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unusual facts about Manley



Delarivier Manley

The more accessible edition of The New Atalantis, which Rosalind Ballaster turned into a Penguin Classic, brought Manley wider recognition among students of early eighteenth-century literature.

Janet Todd, Catherine Gallagher and Ros Ballaster provided the perspective of Manley as a proto-feminist.

Dexter Manley

Manley underwent 10½ hours of brain surgery June 21, 2006, to treat a Colloid cyst, and is experiencing minor, isolated memory loss.

Effa Manley

Manley was the treasurer of the Newark chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and often used Eagles games to promote civic causes.

Faris Glubb

Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes.

Gregory Kealey

Gregory Kealey has supervised more than 20 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie, MUN and UNB, including Craig Heron, John Manley, Sean Cadigan, Mark Leier, Christina Burr, Michael Smith, Miriam Wright, Andrew Parnaby, Dominique Clement, Michelle McBride, Janis Thiessen, Michael Butt, Fred Winsor, Richard Rennie, Kurt Korneski, Kirk Niergarth, Benjamin Isitt, Christopher Powell and David Foord.

Independence of Jamaica

Under Manley, Jamaica entered the West Indies Federation, a political union of colonized Caribbean entities that, if realized, would've united ten British territories into a single, independent state.

Liberty Flames basketball

As of the 2009–2010 season, the Flames have had 8 different head coaches of their Men's Basketball team (Dan Manley 1972–77, Harley Swift 1977–78, Dale Gibson 1978–81, Jeff Meyer 1981–97, Randy Dunton 1997–98 and 2003–2007, Mel Hankinson 1998–2003, Ritchie McKay 2007–09, Dale Layer 2009–present).

Manley Power

When in England, Manley Power and his family lived in Hill Court Manor, Walford, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.

Michael Manley

The second son of Jamaica's Premier Norman Washington Manley and Jamaican artist Edna Manley, Michael Manley was a charismatic figure who became the leader of the Jamaican People's National Party a few months before his father's death in 1969.

Manley had 5 children from his five marriages: Rachel Manley, Joseph Manley, Sarah Manley, Natasha Manley and David Manley.

Pamela Wallin

In 2001, Wallin, along with then-Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley, was one of the organizers of the "Canada Loves New York" rally for Canadians to show their support after the September 11 attacks (Manley ran in the New York City Marathon in 2001, a contributing factor to organize the rally).

Peter Manley

The boos became more ironic and good-natured when in 2005 Manley changed his entrance theme from Chumbawamba's Tubthumping to Tony Christie's Is This the Way to Amarillo.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Her Excellency Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, formerly Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1964- ), née Alexandra Christina Manley - ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark

R v Gnango

At approximately 6.20 pm on 2 October 2007, 26 year old Polish care worker Magda Pniewska was making her way home from her place of work at Manley Court, a care home run by Bupa in New Cross in South East London.

SRH Presents: Supporting Radical Habits Vol. II

The DVD features over an hour of SRH riders which include; Mike Metzger, Vince Alessi, Josh Lewan, Jeremy Sommerville, Greg Domingo, Zach Peakock, Scottie Stephens, Grant Teel, Scummy, Manley, Thomas Hancock, Sean Doucett, James Lovette, Jim McNeil, Joe Crimo, Wes Agee, Jeremy Fulmer and more of the Subnoize and SRH members.

Stuart Emerson

Other members of the band who did not appear on the single include Charles McKenzie, Rich Manley-Reeve and Mick White (later of Samson).

The Fucking Champs

Phil Manley is a founding member of Trans Am and has also released albums under his own name.

Trina Gulliver

2008 saw the publication of her autobiography, Golden Girl: The Autobiography of the Greatest Ever Ladies' Darts Player, which chronicles her ongoing rivalry with ladies darts superstar and former Olympian Crissy Manley, wife of PDC player Peter Manley.

West Indies Federation

Manley himself lost the subsequent island elections in April 1962, and Bustamante became the first Prime Minister of an independent Jamaica on 6 August 1962.

As a result the Bustamante-led Jamaica Labour Party (the local component of the West Indian DLP) successfully forced Manley to hold a referendum in September 1961 on political secession from the Federation.

West Riding of Lindsey

It consisted of the north western part of the county, and included the Isle of Axholme and the Aslacoe, Corringham, Manley, Lawress and Well wapentakes.


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