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Markham's Storm Petrel

It is named in honor of Sir Albert Hastings Markham.


Berczy

Berczy Village, Ontario, the original settlement that grew to become Markham

Blind Young Things

Steve Markham, 18, from Rotherham is a keen sportsman and talented musician who has been completely blind since birth.

Brown's Corners, York Regional Municipality, Ontario

Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.

Call forwarding

A Markham business with a forwarded area code 416 Toronto number could receive calls from Malton airport in Mississauga without incurring long-distance charges (as Malton → Toronto and Toronto → Markham are each a local call).

Cape Shirreff

Other birds nesting at the site in smaller numbers include Gentoo Penguins, Kelp Gulls, Brown Skuas, Snowy Sheathbills, Antarctic Terns, Imperial Shags, Wilson's and Black-bellied Storm Petrels, and Cape Petrels.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Col Markham

Markham received a late endorsement from Premier Bob Carr ahead of the 2002 preselection vote, but this was not enough to sway the right-dominated preselectors, who voted for Noreen Hay, a local left faction figure who defected to the right soon after.

Context Development

Ideal Lofts is a residential condominium low-rise building at 301 Markham Street at College Street in Trinity–Bellwoods and Little Italy, Toronto.

Dragonlance Nexus

Following the launch of the Lexicon the very first author submission was by Douglas Niles on his character Jaymes Markham, with other authors such as Nancy Varian Berberick, Mary H. Herbert, and Kevin Stein all submitting articles.

Finisterre Range

The range runs into the Saruwaged Range to the east and together they form a natural barrier between the Ramu and Markham valleys to the south and Vitiaz Strait to the north.

Gentec International

In 1999, Gentec received the Markham Board of Trade's Business Excellence Award, presented to Joel Seigel and Margaret Adat by then-Mayor of Markham, Don Cousens.

Groff family

In Canada the Groff family is best known in the area around Markham, Ontario.

Henry John Clements

# Henry Theophilus, born 24 July 1820, died unknown; he married on the 1 December 1868 to Gertrude Caroline Lucy Markham (born 28 September 1842 - died unknown), daughter of the Rev. David Frederick Markham, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex, England.

Henry Markham

During the Civil War, Markham enlisted as a private in Company G, 32nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment; he was promoted to second lieutenant and after the war returned to Wisconsin and settled in Milwaukee.

Henry Robert Clifton

He was the only son of the Rev. Henry Spencer Markham (1805-1844), Rector of St. Mary's Church, Clifton and Prebendary of York, and his wife Sophia Charlotte.

History of Markham, Ontario

ATI Technologies, IBM Canada, Apple Computer Canada, Motorola Canada and many other well-known companies have chosen Markham as their home in Canada.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

There have also been reports of mummified fledglings and adults found in crevices in the Atacama Desert 50 km from the sea, and even reports of one fledgling being seen 150 km from the sea, and one unproven report of a bird flying into a nest in the town of Caraz in Peru, 100 km from the sea.

It is thought to breed between March and July, as this is when fledglings are regularly seen at sea around Lima (in Peru) and Antofagasta (in Chile).

IBM CASCON

CASCON (Centre for Advanced Studies Conference) is a Computer Science conference hosted by IBM in Toronto that occurs annually in late-October or early-November in Markham, Ontario.

Jamil Dehlavi

1980 The Blood of Hussain (starring Salman Peerzada, Kika Markham & Durriya Kazi)

Kika Markham

Her sisters are the actress Petra Markham, the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham, wife of actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Sonia.

Lhakar

Another case of non violent and non cooperative action happened in Markham (in eastern Tibet), where Tibetans consider to have won an unprecedented victory in their fight for civil rights.

Lions Rump

Other birds nesting at the site in smaller numbers include Gentoo and Chinstrap Penguins, Southern Giant Petrels, Cape Petrels, Wilson's and Black-bellied Storm Petrels, Snowy Sheathbills, South Polar and Brown Skuas, Kelp Gulls and Antarctic Terns.

