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3 unusual facts about Hibernia


Hibernia

Another occurrence is in familial Hibernian fever or TRAPS (tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome), a periodic fever first described in 1982 in a family of Irish and Scottish descent, but found in all ethnic groups.

It is occasionally used for names of organisations and various other things; for instance: Hibernia National Bank, Hibernian Insurance Group, Ancient Order of Hibernians, The Hibernian magazine, Hibernia College, Hibernian Football Club, HMS Hibernia, the Hibernia oil field, and modern derivatives, from Latin like Respublica Hibernica (Irish Republic) and Universitas Hiberniae Nationalis (National University of Ireland).

The name took on popularity with the success of the Irish Patriot Party.


Capital One Tower

The building was originally called the CM Tower, for Calcasieu Marine National Bank, then renamed the Hibernia tower after Hibernia purchased Cacasieu Marine.

Hibernia College

Hibernia College is a private online higher education college based in Ireland and the UK with offices in Westport, Dublin, and London.

Hibernia Networks

On September 30, 2010, Hibernia announced at the Toronto Stock Exchange Opening Bell, and as well in The Wall Street Journal, its plans for a new transatlantic cable, Project Express, to be built from the NY metro area to Slough in London, with less than 60 ms of delay.

Hiberno-Roman relations

Rome never annexed Hibernia (the Latin name for Ireland) into the Roman Empire, but did exert influence on the island, although only a small amount of evidence of this has survived.

Hiberno-Roman relations refers to the relationships (mainly commercial and cultural) which existed between Ireland (Hibernia) and the ancient Roman Empire, which lasted from the time of Julius Caesar to the beginning of the 5th century AD.

Joseph A. Maynard

He worked as a manufacturer of plumbing supplies and was a director of the F.W. Webb Company, Fidelity Trust Company, Hibernia Savings Bank, and the McAuliffe Company.

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler's writing has been published in Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, The James Joyce Quarterly, The New Hibernia Review, SIAR: The Journal of the Western Institute of Irish Studies, The South Atlantic Review, The Biographical Dictionary of Southern Writers, The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, and Performing the Crossroads: Critical Essays in Performance Studies and Irish Culture.

MS Masarrah

In 1990, Sealink was taken over by Stena Line, and with this new investment, came a £8 million re-fit for St Columba, and her name was changed to Stena Hibernia.

Standish James O'Grady

He also studied Irish history of the Elizabethan period, presenting in his edition of Sir Thomas Stafford's "Pacata Hibernia" (1896) the view that the Irish people had made the Tudors into kings of Ireland in order to overthrow their unpopular landlords, the Irish chieftains.


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