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19 unusual facts about Eden


1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race

Abernethy also criticised the bureau for making no effort to inform race officials of a dramatically upgraded weather forecast about the severe storm developing south of Eden, when it was common public knowledge the race was scheduled to begin.

Acianthus fornicatus

It is a common ground plant growing in moist forests and coastal scrub and found north of Eden, New South Wales.

Bleating tree frog

This frog is native to coastal eastern Australia, from south-eastern Queensland, to around Eden, New South Wales.

Eden Centre

Eden, High Wycombe, a shopping centre in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Eden Killer Whale Museum

The Eden Killer Whale Museum is a museum in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.

Eden point

They were first discovered in situ at an ancient buffalo kill site near Eden, Wyoming by Harold J. Cook in 1941.

Eden, High Wycombe

Moreover, the town was seen as being overshadowed by nearby towns with larger shopping centres, such as the Queensmere Observatory (Slough), The Oracle (Reading), The Chimes (Uxbridge), Harlequin Shopping Centre (Watford) and Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (Milton Keynes).

The entertainment complex and library were both officially opened on 9 July 2008 by Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, who unveiled a plaque in the library.

Eden, North Carolina

A year later, Farley's daughters Maria Farley and Rebecca Parke Farley sold their shares to Patrick Henry of Virginia, the man who delivered the "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech.

Eden: the Deceit

Eden is an artificial world, created by the last vestiges of an alien race and shaped, through Nanotechnology, in image and likeness of their original planet.

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father is a 2007 biography by John Matteson of Louisa May Alcott, best known as the author of Little Women, and her father, Bronson Alcott, an American Transcendentalist philosopher and the founder of the Fruitlands utopian community.

Green Cape Lighthouse

Aspinall first had to find a way to move the materials from Eden to the site.

John de Soules

Sir John de Soulis II joined Robert the Bruce, and was rewarded with a grant of the baronies of Kirkandrews and Torthorwald, and the lands of Brettalach, Dumfriesshire.

Khaplu

"This fair spot what Kapalu, the richest district in Baltistan, and Regarded as a very Garden of Eden by the Balti people"

Monoimus

Further traces of the obligations of Monoimus to Simon are found in the reference to the six powers instrumental in creation, which answer to Simon's six "roots," while a similar indebtedness to Simon on the part of the Naassene writer in Hippolytus is found on comparing the anatomical speculations connected with the name Eden (v. 9; vi. 14).

RAF Crosby-on-Eden

The station was handed over to RAF Coastal Command, hosting 17 OTU during August 1942 for training long-range fighter crews on Bristol Beaufort and Bristol Beaufighter conversion squadrons, as well as air firing and night flying.

Scouting in Vermont

Its Boy Scout Camp is the Mount Norris Scout Reservation in Eden, Vermont and Cub Scout Camp is Camp Sunrise in Benson, Vermont.

Steve Uy

His work started out as cover art for certain titles such as Iceman, and later on he worked on the mini-series Eden's Trail with Chuck Austen.

Sydney Ports Corporation

Sydney Ports Corporation, a corporation owned by the Government of New South Wales, is responsible for the management, development and operation of seaport facilities within metropolitan Sydney, and two minor seaports located in Eden and in Yamba, within the state of New South Wales, Australia.


Adam Purple

After Purple's "Garden of Eden" was destroyed, his friend, artist George Bliss, painted trails of purple footprints around the Lower East Side leading to the garden's former location.

Balmoral, New Zealand

In November 2010, the area was included into the Albert-Eden-Roskill ward of the new Auckland Council.

Charlie Poole

Poole was born in Spray, now part of Eden, Rockingham County, in the northern Piedmont region of North Carolina, near the Virginia border.

Coming, Eden Bower!

It has been suggested that the story was influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem Eden Bower, the singer Mary Garden and also Pierre Louys's novel Aphrodite.

David Streatfield

His book, California Gardens: Creating A New Eden (1994) was selected in 1998 by the American Horticultural Society as one of the "75 Great American Garden Books in 75 Years" on the observance of the Society's 75th anniversary.

