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unusual facts about Dyke


Marnerdeich

Marnerdeich the called Marne to the protection of the parish s probably at the beginning of the 17th & nbsp;Century constructed Dyke.


11 Dyke Road, Brighton

The building at 11 Dyke Road in Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove, was until 2011 a nightclub operating under the name "New Hero", but originally housed the Swan Downer School for poor girls, for whom it was designed and built in 1867 by prolific architect George Somers Leigh Clarke.

Aboiteau

A wooden sluice or aboiteau (plural aboiteaux) is then built into the dyke, with a hinged door (clapper valve) that swings open at low tide to allow fresh water to drain from the farmland but swings shut at high tide to prevent salt water from inundating the fields.

Acland baronets

When he died the title passed to his son, the seventh Baronet, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dyke and built Killerton House as the family seat.

Anne-Cath. Vestly

She married Johan Vestly in 1946, who illustrated all her books until his death in 1993 (although some of the English translations were illustrated by John Dyke).

Anthony E. Van Dyke

Joining Joint Task Force Six at El Paso, Texas in 1993, Van Dyke was involved in counter-drug operations stretching from Texas to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Arthur's Dyke

Arthur's Dyke is a 2001 British film starring Pauline Quirke and Brian Conley.

Auction chant

The auction chant is the focus of the 1956 hit song "The Auctioneer" by Leroy Van Dyke, which was about a relative of Van Dyke who was an auctioneer.

Brunswick Four

Their chosen song, “I Enjoy Being A Dyke” (a parody of "I Enjoy Being a Girl", a song by Rodgers and Hammerstein from the musical play Flower Drum Song) drew the attention of the bar's owner.

Carl Van Dyke

Van Dyke was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 20, 1919.

Channel Air Bridge

While the Carvair was making a visual approach to Rotterdam Airport in conditions of snow with 1,460m visibility, the landing gear struck a 6 feet high dyke, 800 ft short of the runway threshold.

Classics Selected by Brian Wilson

#"Sail On, Sailor" (Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks/Tandyn Almer/Ray Kennedy/Jack Rieley) – 3:18

East Anglian Waterways Association

For more than fifty years, EAWA has worked with other organisations to have the River Great Ouse reopened to Bedford, the purchase and restoration of Dilham Dyke on the Broads, and many other projects.

Edward Leopold Dyke Acland

Rear-Admiral Edward Leopold Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878-1968), a member of the Acland Baronetcy, was a rear-admiral and naval attaché to King George V.

Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke

Edward Dyke's father was a cashier in Cape Government Railways and in that respect Dyke followed in his father's footsteps; he was a railway employee most of his life.

Englishcombe

The village lies on the route of the Wansdyke (from Woden's Dyke) an early medieval or possibly defining an Roman boundary with a series of defensive linear earthworks, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north.

Geology of Tyne and Wear

The 'Hebburn Dyke' is another microgabbro which runs ESE from Newcastle-upon-Tyne through Hebburn to the coast at Whitburn.

Gretel II

Many observers, such as 1977 America's Cup winning skipper Ted Turner, believed that Gretel II was a faster boat than Intrepid but that the tactical cunning of Bill Ficker and Steve Van Dyke and the performance of the American crew were the deciding factors in the Americans' victory.

Herefordshire Trail

The trails links with the Birmingham and Aberystwyth Walk, Black and White Village Trail, Clun Valley Walk, Elan Valley Way, Geopark Way, Leadon Valley Walks, Marches Way, Monnow Valley Walk, Mortimer Trail, Offa's Dyke Path National Trail, Ross Round, Teme Valley Walk, Teme Valley Way, Upper Lugg Valley Walk, Vaughan's Way and the Wye Valley Walk.

Hubert Acland

Captain Sir Hubert Guy Dyke Acland, 4th Baronet Acland of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, DSO (8 June 1890 – 6 May 1976) was an officer in the British Royal Navy who served during both World Wars.

Jeremiah Dyke

His father William Dyke was a minister at Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at Coggeshall; and Daniel Dyke was his brother.

Jerry Clack

The son of Mildred Taylor Van Dyke of Pittsburgh and Christopher Thrower Clack of Boydton, Virginia, Clack was born in New York City on July 22, 1926.

Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke lies about 8 km to the northwest of Tortola and 8 km to the north of Saint John.

At roughly 8 square kilometers, and about 3 square miles Jost Van Dyke is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, the northern portion of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Justin R. Durban

He also wrote the score to the internet-released film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men directed by Tim Russ and the feature InAlienable directed by Robert Dyke starring Walter Koenig, Richard Hatch, and numerous cast members of the Star Trek series old and new.