Locust Hill

Locust Hill, Ontario, a settlement in the eastern part of Markham, Ontario

Markham Moor

Due to its unusual hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof, constructed in 1960-61 to designs by architect Hugh Segar (Sam) Scorer and structural engineer Dr Hajnal-Kónyi, there was a preservation campaign in 2004 to get the building listed to prevent it from being demolished as part of the Markham Moor junction improvement plans published by the Highways Agency.

Markham, Minnesota

Markham is an unincorporated community in Colvin Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Mary S. Lovell

Her book on Markham, Straight on Till Morning, researched and written in under a year, after weeks of interviews with the subject in Nairobi, became an immediate international bestseller when it was published in 1987 and was twelve weeks on the New York Times Best Seller lists.

Melanotaenia affinis

It is commonly found in the Markham, Ramu, and Sepik Rivers; their preferred habitat includes clear rainforest streams, swamps, pools, and lagoons abundant in vegetation and submerged logs.

Miller Transit

The transit operator is part of the Miller Group based in Markham, Ontario (founded as AE Jupp Construction Company in Toronto, Ontario in 1917).

Milliken, Ontario

Milliken or Milliken Mills are neighbourhoods in the cities of Toronto and Markham, comprising Milliken in the city of Toronto and Milliken Mills East and Milliken Mills West in the city of Markham.

Murder!

Using skills he has learned in the theatre, Sir John investigates the murder with the help of the stage manager Ted Markham (Edward Chapman) and his wife (Phyllis Konstam).

Narębski Point

Other birds recorded as breeding at the site in smaller numbers are Brown and South Polar Skuas, Kelp Gulls, Antarctic Terns, Wilson's Storm Petrels, Southern Giant Petrels and Snowy Sheathbills.

Natalie Lindstrom

On the flight home, he and Mfume discover that Evan Markham is, in fact, the Faceless Man while Sondra Avebury is the rogue soul enabling Markham to kill his victims with a minimum of struggle; together, the two of them slowly developed the "Violet Killer" modus operandi by appropriating details of famous serial killers (Jack the Ripper's ritual disembowlment, the Zodiac Killer's letters to the media; Jeffrey Dahmer's collection of body parts).

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

On the Jellicoe Road

The story is set around the life of Taylor Lily Markham, the 17-year-old leader of the boarding school on the Jellicoe Road (country NSW/ACT).

Palmerston–Little Italy

Made up of a series of Victorian homes on Markham Street which now house independently-owned shops, art studios, cafes, bookstores, boutiques and galleries.

Paul F. Markham

According to the testimony of Ted Kennedy, after the accident, he, Markham, and Joseph Gargan returned to the waterway to try to rescue Kopechne.

Robert Mackey Stribling

Stribling was born in Markham, Virginia to his parents, Dr. Robert Mackey Stribling and Caroline Clarkson.

Scott Island

Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham but later decided to name it after Scott.

Shaarei Tzedec

The Markham Street Shul is one of the few remaining synagogues and the last remaining shtiebel of what were once dozens of small congregations in the area around Kensington Market, Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street - which was a vibrant Jewish area prior to World War II.

Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet

On his death, his eldest son, Charles, became the 2nd Baronet Markham of Arusha, East Africa.

Markham was born on 25 August 1866 at Brimington Hall in Brimington, near Chesterfield.

St. Agnes Kouying Tsao Catholic Church

St. Agnes was built in response to the growing religious demands of Chinese Christian immigrants flooding into the Markham area from places like Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Thomas Williamson

Thomas Williamson (Canadian politician), teacher, township councillor, deputy reeve and reeve of the Township of Markham, Ontario

West with the Night

Markham is often wrongly described as "the first person" to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight, but that record belongs to Scottish pilot Jim Mollison, who attempted to fly from Dublin, Ireland, to New York City in 1932.

York East

Called the East Riding of York, it consisted of the Townships of Markham, Scarborough, the Village of Yorkville and the portion of the Township of York lying east of Yonge Street.


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