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Old St. Andrew's

Old St Andrew's Church, Kingsbury, a closed church in the Kingsbury area of Greater London


Amy Ridenour

Ridenour has come under fire for allegedly using the NCPPR as a clearinghouse for clients of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff to pay for a luxurious golf trip to St. Andrew's in Scotland, attended by congressman Tom DeLay and others.

Bassewitz

Count Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (1680–1749), on Prebberede manor etc., Imperial Privy Councillor of the Russian Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire, President of the Privy Council and Chief Court Marshall of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, President of the Privy Council of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, recipient of the Order of St. Andrew

C. J. McCoy

McCoy got his start as a football coach at the Sewanee Military Academy, a preparatory school affiliated with the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Carluke

Car or Caer tells us that it is a height or strong position and Luke suggests that it may be dedicated to the saint of that name, however there is evidence that the earliest church was dedicated to St. Andrew, and 'Luke' is more likely to derive from the commonly revered pre-Christian deity Lugus.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

From his debut with St. Andrew's from 1891 until his retirement in 1901, Moffatt played all the football seasons consecutively.

Eric Boateng

He attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware.

Eric Boateng attended Ernest Bevin College in Tooting, South London, between 1997-2002, he later attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, where he averaged 19.6 points, 13.6 rebounds and 4.6 blocked shots a game.

Ficquelmont Palace

As a sign of his appreciation for Ficquelmont's work, Emperor Nicholas I awarded him the Orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Vladimir and St. Anna.

Grand Kremlin Palace

Its five reception halls (Georgievsky, Vladimirsky, Aleksandrovsky, Andreyevsky, and Ekaterininsky) are named for orders of the Russian Empire: the Orders of St. George, Vladimir, Alexander, Andrew, and Catherine.

Holcombe, Somerset

The old Church of St. Andrew has late Saxon-early Norman origins and was rebuilt in the 16th century.

Hougoumont

Roberts, Andrew; Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble, 2005, London: HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-00-719075-1

Isabel Bassett

She served as the Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for St. Andrew—St. Patrick for the next four years.

Joey Accaoui

Accaoui attended St. Andrew High School where he led the team to two NEPSAC Class AA titles, scoring more than 1600 career points during his four years, while having his number retired.

John Alexander Douglas McCurdy

He was schooled at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in mechanical engineering in 1906, where he had been a member of The Kappa Alpha Society along with his friend Frederick W. Baldwin.

Kirk Varnedoe

He studied at St. Andrew's School and Williams College, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society.

Lush For Life

When he’s not running the business and writing, he enjoys playing golf at St. Andrew’s in Scotland, and supervising the development of his family’s winery, Ross-Munro Vineyards, in South Africa.

Maurice Ashley

Maurice Ashley (born March 6, 1966 in St. Andrew, Jamaica) is a chess grandmaster, author, commentator, app designer, puzzle inventor, and motivational speaker.

Old St. Joseph's Church

The current church, on Willings Alley in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, the third church on the site, was built in 1839.

Old St. Mary's

Old Saint Mary's Cathedral, cathedral in San Francisco, California, United States

Old St. Paul's, Wellington

There is a plaque in memory of Wellington historian J.C. Beaglehole, most famous for his biography of explorer James Cook, but who also played a significant role in the fight to save Old St. Paul's from demolition.

Old St. Scholastica's Academy

Due to the large number of enrollees, and the zeal of its biggest benefactor, Monsignor Prudencio David, the school was relocated to its second site in 1931, and ownership of the school was passed on to the Benedictine Sisters in 1938.

Order of St. Andrew

The colour of the sash differs from the colour of the Imperial era, and resembles the shade of the sash of the British Order of the Garter.

He witnessed first hand the awards ceremonies for England's Order of the Garter and Austria's Order of the Golden Fleece and noticed the loyalty and pride of the awardees.

