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8 unusual facts about Rehoboth


B1 Butcher

Body parts were found in June and July 2007 in the Khomas Region along the B1 in the greater Windhoek area between Rehoboth and Okahandja.

Baster

The Basters left their original home in the Cape Colony in 1868 to trek northwards in search of land and settled in Rehoboth in what is now central Namibia.

Diergaardt v. Namibia

Representatives of Rehoboth Baster Community have complained over alleged violations of Articles 1 (right to self-determination), 14 (equality before the courts), 17 (privacy), 25 (right to participate in public life), 26 (ban of discrimination) and 27 (minority rights) of ICCPR.

Johann Christian Friedrich Heidmann

A few years later, he along with approximately 90 Baster families relocated to the deserted village of Rehoboth.

Palgrave Commission

In the ensuing conflict with the other nations of the area, they established a republic and parliament in 1872, around the settlement of Rehoboth.

Rehoboth, Massachusetts

Michael Glancy, internationally renowned contemporary glass artist, is a resident and has had his studio in the town, since the 1970s.

United Congregational Church of Southern Africa

The Namibia Regional Council of the denomination has 3,000 members and 7 congregations in Duineveld, Rehoboth, Karlfeld, Windhoek, Luderitz, Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Grootfrontein.

WRIW-CD

On July 29, 2012, WRIW-CA began broadcasting their signal in digital from the WJAR tower in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and subsequently changed its call sign to WRIW-CD on January 7, 2013.


Copetown, Ontario

A Christian school named Rehoboth Christian School operates in this area for the promotion of Christian education in the area for Kindergarten through twelfth grade.

Dodd House

Dodd Homestead, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

George Moulton Carpenter, Jr.

Carpenter was born in Portsmouth, Newport county, Rhode Island on April 22, 1844 and is a descendant of the immigrant William Carpenter (1605 England - 1658/1659 Rehoboth, Massachusetts) the founder of the Rehoboth Carpenter family who came to America in the mid-1630s.

Ingalls House

Wheeler-Ingalls House, Rehoboth, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Ingalls-Wheeler-Horton Homstead Site, Rehoboth, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Joseph married Harriet Louisa Hartwell (1848–1917) in the Newman Congregational Church in Rehoboth, December 14, 1872.

Largemouth bass fishing in Namibia

The main dams for largemouth bass fishing are the Hardap Dam in Mariental, Von Bach Dam in Okahandja, Avis Dam in Windhoek and Oanob Dam in Rehoboth.

Phanuel Bishop

He died in Rehoboth, Mass; interment was in Old Cemetery, Rumford, Rhode Island.

Thomas W. Bicknell

Thomas Bicknell attended Thetford Academy in Vermont and Amherst College in Massachusetts, taught school and became principal in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, then principal in Elgin, Illinois.


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