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unusual facts about Iron-Age



Abdelkrim Ghallab

Interview with Abdelkarim Ghallab, Remembering for Tomorrow (publication of the European Cultural Foundation and Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, Annette van Beugen and Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla) about his autobiographical books The Seven Doors (Sab'at abwab), The Book of Formation, An Unjust Old Age (al-Shaykhukha alzalima) and Cairo Reveals its Secrets (al-Qahira tabuhu an asrariha).

Adolf von Brauchitsch

Adolf von Brauchitsch died in Chemnitz, Germany on the 21 January 1935 at age 58 and was given a military funeral.

Albert G. Blanchard

Afterwards, he was replaced by Ambrose R. Wright because of his advancing age and the desire for a younger officer to lead the brigade in the field.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

ASAH2B

ASAH2B shows reduced expression with increasing age and further reduction in late onset Alzheimer's disease patients.

Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

A scion of famous rabbinic families, on both his father's and his mother's side (his family can be traced back to Maharam Padua and Saul Wahl), Avraham Yehoshua Heshel showed great promise even at an early age.

Barretter

Iron-hydrogen resistor or barretter, a hydrogen-filled glass bulb in which an iron wire is located

Ben Watton

Ben Watton's first professional stage appearance was at the age of 6, appearing as a mini Bobby Ball opposite the comedians Cannon and Ball in A Night of a Thousand Laughs at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth.

Benish Mininberg

Benish Mininberg lived until the age of 94 and died in 1996 in Ramat Gan.

Buckfast Tonic Wine

In February 2013, J. Chandler & Company applied to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to stop Strathclyde Police from marking bottles of Buckfast so they could trace where under-age drinkers bought them.

Carlos Lapetra

He settled in Huesca subsequently, working in directorial capacities with SD Huesca and the Spanish national team and dying on 24 December 1995 at the age of 57, due to cancer.

Catherine Petre, Baroness Petre

When her son came of age and got married in 1732, Dowager Lady Petre finally accepted the proposal of Charles Stourton, whose first proposal came on the same day as Lord Petre's.

Charles James Valentine

He was managing director of the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Co., Limited, and Director of Cleator and Workington Junction Railway which was built to serve the iron works.

Clifford Bias

Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

Disappearance of Ben Needham

Ben Needham (born 29 October 1989 in Sheffield) disappeared on 24 July 1991 at the age of 21 months from the Greek island of Kos.

Edward Irving

See also Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age; Coleridge's Notes on English Divines; Carlyle's Miscellanies, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.

Elsie Ferguson

Following her final marriage at age 51, she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.

Erastus Corning

The United States Navy contracted with Corning's iron works to manufacture parts and materials for the USS Monitor, the Navy's first ironclad warship.

Farida Osman

She started swimming at the age of 5 alongside of her brother Ahmed Osman, currently a UC Berkeley Student, at the Gezira Sporting Club.

Franz Schiemer

Schiemer came through the youth ranks at SV Ried to make his professional debut in the 2003/2004 season at just 17 years of age.

Frederick Thornhill

Just over a month later, Thornhill died at the age of 29 at Toton Sidings, the largest marshalling yards of the Midland Railway.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Ingrid Losert

Losert followed her father Joseph and brother Roland, both Olympic fencers, and started training in the age of seven.

Jan Muršak

Muršak developed his skills in his hometown ice hockey club HDK Maribor where he played until the age of 17.

Javed Kodu

At the age of 13, he took part in his first film, Soddey Baaz, which included Pakistani actors including Sultan Rahi, Nanha, and Ali Ijaz.

Lee Cormie

Cormie dialed down the intensity a few dozen notches (and connected with material more commonly associated with his age bracket) as the lead actor alongside Daniel Radcliffe in the evocative Aussie coming-of-age picture December Boys (2007).

Lei Feng

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei was orphaned at an early age.

Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell

At the age of fourteen, he entered the University of Helmstedt where, after nearly a decade of taking courses offered by the philosophical and medical faculties, he took his M.D. in 1768.

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Born in Palmeira d'Oeste, Brazil to a second generation Japanese-Brazilian father and Italian-Brazilian mother, Tulio moved to Japan at age 15 to complete his high school studies.

Martin Wilkes Heron

In his old age, Wilkes lived at 4950 McPherson Ave, in a St. Louis neighborhood now known as the Central West End.

