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3 unusual facts about Duke of Northumberland's River


Duke of Northumberland's River

The Duke of Northumberland's River consists of two sections of artificial waterway in England to the west of London.

The eastern section diverts water from the River Crane, London in Kneller Gardens Whitton, north-eastwards past The Stoop and Twickenham Stadium, through Isleworth, originally to the Mill then onwards to supply the ornamental ponds in the Duke of Northumberland's estate at Syon Park.

The Duke's River then flows east to join the Crane in Donkey Wood, by Baber Bridge, west of Hounslow Heath.


24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment served under generals Grant and Sherman and was engaged in the battles Stone's River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga.

Border tartan

In 1760 it was adopted as the official tartan of the Duke of Northumberland's piper.

By Sorrow's River

Set in the year 1833, it recounts the Berrybenders' journey south through the Great Plains to Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River.

De Tour Village, Michigan

The village is at the extreme eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in Detour Township, at the turning point for the shipping channel connecting the St. Mary's River with Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac.

Dove Marine Laboratory

He was reluctant to publicise his generosity, and asked that the building be named after one of his ancestors, Eleanor Dove, when it was opened by the Duke of Northumberland on 29 September 1908.

In 2008 the laboratory celebrated its centenary, where the current Duke of Northumberland led festivities.

Gianni Garko

Other notable westerns he starred in were $10,000 Blood Money (1967) as an unofficial Django, Veangeance is Mine/$100,000 for a Massacre (1967), They Call Him Cemetery (1971) alongside William Berger as well as a supporting role in Bad Man's River with Lee Van Cleef.

Gosforth Park

The Gosforth Park Hotel, now in the Marriott chain, was originally built in 1965 and opened by the Duke of Northumberland, and by 1986 was owned by Scottish & Newcastle and run by Thistle Hotels.

Government Canyon

Government Canyon was a place along the route where the San Antonio-El Paso Road left the Head of Devil's River to go northwest, 44 miles across Johnson Draw and Government Canyon to Howard Draw and Howard Spring.

HMS Northumberland

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Northumberland after the English county of Northumberland, or the Dukedom of Northumberland.

Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne

In 1553, during the reign of Edward VI, John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland sponsored an act allowing Newcastle to annexe Gateshead and its surrounding area from the bishopric of Durham.

John's River

It was drained, along with the surrounding marshland, in the late 18th century by the Wide Streets Commission, in order to build the Mall, and to expand the city eastwards.

Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

In March 2011, Khalid married Lucy Cuthbert, the niece of Duke of Northumberland at a ceremony attended by a handful of guests.

Lady Louisa Stuart

Her sisters were Lady Mary Stuart (c. 1741–1824), who married James Lowther, later the 1st Earl of Lonsdale; Lady Anne Stuart (born c. 1745), who married Lord Warkworth, later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland; Lady Jane Stuart (c. 1748–1828), who married George Macartney, later the first Earl Macartney; and Lady Caroline Stuart (before 1763–1813), who married The Hon.

Louis Dutens

On his return to England the Duke of Northumberland procured him the living of Elsdon, in Northumberland, and made Dutens overseer and senior travel companion - in effect, tutor - to his younger son during his Grand Tour.

Madonna of the Pinks

After a huge public appeal the Madonna of the Pinks was bought in 2004 by the National Gallery from the Duke of Northumberland for £34.88 million, with contributions from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the National Art Collections Fund.

Nicholas Penny

Shortly afterwards, in 1991, he identified the Madonna of the Pinks belonging to the Duke of Northumberland as a genuine Raphael, and not a copy of a lost original as was previously supposed.

Pecos Canyon

In the 19th century, the place where the Devils River had its confluence with the creek at the mouth of Pecos Canyon was called the Head of Devil's River where the San Antonio-El Paso Road left the Devils River to go northwest, 44 miles across Johnson Draw, Government Canyon and Howard Draw to Howard Spring, then 30.44 miles on to Live Oak Creek and Fort Lancaster, 3 miles further on at the Pecos River.

Potadoma buttikoferi

The type locality is "on rocks in the St. Paul's River near Bavia", Liberia.

Shaheen Ariefdien

Born in Cape Town, son of jazz musician Issy Ariefdien, he grew up in Elsie's River on the Cape Flats, but spent most of his earlier years travelling various parts of South Africa with his father.

Stephen Harriman Long

Major Long's 1823 expedition up the Minnesota River (then known as St. Peter's River), to the headwaters of the Red River of the North, down that river to Pembina and Fort Garry, and thence by canoe across British Canada to Lake Huron is sometimes confused with his initial expedition to the Red River in modern-day Texas and Oklahoma.

The Castle of Otranto

This "ancient Catholic family" is possibly the Percy family, as Walpole would have known the Duke of Northumberland and his wife Elizabeth Percy, though this is not proven.


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