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4 unusual facts about Dane-zaa


Dane-zaa

The Dane-zaa (ᑕᓀᖚ, also spelled Dunneza, or Tsattine, and historically often referred to as the Beaver tribe by Europeans) are a First Nation of the large Athapaskan language group; their traditional territory is around the Peace River of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

A post journal of 1799-1800 mentions people trading at the post who can be identified as the ancestors of members of the former Fort St John Band, now the Doig River and Blueberry River First Nations.

In the late 18th century, European Canadians opened the Peace River area to fur trading.

The Scots-Canadian explorer Alexander Mackenzie established Rocky Mountain Fort at the mouth of the Moberly River in 1794.


Adair Cardoso

His first success was the song "Que se Dane o Mundo", which was the theme of the 18th season of the TV series Brazilian Malhação.

André Darrigade

He won the world championship at Zandvoort on 16 August 1959, breaking clear with the Italian, Michele Gismondi, and an unknown Dane, Retvig.

Barry Quin

In 1980, he would star in the television miniseries Lucinda Brayford co-starring Wendy Hughes and Sam Neill and, the following year, in Sara Dane.

Bill Sorensen

His brother Dave also played for the Kiwis as did two of his nephews; Dane and Kurt.

Borneo Company Limited

Its first manager in Sarawak was a Dane, Ludvig Verner Helms, who had been trading there on his own account since 1852.

Campanula glomerata

Campanula glomerata, known by the common names clustered bellflower or Dane's blood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Campanula, belonging to the family Campanulaceae.

Clemence Dane

The gallery also contains a painting made of Dane by Frederic Yates.

Country Dick Montana

The song "Happy Boy" was written by Dane Conover, formally of the Puppies—the band in which Del Pesco played bass prior to joining Country Dick & the Snuggle Bunnies.

Dana Elcar

He was survived by his son, Dane Elcar; his three daughters (Nora, Chandra and Marin); a stepdaughter (former soap opera actress and current writer Emily Prager); a sister; a half-sister; and his long-time partner, Thelma Garcia.

Dane Boedigheimer

Dane Boedigheimer (born September 28, 1979), better known by his cybernym Daneboe, is an American filmmaker, singer, and actor of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange.

Dane Korica

Danijel Korica (Serbian Cyrillic: Данијел Корица, born 10 June 1945), better known by his nickname Dane in his home country, is a Serbian retired long-distance runner who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Dane O'Hara

When Hull hit financial difficulties and were forced to sell Lee Crooks to Leeds for a then record fee Dane agreed to take a pay cut in his contract renewal, staying with Hull through good times and bad.

Dane Sharp

Leaving home at 16, Dane trialled with Queens Park Rangers and gained a short term contract as an apprentice player.

David L. Hawk

“Negotiated Order and Network Form Organizations,” in: Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Systems Res. 22, 1-22 (2005), Annaleena Parhankangas, David Ing, David L. Hawk, Gosia Dane and Marianne Kosits.

Daw's Castle

Daw's Castle (or Dart's Castle or Dane's Castle) is a sea cliff hill fort just west of Watchet, a harbour town in Somerset, England.

East Ilsley

Either West Ilsley or East Ilsley may have been the site of the Battle of Ashdown (Alfred the Great's victory against the Danes), the etymology of the name Ilsley is that it may be derived from Hilde-Laege which means "Place of Conflict."

Egon Christophersen

He was the first of three Danes to be recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Excerpts from a Love Circus

Kenny Aronoff, Bill Bottrell, Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, John Strohm, Thor, Wyndham Wallace.

George Salting

Salting was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Severin Knud Salting (in English 'Severin Kanute Salting'), a Dane who had large interests in New South Wales, and in 1858 made a gift of £500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students proceeding from Sydney Grammar School.

Good Boy!

Hubble, who is really named Canid 3942, has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane (voice of Vanessa Redgrave) on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius 7 to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny.

Harlow S. Orton

In 1858, Orton was again elected to the Assembly, succeeding Democrat Frank Gault in a 5th District which now included the Towns of Dane, Vienna, Westport, Springfield, Middleton, and Madison (but only the 1st Ward of the City of Madison), and described his profession as "Capt. of the Dane Cavalry"; he was assigned to the standing committees on the judiciary and the militia.

Ian Serraillier

The "Papers of Ian Serraillier", held at the University of Reading, largely comprise manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs, including Fight for Freedom, The Clashing Rocks, The Cave of Death, Havelock the Dane, They Raced for Treasure, Flight to Adventure and The Silver Sword.

