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16 unusual facts about Rye


'Round the Square

Though Zach was born in Rye, New Hampshire, Zach fakes a Russian accent in the belief it would make Cheryl desire him.

Alarum

It had been recorded in August–September 1997 at the Back Beach Studio in Rye.

Ashtead

Elevations range from the south west crest of the village at 100m AOD (above mean sea level) to 45m AOD at the Leatherhead border outflow of The Rye that rises at a pond at Little Park Farm, Farm Lane, Ashtead.

Chester Hills

Two buildings influenced are in Rye, New York: Lounsberry and the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House within the Boston Post Road Historic District.

George L. Fox

Following graduation, Fox became an itinerant Methodist preacher, holding posts in Downs, Illinois and Rye, New Hampshire before joining the Boston University School of Theology and becoming an ordained minister in 1934.

Lion's mane jellyfish

On July 21, 2010, around 150 people are thought to have been stung by the remains of a lion's mane jellyfish that had broken up into countless pieces in Rye, New Hampshire, in the United States.

Medical explanations of bewitchment

Ergot of Rye is a plant disease caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea, which Caporael claims is consistent with many of the physical symptoms of those alleged to be afflicted by witchcraft.

New Hampshire gubernatorial election, 2004

In the 2004 New Hampshire gubernatorial race, multi-millionaire businessman John Lynch, a Hopkinton Democrat, defeated Republican incumbent Governor Craig Benson of Rye, and won a two-year term.

Ore Valley

It is located to the north-east of the town on the main road to Rye (the coastal A259 road).

Richard Guildford

Next day he embarked at Rye along with John Whitby, prior of Gisburn in Yorkshire, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Riseholme

Riseholme appeared also in Lucia in London (1927), in which Lucia launched herself on London society; Mapp and Lucia (1931), in which, following Peppino's death, both Lucia and Georgie (who entered into a companionable marriage in Lucia's Progress, 1935), took holiday lets in the Sussex town of Tilling (based on Rye) where, at the end of the summer of 1930, they decided to settle.

Rye, New Hampshire

Herbert Philbrick, advertising executive and business owner in Rye; paid by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party USA in the 1940s (see: I Led Three Lives)

The property tax issue itself quieted as Governor Craig Benson announced in 2003 the property taxes would be cut almost by half by 2008.

Rye, Victoria

Rye Brigade played important roles during Black Saturday sending trucks to Narre Warren, Kinglake, Longwarry and sending crews to Wilson Promontory.

Sunken Forests of New Hampshire

Near Odiorne Point State Park in Rye, this sunken forest is referred to as the "Drowned Forest".

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral

"Come On, Eileen," a #1 U.K. chart single from the English band Dexys Midnight Runners, includes a chorus with the lines "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra Too-Ra-Loo-Rye, Ay / And you'll hum this tune forever." The song appeared on their 1982 album titled Too-Rye-Ay.


1929 Rye Cove, Virginia tornado outbreak

The Carter Family recorded a song about the Rye Cove tornado in the early 1930s.

Betty Draper

In the episode, "Tea Leaves", Betty and her family are now shown to be living in a large Victorian estate in Rye, New York.

Black, Brown and Beige

It received a preview performance at Rye High School in Westchester County, New York, on January 22, 1943, its premiere at Carnegie Hall the following night, and a subsequent performance at Boston's Symphony Hall on January 28.

Broadford, Pennsylvania

Broadford was formerly the site of an A. Overholt and Company Distillery, maker of Old Overholt Rye Whiskey once run by Pittsburgh industrialist H. Clay Frick.

Camber, East Sussex

The village of Camber takes its name from "the Camber" (la Chambre) the huge embayment of the English Channel located between Rye, old Winchelsea and Old Romney that was gradually lost to "innings" and silting-up following changes to the coastline and the changed course of the Eastern Rother since the Middle Ages.

Dark Rye

Dark Rye is an award-winning online magazine from Whole Foods Market, based in Austin, Texas.

In 2013, Dark Rye won a James Beard Foundation Book, Broadcast & Journalism Award for Best Group Food Blog.

Dover Pencester Road

In Lydd 1 bus an hour (Mon to Sat) Limited service (Sun) continues to Hastings as routw 100 The Wave via Camber, Rye, Winchelsea, Icklesham, Guestling and Ore.

E. glaucus

Elymus glaucus, the blue wild rye, a wild rye species native to North America from Alaska to New York to northern Mexico

Follow That Camel

Location work was shot during the early months of 1967 when scenes set in the Saharan Desert were filmed at Camber Sands near Rye, East Sussex, England.

George A. Slater

Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, of appendicitis; and was buried in Rye, New York.

Gluten sensitivity

Oats are a species within the grass tribe Aveneae, which is in the Pooideae subfamily along with Triticeae (contains wheat, rye, barley and many other genera).

