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74 unusual facts about Sea


American Impressionism

American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.

Andrew Wolff

Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, Wolff moved at a young age to Tunstall Green, Suffolk.

Bexhill-on-Sea

John Webb, the London building contractor who constructed the Eastern Esplanade also developed the land which he had received in part payment and laid out Western Road and built the Devonshire Hotel.

The constituency was created in 1983 and was served by Charles Wardle until the 2001 election, when Wardle left the Conservative party.

Peter Katin, concert pianist, recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist, has made Bexhill his home.

Black Deep

The Black Deep begins in open sea east of Foulness Point and south of Clacton-on-Sea and is bounded by two substantial sandbanks, the Sunk Sands to the north-west and the Long Sands spread out to the south and east (which have some wind turbines).

Blackburn First Monoplane

When complete, it was transported to the beach between Saltburn and Marske for testing from April 1909.

Brenton-on-Sea

Named after Sir Jahleel Brenton, who declared Knysna a harbour in 1818, the area is home to the endangered Brenton Blue butterfly.

British Rail Class 170

The Class 170 were refurbished in 2008 with the three-carriage units repainted at Marcroft Engineering, Stoke on Trent, the two-carriage units at EWS' Toton depot and the interiors done by Transys Projects, Clacton-on-Sea including the fitting of first class seating to the Class 170/5s and 170/6s.

British Rail Class 201

However, one complete unit, no. 1001, was preserved by Hastings Diesels Ltd., which is based at St Leonards-on-Sea.

Caister High School

Caister High School is in the small seaside village of Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, United Kingdom.

Centrino

Intel used "Carmel" as the codename for the first-generation Centrino platform, introduced in March 2003.

Christ Church, St Leonards-on-Sea

St Mary Magdalene's Church, which had opened nearby in 1858, was declared redundant by the Diocese of Chichester in 1980 and was sold to the Greek Orthodox community.

Daws Heath

Daws Heath extends from the north side of Hadleigh towards the A127 London-Southend arterial road, and from where it adjoins Thundersley proper at the west end of Daws Heath Road eastwards to Belfairs Park, Leigh-on-Sea in Southend Borough.

Edward Thomas Connold

Edward Thomas Connold (11 June 1862 Hastings - January 1910 St Leonards-on-Sea), was an English naturalist and author with a particular interest in oak galls.

Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge

He was a great supporter of the project for an East to West railway from Sutton-on-Sea to Liverpool, of which only the eastern portion was completed He also supported the Sheffield Canal, and in 1889 lectured in the town on the possibility of bringing large vessels up the canal into Sheffield.

Frederick Marrable

In this period he designed St Mary Magdalene's Church in St Leonards-on-Sea (1852).

Gardner Read

Gardner Read (January 2, 1913 in Evanston, Illinois – November 10, 2005 in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts) was an American composer and musical scholar.

Geography of Pakistan

Beyond the western terminus of the tribunal's award, the final stretch of Pakistan's border with India is about 80 kilometers long, running east and southeast of Sindh to an inlet of the Arabian Sea.

George Sterling

Sterling became a significant figure in Bohemian literary circles in northern California in the first quarter of the 20th century, and in the development of the artists' colony in Carmel.

Gerald S. Graham

Gerald Sandford Graham (born 27 April 1903 in Sudbury, Ontario - died 5 July 1988 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex) was Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London from 1949 until his retirement in 1970.

After this appointment, Graham returned to his permanent home in England at St Leonards-on-Sea, where he died at the age of 85 in 1988.

Go Whippet

These have been running in various forms since 1957, and currently serve Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea.

Great Holland

Great Holland is a village in Essex, located to the north-east of Holland-on-Sea, and west of Frinton-on-sea.

Hans Feibusch

He worked in a number of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Chichester, including the Pilgrim's progress at St Elisabeth's Eastbourne, Christ in Majesty at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea, the Prodigal Son in All Saints, Iden, and St John Baptising Christ in the baptistery at Chichester Cathedral.

