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5 unusual facts about Minster


Æthelred and Æthelberht

Their story forms an important element in the legend of Saint Mildrith, because the monastery of Minster in Thanet is said to have been founded in atonement for the crime.

Domne Eafe

Domne Eafe (or Saint Eormenburg, also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba; floruit late 7th century) was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King Ecgberht of Kent.

Millam

A chapel dedicated to the Mercian Saint Mildrith (Mildred), Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, who is said to have stayed there, exists in Millam, but is privately owned and not easily visited.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.

Trinity, Indiana

the present-day Minster in West Central,Ohio which also founded other Catholic parishes in neighboring Mercer and Auglaize County, Ohio which is now affectionaltely known by local historians as The Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches.


Ahmad Hussein Adl

Ahmad Hussein Adl (Tabriz 1989-Tehran 1962) was minster of agriculture for several period in Ahmad Qavam, Ebrahim Hakimi, and Ebrahim Hakimi governments.

Anna Town Hall

Shortly after the village incorporated in 1877, the need for a community government building became apparent, and the present structure was erected on the main road from the canal town of Minster to a rail line operated by a predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Antonio Scandello

It was conducted at the burial of the Elector in the Freiberg minster in 1562.

Battle of Coyotepe Hill

The Battle of Coyotepe Hill was a significant engagement of the United States occupation of Nicaragua in August through November, 1912 during the insurrection staged by Minster of War General Luis Mena against the government of President Adolfo Díaz.

Christ II

Cynewulf positively learned the Latin rudiments so many assume that he probably attended the Minster School of York.

Christine Buckley

In 2003 Christine Buckley called on then Minster for Education Noel Dempsey to resign after he proposed that the Commission investigate only sample allegations of abuse instead of the 1800 complaints.

Church of St Bartholomew, Crewkerne

The first Saxon church was founded before the end of the 9th century as a "minster", or main church of a Saxon royal estate that included an area which later became the parishes of Seaborough, Wayford and Misterton.

Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port

The chancellor Regimbald (a survivor from Edward’s reign into William’s) rebuilt his Minster at Milborne Port in “a sumptuous hybrid style.”

Codicote

In the year 1002 Codicote enters the written records for the first time when King Æthelred the Unready, its owner, sold it by means of a charter for the sum of 150 mancusae, or 900 shillings of pure gold to his 'faithful minster' Ælfhelm.

Coleman Milne

They originally stretched the Ford Zephyr, later moving on to the Ford Granada upon which a number of versions such as the Minster, Dorchester, and Grosvenor were based.

Edith Cavell Hospital

The £20m hospital, built to complement services provided elsewhere in the city, was named after the Norfolk-born nurse and humanitarian, Edith Cavell, who received part of her education at Laurel Court in the Minster Precinct.

Emerald Tower, Brisbane

Emerald Developments (Aust) Pty Ltd applied to the Supreme Court of Queensland in March 2006 seeking a declaration that Minster Boyle had improperly refused the application.

End of Term

Nicola and Patrick manage to sneak off for a day to visit Wade Minster and look at the carved falcon and then enjoy a cold, dark ride back over the downs, while Patrick recites the Lyke-Wake Dirge.

Essen Minster

Another sculpture from the early sixteenth century is the sculpture of the Holy Helper, Saint Roch on the north wall of the Minster, created shortly after 1500.

Frithuwold of Chertsey

The monks of Saint Peter's Minster, Chertsey, revered Frithuwald, whom they considered the founder of their monastery, as a saint.

Gruenwald Convent

Five other convents were built: one affiliated with St. Augustine's Church in Minster, one affiliated with St. Joseph's Church in Egypt, the Himmelgarten convent near St. Henry, the Maria Stein Convent, and one affiliated with Holy Trinity Church in Trinity, Indiana.

Halifax Minster

There was a short ceremony in the Minster grounds where the Troops were inspected by the then Mayor of Halifax, Councillor Colin Stout, and the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Dr Ingrid Roscoe.

Hilary Minster

Minster provided the narration for the controversial Central television documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy, which outlined various theories concerning the assassination of the American president John F. Kennedy.

