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unusual facts about St. Helens


Oregon gubernatorial election, 1938

A third candidate, O. Henry Oleen, a state representative from St. Helens, earned about 7% of the vote.


47th Air Division

The May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington seriously affected division operations; aircraft were dispersed to various bases, while around-the-clock shifts removed the volcanic ash.

81st Heavy Brigade Combat Team

It responded to floods in December 1975 and November 1990, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, forest fires in 1994 and many other years, and the WTO Riots of 1999.

ATS-3

The satellite has served as a communications link for rescue operations, including the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Its imaging capability has served during disaster situations, from the Mexico earthquake to the Mount St. Helens eruption.

Chemnitz petrified forest

The tree-like plants were uprooted or snapped off by the blast of the eruption, much like the trees caught in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Council Crest Park

Although the observation tower erected in 1907 was dismantled in 1941, the city later built an observation area in the park from which it is possible to see Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range.

Dan Holdsworth

In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City and Park City, we see stark, uninterrupted terrains where meaning is made through what it is absent, as much as what is seen.

Dwight Crandell

Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell (1923 - April 6, 2009) was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century.

Helenite

Helenite was first discovered accidentally after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

Helenite, also known as Mount St. Helens obsidian, emerald obsidianite, and ruby obsidianite, is a synthetic gemstone made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helens.

Henry Van Asselt

They spent July 4, 1851, at Oregon City, then proceeded, by the Tualatin Plains, to St. Helens.

Jarrod McCracken

McCracken was playing his football in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast when he was spotted by Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Chief Executive Peter Moore who persuaded the young Centre to join The Bulldogs in 1991 and stayed with the club until 1995, although he also spent the 1992/93 English season with St. Helens.

John Brass

During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Brass played as a centre three-quarter back for Eastern Suburbs in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney.

John Gribbin

In February 1982 he and Plagemann published The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered, claiming that the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption proved their theory true despite a lack of planetary alignment.

Kent Invicta

The record attendance was 2,107 against St. Helens on 6 November 1983, by which time the club was bankrupt and the reins were taken over by Jim Thompson, the chairman of the soccer club.

Luzula parviflora

It can grow in highly disturbed habitat, as evidenced by its ability to survive volcanic eruption and to thrive in the destroyed ecosystem on the most barren slopes of Mount St. Helens.

Megatsunami

On May 18, 1980, the upper 460 meters (1,509 feet) of Mount St. Helens failed and detached in a massive landslide.

Rowe Findley

His article on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was voted by its readers as the most popular ever published.

Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet

Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and was Mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.

Stuart Wright

Along with James "Jim" Leytham, Stanley "Stan" Moorhouse, Peter Norburn, Keith Fielding, Martin Offiah, and Sam Tomkins, having scored four tries, Stuart Wright jointly holds the record for the most tries scored in an England match, scoring four tries against Wales at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on 28 May 1978.

Terry Drinkwater

He covered such notable events as the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia "Patty" Hearst and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Virginia Sand

Her journeys included trips to the Galapagos Islands, South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Mount St. Helens, Iguaca Falls, Turkey, Iceland, Ecuador, parts of Asia, and the Danube and Rhine Grand Circle in Europe.


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Brunswick, Swansea

The properties south of Page Lane fronting St. Helens Road are larger premises used as nursing homes, flats, professional practices and include a Masonic Hall, a Quaker Friends meeting house and a disused church.

Church of St Mary, Lowe House

It was given in 1793 by Winefred Eccleston née Lowe, the widow of John Gorsuch Eccleston, the owner of Eccleston Hall, in Eccleston, outside St Helens.

Duncan McKechnie

McKechnie was a Presbyterian and played an active part in the work of that church in St Helens.

Edmund Bartley-Denniss

Digby's father was Johnathan Denniss (1700–1736) (or Dennis) a factor of the South Sea Company, later of Kingston, Jamaica, born in the parish of St. Helens, Bishopsgate, London.

Hoverwork BHT130

As a civil passenger hovercraft it seats up to 130 passengers, hence the numerics in its name, the first welded aluminium hull (fabricated by Aluminium Ship Builders, Fishbourne, Isle of Wight) arrived at Hoverwork's St Helens works in August 2005.

Joseph Hayes

Joey Hayes (born 1976), rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s for Great Britain, St. Helens RLFC, Salford, and Oldham Roughyeds

Keiron Cunningham

After the sacking of Royce Simmons in 2012 he was appointed assistant head coach of St Helens, working alongside temporary head coach Mike Rush.

Langtree Park

St. Helens won the opening game by 42-24 and they moved in ready for the 2012 Super League season.

Liverpool to Wigan Line

Merseytravel (One of the two PTEs on the route) had previously stated their aspirations for the St Helens infill electrification; considering it a necessary addition to the (then-proposed) Liverpool to Manchester electrification, given the interworking of passenger services between the Chat Moss (Liverpool to Manchester) and St Helens (Liverpool to Wigan) lines imposed by the December 2008 timetable.

In December 2009, the then Transport Secretary Lord Adonis, announced that the line between Huyton and St Helens Line Junctions will also be electrified along with the previously committed Edge Hill to Huyton Junction infill on the Liverpool to Manchester line, as part of a £200 million rail electrification scheme.

Merseytravel

Electrification of Kirkby - Headbolt Lane, Bidston - Wrexham, Liverpool - Earlstown - Manchester, Huyton - St. Helens - Wigan sections

Metropolitan Borough of St Helens

Following the United Kingdom local elections, 2011, in which one third of the seats in St Helens Council were up for election, Labour increased their majority by 7, as a result of the collapse of the Liberal Democrat vote, with them losing all but one of the seats they were defending while the Conservatives also lost one seat to Labour.

Nan Wood Honeyman

She moved with her parents three years later to Portland, Oregon, where she graduated from St. Helens Hall (later incorporated in the Oregon Episcopal School) in 1898.

Newlove

Paul Newlove, rugby league Centre of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire, Featherstone Rovers, Bradford Northern, St Helens & Catleford Tigers.

Parr, St Helens

Later extensions were made at the Mersey end, firstly to Fiddlers Ferry, then to Widnes, and at the northern end, where it was extended into what became the centre of St Helens

Richard Seddon

After a short time working on his grandfather's farm at Barrow Nook Hall, Seddon was an apprentice at Daglish's Foundry in St Helens.

Scott Donald

He was the 3rd top try scoring winger in the league in 2006, with only St Helens' Ade Gardner and Catalans' Justin Murphy scoring more tries than he did.

Sport in Leeds

Leeds Rhinos are the best supported Rugby League club in the United Kingdom, their Headingley ground holds up to 20,500 spectators and is regularly filled, with sell out's particularly common, at games against Bradford Bulls, St. Helens and Wigan Warriors.

Sutton Mill Dam

The Sutton Mill Dam is one of the most popular angling locations in St Helens containing roach, bream, gudgeon and carp and the East Sutton Angling Club hosts popular summer contests for young anglers.