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unusual facts about Napier, Western Cape


George Thomas Napier

The town of Napier, Western Cape, is named for Sir George Thomas Napier as is Napier House at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town.


Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Baron Alington

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

Bevan Fransman

Bevan Fransman (born 31 October 1983 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African footballer, currently playing as a centre back for SuperSport United and the South African national team.

Black Adder 6

Its design was derived from such vintage Bentleys as "Old Number 1" and the "Napier-Railton Special." The cars of Bentley's 1920–1930s racing era, when the marque competed in such races as Le Mans and Brooklands, were further inspiration for its Brooklands boat-tail aluminum body.

Bloukrans Bridge

The Bloukrans River below forms the border between the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces and is located in the Tsitsikamma region of the Garden Route.

Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço de Arcos

As a 27 year old second lieutenant in 1862 the Count of Paço d'Arcos also commanded the schooner Napier in pursuit of the US confederate pirate ship CSS Alabama in the mid Atlantic near the Azores.

Charles Ottley Groom Napier

In the 1870s Napier began styling himself as the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat with subsidiary titles as prince of Ferrera, Nevers, Rethel, and Alençon; Baron de Tobago; and master of Lennox, Kilmahew, and Merchiston.

COSAT

Centre of Science and Technology (COSAT) is the first of three STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) schools in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Eben Dönges High School

Eben Dönges High School (Hoërskool Eben Dönges) is a government-funded, Afrikaans-medium high school in Kraaifontein, Western Cape, South Africa.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Elizabeth Triegaardt

In 2003, she received an award from the Western Cape Premier, Ebrahim Rasool, for meritorious service to the Arts in the Province.

Elytropappus rhinocerotis

Although the Renosterveld Vegetation Type is confined to the South-Western Cape of South Africa, the Renosterbos plant is much more widespread - occurring throughout the Cape Floristic Region and further, as far east as Molteno in the Eastern Cape, and as far north as Namibia.

Findlay Napier

Before the demise of Back of the Moon, Napier began working on a project called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers at first this project was to bridge the gap between the traditional roots of Back of the Moon and the contemporary song and arrangements of Queen Anne's Revenge.

Flatpicking

The chief proponents of the early country and bluegrass styles included Riley Puckett, George Shuffler, Alton Delmore, Johnny Bond, Don Reno and Bill Napier.

Francis A. Teall

He assisted Ephraim G. Squier in preparing his Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Washington, 1848), and John R. Bartlett in the first edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms, and made the analytical index to the American edition of Napier's Peninsular War.

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

A growing weakness of sight, ending in blindness, prevented him from carrying the work further, but he translated Napier's Peninsular War as a sort of continuation to it.

Holden Royale

If keyless entry was specified, it was fitted by Remac Components in Napier, New Zealand.

Huguenot railway station

Huguenot railway station is the main passenger railway station in the town of Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa.

James Napier

James Robert Napier (1821–1879), Scottish engineer, inventor of Napier's diagram

Masiphumelele High School

Masiphumelele High School is a publicly owned secondary school (grades 8-12) in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, in the Western Cape region of South Africa.

Mayor of Napier, New Zealand

The Mayor of Napier is the head of the municipal government of Napier City, New Zealand, and presides over the Napier City Council.

Misverstand Dam

Misverstand Dam is a combined gravity & arch type dam located on the Berg River, near Porterville, Western Cape, South Africa.

Mtutuzeli Hlomela

Mtutu had played soccer at junior level and at age 17, won a "football" scholarship through the South Australian and Western Cape sports ministries.

Napier Boys' High School

In 2002 Napier Boys' High School teacher, Reuben John Martin was arrested for manufacturing Class B MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy.

Napier Oryx

The engine was developed by the Aero Gas Turbine Division of Napier in conjunction with Percival, later Hunting Percival.

Napier Peak

The feature is named after Captain William Napier, Master of the schooner Venus, from New York, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

Nigel Napier-Andrews

Nigel Napier-Andrews was born in England, and spent parts of his childhood in Wimbledon, Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya.

Overberg branch line

Two extensions of the line from Caledon were possible: eastwards towards Riviersonderend and Swellendam, with the ultimate possibility of reaching Mossel Bay; or southwards towards Napier and Caledon.

Pahiatua Railway Station

Shortly after the nationalisation of the WMR line, the Napier Express was diverted from the Wairarapa Line to run through the Manawatu Gorge and down the former WMR line to Wellington.

Phil Liggett

He spends most of his leisure time in South Africa where he has a house in the Western Cape and a game farm near the Kruger National Park.

Prionium serratum

This species has a disjunct distribution along the southern and south-eastern seaboard from the Western Cape to KwaZulu-Natal on sandstone substrates, growing in dense mats in marshy areas, and in and along streams and rivers.

Several rivers in the Western Cape have have been named Palmiet River for this species growing along their courses - two of the larger ones are the Palmiet River mouthing between Betty's Bay and Kleinmond, and one having its source just west of Formosa Peak and eventually joining the Keurbooms River.

Provincial governments of South Africa

The only province that has adopted a constitution is the Western Cape; in doing so it chose to rename its legislature the Provincial Parliament.

SAFA Second Division

Currently it features 144 teams in total, divided into 9 divisions, borderly decided by the 9 geo-political provinces of South Africa: Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West.

Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet

Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet of Merrion Square, (1 August 1895 – 13 October 1986), was a British baronet and soldier in both World War I including the Gallipoli Campaign and World War II.

Southern Maori

Population centres that came to the electorate through this measure included Wellington, Masterton, Palmerston North, Napier, and Wairoa.

Taradale

Taradale High School, a high school in Taradale, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Tim Westoll

Westoll was the son of Captain James Westoll, late Durham Light Infantry, by his marriage in 1917 to Marian Ellen, a daughter of Captain Arthur Lenox Napier OBE DL, of the Yorkshire Regiment, and the grandson of another James Westoll, a Justice of the Peace, of Coniscliffe in County Durham.

Van der Westhuizen

The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).

Venus series

The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called Amtor by its human-like inhabitants.

Wilfrid Napier

Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa.

Wilson and Palmer v United Kingdom

Nicholas Underhill QC and Brian Napier acted for Associated Newspapers, and Patrick Elias QC and Nigel Giffin acted for Associated British Ports, while John Hendy QC and Jennifer Eady acted for Mr Wilson and Jeffrey Burke QC and Peter Clark acted for Mr Palmer.

Yumeno Kyūsaku

Napier, Susan J. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature.


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