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unusual facts about Dent-de-Leone



2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident

Sierra Leone's President, Ernest Bai Koroma, was said to be "very sad" in the wake of the tragedy.

Andrew Dent

Dent was born in Warragul Victoria, and educated at Warragul High School and Wesley College, Melbourne before being admitted to study Medicine at Melbourne University, initially at Queen's College.

In 2008 Dent’s contributions were recognized with an Order of Australia on the Queens Birthday, one day before his death.

Beautiful Awakening

Producer: Dallas Austin & Novel, Bastiany, KayGee & Terence "Tramp Baby" Abney, The Underdogs, She'kspere, Lashaunda "Babygirl" Carr, Trendsettas, Track & Field, Stacie Orrico, Dent

Brian Dawkins

After Dawkins signed with the Broncos in 2009, Dan Leone, an Eagles employee who was a gate chief at Lincoln Financial Field was fired by the Eagles after Leone posted messages on his Facebook page expressing his disappointment in the team.

Bruno Gantillon

1979 : Médecins de nuit, 2 episodes : Légitime défense and Léone (TV series)

Charles Enrique Dent

He began research into a hereditary disease of the kidneys which was greatly expanded by his pupil Oliver Wrong and named Dent's disease.

Christ the King College

This article is about Christ the King College in Sierra Leone, for the Christ the King College on the Isle Of Wight see Christ the King College, Isle of Wight

Dent, Cumbria

Whilst fishing on the Dee at Dentdale in the 1840s, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong saw a waterwheel in action, supplying power to a marble quarry.

Dodgers–Yankees rivalry

The next season, the Yankees won their division in thrilling fashion, thanks in large part to a timely home run from Bucky Dent in a one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox.

Douglas Leone

Leone is also a former Trustee of the Menlo School, an independent, coeducational college preparatory day school for grades 6–12.

Ed's Redeeming Qualities

Ed's Redeeming Qualities was an alternative folk group that was founded in 1988 and originally consisted of Dan Leone, Dom Leone, Carrie Bradley (who also performed with The Breeders), and Neno Perrotta.

Eddie Dent

Dent's son, Elliot, Jr., was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for his aerial combat victories as part of the U. S. Air Force 7th Fighter Squadron of the 49th Fighter Group in World War II.

Edward J. Akar

He is the son of John Akar, who is one of Sierra Leone's most prominent people.

Flat Fell

It is included in Alfred Wainwright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland book, sharing a chapter with Dent.

For a Few Extra Dollars

Stefanelli in particular had starred in all three of Leone's dollars films and had acted as a translator on set between the Italians and Clint Eastwood.

Francescantonio Coratoli

His works include frescoes in the Basilica di San Leone Luca, Santa Maria di Gesù, a Coronation of the Virgin for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, and a Marriage of St. Joseph for il Gesù.

Franco Mezzena

He plays a 1695 Stradivarius, an instrument by Roberto Regazzi (Bologna, 1998) and instruments made by Ornella Ceci (Bari 2009) and Giuseppe Leone (Ceglie Messapica 2012).

Gbangbatoke

The town is best known for being the birthplace of two of Sierra Leone's most prominent politicians, Sir Milton Margai and Sir Albert Margai.

George Pocock

In 1763 Pocock married Sophia (died 1767), the widow of his friend Commodore Digby Dent, daughter of George Francis Drake of Madras and step-daughter of George Morton Pitt who had inherited Pitt's house at Twickenham now known as Orleans House.

Jürgen Prochnow

His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune (1984), the minor, but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.

La vita non perde valore

The film was shot during 2010 and conceived after Massucco was approached by EUGAD — a European Commission funded project to "create, collect and distribute knowledge resources for improving communication and dialogue" — to produce a series of interviews in Sierra Leone.

Lester Dent

Black Dog Books has released the first three volumes of The Lester Dent Library.

Linda Dobbs

Loyda Johnson was a Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Essex who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone.

Mohamed Kakay

Alhaji Mohamed Kakay is a Sierra Leonean politician who is a member of parliament of Sierra Leone representing his hometown of Koinadugu District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Mohamed Sesay

In 2007 ct Sherington call him to play for Sierra Leone, the game for qualification at African Cup of Nations, on 12 October with Benin, and on 17 October with Guinea-Bissau.

