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9 unusual facts about Hornsby


Clearwing budgerigar mutation

to appear in Britain which clearly set out the genetic behaviour of the two mutations was written by R B Browne of Hornsby, New South Wales and published in the Budgerigar Bulletin in June 1937.

Hornsby Rugby Union Club

Hornsby Rugby Union Football Club are a rugby union team from Hornsby in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Kevin Betts

On 21 September 2012, Mount Wilga Private Hospital now an internationally recognised specialist hospital, in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby, officially opened a $13 million development, naming the new wing in honour of Betts, in the presence of his family.

Levavasseur project

Finally the project was completely rejected by a 13 August 1908 letter explaining that a continuous tracks tractor was now available in England, the Hornsby of engineer Roberts.

Nigel Agonia

Completing his primary education at the Ela Beach Primary School, Nigel Agonia went on to complete his High School at Barker College, Hornsby N.S.W., Australia where he developed into a promising athlete.

North Shore railway line

The North Shore Line extends from Sydney Central station through the western limb of the City Circle, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and through the North Shore area to Hornsby where it joins the Main North Line.

Northern Suburbs

The Northern Suburbs (also known as Central North, Inner Northwest, Macquarie District, Ryde District and Northern District) is the metropolitan area on the northern bank of the Parramatta River in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia east of West Pennant Hills and west of the Lane Cove National Park, south of Hornsby.

South Turramurra, New South Wales

Shorelink bus route 571 runs along Kissing Point Road, and route 572 runs along Kissing Point Road to Macquarie University and Hornsby.

West Ryde, New South Wales

In the 1880s, with the building of the railway line from Homebush to Hornsby, some estates were subdivided along its route.


Dan Hornsby

In 1986 Dan Hornsby was included into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, joining the names of some of his friends and associates: Gid Tanner, Clayton McMichen and Riley Puckett.

Hornsby formed his basic group Dan Hornsby Quartet: Perry Bechtel (banjo, guitar and bariton), Taylor Flanagan (piano and high tenor), Sterlin Melvin (guitar and bass guitar) and Dan Hornsby (lead singer and arranger).

For example, Hornsby was the first recorded voice of the "Arkansas Traveler" and was the producer of the first recording of "You Are My Sunshine".

David Hornsby

Hornsby plays defrocked priest Matthew "Rickety Cricket" Mara on the FX comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, also serving as an executive producer and writer on the show.

Don Hornsby

On the strength of his act—and an endorsement from Bob Hope—Hornsby was signed to a five-year contract with NBC and was set to host the program that would become Broadway Open House, but he was diagnosed with polio the week before the series was originally scheduled to debut.

Born in Cooper, Texas, Hornsby attended Harding Junior College in Wichita Falls for a short time before joining the Marines.

Faze FM

The Kiss 102/105 dance music format was the brainchild of two highly-experienced UK radio programmers, Mike Gray and Guy Hornsby, who first worked together at the original BBC Radio London where they produced the station's leading DJ presenters Robbie Vincent and Tony Blackburn.

James Haldane O'Hare

Jim's family moved to London in 1955 where he attended Hornsby Art School followed by the central college of art where he met his wife, Marian Anderson, the daughter of Donald Clive Anderson and English writer Verily Anderson.

John Hornsby

Hornsby co-wrote seven of nine songs on the multi-platinum album, The Way It Is, including the top-five hit, "Mandolin Rain".

Scenes from the Southside

Two other notable tracks on the record were "The Show Goes On", which was featured in Ron Howard's 1991 film Backdraft, and "Jacob's Ladder", which was written by Bruce and John Hornsby, but is most well known as being a number-one hit for Huey Lewis and the News in March 1987.

Wallumatta

The heartland of this type of forest once covered some 26,000 hectares west to Guildford, and North of Parramatta River from Ryde to Castle Hill, as well as on the shale ridge caps in the Hornsby Plateau and into areas of the inner western suburbs.

Westfield Hornsby

In August 2009, Australian pop singer Ricki-Lee Coulter made an appearance at Westfield Hornsby to promote her album, Hear No, See No, Speak No.


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