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3 unusual facts about Spion Kop


Spion Kop

Battle of Spion Kop, a battle fought during the Second Boer War in 1900 on Spion Kop

--*Spion Copp, a mountain in southeastern Grant County, Oregon, near the town of Seneca -->

In the short story "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good" in the collection My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, "Spion Kop" is used as a metaphor (in reference to the battle) for a noisy argument.



see also

Arcusaurus

Arcusaurus is known from two fragmentary skeletons collected in March 2006 at the Spion Kop Heelbo site from the upper Elliot Formation in Senekal in Free State.