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6 unusual facts about LEA


A156 road

The A156 continues on to Lea where the B1241 joins from Saxilby then the road heads into Gainsborough where it terminates just south of the centre at the A631.

Battle of Gainsborough

At the village of Lea, just south of Gainsborough, they met an advanced guard of 100 horse, part of Cavendish's army.

Ernest Wilberforce

His father ordained him deacon in December 1864 and priest in 1865 and, after short curacies at Cuddesdon itself and at Lea, was presented to a living at Middleton Stoney, near Bicester, in 1868, though he had to resign from it two years later due to Frances' poor health (she died in October 1870 in San Remo of tuberculosis).

Lea-Anna

Shortly after came songs like Kitty Kat, Sway and Murder off Robbo Ranx Champagne Campaign riddim all displaying strong influence from her Jamaican culture.

Lea-Tuti Livšits

Worked in the Kiviõli Chemical Plant as a lab assistant and later as an artist until 1974 when she moved to Kohtla-Järve and started working as an artist in the Kohtla-Järve Oil Shale Science Institute.

Lea, Herefordshire

The railway engineering company Alan Keef Ltd has its headquarters on the outskirts of the village.


Adventures of a Teenage Dragon Slayer

This movie reunites four stars, Lea Thompson, Amy Pietz, Eric Lutes, and Andrew Lauer of the hit show Caroline in the City.

Benet Casablancas

Recently he has received the commission of a new opera, "L´enigma di Lea", based on the original idea and libretto by Rafael Argullol, by the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona to be premiered next 2016-2017 Season.

C dynamic memory allocation

Doug Lea has developed ftp://g.oswego.edu/pub/misc/ dlmalloc ("Doug Lea's Malloc") as a general-purpose allocator, starting in 1987.

Chris Lea

Lea, who hails from a family of entertainers that includes the 1950s Canadian TV icon Shirley Harmer, began a side career as an opera performer in 2002, and in February 2005 undertook his first on-stage solo in a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

Church of Saint Leonard, Bengeo

Located on the hillside overlooking the shared Beane and Lea valley, the church dates from about 1120, and is the oldest building in Hertford.

Clarence F. Lea

Lea served as chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-ninth Congresses).

Education in Kingston upon Hull

Hymers College – more difficult to get into than the LEA grammar schools, so offered a highly prized education.

Ellen Marriage

The only other literary works that Marriage translated were Henri Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème (1901) and Marcel Prévost's Frédérique (1900) and Lea (1902).

Frederic Hill

Frederic Hill was born at Hilltop, a house at the summit of Gough Street, Birmingham, the sixth child of Thomas Wright Hill and Sarah, his wife, whose maiden name was Lea.

Gheluvelt Park

It was opened by Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, who stated, "on that day the 2nd Worcesters saved the British Empire." A plaque inside the park commemorates Captain Gerald Ernest Lea, who died on 15 September 1914 while commanding D. Company of the 2nd Battalion.

Grammar schools debate

Kent currently has 33 National Challenge schools, more than any other LEA in England.

Greater London

Publicly funded education has been administered through 33 LEAs, which correspond to the City of London and the 32 London boroughs, since the 1990 enactment of the Education Reform Act 1988.

Harry Scolinos

They have five children: Tasia Scolinos who is Justice Department's Director Of Public Affairs; Alicia Scolinos Medders; Lea Scolinos; Peter Scolinos; and Christiana; along with two grandchildren.

I.K.U.

Producer Takashi Asai, founder of the underground and independent film production company Uplink, commissioned director and media artist Shu Lea Cheang to "make a sci-fi porn film".

Ioan Potcoavă

Ioan al IV-lea Potcoavă (or Ivan Pidkova – Іван Підкова in Ukrainian; also known as Ioan Sarpega, Ioan Creţul, and allegedly baptized as Nicoară Potcoavă; died June 16, 1578) was a prominent Cossack ataman, and Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia (November – December 1577).

Ivan Turgenev

One of the stories in A Sportsman's Sketches, known as "Bezhin Lea" or "Byezhin Prairie", was later to become the basis for the controversial film Bezhin Meadow (1937) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

Jim Lea

Lea also played all the instruments (except drums, played by Geoff Seopardi) on two singles from the album; Holton's cover version of "Catch a Falling Star" and "That's How the Story Goes".

La-Z-Boy

La-Z-Boy includes various companies and brands including La-Z-Boy Residential, La-Z-Boy Kids, La-Z-Boy Hospitality, Lea Furniture, American Drew, Kincaid Furniture, Bauhaus USA Furniture, Hammary Furniture and England Furniture Incorporated.

Lea County, New Mexico

Brian Urlacher, Chicago Bears football linebacker (2000-2012), represented Lea County in the National Football League.

Lea Riders Group

It would once again collaborate with Jarl and Lindqvist when Lea Riders Group got to record some of the soundtrack to the film Dom Kallar Oss Mods.

