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unusual facts about Diane Colley-Urquhart


Diane Colley-Urquhart

Colley-Urquhart was the candidate of the province of Alberta's ruling Progressive Conservative party in a by-election called in the riding of Calgary-Glenmore for September 14, 2009, to become that riding's Member of the provincial Legislative Assembly.


Butler Bulldogs women's basketball

Courtney Urquhart (Class of 2005) - Played professionally in Martigny, Switzerland, for the Ovronnaz-Martigny women's basketball team.

Clan Urquhart

The last of the chiefly line was Major Beauchamp Urquhart who was killed in 1898 at the Battle of Atbara in Sudan.

Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles

Most of the area to the north and east of the Lordship, that is Skye, Ross, Badenoch and Urquhart, was under the control of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, famously known as the "Wolf of Badenoch".

Ex-tangential quadrilateral

The implication to the right is named after L. M. Urquhart (1902–1966) although it was proved long before by Augustus De Morgan in 1841.

Ferintosh, Black Isle

Confusingly, Urquhart is the name of the parish but due to amalgamations a Ferintosh "Parish" Church is at nearby Conon Bridge, whereas the former Urquhart Parish Church is close to the Ferintosh Burn (see below).

Francis Gregor

Gregor was married twice: first to Catherine, daughter of William Masterman, of Restormel Castle; second, in 1795, to Jane, daughter of William Urquhart, of Craigston, Aberdeenshire.

Francis Urquhart

Michael Dobbs stated that the inspiration behind Urquhart came during a drinking session at a swimming pool after a tense encounter with Margaret Thatcher, deliberately creating a character moulded around the initials "FU".

Ian Urquhart

Ian Urquhart was the managing editor of the Toronto Star.

Isabelle Urquhart

Urquhart was married for six years to Guy Standing, eight years her junior, from 1893 until they divorced.

Kinkell

Easter Kinkell, a rural village, in the parish of Urquhart and Logie Wester, in the county of Ross-shire

Microbrewery

The first successful example of this approach was Litchborough Brewery founded by Bill Urquhart in 1975 in the Northamptonshire village of the same name.

The Good Show

Urquhart and Bellomy were childhood friends, meeting in the summer 1976 and attending middle school and Arlington Heights High School together.

The Rebel Angels

-- Maria calls Parlabane gay when talking to Hollier and he says no, he is not gay but that he is only a sodomite --> with a thundering voice, voracious appetite; Anglican priest and professor of New Testament Greek Simon Darcourt; Maria Theotoky, a graduate student researching Rabelais; Clement Hollier, a frazzled and absentminded professor; and Urquhart McVarish, a greedy and manipulative counterpoint to Hollier.

United States House of Representatives election in Delaware, 2010

According to a September 2010 poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind, "likely voters in Delaware split 45%-40% on whether they prefered to have the U.S. Congress controlled by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, suggesting that the First State’s open congressional seat might be hotly contested," yet in the same poll, Carney led Urquhart by 51%-36%.

Urquhart, Moray

The first reference to a church in Urquhart, which was dedicated to Saint Margaret, appears in a deed of 1237.

However, in 1454 the Benedictine's abandoned Urquhart Priory, moving instead to Pluscarden Abbey, SW of Elgin, after the merger of the two had been agreed by a bull of Pope Nicholas V.


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