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6 unusual facts about Longwood


Gaspard Gourgaud

His extreme sensitiveness and vanity soon brought him into collision with Napoleon's other companions, Las Cases and Montholon, in their exile at Longwood.

He collaborated with Montholon in the work entitled Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de France sous Napoleon (Paris, 1822–1823), and with Belliard and others in the work entitled Bourrienne et ses erreurs (2 vols., Paris, 1830); but his most important work is the Journal inédit de Ste-Hélène (2 vols., Paris, 1899), which is a remarkably lifelike record of the life at Longwood.

Kate Osann

published in 1979 by International Media Systems, of Longwood, Florida.

Longwood, Bronx

At this time, crime reached such a level that the 41st Precinct Station House at 1086 Simpson Street became known by the police as "Fort Apache", as was later immortalized in a 1981 movie named for it.

Longwood, Florida

In 1965, the City served as a film site and backdrop, representing a fictional south Florida town adjacent to a Seminole Indian tribe reservation in the Universal Studios film, Johnny Tiger.

Longwood, West Yorkshire

Longwood is a village and suburb of the town of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire.


Harris Barron

For many years, Barron's message to his students, "Shared experience creates community." was painted on the back wall of SIM's Longwood Theater on Brookline Avenue in Boston.

Longwood Gardens

The gardens attracted nearly 900,000 visitors during 2009 and plans for the growth and expansion of Longwood Gardens for the next four decades began in 2010 with the hiring of West 8, a Dutch landscape architecture and urban planning firm with headquarters in Rotterdam and an office in New York City.

Longwood Lancers men's basketball

The Longwood Lancers men's basketball team is the basketball team that represents Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, United States.

Mary Calderone

Calderone died on October 24, 1998 at the Longwood Nursing Home in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Michelle Dipp

In February 2010, it was announced that Dipp, along with Christoph Westphal and Richard Aldrich, launched a venture capital firm, Longwood Founders Fund LP.

Morgan Park, Chicago

Rotary International was formed in Morgan Park at the home of Paul P. Harris at 10856 Longwood Drive, and today the house is owned and maintained by that organization as a memorial to him.

Quarmby

It is situated 2 miles west of Huddersfield town centre between Oakes, Paddock and Longwood.

Shreya Sharma

On the occasion of 125th birth year of popular Hindi writer Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, a special screening of the film Usne Kaha Tha based on one of his popular stories held on July 19, 2008 in the capital city of Himachal Pradesh and Shreya Sharma, narrated the story, ahead of the film screening, held at Auckland House School, Longwood.

Wekiva Presbyterian Church

Wekiva Presbyterian Church draws its members from Longwood, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, Lake Mary, Heathrow, Maitland, and Orlando.


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