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6 unusual facts about Radcliffe


Andy Goram

Goram was also a league cricketer, appearing as a wicket-keeper and batsman for various Oldham clubs in the Saddleworth League, including Delph & Dobcross, Moorside and also East Lancashire Paper Mill in Radcliffe, Bury.

Arthur Cecil Caporn

Born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, he was the son of Arthur Leeson Caporn, owner of a Nottingham lace-making business.

Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802

In 1784 there was an outbreak of disease at a factory owned by Sir Robert Peel in Radcliffe, which affected much of the workforce and surrounding population.

Mary Radcliffe

Mary Ann Radcliffe (c. 1746 – c. 1810), an important British figure in the early feminist movement.

Radcliffe, Lexington

Its boundaries are Dover Road to the south, Paris Pike to the east, Russell Cave Road to the west, and I-75/ I-64 to the north.

Richard Wroe

Wroe was the son of Richard Wroe of Heaton Yate or Heaton Gate in the parish of Prestwich, Lancashire, was born at Radcliffe, Lancashire, on 21 August 1641, and baptised on 8 September.


Alfred Radcliffe-Brown

Radcliffe-Brown was often criticized for failing to consider the effect of historical changes in the societies he studied, in particular changes brought about by colonialism, but he is now considered, together with Bronisław Malinowski, as the father of modern social anthropology.

Amelia Peabody

Evelyn later marries Walter, and Amelia marries Radcliffe, accepting his proposal by teasing that it was the only way that she could engage in Egyptology without causing a scandal.

Andrew Sluyter

With Sarah A. Radcliffe, Elizabeth E. Watson, Ian Simmons, and Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Environmentalist Thinking and/in Geography, Progress in Human Geography 34 (2010): 98-116.

Ann Radcliffe

Radcliffe's elaborate description of landscapes was influenced by the painters Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa.

Ashley, Staffordshire

The spectacular tomb of Sir Gilbert Gerard (d. 1592) and his wife Anne Radcliffe (d. 1608) was later supplemented by free-standing, kneeling figures of their son, Thomas Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard and his son, Gibert 2nd Baron Gerard.

British and Irish Quidditch Cup

Overall, the winners were Radcliffe Chimeras from Oxford University lead by captain Ashley Cooper, with Avada Keeledavra of Keele University taking the silver medals and The Society of Quidditch in Bangor (SQUiB) from Bangor University taking the bronze medals.

Castlerigg stone circle

In the passage quoted below, Sears also quotes an earlier description of the circle by Ann Radcliffe (Mrs. Radcliffe).

Charles Radcliffe

Its treatment of popular culture has since been hailed as path-breaking: the critic Jon Savage has said that one piece by Radcliffe "laid the foundation for the next 20 years of sub-cultural theory."

Heatwave was closely associated with Rebel Worker, a short-lived but influential magazine published in Chicago by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, and Bernard Marszalek, to which Radcliffe was a contributor.

Chicago Marathon

Radcliffe's world record is also the course record; while the men's record is 2:03:45, set in the 2013 race by Dennis Kimetto.

David Stanley Evans

Evans left England in 1946 to work at the Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, South Africa when positional determinations and photometry were the main interests of the astronomical world, but when he left some twenty years later, the South African observatories had become active in astrophysics.

Elstow

Two years after The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539, Elstow green and the Abbey were leased to Edmund Harvey, whose daughter, Isabel, subsequently married Sir Humphrey Radcliffe.

Fivepenny Piece

The band later reformed, and played occasional gigs with various personnel, including the Lancashire folk singer and comedian Bernard Wrigley - Crotty and George Radcliffe continued to play in the band, along with Mullins.

Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex

Henry Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, KG (also spelled "Radcliffe") (1507 – 17 February 1557) was a son of Robert Radclyffe, 1st Earl of Sussex and his wife Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex.

Hope Emily Allen

After Bryn Mawr, she went to Radcliffe to begin studying for her Ph.D, during which time she enrolled at Cambridge University in 1910 for a semester to study English literature.

Insulin pump

In August 2011, an IBM researcher, Jay Radcliffe, demonstrated a security flaw in insulin pumps.

J. B. Martin

Radcliffe recruited at least five young white players (Lou Chirban, Lou Clarizio, and others).