Mayo General Hospital

Eithne Kenny, mother of Taoiseach Enda Kenny and wife of Henry Kenny, died here at the age of 93 on 26 November 2011.

Mel Pender

What people don't know is he didn't run track until the age of twenty five while he was serving in Okinawa with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Miami Mile Handicap

Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of 1 mile (8 furlongs).

Michael Roberds

He performed the role of Big Bird in the school play "Christmas on Sesame Street" at age five.

Michalis Kakiouzis

Kakiouzis began playing basketball at the age of 8, with the Ionikos New Philadelphia Youth Academy of Ionikos, Greece.

PN Saxena

He then shifted to Dehradun at an early age of 6–7 years to take admission in the first standard as his father was posted already in Dehradun as ‘Accountant’ in the Department of Irrigation.

Reinhard Keiser

Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Robert Guinan

Because formal art instruction was not offered at Immaculate Heart Academy (IHA), night classes were arranged beginning at age 13 or 14 with Mary Morley, an art teacher at Watertown High School who was mentioned in Who's Who of American Art.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Sophie Gail

At the age of 19, she married editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) and had one son, Jean-François Gail.

Stuart Christie

Christie was born in the Partick area of Glasgow and was raised in Blantyre, by his mother and grandparents, becoming an anarchist at a young age.

Tatiana Navka

Navka has also partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.

Teenie Hodges

Born in Germantown, Tennessee, Hodges began playing guitar at age 12 in his father's band, the Germantown Blue Dots, before joining his brothers Leroy and Charles in their group, the Impalas.

The Motor Bus

The poem traditionally commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford (Corn and High are the colloquial names of streets in the centre of the city where several Colleges of the University are located), thereby shattering the bucolic charm of the horse-drawn age.

Timothy Littleton

Littleton died at the age of 70 and was buried in Temple Church.

Walle Plough

The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture, Etruscan, Greek and Roman contexts.

William W. Thomas, Jr.

At only 23 years of age, and full of enthusiasm for his task, he was appointed consul to Gothenburg, Sweden on October 23, 1862.

Yanina Batyrchina

At 9 years of age, Batyrchina moved to Russia with Irina Viner who became the Russian National Team Head coach.

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro

That same year she was chosen as one of the most important Latin American writers under 39 years of age as part of Bogotá39 convened by UNESCO, the Hay Festival and the Ministry of Culture in Bogotá.


see also

1965 in archaeology

P. V. Glob - Mosefolket Jernalderens Mennesker bevaret i 2000 Ar (The Bog People: Iron-Age man preserved).

Amelungsburg

Amelungsburg is the name of two Iron Age circular rampart sites in the Weser Uplands of Germany.

Azoria

Two aims of recent excavations at Azoria have been to understand the early history of the site and to explore stratigraphically the changes in the form of the settlement in the transition from the Early Iron Age (or Greek Dark Age) (Late Minoan IIIC-Late Geometric; c. 1200-700 BC) and Orientalizing (c. 700-600 BC) to Archaic periods (c. 600-500 BC).

Beatrice De Cardi

De Cardi received her earliest training as an assistant at the digs conducted by Sir Mortimer Wheeler at the Iron Age fort of Maiden Castle in southern England.

Berry Castle

Berry Castle, Weare Giffard, an Iron Age hill fort near Weare Gifford, Devon, United Kingdom

Berry Castle, Black Dog, an Iron Age earthwork near Black Dog, Devon, United Kingdom

Carbonaria

Silva Carbonaria, the charcoal forest, the dense old-growth forest of beech and oak that formed a natural boundary during the Late Iron Age through Roman times into the Early Middle Ages across what is now Belgium

Ebbsfleet, Thanet

There are prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement remains on the peninsula around Ebbsfleet Farm, which may have also been the landing stage for the Roman ferry across the channel to Richborough from Thanet.

Frederick VI of Denmark

After the discovery of the Haraldskær Woman in a peat bog in Jutland in the year 1835, Frederick VI ordered a royal interment in an elaborately carved sarcophagus for the Iron Age mummy, decreeing it to be the body of Queen Gunnhild.

History of the Mediterranean region

They notably spread alphabetic writing, which would become the hallmark of the Mediterranean civilizations of the Iron Age, in contrast to the cuneiform writing of Assyria and the logographic system in the Far East (and later the abugida systems of India).