Hwa Chong Institution High School Band

The band was invited to perform at Namly Park, with guests, Minster for Education, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Christopher De Souza, MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC at the occasion.

Hyde Abbey

In 1109 Henry I ordered the New Minster to be removed to the suburb of Hyde Mead, to the north of the city walls, just outside the gate; when the new abbey church of Hyde was consecrated in 1110, the bodies of Alfred, his wife Ealhswith, and his son Edward the Elder were carried in state through Winchester to be interred once more before the high altar.

Iwerne Minster

In fiction, a pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined (along with neighbouring village Shroton) in Julian Rathbone's novel The Last English King.

John Newton Brown

Ordained the following year, he spent many years traveling New England, serving as minster in Buffalo, New York, Malden, Massachusetts, and Exeter, New Hampshire as well as a teaching position at the Academical and Theological Institution of New Hampton, New Hampshire, before ill health forced him to travel south where he took up a ministry in Lexington, Virginia in 1845.

Judges Lodgings, York

After his death, the building was bought by Dr. John Dealtry to whom an elegant monument was erected in York Minster.

Lo Fu-chu

Because of Lo's reputation as an organized crime boss, Taiwan's Justice Minster, Liao Cheng-hao, refused to attend the justice committee's meetings while he was a member.

Lyminster Priory

It was a possible Saxon royal minster of Benedictine nuns and was founded or refounded about 1082AD by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Sussex, who granted land to St. Peter's Abbey, Almenesches.

Mark Lane, London

Notable sites include the London Underwriting Centre in Minster Court, and the London Corn Exchange at No. 55, as well as a number of other offices and restaurants.

Minster Lovell

The dedication of the Church of England parish church to the Saxon Saint Kenelm and the name "Minster" in the toponym suggest that the village may have had a Saxon minster, possibly associated with a Mercian royal vill.

Nidec-Shimpo America Corporation

The Minster Machine Company has corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant in Minster, Ohio.

Pyotr Vannovskiy

He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878; held commands of a St. Petersburg Cadet Corps and an Army Corps based in Kiev; served as Minster of War from 1882 until 1898 under the Tsars Alexander III (1881–1894) and Nicholas II (1894–1917) respectively.

Richard Cawthorne

Richard is also first cousin to Australian Labour Minster, and Victorian Shadow Attorney General Martin Pakula.

Ripon Cathedral

Thomas of Bayeux, first Norman Archbishop of York, then instigated the construction of a third church, traces of which were incorporated into the later chapter house of Roger's minster.

Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet

Their son Thomas succeeded to the baronetcy, and his daughter Susan married Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet of Minster.

Southchurch

Southchurch takes its name from a Saxon church which was south of a pre-Norman minster, probably situated at Wakering.

Stadthaus Ulm

At the foot of the famous Ulm Minster, forming both a contrast and a complement to this dominating late-Gothic building, the Stadthaus and Münsterplatz (minster square) were designed by the renowned US architect Richard Meier.

Stoke Minster

Stoke Minster is the town centre and civic church in Stoke-upon-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent in England.

Stow Minster

It is said to have been re-founded and re-endowed in 1054 by Leofric and Godiva encouraged by Bishop Wulfwig as a Minster of Secular Canons with the Bishop at its head.

Temasek Polytechnic

In June 1989, Dr Tony Tan, then the Minster of Education, announced that a third polytechnic is being considered and in April, 1990, Temasek Polytechnic was established with an initial enrolment of 735 students.

The Nebuly Coat

The name of the town and minster may be borrowed from Colerne in Wiltshire, formerly spelt Cullerne (among other forms).

Welsh devolution referendum, 2011

On 27 October 2007 the then First Minister Rhodri Morgan and the Deputy First Minster Ieuan Wyn Jones appointed Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the recently retired Permanent Representatives from Britain to the United Nations to head the convention.

Wulfred

Coenwulf's daughter Cwenthryth, abbess of Winchcombe and Minster, paid compensation to Wulfred and lost control over the houses in Kent.


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