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5 unusual facts about Edwin


Battle of Stamford Bridge

Outside the city they defeated a northern English army led by Edwin, Earl of Mercia and his brother Morcar, Earl of Northumbria at the Battle of Fulford on 20 September.

Edwin, Earl of Mercia

He is mentioned in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when the mouse attempts to dry itself and other characters by reciting a dry example of English history.

Edwin's lands centred at Gilling West in his brother's Northumbrian earldom, were given to Alain Le Roux in 1071 and the district was renamed Richmondshire.

Robert de Romille

In the Domesday Book the multiple estate of Bolton Abbey was listed as going from the lordship of Edwin, Earl of Mercia to the Clamores of Yorkshire.

Roger de Busli

These had previously belonged to a variety of Anglo-Saxons, including Edwin, Earl of Mercia.


Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

Antony Crockett

He is the son of John Crockett, (John Angus Basil) the artist, playwright and television and film director, grandson of Colonel Basil Crockett (Basil Edwin) DSO and William Joseph Stern OBE (civ.), nephew of Colonel Anthony John Stewart Crockett RM, OBE (Mil.), ADC, and descendant of the Blessed Ralph Crockett, English Martyr.

Balmoral Castle

Over the years, numerous painters were employed at Balmoral, including Edwin and Charles Landseer, Carl Haag, William Wyld, William Henry Fisk, and many others.

Beyond Our Ken

The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, announcer Douglas Smith with music by Jill Day, Edwin Braden, the Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Revue Orchestra.

Bleasby, Nottinghamshire

Following the marriage on 625AD which for the first time unified the whole of England, the court of Edwin descended upon Bleasby, the Trent considered to be equidistant from Kent and Northumbria, and were all baptised in the shallow waters there by the Roman priest, Paulinus, who later became the first Archbishop of York.

Booth family

Edwin Booth bought an interest in the Winter Garden Theatre at 667 Broadway in New York City together with his brother-in-law John Sleeper Clarke.

Boricua Ahora Es

The Group is represented by their spokesmen Joel Isaac Díaz (free association), Michael González Cruz (independence), Carlos R. Ruiz Cortés (independence) Edwin Pagán (statehood), and led by Ricky Rosselló.

Bright Red

The song "Beautiful Pea Green Boat" has additional lyrics from the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear; in the album credits his name is misspelled "Edwin".

Cadfan ap Iago

Edwin would eventually ally himself with Rædwald of East Anglia in 616, defeating and killing Æthelfrith and becoming one of Northumbria's most successful kings.

Deira

Osric, the nephew of Edwin, ruled Deira after Edwin, but his son Oswine was put to death by Oswiu in 651.

Diogenes Club series

Published in 2007, the second collection of stories covers the period of time between the Victorian era and the beginning of the 1970s, featuring original Diogenes Club head Charles Beauregard and his protégé Edwin Winthrop, as well as recurring Newman character Geneviève Dieudonné.

Eanswith

King Eadbald, whose sister St. Ethelburga married the pagan King Edwin two or three years before, recalled that this wedding resulted in Edwin's conversion.

Eddie Carnett

Edwin Elliott Carnett (born October 21, 1916) is a former left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between 1941 and 1945.

Edwin Black

Götz Aly and Karl Heinz Roth, The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich. Introduction and translation by Edwin Black.

Edwin Cassiani

Edwin Cassiani Tejedor (born October 28, 1972 in San Basilio de Palenque, Mahates) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the light-welterweight division (– 63.5 kg) during his career.

Edwin Franko Goldman

Edwin Franko Goldman died at Montefiore Hospital in New York on February 21, 1956, and his son Richard Franko Goldman succeeded him as conductor of the Goldman Band.

Edwin H. Whitehead

Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (February 26, 1925 - May 20, 2007) was a lawyer in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, and an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for the American presidency in a state which three times supported Richard M. Nixon.

Edwin Hawkins

The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".

Edwin Henry Mason Smith

Private Edwin Smith embarked on Troop Ship Number 93 from Wellington on 13 October 1917 and disembarked in Liverpool, England on 8 December.

Edwin Lefèvre

Mr. Lefèvre sent his son Edwin to the United States when he was a boy and he was educated at Lehigh University where he received training as a mining engineer.

Edwin M. Stanton School

Stanton College Preparatory School, modern successor to Jacksonville's Edwin M. Stanton School

Edwin Manton

Sir Edwin, known to his colleagues in America as Jimmy and to friends in England as Jim, was born in Earls Colne, Essex, 20 miles from Constable's birthplace.

