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Fort St. Catherine

It was one of a number of forts built immediately following the Virginia Company being given official sanction in 1612 for its possession of Bermuda, which it had occupied since the wreck of the Sea Venture in 1609.


Ancient Diocese of Ribe

In the city of Ribe there were also the Benedictine nunnery of St. Nicholas (founded before 1215), a Franciscan friary and the Dominican St. Catherine's Priory, both dating from 1259, a hospital of the Holy Ghost and a commandery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, both dating from about 1300.

Basil Gomez

In 1988 he was a lecturer at both the University of Oxford and Jesus and St. Catherine's Colleges where he thought physical geography.

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

Alfrink received his episcopal consecration on the following 17 July from Archbishop Paolo Giobbe, papal internuncio in The Hague, with Bishops Willem Lemmens and Jan Smit serving as co-consecrators, in St. Catherine's Cathedral.

Buffalo Rock State Park

During the winter of 1682-1683, LaSalle and Tonty built Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock, and gathered 4,000 Indian warriors at Buffalo Rock to form a confederation against the Iroquois.

Catholic Church of St. Catherine

Above the main entrance is an inscription from the Gospel of Matthew (in Latin): "My house shall be called the house of prayer" (Matthew 21:13) and the date the church was completed.

CKFU-FM

100.1 Moose FM is the exclusive broadcaster for the Fort St. John Huskies hockey team and the Fort St. John Senior Flyers hockey club.

CKPG-TV

On December 12, 1970, Brian "Spinner" Spencer, a rookie hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from Fort St. James, was called up to play with the Leafs in what would be his first NHL game on television.

Curtis Barnett

For the time being the war was at a standstill; and a few weeks before a French squadron appeared on the station, Barnett died onboard Harwich at Fort St. David, Cuddalore, on 2 May 1746, after a few days' sickness.

He served with moderate success, but died after a short illness on board a British ship at Fort St. David, Cuddalore in 1746.

Donny Deutsch

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Edward John

The son of Louis and Amelia John, he was born on July 8, 1949 in the Carrier village of Tache, along the north shore of Stuart Lake, about 60 km from Fort St. James, British Columbia.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

The young Elisabeth Scott attended Miss Jennie Ellett's School (now St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia) and graduated from St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, Maryland.

Escape to Last Man Peak

First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica, from Spanish Town, St. Catherine to Last Man Peak located near Falmouth, Trelawny, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage, and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.

Fort St. Anthony of Simbor

The Fort St. Anthony of Simbor, Forte de Santo António de Simbor in Portuguese, also referred as Fort of the Sea or Fort of Pani-Kota, is located on a small island in the bay of Simbor, about 25 km east of Diu in India.

Fort St. David

In 1782 they again took it and restored it sufficiently to withstand a British attack in 1783.

The villages thus obtained are still spoken of as cannonball villages.

Fort St. James, British Columbia

Brian Spencer "Spinner", former player in the National Hockey League and the subject of the film, 'Gross Misconduct'.

Fort St. Vrain

Fort Saint Vrain (also known as St. Vrain's Fort), a historic 19th century trading post in northern Colorado.

Fort St. Vrain Generating Station

Further, the PCRV reflected an innovative RPV that had the potential to be substantially less costly than the metallic RPVs then in service, which were made of expensive nickel-manganese superalloys (e.g. Inconel, Hastelloy, and Monel) in the case of PWRs or surgical grade stainless steel 316L in the case of BWRs.

Gariece McPherson

Gariece Kayon McPherson (born May 14, 1989, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine) is a Jamaican footballer and the current goalkeeper for Cavalier F.C. team.

Globemaster Air Cargo

Globemaster Air Cargo operated freight services to the following domestic scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Edmonton, Fort Nelson, Fort McMurray, Fort St John, Grand Prairie, Inuvik and Yellowknife.

Hardy Monument

From the top of the monument at a height of 850 feet above sea level it is possible to see on a clear day: Start Point, Devon, St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight both of which are 90 kilometres distant and to the North can be seen Pen Hill in the Mendip Hills which is 65 kilometres away.

Haydar Pasha, Nicosia

On the right-hand side of the building, the spot where the tomb of St. Catherine is said to have been was still shown in the 19th century and the Greek Cypriots often come and lit their oil lamps there.

John Bernard Stephenson

John Bernard Stephenson (November 24, 1938 – March 30, 1982), also called Jack Stephenson was a Jamaican lawyer and Member of Parliament for North West St. Catherine and founder of the Charlemont High School, Jamaica.

John van 't Schip

Van 't Schip was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, and was raised in Powell River, British Columbia, where he grew up playing youth football in the small community before his family moved back to the Netherlands in 1972.

Liturgical drama

About the beginning of the twelfth century we hear of a play of St. Catherine performed at Dunstable by Geoffroy de Gorham, later abbot of St. Albans, and a passage in Fitzstephen's "Life of Becket" shows that such plays were common in London about 1170.

Muhu St. Catherine's Church

The founding of the church is mentioned in a medieval chronicle by Hermann von Wartberge.

Peter Beckford

He took an active part in island politics, representing St. Catherine in the Assembly in 1675, and was later called to the Council where he was appointed President.

Peter Schlechtriem

He became a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College in Oxford in 2001.

Rajaji Salai, Chennai

Once the seat of power, Rajaji Salai still retains its importance with several important buildings, including Fort St. George, Chennai Port Trust, Reserve Bank of India, Chennai District Collectorate and the Madras High Court.

Reinhard Bendix

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Service Improvement Plan

For example, Northwestel and Telus more clearly defined the service boundary between Wonowon and Fort St. John, British Columbia.

Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

This cemetery contained the burials of the parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina and the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, including Leonhard Euler, Xavier de Maistre, Germain Henri Hess, José de Ribas, Moritz von Jacobi, Agustín de Betancourt, Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, Ludvig Nobel, Fyodor Litke, Georg Friedrich Parrot, Karl Nesselrode, and Vladimir Lamsdorf.

St. Catherine's Academy

Captain Maguire was a United States Navy Chaplain to the Pacific Fleet during World War II.

St. Catherine's Day

A New Kind of Love (1963) references St. Catherine's day demonstrating the parades and millinery demonstrations in Paris, France.

St. Catherine's Down

There is a lighthouse built after the wreck of the Clarendon in 1837 to the west of Niton at the foot of the Undercliff.

St. Catherine's Priory

St. Catherine's Priory, Lincoln, a priory in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

St. Catherine's Priory, Roskilde

The geatest patron of the Dominican friars of Roskilde was the immensely powerful Dowager Duchess Ingeborg (1301-c.1360), mother of King Magnus IV of Sweden and VII of Norway, who made them frequent gifts from at least 1330 onwards and also remembered them in her will.

Swallowfield Park

In 1717, Thomas 'Diamond' Pitt, the Governor of Fort St. George, bought Swallowfield Park from Edward Hyde, reputedly using part of the proceeds of his sale of the Regent Diamond to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.

Vera Vasilchikova

August 30, 1814, for services to the spouse was granted the Order of St. Catherine of small cross.

Vowchyn

In 1938 the remains of Stanisław August Poniatowski were moved to the Holy Trinity Chapel from St. Catherine's Church in Saint Petersburg.


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