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9 unusual facts about Coates


Andrew Parkin-Coates

Parkin- Coates made his cricketing debut for England Under-15s in the Under-15 World Challenge in 2000, alongside future first-class cricketers such as James Hildreth and David Stiff.

Christopher Elderfield

After holding some minor appointments, one of which was as curate at Coates, Essex, he became rector of Burton, Sussex.

Coates, Cambridgeshire

Part of the filming for the 2007 war film Atonement starring Keira Knightley was filmed outside Coates at the end of Eldernell Lane.

Coates, Gloucestershire

It is the nearest village to the source of the river Thames at Thames Head, and it is close to the course of the Foss Way or Fosse Way, the ancient Roman road.

Coates, Minnesota

The city of Coates incorporated in 1953 at the northwest corner of Vermillion Township, and was named for early settler G. A. Coates.

Coates, West Sussex

It was here in 1940-41 that Lieutenant- colonel Stewart Blacker invented the Spigot Mortar or Blacker Bombard a cheap and easily produced piece of anti-tank ordnance required after the British Army's heavy equipment at been lost at Dunkirk.

It is well known for its gardens that are available for public viewing by appointment as part of the National Gardens Scheme.

Gryllus campestris

It has declined severely in part of its northern range due to the disappearance of its heathland habitat and by the early 1990s the species was reduced to a single surviving colony of just 100 individuals in Coates, West Sussex

Whittlesey Workhouse

Nearby Coates school used part of the building between June 1937 and April 1938 whilst their own was extended and renovated to cope with overcrowding.


Artists' Suffrage League

The body was responsible for the creation of a large number of posters, Christmas cards, postcards and banners designed by artists who included the Chair Mary Lowndes, Emily Ford, Barbara Forbes, May H Barker, Clara Billing, Dora Meeson Coates, Violet Garrard, Bertha Newcombe, C Hedly Charlton and Emily J Harding.

Carcharhinus coatesi

Carcharhinus coatesi (commonly known as Whitecreek shark, Coates' shark, White Cheek shark, Whitecheek whaler, and widemouth blackspot shark) is shark found off northern Australia (from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Fraser Island in Queensland) and possibly also off New Guinea.

Carol Decker

In 2006, the year she and Coates married, Decker became a joint tenant of The Cherry Tree Inn at Stoke Row near Henley, which Coates had established.

Clive Coates

Born in 1941, Clive Coates worked for The Wine Society in Stevenage in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Coates baronets

He was a senior partner of William F. Coates & Co, stockbrokers, of Belfast, Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1929 and 1930 and a Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland.

Delman Coates

Maryland House of Delegates member Heather Mizeur named Coates as her running mate in the 2014 race for governor.

Edith Coates

While at the Royal Opera, Coates notably sang in several world premieres, including Madame Bardeau in Arthur Bliss's The Olympians (1949), the Housewife in Britten's Gloriana (1953), and the She-Ancient in Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage (1955).

Edward Hornor Coates

It was during his position as chairman that Mr. Coates commissioned The Swimming Hole from Thomas Eakins, only later to reject it.

Eric Coates

Coates made a number of 78 rpm recordings of his music, initially for The British Columbia label and then for Decca Records (released in the U.S. on the London Records label).

Florence Earle Coates

In the early 1900s (decade), the Coates' seasonally opened their camp to Anna Roosevelt Cowles ("Bamie")—elder sister of Theodore Roosevelt.

Literary and social critic Matthew Arnold both encouraged and inspired Mrs. Coates' writing of poetry.

Fred Gipson

Set in the Texas Hill Country in the 1860s just after the American Civil War, the story is about the 14-year-old boy Travis Coates (played by Tommy Kirk in the film) left in charge of the household while his father is away.

George Swinburne

Swinburne was born at Paradise, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, son of Mark William Swinburne, and his wife Jane née Coates.

