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2 unusual facts about Pennant, Powys


Chase Price

His brother Richard Price of Norton Manor, Knighton (died 1797), married Margaret Humphreys of Pennant, Montgomeryshire (died 1788), only daughter and heiress of Dr Charles Humphreys, and had issue.

Ffrwd Fawr Waterfall

The River Twymyn flows from the 130 feet (40 m.) high Ffrwd Fawr Waterfall at the head of the Pennant Valley at Dylife Gorge near Dylife.


2013 Swansea measles epidemic

There were a total of 1,219 measles notifications (suspected cases) in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys, with 1,455 measles notifications for the whole of Wales, 664 of which were in Swansea alone.

A Glastonbury Romance

In 1934, Powys and his English publishers were successfully sued for libel by Gerard Hodgkinson, real-life owner of the Wookey Hole caves, who claimed that the character of Philip Crow had been based on him.

Ashcroft, British Columbia

Ashcroft was founded in the 1860s, during the Cariboo Gold Rush, by two English brothers named Clement Francis Cornwall and Henry Pennant Cornwall, founders of Ashcroft Ranch, who emigrated to Canada from Ashcroft, at Newington Bagpath in Gloucestershire.

Babe Borton

As details in the scandal emerged, it was discovered that he and some Vernon teammates had also bribed opponents in 1919 to throw the pennant to the Tigers.

Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond

The island was visited in 1772 by Sir Joseph Banks, who remarked that the stone was a coarse kind of basalt, very much resembling the Giant's Causeway in Ireland as noted in (Pennant's Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides).

Blaenllyfni Castle

Blaenllyfni is a ruinous castle near the village of Bwlch in southern Powys, Wales.

Bleddyn ap Cynfyn

The south was restored to the Houses of Dinefwr and Morgan, but Powys and Gwynedd were given to Gruffydd's half-brothers Bleddyn and Rhiwallon.

Buddugre Castle

Buddugre Castle (sometimes referred to as Tomen Bedd-Ugre) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification overlooking the River Ithon, located in the community of Llanddewi Ystradenny, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Builth Castle

Builth Castle was a castle built under King Edward I, today an abandoned site just outside Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.

Castell Du

Castell Du, also known as Sennybridge Castle or Castell Rhyd-y-Briw, is located approximately eight miles west of Brecon in Powys, Wales, and is believed to be the work of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales.

Castle Nimble

Castle Nimble (also called Knapp; Maes Hyfaidd; Maes Hyvaidd) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification near Old Radnor, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Clay Dreslough

Dreslough's design and programming credits include the Tony La Russa Baseball series, Pennant Fever, Microsoft Baseball, Madden, Baseball Mogul, Baseball Mogul Online, Football Mogul, and MLB Slugfest Loaded.

David E. Kaiser

His works include: Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War, Postmortem: New Evidence in the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (with William Young), Politics and War: European Conflict from Philip II to Hitler, and Epic Season: The 1948 American League Pennant Race.

Eastbrook

Eastbrook railway station, a 2 platform train station located in Dinas Powys, Wales

Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester

Antigone Plantagenet, who married Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville, Lord of Powys (c. 1419–1450) and then John d'Amancier.

Geology of Wales

Wales' many fine cathedrals, abbeys and castles have used a variety of stones in their construction; Caerbwdi Sandstone in St David's Cathedral, Old Red Sandstone at Llanthony Priory and Tintern Abbey, 'Blue Pennant' sandstone in Caerphilly Castle and Sudbrook Sandstone at Caldicot Castle to name but a few.

Golf-class submarine

The second unit was supposed to be built and delivered by USSR (pennant number K-208), but due to Sino-Soviet split, most on board equipment was not delivered, and the boat was used as sample for reverse engineering to complete the first unit, which entered Chinese service in August 1966.

Horatio Powys-Keck

Born in Hyères, France, Powys-Keck's debut came for Oxford University Authentics on their tour of India in 1902-03; the team played three games (the only first-class matches they ever played) and Powys-Keck was chosen for the first of these, against Gentlemen of India at the Polo Ground, Delhi.

Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester

Antigone of Gloucester; who married Henry Grey, 2nd Earl of Tankerville, Lord of Powys (c. 1419-1450) and then John d'Amancier.

James Davies Lewin

Born in Womaston, Radnorshire (now Powys), Wales, the son of Samuel Lewin and Mary Furmage, Lewin was educated at the Kingston Grammar School, Wales.

John Cowper Powys

Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset, for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper.

John Plumbe

Plumbe was born in Castle Caereinion, Powys, Wales in 1809, to John Plumbe and Frances Margaretta Atherton.

Johnny Sain

He was the runner-up for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in the Braves' pennant-winning season of 1948, after leading the National League in wins, complete games and innings pitched.

José Tartabull

Tartabull is well remembered by Red Sox fans for throwing out the Chicago White Sox' Ken Berry at home plate on August 27, 1967, to win a key game during the 1967 American League pennant drive.

KD Rahmat

The KD (Kapal Diraja = Royal Ship) Rahmat (Pennant number F24) was a frigate operated by the Royal Malaysian Navy.

