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2 unusual facts about Snell's Bridge


Snell's Bridge

American troops lead by William H. Winder retreated across Snell's bridge on August 26, 1814.

Snell's Bridge is an historic bridge over the Patuxent River near Fulton, Maryland.


Albert Snell

Albert Snell later became an acclaimed photographer and was honoured by the Royal Photographic Society.

American Football League Rookies of the Year

Selected in the third round in the NFL draft, Matt Snell was picked in the first round as the first player drafted by the AFL's New York franchise after new owner Sonny Werblin changed the team's name from the Titans of New York.

Belinda Snell

In a January 2005 game against the Perth Lynx that her team won 109–54, Snell scored 54 points and broke a WNBL single game scoring record set by Julie Nykiel in 1982 where Nykiel scored 53 points.

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell

Brightwell was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, on 27 February 1811, the eldest child of Thomas Brightwell (Ipswich 1787 – Norwich 1868), and his first wife, Mary Snell (1788 – 1815), daughter of William Wilkin Wilkin, of Costessey, near Norwich, and Cecilia Lucy (Jacomb), a lineal descendant of Thomas Jacomb.

Conway's Bridge

Conway's Bridge is an ornamental rustic arched stone structure close to the River Thames on the estate of Park Place, Berkshire, England.

Cyrus Bryant

Cyrus was born in Cummington, Massachusetts in a family of Peter Bryant (1767–1820), a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell.

Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion

The celebrated English author George Borrow wrote Wild Wales (1854), which includes a lively, humorous account of his visit to Pontarfynach.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in Delaware

The Christina River at Cooch's Bridge crested at 2.38 feet (0.725 m) above flood stage, and the Red Clay Creek at Wooddale crested at roughly 4 inches (100 mm) above flood stage.

Gap year

In 1978, the Prince of Wales and Colonel John Blashford-Snell began what is now known as Raleigh International by launching Operation Drake, an expedition voyage around the world following Sir Francis Drake's route.

George Davis Snell

Snell was educated in the Brookline, Massachusetts schools and then enrolled at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he continued his passion for mathematics and science, focusing on genetics.

Golden's Bridge, New York

At one time, Golden's Bridge was home to Wildoak Kennels, considered America's leading breeder of Wire Fox Terriers.

Gordon Snell

Snell was working as a freelance producer for the BBC when he met Maeve Binchy in London; they married in 1977 and ultimately moved to her hometown, Dalkey, Ireland (just outside Dublin).

Governor's Bridge, Toronto

The west part of the neighbourhood was quickly built up during the Roaring Twenties boom period, and most of the houses date from this era.

Harold Snell

Snell, a scrum-half, was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and claimed a total of 3 international rugby caps for Australia.

Hold On, I'm Comin'

In August, 2007 soul singer Guy Sebastian recorded a tribute version of Hold On, I'm Comin at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee for his album of soul classics The Memphis Album with many of the original Stax music band members including Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Lester Snell, and Steve Potts.

Hugh Farmer

He died on 5 February 1787, and was buried in the parish churchyard at Walthamstow, in the same grave with his friend Snell.

I've Been Loving You Too Long

"I've Been Loving You Too Long" is a stand-out track and was recorded to analogue tape live on the studio floor at Ardent Studios with many of the original Stax music band members, including Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, Lester Snell, Steve Potts (most of Booker T. & the MG's, though without Booker T himself) backing the vocals of Sebastian.

Imnaha River

Below the historic forest ranger station, Adams, Schleur, Spring, Snell, Loyd, Keeler, Jody, Thorn, Dunlap, Rippleton, Dead Horse, High Camp, and Deer creeks enter from the right before Sheep Creek enters from the left near Imnaha at RM 19.5 (RK 31.4).

Jacob Eugene Duryée

At the Battle of Antietam, Duryée stalwartly led his regiment from the front as the men tried to take the infamous Burnside's Bridge over Antietam Creek in the face of withering fire from Georgia regiments on the hills on the opposite bank.

Jardine Matheson

The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name "Ewo" whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.

