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unusual facts about Glenwood, KwaZulu-Natal


Durban Girls' High School

Durban Girls' High School (known to the students of the school as DGHS) is a public high school for girls located in Glenwood, an upper-middle class suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.


53rd National Conference of the African National Congress

The premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Zweli Mkize was elected as treasurer-general, defeating Arts Minister Paul Mashatile by 2,988 votes to 961, and ousting incumbent Mathews Phosa.

A. magna

Alberta magna, the Natal flame bush, a plant species endemic to South Africa

Ancylobothrys capensis

The species is common and occurs in rocky areas, particularly on quartzites throughout KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Botswana.

Andreas Victor Michiels

As governor of the West Coast of Sumatra, in 1843, Michiels had a serious clash with Eduard Douwes Dekker, who was then serving as controller at Natal (now in Mandailing Natal Regency, North Sumatra) because of a cash budget deficit.

Beat the Drum

A young South African orphan named Musa (Junior Singo) leaves his AIDS-ravaged village in KwaZulu-Natal, taking along only a drum given to him by his father, for the gritty streets of Johannesburg in search of work and his uncle.

Ben Martins

He is still a practicing artist, with his artwork forming part of the permanent Art collection of the Killie Campbell Collection of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Pretoria and Johannesburg Art Galleries, as well as that of numerous private collections.

Bert Dorr

Dorr died at the age of 52 in Dickinson, New York, and is interred at Glenwood Cemetery.

Blue Range Wilderness

It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood.

Borbo micans

In South Africa it is restricted to the riverine and lowland forests of KwaZulu-Natal and swamp areas close to Manguzi Forest, the Pongola River and Kosi Bay in Maputaland.

BR-101

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened (with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened).

Chiromantes eulimene

The range of C. eulimene extends from the Bashee to the Inhambane mangroves and includes the mangroves of KwaZulu-Natal where it occurs abundantly.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

The treatment has also raised concerns in the LGBT community following an essay posted to the forum of the Hastings Center, a think tank devoted to bioethics, which quoted published research that suggested that pre-natal treatment of female fetuses could prevent those fetuses from becoming lesbians after birth, may make them more likely to engage in "traditionally" female-identified behaviour and careers, and more interested in bearing and raising children.

Cyberjack

Vironix was owned by Dave and Paula Hall and originally operated from Westville, Durban.

Denzil Dolley

He played for the University of Port Elizabeth and a provincial team called KwaZulu Natal Raiders.

Drakensberg Boys' Choir School

Drakensberg Boys Choir School is a school near the small town of Winterton, in the heart of the Drakensberg mountain range in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Faurea saligna

Found from tropical Africa south to the Transvaal, Swaziland and Natal, often in large communities on sandy soil and along stream beds.

Francis Farewell

Lieutenant Francis George Farewell (1784–1829), the founder of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa, was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Blackmore Vale in 1784.

Gustav Fritsch

Along with his medical studies, Fritsch was also known for his ethnographical research in southern Africa (1863–66), during which time he traveled from Cape Town through the Orange Free State, Basutoland, Natal and Bechuanaland.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal

The village was laid out as leasehold sites on a portion of the farm Albinia owned by William Gillitt, one of the main pioneer families of the area and after which the nearby suburb of Gillitts is named.

História trágico-marítima

- the wreck the great galleon, São João, captained by Manoel de Sousa Sepulveda, off the coast of Natal, South Africa in 1552.

Jack Siedle

Born on 11 January 1903 in Berea, Durban, Natal, Siedle was the youngest son of Otto Siedle, who was born in Woolwich, London of southern German stock and who trained as a watchmaker, subsequently emigrating to Durban where he became prominent in the shipping business and public affairs.

James Ward Rector

Born in Glenwood, Missouri, Rector received his bachelors and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Jardel Santana

Jardel Santana da Silva (born 10 December 1978 in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil is a Brazilian footballer.

Joan Brickhill

She directed and presented, with her husband, Louis Burke, the first South African play in KwaZulu-Natal to be performed for multiracial audiences.

John Medley Wood

John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England - 26 August 1915 Durban) was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosaic virus immune Uba sugar cane in Natal and for his extensive collection of Natal plants.

For health reasons he moved further inland to Inanda in 1868, where he ran a trading store and did some farming.

Kloof Country Club

Kloof and Champagne Sports Resort are in fact the only courses in KwaZulu-Natal to have bent greens, (soon to be joined by Cotswold Downs in Hillcrest).

KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) is a professional orchestra based in Durban, South Africa.

Liege Hulett

Sir James Liege Hulett (17 May 1838 – 1928) was a sugar magnate and philanthropist in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, originally from Kent, England.

Linpark High School

Linpark High School is a co-educational public boarding school situated on Claude Forsyth Rd, in Boughton, a northern suburb of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Maris Stella School

Maris Stella School is a private Roman Catholic day school for girls from four to eighteen years old (grades 0-12 or pre-primary, primary and secondary phases), located on the Berea in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Marley's golden mole

This species is known from only two isolated localities on the eastern slopes of the Lebombo Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Mauritius cricket team

In April 2011, Tommy Hammond, of Tommy Hammond Sports, took South African first-class side Kwazulu-Natal Inland Under-15 side to Mauritius in what promised to be a most important and promising tour and proved to a ground-breaking tour in Mauritian cricket.

Mbulelo Mabizela

Mbulelo Mabizela (born 16 September 1980 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal) is a South African footballer who plays as a midfielder and defender for Mpumalanga Black Aces.

Michele MacNaughton

Michele MacNaughton (born 18 November 1973 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) is a retired female field hockey player from South Africa, who represented her native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Minnesota State Highway 104

Highway 104 changes direction to east–west in Chippewa Falls Township and continues as east–west for 6 miles before returning again to a north–south direction in Barsness Township for the remainder of its route to Glenwood.

Minnesota State Highway 104 is a highway in west-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 9 in Norway Lake Township near Sunburg and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highways 28 and 29 in the city of Glenwood.

State Highway 104 serves as a north–south and an east–west route between Sunburg and Glenwood in west-central Minnesota.

Minnewaska Area High School

The Minnewaska Area School District #2149 was consolidated in 1993 from three Pope County districts: Glenwood/Lowry, Starbuck, and Villard.

Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple

The Mount Edgecombe Ganesha Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Operation Matterhorn

That same month, the first Superfortresses arrived in India, having flown across the Atlantic Ocean using the South Atlantic Transport route from Morrision Field, Florida to Natal, Brazil then across to North Africa, then to Arabia, and Persia.

Prionium serratum

This species has a disjunct distribution along the southern and south-eastern seaboard from the Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal on sandstone substrates, growing in dense mats in marshy areas, and in and along streams and rivers.

South African Constitution of 1961

In Natal and the Orange Free State, which each elected less than twenty-five members of the House of Assembly, the provincial councils consisted of twenty-five members.

South African general election, 2004

The Inkatha Freedom Party lost some support, including the majority in their stronghold province of Kwazulu-Natal, while the United Democratic Movement also lost support, barely hanging on as opposition in their stronghold, the Eastern Cape.

St. Anne's Diocesan College

St Anne's Diocesan College is a private girls' boarding school situated in the small town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa.

Tete veld aethomys

However, the current best estimate suggests that Tete veld rats are found in Swaziland and northeastern South Africa, where they are found in the North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, and the northern part of Free State province.

Wilkesboro, Oregon

The terminus of the United Railways line was in Wilkesboro, and Gales Creek and Wilson River Railroad (GC&WR) started from this line and ran 12.75 miles to Glenwood.


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