Moyamba

Sir Milton Margai, lead Sierra Leone to independence and was prime minister from 1962-1963

Music of Sierra Leone

The largest ethnic group in Sierra Leone (2008) is that of the Mel-speaking Temne people, 35% of the population.

Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development

Demetriou integrated into the theory the constructs of speed and control of processing and he formulated the functional shift model which unifies Pascual-Leone's notion of underlying common dimension of capacity development with the notion of qualitative changes in mental structure as development progresses along this dimension.

Nicholas G.J. Ballanta

Nicholas George Julius Taylor was born March 14, 1893 in Kissy, near the city of Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Odlezly Lake

The flooding was not the only reason of the landslide - structure of the hillside resulted in constant slow shift down, sandstone quarries used for centuries had lowered stability of the slope and the recently built railway PlzeňŽatec cut yet another dent to the hill.

Patricia Kabbah

When the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC), a military government under the leadership of Brigadier General Julius Maada Bio organised general election in 1996, the country's first general election since March, 1967, her husband Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) emerged victorious and became the new president of Sierra Leone; Patricia then became the first lady until her death in 1998..

Patrick Bantamoi

He made his international debut for Sierra Leone on November 16, 2009 in friendly international friendly match against Dutch club Willem II in Tilburg, Netherland.

Paul Kpaka

He attended one of Sierra Leone's most prominent secondary school, the Bo Government Secondary School (commonly known as Bo School) in Bo, Sierra Leone's second largest city.

Port Loko

Port Loko is home to the Port Loko Teacher's College, one of the oldest and best known colleges in Sierra Leone.

Rajae El Mouhandiz

2007 "Conversations With Ice" by Sahr Ngaujah – Over 't IJ 2007. The question of Value (Who decides Who buys), within the context of the global diamond trade, Sierra Leone’s child soldiers, and it's links to the Bling sub-culture in Hip-Hop.

Revolutionary United Front

Law & Order episode "Blood Money" was heavily mounted around the strife in Sierra Leone and the traffic in conflict diamonds.

Robin Faley

He had received the endosement of Sierra Leone President and APC leader, Ernest Bai Koroma, and the two have campaingn together in Segbwema.

S. typica

Similipepsis typica, a moth species known from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe

Sebastian Leone

In January 1977 Sebastian Leone was elected to the New York Supreme Court.

Sine Requie

In Italy, after the fall of the fascist regime, a rigid theocracy was imposed, ruled by Pope Leone XIV.

Soccoh Kabia

He is the son of one of the most famous women leaders in the history of Sierra Leone, Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama, an ethnic Mende from Moyamba District and Paramount Chief Bai Koblo Pathbana II, an ethnic Temne from Lunsar, Port Loko District.

Springland

The vernacular building was constructed in 1845, by United States Assistant Attorney General Henry Hatch Dent and his wife, Ann Maria Adlum Dent, daughter of John Adlum.

St. Edward's Secondary School

George Banda-Thomas - former Minister of Political and Parliamentary Affairs in Sierra Leone

Steady Bongo

Lansana Sheriff better known as Steady Bongo was born in Daru, a rural town in Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra Leone to an ethnic Mandingo father and a Mende mother.

Syl Cheney-Coker

Educated in the United States, he has a global sense of literary history, and has introduced styles and techniques from French and Latin American literatures to Sierra Leone.

The Queen of Drum

The Queen of Drum is a narrative poem by C.S. Lewis published by J.M. Dent in 1969, post-humously by Lewis' trustee and literary adviser Walter Hooper.

Turay

Fatmata Turay, (born 1987), beauty queen who represented Sierra Leone in Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China

WUSN

In 2010, the station won Country Radio Broadcasters/Country Aircheck Awards for Station of the Year for a Major Market; the Lisa Dent and Ramblin’ Ray Show for Major Market Morning Show and Marci Braun (weeknight host/MD) for Major Market MD.


see also

Publish and Be Damned

Publications which have previously take part in the fair include 20x20 magazine, Harry Pye's The Rebel magazine, Plan B, Fever Zine, Dent-de-Leone, BUTT, Useless and Le Gun.