Dawn Eden

Eden began writing about rock music under the abbreviated name Dawn Eden in 1985 for fanzines, eventually becoming a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo, Salon, New York Press, and Billboard, among others.

Donald Glaude

Donald Glaude has put out multiple records of his own songs and vanity labels Durty Records and Eden Records targeted to professional DJs while making digital releases on Beatport.

Eartham Pit, Boxgrove

In 1998, Roberts co-wrote a book about the site with prehistoric archaeologist Mike Pitts that was entitled Fairweather Eden: Life in Britain half a million years ago as revealed by the excavations at Boxgrove.

Eden Camp Museum

2001: Eden Camp was voted runner up attraction to the London Eye by the readers of Group Travel Organiser magazine.

Eden Corn Festival

The festival would be held on the grounds of the Newell Faulkner Post of the American Legion on Legion Drive and Route 62, and the committees received help from the American Legion and the Eden School District, who allowed the use of the parking lots on the school grounds and use of their athletic fields.

Eden District

In Eden there are King George's Fields, in memorial to King George V, at Appleby and Patterdale.

Eden Electronics

These use the same original design and engineering principles but are now produced exclusively for Eden by Eminence.

Eden Fesi

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Eden is now operating under the moniker Manifold.

Eden Gaha

Eden Gaha (born 29 November 1968) is an Australian actor, television host and producer, best known for his work on Vidiot, Animal Hospital and as a producer of Celebrity Apprentice, The Contender and Pirate Master.

Eden Park Kangaroo Cull

During October 2010 the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT) applied for and received a 12-month permit from the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment for the Eden Park Kangaroo Cull - to cull 300 Eastern Grey Kangaroos on its 320 hectare Eden Park Vineyard and farm and Northern Lodge equine stud.

Eden Prairie Center

A second United Artists movie theater was built, called "Eden Prairie East" and the old theater located beneath the Target walkway was renamed "Eden Prairie West".

The Kevin Smith movie Mallrats was filmed inside the Eden Prairie Center Mall in the mid-1990s.

Eden Roc Miami Beach Hotel

Eden Roc was the hotel where professor Paul Armstrong's (Sean Connery) family stayed in the movie Just Cause.

Ednam Church

Thorlongus or Thor Longus ('Thor the Tall') was the first recorded laird of Ednaham, (from the Old English, 'Settlement on the Eden Water') as Ednam was known.

FM Le Sieur

FM’s career has spanned over fifteen years, and his other work includes Tony & Ridley Scott’s series The Hunger starring David Bowie; the films of Alain Desrochers, his long-time collaborator, beginning with La Bouteille; and television series Musée Eden, Nos Étés et Music Hall, “Les Soeurs Elliot”, “Les Bougon” and “Charlie Jade”, an international co-production filmed in South Africa.

Geneva Summit

The Geneva Summit (1955) was held on July 18, 1955 and was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France

George Vasilakos

In 1999, Vasilakos was offered a job with Last Unicorn Games so he moved to California to join their office, while remaining President of Eden Studios.

Hector Bizerk

That summer also saw Hector appear at Wickerman Festival, Insider Festival, Go North, Eden, Doune The Rabbit Hole, Audio Soup, Live at Troon as well as headlining Oran Mor as part of Glasgow's West End Festival.

Hibi Eden

Hibi Eden was the general secretary of the KSU led Union at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

Israel Technology Transfer Organization

In 2012 ITTN conducted the first annual conference which includes speakers such as; Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, Dotan Peleg, Dr. Yona Geffen, Mooly Eden, President of Intel Israel, Avi Hasson - Israel's Chief Scientist, Vicki Lewise, CEO AUTM, Yossi Smoler, Prof. Odede Shoseyov, David Zigdon, Prof. Ada Yonath and Dr. Hadar Wismunsky.

Jan Sterling

In 1967, she and Tisha Sterling (no relation, the daughter of Robert Sterling and Ann Sothern) appeared in the episode "Eleven Miles to Eden" of NBC's western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan.

