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28 unusual facts about Omer


711th Special Operations Squadron

It flew its first combat mission on 24 December 1943 against a V-1 missile site near Saint-Omer in Northern France.

94th Operations Group

The 94th flew its first mission on 13 June 1943, bombing an airfield at Saint-Omer.

Abbey of Saint Bertin

The monastery was founded on the banks of the Aa in the 7th century by the bishop of Thérouanne, who sent the monks Bertin, Momelin and Ebertram from Omer to proselytize among the pagans in the region.

The Abbey of St. Bertin was a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Omer, France, now in ruins (the town's town-hall was built with stone from the abbey in 1834) and open to the public.

Akish

Akish established this combination because the daughter of Jared danced before him, and to obtain her hand in marriage, Akish covenanted with Jared to dethrone Omer, the legitimate king and Jared's father.

Amery of Pavy

Some time in 1348, without the knowledge of either King Edward or King Philip, Amery entered into a secret agreement with Sir Geoffrey de Charney, a French knight and governor of nearby Saint-Omer, for the sale of Calais to Sir Geoffrey in exchange for the sum of 20,000 crowns.

Audomar

Saint Audomar (died c. 670), better known as Saint Omer, was a Burgundy-born bishop of Thérouanne, after whom nearby Saint-Omer in northern France was named.

Barry Mahon

Pilot Officer Mahon damaged three German fighters, two FW-190s in April and an Me-109 in May, before scoring his first confirmed victories of two FW-190s, downed in the Saint-Omer area, on June 8, 1942.

Battle of Ardres

John of Beauchamp had been conducting a raid near Ardres, attacking the neighbourhood of Saint-Omer.

Battle of Saint-Omer

He ordered Robert III of Artois, an old pretender to the title of Count of Artois to take 1,000 English and over 10,000 Flemish troops which had gathered into the Artois region and conduct a miniature chevauchée in the region, attempting to provoke the French into action and perhaps to capture an important fortified town such as Saint-Omer.

Bela of Saint Omer

Bela of Saint Omer was a French knight, descended from a Fauquembergues family who were castellans of the eponymous castle of Saint-Omer.

Bram van der Stok

Bailing-out from his stricken aircraft he parachuted down safely at Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), but was immediately captured by a Wehrmacht patrol.

Challah

He also writes that after spending forty years in the desert, the Israelites continued to eat the manna until they brought the Omer offering on the second day of Passover.

Childeric III

Once dethroned, he and his son Theuderic were placed in the monastery of Saint-Bertin or he in Saint-Omer and Theuderic in Saint-Wandrille.

Erkembode

It has been surmised that he was an Irish monk who travelled with several companions to Sithiu, now Saint-Omer in northern France where he lived in the monastery.

Geoffroi de Charny

Geoffroi took Aimery captive to St. Omer, decapitated him, quartered his body, and displayed it on the town gates.

Godfrey de Saint-Omer

He is said to have come from the family of the Lords of Saint-Omer (in today's northern France), possibly the son of William I, Lord of Saint Omer and Melisende de Piquigny.

Guy Barnea

Barnea was born and raised in Omer in southern Israel, the oldest of three sons and his brothers Nir and Or are also swimmers.

Henry Persse

Persse was wounded twice during the war and it was of wounds that he would die near St Omer, France on 28 June 1918.

Hill Shim

Moroni tells in the Book of Ether that the Jaredite king Omer passed by the hill of Shim with his family on his way to Ablom.

Liber Floridus

Liber Floridus ("book of flowers") is a medieval encyclopedia that was compiled between 1090 and 1120 by Lambert, Canon of Saint-Omer.

Loreto Convent School, Delhi

It stems out of the Loreto community which belongs to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary commonly known as Loreto Sisters, founded internationally by English nun, at Saint-Omer in northern France.

No. 2 Squadron RAAF

In late September 1917, the squadron flew its aircraft across the English Channel, landing in St Omer without incident or loss – the first time a British unit had achieved this – and after overnighting there they moved to Baizieux.

Omer, Israel

Shaul Ladany, world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering

Oswald Tesimond

Tesimond, after escaping arrest, spent some years in Saint-Omer.

Thomas Ughtred, 1st Baron Ughtred

Siege was laid to Saint-Omer, and on 26 July 1340 the French attacked the Flemings and would have raised the siege had not Ughtred with his archers restored the fortunes of the day.

William V, Prince of Orange

Many Patriots fled to the North of France, around Saint-Omer, in an area where Dutch was spoken.

Winnoc

Winnoc came to Flanders, to the Monastery of Saint-Omer, then ruled by St. Bertin, with three companions, and was soon afterwards sent to found at Wormhout, a dependent cell or priory (not an abbey, as it is generally called).


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team

Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan State Normal consisted of Michigan's first-team players: Bill Hewitt (left end), Tom Samuels (left tackle), Omer LaJeunesse (right guard), Maynard Morrison (center), Francis Cornwell (right guard), Claire Purdum (right tackle), Norman Daniels (right end), Estel Tessmer (quarterback), William Heston (left halfback), James Simrall (right halfback), and Roy Hudson (fullback).

