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7 unusual facts about Colville


Charles Dvorak

From at least 1914 to 1917, he was the Chief Deputy Assessor of Stevens County, Washington, at Colville, in the northeastern part of the state.

Colville, New Zealand

Just beyond the town is the beginning of the Te Moehau Range, which forms the bulk of the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains valuable ecological areas, including a population of the threatened North Island Brown Kiwi.

Beyond it lies 28 kilometres of rough road leading to the small settlement of Port Jackson, close to the peninsula's northwesternmost point, Cape Colville and 20 km to Port Charles on the northeastern side.

Dodecatheon pulchellum

Dodecatheon pulchellum, Pretty shooting star, was used medicinally by the Okanagan-Colville and Blackfoot Indians.

Howard William Stull

He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Colville, Washington, in 1909.

Seminole Tribe of Florida

Learning from operations on the Colville reservation in Washington state, Tommie directed the establishment of a tax-free cigarette shop on the Hollywood Reservation, where the tribe started to generate more substantial income.

Wallowa County, Oregon

This proposal drew opposition from a local group, as well as from the Nez Perce, Colville, and Umatilla tribes.


Beccles Free School

The school opened in September 2012 at the site of the former Carlton Colville Primary School, and is the first free school to open in the Waveney district.

Between the Devil and the Sea

Pitchfork Media's Liz Colville wrote a mixed review, criticizing the opening track "Oh Be One" for its lyrics, percussion and predictability, while complimenting the band's few "glimpses of raging passion" elsewhere on the EP.

Carol Lambrino

He married his third wife Antonia Colville (Bracken, Church Crookham, Hampshire, 29 May 1939 – 13 June 2007), the great granddaughter of Charles Colville, 1st Viscount Colville of Culross at Fulham Town Hall on 27 June 1984, without issue.

Clan Colville

Sir James Colville, third of Easter Wemyss was a distinguished soldier who fought in France for the Prince of Navarre, later Henry IV of France.

Colville National Forest

It enters the forest on the east side within the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, crosses the Pend Oreille at Boundary Dam, passes through Leadpoint and Northport, then traverses the Kettle Range and exits the Colville near Republic.

Henry Crowe

Manning the guns for Thomas Colville-Jones, Douglas Graham Cooke, or Ernest Lindup, Crowe had destroyed four German planes and driven down four more out of control.

James Colville, 1st Lord Colville of Culross

James Colville, 1st Lord Colville of Culross (1551–1629) was a Scottish soldier and courtier.

Lord Colvill

Walter de Colville of Castle Bytham in Lincolnshire was summoned in 1264 to a Parliament convened on behalf of Henry III of England by Simon de Montfort, who held the king captive.

Randolph Colville

Over his career Colville worked and recorded with several artists, including Humphrey Lyttelton, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield, Ralph Sutton and Al Casey.

Rosario Strait

The USGS defines its southern boundary as a line extending from Point Colville on Lopez Island to Rosario Head on Fidalgo Island, and its northern boundary as a line from Point Migley on Lummi Island to the east tip of Puffin Island (just east of Matia Island) and then to Point Thompson on Orcas Island.

Steven Bilsland, 1st Baron Bilsland

Lord Bilsland married Amy Janet Colville, daughter of David Colville JP, of Jerviston House, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, in 1922.

Sydney Victor Colville

Sydney (Syd) Victor Colville (22 March 1894 – 1966) was an Australian broadcast pioneer who, in 1914, established the Queensland Wireless Institute.

Teck Resources

After a long running court case filed by Washington state’s Native American Colville Confederated Tribes over environmental damage from smelter effluents, Teck Resources confessed to polluting the upper reaches of the Columbia River for nearly a century.

Willie Edouin

He soon appeared with Colville's Folly Company, an American farce-comedy troupe, and then with E. E. Rice's Surprise Party in pantomimes such as Babes in the Woods, a version of The Lost Children and Horrors.


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