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unusual facts about Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull


Thomas Germain

He made a pair of tureens for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, to designs by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier in 1735 that Henry Hawley has said "represents the apogee of the French rococo" (Hawley 1997).


118 WallyPower

The hull of the 118 WallyPower is the result of an extensive R&D program including tank testing at the SSPA facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, and smoke testing in the Ferrari Wind Tunnel Facility in Maranello, Italy.

125th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In the battle at the Weldon Railroad on 22 June, the regiment lost several men who were captured by the enemy, while three more officers—Adjutant Miller, and Lieutenants Hull and Barnes—died during a disastrous and badly led battle.

190th Fighter Squadron

On March 16, 2007, the inquest coroner, Andrew Walker, returned a narrative verdict, stating that the killing of L/CoH Hull was "unlawful".

1979–80 Northern Rugby Football League season

The 1980 State Express Challenge Cup culminated in the first Hull Cup final derby, with a heavy entourage of supporters from the East and West of the city making the trip to London.

Abercrombie Lawson

After a year as assistant in botany Lawson spent 1901 at the University of Chicago with Professors John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph Chamberlain in the new Hull laboratories and was awarded a Ph.D. (1901).

Alfred Bulltop Stormalong

Among other things, the ship was said to have drilled the course of the Panama Canal by slamming into the Panamanian coast, and to have gotten stuck in the English Channel, which required the crew to grease the ship's hull with soap.

Appliqué

Appliqué armour, in military use, consists of extra protective plates mounted onto the hull or turret of an Armoured fighting vehicle.

Attack of Mark's Clone

The episode was written by Adam Stein and series developer David M. Stern, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull and series creator Devin Clark.

Bad Books

Hull and Devine met again when they were co-headlining a tour in the US in November–December 2008, in support of Devine's EP I Could Be with Anyone which featured songs from his then-upcoming fifth studio album Brother's Blood.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

It passed through small southeast Texas communities such as Hull, Kenefick, and Huffman.

Charles Arthur Ayre

He was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, the son of the Reverend George James Ayre and Margaret Mary Burgess, and was educated in Bath, Somersetshire and at Hymers College in Hull, Yorkshire.

County-class cruiser

The long (630 feet overall) hull was flush decked and with a high freeboard, and was strongly built.

Deepak-class fleet tanker

The ship is in double hull configuration which provides greater safety against accidental oil spillages in accordance with latest MARPOL regulations.

East Park, Kingston upon Hull

About 20 years earlier, in the west of the city, Zachariah Pearson had established Hull's first public park, which was initially known as The People's Park and later simply as Pearson Park.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Fast attack craft

The idea was first tested by the Soviet Union as Project 183R which, in August 1957, produced the Komar-class which mounted two P-15 Termit missiles in box-launchers on a 25 m hull backed with a twin 25 mm gun.

Filmtecknarna

They are: Jonas Odell, Stig Bergqvist, Jonas Dahlbeck, Jessica Laurén, Johanna Andersson, Boris Nawratil, David Nord, Jory Hull, Lucas Zanotti, Jasmin Jodry, and a new director soon to be made public.

FV Gaul

This prompted UK Deputy Prime Minister (and Hull MP) John Prescott to ask the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the Department for Transport to carry out extensive surveys of the wreck, which it did in 1998 and 2002.

General Aviation PJ

Five examples were operated by the US Coast Guard during the 1930s, named Antares, Altair, Acrux, Acamar, and Arcturus (hull numbers FLB-51 through FLB-55).

Glass Shadows

The album was recorded at Fairview Studios, in Willerby, Hull, where the band worked with old friend John Spence, engineer of many early Mostly Autumn records.

Hannah Moffat

When the BBC split the region into two when Moffat was honing her journalism and reporting skills in London and the South East so she re-joined Look North in 2005 to present the bulletins during BBC Breakfast from Hull.

Herman Ngoudjo

He later went on to win the bronze medal in the 2001 Francophone Games in Hull, Quebec, Canada.

