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unusual facts about Prince George's County Police Department


Teresa Chambers

Chambers served as the chief of the Durham Police Department in Durham, North Carolina, and served with the Prince George's County Police Department in Prince George's County, Maryland for over twenty years.


1932 Isle of Man TT

The 1932 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy race meeting was watched by Prince George, Duke of Kent the first royal visitor to the Isle of Man TT Races.

Adolphus FitzGeorge

Adolphus FitzGeorge was born 30 January 1846, the second son of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge and the actress Sarah Fairbrother.

Armstrong Whitworth Argosy

In April 1931 Edward, Prince of Wales and his brother Prince George flew home from Paris–Le Bourget Airport in City of Glasgow (G-EBLF), which landed specially in Windsor Great Park.

Berwyn Heights, Maryland

The police department called for help from the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office SOD team, but did not contact the Berwyn Heights Police Department.

Blue law

Maryland permits Sunday automobile sales only in the counties of Prince George's, Montgomery, and Howard; similarly, Michigan restricts Sunday sales to only those counties with a population of less than 130,000.

Christopher Lowndes

Christopher Lowndes (1713 – January 8, 1785) was a leading merchant in colonial Bladensburg, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes

In 1895, the Diocese of Washington was created from the Diocese of Maryland and included the District of Columbia and Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary’s Counties in Maryland.

Cornwall, Ontario

It was later renamed Cornwall by the British for the Duke of Cornwall, by proclamation of Prince George, and in 1834 the town became one of the first incorporated municipalities in the British colony of Upper Canada.

Geography of Washington, D.C.

In addition to the above named places, there are other small unincorporated parts of Prince George's County, Maryland which also border the District.

George FitzGeorge

Colonel George William Adolphus FitzGeorge (24 August 1843 London - 2 September 1907 Lucerne) was a great-grandson of King George III of the United Kingdom and first cousin to Queen Mary, being the eldest of the three sons of the 2nd Duke of Cambridge and Louisa Fairbrother (the other sons were Admiral Sir Adolphus FitzGeorge and Colonel Sir Augustus FitzGeorge).

George of Cambridge

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), born Prince George of Cambridge, a grandson of George III through his son Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge

GMD GF6C

In 2004, the Paul D. Roy family purchased locomotive 6001 and donated it to the Prince George Railway and Forestry Museum in Prince George; the remaining six locomotives were scrapped.

Hardy N. Ganong

Stationed for a time at Prince George, British Columbia, in October 1943 he was placed in command of the 6th Canadian Infantry Division headquartered on Vancouver Island where he was in charge of preparations for participation in the invasion of Japan.

Henry Herbert, 17th Earl of Pembroke

Herbert was the only son of the 16th Earl of Pembroke and 13th Earl of Montgomery and his wife, Mary (a daughter of the 1st Marquess of Linlithgow) and a godson of Prince George, Duke of Kent.

Joe Ferrante

Then in 1981, Joe and Irene decided to move up to Prince George, in northern British Columbia.

John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo

On 11 May 1819, he represented the Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (later William IV) at the baptism of Prince George of Cambridge in Hanover and was appointed a GCH that year.

John Kaleo

John Kaleo attended South River High School in Edgewater, Maryland and Bowie High School in Bowie, Maryland.

Kiki Preston

Kiki Preston, née Alice Gwynne (1898 - December 23, 1946) was an American socialite, a member of the Happy Valley set, and the alleged mother of a child born out of wedlock with Prince George, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom.

Kittamaqundi

Around 1622, the Piscataway tribe, which led the Conoy Federation, built a town they soon called Kittamaqundi on Piscataway Creek near the modern day town of Piscataway, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

She attended Springhill Lake Elementary (Prince George's County Public Schools) in Greenbelt, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. Rowe-Finkbeiner moved to Columbia, Maryland where she attended Oakland Mills Middle School and Oakland Mills High School.

Launceston Elliot

The two-handed lift came first on the program and, after a long drawn out contest, Viggo Jensen of Denmark and Elliot had both lifted 111.5 kilograms, but Prince George awarded the Dane first place for having done so in better style.

Leeland, Maryland

Leeland, Maryland is a defunct settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland.

LeRoy Battle

Battle became an educator at Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland and established himself as a jazz musician, leading the band LeRoy Battle and the Altones.

Metro Bank Park

The most recent episode of this happening was in the 2006 season when a flood partially submerged the field, and forced the Senators to play 2 "home games" as a doubleheader in Bowie against the Bowie Baysox.

Montpelier, Maryland

Montpelier, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA, (zip codes 20708, 20709) is a Levitt community outside of the corporate boundaries of Laurel.

Morven, Caithness

Prince George, Duke of Kent, brother of King George, died in an air crash on a hillside near Morven on 25 August 1942 while serving in the Royal Air Force.

Nechako Country

The Nechako Country, also referred to as the Nechako District or simply "the Nechako" is one of the historical geographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located southwest of the city of Prince George and south of Hwy 16 on the inland side of the Hazelton Mountains (an inland subrange of the Coast Mountains), and comprising the basin of the Nechako River and its tributaries.

Paul Barillon

The marriage of the future Queen Anne to George of Denmark, brother of France's ally, was a triumph for French diplomacy, and it was probably Barillon who originally proposed the marriage, although he did not play a major role in subsequent negotiations, which were mainly conducted by Lord Sunderland; like most people, Barilllon found the groom entirely unimpressive.

Peace Bridge

The dignitaries who took part in the dedication ceremonies included The Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII), Prince George, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes, Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, New York Governor Al Smith and Ontario Premier Howard Ferguson.

Priconodon

Its remains have been found in the Aptian-Albian age Lower Cretaceous Arundel Formation of Muirkirk, Prince George's County, Maryland.

Richard Hastings

Richard Cory Hastings (born 18 May 1977 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian football player, who has played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Ross County, Grazer AK, MVV Maastricht, Hamilton Academical and Brora Rangers.

Richard Rolt

With patrons General James Oglethorpe, the Earl of Middlesex, and others, Rolt published Cambria, a Poem in three books (London, 1749), dedicated to Prince George.

Shareese Woods

An Army brat, she attended both Lee County Senior High School in Sanford, North Carolina and Prince George County High School, in Prince George, Virginia.

Torbenfeldt Castle

The king died in 1670 and his son Prince George ceded the estate to Christoffer Parsberg in exchange for Jungshoved at Vordingborg in 1671.

UBC Faculty of Medicine

Two new undergraduate medical campuses were established at the University of Victoria in Victoria and the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George that opened in 2004.

Victor Oladipo

His mother Joan Amanze Oladipo is a nurse and Nigerian immigrant, and his father Christopher Oladipo, a native of Blama, Sierra Leone, is public health executive for Prince George's County, Maryland with a Ph.D in behavioral science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Wendy Poole Park

Wendy Poole was a member of the Tsay Keh Dene ("People of the Mountains") a First Nations group from Northern B.C., near what is now the city of Prince George, British Columbia.


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