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6 unusual facts about Currie


Alexander Morison

He died in Scotland, 14 March 1866, and was buried at Currie.

Cherry Creek Range

To the north is Spruce Mountain, attached to the southwest of the Pequop Mountains; Goshute Valley lies east of the Pequop's but turns southwest at the northeast foothills border of the Cherry Creek Range, the location of Currie.

Currie

In 1612 the land went to Ludovic Craig, a Senator of the College of Justice.

Currie, Minnesota

Along with the census-designated area The Lakes, Minnesota, the Currie area has a population of close to 1,000 residents.

Matthew Lloyd

The Lloyds moved to Scotland for three years because of John's work, and it was there that Matthew picked up rugby and soccer playing for his Currie club.

The family moved to Scotland for three years because of John Lloyd's work and it was there that Lloyd played rugby and soccer his Currie club.


2009 Currie Cup First Division

The 2009 Champions The Pumas won their second Currie Cup First Division trophy by winning the Currie Cup First Division Final, against the SWD Eagles in Witbank on 16 October 2009, by 47 - 19.

ALGOL 68RS

ALGOL 68RS is the second ALGOL 68 compiler written by I.F. Currie and J.D. Morrison at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.

Balerno Community High School

The school stands on the banks of the Water of Leith, and serves children from the areas of Balerno, Kirknewton and Ratho, and also hosts pupils from a variety of areas outside the catchment area such as Currie, East Calder, Mid Calder and Edinburgh.

Clive Russell

In Margaret's Museum, a highly acclaimed motion picture, he starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter as the Gaelic-speaking Neil Currie.

Competition and Markets Authority

In July 2012 Lord Currie was confirmed as Chairman designate of the CMA and in November 2012 Currie set out his vision for the CMA in a lecture to the Law Society.

Corrie family

A younger son of William Currie (1721–1781) was Isaac Currie (1760–1843), whose son was Raikes Currie.

From Sir Frederick descend the Currie baronets —whose son was Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet (1823–1900), whose sons were Sir Frederick Reeve Currie, 3rd Baronet (1851–1930), and Sir Walter Louis Rackham Currie, 4th Baronet (1856–1941).

Dargan Bridge, Belfast

One of the first people to cross it was Mr John Johnston, the first Station Manager of Belfast Central Station and his grandson James Currie.

De Havilland Fox Moth

Fox Moth VH-UQM Miss Currie was purchased by Victor Holyman for £1,450 and began operating over the 108-mile route over south-eastern Bass Strait between Launceston, Tasmania and Whitemark on Flinders Island in October 1932.

Diamond Bessie

While in jail in Marshall, Rothschild's cellmate was Jim Currie, a railroad employee who had shot two actors, killing one; the wounded victim was actor Maurice Barrymore.

George Welsh Currie

Currie stood in the new Leith seat as a supporter of David Lloyd George's coalition government, but lost fairly narrowly to the Liberal candidate, William Wedgwood Benn.

Gordon Gray Currie

Currie taught school at Balfour Technical School there and coached the football and hockey teams.

He was born in Semans, Saskatchewan, the son of Robert Currie and Mary Anne Pool, and was educated in Saskatchewan, in British Columbia, at Notre Dame Collegiate and at Mount Allison University.

Gregory Currie

Currie is an editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.

Hugh Logue

The Northern Ireland State Papers of 1980 show that together with John Hume and Austin Currie he played a key role in presenting the SDLP'S 'Three Strands' approach to the Thatcher Government's Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins in April 1980 (Irish Times, 30 December 2010).

Huxley Hill Wind Farm

Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, of around 1600 residents, owned by Hydro Tasmania, which supplements the four diesel generators with a combined capacity of 6 MW at Currie Power Station.

John Alexander Smith

Robert Currie tentatively attributes to Smith this pamphlet, which proposes 'a modern-side Greats, based on philosophy' similar in the event to the school of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) founded in 1920.

John Lang Currie

Currie lived either on his estates or in Geelong until the 1870s, but in 1871 he moved to Melbourne and built Eildon Mansion in Grey St, St Kilda, where he lived until his death in 1898.

Ken Currie

Currie was commissioned by the University of Edinburgh to paint a portrait of Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist, which was unveiled in 2009.

Lil'wat First Nation

The Lil'wat First Nation, aka the Lil'wat Nation or the Mount Currie Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the southern Coast Mountains region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Randy Starkman

Starkman authored the book Let the Games Begin in 1994, and co-authored books with Eric Lindros and Currie Chapman.

Ryan Allen

Ryan Allen can be heard as Elviro on a 1994 recording of Handel's Xerxes (Koch Schwann), in recordings of Russell Currie's music on the High Fire label, and seen as Betto on a video of Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera Guild).

Simon E. Jacobsohn

Among his noted pupils while in Cincinnati were Max Bendix, Nahan Franko, Nicholas Longworth, Henry Burck, Michael Banner, Miss Currie-Duke, Theodore Binder, Carl Heinzen, Ollie Torbett, Madge Wickham, and Hugh McGibeny.

Stephen Currie

Stephen Currie is lost man who was found after 32 days surviving eating wild fruits and freshwater mussels in the bush in Queensland, Australia.

Steve Currie

Steve Currie (19 May 1947 – 28 April 1981) was born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England.

Treaty of Lahore

Currie's diplomatic skills so impressed Hardinge that the home authorities rewarded him with a baronetcy in January 1847 (see Currie baronets).

Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The second was the boundary between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, where there was the large Umzimkhulu exclave of the Eastern Cape surrounded by KwaZulu-Natal, and the smaller Mount Currie exclave of KwaZulu-Natal surrounded by the Eastern Cape.

Ulysses Currie

On May 29, 2008, it was reported that the FBI had searched Currie's District Heights home and taken documents related to his work as a consultant to Shoppers Food & Pharmacy.

Wilfred Currie

Educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1933, Currie was a curate at St John’s Aberdeen and then Priest in charge of St Mark’s in the same city.


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