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unusual facts about Sacred Heart College, Napier


St Joseph's Māori Girls' College

The college commenced on the property which is now Sacred Heart College, Napier when the Sisters and the Māori Missioner, Fr Reigner SM started a little boarding school for Māori girls at first called St Joseph's Providence, which was opened on 10 October with twenty pupils, The first principal was Sister Mary St John.


7096 Napier

7096 Napier is a Mars-crossing asteroid named after William (Bill) M. Napier, the Scottish astronomer.

Anthony Lledo

Lledo's latest projects includes the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg, directed by Adrian Moat and executive produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, the horror/thriller Darkroom, directed by Britt Napier as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which premieres early 2013.

Baron Alington

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

Bill Wambach

He is one of the two stars of a feature-length documentary film by Andrew Napier called Mary and Bill, featuring Wambach and Mary Stroebe, a 90-year-old woman who runs in Triathlons.

Black Adder 6

Its design was derived from such vintage Bentleys as "Old Number 1" and the "Napier-Railton Special." The cars of Bentley's 1920–1930s racing era, when the marque competed in such races as Le Mans and Brooklands, were further inspiration for its Brooklands boat-tail aluminum body.

Buddy Napier

Buddy Napier died at the age of 78 on March 29, 1968 in Hutchins, Texas.

Calverstown

It was the first international motor race to be held in Great Britain, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço de Arcos

As a 27 year old second lieutenant in 1862 the Count of Paço d'Arcos also commanded the schooner Napier in pursuit of the US confederate pirate ship CSS Alabama in the mid Atlantic near the Azores.

Charles Ottley Groom Napier

In the 1870s Napier began styling himself as the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat with subsidiary titles as prince of Ferrera, Nevers, Rethel, and Alençon; Baron de Tobago; and master of Lennox, Kilmahew, and Merchiston.

Eleonora Aguiari

In order to do this she needed clearance letters from the RCA Rector, a professor, the Victoria and Albert museum conservation department and the RCA conservation department, bronze tests, a scaffolding license, indemnity insurance, and permission from English Heritage (who own the statue), the City of Westminster, the Boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington (their boundary bisects the length of the horse) and the present Lord Napier.

Emmanuel Giles Pothanamuzhi

A botanist who lectured at Sacred Heart College, Ernakulam, he was the founder principal of Christ College, Bangalore (1969-1983) and rector of the CMI major seminary, Dharmaram College, Bangalore (1990-1996).

Findlay Napier

Before the demise of Back of the Moon, Napier began working on a project called Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers at first this project was to bridge the gap between the traditional roots of Back of the Moon and the contemporary song and arrangements of Queen Anne's Revenge.

Flatpicking

The chief proponents of the early country and bluegrass styles included Riley Puckett, George Shuffler, Alton Delmore, Johnny Bond, Don Reno and Bill Napier.

Francis A. Teall

He assisted Ephraim G. Squier in preparing his Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Washington, 1848), and John R. Bartlett in the first edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms, and made the analytical index to the American edition of Napier's Peninsular War.

Gadubanud

It is known that the Gadubanud people traded spear wood for Mount William green stone mined by the Wurundjeri when tribes from across Victoria met at traditional ceremonies at Mount Noorat, Mount Napier and Gariwerd.

George Napier

George Napier (11 March 1751 – 13 October 1804) was a British Army officer, most notable for his marriage to Lady Sarah Lennox, and for his sons Charles James Napier, William Francis Patrick Napier and George Thomas Napier, all of whom were noted military officers, collectively referred to as “Wellington’s Colonels.” He also served as Comptroller of Army Accounts in Ireland from 1799 until his death in 1804.

George Thomas Napier

The town of Napier, Western Cape, is named for Sir George Thomas Napier as is Napier House at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town.

Gordon Bisson

Educated at Napier Boys’ High School, he graduated from Victoria University College, Wellington with a Bachelor of Laws in 1941.

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

A growing weakness of sight, ending in blindness, prevented him from carrying the work further, but he translated Napier's Peninsular War as a sort of continuation to it.

