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2 unusual facts about Halfway


Halfway, Cambuslang

Notable people from Halfway include boxer Scott Harrison, a World Featherweight champion; Davie Wilson, Scotland and Rangers F.C striker; Kyle Hutton, midfielder, who also played with Rangers; and Mick McGahey union leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

He was a friend of Robert Burns and wrote a poem about William Wallace called Blind Harry's Wallace, a rendering into contemporary English of a medieval Scots poem, which was eventually used as the basis for the screenplay that became the Mel Gibson blockbuster Braveheart.


1958 Atlantic hurricane season

On June 14, a tropical depression formed about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas.

1978 United States Grand Prix West

Carlos Reutemann took over at the halfway mark from Ferrari teammate Gilles Villeneuve, when the Canadian crashed out of the lead, and won by eleven seconds.

Aishalton

Lethem, the regional capital of the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region, is situated 180 km north west of Aishalton; and Dadanawa Ranch is located approximately halfway between these two centres.

Alys ferch Owain Glyndŵr

Their descendants continue to live to this day in Kentchurch on the modern day England/Wales border almost exactly halfway between Abergavenny and Hereford near the River Monnow.

Ardre

It is crossed by the Paris to Reims motorway, A4/E50 about halfway along the river's length.

Battle of Longwoods

Late in December, 1813, the British established an outpost at Delaware, roughly halfway between these two positions, and another at Port Talbot on the shore of Lake Erie.

Burlington County Bridge Commission

In 1966, the Commission became responsible for almost seven miles of roadway on County Route 543 (River Road), from Route 73 in Palmyra to the halfway house in Delran, including the three bridges/structures that crossed over Pompeston Creek, Swede Run and Twin Pipe Culvert.

Christian eschatological views

Mid-tribulation view holds that the rapture occurs halfway through; Prewrath holds that the rapture occurs some time in the midst of the tribulation in the latter 3.5 years, but before God's wrath is poured out upon the nations.

David Scott Cowper

On 6 September 2009, he was docked in Cambridge Bay, halfway through the Northwest Passage, and on 24 September he sailed into Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, after completing the passage single-handed for the third time.

Elizabeth Woodville School

Woodville was born in Grafton Regis, which is halfway between the two sites, and was Queen consort of King Edward IV.

Geography of Romania

Located at the intersection of Central and Southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.

Guckheim

Lying roughly 35 km east of Koblenz, halfway between the agglomerations of Frankfurt am Main and Cologne, Guckheim has at its disposal a good transport infrastructure with the new InterCityExpress stations in Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn, the A 3 (CologneFrankfurt; interchange at Diez/Nentershausen) and Bundesstraßen 8 and 255, all found nearby.

Gustave Boissonade

The "Boissonade Tower", the Ichigaya campus of Hosei University halfway between Ichigaya and Iidabashi stations in central Tokyo, a 26-story building completed in 2000, was named after him.

Illinois Center

In the south half of the complex, the Metra Electric Lines and the South Shore Line terminate, halfway between Michigan and Stetson Avenues, at Millennium Station.

Interstate 91 in Connecticut

Halfway between the two cities, Exit 40 provides direct access (via Connecticut Route 20) to the Bradley International Airport.

Jack Agüeros

Agüeros also wrote "Halfway to Dick and Jane," an essay on his childhood in East Harlem that was included in The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American, a collection published in 1971 by the Dial Press that also featured contributions from Czesław Miłosz and Mario Puzo.

Jack McTamney

Cuts from Jack's first album, "Halfway to NowHere" were profiled on the Iain Anderson's Radio Scotland programme on the BBC on March 30, 2011.The Philadelphia alternative newspaper, The Philadelphia City Paper, profiled Jack in its February 2, 2012 issue.

Jim Moginie

The album features contributions from Martin Rotsey and Rob Hirst, as well as Paul Dempsey in Something for Kate on the track "Halfway Home", and was released through the Virgin Music label.

John B. McClelland

He was captured by American Indians during the Crawford Expedition and tortured to death at the Shawnee town of Wakatomika, which is currently located in Logan County, Ohio, about halfway between West Liberty, Ohio and Zanesfield, Ohio.

Jordan Cronenweth

Cronenweth was initially hired as the director of photography for the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension but halfway through production producers replaced him with Fred J. Koenekamp.

Kalenjin languages

Kalenjin in this broad linguistic sense should not be confused with Kalenjin as a term for the common identity the Nandi-speaking peoples of Kenya assumed halfway the twentieth century; see Kalenjin and Kalenjin language.

Kalinin Front

During the Nevel-Gorodok operation, from 6 October - 31 December 1943, the Front (which changed names halfway through) consisted of 3rd and 4th Shock, 11th Guards and 43rd Armies, plus the 3rd Air Army.

