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unusual facts about Par, Cornwall



Andrew Parker

Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), retired English military officer, first husband of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

Annabel Vernon

Annie started rowing at Castle Dore Rowing Club at Golant in Cornwall when she was 17; influenced by her elder brother and father.

Bert Solomon

He was a member of the Cornwall rugby union team, which on 26 October 1908 won the Olympic silver medal for Great Britain.

Bewnans Ke

In Cornwall, he soon comes into conflict with the king, Teudar, but is eventually given land near the king's favourite hunting grounds in Kea parish.

Blue walleye

The loss of the blue walleye is, arguably, an extinction event on par with the loss of the passenger pigeon and the near-extirpation of the American bison.

Brian Shantry

Shantry played 13 Minor Counties matches for Dorset, with his final match for the county coming against Cornwall in 1985.

Chris Booth

Consistent with his personal ethos, as of 2012 he is developing 3 major living land art works e.g. the SLS (Subterranean Living Sculpture) in association with the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK underway for five years.

Coombe Junction Halt railway station

Coombe Junction Halt railway station serves the villages of Coombe and Lamellion near Liskeard, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Cornish Pump

Cornish engine, a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine.

Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The Crown decided to take the offensive and test the strength and resolve of the Cornish forces.

Cornwall, Ontario

Its flag also bears the insignia and colours of the flag of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Performers have included Collective Soul, Trooper, Tom Cochrane, April Wine, Sass Jordan, Glass Tiger, Dennis DeYoung, Chantal Kreviazuk, Theory of a Deadman, Kim Mitchell & Max Webster guitarist, Peter Fredette, Finger Eleven, Amanda Marshall, Our Lady Peace, and Marianas Trench.

Cubert

The village is named after the Welsh missionary St Cubert who, as a companion of St Carantoc, brought the Christian faith to this part of Cornwall, and to whom the church is dedicated.

Cuthbert Mayne

The few missionaries who arrived from Douai, once their existence was learned by agents of Elizabeth I's government, were then looked upon as a large force of papal agents meant to overthrow the Queen.The authorities began a systematic search in June 1576, when the Bishop of Exeter William Broadbridge came to the area in Cornwall.

Dan Rogerson

Born in Cornwall to an English father and Welsh mother, Rogerson went to Bodmin College (comprehensive school), then studied Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent which follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learned to surf with South African troops.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Fowey railway station

The railway was then converted into a private road to bring china clay from Par harbour.

Frank Hutchens

Scholarships in composition are awarded annually in his name to students under 25, and his portrait, by Cornish painter Stanhope Forbes, is held by the Sydney Conservatorium to which he devoted so much of his working life.

French name

Actresses are usually always styled mademoiselle, especially in film or theatre credits, regardless of their age or personal situation; one would thus read mademoiselle Deneuve est habillée par Soandso.

Fumaria occidentalis

Fumaria occidentalis, the western ramping-fumitory, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Fumaria that is endemic to Cornwall.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Henry Opukahaia

Samuel B. Ruggles, one of the First Company of missionaries to Hawaii and a fellow student of `Ōpūkaha`ia at Cornwall, mentions in an 1819 letter that his own grammar (which does survive) was ‘much assisted by one which `Ōpūkaha`ia attempted to form’.

Jacobite uprising in Cornwall of 1715

Whetter, James (1995) "Jacobitism in Cornwall", in: Old Cornwall; Vol.

Jim Wearne

In spring 2002 at Castel Pendynas, Pendennis, Falmouth in Cornwall, Wearne was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to Cornish Music in America (in Cornish: Rag gonys dhe Ylow Kernewek yn Ameryky) with the bardic name Canor Gwanethtyr - Singer of the Prairie.

John Blenkinsop

Richard Trevithick of Cornwall had experimented with various models of steam locomotive, and in 1805 his work had culminated in an engine for the Wylam Colliery.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company

Schlitz on died May 7, 1875 while returning from a visit to Germany; his ship hit a rock near Land's End, Cornwall, and sank.

Katangese franc

It replaced the Congolese franc at par and was consequently initially equal to the Belgian franc.

La vie par procuration

In 2008, Israeli DJ Offer Nissim released a lengthened remixed version of 8 minutes 35 seconds titled "La Vie Par Procuration (Offer Nissim 08' Reconstruction)".

Lifton, Devon

Lifton is a village and civil parish in Devon, South West England near the confluence of the rivers Wolf and Lyd, 1¼ miles south of the A30 trunk road and very near the border between Devon and Cornwall.

Louis Auguste Blanqui

Blanqui's political activism and his book L'Eternité par les astres were commented on by Walter Benjamin in his Arcades Project and are referenced in the novel The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey.

Marcus Ervine-Andrews

Ervine-Andrews attempted to return home to his native County Cavan after the war, but was driven out by local members of the IRA and later settled in Cornwall.

Mirudhubashini Govindarajan

In early 2011, she moved into a brand new facility of her own Women's Center, built on par with world standards, located in the Northern part of Coimbatore providing all women's healthcare services under a single roof.

Mount Edgcumbe House

The country park, on the Rame Peninsula, is the earliest landscaped park in Cornwall and is very popular with walkers.

North Isles

These also happen to be the most northerly British territorial claims currently in existence, since Canadian independence, in contradistinction to those of Cornwall, which only represent the southernmost parts of the UK, and not those of British overseas territories, such as the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and British Antarctic Territory.

PaR Systems

PaR Systems, Inc, is a systems engineering firm headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota, specializing in automated manufacturing and material handling.

Patrick Coombe

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cornwall.

Patrick Reed

At the 2014 Humana Challenge, Reed set the PGA Tour record for most strokes under par after 54 holes.

Protea eximia

This versatility has resulted in it being brought into bloom outside as far north as the coast of Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

Railtour

Locations – such as Carne Point at Fowey, Cornwall – which have not seen passenger trains for several decades, or locations that have never had a public passenger service – such as the MOD depot at Long Marston – can be traversed by such trains.

Sasso Marconi

In 1902, Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal at Poldhu Cove, Cornwall, UK.

Selyf

Salomon of Cornwall (5th century), a prince of Cornwall and father of Saint Cybi

SS Rushen Castle

Constructed in the yards of Vickers Sons, and Maxim Ltd at Barrow-in-Furness in 1898, Duke of Cornwall had a tonnage of 1724 GRT.

St Piran's Day

Dan Rogerson MP said of the 2012 event "The aim is to increase understanding of Cornwall’s Celtic heritage and culture in order to inform future debates on devolution, identity and government policy... and we are aiming to go bigger and better next year."

Stephen Eva

He was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Cornwall.

Steven Horsford

In August 2011, Horsford appointed Senator Mo Denis to lead the caucus election efforts during for the 2012 election cycle, garnering criticism from some in his party due to Denis's sub-par fundraising.

Vermont Frost Heaves

The formation of the team was announced in December, 2005 by founding owner Alexander Wolff, a Cornwall, Vermont resident and writer for Sports Illustrated.

West Coast Range

The rainfall records of Lake Margaret were on a par with Tully in Queensland for the highest rainfall in Australia.


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