Harlequin Puppet Theatre

After Colwyn Bay Council said he could no longer use the bandstand, a fellow puppet enthusiast named Millicent Ford who lived on the seafront at Rhos-on-Sea offered him a portion of her land on which to build a permanent puppet theatre.

Hastings School of Art

The art department was moved to the main college campus in Archery Road, St Leonards-on-Sea in 1982.

Hercules Grytpype-Thynne

For instance in "The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea" he is a police inspector; in "The Whistling Spy Enigma" he is the secret Government agent who sends Neddie Seagoon to Hungary to booby-trap the boots of the national football team; and in "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI" he is Prime Minister Neddie's butler and confidante, but also an undercover Soviet agent plotting with Moriarty to sell the guided NAAFI secrets to the Russians.

Hired armed cutter Courier

On 12 May, while off Winterton on the coast of Norfolk, Courier engaged a French 16-gun privateer.

Ivan Blatný

From 1984 until shortly before his death, he lived in a retirement home in Clacton-on-Sea.

Kai Althoff

He has also shown work in group exhibitions including the 2004 Venice Biennale, Drawing Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Chère Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear Painter at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, A Perilous Space at Magnani in London and Kaiki at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea.

Along with Yair Oelbaum, he conceived the dramatic play There we will be buried (2010), which debuted in 2011 at the Dixon Studio in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, England.

Kel Carruthers

In 1996, he took a job with the Sea-Doo watercraft factory racing team, helping them win several national and world titles.

Littlestone-on-Sea

Littlestone-on-Sea is a small coastal village close to New Romney.

Llandrillo

Rhos-on-Sea (or Llandrillo-yn-Rhos), a suburb of Colwyn Bay in Conwy

Low Newton

Low Newton-by-the-Sea, a village located in the district of Alnwick in Northumberland, England

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts

It was also featured in a season of the TV series This Old House, and was featured in a "Main Streets and Back Roads" episode of Chronicle.

Marsk

Marske-by-the-Sea, a village in Redcar and Cleveland in north-east England.

Marske

Marske-by-the-Sea, a small town in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire

Mary Bartelme

After she retired, Judge Bartelme moved to the west coast, residing in Carmel, California, where she lived with a niece.

Michel Richard

Later, he opened a branch of Citronelle at Carmel Valley Ranch in Carmel, California.

Middleton-on-Sea

200 bedrooms, all with central heating and half with private baths, besides a garage for 100 cars; visitors without cars could be met at Barnham station.

Game Tester Matthew Hedgecock, best known for his work with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, although Hedgecock spent most of his time in Felpham, he sometimes visited Middleton-on-Sea.

Morgraig Castle

They also argue that only the English could have obtained the stone because the site of the quarry near Ogmore-by-Sea would have been defended by the de Clare family, at nearby Ogmore Castle, who opposed the Lord of Senghennydd.

Myasishchev M-4

Though it could still not bomb Washington, D.C., the 3M had a sufficient range to fulfill the need for a long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft.

No. 287 Squadron RAF

After spending a large period of time in Croydon, No. 287 Squadron moved to RAF North Weald in 1944, RAF Bradwell Bay in 1945 and RAF West Malling in September 1945.

No. 611 Squadron RAF

Long-range escort missions began to be flown from RAF Bradwell Bay, Essex, from late August 1944, until No. 611 moved to RAF Skeabrae in Orkney on 3 October.

Our Lady of Fatima University

This location houses the College of Hospitality and Institutional Management, College of Maritime and College of Business Administration among others.

Paddle to the Sea

Paddle to the Sea (French: Vogue-à-la-mer) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada short live-action film directed, shot and edited by Bill Mason, based on the 1941 children's book Paddle-to-the-Sea by American author and illustrator Holling C. Holling.

Raymond Pitman

Shortly after Pitman's retirement at the age of 65, he was diagnosed with cancer and subsequently died at Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire on 5 June 1998.