Lameschmillen

Lameschmillen, also known as the Bergemer Mühle, is located halfway between Bergem and Noertzange (Commune of Mondercange), at the confluence of the rivers Alzette and Mess.

Lancaster College

Lancaster and Morecambe College, a further education college halfway between Lancaster and Morecambe, Lancashire, England

Leo Allen

Halfway into that endeavor, he cited as favorites The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Don Quixote by Cervantes and anything by Octavia Butler.

Live in Dallas

This film includes footage of the infamous stage invasion which caused Morrissey to exit the stage halfway through the first encore, leaving guitarist Alain Whyte on vocals.

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

Mississippi Highway 7

This sweeping bottomland, located approximately halfway between Holly Springs and Oxford, was the inspiration for fictional settings in several works by William Faulkner.

Mt. Pisgah State Park

The park is located almost exactly halfway between Troy and Towanda, along Pennsylvania State Route 3019, near U.S. Route 6, at the base of Mt. Pisgah.

Namidairo

In an interview with Excite on February 2008, she revealed the melody of the chorus was actually from her second single, Tomorrow's Way, but she only wrote it halfway.

New Zealand State Highway 98

One locality, Rakahouka, lies halfway along the route.

Oakham

Oakham railway station is positioned approximately halfway between Peterborough railway station and Leicester railway station, at both of which passengers can board a train to London - either from Leicester to London St Pancras or from Peterborough to London King's Cross.

Pitney

Pitney is home to St John the Baptist Church, the Pitney Farm Shop, and the Halfway House, selected as England's Pub of the Year in 1996 by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale).

Raquelia Rocks

Raquelia Rocks is a group of three adjacent rocks in eastern South Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Atlantic Club Ridge halfway along the Zodiac boat route linking the Spanish Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on the island.

Ribeira da Garça

Around halfway to the stream and up to Chã da Igreja is the main road of Cruzinha - Ribeira Grande that lies with the west side of the stream The river finally empties into the Atlantic that are surrounded by a cliffy coastline and is near a beach area located west of Cruzinha.

Rolf Wolfshohl

Initially Italian Renato Longo and Swiss Arnold Hungerbühler took a small lead in the race but halfway into the race, Wolfshohl bridged to the pair and then got away to win the gold medal.

Rooster Run

Rooster Run is a famous country store halfway between Bardstown and Clermont in Nelson County, Kentucky It is world famous for its caps, where tourists for decades have bought, thanks to Jack Kerouac.

Roz Savage

(Maud Fontenoy rowed solo halfway across the Pacific in 2005, via a different route.)

Sakon Yamamoto

Yamamoto made his return to the GP2 series halfway through the 2008 season, as the ART Grand Prix team elected to employ him in place of the underperforming Luca Filippi.

Samuel Paynter

Drawbridge, as its name suggests, was the point at which land traffic crossed the Broadkill River, about halfway from Milton to the Delaware Bay.

Sekele language

A variety currently being investigated is Mangetti Dune !Kung, spoken by a resettled diaspora community of 500–1000 in Namibia and South Africa in the settlements of Mangetti Dune and Omtaku (Omatako?), east of Grootfontein, Namibia, halfway to the Botswana border; and in Schmidtsdrif, west of Kimberly, South Africa.

Stony Hollow Railroad Station

It was located halfway up the Hurley Mountain Grade, and was next to the Route 28A bridge crossing.

The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

The title of the song refers to Winnie the Pooh as well as folk singer Fred Neil: parts of the lyric are taken from A. A. Milne's first book of children's poetry When We Were Very Young, including the poem "Halfway Down," which includes the words "Halfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit" and the poem "Spring Morning."

Vangaindrano

The Midongy du sud National Park is situated at 90 km from Vangaindrano and the Manombo Reserve, halfway to Farafangana

Vito Favero

The 1958 Tour de France has been compared to the 2006 Tour de France: Both Charly Gaul and Floyd Landis were favourites halfway the Tour, both lost dramatically at a stage, but at a later stage made a great comeback, which put them close to the two leaders (Favero-Raphaël Géminiani and Óscar Pereiro-Carlos Sastre, and the day before the last stage to Paris they overtook the two leaders in an individual time trial.

Wool, Dorset

It has a stone halfway along it stating that those who deface or damage the bridge will be transported (sent to Australia or another penal colony) for the rest of their lives.

Xiangyang

Today, the city is, after the capital Wuhan, the second largest in the province, located about halfway between Wuhan and Xi'an.

Yasim Mohamed

Mohamed was enrolled at Humber College, but dropped out halfway through his first year, and took a job as a baggage handler at Pearson Airport, before finding new work at the Rogers Centre selling ice cream at Toronto Blue Jays games.


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