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unusual facts about Flint, Flintshire



Blake Pelly

Blake Raymond Pelly OBE (31 May 1907, Buckley, Flintshire - 16 October 1990, Sydney) was an Australian air force officer, politician and businessman, who represented the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales Parliament.

Boxworth

Recorded from the mid 12th century, when relics of St. 'Inicius' were said to be deposited there, the church of St Peter is an ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, north and south porches and a lofty embattled tower containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LL.D.

Buick City

The failure of auto manufacturing in Flint was lamented in Michael Moore's documentary film, Roger & Me.

Castle Old Fort

The seventeenth century archaeologist Robert Plot reported findings of flint arrowheads, Roman pottery and Roman coins of Otho, Domitian and Nero, and the existence of a second entrance in the north west of the fort, in an area that has since been destroyed by quarrying.

Charles Dawson

In 1893 Dawson investigated a curious flint mine full of prehistoric, Roman and mediaeval artefacts at Lavant, near Chichester and probed in inner depths of two tunnels beneath Hastings Castle.

Clactonian

The Clactonian industry may have co-existed with the Acheulean industry, which used identical basic techniques but which also had handaxe technology; tools made by bifacially working a flint core.

Clovis

Clovis point, the oldest flint tools associated with the North American Clovis culture

Croft-Y-Bwla

Finds also included charcoal, pieces of flint and pottery from both earlier and later Iron Age and Roman periods.

Daryl Turner

He attended Flint Southwestern High School, now known as Flint Southwestern Academy.

Don Williamson

Williamson was elected to the first full term of Flint Mayor since the recall of Woodrow Stanley defeating former State Representative Floyd Clack.

Edwin Wood

Edwin Orin Wood (1861–1918), Democratic state chair from Flint, Michigan in 1904

Enid Bakewell

Bakewell was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2012, becoming the third woman cricketer after Rachel Heyhoe-Flint and Belinda Clark to be recognized thus.

Fisherton Delamere

The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village.

Flint Creek Water Park

The Flint Creek Water Park is about 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the Wiggins business district (via Highway 29), which provides a full complement of basic services.

Flint, Michigan auto industry

Buick Motor Division became a marketing and public-relations entity in 1984, when the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group (BOC) was created and took over engineering and assembly control from Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac and the GM Assembly Division.

Frithjof Bergmann

In 1984, Bergmann founded an organisation called the Center for New Work (sometimes called just New Work) in Flint, Michigan.

Gwynedd Is Conwy

Today the area is mostly contained within the unitary authorities of Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire.

Hansen, Wisconsin

the streams are fed by the swamps and are subject to very sudden rise & fall the timber is of various kinds such as soft-maple sugar Pine (TamaracK & alder in the swamps) Linn Oak Ash Ironwood +c, the stone are a Blue Flint.

Heinen's Fine Foods

On August 22, 2012, after two years of market and distribution logistics research, the company opened its first store outside the Greater Cleveland area in The Shops at Flint Creek in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Howell Elvet Lewis

Elfed was ordained in 1880 and was made pastor of St John’s English Congregational Church in Buckley, Flintshire, where the local Secondary School Elfed High School is named after him.

Hoxnian Stage

Clactonian and Acheulean flint tools and human remains have been found dating to this stage.

Hughie Flint

Hughie Flint (born 15 March 1941, Manchester, Lancashire), is an English drummer, best known for his stint in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, playing drums on the Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton album, released in 1966, for his group McGuinness Flint in the early 70s and for his subsequent association with The Blues Band.

James Rutherford

James W. Rutherford (1925–2010), American politician; former mayor of Flint, Michigan

Johfiyeh

Dolmens: There are many examples of flint dolmens in village of Johfiyeh and Natifah in northern Jordan.

John Glynne

Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1712–1777), Member of Parliament for Flintshire and Flint

Justice of Chester

Within the County Palatine (which encompassed Cheshire, the City of Chester, and Flintshire), the Justice enjoyed the jurisdiction possessed in England by the Court of Common Pleas and the King's Bench.

Kastros

Further finds include stone-vessels (shallow bowls and pots) and flint tools made from local flint from the Pentadaktylos mountains.

Lady Jaye

It has often been theorized by fans that Marissa was the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye, and on the commentary track of The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD, it was confirmed by Flint Dille, story consultant on the Transformers movie as well as a writer, story editor and producer on G.I. Joe.

Longstock Park

The nursery is set in and around a brick and flint walled garden, and is home to the NCCPG National Collections of Buddleja and Clematis viticella, and the Gilchrist Collection of Penstemons.

Martin Flint

Martin Flint (January 12, 1782 -- February 27, 1855) was a Vermont political and military figure who served in the Vermont House of Representatives and as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia.

Matt Barbet

Growing up in North Wales, Matt Barbet attended the Alun School in Mold, Flintshire and later studied at Cardiff University before returning to the Cardiff School of Journalism.

Montana City, Montana

As early as 9,000 BCE, Native Americans came to Montana City to collect chert, a rock similar to flint which was used to make spear tips, arrowheads, and knives.

Rădăuți-Prut

Although archaeological evidence indicates that flint from this formation was collected from the Prut, Raut and Dniester rivers as early as the Palaeolithic, there is yet no evidence of mining the material until the 1800s.

Robert L. Emerson

On September 30, 2011, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed an eight-member state review team for the City of Flint including Emerson.

Ruda Real

Teaming up with his younger brother, who lived in Flint, Michigan, he attempted to expand his popularity by first reaching out to the demographic in Flint that was New Orleans-bred, and ultimately the Detroit hip-hop scene (which produced such acts as D12, Eminem, and Kid Rock).

Slackwater darter

For example, the population in the Flint River drainage in Madison County, Alabama, is threatened by changing land use patterns associated with the growth of the city of Huntsville, Alabama.

Stoke Newington Common

A 400,000-year old palaeolithic flint axe factory was found by W.G. Smith in 1878 on the south side of the common and in market gardens on the north side of the common.

Suffrage drama

Contemporary plays concerning the women's suffrage movement continue to be written and performed in Britain, such as Ian Flint's Woman (2003), Rebecca Lenkiewicz's Her Naked Skin (2008) and Sally Sheringham's The Sound of Breaking Glass (2009).

The Clan of the Cave Bear

The flint tools found in association with the remains at the first Cro-Magnon site have associations with the Aurignacian culture that Lartet had identified a few years before he found the skeletons.

Thorrington

The striking medieval flint church is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, and the patrons of the church are St John's College, Cambridge.

Throwley

The Parish church is St Michaels and All Angels which is built of flint, inside are monuments to the Harris and Sondes families.

Trulia

Trulia's founders Pete Flint and Sami Inkinen met at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

WCMZ

WCMZ-TV, a PBS-affiliated television station (channel 28) licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States

William Owen Stanley

Stanley married Ellin Williams, daughter of Sir John Williams of Bodelwyddan, Flintshire in 1832.

Williams-Wynn baronets

Today, the family is represented by Sir David, 11th Baronet, who remains active in Welsh life in Denbighshire and Flintshire.

Winchester, Oregon

Winchester was laid out in 1850 by surveyor Addison R. Flint, who was part of an Umpqua exploring expedition from San Francisco.

WMRP

WWCK-FM, an AM radio station in Flint, Michigan that held the WMRP call letters from 1964 until 1971.

WXON-LP

It had a construction permit to increase power to 150 kW from a location near Otisville, which would have covered Flint and northwestern Genesee County with its directional beam; however, the construction permit expired in February 2008, and was not renewed.


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