Immediato v. Rye Neck School District

Immediato v. Rye Neck School District, 873 F. Supp. 846 (2d. Cir. 1996) was a Second Circuit Court of Appeals case involving the petitioner, a boy named Daniel Immediato and his parents, Eugene and Diane Immediato, against the respondent, Rye Neck School District in the village of Mamaroneck, New York.

Inner South London Line

The South Cross Route, one side of the London Motorway Box, the innermost ring road of the unbuilt 1960s London Ringways plan, would have paralleled the line between Wandsworth Road and Peckham Rye.

John McEntee Bowman

Bowman was responsible for the building of the golfing country club, the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York and counted the New York Biltmore Hotel in New York City, the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, in Los Angeles, California, the Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Florida, and the Sevilla-Biltmore Hotel in Havana, Cuba as part of his extensive hotel holdings.

Jose T. Almonte

Melchor was able to establish the diplomatic ties between the Philippines and the USSR through the help of Prof. Ajit Singh Rye of the Institute of Asian Studies in the University of the Philippines.

Ken Barker

Ken Barker was a born in Murrumburrah, New South Wales in 1948 and grew up in Rye Park, a town of just 287 people near Harden in rural NSW.

Michael Foster

Michael Jabez Foster (born 1946), British politician, former MP for Hastings and Rye

New Hampshire Route 1A

Route 1A proceeds north out of North Hampton and along the coastline past Rye Beach, Rye North Beach, Wallis Sands, and Odiorne Point State Park, where it turns west, away from the ocean.

Paul Assaiante

Assaiante was a squash professional at the Princeton Club of New York and director of racquet sports at the Baltimore Country Club, the Apawamis Club in Rye, N.Y., and the Bellevue Athletic Club in Seattle, Wash.

Philippines–Russia relations

The diplomatic ties of the Philippines and the Soviet Union was reinitiated by President Ferdinand Marcos' Executive Secretary Alejandro Melchor, Jr. and his then Aide-de-camp Major Jose T. Almonte through the help of Professor Ajit Singh Rye of the Institute of Asian Studies in the University of the Philippines.

It was through Professor Rye that Secretary Melchor and Major Almonte were able to pave way for an endorsement to Indira Gandhi for a dialogue with Moscow.

Riding officer

When Daniel Defoe rode through Hythe towards Rye in the 1720s he saw riding officers and dragoons searching the marshes for wool smugglers '... as if they were huntsmen beating up their game ...'

Riga, New York

Locally, the town's name is pronounced RYE-ga, instead of REE-ga like the capital of Latvia.

River Rother

River Rother, East Sussex in East Sussex and Kent, whose source is near Rotherfield (East Sussex), and whose mouth is at Rye (East Sussex) on the English Channel coast

Rother

The major trunk road is the A21, London to Hastings road; it is joined by the A28 road from Ashford road near Hastings; which in turn is crossed by the A268 Hawkhurst to Rye road.

Rye Harbour

At 6:45 am on the morning of 15 November 1928, the Mary Stanford from the Rye Harbour RNLI station responded needlessly to a Latvian steamer in distress.

Rye House power station

Rye House has three single-shaft Siemens V94.2 gas turbines (generating 150MW each) rotating at 3000rpm and three Babcock Energy steam generators (receiving exhaust gas at 540C) connected to one 250MW steam turbine.

Rye whiskey

Today Heaven Hill, Sazerac Company, Jim Beam, and Wild Turkey, among others, also produce rye whiskeys, as does a distillery at Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, which sells a version of the rye Washington made.

Save the Deli

Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen is a book published by Canadian journalist David Sax about the decline of the Jewish delicatessen.

Seorsus

Seorsus taxifolius (Merr.) Rye & Trudgen (syn. Baeckea taxifolius, Babingtonia taxifolia) - endemic to Sarawak in Borneo.

Sicklesmere

Recorded in 1272 as Sykolvesmere, that is, Sigolfr's mere (W. Rye, A Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Suffolk, 1900), the village is named after a mere or lake that used to be present near the River Lark.

The Portsmouth Herald

Its coverage area also includes the municipalities of Greenland, New Castle, Newington and Rye, New Hampshire; and Eliot, Kittery, Kittery Point and South Berwick, Maine.

The Tornados

"Early Bird" (Meek) / "Stomping Thru The Rye" (Tornados) (Columbia DB7589, 1965)

Thomas Clarke Rye

Rye was born in Benton County, Tennessee, the son of Wayne Rye, a merchant, and Elizabeth (Atchison) Rye.

U.S. Route 1 in New York

A mile past that junction and downtown, NY 127, also bound for White Plains, forks left at Keeler Avenue as 1 itself begins to trend more to the east into Rye, passing Rye Neck High School at the town line.

Vale of Pickering

Nunnington Hall, 17th century manor House with a sheltered walled garden on the banks of the River Rye.

WCYB-DT2

Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 5.2 from a transmitter on Rye Patch Knob of Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.