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7 unusual facts about Hamilton, Bermuda


Arthur Motyer

Born in Hamilton, Bermuda, the son of building contractor and land developer Ernest Motyer and Edith Brunning, he was educated at Saltus Grammar School and later (1942-1945) studied English literature at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Bermuda Police Service

Three of the constables were based in Hamilton, with Clarke, three in St. George's, with Chief Constable H. Dunkley, and two in Somerset, and there were still twenty-one part-time Parish constables.

Flatt's Inlet, Bermuda

It lies almost exactly between the territory's two municipalities, Hamilton and St. George's.

Great Sound, Bermuda

Bermuda's capital, Hamilton, sits against the northern shore of this harbour.

HNLMS O 15

In Hamilton, Bermuda, repairs were made to the diesel engines which were due for an overhaul in Halifax.

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess (generally known as The Princess) is one of the grandest and most famous hotels in Hamilton, Bermuda.

William Eldon Tucker

William Eldon Tucker was born in Hamilton, Bermuda in 1872; the fifth child of the Reverend George Tucker, and his first wife Theodosia Trott.


2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

The North American Qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from February 5 to February 6, 2010.

342d Fighter Day Group

The enemy was on the defensive, and the American defensive outposts in the Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Bermuda) were shifting to secondary roles.

Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton

Hamilton had a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies, and was so impressed with the work of mummy expert Thomas Pettigrew that he arranged for Pettigrew to mummify him after his death.

Angelique Seriese

Other medals include eight European championship victories, bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Essen and silver at the 1993 World Championships in Hamilton.

Auckland 400

With the 1960s circuit ageing, several attempts were made to move to a new locations, until eventually finding a new home on a street circuit in Hamilton as the Hamilton 400.

Bea Wain

Their honeymoon in Bermuda was cut short when Fred Allen called Baruch asking him to return to New York to substitute for his ailing announcer, Harry von Zell.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney, Jr.

She was born at Hamilton, Ontario, on May 3, 1868, the daughter of Thomas J. Lewis, a tobacco manufacturer, and Elizabeth (Arthur) Lewis.

Bermuda carriage bell

A Bermuda carriage bell was also used to provide the Daily Double sound effect on the original version of Jeopardy! hosted by Art Fleming.

Chatelherault Country Park

An avenue of lime trees linked the lodge and the palace, formerly located in Hamilton.

Chemistro

During the Shadowland storyline, Chemistro was seen as member of Flashmob (a group of former opponents of Luke Cage consisting of Cheshire Cat, Commanche, Dontrell "Cockroach" Hamilton, Mr. Fish II, and Spear) when they confront the new Power Man on the rooftop.

Constitution Hill, London

It was the scene of three assassination attempts against Queen Victoria—in 1840 (by Edward Oxford), 1842 (by John Francis) and 1849 (by William Hamilton).

Conversion between quaternions and Euler angles

Actually this simple use of "quaternions" was first presented by Euler some seventy years earlier than Hamilton to solve the problem of magic squares.

Daniel K. Ludwig

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda; the Bahamas Princess (formerly the King's Inn) and the Xanadu Princess Tower (formerly the International) in Freeport; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

Dylan Hudecki

Dylan Hudecki (born in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician, who has been associated with the bands By Divine Right, Cowlick and Junior Blue.

Edward Irvin Scott

He was born on May 13, 1846 in N. Greenfield, New York, the son of Alexander Hamilton Scott and Sophronia Wood Seymour.

Edward Richards

In 1963, Richards welcomed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia when Selassie visited Bermuda with his granddaughter Princess Ruth Desta.

Ethel Armes

Born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr, Ethel was brought up in Washington, D.C. where she attended private schools.

Frances Lumley-Saunderson, Countess of Scarbrough

Frances Douglas-Hamilton (died 30 December 1772) was the daughter of George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney and his wife, Elizabeth Villiers.

Gerald Hamilton

Born in Shanghai in the 1880s, but educated at Rugby School in England, he counted among his friends Winston Churchill, Aleister Crowley, Robin Maugham, Tallulah Bankhead and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote of Hamilton's remarkable personality and frequently shady dealings in his literary memoir Christopher and His Kind.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

H. Hugh Bancroft

After nine years, he left for the Church of the Ascension in Hamilton, Ontario, but stayed there only nine months.

Hamilton University

CBS News reported in 2004 that Hamilton was operated by Rudy Marn of Key West, Florida.

