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unusual facts about Harry Stopes-Roe


Harry Stopes-Roe

His wife—Mary Eyre Wallis, later Mary Stopes-Roe—was the daughter of the noted engineer Barnes Wallis.


Anup Rai

In 1616, Jahangir asked Anup Rai to keep Prince Khusrau Mirza (Jahangir's oldest son, whom Roe called Corsoronne) under confinement.

Arthur Stanley Roe

Dr Arthur Stanley Roe was a medical doctor from Queensland, Australia, and the first Rhodes Scholar from that state when he was awarded the scholarship in 1904 at Brisbane Grammar School.

Bulgarka Nature Park

Many wild animals, such as the Eurasian wolf, fox, the golden jackal, Eurasian brown bear, wild boar, red deer, roe deer, hare, eastern hedgehog, squirrel, badger, mink and others inhabit the forested lands of the Bulgarka Park.

Corolla, North Carolina

The usual pronunciation of local residents stresses the second syllable like all (Kuh-RAH-Luh, /kəˈrɑːlə/), however many outsiders pronounce Corolla the same as they pronounce the name of the car, the Toyota Corolla, where the second syllable sounds like roe (Kuh-ROE-Luh, /kəˈroʊlə/).

Edith Jones

Jones attracted attention for her opinion in the case of McCorvey v. Hill, which was a request by the Ms. McCorvey, the 'Jane Roe' of Roe v. Wade to vacate the finding of that case.

F. P. Raynham

As well as piloting for A.V. Roe and Martinsyde amongst others, he flew alongside early British flyers like Tommy Sopwith, Harry Hawker, Gordon Bell and Ronald Kemp.

Gairdner River

Roe named the river after Gordon Gairdner, Senior Clerk of the Australian and Eastern Departments in the Colonial Office, later Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office and Secretary and Registrar of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

H. V. Burlingham

Unlike Thomas Harrington Ltd, Metro Cammell Weymann, Saunders-Roe or Duple, Burlingham did not build up an extensive export trade.

Hawker Siddeley

In 1945, the Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft of Malton, Ontario, Canada from the Canadian government, renaming the company A.V. Roe Canada, commonly known as Avro Canada, initially a wholly owned subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley.

Henry Roe

He was born in Henryville Lower Canada to a large family and his father, John Hill Roe, was a doctor.

Humphrey Verdon Roe

Before he met his wife, Roe had attempted to found a birth control clinic in Manchester, offering to finance St Mary's Hospital for the purpose.

IAAF Hall of Fame

jpg"?title=Paavo Nurmi">Paavo Nurmi and Emil Zátopek, two Europeans on the Hall of Fame.

Jerry D. Roe

He is the father of Jason Roe, a former chief of staff to United States Representative Tom Feeney and former deputy campaign manager of the 2008 presidential primary campaign of Mitt Romney; and Samantha Roe, formerly of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Roe is often relied on as a Michigan GOP historian, and is associated with the moderate "Milliken Republicans," named for the former governor whose term in office spanned all of Roe's stint as GOP state director.

During this period, Roe earned respect from leaders of both political parties, as evidenced by his appointment to the Michigan Historical Commission by both Republican Governor William G. Milliken and Democratic Governor James J. Blanchard.

John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School

In 2009, as part of the annual Foundation Day celebrations to commemorate the school's 20th year, the school's principal Matthew Hughes JP commissioned the creation of a statue of John Septimus Roe in his youth, the sculpture was later changed to be of Roe during the early years of his work as the Surveyor General.

Lancashire Aero Club

22 December 1926: John F. Leeming and Bert Hinkler (1892–1933), the chief test pilot of A.V.Roe Avro Manchester, land on Helvellyn in the Lake District (the first aeroplane to land on a mountain in Great Britain)

Loren Leman

He longlined for halibut in Cook Inlet and harvested herring roe on kelp in Prince William Sound.

McDonald and Giles

(A.V. Roe was the first British aviator and founder of Avro Aircraft Company).

O'Byrne family

Feagh also helped in the escape of Hugh Roe O'Donnell from Dublin Castle in 1591 and Hugh Roe stayed with O'Byrne at Ballinacor, Glenmalure.

Operational Requirement F.155

Saunders-Roe came up with the P.187: a logical progression from the SR.53 and SR.177 mixed power (rocket and jet engines) interceptors.

Owen Roe McGovern

In the 1948 All-Ireland title success Owen Roe replaced John Joe O'Reilly as a second-half substitute in defence.

Pat Roe

He began his club football career with Portlaoise with whom he won minor and under 21 honours but it with his second club The Heath that Roe played a starring role in 1993 when they won a memorable Laois Senior Football Championship title.

