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unusual facts about London, England



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John Oldmixon - The History of England, During the Reigns of the Royal House of Stuart

1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

67th Special Operations Squadron

It was activated on 14 November 1952 at RAF Sculthorpe, England, and discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 March 1960 at Prestwick, Scotland.

Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

He worked as a freelance translator, as the London correspondent of a Dutch newspaper, and as the editor of the papers Dramatic Opinions and The Candid Friend, and, in collaboration with Leonard Smithers, in publishing.

Andrew Ducrow

Ducrow is buried on the Main (or Centre) Avenue at Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England near the tomb of the Duke of Sussex, one of the most desirable burial plots of the time.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm occasionally visited England to see the abbey's property there, as well as to visit Lanfranc, who, in 1070, had been installed as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ayton, Scottish Borders

The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to London on 15 November 1762.

Ben O'Donoghue

In 1996 O'Donoghue travelled to the United Kingdom where he worked at The River Café before moving to become Head Chef at the Monte's Club in Knightsbridge with Jamie Oliver.

British Coachways

Excelsior Coaches brought with it a service from London to Bournemouth and Poole.

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Centenary World Cup

1995 Rugby League World Cup, hosted by England and celebrating the 100th birthday of Rugby league.

Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset

After a second grand tour to continental Europe in 1737 and 1738, he returned to England in January 1739 and staged an opera, Angelico e Medoro, with music by Giovanni Battista Pescetti from a libretto by Metastasio at Covent Garden.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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.

Deerstalker

In the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock, which places Holmes and Watson (portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, respectively) in contemporary London, the deerstalker cap is a recurring gag; here, Sherlock Holmes gains the iconic look by trying to hide his face from paparazzi by wearing the deerstalker, which he personally despises.

Deirdre Cartwright

As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.

Dr. Strangely Strange

The group disbanded in May 1971, after playing a concert with Al Stewart at London's Drury Lane Theatre.

Edgar Chías

He has written a number of plays including De insomnio y media noche, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 under the title On Insomnia and Midnight (English translation by David Johnston).

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

Guy A. Sautter

John Arlott (Hrsg.): The Oxford companion to sports & games. Oxford University Press, London 1975

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

James Whitbourn

In 2005, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, under Leonard Slatkin, premiered his largest choral work Annelies, a setting of the Diary of Anne Frank, at London's Cadogan Hall to wide critical acclaim.

Jooho Kim

Jooho holds MA degree in Linguistics (1984) from the Korea University and Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration (1991) from the City University London.

José do Canto

Its construction began in 1845, under the supervision of José do Canto and his London architect David Mocatta, and comprises 6 hectares and more the 6000 species of trees and bush species, representing a cross-section of period gardens created by many of the Azorean families after the 18th Century.

Kevin Figes

Quartet gigs in Abergavenny, Cardiff, London (606), Sherbourne, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swindon, Bristol (Be-Bop and The Old Duke) and Glastonbury Festival including a live radio 3 broadcast.

Kitty Kirkpatrick

In 1805, the year of her father's death, she and her elder brother Mir Ghulam Ali, Sahib Allum, were sent to live with their grandfather Colonel James Kirkpatrick, in London and Keston, Kent, leaving their mother in India.

Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant

He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Loyalty Islands

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

Mate Recordings

Until recently most releases on Mate Recordings were by Roger®, but the label's 2004 "England vs. Finland" compilation album Music is Better Volume One (Manchester vs Helsinki) features also such British and Finnish artists as Alcohell, A Maze, A.N.I.M.A.L., Boys of Scandinavia, Kompleksi, Nu Science and The Science Block.

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

The new courses of study, based on the advice of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, were introduced in 1844, and were ultimately recognised by them, by the London University and the Society of Apothecaries in 1846.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

His idea was to build a model monastery for England, sharing his knowledge of the experience of the Roman traditions in an area previously more influenced by Celtic Christianity stemming from missionaries of Melrose and Iona.

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

Poetry Records

He holds a masters degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston), where he studied with great guitarist Maestro Eliot Fisk.

Reginald Stourton

Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (born 1434) was an English knight.

River Blyth

River Blyth is the name of several rivers in England.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, a wealthy London merchant and member of the British East India Company, in 1643.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

Square Kilometre Array

In April 2011, Jodrell Bank Observatory (of the University of Manchester) in Cheshire, England was announced as the location of the headquarters office for the project.

SS Rajputana

Onboard he met with Mahatma Gandhi who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

Stuart McQuarrie

McQuarrie trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow and soon became a highly popular actor amongst Edinburgh theatre goers before moving to London where he has played prominent roles in more controversial, new dramas by playwrights such as Sarah Kane and Anthony Neilson, amongst others.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic.