Hamilton Ward

Hamilton Ward, Jr., New York State Attorney General and son of Hamilton Ward, Sr.

Hamilton, New South Wales

In 1947, Lettesi (a settler group made up of nearly 150 families from the village of Lettopalena in the

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Hubert Kah

Together with Michael Cretu, Kemmler wrote and produced songs for other artists, including "Dancing Into Danger" by Inker & Hamilton, "Love at First Sight" by the band Münchener Freiheit and a number of tracks by Sandra such as "Maria Magdalena", "Heaven Can Wait", when wife Susanna Kemmler was partly responsible for the background vocals.

Jack Le Goff

After retiring as the American coach, he spent five years in Hamilton, Massachusetts as the Director of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) Training Center.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

Lord of the Bling

The character Bone Hamilton is based on real life Hip-Hop mogul Suge Knight, with references being made to the incident where he allegedly held Vanilla Ice over a balcony.

Lynne Scime

Recently, Scime has been a vocal opponent of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's equity policy and has spoken out against LGBT rights.

Management consulting

In the US, Computer Sciences Corporation's Federal Consulting Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Deloitte Consulting LLP, amongst others, have established a profile for consulting within government organizations and functions.

Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton

Prince György Tasziló József Festetics de Tolna (4 September 1882, Baden-Baden – 4 August 1941, Keszthely); who married to Countess Marie Franziska von Haugwitz.

Melesina Trench

Another oil painting, The Evening Star by Sir Thomas Lawrence, had her as a subject, and she was reproduced in portrait miniatures; one in Paris by Jean-Baptiste Isabey and another by Hamilton that was copied by the engraver Francis Engleheart.

Memory conformity

Reportedly, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's Chief of Staff, flew to Scotland to present The Duke of Hamilton with a peace proposal between Germany and Britain.

Men's Football at the 2013 Island Games

The 2013 Island Games in Bermuda was the thirteenth edition in which a football (soccer) tournament was played at the multi-games competition.

Model-driven engineering

Companies like Integrated Development Environments (IDE - StP), Higher Order Software (now Hamilton Technologies, Inc., HTI), Cadre Technologies, Bachman Information Systems, and Logic Works (BP-Win and ER-Win) were pioneers in the field.

Nathan E. Kendall

Defeating Hamilton in a close race, Kendall served in the Sixty-first Congress, then was re-elected in 1910, serving in the Sixty-second Congress.

Ontario Australian Football League Division 2

Mohawk Sports Park, Hamilton - Home of the Hamilton Wildcats

Paul McStay

Paul Michael Lyons McStay OBE, nicknamed the Maestro (born 22 October 1964, Hamilton), is a former football player who spent his entire career with Scottish team Celtic F.C., making his debut in 1982 and retiring in 1997.

Remote surgery

To date Dr. Anvari, a laparoscopic surgeon in Hamilton, Canada, has conducted numerous remote surgeries on patients in North Bay, a city 400 kilometres from Hamilton.

Sandys Parish

Sandys Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda.

Seguenzia elegans

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bay of Biscay, Madeira, Bermuda and Argentine.

Squash at the 2013 Island Games

Squash, for the 2013 Island Games, took place at the Bermuda Squash Racquets Association in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda.

Tex Maule

Hamilton Prieleaux Bee Maule, commonly known as Tex Maule (May 19, 1915 in Ojus, Florida — May 16, 1981) was the lead American football writer for Sports Illustrated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Tribute in Light

The beams were clearly visible from the terrace at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York, from at least as far west as western Morris County, in Flanders, New Jersey, at least as far as the barrier beach of Fire Island in Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, and as far south near Trenton, New Jersey in nearby Hamilton.

William Colgate

He annually subscribed money to assist in defraying the current expenses of Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution (later Madison University and Theological Seminary); and he was among the most strenuous opponents of their removal to the city of Rochester.

William Rosen

The Bermuda win made him, at 25 years old, the youngest world champion ever to do so; a record broken by Bobby Levin in 1981 at the age of 23.

Wolf pack Pfadfinder

At 00:18 hours on 27 May the unescorted 6,269 ton Dutch merchantman Polyphemus, en route from Halifax to Liverpool, was hit by two torpedoes from U-578 about 340 miles north of Bermuda and sank within 45 minutes, with the loss of 15 of the crew.


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1939 Imperial Airways flying boat ditching

As soon as it was realised at Port Washington that Cavalier was going to land in the sea, Port Washington requested a Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-42 flying boat from Hamilton, Bermuda, to go to her assistance.