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3 unusual facts about Cressy


Cressy, Victoria

Duverney called the small, developing village Cressy, after Crécy in France, where he was born.

Norman Williams

He returned to Australia in April 1944, and was posted as a tutor at the air gunnery school in Cressy, Victoria.

Vergilius of Salzburg

After spending two years at Cressy, near Compiègne, he went to Bavaria, at the invitation of Duke Odilo, where he founded the monastery of Chiemsee, and within a year or two was made Abbot of St. Peter's at Salzburg.


Abraham Cressy Morrison

Abraham Cressy Morrison (1888-1951 ) was an American chemist and president of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Abraham Cressy Morrison pubilished a book called Man in a Chemical World in 1937, a work on science for the general public reader, but he is better known for his book Man Does Not Stand Alone which was published in 1944, a Christian rebuttal to Julian Huxley's Man Stands Alone.

Daniel Oliver Guion

On Tuesday 17 December the whole fleet sailed from Vingå with the St George initially in tow of the Cressy.

Djargurd Wurrung

The Djargurd wurrung are Indigenous Australian people who traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and Lake Corangamite, extending to Mount Emu and Cressy in the North, and to Cobden and Swan Marsh in the South in central Victoria and are still represented in the region.

HMS Cressy

Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cressy, after the Battle of Crécy.

John Robert Godley

The Randolph, the Cressy, the Sir George Seymour, and the Charlotte Jane all carried pilgrims and supplies for the planned colony.

Thomas Pierce

Daniel Whitby, Meric Casaubon in 1665, and John Dobson defended Pierce, who himself retorted in 'A Specimen of Mr. Cressy's Misadventures,' which was prefixed to John Sherman's Infallibility of the Holy Scriptures.

Wallumatta

The Wallumatta Nature Reserve is a small and critically endangered remnant of preserved bushland located at the corner of Twin and Cressy Roads, North Ryde, and is significant for being the largest remaining expanse of endangered Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest, which is an ecological community of plants unique to the Sydney bioregion.


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