Rhos

Rhos-on-Sea (or Llandrillo-yn-Rhos), a village on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay, north Wales

Richard A Neubauer

Neubauer obtained a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in the early 1970s, and established and directed the Ocean Hyperbaric Neurologic Center in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.

Saint Louis River

Holling Clancy Holling, in his 1941 book Paddle-to-the-Sea, illustrated the polluted state of the Saint Louis River.

Saltburn

Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a seaside resort town in North Yorkshire, England

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

In the mid-18th century, authors Laurence Sterne and John Hall-Stevenson enjoyed racing chariots on the sands at Saltburn.

David Coverdale, lead vocalist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, grew up in the Red Lodge on Marine Parade, now known as Red Gables; a citizen and resident of the United States in recent years.

Sea Drift

Sea-Drift, a section of Walt Whitman's poem Leaves of Grass

Sea-Doo GTX

Part of their Sea-Doo line of watercraft, the Sea-Doo GTX has been produced since 1994.

Sea-Land Service

Alex J. Mandl, former Chairman and CEO (Dec 1989 – Jul 1991) Later with In-Q-Tel, Teligent, Gemplus International and Gemalto.

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes

Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) is a computerized model developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the National Weather Service (NWS), to estimate storm surge depths resulting from historical, hypothetical, or predicted hurricanes.

Sea*a

The four girls were picked by Anisong Diva May'n's manager from Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe at the annual Anime Festival Asia (AFA) held in Singapore.

29 May 2012 Trade Event (Animax Asia with Sony Entertainment Television Asia)at Hilton Kuala Lumpur Hotel Malaysia

Sir John Evelyn, 4th Baronet

John never married and on his death aged 75 at Bexhill-on-Sea on 14 May 1833, he was succeeded by his only surviving younger brother, Hugh.

St Andrew's Church, Burnham-on-Sea

Between 1305 and 1314 the original church was either replaced or enhanced; the parts of that church that still stand are the south transept, the south door arch, the holy water stoop and the consecration cross.

St John the Evangelist's Church, St Leonards-on-Sea

The rich internal fittings include a complete scheme of stained glass by Goodhart-Rendel's favoured designer Joseph Ledger and a 16th-century painting by Ortolano Ferrarese.

St Leonards-on-Sea

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.

James Burton, a successful London architect who had developed large areas of Bloomsbury and the houses around Regent's Park, purchased land from the Eversfield estate in order to put into being his concept of a seaside resort.

St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

The original church with that dedication was the town's first permanent Roman Catholic place of worship; founded in 1875, it was paid for by Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk, a member of the most important Dukedom in England.

The funds to build the church came from Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk.

St Thomas' Church, St Anne's-on-the-Sea

St Thomas' is constructed of red Accrington brick in English garden wall bond, with stonework around the windows in cream Yorkshire stone, and arches, arcades and pillars of red sandstone; the roofs are of red tile.

The Goon Show running jokes

In "The Dreaded Batter Pudding-Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea)", Seagoon congratulates Henry Crun for striking down Minnie Bannister.

Trinity Broads

Situated to the north west of Caister-on-Sea, the Trinity Broads are on a tributary of the River Bure, but there is no navigable link to the main river system, and they are therefore virtually undisturbed.

Walmington-on-Sea

At some points the real location Dymchurch is mentioned as being close to Walmington-on-Sea.

In reality, many outdoor TV scenes were filmed at Thetford, an inland town in Norfolk, thus giving no clue as to the scriptwriters' preferences.


4 Days in May

As it turned out in a private conversation, he wrote about the "brotherhood of the weapon" on the island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea from mega-geopolitical considerations: the need to tolerate the Germans, to create the axis Berlin-Moscow-Pekin.

Accettura

Accettura is 770 metres above sea level and is bordered to the north with the comunes of Campomaggiore and Calciano, to the east with Oliveto Lucano and San Mauro Forte, to the south with Stigliano and Cirigliano, and to the west with Pietrapertosa (PZ).

