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unusual facts about Gills, Caithness



2000–01 Gillingham F.C. season

Former Gillingham captain Andy Hessenthaler was appointed player-manager, having previously served as player-coach and led the club to a satisfying 13th place finish in the Gills' first ever season in Division One.

Allan McFarlane

Allan McFarlane Esq. and his wife Margaret Horne McFarlane (née Horne) (22 November 1795 – 17 September 1878) and their family left their home in Caithness, Scotland, and arrived in South Australia aboard the Superb on 29 October 1839.

Andrew Constable, Lord Constable

He served as Sheriff of Caithness from 1917 to 1920 and of Argyll from February–May 1920, when he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

Aquatic respiration

A large surface area to allow as much oxygen to enter the gills as possible due to the fact that more of the gas comes into contact with the membrane

Battle of Allt Camhna

However both Hugh Mackay and George Sinclair, Earl of Caithness were unwilling to attack their old allies the Clan Gunn and therefore departed from the meeting at Eglin.

Benedict Munro, Baron von Meikeldorf

Benedict was the youngest son of Robert Munro, Commissary of Caithness, who in turn was the third son of John Mor Munro, 3rd of Coul, a descendant of George Munro, 10th Baron of Foulis.

Bobby Folds

Bedford manager Basil Hayward took over as manager of Gillingham of the Football League Third Division in 1966 and recruited a number of players from his former club, including Folds, who joined the "Gills" as the club's first ever apprentice-professional.

Cannabis in the United Kingdom

Place names of important centres of the former hemp industry still contain the name of hemp such as Hempriggs in Caithness and Hempland in Dumfriesshire.

Charles S. T. Calder

In 1940 Calder conducted an emergency excavation of a broch in Caithness before it was destroyed to make way for the new airport of RAF Skitten.

Cillit Bang

In August 2009 it was revealed that household cleaners such as Cillit Bang and Mr. Muscle have been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

Derek Ratcliffe

He was instrumental in persuading the UK government to end the tax advantages available for planting of non-native conifer forests on Scottish peat bogs, which was threatening the internationally important large wetland area of Caithness and Sutherland known as the Flow Country.

Donald Horne Macfarlane

Macfarlane was born in Scotland, the youngest son of Allan Macfarlane J.P., of Caithness and his wife Margaret Horne.

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

In 1853, he married Isabella Sophia Hardisty (1825-1913), daughter of Richard Hardisty (1790-1865), Chief Trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Margaret Sutherland (1802-1876), daughter of the Rev. John Sutherland, a native of Caithness who lived at Lachine, Quebec.

Dunnet

A possible reason for this may be that guitarist Jimmy Page already owned Boleskin House, for many years the home of notorious occultist and white witch Aleister Crowley, near Foyers on the south bank of Loch Ness, and was a frequent visitor to Caithness.

Earltown

In the following years they were joined by approximately 100 families who immigrated directly from the Sutherland, Ross and Caithness, Scotland.

Easter Ross

The name is used in the constituency name Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, which is the name of both a British House of Commons constituency and a Scottish Parliament constituency.

Galwegian Gaelic

Many of the leading settlers would have been of both Norse and Gaelic heritage, and it was the Gaelicisation of these Norse leaders which distinguished them from other Norse lords of northern Britain such as those in Shetland, Orkney and Caithness.

Gilliam County, Oregon

The wind farm is being built by Caithness Energy using General Electric (GE) 2.5 MW wind turbines, and it will supply electricity to Southern California Edison.

Gills, Caithness

The township is located directly between the villages of Mey to the west along the A836 coast road, and the village of Canisbay to the east.

Harald II

Harald Maddadsson, Earl of Orkney and Mormaer of Caithness (1139–1206)

Harald Maddadsson

In this campaign, dated to 1201, the Saga tells that Harald came to the stronghold of Bishop John of Caithness, at Scrabster.

Highland Amateur Cup

Pentland United won the final in 2008 beating fellow Caithness team Castletown 3–0.

