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3 unusual facts about Merrick


David Architzel

He grew up in Merrick, New York and has one brother, Ralph, and two sisters, Reba and Anne Fleming.

Frank Bartkus

Frank Bartkus (born November 11, 1915; died September 1986 in Merrick, New York) was a U.S. soccer goalkeeper who was a member of the U.S. soccer team at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Merrick, West Springfield

Borders are, Park Ave to the north, Union St. and its industrial buildings to the west, and Bridge St. (or New Bridge St.) to the south and U.S. Route 5.


A Sailor's Life

The song was printed in eighteenth-century broadsides and collected by W. P. Merrick in 1899 from Henry Hills of Lodsworth, Sussex.

Ada Cavendish

She also famously played the title role of Miss Gwilt in the stage adaptation of Armadale and Mercy Merrick in The New Magdalen, both by Wilkie Collins.

Bethesda, Ohio

When the railroad reached the village in 1852, the Central Ohio Railroad built a station and named it Burr’s Mills in honor of Merrick S. Burr,who operated a sawmill in the area.

Chloe Merrick Reed

Chloe Merrick (1832–1897) opened a school for freedmen on Amelia Island, Florida and married governor Harrison M. Reed.

Doug Varone

As a director and choreographer, he has staged Gluck’s Orfée et Eurydice and Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opera Colorado and Laurent Petitgirard’s Joseph Merrick: The Elephant Man (for Minnesota Opera).

George E. Merrick

Beginning in 1922, on 3,000 acres (12 km²) of citrus groves and land covered in pine trees which his father had left him, Merrick began carving out a town along the lines of the City Beautiful movement.

Gil Merrick

Merrick also played in the 1955–58 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, in which Birmingham were knocked out at the semi-final stage by Barcelona, losing 2–1 in a replay at the St. Jakob Stadium in Basel.

James Anthony Lawson

Lawson died at Shankill, near Dublin, 10 August 1887, having married in 1842 Jane, eldest daughter of Samuel Merrick of Cork.

Jana Sýkorová

Some performance highlights with the company include the world premiere of Emil Viklický's Phaedra, Pallas in a concert version of Camille Saint-Saëns's Hélène, the title role in the Czech premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso, and the Elephant Man in the world premiere of Laurent Petitgirard's Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man.

Joseph Jackson Fuller

The Bimbia mission station and school, the first in mainland Cameroons, was founded in 1844/5 by the Fuller and Merrick families, and was quickly followed by a second at Duala founded by Alfred Saker and his family with the Sierra Leonian Thomas Horton Johnson.

Lynbrook, New York

Scenes from the motion picture After.Life, starring Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson and Justin Long, was filmed on Atlantic Ave. downtown district and on Merrick Rd. and Horton Ave.

M. E. Carn

Merrick Ezra Carn (1808–1862) was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 under then Governor William Henry Gist.

Marius de Romanus

After the events of The Queen of the Damned (after living on the 'Night Island' in Miami), it is revealed in the novel Merrick, that Marius and Pandora had reunited in New Orleans.

Merrick and Rosso Unplanned

Merrick and Rosso Unplanned was a free-form talk show hosted by Australian comedians Merrick Watts and Tim Ross, based on the UK talk show Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned.

Merrick and the Highway Patrol

Merrick and the Highway Patrol is an Australian radio show, presented by Merrick Watts, Jullian Schiller and Rachel Corbett which aired on Triple M as well as regional stations nationwide.

Merrick Mayfair

Merrick finds out that David has helped the famous vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.

Nullarbor Nymph

The film received much hype thanks to radio announcer Merrick Watts of Triple M's Merrick and The Highway Patrol show which aired across Australia.

One Dangerous Night

Meanwhile, Cooper, an unprofessed criminal, is carrying out a scheme to loot the jewellery of select wealthy persons — namely, Jane Merrick (Monia Barrie), Sonia Budenny (Tala Birell) and Andrews.

Outer barrier

It is accessible from Long Island on its western end by the Meadowbrook Parkway to Merrick, New York, the Loop Parkway to Long Beach, New York and the Wantagh Parkway to Wantagh, New York.

Roy Conrad

He has also appeared in another LucasArts game, Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire, as the rebel pilot Ace Merrick.

Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet

On 4 September 1677, he married firstly Jane Cuffe, daughter of Sir James Cuffe, he married secondly Lettice Hart née Vesey widow of Merrick Hart.

The Carnivorous Carnival

Klaus refers to Joseph Merrick (incorrectly naming him "John Merrick") when discussing the cruelty of freak shows.

The Towers of Silence

It is in an effort to prove Merrick wrong that leads to Teddie's demise on the front lines in Imphal.

The True History of the Elephant Man

While on display in a penny gaff shop in London, Merrick met a surgeon named Frederick Treves who invited Merrick to the London hospital to be examined.


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