Patrick Stone

On 8 February 1880, Stone married Helen Emily Roe, daughter of James Elphinstone Roe.

Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle

The PACV was based on Bell Aerosystems Bell SK-5 hovercraft; a licensed version of the British Saunders-Roe (later, British Hovercraft Corporation) SR.N5 hovercraft.

Ping Pong over the Abyss

"It's So Sad," was later rerecorded, with a drastically different arrangement, by Roe's other band, the Lost Dogs for their album MUTT.

Planes That Never Flew

In The Last Rocket Fighter, the series examined at the Saunders-Roe SR.177, a combined jet- and rocket-powered interceptor aircraft, planned by the British company Saunders-Roe, but cancelled in 1957 due to a change in strategic plans.

Port Jefferson, New York

Suwassett was renamed in 1682 to "Drowned Meadow" after being settled by an Irish shoemaker from Queens named John Roe.

Preacher Roe

Roe lived in West Plains, Missouri, where for many years he operated a small grocery store and has a street named after him (Preacher Roe Boulevard), which included U.S. 160 north of the US 63 bypass until the city rerouted U.S. 160 and Route 17 circa 2000.

Primou

It is currently maintained by Bruce Roe, and Steve Kenton at the University of Oklahoma.

Promise Lands

The album was recorded at The Dairy, Brixton, London and at Darren Ford's home studio, co-produced by Ford and Dan Roe and mixed by Gareth Parton who has previously worked with The Go! Team.

Public Catalogue Foundation

Oil paintings in public ownership in Birmingham,The Public Catalogue Foundation, Andrew Ellis, Sonia Roe, 2008, ISBN 9781904931386

Riemann solver

Roe used the linearisation of the Jacobian, which he then solves exactly.

Robin Roe

The tour lasted four months, and Roe's roommates were the 19-year old Tony O'Reilly, Bill Williams and Bryn Meredith.

Roe became Rector of Merrow, Surrey (Diocese of Guildford) in 1982 and served there until his retirement in 1989.

Roe deer

A pioneer species commonly associated with biotic communities at an early stage of succession, during the Neolithic period in Europe the roe deer was abundant, taking advantage of areas of forest or woodland cleared by Neolithic farmers.

In southern England they started their expansion in Sussex (possibly from enclosed stock in Petworth Park) and from there soon spread into Surrey, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, and for the first half of the 20th century most roe in southern England were to be found in these counties.

Roe I Triplane

It was then transported to the new flying ground that Roe had found on Walthamstow Marshes (then in Essex, but now within the London Borough of Waltham Forest), where he rented two railway arches under the LNER railway besides the river Lea.

Roe named the aircraft The Bullseye after the braces manufactured by his brother's firm, which had helped pay for it.

Roe River

A successful campaign to get the Roe River recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest river in the world originated from students at Lincoln Elementary School in Great Falls, Montana.

Sarah Weddington

Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945), is an American attorney, law professor, and former Texas state legislator best known for representing "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court.

Saro P.531

The Saro P.531 (or Saunders-Roe P.531) is a British all-metal five-seat helicopter designed and built by Saunders-Roe Limited (Saro).

Saunders Severn

Severn was the last flying boat designed by S.E. Saunders Ltd before the take-over by A.V. Roe and John Lord late in 1928 that produced the Saunders-Roe, or "Saro", company.

Short Folder

Shorts produced many "folder" aircraft; in addition large numbers of Shorts' designs were produced by other companies, including Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd., Robey & Co. Ltd., J Samuel White, Frederick Sage & Co. Ltd., S E Saunders Limited, Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company, Supermarine Aviation Works Ltd., Mann, Egerton & Co. Ltd. and Westland Aircraft Works Ltd..

SR.N3

The British Hovercraft Corporation SR.N3 was a 37.5 ton hovercraft originally designed by Saunders-Roe.

Sverre of Norway

When Sverre was five, the family moved to the Faroes where Sverre was raised in the household of Unås' brother Roe, bishop of the Faroes on Kirkjubøargarður in Kirkjubøur.

Tommy Roe

Roe guest-starred in an episode of the American sitcom, Green Acres, called "The Four of Spades", which first aired on 8 November 1969, one week to the day before the Hot 100 debut of his final Top 10 single, a track co-written with Freddy Weller, "Jam Up and Jelly Tight", which became his fourth gold record, peaking at number 8 in the U.S. and number 5 in Canada.

UK Astronomy Technology Centre

Its initial "customers" were the then new Gemini Observatory, the former ROE observatories in Hawaii (the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT)), and a former RGO observatory, the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma, Canary Islands.

Wandsworth

A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47, West Hill.


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