Hygrocybe lanecovensis

The related Hygrocybe kula, found in Royal National Park as well as Lane Cove Bushland Park, is similar in being red with decurrent gills, but its gills are more creamy and not visible through the cap surface.

Inocybe geophylla

The fruiting body is a small all-white or cream mushroom with a fibrous silky umbonate cap and adnexed gills.

James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness

Caithness was the son of Alexander Sinclair, 13th Earl of Caithness, and his wife Frances Harriet, daughter of the Very Reverend William Leigh, Dean of Hereford.

Jean Hepburn

Jean Hepburn, Lady Darnley, Mistress of Caithness, Lady Morham (died 1599) was a Scottish noblewoman and a member of the Border clan of Hepburn.

Leelanau Township, Michigan

St. Wenceslaus Church, named for Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, a Roman Catholic Church founded nearby by immigrants from Bohemia who worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and at the Gills Pier sawmill also remains.

Lord Charles Beresford

Lord Beresford died in 1919 at Langwell, Berriedale, Caithness, at the age of 73, at which point his title became extinct.

Lybster

The Sinclairs of Lybster have long roots running back to the Sinclair earls who ruled Caithness that was once a much larger area taking in much of Sutherland.

Malise mac Gilleain

The king, in person, commanded the center, which was composed of the men from Ross, Perth, Angus, Mar, Mearns, Moray, Inverness, and Caithness.

Mineral Wells, Texas

Since March 1945, the southern wall of Deutsches Weintor ("German Wine Gate") in Schweigen-Rechtenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, bears the Graffito: "Jere Gills Min. Wells 3-45" and a map of Texas with a star, marking the position of Mineral Wells.

Moranwali

The village was completed in 1850 and other Jat clans, such as the Gills, Sandhus and the Hayers joined the Rai's to live in the village.

Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell

Jean Hepburn (d. before 27 July 1599) whose first husband was John Sinclair, Master of Caithness (d.1578, v.p.), with issue; her second husband was John Stewart, Lord Darnley, Prior of Coldingham, by whom she had Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell; her third husband the notorious Archibald Douglas, Parson of Douglas, a Senator of the College of Justice, and brother of William Douglas of Whittinghame.

Pensby

The famous Everton FC footballer Dixie Dean played for Pensby Institute in his early days, on the fields at the side of Gills Lane.

Psilocybe semiinconspicua

The gills are Adnate light grayish brown at first, turning dark purple as the spores mature.

Reay

In 1437, the MacKays defeated the men of Caithness at Sandside Bay in the battle known as the Sandside Chase, turning there on the pursuers that had chased them away from an attempted raid.

Robert Anstruther

Sir Robert Anstruther, 1st Baronet (1658–1737) (additionally of Balcaskie, Fife and Braemore, Caithness in 1698) MP for Fife 1710

Robert Dick

Then he obtained a copy of Hugh Miller's Old Red Sandstone (published in 1841), and he began systematically collecting with hammer and chisel the fossils from the Caithness flags.

Saint Gilbert

Gilbert de Moravia (died 1245), later known as Saint Gilbert of Dornoch, Bishop of Caithness and founder of Dornoch Cathedral

Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet

Sinclair was a great proponent of new agricultural methods, and large tracts of land on his Caithness estate were let out to tenants who kept new breeds of livestock such as Cheviot sheep.

The Trench

Once in the Trench, they find a prehistoric monster called Kronosaurus that has evolved to hunt in packs and has evolved gills.

Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

Cooper was the son of John Cooper, of Edinburgh, a civil engineer, and Margaret, daughter of John Mackay, of Dunnet, Caithness.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Following early research at Harwell in Oxfordshire, the Government in 1954 selected Dounreay in Caithness as the centre of research and development.

Veronica Linklater

Her first cousin, John Thurso, 3rd Viscount Thurso is an elected Liberal Democrat MP for the seat of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross.

Wisconsin Highway 42

At Gills Rock, WIS 42 turns due east and then turns slightly to the southeast before heading due east again to its eastern terminus at the Washington Island Ferry dock at Port Des Morts Drive in unincorporated town of Northport.


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