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2 unusual facts about Ráby


Cage bed

"We can either use cage beds, or increase people's medication, strap them down, or put them in solitary confinement," says Jan Slezak, director of Social Care Home in Raby, eastern Bohemia.

Raby, New South Wales

The first land releases were located between three roads named in honour of famous fighter planes - Mustang Drive, Sopwith Avenue and Spitfire Drive.


John Rylands

He married three times: first, in 1825, Dinah, daughter of W. Raby of Ardwick, Manchester (by her he had six children, none of whom survived him); secondly in 1848, Martha, widow of Richard Carden; and thirdly in 1875, Enriqueta Augustina, the eldest surviving daughter of Stephen Cattley Tennant.

Philip Raby

Raby has been fascinated by Porsches – in particular 911s – since he was a young boy.

Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby

Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby (c.1291 – 5 August 1367) was an English aristocrat, son of Ralph Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby and Euphemia de Clavering.

Steve Raby

Raby ran against Republican nominee Mo Brooks for the U.S. House (Alabama District 5), but was defeated by Brooks in the general election.

As of late September 2010 Raby had raised about 20% more campaign funds than his Republican opponent, Mo Brooks.

The Daughter of Time

He also reads Thomas More's History of King Richard III and an imaginary historical novel called The Rose of Raby by "Evelyn Payne-Ellis", about the life of Richard's mother Cecily Neville.

Wentworth Castle

The estate of Wentworth Woodhouse, which he believed was his birthright, was scarcely six miles distant and was a constant bitter sting, for the Strafford fortune had passed from William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, the childless son of the great earl, to his wife's nephew, Thomas Watson; only the barony of Raby had gone to a blood-relation.


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