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8 unusual facts about Rees


49th Royal Tank Regiment

The operation was carried out under 'artificial moonlight' (searchlights shining onto the cloud cover) and during the assault on Rees by the 51st (Highland) Division the Grants both illuminated the crossing and engaged the enemy on the far bank with their 75mm guns.

Bernhard von Reesen

The 'von Reesen' name indicates that his family hails from the city of Rees, Germany.

Emmerich am Rhein

To the east, it is bordered by the German city of Rees.

Franz-Josef Tenhagen

Franz-Josef 'Jupp' Tenhagen (born October 31, 1952 in Millingen) is a retired German football player and a football coach.

Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg

There is also a street in the community of Haldern in Rees, Germany named for the composer.

Karl Leisner

The Blessed Karl Leisner (28 February 1915, Rees – 12 August 1945, Planegg, Germany) was a Roman Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp.

Operation Plunder

Beginning on the night of 23 March 1945, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey (Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight), and the U.S. Ninth Army (Operation Flashpoint), under Lieutenant General William Simpson.

Fierce German resistance continued around Bienen, north of Rees, where the entire 9th Canadian Brigade was needed to relieve the Black Watch.


Abel J. Jones

His parents, David Rees Jones and Hannah Jones (née Evans) and his sister Annie and brothers Rees and David Rees spoke only Welsh whereas Abel spoke Welsh and English (and later German) fluently.

Anyone For Tennis?

Doodson & Jason English-Rees) formed in 2005 while studying advertising at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Ash Rees

On 27 May 2006, Rees registered a career high of 5 points in a Rams loss to the Waikato Pistons.

Basser Library

Prominent individual scientists represented in the collection include Sir David Rivett, Sir Ian Wark and Dr Lloyd Rees, academics such as Professor Frank Fenner, Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley and Sir Ernest Titterton and more than 60 other Fellows of the Academy.

BBC Wales Today

Former presenters of Wales Today include: Noreen Bray; John Darran; Sara Edwards; Gail Foley; Jayne James; Rees Jones; Patrick Hannan; Brian Hoey; Bob Humphrys; Vincent Kane; Jason Mohammad; Chris Morgan; David Parry-Jones; Betsan Powys; Penny Roberts; Simon Pusey; Tim Rogers.

Bernard Pomerance

Along with Rees and David Aukin, Pomerance helped to found the theatre company Foco Novo in 1972.

Clive Rees

In 1983 Rees scored his 100th try for London Welsh against London Scottish, drawing a standing ovation.

Dan Rees

On 31 December, a telegram was received stating that Nicholls would not be able to make the first Championship game, and the Welsh Rugby Union immediately responded with news that Rees would take his place at centre, winning his first cap alongside Swansea team-mate George Davies.

Defence Communication Services Agency

The founding CE was Major-General Tony Raper CB CBE, late Royal Signals, he was succeeded by Rear Admiral Rees Ward in 2002 who continued as CE until 2007 when the Agency was disestablished.

Derby H:O Racing Club

The racing takes place at the Rolls-Royce leisure facility in Sinfin, Derby, and is currently managed by Nick Sismey (chairman) and Phil Rees (vice chairman)

Edward Herbert Rees

Rees was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress and to the 11 succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961).

Geoffrey Rees

Mr Rees has always enjoyed sporting activity, and includes completing the London Marathon amongst his personal achievements.

George Mealmaker

Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, Volume 23 T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817.

Grace Hanagan

On May 28, 1914, Grace's father was taking her and her mother along with other Salvation Army members (like the Evans family, Staff Captain Meyers, Mr. and Mrs. Maidment, the Leader of the Salvation Army Commissioner David Rees and his family, and others) on the Empress of Ireland that would take them from Quebec City to Liverpool, England for the third International Congress, following which there would be a holiday for their family.

Hinton Blewett

William Rees-Mogg took the title of Baron Rees-Mogg, of Hinton Blewett, when he was made a life peer in 1988, although in 1998 he and his family moved to nearby Mells.

Hubert Rees

Rees continued his career throughout the 1970s appearing in popular television shows, including Softly, Softly: Taskforce, The Sweeney and Van der Valk.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

In March 2009, Rees-Mogg was forced to apologise to Trevor Kavanagh, former political editor of The Sun, after it was shown that a newsletter signed by Rees-Mogg had plagiarised sections of a Kavanagh article that had appeared in the newspaper over a month earlier.