Akilam two

After the destruction of the asuras of the previous Kretha Yukam, Nathan stayed in the sea-shore of Thiruchendur as Kantha.

Alfoxton House

During World War II it housed evacuees from Wellington House School Westgate on Sea Kent.

Amager Vest

The western part of Amager island is mainly an enlargement from shallow parts of the Øresund sea.

Big port Saint Petersburg

-Petersburg includes moorings of sea trading, wood, fish and river ports, the oil terminal, shipbuilding, ship-repair and other factories, sea passenger station, river passenger port, and also moorings of Kronstadt, Lomonosov, Gorskaya, Bronka.

Blazing Combat

Some dealt with historical figures, such as American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold and his pre-traitorous victory at the Battle of Saratoga (issue #2, Jan. 1966), while "Foragers" (issue #3, April 1966) focused on a fictitious soldier in General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea during the American Civil War.

Brooks End

The hamlet is located on the area once under the sea at the Wantsum Channel, and is probably named after one of the numerous brooks covering the area.

Cape Kolka

There is a line of picturesque old Livonian settlements along the Baltic Sea shore, including Vaide, Saunags, Pitrags, Košrags and Sīkrags.

Carrier Air Wing Six

A year later, the air wing participated in Ocean Venture ’88 in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, and then provided air support for Operation Earnest Will.

Chiswell Islands

Starfish, barnacles and other sea life that thrive in a rocky habitat are abundant.

Chyetverikov SPL

After successful trials by the Royal Navy, with submarine borne aircraft, using the Parnall Peto and the M-class submarines, the V-MF (Voenno-morskoj flot - Naval Fleet") wanted to deploy aircraft from cruiser submarines for open sea reconnaissance.

Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta

The marsh's large lagoon is connected to the Caribbean Sea via a narrow strait (the La Barra channel) located between the town of Pueblo Viejo and the city of Ciénaga.

Cintra Bay

Many species of migratory birds and oceanic birds such as Western Palearctic waders inhabit for wintering on West Sahara´s coastline and more notably in the Cintra Bay region and the Banc d'Arguin National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mauritania where nearly 110species of sea birds are confirmed.

Claddaghduff

Claddaghduff is known for its deep sea angling, lake fishing, boat trips to Inishturk and Inishbofin, pony trekking, pitch & putt, dive sites, beaches and historical tours.

Corvo Island

The highest point on the island, the Morro dos Homens, crowns the southern rim of the Caldeirão at 718 meters above sea level.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

Finchley Children's Music Group

In 2008/2009 FCMG celebrated its 50th Anniversary and this celebration was marked by further commissions: Two song cycles for children’s choir from composers John Pickard (Songs of Rain and Sea with text by Sigrún Davídsdóttir) and James Weeks (Hototogisu, a setting of 17 Haiku written by the great Japanese post Basho).

Fred Pontin

He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946.

Ghods Mohajer

The UAV entered Israeli airspace at more than 100 knots and an altitude of about 1,000 feet, flew briefly over the seaside city of Nahariya, and fell into the sea.

Grand Isle, Louisiana

Grand Isle's main street is the sea-side start of Louisiana Highway 1, that stretches 436.2 miles away to the north-west corner of the state ending near Shreveport, Louisiana.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

There have also been reports of mummified fledglings and adults found in crevices in the Atacama Desert 50 km from the sea, and even reports of one fledgling being seen 150 km from the sea, and one unproven report of a bird flying into a nest in the town of Caraz in Peru, 100 km from the sea.

Humber-class monitor

Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.

Jim Berkman

The Sea Gulls compiled an NCAA record 105-game conference winning streak from the start of the 1995 season through the 2009 NCAA tournament.

John Petherick

In 1845 he entered the service of Mehemet Ali, and was employed in examining Upper Egypt, Nubia, the Red Sea coast and Kordofan in an unsuccessful search for coal.

Kaiwharawhara

It is located north of the centre of the city on the western shore of Wellington Harbour, where the Kaiwharawhara Stream reaches the sea from its headwaters in Karori.