Knighton railway station

Knighton railway station serves the market town of Knighton in Powys, Wales, although the station itself is located in Shropshire, England (the boundary is immediately adjacent to the south side of the station).

Libanus

Libanus, Powys, a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, in the county of Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Llandovery Group

The Tarannon group is represented by the Rhayader Pale Shales in Powys; in the Moffat Silurian belt in south Scotland by a thick development, including the Hawick rocks and Ardwell Beds, and the Queensberry Group or Gala; in the Girvan area, by the Drumyork Flags, Bargany Group and Penkill Group; and in Ireland by the Treveshilly Shales of Strangford Lough, and the shales of Salterstown, Co.

Llanfihangel-y-Pennant

Llanfihangel-y-Pennant is a small village and community, which includes Abergynolwyn, in the Meirionnydd area of Gwynedd in Wales.

Llangammarch railway station

Llangammarch railway station serves the village of Llangammarch Wells in Powys, Wales.

Mathrafal

Mathrafal near Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales, was the seat of the Kings and Princes of Powys probably from the 9th century until its destruction in 1212 by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth of Gwynedd.

Nantmel Landfill Site

Nantmel Landfill Site is a closed waste-disposal site situated in the community of Nantmel, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales.

Nennius

Nennius is believed to have lived in the area made up by present day Brecknockshire and Radnorshire counties in Powys, Wales.

Nest ferch Cadell

It is unclear why the inheritance of Powys passed through Nest to her son, and not to one of the sons of Cyngen: Elisedd ap Cyngen, Ieuaf ap Cyngen, Aeddan ap Cyngen, and Gruffudd ap Cyngen.

Pennant-winged Nightjar

Their diet includes a variety of insects although scarab beetles are favoured.

Queen's Park, Brighton

At the north-west corner is Pennant Lodge, once the home of Charles Freshfield.

Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen

Lingen was born in Birmingham, where his father was in business, Lingen descended from the ancient Herefordshire family of Lingen, Lords of Lingen, Sutton and Stoke Edith, and the native Princes of Southern Powys, with Royalist traditions who included the noted cavalier Colonel, Sir Henry Lingen.

Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn

Following the 1063 invasion of Wales by Harold and Tostig Godwinson that overthrew Gruffydd, Rhiwallon and Bleddyn jointly received Powys and Gwynedd on condition of faithfully serving Edward the Confessor "everywhere by water and by land".

Rhys Gryg

Rhys was the fourth son of Rhys ap Gruffydd (The Lord Rhys) and his wife Gwenllian, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd of Powys.

Richard Garnons Williams

Williams was born in 1856 in Llowes, Radnorshire, the second child of the Reverend Garnons Williams of Abercamlais, Powys, and his wife Catherine Frances, the daughter of Fenton Hort, of Leopardstown, Dublin, and sister of Fenton John Anthony Hort.

Rupert Pennant-Rea

The son of Peter and Pauline Pennant-Rea, he was educated at the Peterhouse School, an Anglican church boarding school near Marandellas, Rhodesia (now Marondera, Zimbabwe), before attending Trinity College, Dublin and Manchester University, where he received his M.A.

Selvin Pennant

Pennant was first selected to the Guatemala national team in 1969, appearing at the IV CONCACAF Championship that year.

Springfield Giants

The Springfield Giants won three consecutive championships in 1959, 1960 (co-champs) and 1961 under manager Andy Gilbert, all leading the way to San Francisco's National League pennant in 1962.

Stan Wasiak

He led the team to a second-place, 81–56 record – one half game behind the Albany, Georgia, Cardinals. Wasiak's Valdosta team came back in 1951 to win the league pennant by five games.

Tanya Alexander

Her departure from Moonbase Alpha was chronicled in the Powys Media novel, Space: 1999 The Forsaken by John Kenneth Muir (featuring a foreword by Prentis Hancock) in which the character reveals an unplanned pregnancy and fears that she will be have to have an abortion in light of the ban on new births on Alpha (i.e. Alpha Child, The Exiles); a small group of Alphans mutinies to settle with her on a habitable planet, led by Paul Morrow.

The Real Football Factories

Pennant describes the ICF's introduction of calling cards which would be served upon members of opposing firms.

Type 073 medium landing ship

A total of two units of Type 073IIY were completed, with pennant # Dongyun 800 (later renamed as # 938 Lüliang Mountains) and Dongyun 801.

Vortigern

Other fortifications associated with Vortigern are at Arfon in Gwynedd, Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, Carn Fadrun in Gwynedd, Clwyd in Powys, Llandysul in Dyfed, Old Carlisle in Cumberland, Old Sarum in Wiltshire, Rhaeadr Gwy in Powys, Snowdon, and Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

What's Happening Brother

Throughout this song, Marvin mentions in his brother's third person about the nightclub, about whether or not his baseball team would "win the pennant" and wonders how his friend has been which brings upon the question, "what's happening brother?" Musically the song follows the same path as "What's Going On" and features The Andantes as background vocalists.


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