Jerry Rees

In 2010, Rees and voice actress/writer Deanna Oliver made an appearance at California State University, Northridge to discuss the making of their film The Brave Little Toaster.

For some time, Rees was attached as director to a project called Rand Robinson, Robot Repairman, financed by Interscope and Philips.

Josiah Rees

Rees's translations into Welsh included a Catechism (1770) on the Principles of Religion, by Henry Read (?); John Mason's Self-Knowledge, which passed through numerous editions; and a Doctrinal Treatise, published in 1804 under the auspices of the Welsh Unitarian Book Society; it evoked from Joseph Harris a defence of the deity of Jesus, The Axe of Christ in the Forest of Antichrist.

Katie Rees

On 20 September 2009, Rees featured on the Australian television show, Border Security: Australia's Front Line.

Kristian Rees

On 13 November 2007 Rees signed for A-League club Wellington Phoenix until the end of the season where he joined up with former Adelaide United teammate and captain, Ross Aloisi.

In the 2013 Australian Federal election, Rees ran as the Palmer United Party candidate for the Division of Grey.

Louis Heren

When Rupert Murdoch acquired the paper Heren was the staff choice as Rees-Mogg's successor, but was passed over in favour of Harold Evans.

Mark Rees

Rees left Colchester to play in Luxembourg briefly, before heading to the Republic of Ireland to play for Shamrock Rovers making his League of Ireland debut on the 18th of November at the RDS Arena.

Peter Rees Jones

Peter Rees Jones (1843 – 1905) was the founder of the Peter Jones department store in Sloane Square, London, England.

Philip Czaplowski

Performers of Philip's music include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Orquestra Antunes Câmara, Australia Pro Arte, the Canberra Wind Soloists, the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, Geelong Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Soloists, Australia Felix, the Monash Festival Orchestra, Kazimierz Dawidek, Harry Sparnaay, Prue Davis, James Strauss, Jeffrey Crellin, Carla Rees, and many of Australia’s leading musicians.

ProtoGalaxy

The idea for the game was originally conceived in 2007 when Alex Brown, Rob Rees, and Albert Chaulk, the three co-founders of Source Studio, were engineering students together at Memorial University.

The idea for the game was originally conceived in 2007 when Alex Brown, Rob Rees, and Albert Chaulk, the three co-founders of Source Studio, were engineering students together at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Punjab Boundary Force

Maj Gen Rees was provided Brig D.S. Brar and Brig M. Ayub Khan (who later became Field Marshall & President of Pakistan)from India and Pakistan respectively as "Military Advisors".

Raymond F. Rees

In August, 1994 Rees was again named Adjutant General of Oregon, by then Governor Barbara Roberts.

Rees Bradley Hepburn

In addition, Rees Bradley Hepburn is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).

Rice Rees

Rice Rees (31 March 1804 – 20 May 1839) was a Welsh cleric and historian.

Richard Marquand

Marquand was born in Llanishen, Cardiff, Wales, the younger brother of the political writer and academic David Marquand and the son of Rachel E. (née Rees) and Hilary Marquand, who was a Labour member of Parliament and Minister in the Post Second World War Labour Government.

Ronnie Rees

Following his retirement from professional football, Rees worked at the Ford motorworks in Swansea and Bridgend.

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

As a young woman at Oxford University, Catherine had the chance of a fellowship to study at Princeton University but her then-tutor Hilary Rees-Benson (later a political opponent) recommended another student instead, in part due to jealousy of Catherine—the two remain rivals even when serving together in Ros's cabinet.

The Monkey Jar

Left to sort out the issue is the school's African American principal, Robert Rees, who has only held the position a few months, and Coral Bryson the specialist in charge of Kai's Individualized Education Program.

Thomas M. Rees

Rees was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative James Roosevelt, and reelected to the five succeeding Congresses (December 15, 1965-January 3, 1977).

Upwind scheme

Historically, the origin of upwind methods can be traced back to the work of Courant, Isaacson, and Rees who proposed the CIR method.

Walter E. Rees

Rees was educated in his home town and later in Barnstable, and on leaving school followed his father into the local building trade.

William Gilbert Rees

The Rees River in Central Otago is named after Rees, and his statue stands on Rees Street, near the town pier.

William R. Rush

William Rees Rush (1857–1940) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War, the 1914 United States occupation of Veracruz, and World War I, and was a recipient of the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross.


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