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5 unusual facts about Dalby


Dalby's Carminative

Dalby's Carminative was a medicinal product formula originally made by James Dalby of London, England, in the late 1770s.

Gary Sturgess

Sturgess grew up in Dalby, Queensland, a small town approximately three hours inland from Brisbane, the second of four sons of Lindsay and Joy Sturgess.

Jandowae railway line

Initially the junction was situated at Mahar, about 3 kilometres west of Dalby, but a parallel line was built to Dalby within a few years to save on the cost of staffing the junction.

Lost and Running

He eventually walks out of the hotel and finds himself on a country road which was filmed halfway between Toowoomba and Dalby.

Woodford Bridge

Bruce is currently Pastor of the Church of Christ in Dalby, Queensland, which suffered 5 floods in 3 weeks during December 2010 and January 2011.


AN/TPQ-2

…the story is best told by…LTGEN Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret)’s book “First to Fight” … Dalby explained that he had two aircraft flying at 18,000 feet and described how the system worked to drop a dummy bomb within 150 yards of a target to be selected by me!

APEV

APEV (Association pour la Promotion des Echelles Volantes, English: Association for the Promotion of Flying Ladders) is a French aircraft manufacturer, founded by Daniel Dalby in 1997 and based in Peynier.

Charles Douglas Eastaughffe

In 1854, Charles Eastaughffe moved to the Darling Downs area and brought with him the official documentation proclaiming the town of Dalby on behalf of Captain Samuel Perry, the Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales.

Clarence Reginald Dalby

Clarence Reginald Dalby (1904–1983), born in Leicester, England, was the third illustrator of the Railway Series by W.V. Awdry.

Dalby Pouchel

After test hops and modifications, on 26 June 1999, Daniel Dalby piloted the Pouchel on its first true flight at Salon Eyguieres.

Dreamland Margate

In 1870 circus entrepreneur George Sanger went into partnership in the Hall by the Sea with Thomas Dalby Reeve, the then Mayor of Margate.

Graham Dalby

You're the Cream in My Coffee was used as the theme song for The Mrs Bradley Mysteries in the late 1990s and it was recorded and sung by Graham Dalby and The Grahamophones in a re-creation of Jack Hylton's 1928 version.

Wodehouse, a musical biopic, for BBC Radio 2 The Arts Programme during which Dalby interviewed the Heritage Secretary Iain Sproat (author of Wodehouse at War d.2011) and proved, probably for the first time ever on air, that the accusations against the author P.G. Wodehouse on the grounds of collaboration and treason during WWII were spurious and that Wodehouse had no case to answer.

Irene Dalby

Irene Karine Dalby (born 31 May 1971 in Stange, Hedmark) is a former international swimmer from Norway, who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

La Canela

Genus Cinnamomum is not native to South America; the trees found by Pineda were presumably of genus Ocotea (Dalby 2001 pp. 45-46).

Leslie Banks

Leslie Banks was born in West Derby, Liverpool, Lancashire, to George and Emily (née Dalby) Banks.

Liza Dalby

Dalby is considered an expert in the study of the Japanese geisha community and has acted as consultant to novelist Arthur Golden and film-maker Rob Marshall for the novel Memoirs of a Geisha and the film of the same name.

Odense–Kerteminde–Martofte Jernbane

Opened in 1900 as Odense–Kjerteminde–Dalby Jernbane (OKDJ), the line was extended in 1914 to the village of Martofte.

Old Dalby

Old Dalby is the location of the control centre of the former British Rail Research Division's railway test track, which runs between Melton Mowbray and Edwalton and which was universally known in the industry as simply 'Old Dalby'.

The Railway Series

In one illustration by John T. Kenney in Duck and the Diesel Engine he appears with a figure who bears a strong resemblance to C. Reginald Dalby, which Brian Sibley has suggested might be a dig at Dalby's inaccurate rendition of the character of Duck.

Triple J's One Night Stand

210 km west of Brisbane, Dalby (popñ 10000) hosted the event in June 2012, featuring the bands and artists The Temper Trap, 360, Stonefield, Matt Corby and local "Unearthed" act Mace and the Motor.

Tvilum Priory

The first canons came from Dalby Abbey (or Priory), an Augustinian house in Scania (then in Denmark, now in Sweden).


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