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unusual facts about Rea


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.


Action of Atlixco

The Action of Atlixco, also known as the "Atlixco Affair", on October 19, 1847, was a U.S. victory late in the Mexican-American War by an American force under General Joseph Lane that defeated the Light Corps of the Mexican Army under General Joaquín Rea and captured their base at Atlixco a week after Lane had driven Rea from his lines and relieved the Siege of Puebla.

Ashton, Idaho

The planned route for the new railroad was through Marysville, up Warm River Canyon into the forested Island Park country, and on over the Continental Divide at Rea’s Pass into what became West Yellowstone, Montana.

Colliers International

FirstService REA subsequently invested in several North American-based firms whose operations focused on various commercial real estate service specialties.

Doug Rea

Rea left Sherbet to perform with Maple Lace who covered the UK single "Gimme Dat Ding."

Eliza and Isabella Riddel

Governors of the permanent committee included the mayor of Belfast, the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and five elected 'lady graduate governors' including F W Rea, one of the earliest women lecturers at Queen's, and Marion Andrews and Elizabeth Bell, two of the earliest women to qualify in medicine in Ireland.

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

Bitmob writer Jasmine Rea called Fragile Dreams an "experience rather than a game", citing that it had an emotional impact similar to that of Isao Takahata's adaptation of Akiyuki Nosaka's novel Grave of the Fireflies.

Gasteroid fungi

(literally "stomach fungi"), or the equally obsolete order Gasteromycetales Rea, because they produce their spores inside their basidiocarps (fruit bodies) rather than on an outer surface.

Gerald Legge, 9th Earl of Dartmouth

He was subsequently a director of the farming company Rea Bros (based at Ashcombe House) from 1958 to 1989, chairman of the Royal Choral Society from 1970 to 1992 and chairman of the Anglo-Brazilian Society from 1975 to 1994.

Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School

Notable alumni include Cary Fowler (59), Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Shiva Rea (81), creator of Prana Flow yoga, and Mike McCarley (88), President, NBC’s Golf Channel.

Joaquín Rea

Rea and Santa Anna failed to take it before the approach of a relief column from Vera Cruz under Brig. Gen. Joseph Lane prompted Santa Anna to leave the siege to stop him.

Kirklevington Country Club

By the early 1980s after extensive touring and the release of two albums with Rea, McCoy handed over his management role to Jim Beach (manager of Queen) and returned to Kirklevington to further develop his club premises.

Malice aforethought

In most common law jurisdictions, the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, and in the various US state statutes which have codified homicide definitions, the term has been abandoned although the meaning remains the mens rea requirement for murder.

Margo Harkin

In 1980 she joined Field Day Theatre Company founded by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea and went on to train as a Stage Designer with Percy Harris and Hayden Griffin at Motley Theatre Design Course in London.

Patrick Rea

Rea completed the featurette Rhino in 2012, starring Malcolm Goodwin and Keith Loneker.

Rea was the first assistant director on the movie Bunker Hill, directed by Kevin Willmott.

Peter Jubeck

In late 1998, Clara's completed the development of a twelve hundred square foot banquet room in the "Railway Express Agency" (REA) building located on Clara's on the River’s property.

Rhea Silvia

Carsten Niebuhr proposed that the name Rhea Silvia came from Rea, meaning guilty, and Silvia meaning of the forest and so assumed that Rhea Silvia was a generic name for the guilty woman of the forest, i.e. the woman who had been seduced there.

River Rea

There are proposals to include a riverside walk and new bridge over the Rea at Digbeth's Custard Factory media and arts complex (now complete).

Russell Rea

Rea was the third son of Daniel Key Rea from Eskdale in Cumberland and his wife Elizabeth, who was the daughter of Liverpool shipbuilder Joseph Russell.

Samuel Rea

His paternal grandfather General John Rea was in the United States Congress from Bedford and Franklin, Pennsylvania, during the terms of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

In the mid-1880s Rea supported a proposal by consulting engineer Gustav Lindenthal to build a large bridge across the Hudson River from Jersey City, New Jersey to Manhattan.

Still So Far to Go: The Best of Chris Rea

Still So Far to Go: The Best of Chris Rea is a compilation album by Chris Rea, released by Rhino Records in 2009.

The album, however, was very successful, peaking at #8 in UK, making it Rea's first entry in the Top 10 in fifteen years, since The Best of Chris Rea (1994).

Teresa Stanek Rea

Teresa Stanek Rea is the former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and former Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Tony Rea

Rea appointed temporary joint head coach with Stains' assistant Les Kiss.

United States v. Crimmins

The United States Supreme Court rejected Hand's analogy in United States v. Feola (1975), holding that conspiracy to assault a federal agent required no greater mens rea than assault would.

William R. Furlong

William Rea Furlong was born on May 26, 1881 in the town of Allenport, Pennsylvania as a son of William Allen Furlong and Ethel Grant Furlong.


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