Iron Age China

As in the Ancient Near East, there are isolated finds of iron artefacts that predate the Iron Age proper; in 1972, near the city of Gaocheng (藁城) in Shijiazhuang (now Hebei province), an iron-bladed bronze tomahawk (铁刃青铜钺) dating back to the 14th century BC was excavated.

Iron Age pig

The Iron Age pig is a hybrid between a wild boar and a domestic pig meant to recreate the type of pig represented by prehistoric art works of the Iron Age in ancient Europe.

John Cannan

Banks's naked decomposed body was found in a stream by a woman collecting moss six months later on Easter Sunday (3 April 1988) in the Quantock hills, at a site named "Dead Woman’s Ditch", part of an Iron Age camp at Dowsborough.

Kislingbury

The earliest evidence of settlers in the area is the discovery of an Iron Age funeral pot, complete with ashes, dated c1500BC at Upton.

La Hoya

La Hoya, Alava, an important Bronze-Iron Age town of Biasteri (Alava, Basque Country)

Long Wittenham

The nearness to the Iron Age hillfort of Wittenham Clumps and the Roman (and post-Roman) town of Dorchester show that the localised area was of great importance for many centuries, although the notion that Witta (and/or his family) were related to the later Royal House of Wessex, is unproven.

Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire

The only dating evidence recovered from Maiden Castle is the a "post-and-panel building" which is typologically similar to a structure discovered in Healaugh that has been dated to the late Iron Age or Romano-British periods.

Membury services

The Iron Age hillfort, Membury Camp, lies to the immediate southwest of the old airfield and the services.

Milber

The narrow, kilometre-long, strip of Ben Stedham's Wood separates Milber from the suburbs of Aller and Newtake: the Iron Age hill fort of Milber Down is at the top of this wood.

Moschi

Mushki, an Iron Age people of Anatolia, known from Assyrian sources

Origin of the Albanians

However, a recent analysis revealed that whilst broad analogies are indeed evident to Iron Age Illyrian forms, the inspiration behind Komani fibulae is more closely linked to Late Roman fibulae, particularly those from Balkan forts in the present-day Serbia and northwestern Bulgaria.

Pre-Roman Britain

British Iron Age - The Iron Age in Britain which was the last phase of prehistoric Britain before Roman Britain.

Prehistory of Taiwan

Distinct Iron Age cultures have been identified in different parts of the island: the Shihsanhang Culture in the north, the Fanzaiyuan Culture in the northwest, the Daqiuyuan Culture in the hills of southwest Nantou County, the Kanding Culture in the central west, the Niaosung Culture in the southwest, the Guishan Culture at the southern tip of the island, and the Jingpu Culture on the east coast.

Prideaux

Prideaux Castle, an Iron Age hillfort near St Blazey, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Sicels

But there is some evidence that the ethnonym may predate the Iron Age, based on the name Shekelesh given to one of the Sea Peoples in the Great Karnak Inscription (late 13th century BCE).

Taronik

One km outside the town is the Iron Age settlement dubbed the Metsamor site.

Tarrant Gunville

The parish has three round barrows and an unexcavated Iron Age enclosure with a 15' deep ditch, which Pevsner suspects was built in a hurry.

The Bog People

The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved is an archaeological study of the bog bodies of Northern Europe written by the Danish archaeologist P.V. Glob.

Thurleigh Castle

Excavations in the 1970s found few remains of the Norman castle, but finds indicated that the site had been occupied in the Iron-Age, Roman and Saxon periods.

Tsovak

The town is the site of a large Iron Age fort atop a hill with a cuneiform inscription of Sarduri II (8th century BCE).

Veluri Venkata Krishna Sastry

37. Megalithic Cultures- The Iron Age, Pre and Proto Historic Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh History Congress, Dravidian University, 2003

Warrior Challenge

The series followed from social history documentaries on UK television based on historical reconstructions, including the 2001 series Timewatch: Roman Soldiers to be. and Surviving the Iron Age, a 2001 update of the original 1978 experiment in Iron Age living Living in the Past.

Witham Shield

In the 20th century a series of posts were found together with an early to mid Iron Age sword when a dyke was being cleaned near Fiskerton, near where the Witham Shield had been found.