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4 unusual facts about Godfrey


Brent Hawkins

Originally from Godfrey, Illinois, Hawkins graduated from Jersey Community High School in 2001 where he excelled at basketball, football, and track.

CJCE-FM

CJCE-FM, branded as The Juice, is a low-power Canadian radio station broadcasting a Christian format airing at 93.7 FM, licensed to Godfrey, Ontario.

Deon Thomas

In 2009, Thomas became the Men's Basketball Head Coach at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois.

Tawengwa

In 1960, George Tawengwa became the first black person in Southern Rhodesia to purchase a 1,872.0 hectare commercial farm, then called Rhodesdale Farm (renamed Zimdale Farm after independence, in 1980) which was later run by his son Godfrey.


A Scandal in Bohemia

He discovers from the local stable workers that Adler has a gentleman friend, the lawyer Godfrey Norton of the Inner Temple, who calls at least once a day.

Acton by-election, 1943

Initially there were six candidates but the independent labour and liberal candidates withdrew leaving Walter Padley for the Independent Labour Party (ILP), Edward Godfrey who sought election as an 'English Nationalist' candidate, Independent Dorothy Crisp who wrote for the Sunday Dispatch and the official Conservative candidate Henry Longhurst.

Ambrose Godfrey

Initially Becher and Godfrey had got along well and they shared lodgings in Covent Garden.

Billie Godfrey

Godfrey is also a lecturer and vocal tutor at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

Caroline Spencer

Godfrey is known for her roles on several television series such as NCIS, One Tree Hill, and Wizards of Waverly Place.

Cecilia Maria de Candia

Cecilia Maria de Candia (* born, December 24, 1853, Brighton, England - d. May 26, 1926, Bordighera, Italy), later Mrs Godfrey Pearse, was a British-Italian writer, amateur singer and society hostess.

De Clare

The Clare family descends from Gilbert Crispin, Count of Brionne and Eu, whose father Godfrey was the eldest of the illegitimate sons of Richard I, Duke of Normandy.

East Oak Lane, Philadelphia

East Oak Lane is defined by the borders of Cheltenham Avenue at the north (the border between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township), Broad Street on the west, Godfrey Avenue at the south, and the Tacony Creek to the east.

English National Association

The group contested the 1943 Acton by-election with Godfrey officially running as independent, although he finished bottom of the poll with 258 votes.

Epitome Music Library

Some of the composers featured on this series are Neil Cross, Chris Hayman, David Banks, Craig Dodge, Christian Anderson, Peter Godfrey, Richard Lauw, and Ben Kopec.

Floreffe Abbey

When Norbert of Xanten, founder of the Premonstratensian Order, was returning from Cologne in the year after its foundation with relics for his new church at Prémontré, Godfrey, Count of Namur, and his wife Ermensendis received him in their castle at Namur.

Fouquieria columnaris

The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".

Fremont Rider

Grace Godfrey died in 1950 and one year later Rider married Marie Gallup Ambrose who was the daughter of Asa Oran Gallup, the Club’s manager at the time Rider was there with Melvil Dewey.

Frost*

Mitchell then introduced Godfrey to John Jowitt (also of Arena, and additionally IQ and Jadis), subsequently leading to meeting Andy Edwards (of The Wikkamen, Priory of Brion, IQ and the Ian Parker Band).

Gate Theatre Studio

Then known as the Gate Theatre Salon (The Gate to Better Things), it could hold an audience of 96, and opened on 30 October 1925 with Godfrey's production of Susan Glaspell's Berenice, starring Veness as Margaret, 'the searcher for truth', and which ran for a fortnight.

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke

Godfrey Bagnall Clarke (c.1742-26 December 1774), of Sutton Scarsdale Hall in Derbyshire, was a British Member of Parliament, representing Derbyshire.

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey made an impressive cameo appearance in director Sidney Lumet's Bye Bye Braverman as a Yiddish speaking NYC cab driver involved in a car collision with the main protagonists, and another as a gay underworld figure in the 1975 Pam Grier vehicle Friday Foster.

Godfrey I, Count of Namur

In 1109, Godfrey married Ermesinde (d. 1141), the daughter of Count Conrad I of Luxembourg and Clementia of Aquitaine.

Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Godfrey rebelled against his king and devastated land in Lower Lorraine, as well as the city of Verdun; which, though his by inheritance, Henry had not given him.

Goodwin Sports Centre

The pitches sit on top of former water reservoirs: The sports pitches on Whitham Road opposite Weston Park Hospital are the site of Godfrey Dam, built in 1790 and extended in 1853.

Gorgeous Grampa

Marge then admits to Grampa that she thought he was homosexual, to which Grampa becomes enraged and Mr. Burns reveals that Grandpa actually used to be an old-time Gorgeous George-type wrestler called "Glamorous Godfrey", whose radical fighting style was heavily despised by the wrestling fan community, forcing him to retire.

Henry II, Count of Sayn

Godfrey II (Count of Sponheim) had been a regent from 1181 and continued until his death in 1220.

