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unusual facts about Griffith, Australian Capital Territory


Mary Stevenson

In January 1925 she married Robert Stevenson, and they emigrated to Queanbeyan in New South Wales in March 1925, moving to the Canberra suburb of Griffith in 1926.


1908–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Ralph Sayles, J. Griffith Hays, trainer George A. May
Middle row (l to r): Gregory Peck, captain Joseph P. Wilson, unknown
Front row (l to r): Carl Raiss, unknown

A Run for Your Money

Meanwhile, Twm recognizes a familiar face: Huw Price (Hugh Griffith), a down-on-his-luck harpist and traditional Chief Singer with whom he had once won the grand prize at an important Welsh music festival.

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn

Selwyn Rock (an exposed Permian glacial pavement) at Inman Valley in South Australia, Selwyn Range in the Canadian Rockies and Selwyn Street in Hackett, a suburb of the Australian Capital Territory are named after him.

Arminianism

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

Australian Capital Territory Ice Hockey Association

The Australian Capital Territory Ice Hockey Association (ACTIHA) was formed as the Australian Capital Territory's branch for Ice Hockey Australia.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Betty Lynn

In 2006, Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the hometown of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based despite Griffith's repeated denials.

Beyondblue

The chairman of beyondblue is Jeff Kennett, former Premier of Victoria, and its CEO is Kate Carnell, former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory.

BM Linx

BM Linx was a psychedelic rock group formed in 2005 by Tony Diodore (guitar & violin) with Jonathan Murray (bass), and Andrew Griffith (drums).

Brindabella Ranges

The most northerly ski fields in Australia are located in the A.C.T. - in the Brindabella Ranges and include the Namadgi National Park in the A.C.T. and Bimberi Nature Reserve and Brindabella National Park in New South Wales.

Calvin Griffith

Under Calvin Griffith's ownership, just a few years after his father's death, the Senators were moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Danny Flowers

These included "Tulsa Time" for Don Williams and Eric Clapton; "Back In My Younger Days" for Don Williams; "Gulf Coast Highway" for Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Nanci Griffith (co-written with Griffith and James Hooker); and "Before Believing" from Harris' Pieces of the Sky.

Darren Collison

Collison was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California to parents Dennis and June (Griffith), who were both elite track and field athletes for Guyana.

David Caldicott

Dr. David Caldicott is an Irish Emergency Consultant at the Emergency Department of the Calvary Hospital in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Edward G. Begle

Edward Griffith Begle (27 November 1914 – 2 March 1978) was a mathematician best known for his role as the director of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG), the primary group credited for developing what came to be known as The New Math.

Edward Griffith Colpoys

Griffith's operations were successful and in September 1814 he led an amphibious operation up the Penobscot River, seizing several towns and forcing the United States Navy to scuttle the frigate USS Adams at Hampden rather than see her captured by Griffith's forces.

Elvis and Andy

The song is an up-tempo in which the male narrator states that, while his lover is not from the Southern United States, she "likes Elvis and Andy / So she's fine and dandy with me." Presumably this refers to Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith/Taylor.

Geology of South Australia

The state of South Australia, which stretches along the coast of the continent and has boundaries with every other state in Australia, with the exception of the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Griffith, Australian Capital Territory

Griffith is named after Sir Samuel Griffith, who was chosen in 1903 as the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and retained his position until retirement in 1919.

Griffith's experiment

A German bacteriologist, Fred Neufeld, had discovered the three pneumococcal types (Types I, II, and III) and discovered the Quellung reaction to identify them in vitro.

Jim Fritzell

These included the Walter Brennan sitcom The Real McCoys (1957–62), The Andy Griffith Show (1960–68) and the long-running CBS TV series M*A*S*H, on which they worked for five seasons, contributing 35 episodes.

John Griffith Williams

Griffith Williams was a lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a member of Territorial Army (United Kingdom), joining in 1964 and becoming part of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve when it was created in 1967.

Justin Griffith

In February 2012, Griffith returned to the Raiders, this time as an offensive Quality Control coach.