During the monarchy, recipients of the Order of St. Andrew also automatically received the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the White Eagle, the Order of St. Anne first class, and the Order St. Stanislaus first class.

Papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica

The majority of these tombs were destroyed during the sixteenth through seventeenth century demolition of Old St. Peter's Basilica (save one which was destroyed during the Saracen Sack of Rome in 846).

Patriarchal cross

Still another explanation of the slanted crossbar would suggest the Cross Saltire, as tradition holds that the Apostle St. Andrew introduced Christianity to lands north and west of the Black Sea: today's Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, and Romania.

Pilot Point High School

In 2007 he won the U.S. Amateur Public Links championship and was the inaugural winner of the Mark H. McCormack Medal by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrew's for the amateur player.

Pre-dreadnought battleship

Gardiner, Robert and Lambert, Andrew Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam Warship, 1815–1905.

Price Hill, Cincinnati

Several cemeteries are located in Price Hill including Old St. Joseph's Cemetery, New St. Joseph Cemetery, Union Baptist Cemetery and Judah Touro Cemetery.

Prince Consort-class ironclad

Lambert, Andrew Warrior, Restoring the World's First Ironclad, published Conway Maritime Press, 1987.

Robert Dyer

Dyer married Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann (Hughes) Bartlett, on 15 April 1845, at St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in London.

Secession Hall

St. Andrew's Hall, also known as Secession Hall, a public building in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Shauna Kavanagh

She attended school at Loretto College Foxrork, and later attended St. Andrews College in Booterstown, Dublin.

St. Andrew's Basilica, Arthunkal

The church, officially Arthunkal St. Andrew's Forane Church, Arthunkal, Alappuzha district, Kerala, India was originally built by the Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century.

St. Andrew's Church, Lübbecke

The collegiate church of St. Andrew in Lübbecke had been founded as a chapter of St. John (Johanneskapital) at Ahlden on the Aller, before it moved to Lübbecke in 1295.

St. Andrew's Day

As the patron saint of Barbados, Saint Andrew is celebrated in a number of Barbadian symbols including the cross formation of the Barbadian Coat of Arms, and the country's national honours system which styles persons as Knights or Dames of St. Andrew.

St. Andrew's First Aid

The St Andrew's National Headquarters is based at Cowcaddens in Glasgow.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Southampton, England, United Kingdom, former Presbyterian church now merged with Avenue St Andrew's United Reformed Church

St. Andrew's School for Girls

St Andrew's School for Girls is a top independent Christian girls-only private day and boarding school and co-educational preschool situated in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

St. Andrew's United Church

Westminster Presbyterian was the first established on the site in 1891, it merged with Grosvenor Street Presbyterian in 1921 when the latter church's building was demolished as part of a plan to extend Bay Street.

Located downtown near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor it is a combination of five other downtown Toronto congregations.

St. Andrew's Uniting Church, Brisbane

However, the railways required the land for extensions to Brisbane's central railway station.

St. Andrew's, Blackrock

The church organ was installed in 1912 with half of the money donated by Andrew Carnegie (a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist).

Tom Dreaper

Tom was born into a farming family in Donaghmore near Ashbourne on the County Meath-County Dublin border, and educated at St. Andrew's College, Dublin.

Transcendental Meditation

Skolnick, Andrew "Maharishi Ayur-Veda: Guru's Marketing Scheme Promises the World Eternal 'Perfect Health'!", JAMA 1991;266:1741–1750,October 2, 1991.

Victor Amadeus of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

The following year, Victor Amadeus took an active part in the capture of the towns of Căuşeni, Akkerman and Bender, and was rewarded for his distinction with the Orders of St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Andrew

William Andrew

William E. Andrew, chancellor of the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.


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West Ashley

A few skirmishes took place there in the American Revolution, specifically at Rantowles Creek, where William Washington defeated cavalry forces under Banastre Tarleton, and at Old St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church during the 1780 Siege of Charleston.