Judaism and warfare

Gopin, Marc, Between Eden and Armageddon: the future of world religions, violence, and peacemaking, Oxford University Press US, 2000.

Jurassica

The initial sketches of the site have been created by Renzo Piano (architect of The Shard in London), whilst the site's engineering is being led by the team responsible for the Eden Project and the refurbishment of Sydney Opera House.

Karen Ziemba

She will return to Broadway in March 2014 to appear in the new musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway as the character "Eden Brent", directed by Susan Stroman.

Klin, Klinsky District, Moscow Oblast

A short time later on 19 December the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and the Soviet ambassador to Great Britain I. M. Maysky visited the town with more than twenty correspondents during Eden's first diplomatic mission to Moscow.

Long Meg and Her Daughters

The Shap Stone Avenue to the south of Penrith, (including the Goggleby Stone, the Thunder Stone, Skellaw Hill, as well as Oddendale to the east), forms an 'avenue' running to the east of the River Lowther along a main route to the north; the Long Meg complex runs alongside the River Eden; Mayburgh and the other henges run alongside the River Eamont near its confluence with the River Lowther.

Metatron's Cube

The derivation of Metatron's cube from the tree of life, which the Talmud clearly states was excluded from human experience during the exile from Eden, has led some scholars (including Johann Andreas Eisenmenger) to portray Metatron as the means by which humanity was given knowledge of YHVH; presumably implying that study of Metatron's cube would be necessary to understanding the tree of life.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Onlafbald and Scula

Scula received a massive tract of land which comprised the estates from Castle Eden to Billingham; and Onlafbald received a similarly large tract, which included the rest from Eden to the River Wear.

Oskar Joost

From 1930, the Orchestra began playing in the Berlin Eden hotel, which led to a recording contract with Electrola, followed by subsequent contracts with other record labels: Pallas (1931), Crystal (1931–1934), Ultraphon/Telefunken (1932), Grammophon/Polydor (1934–1941).

Return to Eden, Vol. 1: The Early Recordings

As the title suggests, this compilation concerns itself with the songs which the band produced under its own Eden label prior to being signed by Mercury in 1987.

Rush Radio

WPTI, a radio station licensed to Eden, North Carolina, United States and known as "Rush Radio 94.5"

Ruud van Empel

These were first exhibited in the Picturing Eden exhibition, compiled by Deborah Klochko, in the George Eastman House.

Sir Anthony Rumbold, 10th Baronet

When Churchill resigned and Eden became Prime Minister in April 1955, Rumbold remained for a few months as PPS to the new Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan, accompanying him to San Francisco in June 1955 for talks between the Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia in preparation for the Geneva Summit in the following month.

Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet

Frederick Morton Eden was the eldest son of Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland, and his wife Caroline Calvert, sister of the last Lord Baltimore and niece of Thomas Bladen's wife.

The Eden Express

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity (ISBN 1-58322-543-9) is a 1975 book by Mark Vonnegut, son of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, about Mark's experiences in the late 1960s and his major psychotic breakdown and recovery.

The Promise of Eden

The Promise of Eden tells the story of a young boy, Gregory Coleman, who lives in the small town of New Harmony, Indiana.

The Three Hostages

Next day he tells Greenslade all, and bids him remember where he drew his phrases, two of which, concerning a blind woman spinning and a barn in Norway, matched verses from the poem, while the third in Greenslade's speech referred to a curiosity shop run by an elderly Jew, which seems to bear no correspondence to the poem's reference to the "Fields of Eden".

Victor Weisz

Earlier in the 1950s Vicky had produced some memorable cartoons of Macmillan's predecessor, Sir Anthony Eden, which made effective use of the Homburg hat that had been Eden's "trademark" in the 1930s.

Walt Flanagan's Dog

Jay and Bob then decide to go to the Eden Prairie Mall for an Orange Julius.

Wasatch Range

Three more ski resorts lie here, as well as several small towns (such as Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden).