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3 unusual facts about Leven


Clan Durie

The Duries were granted the estate of Craigluscar which is near Leven, Fife.

George Lauder of The Bass

On 15 August 1583, a Precept was made to George Lauder of the Bass, as son and heir of Robert Lauder of Bass, of a Temple-land in "Lewinsbrig" (Leven's bridge) in Fife, a Temple-land in North Berwick, and a Temple-land in Tyninghame.

Leven, East Riding of Yorkshire

Around 1612, it appears that Sir Thomas Gresham owned some of the land, having received it as a gift from Queen Elizabeth I.


Boris Leven

As an art director, Leven contributed to The Flying Deuces (1939), Hello Frisco, Hello (1943), Invaders from Mars (1953), The Silver Chalice (1954), and Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973), among others.

Leven began his film career as a sketch artist at Paramount Pictures in 1933 and moved to 20th Century Fox three years later.

David Ewen Bartholomew

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Bartholomew's abilities as a surveyor and cartographer were required and he was given command of the small frigate HMS Leven off the West coast of Africa, charged with preparing detailed and accurate charts of the region.

Ewan Cameron

After retirement from Vale of Leven Hospital in 1982, Cameron was invited to become Medical Director and Senior Research Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute, where he worked closely with Pauling on many research topics.

HMS Leven

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leven, probably after the River Leven, Fife in Scotland.

Jackie Leven

Leven was credited on the 1997 album Shifting City by John Foxx for the title of an electronic dance track called "Concrete Bulletproof Invisible".

Jeremy Leven

Leven is a practicing clinical psychologist, a theme incorporated in his second novel, Satan, His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S., which was published in 1982 and filmed as Crazy as Hell in 2002.

John Levén

Europe reunited in 2003, and Levén co-wrote the single "Always the Pretenders" from the 2006 album Secret Society, with Tempest.

Melville family

In the United Kingdom main branch of Melville family is the Leslie-Melville family, Earls of Leven and (since 1690) of Melville as well.

Robert Montgomery Martin

He went on to the Cape of Good Hope, where he arrived in June 1823; he joined the expedition of HMS Leven and HMS Barracouta under William Fitzwilliam Owen, to Delagoa Bay.

Solomon Perel

The Dutch playwright Carl Slotboom wrote a play based on Perel's story titled Du sollst leben (Dutch: Je zult leven; English: Thou Shalt Live), which was first aired in Zevenbergen, Netherlands, on May 4, 2012, which is also Remembrance of the Dead in the Netherlands.

SummerTyne Festival

Glen Campbell with Debby Campbell, Nanci Griffith, Laura Veirs, Kris Kristofferson, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Isobel Campbell (Belle and Sebastian) and Mark Lanegan, Ana Egge, Seasick Steve, John Lewis and his trio, JC and Angelina Grimshaw, Jackie Leven,

VU University Medical Center

The reputation of the institution has taken a downfall after reports in the media about the TV program 24 uur: tussen leven en dood (based on 24 Hours in A&E).

Whale Hill

Arriva and Leven Valley both run services to the local towns, and also outlying villages such as Guisborough, and Saltburn.


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