens, Freestate and Solstice Festival & Northwest Province


Arcusaurus

Arcusaurus is known from two fragmentary skeletons collected in March 2006 at the Spion Kop Heelbo site from the upper Elliot Formation in Senekal in Free State.

Bethlehem bus crash

The bus was transporting 90 trade union delegates to May Day celebrations in the town of Qwa Qwa in the Free State.

Branchipodopsis

Rock pools of this nature occur in various regions of the Southern African subcontinent, including mountain ranges in the Drakensberg, the Western Cape and the Eastern Free State.

Charles Michael, Duke of Mecklenburg

As a result the succession issue could not be resolved in time and the two Mecklenburg grand duchies became separate free states in the Weimar Republic.

Choppies

The South African operations are executed through a wholly owned subsidiary Choppies Supermakets SA (Proprietary) Limited, which operates in the Limpopo, North-West and Free State provinces.

Cincinnati in the American Civil War

Antebellum Cincinnati played a large role in the abolitionist movement, partially due to its location as a major city in the free state of Ohio directly across the river from the slave state Kentucky.

Dave Orchard

His father, Kenneth Orchard and uncle Eric Orchard played first-class cricket for Natal, and his son Justin Orchard for Free State.

Johan van der Wath

The following year he made his first class debut but only played one more match after that before joining Free State for the beginning of the 1997 South African season.

Karoo Thrush

It occurs in South Africa (Little Namaqualand, Karoo and Northern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and part of the North West Province).

Ladybrand

Ladybrand is a small agricultural town in the Free State province of South Africa, situated 18 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho.

Landesstraße

In the free states of Bavaria and Saxony – but not, however, in the Free State of Thuringia – Landesstraßen are known as Staatsstraßen.

Principality of Lippe

The Principality of Lippe came to an end on 12 November 1918 with the abdication of Leopold IV, with Lippe becoming a Free State.

Reverse Underground Railroad

Although Illinois was a free state, Crenshaw leased the salt works in nearby Equality, Illinois from the U.S. Government, which permitted the use of slaves for the arduous labor of hauling and boiling brackish water, from local salt springs, to produce salt.

Rilee Rossouw

Rilee Roscoe Rossouw (born 9 October 1989 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State) is a South African cricketer who plays for the Eagles and Free State, as well as Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Rooibaardt

They all lived in Bethlehem in the Free State province of South Africa The name of the band came to them in their "pirate ship", a Volkswagen Combi, on the way to the first gig.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Sand River Convention

The convention was signed on 17 January 1852 by Andries Pretorius (for the Boers) and William Hogge and Mostyn Owen (for Great Britain) in a marquee on the banks of the Sand River near Ventersburg.

Sedan Beehive stone huts

The Sedan Beehive stone huts are a provincial heritage site in Lindley in the Free State province of South Africa.

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve, is a massive wetland spanning some 30 km², surrounds the town of Memel, in the Free State, province of South Africa, which was declared a Ramsar site in 1999.

Souvenir d'un lieu cher

The Méditation was written between 23 and 25 March 1878, in Clarens, Switzerland, where Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto.

St George's School in Switzerland

The school's campus covers 45,000 square metres and is located in the residential suburb of Clarens.

Sumner County, Kansas

It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.

Symphonie espagnole

In March 1878, Tchaikovsky was staying at Nadezhda von Meck's estate at Clarens, Switzerland, while recovering from the breakdown of his disastrous marriage and his subsequent suicide attempt.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Virginia, Free State

When a railway siding was eventually established at this spot, the name was adopted, and it stuck after the discovery of gold in 1949 which resulted in a mushrooming settlement on the banks of the Sand River.


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