Leeds Girls' High School

In 2004 LGHS was the highest performing school within the Leeds LEA area, achieving top results at both GCSE and A Level.

Leicester Pro Wrestling

Whilst Willenhall was abandoned as a venue after only one show, Minworth and Lea Hall remain regular venues for LPW, along with Shard End Social Club, and Leicestershire venues Thurmaston Progressive Working Men's Club and Stocking Farm Social Club.

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Matilda of Scotland (c. 1080–1118) Henry I's consort, who between 1110 and 1118 was responsible for the building of the series of bridges that carried the London-Colchester road across the River Lea and its side streams between Bow and Stratford.

Lyndon Lea

Lea has also served on the board of several public companies including Harry Winston, American Apparel, Yell Group and Premier Foods.

Marcus Goldstein

Following his retirement, Goldstein, and his wife, Lea, immigrated to Israel, where he joined Tel Aviv University and played an important role in developing research in the newly formed Department of Anatomy and Anthropology.

Marina Timofeieva

They were coached by Lea Rand, the mother of fellow Estonian ice dancers Kristjan and Taavi Rand.

Meadow Lea

The Art Deco heritage listed residential home named Meadow Lea at 22 Sydney Road, East Lindfield, Sydney, was built on 4 housing plots and completed in about 1941 for James Armstrong, at the time the Sales Manager of the Meadow Lea Margarine Company.

Michael Papas

Papas’s 1975 English film The Lifetaker stars Terence Morgan as a deceived husband who engages his wife (Lea Dregorn) and her young lover (Peter Duncan) in a series of deadly games.

Mick White

Mick has performed with many of the biggest names in British hard rock music including Paul Samson, Don Airey, Biff Byford, Kim McAuliffe, Lea Hart, Paul Dianno, Steve Clarke, Pete Jupp, and many others.

Nao Takasugi

In 1952, Takasugi married his wife, Judy, with whom he had five children, Scott, Russell, Ron, Tricia and Lea.

Noholme

A successful stallion at Goff's Verna Lea Farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1967 he was syndicated for $1-million and moved to Robin's Nest Farm near Ocala, Florida then in 1974 to the nearby stud farm owned by Dan Lasater (now Southland Farm) where he died on 17 May 1983 at the age of 27.

Olyoptics

Founded by Steve Oliff, it has employed many colorists and color separators throughout its history including Ruben Rude, Gloria Vasquez, Abel Mouton, Kiko Taganashi, Kirk Mobert, Marie Saint Clare, Quinn Supplee, Nathan Eyring, Michael Jeremiah, Emrys "Mo" Samson, Brec Blackford, Bill Zindel, Tracey Anderson, Al Callerros, Shawn "Baxter" Hartman, Bay Raitt, Lea Rude, Patti Stratton, Stacy Cox, and Brian "Hoolis" Riehl.

Preston Lea

After receiving an education at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Preston Lea went to work for his father at the age of eighteen.

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.

Staveley Town railway station

Normal passenger traffic over the Doe Lea Branch ceased in 1930 and the route was severed by the closure of Rowthorn Tunnel near Hardwick Hall.

Tales of the Alhambra

The Alhambra : a series of tales and sketches of the Moors and Spaniards was published in May 1832 in the United States by publishers Lea & Carey and concurrently in England by Henry Colburn.

Teva Lea Race

The inaugural Teva Lea Extreme Race was held in 2003 on short section on the Lea River.

The Lea Shores

Andy Bell (formerly of Ride, currently of Oasis) had this to say about the band's live performance: The Lea Shores are my favourite new band… I saw them supporting the Brian Jonestown Massacre in Stockholm and was hooked straight away.

The Maids

Genet loosely based his play on the infamous Papin sisters, Lea and Christine, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933, although the play is not the story of the Papin sisters as such.

Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr.

His grandfather, Dr. Pleasant John Graves Lea (also grandfather of Homer Lea, author of The Vermilion Pencil: A Romance of China), is the namesake for Lee's Summit, Missouri, although the name became spelled with an "e" instead of "a" because a stone culvert next to the Missouri Pacific Railroad station was set this way.

Thomas Lea

Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr., Mayor of El Paso, Texas, 1915–17, father of Tom Lea, and first cousin of Homer Lea

Thomas Melville Dill

Dill was born in Devonshire Parish, in the British colony of Bermuda, the son of Mary Lea (née Smith) and Thomas Newbold Dill.

Tonga Lea'aetoa

Lea'aetoa's parents came from Tonga, he spent his childhood in Australia in Manly, Sydney.

We'll Bring the House Down

It tells the tale of a near death flying experience suffered by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea when travelling to Los Angeles.

Whitaker Wright

In 1890 Wright had purchased an estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm from the Earl of Derby, which included the Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl.


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