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unusual facts about St. Paul's Hospital, Hong Kong


Bill Tung

On February 16, 2006, Tung was admitted to St. Paul's Hospital on Hong Kong Island due to physical discomfort.


Argyle Street Camp

Argyle Street Camp was a Japanese World War II Prisoner-of-war camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong which primarily held officer prisoners.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Coat of arms of Germany

During the 1848 revolution, a new Reich coat of arms was adopted by the National Assembly that convened in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt.

Crown Records

# Hong Kong based Crown Records 娛樂唱片, starting in the early 1960s, produces and issues records of Cantonese opera and Cantopop mainly, Mandopop and Hong Kong English pop in few.

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Daniel Cleary

Later that day, Cleary brought the Cup to the Janeway Children's Hospital.

Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe is based in the St. Paul suburb of Shoreview, Minnesota and has 33 facilities in the U.S. and 3 locations in Canada to conduct its printing and fulfillment, call center, and administrative functions.

Edward Rooker

Among Rooker's early works are a view on the Thames from Somerset House (1750), and a view of Vauxhall Gardens (1751), both after Canaletto; a view of the Parthenon for Dalton's 'Views of Sicily and Greece' (1751), and a section of St. Paul's Cathedral, decorated according to the

F. Flaxington Harker

Beginning in 1914, Harker served as Organist and Choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.

Fare avoidance

In the MTR system of Hong Kong, Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Station of East Rail Line serve as checkpoints for rail passengers between Hong Kong and mainland China and vice-versa.

Heilind Electronics

The company further expanded internationally in 2012, first purchasing distributor Kotek Eletro Eletronica Ltda, based in São Paulo City, São Paulo, Brazil, and then later that same year opening offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Suzhou and Dongguan, China.

Henry Stallard

As Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, he pioneered cobalt plaque radiotherapy for the treatment of ocular tumours, particularly in children.

HKO

Hong Kong Observatory, the official weather forecast authority and meteorological agency of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong-style milk tea

This nickname is used in Hong Kong but less so in mainland China and overseas communities.

Internet in Romania

According to a top made by Bloomberg in 2013, Romania is ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe in terms of internet connection speed, being surpassed by Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, while the United States is only the 14th.

John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute

Sir Horace David Cholwell St. Paul, 1st Baronet of St. Paul

John Maunsell

Maunsell acquired additional benefices including: "the Provost of Beverly" in 1247, "the living of Howden," "Chancellorship of St. Paul's, London," "the living of Bawburgh," "Prebend of South Malling," "Living of Haughley," "Prebend of Tottenhall," "Prebend of Chinchester," "Dean of Wimborn," "Rector of Wigan," "Papal Chaplain," as well as "Chaplain of the King."

John Vicars

John Vicars (1582, London-12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War.

Lantau Trail

The Yi O village area has protected wetland area and is one of the few habitats of Hong Kong's endemic and rare Romer's tree frog.

Lewin's Mead

The 13th century St Bartholomew's Hospital which became Bristol Grammar School in the 16th century is situated at the bottom of Christmas Steps.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

The configuration for the two stations is similar to that of Mong Kok and Prince Edward stations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Mark Field

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

Matthew Garber

Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London from September 1968 until July 1972.

Michael W. Vannier

On July 19, 1983, M. Vannier (Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis) and his co-workers J. Marsh (Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Deformities Institute, St. Louis Children's Hospital) and J. Warren (McDonnell Aircraft Company) published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of single CT slices of the human head.

Milkis

Milkis launched in 1989 with a huge marketing campaign, notably with the appearance of Hong Kong movie star Chow Yun-fat in its TV commercials.

Nicholson Street, Melbourne

Just to the north lie the Royal Exhibition Building and the Melbourne Museum, both in Carlton Gardens, and St Vincent's Hospital.

Norris Division

As part of his shtick, ESPN's Chris Berman often refers to the National Football League's NFC North division (previously the NFC Central division) as the Norris Division or "NFC Norris" since the two divisions included teams from three of the same cities: Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis–St. Paul.

Port of Huizhou

The Port of Huizhou is a natural coastal port located on Huizhou, Guandong, People's Republic of China, immediately east of Shenzhen and Hong Kong It opens into the Daya Bay.

Robert Ribeiro

Ribeiro quickly rose through the ranks, and was appointed Judge of the High Court in 1999, promoted to the Court of Appeal (High Court) as a Justice of Appeal in 2000, and a Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal the same year.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malta

There are two cathedrals in the diocese: The Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Paul's, in Mdina, and St. John's Co-Cathedral, located in Valletta.

Sara and Dara dolls

100,000 of the dolls were made in the first round of production by a manufacturer in Hong Kong.

Sarah Solovay

"Gone" was also featured in Children's Hospital in addition to being featured on the NBC TV Show "Outlaw" in the Fall, 2010.

SARS coronavirus

Samples of the virus are being held in laboratories in New York, San Francisco, Manila, Hong Kong, and Toronto.

Sephardi Hebrew

Kahle, Paul, Masoreten des Ostens: Die Altesten Punktierten Handschriften des Alten Testaments und der Targume: 1913, repr.

SEPTA Route 15

After entering Francisville, Route 15 loops partially around the south side of Girard College, but rejoins Girard Avenue again, and passes by St. Joseph's Hospital.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital

It is a granite faced building that is said to have been influenced by George Papworth.

St Ann's Hospital

The hospital has until recently been largely a mental health care facility; however, it now also provides outpatient services, which include MRI and ophthalmological services.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

It is one of the clinical schools at the University of Melbourne (the others being based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Austin Hospital, Western Hospital, the Northern Hospital, Epping, Goulburn Valley Health, Ballarat Base Hospital and Northeast Health).

St. Croix Wetland Management District

The St. Croix Wetland Management District is adjacent to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area of two million people.

St. Paul's Hospital, Ethiopia

The St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa is the second largest hospital in Ethiopia.

Teng Bunma

A 1996 article ("Medellin on the Mekong") in the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review, by United States journalist Nate Thayer, described Teng Bunma as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug-smuggling trade.

To Serve and Protect

In addition there are some episodes featuring trips to Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and Memphis, Tennessee.

Trent FM

Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in the converted Nottingham Women's Hospital at 29-31 Castle Gate, Nottingham, the station broadcast on FM and medium wave.

Waiting for the End

It was filmed by numerous fans in Jan 26, 2011 at the United Center in Chicago, and Jan 28 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Warren Tredrea

Tredrea donated the proceeds of the 2004 3AW Player of the Year award to the Women's and Children's Hospital.

West Kowloon Terminus

Passengers can easily cross the ground floor between Kowloon Station, Austin Station and West Kowloon Cultural District, providing Hong Kong residents and visitors ample public open space and a comfortable green walking environment.

WIBW-FM

Additionally, interviews will be conducted with “ambassador families” during the telethon, telling how they benefited from the St. Jude's Hospital.

William Valentine Mayneord

He entered the field of medical physics in 1924 at St Bart's Hospital in London.


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