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2 unusual facts about Longwood, Saint Helena


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.


Bonapartism

Napoleon I's death in exile on Saint Helena in 1821 only transferred the allegiance of many of these persons to other members of his family; however, particularly after the death of Napoleon's son, the Duke of Reichstadt (known to Bonapartists as Napoleon II), there were several different members of the family on whom the Bonapartist hopes rested.

Charlie Llewellyn

Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal being considered of mixed blood.

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.

Islands of Africa

The Canary Islands and other territories of Spain are present in the Mediterranean Sea in the north Atlantic Ocean, and the British possessions of Saint Helena, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha are located off the southwestern seaboard of the continent.

Kate Osann

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

Launceston Elliot

Launceston Elliott was the grandson of Sir Charles Elliot, the onetime governor of Saint Helena, and his father served as magistrate with the Indian Civil Service.

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.

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.

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.

Napoleon at Saint Helena

The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

Old Government House, Auckland

Apparently the Auckland house supplied to the first Governor of New Zealand was similar to the one sent to Saint Helena to house Napoleon (although he refused to move into it).

Omega Centauri

Using a telescope from the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, English astronomer Edmond Halley rediscovered this object in 1677, listing it as a non-stellar object.

Postal code

Eight British Overseas Territories use ten postal codes: three for Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and one apiece for the others.

Princess Caraboo

On 13 September 1817 a letter was printed in the Bristol Journal, allegedly from Sir Hudson Lowe, the official in charge of the exiled Emperor Napoleon on St. Helena.

Quarmby

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

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

It became internationally known as the British government's chosen place of exile of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was detained on the island from October 1815 until his death on May 5, 1821, and it was made a British crown colony in 1834 by the Government of India Act 1833.

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.

The Saint Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud

The Saint Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud is a private journal written down by Gaspard Gourgaud as a result of his conversations with Napoleon I of France between June 1815 and March 1818 during the former's exile on Saint Helena.

Wekiva Presbyterian Church

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


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