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2 unusual facts about Olds-Didsbury


Gordon Kesler

He won the Olds-Didsbury electoral district defeating Stephen Stiles of the Progressive Conservatives and Lloyd Quantz of Social Credit and three other candidates.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills

Wildrose candidate Bruce Rowe was elected in the 2012 provincial election.


Alydeed

In September 2004, after producing 221 winners and 11 stakes winners, Alydeed was sold to Peaceful Valley Stud in Didsbury, Alberta.

Andrew Balmford

In 2002, he led a research project that found children could name a greater proportion of Pokémon characters than common species of British wildlife; 8 year-olds could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of species.

Barlow Moor

Barlow Moor was in early times an area of waste between Didsbury and Chorlton-cum-Hardy and was named after Barlow.

Berkeley Handicap

Highlighting the Labor Day weekend, it's a race for three-year-olds and up of either gender and run at a distance of one and one sixteenth mile.

Birmingham Youth Theatre

The company was funded by Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Arts for the purpose of giving 16 to 23 year olds from the wider local community access to drama and the theatre arts.

Boji Tower

The Boji Tower, also known as the Olds Tower is a historic 23-story building located at 124 Allegan Street, in Lansing, Michigan.

California Juvenile Stakes

The California Juvenile Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-olds held annually at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California.

Didsbury School of Education

The Didsbury College of Education, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, England, is a campus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

Dulwich College Beijing

The Legend Garden Campus serving 1-18 year olds is in Shunyi District.

East Didsbury

East Didsbury Metrolink station, a light rail stop in Didsbury, England; the terminus of Metrolink's South Manchester Line.

Ephebophilia

The term was additionally revived by Ray Blanchard to describe adult, especially adult male, sexual attraction to 15- to 19-year-olds.

Gender gaps in mathematics and reading

The Programme for International Student Assessment assesses the performance of 15 year olds in mathematics and reading in OECD and OECD partner countries.

George Hourani

George Hourani was born into a prosperous British family of Lebanese Christian extraction in Didsbury, Manchester.

George Olds

Olds was born in Middleport, New York and received his A.B. (1873) and A.M. (1876) from the University of Rochester.

GM Y platform

With the switch from a senior compact to an intermediate-sized platform, most of these "innovative" features were discontinued such as the Tempest's four-cylinder engine and transaxle, the aluminum block V8 (whose tooling was sold to Rover of England who improved the design enjoying considerable success with it as the Rover V8 in models such as the Rover P5B and Range Rover) and the Olds Jetfire's turbocharged version of that V8.

Hetley Price

He was then successively Secretary to the SCM; Rector of Didsbury; a Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral and, his final post before elevation to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Manchester.

Hollywood Gold Cup top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in first, second, and third place (and the number of starters) in the Hollywood Gold Cup, an American Grade 1 race for three-year-olds and up at 1 1/4 miles (on dirt, 1938-2006 and the synthetic surface, 'Cushion Track', since 2007), held at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California.

Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children

In 27 centres across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, HKSPC cares for children from newborn to 16-year-olds providing a stimulating environment in which to educate them and nurture their growth and development, and to educate parents on age appropriate parenting.

Interstate 496

It has been named the R.E. Olds Freeway (sometimes just Olds Freeway) for Ransom E. Olds, the founder of Oldsmobile and the REO Motor Car Company.

James Olds

Olds attended college at a number of schools including St. John's College, Annapolis, and the University of Wisconsin, but received his undergraduate B.A. from Amherst College in 1947.

Jamie Milligan

The Milligan-McCann Academy is aimed at 8- to 12-year-olds and runs at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School in Lytham St Annes.

Karaka Million

The race is restricted to two-year-olds who were sold through the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales held at Karaka.

Machine Productions

The live-action drama for 4-7 year olds Tati’s Hotel was transmitted on ITV1, TVO Kids and Disney Junior in Australia & New Zealand.

New York Turf Writers Cup

A Grade I event on the turf for 4-year-olds and up, this race offers a purse of $150,000.

