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unusual facts about Elsie's River


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.


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.

A Dangerous Maid

Two years later, the show finally made it to Broadway, retaining the name Elsie, but with a rewritten book and a new score by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake.

Brigit Forsyth

Forsyth's television work includes Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, as Thelma (1973–74); The Glamour Girls (1980-82), as Veronica Haslett; Tom, Dick and Harriet (1983) as Harriet Maddison; The Practice, as Dr. Judith Vincent (1986); Sharon and Elsie, as Elsie Beecroft (1984–85); Dark Season (1991), as Miss Maitland; and Boon (ITV, 1989), as Helen Yeldham.

British Rail Class 91

It began by naming No. 91109 as Sir Bobby Robson with cast-iron plates, unveiled in a ceremony at Newcastle Central Station on 29 March by his widow Elsie and Alan Shearer.

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.

California Home + Design

California Home+Design was founded in the mid-1990s by Sloane Citron and Elsie Floriani of 18media under the name of California Home & Gardens.

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.

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.

Earnest Goodsir-Cullen

In 1947 the family went to live with Elsie's mother in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland and Ernest had to re-qualify as a doctor at Queen's University, Belfast.

Elliott Johnston

Johnston was born in North Adelaide to William Stewart and Elsie Vivian Johnston and grew up in Kingston, studying first at public high schools and then Prince Alfred College on scholarship.

Elsie Bowerman

Elsie Edith Bowerman (18 December 1889 - 18 October 1973) was a British lawyer, suffragette and RMS Titanic survivor.

Elsie Dinsmore

He is very mean to Elsie in her childhood, and is killed in the Civil War.

Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital

The Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital (officially Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital) was a hospital in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh, Scotland, and was founded in 1925 as a memorial to Elsie Inglis.

Elsie J. Oxenham

Elsie J. Oxenham is considered by collectors of British Girls' Fiction to be one of the 'Big Three'; the other two being Elinor Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruce.

Elsie Paroubek

Elsie's mother was born Karolína Vojáček on November 26, 1869, in Míčov (Meconi), East Bohemia, in what is now the Czech Republic.

George Bambridge

George Bambridge married Elsie Kipling, daughter of Rudyard Kipling, on 22 October 1924.

His wife, Elsie (née Kipling), was the daughter of author Rudyard Kipling.

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.

Givat Mordechai

Ezra Orion's outdoor sculpture "Stairway" (1979-1980) is located at the entrance to Givat Mordechai in the Elsie Bernadette Garden.

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.

J. H. H. Coombes

Coombes returned along with Elsie to Pakistan in 1971 to visit Cadet College Petaro where he was given a grand reception and spent several days.

Joan Hinde

Instead, Joan Hinde forged a sparkling reputation on the live variety stage becoming a regular fixture with artistes such as Elsie and Doris Waters, Jimmy James and Co., Gladys Morgan, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Max Bygraves, Sir Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd.

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.

Lily Elsie

Lily Elsie (8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

In 1920, Elsie moved with her husband to the Gloucestershire village of Redmarley D'Abitot, spending ten more years away from the stage, which she had always found stressful, and enjoying social events and fox hunting.

Lovesliescrushing

The decidedly more experimental Vir released a 7" on Drone Records, a lovesliescrushing remix on Bluesanct, a compilation tracks for the magazine 'Losing Yesterday' and an interpretation of a work by Japanese sound artist Aube for the 'Rewriting the Book' compilation on Elsie & Jack Recordings.

Margaret Stones

Elsie Margaret Stones AM, MBE (born 28 August 1920 at Colac, Victoria) is an Australian botanical illustrator.

Mary Elsie Moore

Mary Elsie Moore was born October 22, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest child of Charles Arthur Moore, a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut, who went on to become the president of Manning, Maxwell and Moore, a large industrial concern.

Maude Turner Gordon

Maude appeared in a number of Broadway productions from 1908 1925 including: Glorious Betsy, The American Maid, A Full House with Hugh Cameron and Ralph Morgan, Elsie and Big Boy with Al Jolson, Minnie Dupree and Colin Campbell.

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.

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden

The garden was designed by landscape designer Elsie Cornish, and the statue created by Ola Cohn was unveiled by Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey (the wife of the Governor of South Australia, Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey) on 19 April 1941.

Please Leave My Butter Alone

"Please Leave My Butter Alone" is a song first recorded by Doris Waters and Elsie Waters (singing as Gert and Daisy), though popularised by Elsie Carlisle's cover version of it.

Potadoma buttikoferi

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

Robert C. Lee

On 1918-06-15, he married Elsie Francis Calder, daughter of Senator William M. Calder.

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 Prince and the Showgirl

Promising not to tell, Elsie then meets the Dowager Queen (Sybil Thorndike), the prince's mother-in-law, who decides she should join them for the coronation in place of her lady-in-waiting.

The Singing Scott Brothers

They worked with some of the biggest names of the day from both sides of the Atlantic, including Vera Lynn, Charlie Chester, Morecambe and Wise, George Formby, Elsie and Doris Waters, Al Martino, Billy Daniels and Guy Mitchell.

The Sleeping Sickness

The Sleeping Sickness is an album by SubArachnoid Space and Walking Timebombs, released on December 7, 1999 through Elsie & Jack Recordings.

Treacle

In chapter 7 of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Dormouse tells a story of Elsie, Lacie and Tillie living at the bottom of a well, which confuses Alice, who interrupts to ask.

William Hardy Wilson

After the death of his first wife he married Elsie MacLean, and from 1940 they lived between a property at Wandin, near Mount Dandenong, and Kew in Melbourne.

William Rockefeller

William Jr and Almira's second son William Goodsell Rockefeller married Sarah Elizabeth "Elsie" Stillman, the elder daughter of National City Bank president James Jewett Stillman and Sarah Elizabeth Stillman, and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller.

Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr.

Residing at 130 East 70th Street, they had three children, Wilson Marcy Powell, Elsie K. Powell and Sarah Powell (Mrs. Prescott B. Huntington).

Wimpole Hall

The parkland as it exists today is an overlay of the work of these landscape designers and gardeners, and was completed under the auspices of Elsie and George Bambridge.

Wolverine: Adamantium Rage

Both versions have a time limit that expires if the player takes too long, whereupon the Wolverine comic character Elsie-Dee automatically finds Wolverine and kills him, wasting one of his five lives (Genesis version) or giving you a Game Over (Super NES version).


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