Heinrich Timm

In January 1945, the U-862 entered and departed from the Port of Napier, New Zealand, undetected.

Hibi Eden

Hibi Eden was the general secretary of the KSU led Union at Sacred Heart College, Thevara.

Holden Royale

If keyless entry was specified, it was fitted by Remac Components in Napier, New Zealand.

James Napier

James Robert Napier (1821–1879), Scottish engineer, inventor of Napier's diagram

Mayor of Napier, New Zealand

The Mayor of Napier is the head of the municipal government of Napier City, New Zealand, and presides over the Napier City Council.

Napier Boys' High School

In 2002 Napier Boys' High School teacher, Reuben John Martin was arrested for manufacturing Class B MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy.

Napier Oryx

The engine was developed by the Aero Gas Turbine Division of Napier in conjunction with Percival, later Hunting Percival.

Napier Peak

The feature is named after Captain William Napier, Master of the schooner Venus, from New York, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

Napier Road

Napier Road is situated in the city of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan and is named after Charles Napier, the first British Governor of the Sindh province.

Napier, Ontario

When a post office opened on November 6, 1851, the village was named Napier, probably after Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), a British General, or perhaps after his brother, Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785–1860), also a general and historian of the Peninsular War.

New Zealand Railways Corporation

Railway stations in Auckland, Rotorua, Christchurch, Dunedin, Napier and Oamaru were sold, along with substantial tracts of land previously used for rail operations.

Nigel Napier-Andrews

Nigel Napier-Andrews was born in England, and spent parts of his childhood in Wimbledon, Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya.

Overberg branch line

Two extensions of the line from Caledon were possible: eastwards towards Riviersonderend and Swellendam, with the ultimate possibility of reaching Mossel Bay; or southwards towards Napier and Caledon.

Pahiatua Railway Station

Shortly after the nationalisation of the WMR line, the Napier Express was diverted from the Wairarapa Line to run through the Manawatu Gorge and down the former WMR line to Wellington.

Sacred Heart College, Geelong

Established in 1860 by the Sisters of Mercy, the school quickly became recognised as a high class education establishment, with a liberal, comprehensive curriculum.

Sacred Heart College, Johannesburg

Sacred Heart College is a private Catholic school in Observatory, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Sir Joseph Napier, 4th Baronet

Sir Joseph William Lennox Napier, 4th Baronet of Merrion Square, (1 August 1895 – 13 October 1986), was a British baronet and soldier in both World War I including the Gallipoli Campaign and World War II.

Sir William Napier, 3rd Baronet

Lt Col Sir William Lennox Napier, 3rd Baronet of Merrion Square, (12 October 1867 – 13 August 1915), was a British baronet and soldier.

Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet

A year after arriving on Clydeside, he became general manager of R. Napier and Sons, where he designed innovative fast, transatlantic liners for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

Southern Maori

Population centres that came to the electorate through this measure included Wellington, Masterton, Palmerston North, Napier, and Wairoa.

Taradale

Taradale High School, a high school in Taradale, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Tim Westoll

Westoll was the son of Captain James Westoll, late Durham Light Infantry, by his marriage in 1917 to Marian Ellen, a daughter of Captain Arthur Lenox Napier OBE DL, of the Yorkshire Regiment, and the grandson of another James Westoll, a Justice of the Peace, of Coniscliffe in County Durham.

Venus series

The novels, part of the Sword and Planet subgenre of science fiction, follow earthman Napier's fantastic adventures after he crash-lands on Venus, called Amtor by its human-like inhabitants.

Wilfrid Napier

Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa.

Wilson and Palmer v United Kingdom

Nicholas Underhill QC and Brian Napier acted for Associated Newspapers, and Patrick Elias QC and Nigel Giffin acted for Associated British Ports, while John Hendy QC and Jennifer Eady acted for Mr Wilson and Jeffrey Burke QC and Peter Clark acted for Mr Palmer.

Woodville Railway Station, New Zealand

Woodville was the railhead of the line from Napier until the line was completed through the Manawatu Gorge, connecting it with Palmerston North in 1891.

Yumeno Kyūsaku

Napier, Susan J. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature.


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