Hope and Anchor, Islington

Other bands which played at the Hope and Anchor include The Cure, The Stranglers, The Only Ones, The Police, The Stray Cats, The Pogues, Dire Straits, U2, Joy Division, Oliver Coates, The Men They Couldn't Hang amongst others.

Jagdish Narain Sapru

Jagdish Narain Sapru (16 November 1933– 8 May 2007), the grandson of eminent lawyer, political, and social leader Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, was the former chairman of ITC Limited, BOC India, DIC India (Formerly Coates of India), Nicco Park, and the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

Jimmy Coates

Jimmy Coates is a series of children's books written by the English author Joe Craig.

Jimmy Coates: Killer

Jimmy Coates: Killer is a 2005 novel written by Joe Craig.

Kevin Coates

Kevin Coates (born 1950) is a British Artist Goldsmith.

KZEL-FM

News anchors included Melinda Coates, Rosemary Reed, Cal Turlock (real name Phillip Johnson) and Bryce Zabel.

Les Coates

Born in Brighton to market gardener Robert Brooke Coates and Jane Annie Boxshall, he attended Moorabbin State School and became a cigar maker.

Coates died in 1976 at Moorabbin and was buried at Cheltenham.

Marion Coates Hansen

Born into the well-to-do Coates family, she was drawn to socialism through her association with Joseph Fels, the American industrialist and social reformer for whom she worked as a nanny in Philadelphia in the early 1890s.

Nicaragua lunar sample displays

The plaque was then traded to Baptist missionary Harry Coates, who sold it to Las Vegas casino magnate Bob Stupak by 1987 for $10,000 and 200,000 shares in Stupak's casino.

Nicole Fiscella

Fiscella bagged the role of Isabel Coates, a "friend"/sidekick of Blair Waldorf and a part of the insider clique in The CW's Gossip Girl in March 2007.

Norborne, Missouri

In 1868, Mr. Coates secured the position of land agent and surveyor for the North Missouri Railroad.

Odia Coates

Coates also recorded "Make It Up To Me in Love", a sequel to "One Man Woman/One Woman Man", with Anka in 1977, a big hit (and still popular today) on disco dancefloor's in the extended version by producer Tom Moulton.

Paul Coates

He was known for his popular daily newspaper column and as the host of the syndicated tabloid-style television series Confidential File, developed by Coates and Irvin Kershner (1923–2010).

Progressive League

Influenced by Emmanuel Mounier, Jack Coates left the League in 1945, founding the London Personalist League.

Ronni Raygun Thomas

He has recently collaborated on several occasions with Stephen Coates, composer and founding member of the group "The Real Tuesday Weld" out of the UK.

Sleepy Lagoon

"(By the) Sleepy Lagoon", a piece of light orchestral music written in 1940 by Eric Coates, used as the title theme for the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs and adapted into a song by Jack Lawrence.

St. James' Church, Kolkata

The project for building the new church and school had the full support and backing of Archdeacon Pratt, a keen educationist, who, with his influence, was able to acquire the garden house of Mr. Coates together with its spacious grounds for the purpose.

Sujatha Ramdorai

Together with Coates, Fukaya, Kato, and Venjakob she formulated a non-commutative version of the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory, on which much foundation of this important subject is based.

Susan Coates

In the 1970s Coates began publishing on Field dependence-independence (FDI) using the Preschool Embedded Figures Test that she developed based on Herman Witkin's Embedded Figures Test.

Coates served as Director of the Childhood Gender Identity Service at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center from 1980 to 1997.

The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics

However, they did not succeed, but a subcommittee consisting of Davind Newman (a Pathological Chemist to the Western Infirmary) Joseph Coates (Pathologist to the Western Infirmary) and Professor McKendrik (Physiologist at Glasgow University) became known as the Glasgow Committee and began work in 1877.

Tom Coates

From late 2005 until 14 May 2010 Coates worked for Yahoo!, initially for the Tech Development team with Caterina Fake, Jeremy Zawodny and Simon Willison.


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