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2 unusual facts about Dux


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A large number of these weapons were produced for the West German Border Police, and was later licensed to be produced by Anschütz and Mauser until the mid-1950s.

Lev Susany

Whilst at Marist, Susany was Dux of Japanese and chess captain; he was the number 1 player of the 1st's chess team for two years and was undefeated in year 12.


Andrew Justin Stewart Coats

Coats was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he was proxime accessit Head of School and a School Officer; St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he earned a B.A. in Physiological Sciences with First-Class Honours and won the Rose Prize; and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read medicine, earning a M.B. B.Chir.

Austrovald

Under Chilperic I and then the usurper Gundoald, a dux named Bladast was acting as duke over the region of Aquitaine.

Battle of Dathin

The Byzantine commander (dux and candidatus) Sergius assembled a small detachment of soldiers (due to shortness of troops), and led that mounted army from his base at Caesarea some 125 kilometers south to the vicinity of Gaza.

Bladast

Bladast or Bladastes was a Frankish dux during the reigns of Chilperic I and Chlothar II.

Chelles Abbey

The abbey swiftly became one of the most favored monasteries for English royal princesses in Francia to be sent to for their religious instruction, along with other convents in the Paris basin such as at Les Andelys (built in 511 AD, the first convent in France) and Fécamp Abbey (built by Dux Waningus in 658).

Clare Mallory

She attended Southland Girls' High School where she was dux, University of Otago in Dunedin where she studied English and Latin, graduating with an M.A., and Somerville College, Oxford where she gained a First in English language.

Crittercam

The Periodical, Insight on the News, published an article stating that a team of scientists, led by Clyde Roper, wanted to use the Crittercam to film and study Architeuthis dux, the giant squid.

Desiderius of Aquitaine

Desiderius (died 587) was a Gallo-Roman dux in the Kingdom of the Franks during the reigns of Chilperic I and Guntram.

Diocese of Nepi-Sutri

In the eighth century, however, it became the seat of Tuto, a Lombard dux, known for his interference in the papal election of 768.

Duke of Burgundy

The first margrave (marchio), later duke (dux), of Burgundy was Richard of the House of Ardennes, whose duchy was created from the merging of several regional counties of the kingdom of Provence which had belonged to his brother Boso.

Dux Records

Many DUX recordings are premiere recordings, such as Karol Kurpiński's opera Zamek na Czorsztynie.

Dynamite Düx

Dynamite Düx is a side-scrolling 'beat 'em up' arcade game, created by Sega AM2 and released by Sega in 1988 for their successful Sega System 16 arcade board, the same board that was used for hits like Golden Axe and Altered Beast.

Frank Dux

According to the Los Angeles Times, the organization that allegedly staged the Kumite had the same address as Dux's house, and the trophy he claims to have won was bought by him at a local trophy store.

Immedinger

According to the Res gestae saxonicae by the chronicler Widukind of Corvey, Matilda's father, the Westphalian count Dietrich, was a descendant of dux Widukind.

Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg

His titles also included "duke (Dux) of Stettin, Pomerania, Cassubia, Vandalorum and Crossen", according to the terms of the Treaty of Grimnitz, although the Pomeranian titles were only nominal.

Joanna Domańska

In 2007 the Polish record company DUX published Domańska's second album (DUX 0576), recorded with Andrzej Tatarski: the first ever performance of a piano version of Szymanowski’s music to ballet "Harnasie", adapted for two pianos.

Judith Beveridge

She started her education at the Auburn North Public School in September 1961, and graduated in 1968 as "Dux of the School" (a title awarded to the student with best aggregate result over all subjects).

Legio I Maximiana

According to Notitia Dignitatum, the I Maximiana Thebanorum was still under Thracian command (magister militum per Thracias) at the beginning of the 5th century, while the I Maximiana was in Philae (Egypt, south of Aswan), under the dux Thebaidos.

Linda A. Malcor

Together they have three children and a Collie named Dux (actually her second Collie; her first was named Lancelot).

Lucius Aurelius Marcianus

The Philippopolis Inscription (epigraphic source 1. above) records that before he began to receive Imperial commissions as a dux Marcianus had been the tribunus of a Praetorian Cohort and a Protector of Gallienus.

Mark Roeder

His father, Reuben Mendick, was a medical doctor and dux of George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Maurikios Chartoularios

In 643, Maurikios, now the dux of Rome, attempted to repeat his successful action, but this time he was determined to not share any of the plunder with anyone.

Mufarrij ibn Daghfal ibn al-Jarrah

Emperor Basil II accepted their request, and already a few months later, in autumn 983 the Tayy accompanied the Byzantine doux of Antioch, Bardas Phokas, when he went to relieve Aleppo from an attack by Bakjur, who had rebelled against Sa'd al-Dawla.

Tarchaneiotes

Joseph Tarchaneiotes (died 1074), general who played a dubious role in the Battle of Manzikert, later doux of Antioch

Trebellianus

But having been tempted to quit his stronghold and descend into the plain, he was there encountered and slain by Causisoleus, an Egyptian, one of the generals of Gallienus (dux Gallieni), brother of Theodotus who had defeated Mussius Aemilianus.

Will Stoker and the Embers

They were replaced by Luke Dux on guitar (The Floors, Timothy Nelson & The Infidels) and Ryan Dux on bass (The Floors, The Kill Devil Hills).


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