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9 unusual facts about Pembroke


Amoskeag Rugby Club

Founded in 1984, they play at the Northeast Athletic Club in Pembroke, New Hampshire.

No. 255 Squadron RAF

No. 255 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed on 25 July 1918 and operated DH.6s from Pembroke, Wales on anti-submarine patrols and disbanded on 14 January 1919.

Paceville

At around the same time, a number of bars and clubs started to open in the area in view of the increasing number of British servicemen and tourists living in St. Julian's, St. Andrew's and Pembroke.

Pembroke, Malta

Pembroke is named after Robert Henry Herbert, the 12th Earl of Pembroke and British Secretary at War in 1859.

The hilltop village of Madliena is to its west, and Baħar Iċ-Ċagħaq lies to the northwest.

Pembroke, Ontario

Wayne Rostad, songwriter, singer, story teller, spent his youth in Pembroke.

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

BT's telephone exchange which serves Pembroke and Pembroke Dock is yet to be upgraded to offer either 21CN, FTTC or LLU.

Pete Shinnick

Shinnick previously served as the head coach of UNC Pembroke in Pembroke, North Carolina between 2005 and 2014 as well as the NAIA's Azusa Pacific Cougars between 1999 and 2005.

Ronnie N. Sutton

An attorney from Pembroke, North Carolina, Sutton is currently (2009-2010 session) serving in his ninth term in the state House.


Alan Eagles

Eagles later moved to Tenby, Wales to become a harbourmaster, also playing for local non-league side Pembroke Borough.

Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke

The earldom of Pembroke lay vacant until 1247, when it was recreated for William de Valence, husband of Joan de Munchensi, heiress of Anselm's sister Joan and her husband Warin de Munchensi.

CHOV

CHRO-TV, a television station (channel 5) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV-TV from 1961 to 1977

CHVR-FM, a radio station (96.7 FM) licensed to Pembroke, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CHOV from 1942 to 1981

Christmas Tree Shops

Most stores are typically made to resemble older buildings, in Colonial, Victorian, or even Old English barn styles (such as the Sagamore, Massachusetts, Pembroke, Massachusetts and Warwick, R.I. stores).

CHRO-TV

The two stations share studios – alongside Bell's Ottawa radio properties – located at the Market Media Mall building on 87 George Street in Downtown Ottawa's ByWard Market, and its transmitter is located near TV Tower Road/Highway 36 in Pembroke; the station operates a digital-only rebroadcaster on UHF channel 43 in Ottawa.

Clan Barrett

The Barretts then migrated to Ireland with the Norman warlord Strongbow (Richard Le Clare, the 2nd Earl of Pembroke) as hired mercenaries at the end of the twelfth century in the Norman Invasion of Ireland.

Cowbridge Grammar School

Evan Evans (1813–1891) — Master of Pembroke College; Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Dublin City Public Libraries and Archive

The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.

Earl of Clare

The Norman family who took the name 'de Clare' became associated with the peerage as they held, at differing times, three earldoms (Gloucester, Pembroke, and Hertford).

Flanagan High School

Charles W. Flanagan High School — a school in Pembroke Pines, Broward County, Florida

Florida State Road 820

Residential developments then dot both sides of the road, with Broward College south campus appearing to the north just west of the interchange with Florida's Turnpike, where SR 820 leaves Pembroke Pines and enters Hollywood, where it stays for the rest of the route.

Frank Lilley

On 9 November 1959, Lilley was one of four Scottish MPs on a British European Airways Viscount which was involved in a near miss with a Royal Air Force Pembroke transport.

George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke

Pembroke served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1874 to 1875 in the second Conservative administration of Benjamin Disraeli.

Guinness Peat Aviation

Many of the directors and staff of GPA subsequently went on to found or work for other aircraft lessors, such as GECAS, Genesis Lease, CIT, ILFC, Pembroke Capital, AerCap (formerly debisAirFinance), International Aircraft Management Group (subsequently RBS Aviation Capital and later SMBC Aviation Capital), Babcock & Brown (now Fly Leasing) and Aircastle.