Ilchester Nunnery

Ilchester Nunnery, in Ilchester, Somerset, England, was founded around 1217-1220 as the "White Hall Hospital of the Holy Trinity", (Latin: Alba Aula, French: Blanche Halle/Blanchesale) after the gift of a house and other property by William "The Dane" of Sock Dennis manor, Ilchester (Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus (the adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark) modernised to "Dennis").

Jade Gatt

Gatt also has a brother named Dane and is an avid supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Jørgen Dybvad

In particular, the Dane, Niels Hemmingsen had recently published Syntagma institutionum christianarum which offered a Calvinist interpretation of the Eucharist.

Kent County Cricket Club in 2005

Dane Amjad Khan, who had missed the first part of the 2005 ICC Trophy and most of the Twenty20 Cup due to injury, returned to cricket with a very decent bowling spell of three for 24 to set Essex Eagles back to 26 for 3.

Kurt Nielsen

With Althea Gibson, Nielsen won the US Open mixed doubles in 1957, thereby becoming the first Dane to have ever won a Grand Slam event as a senior.

Lloyd L. Weinreb

Lloyd L. Weinreb (born October 9, 1936) is the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (a chair once held by Joseph Story).

Melancholia

("Always Dowland, always mourning.") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a "malcontent," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditations on death.

Mormonism in Norway

Knut Pedersen from Stavanger and Erik Hogan from Telemark were some of the many Norwegian members that migrated west to the Utah Territory after the death of Joseph Smith Jr. They were met in the mountains by a group heading east who had been called to open the Scandinavian Mission: Erastus Snow, the Swede John E. Forsgren, and the Dane Peter O. Hansen.

Murder of Alfred Kunz

Father Alfred Joseph Kunz, (April 15, 1931 – March 4, 1998), was a Catholic priest who was found with his throat slit in his Roman Catholic church in Dane, Wisconsin.

Nether Wallop

Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane, Nether Wallop was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC adaptations, played by British actress Joan Hickson of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple novels.

No Contest II

Erich Dengler, the son of Manferd Dengler (a prominent Nazi during the rule of Adolf Hitler in Germany), poses as an Art Collector, Eric Dane, in order to take over the Holman Museum where he holds the occupants including Sharon Bell and Jack Terry who are shooting a film.

Nordic Watercolour Museum

The architects behind the museum, painted in the typical Swedish Falu red colour, are the Danes Niels Bruun och Henrik Corfitsen.

Out Of Your Mind

Out of Your Mind, a song by True Steppers & Dane Bowers featuring Victoria Beckham

Piha

On both 9 and 10 January 2010, Piha Beach was also one of several beach venues around New Zealand for The Edge FM and Coca Cola's Band's on the Beach tour with performances from local artists Dane Rumble and Midnight Youth.

Richard J. Phelps

In 1988, Phelps ran in a special election for the office of Dane County, Wisconsin County Executive against Joe Wineke.

Rudy Markussen

After the other Dane Mads Larsen lost his fight to Sven Ottke, Markussen was demanded by the Danish media to win fight against the undefeated German.

It was the same story as the Ottke-fight in 2002, that the other Dane Mads Larsen met the same man, but both Danes lost.

St Clement Danes

Other possible ideas are that in the 11th century after Siward, Earl of Northumbria killed the Dane Tosti, Earl of Huntingdon and his men, the deceased were buried in a field near London and a memorial church was subsequently built to honour the memory of the Danes.

St. Ansgar, Iowa

St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of Scandinavia, a French Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D. The town is the site of a pioneer Norwegian Lutheran Church founded in December 1853 by Rev. Claus Lauritz Clausen, a Dane who was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Norway to form congregations for Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.

Trelleborgs FF

The club gained promotion to the top league for the third time in 2003 just to be demoted directly, somewhat ironically since it came after the Trelleborg board hired the dane Ole Mørk who was supposed to change the Trelleborg style of play into a more attractive short-passing game.

Truax Field

Truax Field Air National Guard Base, an Air National Guard facility located at Dane Co.

Volkswagen advertising

In 1949, William Bernbach, along with colleagues, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane, formed Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB), the Manhattan advertising agency that would create the revolutionary Volkswagen ad campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s.

Wisconsin Highway 134

After crossing into the Town of Deerfield, the highway heads northeast before turning north along the Dane–Jefferson county line.

Zayante, California

In 1841, Majors, Graham, a German named Frederick Hoeger, and a Dane named Peter Lassen, agreed to erect a mill on Zayante Creek near where it enters the San Lorenzo River.


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