Kayser's Beach

On 13 March 1967, the South African Airways Flight 406 crashed into the sea at Kayser's Beach, resulting in the loss of 25 lives.

Lempa

Lempa, Cyprus, village near Paphos District capital on island's southwestern coast; sometimes written as Lemba; located on top of escarpment overlooking Mediterranean Sea in one of Cyprus' most fertile as well as ancient regions; settled in Chalcolithic Period (c. 3800–2500 BC); since 1976 has been site of ongoing archaeological excavations

Llanganates National Park

The area is 20 miles from the town of Baños but the trek takes around eight hours through swampy and mountainous jungle The area of discovery is at an altitude of 8,500ft above sea level and in cloud forest.

Mercury-Atlas 1

NASA's Owen Maynard, who was involved in Mercury systems engineering, led the recovery of the MA-1 capsule from the sea-floor (in which he performed a 30-foot free-dive to find one particular missing component of the capsule).

Moisant Aviation School

An instructor at the school, Albert Jewell disappeared on 13 October 1913 on flight from the Hempstead airfield to Oakwood, Staten Island, NY to take part in an air race; he is assumed to have come down at sea off the south shore of Long Island.

Nassarius recidivus

This species is distributed in the Western Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira.

National Day Parade, 2009

Since the parade is held by the bay, waterways in the bay was out of bounds to the usual sea craft and bumboats ferrying tourists along Singapore River.

Nicole Duplaix

She discovered her passion for otters while volunteering at the Bronx Zoo, where the zoo's curator introduced her to these endangered sea and river mammals.

Outer Silver Pit

When the sea level was lower (such as in the Ice Age) it was a lake in Doggerland, and sea-bed-penetrating sonar bathymetry has found its shorelines and courses and estuaries of rivers that ran into it from the high land of the Dogger Bank; it overflowed into a river at its west end.

Pfaffenhofen an der Roth

1928 - Hermann Köhl, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and James Fitzmaurice crossed the Atlantic Sea from east to west with a plane.

San Marco Marine Brigade

Air support for the Brigade employs SH3D Sikorsky Sea King and Agusta-Bell AB 212, grouped in the "Reparto Eliassalto", formerly Amphibious Fight Team of the 4th Helicopters Group, located in Station Aircraft Grottaglie.

Sea Princess Azuri

Sea Princess Azuri is an original English manga distributed by Tokyopop and created by Erica Reis (now married and publishing under the name Erica Leigh Currey).

Teremba Bay

The La Foa River enters the sea through a swampy area at Teremba Bay from the northeast.

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Rock Pool

The novel is set in "Trou-sur-mer" (Hole on the Sea), which is said to based on Cagnes-sur-Mer between Cannes and Nice.

Thousand Buddha Mountain

According to a legend related in the Youyang Zazu (Youyang Miscellanies) by the Tang Dynasty writer Duan Chengshi (800-863), the Thousand Buddha Mountain was originally located by the sea and the sea god had locked it in place there by a large lock in order to prevent the god in charge of the mountains from moving it around.

Trans-Anatolian Pipeline

Samsun–Ceyhan pipeline, a planned oil pipeline from Black Sea to Mediterranean Sea

Turritella communis

Fossil and subfossil shells of Turritella communis have been found in interglacial strata in the North Sea, from the Late Pliocene to the Quaternary Period.

Water supply and sanitation in Gibraltar

A 17th-century Spanish writer, Alonso Hernández del Portillo, asserts that "the city contained many tides and fountains of very sweet and healthy water" and that "fountains of fresh water could be seen spouting out of the sea near the foot of the Rock", possibly referring to a spring at a fault called the Orillon (at the site of the later Orillon Batteries) in the north-west face of the Rock.

Yoldia Sea

The Littorina Sea – with the rise in sea level and the submergence of the Øresund strait, the Baltic again communicated with the North Sea beginning ~ 7,800 ΒP to present.