John Sherrington

Later he held the following pastoral assignments: Parochial Vicar at St. Anne at Radcliffe on Trent (1987–1988), Professor of Moral Theology at All Hallows College (1990–98), Professor of Moral Theology and Director of Studies at the inter-diocesan seminary in Wonersh (1998–2004), Parish Priest of Our Lady of Lourdes, Mickleover, Derbyshire (2004–09).

Jones Township

Madawaska Valley, Ontario, amalgamation of Sherwood, Jones and Burns Township with Radcliffe Township and Barry's Bay

Katharine Park

and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Madanolsavam

Although the credit of story is attributed to director himself, this movie is a remake of Hollywood movie Love Story, written by Erich Segal, which tells of the heart-warming relationship between a Harvard lad and a Radcliffe girl.

Mamphela Ramphele

Ramphele is also a former fellow of the Bunting Institute and was elected as an honorary member of the Alpha and Iota chapters of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe and Harvard Colleges.

Monro of Fyrish

Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London then at St John's College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1741 and a Radcliffe Travelling Fellow until 1751.

National Black Arts Festival

People of all ages and races have gathered together to bask in the presence of: Maya Angelou, Charles Dutton, Wynton Marsalis, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Nancy Wilson, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spike Lee, Ousmane Sembène, Pearl Cleage, Kenny Leon, Carrie Mae Weems, Radcliffe Bailey, Sonia Sanchez and literally thousands of other artists from the USA and around the world.

Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Oxford is featured more often in literature and the cinema; films with scenes shot in Oxford include Shadowlands and the Harry Potter movies, while Radcliffe Square was used in the filming of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights.

Percidae

Maryland darter, E. sellare (Radcliffe & Welsh, 1913)

Planarity

Planarity is a puzzle computer game by John Tantalo, based on a concept by Mary Radcliffe at Western Michigan University.

Radcliffe Observatory

Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and erected a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa.

Richard Welles, 7th Baron Welles

Margaret Welles (d. 13 July 1480), who married firstly Sir Thomas Dymoke (executed 12 March 1470), and secondly Robert Radcliffe, esquire.

Runner's diarrhea

At the 2005 London Marathon, Paula Radcliffe won with a time of 2:17:42, although the race is often remembered for the moment when Radcliffe, in desperate need for a toilet break, stopped by the road in full view of the crowd and TV cameras, and the unfortunate event was broadcast live.

Ruskin Sports College

In keeping with its specialisation in physical education, the three houses were named after famous athletes: Woods, named after golf player Tiger Woods; Charlton, named after Sir Bobby Charlton, who officially re-opened Ruskin Sports College on 29 September 2002; and Radcliffe, named after Paula Radcliffe.

Sidewalk Radio

Featured guests have included: U.S. Congressman John Lewis, poet Pearl Cleage, artist Radcliffe Bailey, and Chairman Emeritus of the Atlanta Braves Bill Bartholomay.

St Paul's Church, Stamford

The guild was a wealthy one and its members included Lady Margaret Beaufort, Princess Cecily of York and David Cecil, grandfather of Sir William Cecil and Alderman William Radcliffe, founder of Stamford School.

Ted Radcliffe

Along with Satchel Paige, Moose Johnson, and others, Radcliffe helped to lead the club to the first National Semipro Championship.

Radcliffe recruited at least five young white players, including Lou Chirban and Lou Clarizio.

The Miracle Continues

The film covers the period of Keller's life from her college years at Radcliffe through her writing of The Story of My Life assisted by John Macy, who falls in love with and marries Keller's teacher and companion, Anne Sullivan.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Often cited as the archetypal Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, along with Radcliffe's novel "The Romance of the Forest," plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey, in which an impressionable young woman, after reading Radcliffe's novel, comes to see her friends and acquaintances as Gothic villains and victims with amusing results.

Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings

He married Katherine Marney, widow of George Radcliffe, a younger son of Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex, and elder daughter and co-heir of John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney, by whom he had an only son, baptized in March 1539, who died an infant.

West Indian cricket team in England in 1933

Constantine's Lancashire League employer Nelson refused to release him for the match, but Francis, contracted to Radcliffe in the Bolton League, played.


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