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14 unusual facts about Manly


Barrie Unsworth

Unsworth has also been a Director of Entherm Pty Ltd (2003–2005), Member of Overseas Trade Authority of New South Wales (1978) and a Director of Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles (2004–2006).

Dame Mary Cook

She spoke at meetings there in the 1919 election campaign, and also deputised at ministerial events, such as the unveiling of an Honour Roll dedicated to the 1914–18 servicemen and women in General Granville Ryrie's Manly electorate.

Daniel Fitzgibbon

Daniel Gerard Fitzgibbon was born in The Brisbane suburb of Manly on 15 June 1976.

Doug Parkinson

Led by Rory Thomas (piano, organ, woodwind and brass) the group held a residency at the Canopus Room, colloqually known as "The Can", at The Manly Pacific Hotel in Manly, a seaside suburb of Sydney, Australia.

John Anthony Gallagher

In 1990, Gallagher was one of the first of a succession of All Blacks to switch codes to rugby league, following from his understudy Matthew Ridge, who signed with the NSWRL's Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles only a week before.

Kenwrick Taylor

Taylor was born in the Sydney suburb of Manly, the son of an international businessman and travelled the world until his seventh year when he was returned to Australia.

Little Manly

Little Manly, New Zealand is a suburb on the Whangaparaoa Peninsula north of Auckland, New Zealand

Manly-Warringah Radio Society

Over the course of the weekend some of the over 400 radio-active lighthouses around the world will be contacted from headland, usually on HF frequencies.

For Digital mode D-STAR the society operates one of two Sydney repeaters, VK2RWN, is operational on 2m and 70 cm.

Noa Nadruku

Against Manly-Warringah Nadruku created even more of an impression with strong defence to complement his powerful running.

Tania Verstak

They immigrated to Australia when she was 10 years old and settled in Manly, New South Wales.

The Overtones

Lachlan Alexander "Lachie" Chapman was born 7 February 1981, and comes from Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

Tonga Lea'aetoa

Lea'aetoa's parents came from Tonga, he spent his childhood in Australia in Manly, Sydney.

Zinzan Brooke

It was widely reported that he signed a contract to play rugby league for Graham Lowe's Manly club in the early 1990s, but subsequently changed his mind and stayed with rugby union.


1991 Trans-Tasman Test series

Goal kicking Wigan-based utility back Frano Botica, who had made his Kiwi debut in the first test against France, was preferred to Manly-Warringah goal kicking fullback Matthew Ridge for the three tests, while the only Kiwi on debut in Melbourne was Christchurch-born, South Sydney Rabbitohs winger Jason Williams, playing the first of 12 career tests.

2006 Newcastle Knights season

Despite trailing 18-6 at halftime, the Knights won its first final since their 2001 Grand Final victory by winning 25-18, but the win came at a cost with hooker Danny Buderus suspended for a spear tackle on Manly winger Michael Robertson, ruling him out of Newcastle's following final against the Brisbane Broncos in what was the last ever Johns vs. Lockyer showdown.

2009 World Club Challenge

The 2009 World Club Challenge was contested by Super League XIII champions, Leeds Rhinos, competing in their second consecutive World Club Challenge, and 2008 NRL Premiers, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.

Berala, New South Wales

Former Berala Bears players include Brisbane Broncos forward Terry Matterson, Canterbury Bulldogs winger Matt Utai, South Sydney Rabbitohs half Jeremy Smith, and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles forward Anthony Watmough.

Boukary Dramé

Drame played two years in PSG he wasn't a manly player of the team, and he played poorly only 25 matches in two years.

Bruce Baird

Baird's children include Julia Baird, columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald, and Mike Baird, the Treasurer of New South Wales in the O'Farrell government and a member of the NSW Legislative Assembly representing Manly for the Liberal Party since 2007.

Cecil Healy

Healy encouraged the practise of swimming daily for exercise, and was active in lifesaving at Manly beach, winning the Royal Humane Society silver medal for saving numerous surfers.

Chapayev and Void

In his hallucinations he is a manly woman who meets Arnold Schwarzenegger and after flying together with him on a military airplane through Moscow Maria is hit by the Ostankino Tower.

Chase Ranch

Manly Chase (b. 1842) started with a sheep ranch, by 1875 Chase started raising cattle with Texas Longhorns and Corriente cattle.

Cory Hutchings

In 1994, he suffered from a debilitating bout of Hepatitis A which was picked up through water contamination at Manly, Sydney.

Daly Cherry-Evans

Manly coach Des Hasler chose Hodkinson which meant that Cherry-Evans played in the Queensland Cup for Manly's then feeder club the Sunshine Coast Sea Eagles.

Darrell Lea

Darrell Lea has been in the ownership of the Lea family since it was founded by Harry Lea, who was born on 15 February 1876 in the East End of London, migrated to Australia in 1888, and started making confectionery in 1917 at the back of his Manly Corso fruit shop.

Division of Bonner

The Division of Bonner is located in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, including the suburbs of Chandler, Carindale, Manly, Mount Gravatt, Wishart and Wynnum.

