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4 unusual facts about Rowland


Rowland's Castle

Former Van Morrison guitarist Herbie Armstrong once operated The Fountain Inn in the centre of the village next to the Village Green.

The village is crossed by three long-distance footpaths, the Monarch's Way, Sussex Border Path and Staunton Way.

Rowlandson

Rowlandson is an English surname meaning son of Rowland or Roland.

The Mustangs

The Mustangs were formed by Adam Norsworthy and Derek Kingaby after an impromptu jam session in the Fountain Pub in Rowland's Castle, Hampshire, in 2001.


ABC News Breakfast

The main fill-in presenters for Trioli are Tamara Oudyn, Beverley O'Connor and Melissa Clarke and the fill-in presenters for Rowland are Paul Kennedy, Neal Woolrich and Waleed Aly.

Aisling Burnand

Burnand worked as head of international media relations for Rhône-Poulenc in Paris, then as a director at the Rowland Company, a London-based public affairs consultancy.

Anglicisation of names

Ó Briain has often become O'Brien, Ó Rothláin became Rowland, Ó Néill became O'Neill and some surnames like Ó Súilleabháin may be shortened to just O'Sullivan or Sullivan.

Aurora Inn

The Aurora Inn renovation team included Pleasant Rowland, Katie Waller(Director of Aurora Foundation) and Steve McGlynn(Project Manager), Holt Architects of Ithaca, McGlynn Interiors of Skaneateles and Northeast Construction Services of Syracuse.

Baron Leigh

He was a descendant of Rowland Leigh, eldest son of the aforementioned Sir Thomas Leigh (d. 1571), himself of a cadet branch of the Leighs of West Hall, High Legh.

BET Presents Kelly Rowland

The DVD was originally packaged with Rowland's second album, Ms. Kelly, exclusively at Walmart.

Bob Klose

In 2006, Klose wrote an accompanying essay for a picture book of previously unpublished Rowland Hilder's watercolor paintings, entitled "Rowland Hilder's British Isles".

British Hospitality Association

The 2012 event attracted some well-known names including, for example, John Penrose MP (The UK Minister for Tourism & Heritage), Kit Malthouse (The Deputy Mayor of London), Willie Walsh (CEO, British Airways), Taleb Rifai (Secretary of the UN World Tourism Organisation), Simon Vincent (Europe President of Hilton), Robin Rowland (CEO of Yo!Sushi), etc.

Buhl Building

Wirt C. Rowland, architect of the Penobscot Building, Guardian Building, and the Buhl Building was born and raised in Clinton, Michigan.

Charles Hedding Rowland

Rowland was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses from Pennsylvania's twenty-first district.

Charles Proctor Sifton

He is survived by his son Sam Sifton, the national news editor of The New York Times, by his wife, the artist Susan Rowland; two other sons, Toby and John; and three grandchildren.

David Rowland

After completing his military service, Rowland started studying again and in 1949 earned his BA degree in Physics from Principia College.

David Rowland died at age 86 on August 13, 2010, at his home in Marion, Virginia.

Door, Door

Written by Rowland S. Howard, "Shivers" was later covered by Marie Hoy, The Screaming Jets during the 1990s, Divine Fits, and others.

Down for Whatever

With the release of the single, an accompanying music video was directed by Sarah Chatfield, which features Rowland dancing and a number of different club lights, as the song is a club-dance song and was released on 19 October 2011.

Dunbar Rowland

Dunbar Rowland (August 25, 1864 − November 1, 1937) was a noted American attorney, archivist, and historian.

Genevieve McGuckin

She performed on the Rowland S. Howard and Lydia Lunch cover of "Some Velvet Morning", and on Lunch's Honeymoon In Red LP, where she contributed the song "Three Kings".

She also played organ on, and wrote the music for, the song "Silver Chain" on Rowland S. Howard's solo album Teenage Snuff Film.

Hull Blokes

The project was actually part of the BBC’s Northern Exposure ‘Writing in the Margins’ initiative, spearheaded by the Corporation’s then creative director of new writing, Kate Rowland.