Kate Carnell

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours list of 2006, for her services and contributions to the Australian Capital Territory.

Laurel Goodwin

Augusta becomes distraught as her father (played by Jackie Gleason) makes some questionable business deals under the influence of alcohol and, without consulting the rest of the family, causing strife within the household and making her beau's dad, who happens to be the local bank owner, forbid his offspring from associating with the Griffith family.

Mambilla Plateau

The Mambilla Plateau, cradle of the Bantu-speaking peoples (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003; Griffith, 2007; Martin, 2009),and inhabited for over four millennia, is found in the southeastern part of Taraba State of Nigeria under Sardauna local government area (the former Mambilla District set up in January 1940, which became known as 'Mambilla Local Authority' in 1970, and then as 'Mambilla Local Government Area' in 1981) .

Melony G. Griffith

Griffith also host a local Public-access television show entitled "Modern Mentors" for the town of District Heights, Maryland.

Motor Booty Affair

The Choral Reef(er, Bubbly Vocalizations): Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington, Mallia Franklin, Shirley Hayden, Cheryl James, Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva, Linda Brown, Richard "Kush" Griffith, Raymond Spruell, Mike "Clip" Payne, Joey Zalabok, Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, Larry Heckstall, Overton Loyd

Myrtle Vail

After the show ended, Vail became a low-keyed supporting actress in films, best known for roles in the low-budget cult films A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), written by her grandson Charles B. Griffith, and directed by Roger Corman, for whom Griffith has written and/or directed several films.

Nia Griffith

Griffith became a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in Carmarthen then Gowerton Comprehensive School in Swansea.

On the Jellicoe Road

The story is set around the life of Taylor Lily Markham, the 17-year-old leader of the boarding school on the Jellicoe Road (country NSW/ACT).

Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Very Blue Moon, a 1984 album by Nanci Griffith, and its title track

Onionhead

Filming on Onionhead was held up for a week in November 1957 when Andy Griffith came down with the Asian flu.

Oriental Institute, Oxford

Department of Egyptology and the Ancient Near East (also based at the Griffith Institute of the Ashmolean Museum)

Premiers of the Australian states

Currently South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory are the three states and territories that are run by Labor governments.

Queensland Institute of Business and Technology

It also delivers Griffith University’s Mixed English and Academic Program, University Foundation program (Certificate IV) and Postgraduate Qualifying Program.

Sean Parlaman

Parlaman was born in Los Angeles County, California, to Griffith Mead Parlaman (20 April 1923 – 22 October 1991) and Doris V. Simmons Parlaman (22 November 1923 – 11 February 2007); he fell to his death in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand.

Stormy Monday

Between the time of the film being shot and its release Working Girl was released and Griffith became an Oscar-nominated star.

Tertiary Entrance Rank

Although directly equivalent to the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) in Victoria, and the Universities Admission Index (UAI) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, the terms ENTER and UAI were only used in their respective states or territories.

Thamnolia

Thamnolia vermicularis is a species found in may parts of the world, including high parts of Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory and Severnaya Zemlya

The John Bohlen Lectureship

1879: Phillips Brooks, The Influence of Jesus, Griffith Farran & Co.

The Morning Exchange

Fred Griffith was demoted to a field reporter with morning meteorologist Mark Johnson taking his place as co-host, along with former WJW-TV news anchor Robin Swoboda.

Thelma Lou

Thelma Lou appeared as a semi-regular character in 26 episodes of the The Andy Griffith Show from 1961 until 1966 when the character was dropped from the show.

Tugendhat chair

Gerry Griffith in Chicago created examples in the 1960s for use in the United Airlines Executive Office Building designed by Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

William McRee

He was the son of Major Griffith McRee, a veteran of the American Revolution, and the daughter of Dr. John Fergus of Wilmington.

Zhang Hongjie

The Federal Government of Australia wants the Australian Capital Territory (ACT includes Canberra) to cooperate with the Chinese investigation into the murder, as written by a letter from John Howard to Chief Minister Stanhope in May 2005, and another request from Justice Minister Chris Ellison in June.


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