North Chadderton School

North Chadderton School is a mixed gender comprehensive school and sixth form for 11–18 year olds, located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

Okamoto's

Okamoto's is a psychedelic garage rock band made up of four 19-year-olds from Shinjuku, Tokyo, who first got together while still in middle school.

Olds Hall

The Olds Hall (also known as the Arroyo Gardens Hotel or Daytona Terrace Hotel) is a historic site in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Olds, Alberta

Olds is also home to Olds College, which is noted for its agricultural and fashion retail programs.

Parkside Primary School

Parkside Primary School is a coeducational R-7 school (5–12 year olds) located in the Adelaide inner suburb of Parkside.

Patrolman Pete

Designed to compete with the likes of Bob the Builder, Fireman Sam and Underground Ernie, a suite of books for 3-6 year-olds was published featuring the character, his faithful toolbox “Trevor” and his vehicle “Stan.”

Peter Dudley

Dudley was openly homosexual, and in 1982 he was observed exposing himself to another man in a public toilet in Didsbury, and was charged with importuning.

Pinnacle Race Course

The long-term plans call for racing annually from March through November, with the Michigan Derby for three-year-olds running in April, as a prep race for the Kentucky Derby.

Proud Birdie

Proud Birdie was purchased for $21,000 by A. Douglas Henderson's Marablue Farm of Reddick, Florida at the 1975 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company auction of two-year-olds in training.

Rose Hill Marple railway station

The latter would provide an Eastern extension from the proposed Western link into Stockport town centre from Didsbury, linking together many towns in the borough along the Goyt and Mersey rivers.

Son of Love

In the French Free Handicap, a ranking of the best two-year-olds to race in France, he was rated thirteen pounds behind the colt Irish River and the filly Sigy.

SpaceWorks Enterprises

SEI was founded in 2000 by Dr. John R. Olds, then a tenured professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Spending wave

In 2002 Dan Arnold echoed this theory in his book The Great Bust Ahead, with the big spenders being 45-54 year olds, and their numbers peaking in 2011-2012.

Spring Grand Slam

The Triple Crown — involving the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes — is contested only by three-year-olds who race over distances between 1910 metres (Preakness) and 2400 metres (Belmont).

St Augustine of Canterbury RC High School

St Augustine of Canterbury RC High Specialist Humanities School was a Roman Catholic high school for 11-16 year olds, located in Werneth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.

Standardbred

Some of the major pacing races in North America include the Woodrow Wilson and Metro Stake for two-year-olds, and the Little Brown Jug, Meadowlands Pace, North America Cup and the Adios Pace for three-year-olds.

Stephen Stiles

Stiles first ran for the Progressive Conservatives in the February 1982 by-election in Olds-Didsbury that saw Gordon Kesler from the Western Canada Concept elected.

The Daily Service

When the Religion and Ethics department of the BBC moved to Manchester, its new base became Emmanuel Church, Didsbury.

The Daily Service is a short Christian church service, often from Emmanuel Church in Didsbury, Manchester, England, broadcast every weekday morning between 9.45 and 10.00 by BBC Radio 4 (long wave only) and on the Radio 4 DAB breakout.

Tiffany Kelly

She went on to represent Massachusetts in the Miss USA 2006 pageant held in Baltimore, Maryland on April 21, 2006, where she was one of only two eighteen year-olds competing.

Vaggsång till Jesus

An early recording, entitled Vagggsång, was done by a choir consisting of 10-13 year olds on the av album Hela jorden sjunger by Immanuelskyrkan in Norrköping in 1976.

Warren Fahy

During an extensive three-year research period for the novel, and while simultaneously maintaining lead writer positions first for Rockstar Games Red Dead Revolver and then for WowWee Robotics, Warren consulted with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and worked with a team of concept artists: – Steven Olds, Ron Lemen, Daren Bader – and creative director and designer Michael Limber, who is also Warren's business partner.


see also

Rocky View County, Alberta

Rocky View is currently represented in the Alberta Legislature by MLA Rob Anderson in the riding of Airdrie, Bruce McAllister in Chestermere-Rocky View and Bruce Rowe in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills.