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2 unusual facts about Janet Stancomb-Wills


Janet Stancomb-Wills

The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue (75°0′S 22°0′W) is the extensive seaward projection of the Stancomb-Wills Glacier into the eastern Weddell Sea.

Stancomb-Wills Glacier

He named it "Stancomb-Wills Promontory," after Dame Janet Stancomb-Wills, one of the principal donors of the expedition.


Alfred Wills

The ascent of the Wetterhorn by Wills and his party during 1854, which Wills mistakenly believed was the first (it was actually first climbed by the Grindelwald guides Melchior Bannholzer and Hans Jaun on 31 August 1844) is considered the beginning of the so-called golden age of alpinism.

Angela Menzies-Wills

Angela Menzies-Wills is an Australian Actress from Melbourne known for roles in films such as Fantasm Comes Again, Felicity, Leonora,Pacific Banana and Coming Of Age.

Anna Wills

Wills is married to her husband, Rob, and they reside in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Becontree housing estate railway

Wills & Sons established a temporary railway, connecting with existing goods sidings at Goodmayes on the Great Eastern Railway main line.

Bush bread

Ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills survived on bush bread for some time after they ran out of rations due to the death of their camels.

Christopher Wray

The ancient doubts, revived by Lord Campbell as to his legitimacy, were removed by the publication in 1857 of the wills of his mother (by her second marriage wife of John Wycliffe, auditor of issues in the Richmond district) and his brother-in-law, Ralph Gower.

David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan

David Brudenell-Bruce is the son of Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury and Edwina Sylvia de Winton Wills of W.D. & H.O. Wills.

Edmund Falconer

Meanwhile, he contributed two comedies to the Haymarket Theatre too, Family Wills, and Does He Love Me?, both starring Amy Sedgwick.

Edward Greeves, Jr.

Historian Col Hutchinson noted that "If Tom Wills had married Julie, we wouldn't have had Carji Greeves".

Eldon Shamblin

He also was in a few Hollywood films with Bob Wills most notably Take Me Back to Oklahoma with Tex Ritter etc. and Go West, Young Lady featuring Penny Singleton and the up and coming Glenn Ford.

Frederick Wills

Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet (1838–1909), director of W.D. & H.O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, Liberal Unionist MP for Bristol North 1900–1906

Harvey Brownstone

Season 2 made its debut on Canadian television on May 4, 2013 on CHEK TV and CHCH TV featuring 16 episodes addressing the following topics: gambling addictions; infidelity; online dating; bullying; same-sex parenting; the impact of high conflict on children's learning at school; high conflict divorce; child abduction; an introduction to family court; spousal support; anger management; raising teenagers; wills and estates; family financing; and breaking up.

Indian Contract Act 1872

The Third Law commission of British India formed in 1861 under the stewardship of chairman Sir John Romilly, with initial members as Sir Edward Ryan, R. Lowe, J.M. Macleod, Sir W. Erle (succeeded by Sir. W.M. James) and Justice Wills (succeeded by J. Henderson), had presented the report on contract law for India as Draft Contract Law (1866).

Jack Wills

In May and July 2010, Jack Wills opened American stores in Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Boston.

Jean Wills

Her sister, Dorothy Nemetz, of Whittier, California, was taken into custody at the same time, when the two women struggled with John H. Wills, estranged husband of Jean Wills.

Len Wills

However, the Gunners signed Stan Charlton in November 1955 and he displaced Wills out of the Arsenal first team.

Lone Star Brewing Company

The beer is mentioned frequently in the title track of Red Steagall's 1976 album "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music".

Manumission

In the two decades following the American Revolutionary War, numerous slaveholders accomplished manumissions by deed or in wills, so that the percentage of free blacks to the total number of blacks rose from less than one percent to 10 percent in the Upper South.

Marshall-Newman Amendment

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell issued a 2006 opinion stating that the amendment does not change the legal status of documents such as contracts, wills, or advance health care directives between unmarried people.

Mauro Nespoli

Wills won the match 103–99 and went on to reach the third round in which he lost to Juan Carlos Stevens.

My Angel My Hero

The film tells the story of a young boy Billy (Dakim Wills), who is suffering from Parkinson's disease and dances in New York City subway and streets.