Ambrose Corbie

Of their children, sons Ambrose, Ralph and Robert, became Jesuit priests (Richard died as a student at Saint-Omer) and their two surviving daughters, Mary and Catherine, became Benedictine nuns in Brussels.

Anna Maria Bunn

In 1852 she moved to live at St Omer in the Braidwood district a property of which had been owned by Captain Bunn but which the couple had never occupied.

Battle of Zierikzee

Covered by an armistice in the north, the Flemings raised an army near Cassel, which entered France and attacked Saint-Omer, Terwaan and Tournai.

Christian Nilsson

At the 2009 Saint-Omer Open in June, a week opposite the U.S. Open, Nilsson won his first European Tour event by 6 strokes over Portugal's José-Filipe Lima.

Coles County, Illinois

Michael Kleen has documented many of these tales, including the "witch's grave" of St. Omer Cemetery and story of "Rag Doll Cemetery," in his book Tales of Coles County, Illinois.

Collaborative Fusion

Omer, a graduate of Detroit, Michigan's Wayne State University, previously worked at JPMorgan Chase before attending Carnegie Mellon's MBA program and subsequently co-founding Collaborative Fusion.

Conscience Films

The jury in 2010 consisted of Costa Gavras, Georges Moustaki, Harutyun Khachatryan, İbrahim Betil, Lale Mansur, Nebahat Akkoç, Ömer Madra, Rakel Dink, Rela Mazali, Serge Avedikian, Serra Yılmaz, Vaughan Pilikian, and Yıldırım Türker.

Counting of the Omer

On the second day of Passover (The Feast of Unleavened Bread) on Day 16 of Hebrew Month 1, which is also known as "First Fruits", an omer of barley was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem, signalling the allowance of the consumption of chadash (grains from the new harvest).

Elinard de Bures

Echive de Bures - Who would eventually gain title over Galilee and Tiberias through marriage, First with Walter of Saint Omer with whom she had Ralph of Tiberias, then with Raymond III of Tripoli in 1174..

Fleet Canuck

In 1995, the Royal Canadian Mint issued Coin #11, a $20 silver commemorative coin in its aviation series, recognizing the Fleet 80 Canuck and its original designer, J. Omer Noury, featured in a gold-inlay cameo insert.

Fokker Eindecker fighters

The E.III was test-flown against the Morane-Saulnier N and other Allied types at St. Omer before going to Upavon in Wiltshire for evaluation and finally going on museum display.

On 8 April 1916, a novice German pilot took off from Valenciennes with a new E.III (IdFlieg serial number 210/16) bound for Wasquehal but became lost in haze and landed at a British aerodrome east of St. Omer.

John Brown, Jr.

John A. Brown, Jr., American murderer executed in Louisiana for the murder of Omer Laughlin

Mani and Hira

Some prominent personalities which the couple have interviewed in their show include Imran Khan (singer),filmstar shan,omer sharif, Fariha Pervez, Sanam Baloch, Babrik Shah, cricketer Mohammad Aamer,waseem akram, younis khan, afridi, nonsense

Martin Grene

After passing twelve years on the mission he was recalled to Watten, near Saint-Omer, to take charge of the novices.

Maurice Ewens

He was admitted at Watten, near St. Omer, the same year, under the assumed name of Maurice Newport, by which he was known.

Moshe Smilansky

Smilansky also published in Hebrew periodicals in Ereẓ Israel, where he was one of the first contributors (writing under the pen name "Heruti") to the journal of Ha-Po'el ha-Tsa'ir and a co-founder of Ha-Omer together with David Yellin and S. Ben Zion (Simha Alter Guttman).

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc

He owned over 18,000 coins and medals, and was also an archaeologist, amateur artist, historian (he demonstrated that Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain set out not from Calais but from St Omer), Egyptologist, botanist, zoologist (studying chameleons, crocodiles, the elephant and the alzaron, a sort of Nubian gazelle with a bull-like head, now disappeared), physiologist, geographer (put on the project of linking Aix to Marseilles), and ecologist.

Ömer Abdülmecid Osmanoğlu

Prince Ömer attended The Dragon School in Oxfordshire and Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, and studied Business Administration at the University of London.

Omer Bhatti

Omer Michael Jamal Bhatti (born June 14, 1985 in Drammen) is a Norwegian hip-hop artist with the stage name "O-Bee".

Omer Goldman

Omer Goldman Granot, from the Tel-Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon, is a member of the Shministim, a young Israeli conscientious objector who became famous for being the daughter of Naftali Granot, former deputy to Mossad’s chief Meir Dagan.

Omer Halilhodžić

Omer Halilhodžić (born 1963 in Mostar) is a Bosnian automotive designer.

Ömer Şişmanoğlu

Ömer Hasan Şişmanoğlu (born August 1, 1989 in Wilhelmsburg) is a Turkish football player currently playing for Beşiktaş.

Outreau trial

The appeal took place before Saint-Omer's Cour d'assises, composed of three professional judges and nine jurors.

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny was born at Fauquembergues, near Saint-Omer, in the former Artois region of France (now Pas-de-Calais), four months before the marriage of his parents, Marie-Antoinette Dufresne and Nicolas Monsigny.

Sheikh Muhammad Awol

He was born in Kombolcha, Debub Wollo Zone; his father was Haji Hamza Maeruf and his mother Rahma Omer.