Henry of Franconia

When, in 885, Charles summoned Hugh, Duke of Alsace, and Godfrey, Duke of Frisia, to a court at Lobith, it was Henry who arrested them and had Godfrey executed and Hugh imprisoned on Charles' orders.

Hugh of Sleat

The present chief of Clan Donald, Godfrey James Macdonald of Macdonald, and the present chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat, Sir Ian Godfrey Bosville Macdonald of Sleat, are both descendants of Hugh.

Ipi Tombi

Ipi Tombi (also produced as Ipi N'tombi, both corrupted transliterations of the Zulu iphi intombi, or "where is the girl?"), is a 1974 musical by South African writers Bertha Egnos Godfrey and her daughter Gail Lakier, telling the story of a young black man leaving his village and young wife to work in the mines of Johannesburg.

John Bagot Glubb

The couple had a son, Godfrey (named after the Crusader King Godfrey of Bouillon) born in Jerusalem in 1939, and adopted a Bedouin girl in 1944 and another daughter and son, his daughter from Palestinian refugees and son (named before Atalla) from Jordanian Bedouins in 1947.

John Henry Godfrey

Ian Fleming—who served under Godfrey in Naval Intelligence during World War II—based M, the fictional head of MI6 and James Bond's superior, on him; Godfrey complained that Fleming "turned me into that unsavoury character, M".

John le Sage

Born in Clifton, Bristol, Le Sage was the son of John Sage and his wife Elizabeth, née Godfrey; Le Sage would adopt the "Le" for his last name during middle age.

Kalandia

During the Crusader period, it was noted in 1114 CE that Kalandia was one of 21 villages given by King Godfrey as a fief to the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.

Laurence Godfrey

Larry Godfrey (Laurence Paul Godfrey, born 1976), Olympic archer

Marondera

The junior schools include Godfrey Huggins, Tapfuma School, Dombotombo School, Springvale House, Digglefold and Ruzawi School and the senior schools are Marondera High School, Peterhouse Group of Boarding Schools, Rakodzi High, Watershed, Bernard Mizeki College, Waddilove High School & Nagle House.

Maxwell Knight

Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series of books, used an amalgam of Knight and his former superior Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of the Naval Intelligence Division, as a model for the character 'M', Bond's boss.

Miles Prance

Finally, after being visited by William Boys, Gilbert Burnet, and William Lloyd, he confessed and said that two Irish priests, "Fitzgerald" and "Kelly", told him of a plot to kill Godfrey.

He said that Henry Berry, Robert Green, Thomas Godden and Godden's servant, Lawrence Hill, followed and strangled Godfrey while Prance kept watch.

Montague Birch

'Monty' had joined the 2nd violins of the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra (today the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) in 1912 becoming assistant conductor to Dan Godfrey.

Olisa Agbakoba

Olisa Agbakoba, OON, SAN was born on 29 May 1953 to Chief Justice Godfrey Ubaka and Mrs Phina Agbakoba in Jos.

Peter Foote

Peter Godfrey Foote (26 May 1924 – 29 September 2009) was a scholar of Old Norse literature and Scandinavian studies.

Rouge Dragon Pursuivant

The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)

Sir John Crosse, 2nd Baronet

He married Mary Godfrey on 15 July 1746 at St John's, Westminster.

Susman Godfrey

After the subsequent re-trial, the trial court awarded Masimo, Susman Godfrey’s client, a final judgment of $43.5 million in damages in June 2007, as well as attorneys' fees.

Swell Maps

Consisting of brothers Epic Soundtracks (real name Kevin Paul Godfrey) and Nikki Sudden (real name Adrian Nicholas Godfrey) two Solihull based teenagers, plus Biggles Books (Richard Earl), Phones Sportsman (David Barrington), John "Golden" Cockrill and Jowe Head (Stephen Bird), the band cut the single "Read About Seymour" as their debut in 1977, soon after the brothers left Solihull School (also home of Spizzenergi).

The Honourable Man

Godfrey again expresses his antipathy to "the reds" and so urges that the welcome should be unextravagant, and the vicar refuses to allow his choir to sing "The Red Flag".

The Sapphire Necklace

On 13 April 1867, a selection of songs from the opera were performed at The Crystal Palace, arranged for military band by Charles Godfrey Jr.

There's No Place Like a Home

The play toured in autumn 2006 and autumn 2007, with Gordon Kaye, Ken Morley, Don Maclean, Christopher Beeny, Peter Byrne, Brian Cant, Sue Hodge, Jan Hunt, Jody Crosier, Mike Edmonds, Brian Godfrey, and Emily Trebicki.

Ulrich I, Duke of Carinthia

His youngest sons entered the church: Godfrey (Gottfried) became a monk, but predeceased his father, and Pilgrim became the Patriarch of Aquileia.

Upper Ammonoosuc River

: the West Branch of the Upper Ammonoosuc rising on the eastern slope of Mount Cabot in Kilkenny, draining Unknown Pond and York Pond, and joining the main stem below the Godfrey Dam.

Virginia Ragsdale

Jamestown was raided by a native-American tribe in 1644 led by the uncle of Pocahontas, during which Godfrey and his wife were killed, but their infant son, Godfrey, Jr., survived.


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