Edwin Percy Phillips

Edwin Percy Phillips (18 February 1884 Sea Point, Cape Town - 12 April 1967 Cape Town), was a South African botanist and taxonomist, noted for his monumental work The Genera of South African Flowering Plants first published in 1926.

Edwin Villatoro

Edwin Roberto Villatoro Acevedo (born 18 February 1980 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan football forward who currently plays for Club Xelajú MC in the Liga Nacional de Guatemala.

Frederick Stacpoole

Two of his earliest published engravings were after Edwin Landseer, both with other engravers: Peace with T. L. Atkinson (1848), and the Hunted Stag (engraved as Mountain Torrent) with Thomas Landseer (1850) (these both after pictures from the Vernon collection, which went to the National Gallery of British Art).

German auxiliary cruiser Stier

So was US Merchant Marine Academy cadet Edwin Joseph O'Hara, who single-handedly fired the last shots from the ship's 4-inch gun.

Green Drinks

Started in London in 1989, by Edwin Datschefski, Paul Scott, Ian Grant and Yorick Benjamin, it has spread to 51 cities in the United Kingdom, 400 in the U.S. and many more in Canada, Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Manila, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Puerto Rico and Lebanon.

Hort baronets

The current Baronet is Sir Andrew Edwin Fenton Hort, of East Prawle, Devon.

John W. Woolley

Woolley was born to Edwin D. and Mary W. Woolley, the first of Edwin's seven wives, in Newlin, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

La Gusana Ciega

The band's origin lies in the early 90's when the trio of Daniel, Edwin and Manuel Leyva (bass) began to establish itself in Mexico City's underground rock scene.

Lemp Mansion

Cragwold, the St. Louis County estate house of Edwin A. Lemp

Life with Derek

John Ralston as George Venturi, the father of Derek, Edwin, Marti and Simon.

Live at Koncepts

The album features seven of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Very Very Circus with Mark Taylor, Brandon Ross, Masujaa Edwin Rodriguez, Marcus Rojas, and Larry Bright.

Lutyens

Mary Lutyens, writer and biographer of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and daughter of Emily and Edwin Lutyens

MC Layla

She is the second child of Jack Richard Capel Hanbury (born 18 April 1953) and Julie Tasma (née Piper); with an older brother, James Edwin Capel Hanbury (born 26 September 1979), and a younger sister, Amelia Jeanne Hanbury (born 15 September 1986) – the family is listed in Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (2003).

Mumbiram

As English renderings of great eastern classics these are in the same league as Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, "Arabian Nights" of Richard Francis Burton or Edwin Arnold’s "Light of Asia".

Murphy drip

On 4 June 1942 Pharmacist's Mate Edwin Miller was stationed on Sand Island (part of the Midway Atoll) and was making ready for the expected Japanese attack.

Northwest African Air Forces

The sole reference to the 12th Air Force among the higher tier commands was Brigadier General Edwin House's XII Air Support Command which along with Air Vice Marshal Harry Broadhurst's Western Desert Air Force, Air Commodore Laurence Sinclair's Tactical Bomber Force, and Air Commodore Sir Kenneth Cross' No. 242 Group, became subordinate commands of Coningham's NATAF.

Robert Atherton Edwin

Edwin, who had studied meteorology in the Royal Navy, was undoubtedly strongly influenced by the tradition of practical weather science of which Admiral Robert FitzRoy and the American, Matthew Fontaine Maury, were the most distinguished contemporary exponents.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Spirit of Nuff...Nuff

The album and features seven of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Very Very Circus with Curtis Fowlkes, Brandon Ross, Masujaa, Marcus Rojas, Edwin Rodriguez, and Gene Lake.

Steve Tomasula

His first novel, Vas: An Opera in Flatland (with design by Stephen Farrell) is an adaptation of Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.

Streetboys

The Streetboys became known for it's 1997 smash hit "Boom Tiyaya", which was composed by the Pastor brothers (Eazer and Edwin).

T. T. Lewis

Born Atholl Edwin Seymour Lewis, T. T. Lewis was one of a set of twins born in Drax Hall, Barbados.

Tanquetazo

Other military officers involved in planning the putsch were René López, Edwin Ditmer, Héctor Bustamante, Mario Garay, Carlos Martínez, Raúl Jofre, and José Gasset.

The Badgeman

A single, "Crystals", and album, Kings of the Desert, were released in January 1990 to favourable reviews and articles from such journalists as Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil) and Phil McMullen in NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Ptolemaic Terrascope, and the first issue of Select magazine (which awarded the album 4 out of 5).

William Edwin Brooks

William Edwin Brooks (July 30, 1828, near Dublin, Ireland - January 18, 1899, Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist.


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