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 7th Earl of Montgomery (3 July 1734 – 26 January 1794) was the son of the ninth earl of Pembroke, and was named after his father.

Joan de Munchensi

Joan de Munchensi or Munchensy (or Joanna), Lady of Swanscombe and Countess of Pembroke (c. 1230 – aft. September 20, 1307), was the daughter of Joan Marshal and granddaughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke suo jure.

John Lemprière

Lemprière may have been influenced by another Pembroke man, the lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous A Dictionary of the English Language had appeared in 1755.

Kat Maconie

In 2013 the brand secured an investment from venture capital trust Pembroke that includes Next chief executive Lord Wolfson among its investors.

Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke

Mary Sidney, married name Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, (1561–1621), one of the first English women to achieve a major reputation for her literary works

Matthew Wren

To fulfil this vow, he chose to pay for a new Chapel for Pembroke College, and had it built by his nephew Christopher Wren — one of his first buildings, consecrated in 1665.

Michael Atchison

He was educated at Glenelg Primary, then King's College, a boy's school which later became the co-ed Pembroke.

MS Madeleine

The new Isle of Inishmore was delivered in 1997 enabling Isle of Innisfree to replace Isle of Inishturk on the Pembroke Dock - Rosslare route.

Nightingale Informatix Corporation

Nightingale Informatix Corporation (Nightingale) is a public company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices in Rancho Cordova, California, Cambridge, Ontario, Kansas City, Missouri, Pembroke, Massachusetts, and Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Northeastern Football Alliance

The Tigers are based in Lyndonville, New York and play their home games at Pembroke Town Park in Pembroke, New York.

P. D. Gwaltney, Jr., House

It was the primary residence of Pembroke Decauter Gwaltney, Jr., of the Gwaltney meat empire.

Pembroke Castle

In 1989, the BBC used Pembroke Castle as the set of King Miraz's castle in its adaptation of Prince Caspian, one of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.

Pembroke Parish

Natural features in Pembroke include Spanish Point, and Point Shares, as well as numerous small islands off Point Shares.

Pembroke Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda.

Pembroke Welsh Corgi

The Pembroke Welsh Corgi has been ranked at #11 in Stanley Coren's The Intelligence of Dogs, and is thus considered an excellent working dog.

Pembroke Yeomanry

In 1797 the French Republican La Legion Noire landed off Carreg Wastad Point, in what would be the Last invasion of Britain, only to surrender to a much smaller force including the Pembroke Yeomanry hastily assembled under Lord Cawdor.

PHC Zebras

The Pembroke Hamilton Club Zebras are a professional football (soccer) team based in Pembroke Parish who play in the Cingular Wireless Premier Division in Bermuda.

Richard Herbert

Sir Richard Herbert (died 1510), illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke

Robert Herbert, 12th Earl of Pembroke

He lived out his exile in the Place Vendôme, where he sired some seven illegitimate children, most of whom adopted the surname 'Montgomery' (as other natural children of the Herbert family had done) or ‘de Pembroke de Montgomery’.

Saint Petroc

In Wales his name is commemorated at St Petroc near Pembroke, Ferwig near Cardigan and Llanbedrog on the Lleyn peninsula.

Snoop Minnis

Following his retirement in 2005, Minnis joined Lexus as a salesman in Lexus of Pembroke Pines, and he was the Wide Receivers Coach at Everglades High School in Miramar.

St Mary's Church, Wilton

In 1845 a new Church of England parish church of St Mary and St Nicholas was built at the instigation of the Countess of Pembroke and her younger son Baron Herbert of Lea, designed by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt and D. Brandon in the Italianate Romanesque style, with considerable Byzantine influences.

Thomas Norman Nisbett

Born in North Village, Pembroke, Bermuda, he was the first Black Anglican priest of the Anglican Church of Bermuda.

Washington Governor's Mansion

Four Duncan Phyfe pieces: Two Pembroke tables, a Federal sofa with deeply incised rail and eagle feet, and a Federal piano.

WLPS

WLPS-CD, a low-power television station (channel 7) licensed to serve Lumberton-Pembroke, North Carolina


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