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unusual facts about Saint George's Hill


Alexander Perepilichny

He moved to the exclusive Saint George's Hill estate in Weybridge, where he lived in a £12,500-a-month luxury home.


Alasdair Mac Colla

Mac Colla's men were mostly killed in the Confederate defeats at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath and then at the Battle of Knocknanauss in County Cork.

Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill

The very thin soils here support populations of one nationally rare species, Cheddar bedstraw (Galium fleurotii) and four nationally scarce species, pale St John's wort (Hypericum montanum), sea storksbill (Erodium maritimum), dwarf mouse-ear (Cerastium pumilum) and spring cinquefoil (Potentilla tabernaemontani).

Bower's Hill, Virginia

An additional crossing of Hampton Roads, to supplement the James River Bridge and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel was a long-sought highway improvement in the area.

Brotherhood of Saint George

The choice of Saint George as patron saint of the order may suggest a degree of personal involvement in the Brotherhood by King Edward IV, who had a keen interest in the cult of that particular saint.

Bruce W. Winter

In 1973, he left Australia and began parish ministry at the Anglican Saint George's Church, Singapore.

Butler's Hill

The nearby Broomhill park was the former site of Sherwood Zoo, which went bankrupt in 1976

Carpenter's Battery

John Cadwalider Carpenter, born in 1839 at Covington, Virginia served as Captain of the battery after his brother Joseph was wounded; he commanded the battery through many engagements, including fifteen major battles, and lost an arm in combat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, but survived the war.

César, Duke of Vendôme

He died later that year on 22 October 1655 in Paris and was buried in the chapel of Saint-Georges at the Château of Vendôme.

Chilworth, Surrey

The village nestles below the North Downs, overlooked by St. Martha's Hill and St. Martha's Church.

Church Gresley

The Church of England parish church of Saint George and Saint Mary was built early in the 12th century as the priory's conventual church.

Climate of Salt Lake City

In late January, heavy rains overflowed the Santa Clara River in Washington County in the southwest corner of the state, destroying several homes in Ivins, Santa Clara, and Saint George, and essentially cutting off the small town of Gunlock.

Coins of Upper Canada

The obverse of the coins carried a representation of St.George slaying the dragon based on Benedetto Pistrucci's gold sovereign coinage design.

Count Nikolay Adlerberg

On his trip to Palestine, Count Adlerberg visited and prayed at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and after this Adlerbergs financed the building of a new Russian Orthodox church dedicated to Saint George (Церковь святого великомученика и победоносца Георгия) in Al Karak.

Culp's Hill

He sent a small party to reconnoiter, and they encountered the 7th Indiana Infantry of the I Corps, part of Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth's division, which had been in the rear guarding the corps trains and was now linked up with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge.

Edmundo Pérez Zujovic

On one occasion, Jara sang the song at Saint George's College in Santiago, in the presence of one of Pérez Zujovic's sons.

Evenley

The mediaeval building was replaced in 1864-65 by the present Church of England parish church of Saint George, designed by the Gothic Revival architect Henry Woodyer.

Fordington, Dorset

The will of Alfred the Great is said to make an early reference to Saint George of England, in the context of the church of Fordington, Dorset.

George Medal

The reverse shows St. George on horseback slaying the dragon on the coast of England, with the legend "THE GEORGE MEDAL" around the top edge of the medal.

Great Bromley

The village church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and is dedicated to Saint George but is sometimes referred to as the "Cathedral of the Tendring Hundred."

Heggbach Abbey

This church was redesigned at the beginning of the 14th century and dedicated to Our Lady and Saint George.

Henry Gurney

On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

Hoddle Grid

It was planned to span a gently sloping valley between small hills (knolls) (Batman's Hill, Flagstaff Hill and Eastern Hill) and roughly parallel to the course of the Yarra River.

Ignaz Waibl

In 1683 he made the Angel Altar in the parish church of Saint George and Saint Nicholas in Oetz in the Tyrol.

Loew's Jersey Theatre

The clock featured a white faced clock that was illuminated from behind with a statue of Saint George and a statue of a dragon.

Mar Emmanuel Yosip

He became a deacon in 1981 and a priest in 1984 at Mar Gewargis, Assyrian Church in Chicago.

MCPA

In 1936 investigations began at ICIs Jealott's Hill research centre into the effects of synthetic hormones on plant growth looking specifically for a way to kill weeds without harming crops such as corn.

North–South All-American Game

The game, played in 2002 and 2003 in Saint George, Utah (on the campus of Dixie State College of Utah at Hansen Stadium), was held at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada and renamed the Las Vegas All-American Classic, which matched a team of players from Division I-A and I-AA schools located east of the Mississippi River (who play as the "East" team) against players from schools located west of Mississippi (who play as the "West" team).

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Pedro Roldán

Altarpiece of the Entombment of Christ, Saint George, Saint Roch, and the Virgin of Charity (Entierro de Cristo, San Jorge, San Roque y Virgen de la Caridad, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville.

Puck of Pook's Hill

The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself.

A poem about English trees but emphasising the symbolic nature of Oak, Ash and Thorn.

Richard Jupp

a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).

Ron King

Ron "Suki" King (born 1956) is a checkers player from Saint George, Barbados.

Saint George Parish, New Brunswick

Saint George Parish created in 1786: named for the English patron saint.

Saint George's College, Santiago

Machuca, A 2004 movie connected to events at the College

Its traditional rival schools are Colegio del Verbo Divino and Colegio San Ignacio, which were originally located near one another in the Pedro de Valdivia neighborhood of Providencia.

Sari Saltik

In various legends he is identified with Christian saints (Saint George, Elijah, Saint Nicholas, Saint Simeon, Saint Naum or Saint Spyridon).

Somers Isles Company

A ninth subdivision, now the eastern-most parish, was Saint George's, comprising Saint George's Island, Saint David's Island, part of the Main Island, and various smaller islands and islets around Castle Harbour (then known as Southampton Harbour) and Saint George's Harbour.

St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham

One shows parts of Saint George killing the Dragon, another is thought to have contained Saint Christopher, and another possibly is of The Three Living and the Three Dead.

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally or Chandanapally Valiyapalli is one of the biggest churches in South India, located at a village named Chandanapally, Pathanamthitta District in Kerala state of India.

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775

The foreground is littered with bodies from both sides of the conflict, and the background includes clusters of colonial and British troops carrying flags; Boston Harbor is also visible in the distance, although the sky is partially obscured by smoke (which rose from Charlestown, which had been torched by the British).

The Society of the Friends of St George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

Every friend member is also given a personalized written Membership Certificate which bears an illumination of the patron saint and dragon known as The George, and is signed by the Dean of Windsor; and a college heraldic badge which bears the heraldic shield of St George's Cross.

Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia

There is a record of Ulrich making a donation to the Stift Sankt Georgen monastery near Sankt Georgen am Längsee on 31 March 1199.

Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

Saint Donatian of Reims, patron saint of Bruges' collegiate church, stands to the left, with Saint George (van der Paele's name saint) dressed in the pomp of a medieval knight's armour, to the right.

Wiborada

He arranged for her to stay in a cell next to the church of St. Georgen near the monastery, where she remained for four years before relocating to a cell adjoining the church of St. Magnus.

Woolwich Common

It is bounded to the south side by the A207 Shooter's Hill Road, and to the east by Academy Road (part of the A205 South Circular road) that the former Royal Military Academy fronts.


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