Joe's Bridge

This silenced the guns, and the road was cleared of wreckage by armoured bulldozers, while infantry mopped up, thus setting a pattern for the rest of the advance towards Valkenswaard and Eindhoven.

Once the bridge was secure, men of the 615th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, set about repairing it, while the Irish Guards secured a bridgehead along the N69 main road towards Valkenswaard.

Kirkby Lonsdale

In common with many bridges of the same name, legend holds that the Devil appeared to an old woman, promising to build a bridge in exchange for the first soul to cross over it.

Liberian National Museum

In 1972, the museum was relocated to a new building on Providence Island but four years later this building was removed to facilitate the construction of the People's Bridge over the Mesurado River.

Loserville

It was directed by Steven Dexter, designed by Francis O'Connor, choreographed by Nick Winston, costumes by O'Connor & Stephen Snell, sound by Simon Baker and lighting by Howard Harrison.

Mama Bhagne

When Rama decided to attack Ravana he found it necessary to throw a bridge across the straits for the conveyance of his troops, he drove in his aerial chariot to the Himalayas, picked up what stones he needed and drove back.

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

Pero's Bridge

The bridge is named after Pero, also known as Pero Jones, who lived from around 1753 to 1798, arriving in Bristol probably from the Caribbean Island of Nevis in 1783, as the slave of the merchant John Pinney (1740–1818) at 5 Great George Street.

Ram Karmabhoomi

Ram Karmabhoomi is the area consisting of Rameshwaram, Dhanushkodi, Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama's Bridge, where the Hindu deity Rama is believed to have conducted his fight against Ravana to rescue Sita.

Robber's Bridge

R.D. Blackmore drew on the history and legends of this area to create his world-famous novel Lorna Doone.

Rudolph Snellius

His son Willebrord Snellius was the astronomer and mathematician who gave his name to Snell's law.

S bridge

The next bridge, four and a half miles east from New Concord on US Route 40, is found at the intersection of US 40 and Peter's Creek Road.

The fourth bridge is located between Old Washington, Ohio and Middlebourne, Ohio along Blend Road, at the intersection of Bridgewater Road, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Several of these bridges are found in and around the New Concord, Ohio area.

Sheffield Tramway

Along with lines opening to Abbeydale, Walkley and Hunter's Bar, the missing link in the centre of the sprawling network between Moorhead and Lady's Bridge was finally laid.

Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1st Baronet

Warner gave an account towards the end of his life to John Pell of how with Hariot they had carried out experiments on Snell's law at Aylesbury's house.

Snellius

Willebrord Snellius (1580–1626), a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, most famous for the law of refraction now known as Snell's law

St. James's Bridge

Four bronze relief plaques depicting scenes from The Water Man, a Ljubljana-related Romantic ballad of the poet France Prešeren, were intended to be put on the fence of the bridge.

Steve Snell

Snell made few first-team appearances in 2006 but in 2007 played four first-class matches because of injury to regular keeper Stephen Adshead.

Stuart Snell

Their son Adrian Snell is a song writer and another son, Christopher Snell, died on 14 June 2008 of cancer.

Teufelsbrücke

It is named for an old local legend regarding its construction by the Devil, one of many old European Devil's Bridges with similar creation myths.

The Snell Show

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival, The Snell Show went on to play many festivals across the nation, including the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Maryland Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

Tom Whiteside

The rest of Book II is occupied with showing that the cubic curves arise naturally in the study of optics from the Snell-Descartes Law.

Warwick Furnace Farms

Several other sites listed by the National Register of Historic Places are within a couple of miles of the site, including Hockley Mill Farm, to the east on Warwick Furnace Road, Warrenpoint to the north, Warwick Mills to the west, and Brower's Bridge upstream (west) on the South Branch of French Creek.

William Kittredge

Oscar was to be picked up by Oregon Governor Earl Snell for a hunting trip in October 1947 when the plane Snell and Oregon Secretary of State Robert Farrell, among others, crashed en route, killing all four on board.


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