Old Fairfax County Jail

1974, during which time historically important documents were found in building such as two volumes of early 19th-century registrations of free blacks, as well as the wills of George and Martha Washington.

Pumajaw

John Wills had previously been a founder member of Loop and The Hair and Skin Trading Company.

Ranjan Roy Daniel

T He carried out research in the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, headed by the Nobel laureate C. F. Powell, using nuclear emulsions exposed to cosmic rays at high altitudes.

Ruben Wills

Wills has also worked for the SEIU Local 1199 Union, as well as under councilman Leroy Comrie.

Scott Wills

Scott Wills studied at Massey University in Palmerston North and completed a Bachelor of Arts in English and Media Studies in 1992.

Shall and will

Because of this, like the other modal verbs, they do not take the usual -s in Modern English's third-person singular present; we say she shall and he will – not *she shalls, and not *he wills (except in the rare sense of "to will" being a synonym of "to want" or "to write into a will").

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Simultaneous death

Some wills now include Titanic clauses (named for the RMS Titanic, which caused many simultaneous deaths among testators and executors).

Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet

Wills owned substantial properties in England and Scotland: Littlecote House, near Hungerford, Wiltshire, and Meggernie Castle in Perthshire, and also owned the Château de l'oiseau bleu at Menton on the French Riviera.

The Wills family were part owners of W. D. & H. O. Wills, tobacco importers and cigarette manufacturers, which had been founded by Wills's great grandfather, Henry Overton Wills, in 1786, and later became part of Imperial Tobacco.

The son of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, KCB and of Lady Wills (she was Mary Ann, elder daughter of J. Chaning Pearce FGS, of Montagu House, Bath), Wills succeeded his elder brother in the baronetcy in 1921.

Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet

William Elford of Bickham, Buckland Monachorum, Devon, was the elder son of the Reverend Lancelot Elford, of Bickham, and Grace, daughter of Alexander Wills of Kingsbridge, Devonshire.

Social Trinity

The doctrine of the two wills of Christ stems from the Council of Chalcedon where the Church affirmed that Jesus is fully human and fully divine, without division and yet without mixing.

The Blade and Petal

Military general Yeon Gaesomun wants to go to war with the Tang Dynasty, but the pacifist King Yeongnyu opts for diplomacy and national stability, and in their battle of wills the palace council is divided between the "hawks" and the "doves."

The Callback

As Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) and Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) both attempt to please Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) in order to win the role of Marilyn, Julia Houston (Debra Messing) and her husband Frank (Brian d'Arcy James) become frustrated by the process of their international adoption and Eileen's (Anjelica Huston) acrimonious divorce complicates her attempt to finance the musical.

The National Pastime

In the episode, Ivy Lynn (Megan Hilty) performs this baseball number, choreographed by director and choreographer Derek Wills (Jack Davenport), with a male ensemble in front of producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston), Derek, Tom and Julia as an audition for Derek to see if Tom and Julia want to work with him.

The Phenomenon

Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee) and Derek Wills (Jack Davenport) have made it to Karen's apartment and continue drinking wine for several more hours.

The Wealthy Barber

Subsequent chapters discuss wills and life insurance, RRSPs, buying a home, income tax and saving and spending.

Trampolining

The first World Champions were both American, Dan Millman and Judy Wills Cline (both pictured to the right together with members of the Household Cavalry at the closing ceremony).

William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which he served as second-in-command.

William Strutt

Strutt’s interest in depicting the notable events of the colony was piqued by the events surrounding the Victorian Exploring Expedition led by Burke and Wills in 1860–61.

William Wills

William John Wills (1834–1861), English explorer and second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expedition

Wills baronets

The Wills Baronetcy, of Manor Heath, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 February 1897 for Frederick Wills, the cousin of the first Baronet of the 1893 creation.

Wills Creek Formation

The Wills Creek Limestone contain fossils from the Pridoli to the Ludlow epoch, or 422.9 to 418.1 Ma.

Wills Eye Institute

Julia A. Haller, MD, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief, Wills Eye (2007–present)

Wills Mountain State Park

Wills Mountain State Park is an undeveloped Maryland state park located near Cumberland in Allegany County.


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