Koidu Holdings

The Koidu Kimberlite Project mining lease, located within the Tankoro Chiefdom of the Kono District, measures approximately 4.9 km2 and hosts two small kimberlite pipes, No. 1 Pipe (K1) and No. 2 Pipe (K2), and four kimberlite dyke zones, along which four small blows or enlargements have been discovered.

Lesbian Avengers

The second New York City Dyke March, coinciding with the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Gay Games IV, and international human rights conferences, was actually an International Dyke March, attracting as many as 20,000 marchers from all over the world.

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Its "Straight to Hell: Twenty Years of Dyke Action Machine!" exhibit explores the history of the Dyke Action Machine! and "Keepin' On" exhibit features African American lesbians.

Lullingstone Castle

The walled garden - previously a herb garden designed by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde - has recently been converted into the World Garden of Plants by the Castle's current heir (and 20th generation of the Hart Dyke's), plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke.

My 5 Wives

The ladies go to a women's equality seminar where the speaker, Dr. Van Dyke (Molly Shannon), preaches that women should dominate the relationship and be completely equal to their "lesser halves."

Outpunk

He released two records in 1992, the 7" single compilations There's A Faggot In The Pit and There's A Dyke In The Pit.

Queensbury, West Yorkshire

Queensbury itself is most famous as being the home of Black Dyke Mills, and the Black Dyke Band.

Roman Rigg

Roman Rig, a dyke running between Sheffield and Mexborough in South Yorkshire

Sachsenwall

the Limes Saxoniae, a Saxon defensive dyke in Schleswig Holstein, North Germany

Schleswig Plebiscites

In addition, Clausen believed that it would minimize the risk of future conflict if the future border in the marshy West Schleswig followed either the Vidå river or a dyke.

Shane Van Dyke

Shane Thomas Van Dyke is the son of Mary (Carey) Van Dyke and actor Barry Van Dyke (Airwolf, The Love Boat, Diagnosis: Murder) and grandson of the entertainer Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Night at the Museum).

Skate Nation

The show also had a routine by British Champion roller-dancers Darren Dyke and Kirsty Chick, who represented Great Britain at the 2009 World Games.

Sonnie Trotter

Sonnie also made Squamish history in 2006 when he and his climbing partner Matt Segal connected The Shadow 5.13b, The Grand Wall 5.13b and The Black Dyke 5.13b on the Stawamus Chief all free in a single 12 hour push.

South Forty-Foot Drain

The main job of the Drain is to gather the waters pumped from the Kesteven Fens, the Holland Fens and the Weir Dyke, a soak dike in Bourne North Fen, alongside the Bourne Eau and River Glen, northwards and eastwards to the Black Sluice at Boston, where they are discharged to the tidal waters of The Haven.

Stanwick St John

Another contemporary walled ditch called Scots Dyke running from Stanwick as far south as the river Swale at Richmond (and possibly also north over the Tees at Gainford) may have formed part of a general defensive mechanism for the hill peoples in the area.

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby Carefree, Arizona.

Ulmus glabra 'Lutescens'

There are two notable TROBI Champion trees in England, at Pickering Park, Anlaby, measuring 16 m high by 79 cm d.b.h. in 2004, and in Dyke Road Place, Brighton, 16 m high by 76 cm d.b.h. in 2006.

Van Dyke beard

The Van Dyke had a revival in the 19th century and was worn by several well-known figures including General Custer (among other styles) and the actor Monty Woolley.

Vietnamese ceramics

One of the noteworthy examples of modern ceramic art is the Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, which is affixed on the wall of the dyke system of Hanoi.

Wat's Dyke

Wat's Dyke is a 40 mile (64 km) earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing to the east of Oswestry and onto Maesbury in Shropshire, England.

Wilson Avenue Line

The route serves the Lindsay Park Houses, the Williamsburg Houses, Maria Hernandez Park, Irving Square, Cemetery of the Evergreens, Howard Housing, the Langston Hughes Apartments, Van Dyke Housing, the Tilden Houses, the Floyd Patterson Ball fields, the Breukelen Houses, and Breukelen Park.

Witham Shield

In the 20th century a series of posts were found together with an early to mid Iron Age sword when a dyke was being cleaned near Fiskerton, near where the Witham Shield had been found.

Yahşi Batı

A tough cowgirl, Susanne Van Dyke (a character like Calamity Jane) joins them on their quest.


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