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3 unusual facts about St. Marks


Arbuthnot and Ambrister incident

Arbuthnot and Armbrister were tried and executed in St. Marks, Florida.

St. Marks, Florida

Originally known as San Marcos de Apalache, this town was founded by the Spanish in the 17th century in what was then Spanish Florida.

In the best-known incident, Andrew Jackson, in his cavalier incursion into Spanish Florida in 1818, executed British nationals Robert Christie Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot at the old fort.


CSS Spray

The CSS Spray was a steam-powered, side-paddle wheel tugboat built in New Albany, Indiana originally fitted as a mercantile ship before becoming a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and used in the St. Marks, Newport, Florida area.

Frederick Marks

Frederick W. Marks (born 1940), American historian and Catholic apologist

John D. Marks

Marks worked for five years with the State Department, first in Vietnam and then as an analyst and staff assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan M. Marks (born 1955), biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Marc L. Marks

In the 1976 United States House of Representatives Elections, Marks defeated the Pennsylvania six-term Democratic incumbent Joseph Vigorito with an 11% margin, one of eight Democrats unseated nationwide.

Michael E. Marks

Named the Poet Laureate of the Society of the 9th Infantry Division (United States) (SONID), Marks' work hangs in the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and newspapers around the world, to include Stars and Stripes (newspaper) and The Washington Times.

Mission San Luis de Apalachee

In 1688, San Marcos de Apalache at St. Marks was also built from lumber cut at San Luis, but it was left to rot when the skilled laborers were diverted to construct a fort in Apalachicola country in 1689.

Port St. Joe, Florida

Port St. Joe is traversed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), a federally maintained canal with a channel of 12 feet (3.6 m) deep by 125 feet (38 m) wide, which provides access from St. Marks, Florida, to Brownsville, Texas.

Powered exoskeleton

Appearances include Dominant Species by Michael Marks; the Fallout series of video games powered armor is portrayed as a bulking armor-plated mechanism, offering nearly complete protection against ballistic weapons and advanced resistance to energetic projectiles; is an example of this approach, as well as the Marvel comics franchise Iron Man.

Ronald A. Marks

During that time he occupied a number of increasingly senior positions including two years (1995-96) as Intelligence Counsel to U.S. Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and U.S. Senator Trent Lott.

Samuel Moore House

Built in 1912 by a well-known Madison carpenter, contractor and architect, Charles E. Marks, the Moore House exemplifies his influence to the American Craftsman style and also, Prairie School design that was emerging in Madison during that time period.

Serif

Father Edward Catich, The Origin of the Serif: Brush writing and Roman letters, 1991, Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Vancouver, BC, Canada

The Birds of St. Marks

One interpretation of the song is that Nico is the queen, trapped within the manipulations of her "manager", Andy Warhol, and unable to be free to follow her own muse.

Walter E. Marks

In 1954, and again in 1960, he was named by the Big Ten and the United States Department of Defense as a member of an instructional staff presenting football officiating clinics for United States military personnel in Germany.


see also

St Mark's Clocktower

The wings are sometimes attributed to Pietro Lombardi, who was later to rebuild the Procuratie on the same side of the Piazza, but the wings are of no great distinction and more probably designed by Gonella who was then the proto (buildings manager) of St Marks.

St. Mark's Church, Dublin

Perhaps the most celebrated person associated with St. Marks is Oscar Wilde, who was baptised in the church.

Walter Harper

At the age of 16, Harper started going to Tortella School, an Episcopal boarding school associated with St. Marks Mission in Nenana, Alaska.