Edward Quillinan

"All who know him," says Southey, writing in 1830, "are very much attached to him." "Nowhere," says Johnston, speaking of his correspondence during his wife's hopeless illness, "has the writer of this memoir ever seen letters more distinctly marked by manly sense, combined with almost feminine tenderness." Matthew Arnold in his Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan, speaks of him as "a man unspoil'd, sweet, generous, and humane."

EMD E6

One was operated by the Midland Railway, in Baldwin City, Kansas but has since been sold and may become part of a future museum in Manly, Iowa or possibly be restored to operation.

Flirtini

Richard Christy, noted heavy metal drummer and writer for The Howard Stern Show, likes flirtinis but calls it a "Viking's Testicle" to make it sound more manly.

Frano Botica

Botica joined the Wigan rugby league club in British league in 1990 in what was an exodus of All Black backs to rugby league including Matthew Ridge (Manly-Warringah), John Gallagher (Leeds) and John Schuster Newcastle).

Greg Alexander

After making his test debut in the 26-6 first test win against New Zealand at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch and playing in the 8-0 second test win at Rotorua, Alexander lost his place in the side with coach Bob Fulton preferring his 1987 premiership winning halfback from Manly-Warringah, Des Hasler, in the position for the third and final test.

Henry John Boddington

The Dictionary of National Biography described Boddington as "of a humorous, amiable, and manly character".

Hypsicratea

"...always manly (androdes) and extremely bold, the king consequently liked to call her Hypsicrates. At that time taking possession of a clock and horse of a Persian man she neither flagged in body before the distances they ran nor did she weary of tending the body and horse of the king, until they came to a place called Sinor, which was full of the king's coins and treasures."

James Manly

On 20 October 2012, Manly was arrested by Israel for trying to breach a blockade of the Gaza Strip on the ship Estelle.

Kenneth Adie Ferguson

He married Helen McVicar, veterinarian (born 1925 in Manly, NSW) in 1946 and they had five children, Deborah, Maggie Ferguson, Kate, John and Angus.

Kieran Foran

Following the departure of Manly's 2008 and 2011 premiership coach Des Hasler to the Canterbury Bulldogs, Foran had been linked to the Bulldogs, who are rumored to have offered him a three year deal worth $600,000 per season.

Lorenzo Ma'afu

At the start of 2012, Ma'afu was close to joining NRL club, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles but nothing eventuated as Sea Eagles recruitment manager, Noel Cleal, who wanted to sign him, went to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs before anything was finalized.

Manly Beach

The Corso, a pedestrian plaza and one of Manly's main streets for shopping and dining, runs from the ferry wharf and harbour beach, across the peninsula to Manly Beach, where it marks the boundary between North Steyne and South Steyne.

Manly Manual

The Official Manly Manual (ISBN 1-880092-12-3) is a book written in 1993 by Colom Keating which collects numerous lessons from his syndicated radio program Mr. Manly.

Manly Times

The screenplay, written by Nikolay Haytov is based on the short stories Manly Times and Wedding from his book Wild Stories (1967).

Montanablue

Pinpoint released a live album titled "A Showcase Of Manly Delights" recorded by Thomas Stern (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave) from the bands 1989 tour with Blaine Reininger.

Mr. Manly

An example might be, "Your wife asks you to accompany her to a dog show, a decidedly unmanly event." Mr. Manly then asks the audience, "How can this be accomplished in a manly manner?" After encouraging listeners to follow along in their Manly Manual, Mr. Manly suggests three ways to handle the situation.

My Restaurant Rules

In addition, despite Sydney's defeat in series two, contestants Evan and Bella of Pink Salt opened a new restaurant (under the same name) on 22 March 2006, at a new location in Double Bay from the original suburb of Manly.

Nick Yakich

After graduating he was posted to Harbord Primary School on Sydney's Northern Beaches, right in the heart of the Sea Eagles area and trialed with Manly at the instigation of cricket team mate, and Manly junior, Frank Stanton.

During his time with Manly, Yakich was considered one of the fastest players in rugby league behind only North Sydney's Ken Irvine and South Sydney's 1962 Commonwealth Games 100 yards Bronze Medallist, Michael Cleary.

North Head Quarantine Station

For many years Percy Nolan, an alderman and mayor of Manly, pushed for the removal of the Quarantine Station from Manly and called for its use as public open space.

Petronius

George Orwell in "Bookshop Memories" (1936): "Modern books for children are rather horrible things, especially when you see them in the mass. Personally I would sooner give a child a copy of Petronius Arbiter than Peter Pan, but even Barrie seems manly and wholesome compared with some of his later imitators."

Phil Daley

After breaking his jaw in the State of Origin exhibition game in Los Angeles in 1987, Daley spent five weeks on the sidelines as Manly made their charge towards the Grand Final.

Scott Donald

Scott joined the Rhinos from Australian team Manly at the back end of 2005 as a replacement for outgoing winger Mark Calderwood and made a scoring debut for the Rhinos against Huddersfield Giants on 11 February 2006.

Squeeze a Flower

Shooting took place in the studio of Ajax Films in Sydney and on location in St Patrick's College, Manly, and Mount Pleasant vineyard in the Hunter Valley.

The Art of Self Defense

After a brief history on the many different forms of manly arts through the years, Goofy demonstrates the different methods of boxing, as well as punching the bag and shadow boxing - literally - until finally he feels ready for the boxing ring.