Holy Trinity Church, Colton

A further window is to the memory of Revd John Hull, who died in 1958, and shows four scenes from the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

James Ramster

The first friendly match that he took charge of was Hull City's fixture against Notts County on the 1 September 1904.

Joseph Rank

Born in Hull and educated at the Reverend Haynes's School in Swinefleet near Goole, Joseph Rank initially joined the family milling business.

Josephine Hull

The Rivals (May 7, 1923 - May 1923, billed as Mrs. Shelley Hull)

Lake steamers of North America

A new twin-screw vessel was designed for the hull being welded back together at Lakeport.

Landing Craft Utility

Its welded steel hull provides high durability with deck loads of 800 pounds per square foot.

Long Drax swing bridge

The Long Drax swing bridge (also known as the Hull and Barnsley railway Ouse swing bridge) was a swing bridge on the River Ouse near Barmby on the Marsh and Drax, built in the 1880s for the Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR).

MiG-29: Soviet Fighter

The original version of the game was written for the ZX Spectrum by Richard Chaney while he was a pupil at Wolfreton School, Hull, UK.

North Humberside

Coincidentally, Humberside was abolished for local government purposes in the same year, with the area north of the Humber becoming two unitary authority areas: East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull.

Owasco-class cutter

As weight was cut out of the hull structure, electronics and ordnance were increased, but at much greater heights.

Pierre Philion

Philion was a supporter of the Quebec Liberal Party and had participated in the campaign of current Hull MNA Roch Cholette who won the seat in the 2003 provincial election which made Jean Charest the new Prime Minister of Quebec.

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Sherbrooke Castors moved to Maine, becoming the Lewiston Maineiacs; Montreal Rocket moved to Charlottetown and took the Prince Edward Island name, Hull Olympiques become Gatineau Olympiques.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.

Robert Gordon Teather

On 26 September 1981, Corporal Robert Teather, a member of the Surrey Detachment Diving Team of the R.C.M.P., rescued two fishermen trapped in the overturned hull of a boat.

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull

The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont (died 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (1608–1679), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Ronnie Hilton

Born Adrian Hill in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry.

Sheila Mercier

After education at the French Convent, Hull and Hunmanby Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, she trained for the stage at the Stratford-upon-Avon College of Drama.

Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet

Soon both the Hothams were corresponding with the Earl of Newcastle, and the younger one was probably ready to betray Hull; these proceedings became known to Parliament, and in June 1643 father and son were captured and taken to London.

SS Dunraven

In part due to the shallow depth an abundance of reef fish can be found around it, Glassfish, Groupers, Jackfish, Scorpionfish and Crocodilefish can all be seen around the ruptures in the hull.

SS George Calvert

American Mariner, Maritime Commission hull number 20, launched in 1941 as SS George Calvert, but renamed almost immediately.

T-19

The main armament of the T-19 was the 1930 37 mm semi-automatic gun, along with two Degtyaryov machine guns (DT), one located in the frontal portion of the hull near the radio operator; the other was in the turret.

The Ex Files

The episode was written by Robby Hull and directed by Jim McKay.

Tracteur Jack

The duo joined forces in 2003 in order to compete in the provincial talent contest "Cégeps en Spectacle", where they won both the jury's and public vote's prizes in Hull, 2004.

USS LST-510

Following two voyages to Rouen, the ship was proceeding to Cherbourg when she hit an underwater obstruction which holed her hull, flooding both engine rooms and plunging the ship into darkness.

W.F. Wallett

Wallett (born Hull, England, November 1806. Died at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, 13 March 1892) was a popular circus clown in Victorian England, who also enjoyed modest celebrity in the United States.

Water motorsports at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Gyrinus was the earliest round-bilge Semi-Planing Mono-Hull ('SPMH') designed by Sir John Isaac Thornycroft FRS, the great Victorian engineer, previously the designer and builder of the world's first torpedo boats and torpedo boat 'Destroyers'.

WHCR

106.9FM WHCR, a community radio station (106.9 FM) for West Hull, England


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