The Squadronaires

Under band leader Sgt. Jamie Deighton the band has played in Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London and for HRH the Prince of Wales at Highgrove House supporting Pop Idol winner Will Young.

Third English Civil War

At the end of May 1650 Cromwell turned over his command in Ireland to Henry Ireton and returned to England.

Toti Dal Monte

In 1924, fresh from triumphs in Milan and Paris, but before her debut in London or New York, she was engaged by the diva Dame Nellie Melba to be one of the star singers of an Italian opera company that Melba was organising to make a tour of Australia.

Yotaro Kobayashi

Yotaro Kobayashi, born April 1933 in England, is former chairman of the Fuji Xerox company, a joint venture between Fujifilm (75%) and Xerox (25%).


see also

American Princess

American Princess is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's My Fair Lady in a modern setting, where twenty American women who are average, plain, and rather ill-mannered, are taken to London, England to master the finer arts of British society and be crowned "American Princess" and earn valuable prizes.

Arthur Charles Gook

Arthur Charles Gook (11 June 1883–1959) in London, England is primarily known today for having translated Reverend Hallgrímur Pétursson's Passion Hymns into English.

Arthur Guy Empey

He left the United States at the end of 1915 frustrated at its neutrality in the conflict at that point and travelled to London, England, where he joined the 1st London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), Territorial Force, of the British Army, going on to serve with it in the 56th (London) Infantry Division on the Western Front as a bomber and a machine-gunner.

Arthur William Rucker

Sir Arthur William Rucker (or Rücker), KB, FRS (23 October 1848, Clapham Park, London, England – 1 November 1915, Everington at Yattendon in Berkshire) was a British physicist.

Beauty Has Grace

It marks a departure in style from her previous albums, having been recorded in London, England, with Martin Terefe (A-Ha, Ron Sexsmith, Leona Naess, KT Tunstall).

Ben Uri Gallery

The Ben Uri Gallery, incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art (self-described also as The Art Museum for Everyone), is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off the famous Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England.

Bennett Jones

1959 – Partners James V.H. Milvain and James H. Laycraft win the last Canadian appeal before the Privy Council in London, England (Wakefield v. Oil City 1959 29 W.W.R. 638)

Billy Hague

William "Billy" Robert Hague (born April 9, 1885 in London, England - September 9, 1969) was a professional ice hockey goaltender.

Brian Maxwell

Brian Leigh Maxwell (1953, London, England – March 19, 2004, San Anselmo, California) was a Canadian athlete, track coach, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Carlyle's House

Carlyle's House, in the district of Chelsea, in central London, England, was the home acquired by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, after having lived at Craigenputtock in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Caswell-Massey

It is one of the oldest continuously operating American retail company and the oldest soap and toiletries making company in the United States, as well fourth oldest perfumery after Farina gegenüber of Cologne, Germany; Floris of London in London, England and Galimard of Grasse, France.

Christopher Eipper

Christoph Eipper married Harriet Gyles on 15 June 1837 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England.

Corocoro United Copper Mines

The corporate office was at 151 Finsbury Pavement House, London, England, while the mine office was at Coro Coro, Bolivia.

CS Mackay-Bennett

CS Mackay-Bennett was a cable repair ship registered in London, England, owned by the Commercial Cable Company.

Dalby's Carminative

Dalby's Carminative was a medicinal product formula originally made by James Dalby of London, England, in the late 1770s.

David J. Farrar

Born in London, England in 1921, Farrar was the elder son of Donald Frederic Farrar (1897–1982), a former Royal Flying Corps supply pilot, and Mabel Margaret Farrar, née Hadgraft (1896–1985), and brother of RAF airman and poet James Farrar.

Dogshitter Wants

Although ostensibly concerned with jokes about cultural figures like Elton John & Michel Gondry, quite large parts of the show were impenetrably obscure, and were probably only fully understood by the creators and their immediate friends and associates, particularly those who were part of the dot com industry centred on Brick Lane in London, England.

Francis Ripley

Canon Francis Joseph Ripley (26 August 1912 - 7 January 1998) was a Roman Catholic priest in London, England.

Gary Watson

Gary Watson (13 June 1930 in Shropshire, England) is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play Judith at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery.

George Mansour

Other journalistic responsibilities included broadcasting at Radio Free Iraq in Prague, correspondent of Az Zaman and Al-Mutamar newspapers based in London, England, reporter at Sawt Alshab Al Iraqi radio based in Saudi Arabia and Radio Canada International based in Toronto and Senior Advisor for the International Organization for Migration - Canada.

Jaishree Misra

Misra worked for several years in the Child Care Department of Social Services in Buckinghamshire and, more recently, as a film classifier at the British Board of Film Classification in London, England.