Ian Rowland

Citing Rowland's recitation of the tricks of "astrologers and psychics," journalist Malcolm Gladwell has criticised the practice of offender profiling by the FBI.

John Bercow

After a spell in merchant banking, Bercow joined the lobbying firm Rowland Sallingbury Casey (part of Saatchi & Saatchi) in 1988, becoming a board director within five years.

Kommissar X

With the international success of the films of Ian Fleming's James Bond and the German Jerry Cotton (played by George Nader) series, seven Commissioner X films mostly written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Tony Kendall as private detective Joe Walker and Brad Harris as New York City Police Lieutenant Tom Rowland were made.

Laura Joh Rowland

Rowland takes some literary licence with known figures, creating fictionalised versions of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Emperor Higashiyama in "The Samurai's Wife", and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

Metro Pictures

After Mayer's departure, Rowland continued to produce a number of films in New York City, Fort Lee, New Jersey, and in Los Angeles.

My Beauty

The album is notorious for its cover, which shows Rowland in drag and heavy make up, an image which Rowland also used during contemporary appearances at the Glastonbury and Reading festivals.

Peter William Youens

He left Lonrho in 1969 to join John Tyzack & Partners, but returned to the Lonrho board in 1980 where he remained until 1994, after control of Lonrho had passed from Rowland to the German businessman Dieter Bock.

Pleasant Rowland

In 1986 Rowland founded the Pleasant Company, which manufactures the "American Girl" dolls, books and accessories.

Rowland was born in the Chicago area and grew up in Bannockburn, a suburb north of Chicago.

R.H. Brotherhood

Rowland Henderson Brotherhood served as the seventh mayor of the Village of Elkhorn.

Richard A. Rowland

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Rowland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1541 Vine Street.

Roger H. Chen

By 1988, Chen then convinced Taiwanese investors to construct a retail complex that was able to accommodate restaurants and stores and as well as a 36,000-square foot supermarket in Rowland Heights, a suburb that was located in the Eastern part of Rowland Heights, where the suburb was located east of the well-known Chinese American community of Monterey Park.

Roland Caldwell Harris

Harris is also featured (and misnamed as "Rowland") in the Michael Ondaatje novel In the Skin of a Lion, although the portrayal of him is fictitious.

Rowland Berkeley

Rowland Berkeley (about 1548 - 11 June 1611) of Worcester and Spetchley was an English clothier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1611.

Rowland Greenberg

he was a central part of Oslo's swing-jazz milieu, where he led his own Rowland Greenberg Swing Band (1939–41) with Arvid Gram Paulsen on sax, Lulle Kristoffersen on piano and Pete Brown on drums.

Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School

Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster.

Rowland Lockey

Rowland Lockey (c. 1565–1616) was an English painter and goldsmith.

Rowland Plumbe

Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.

Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet

His nephew, Rowland, was a distinguished soldier, created first Viscount Hill of Hawkstone (d. 1842), and his brother was the Evangelical preacher, Rowland Hill.

Soulton Hall

In 1668 a semi-circular pediment bearing the marital coat of arms of Thomas Hill, a descendant of Sir Rowland's and a friend of Samuel Pepys, was added above the front door.

Sucharitha Gamlath

He graduated with First Class Honours for classical Indian languages and Sinhala language at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya and carried away the awards, The Rowland’s Gold Medal, The Jayanayake Prize and The Oriental Research Scholarship.In the same year, he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Sinhala of the same University.

The Sea Lion

The same staff on this film produced Rowland Lee's previous directed film Blind Hearts, released just before The Sea Lion.

Thomas Wright Hill

In 1819, it moved again to a new purpose-built school designed by Rowland at Hazelbrook called Hazelwood on Hagley Road in Edgbaston.

TopatoCo

When the 2004 presidential election was won by George W. Bush, Rowland designed a satirical T-shirt and sold 1000 of them in one month.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.

Workman-Temple family

A few years later, when the independent Republic of Texas and its president, Mirabeau B. Lamar, sought to extend its boundary to the Rio Grande, thereby annexing the principal towns of New Mexico, Workman and Rowland were named agents of the Texans in New Mexico.


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