Jonathan M. Weiss

During his tenure as director of off-campus study, Weiss established programs of study in Dijon, France, and London, England, the latter a joint program with Bowdoin and Bates colleges.

Jordan Wolfson

The artist was included in the 2009 Frieze Art Fair in London, England, and shortly thereafter he was awarded the Cartier Award from the Frieze Foundation.

Karen White

White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezula and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London.

Karin Park

Karin Park (b. Djura, 6 September 1978) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, currently living in Djura, Sweden and London, England.

Kazakhstan–United Kingdom relations

President Nazarbayev, along with several Kazakh business leaders, met with Evans, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth II, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Lord Mayor John Stuttard and Jean Lemierre, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in London, England on 21 and 22 November 2006.

Kenelm Lister-Kaye

Born in Kensington, London, England, the son of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Baronet, he attended Eton College, and played in Fowler's match in 1910.

Longman

Longman is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

Luis Giannattasio

In 1965 Giannattasio died in office shortly after attending in official capacity the funeral in London, England, of Winston Churchill.

Matthew Halton

He subsequently went to London, England to study at King's College London and at the London School of Economics, writing extensively on European affairs for Canadian newspapers.

Max Norman

While Norman was resident engineer at Ridge Farm Studios in London, England, Ozzy Osbourne was recording his debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz with producer/engineer Chris Tsangarides, but after a week Osbourne was unhappy with the mix, and hired Norman to pick up where Tsangarides left off.

Merton Abbey Mills

Merton Abbey Mills is a former textile factory in the parish of Merton in London, England near the site of the medieval Merton Priory, now the home of a variety of businesses, mostly retailers.

Mirosław Vitali

Miroslaw (Mirek) Vitali, OBE (October 5, 1914 in Human, Ukraine – February 19, 1992 in London, England) was a physician specialising in treatment and care of amputees.

Nobrow Press

Nobrow Press is a publishing company and book shop based in Shoreditch, London, England known for publishing the works of Blexbolex, Luke Pearson, Jon McNaught, Jesse Moynihan, their bi-annual self-titled anthology, Nobrow, as well as exposing the English speaking world to works by European artists.

Paul Haston

Haston was born in London, England and graduated in 1980 with a Masters Degree in English Literature from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.

Phantasmagoria in Two

A slower, live version of the song was performed during his 1968 concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, released in 1990 as Dream Letter: Live in London 1968.

Pierre-Victor Galland

Galland was responsible for the ceiling of the grand staircase at Dartmouth House in Mayfair, London, England.

Pomroy

David Pomroy (born 23 June 1983), professional poker player from London, England

Portobello West

The name 'Portobello West' was suggested by Carlie's father, Grant 'Fuzzy' Smith, as a reference to the famous Portobello Road market in London, England and also to the location of the new market (in Western Canada).

Richard MacDonald

The monument is to be installed at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London, England, a historic royal retreat that is now home to The Royal Ballet School.

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust runs the Royal Brompton Hospital in Kensington and Harefield Hospital in Hillingdon, London, England.

SC Komet Berlin

A number of athletes from the sports club participated in the 1908 Olympic Games held in London, England with runner Arthur Hoffmann coming away with a silver medal as part of Germany's men's medley relay team, the country's best result in athletics at these games.

Simon Bedwell

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including solo show “The Furnishers” at White Columns in New York, “Galleon and Other Stories” at the Saatchi Gallery in London, “England Their England” at Laden fur Nichts in Leipzig, “Beck's Futures 2004” at the ICA in London and the CCA in Glasgow, and Studio Voltaire London.

Sylvia McNeill

In 1971 she acted in Emil Dean Zoghby and Ray Pohlman's musical, Catch My Soul, at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, England with Lance LeGault, Lon Satton, Sharon Gurney, and Malcolm Rennie in the cast.

The Book Collector

On its founding editorial board were Ian Fleming, John Hayward and P.H. Muir and it was published in London, England by the Queen Anne Press.

The Royal Regiment of Canada

International commitments include: performances for the United Nations in Cyprus; the Military Musical Pageant, held at Wembley Stadium, in London, England; a command performance for the colonel-in-chief, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Gardens of Buckingham Palace; and, being selected as the official band to accompany the veterans and the official party to the United Kingdom and France to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the raid on Dieppe August 19, 1942.

V-Ships

V.ships is a ship management company, part of V.Group Holdings which is registered in Monaco but headquartered in London, England; and has over 70 offices in 34 different countries.

Val Sears

Widely recognized of one of the most important political journalists of his day, he has long experience as reporter, editor, Ottawa Bureau Chief and foreign correspondent in London, England and Washington, D.C. for the Toronto Star.