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2 unusual facts about Stanford-le-Hope


Corringham Light Railway

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LTSR)had a branch from Thames Haven Junction, near Stanford-le-Hope, to Thames Haven on the Thames Estuary.

Independent Working Class Association

In 2008, the Thurrock branch of the IWCA contested the working class Stanford East and Corringham Town ward and won 98 votes, down from 144 votes in 2007 and behind the BNP's 344 votes.


10 Años: Un Panteon Muy Vivo

# "La Ciudad de la Esperanza/Malbicho" (The City of Hope/Malbicho) (Sr. Flavio) – 6:41

1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan

During his speech he made a famous put-down of Liberal leader David Steel, describing him as having "passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever".

2002 Stanford Cardinal football team

In head coach Buddy Teevens's first season at Stanford, the Cardinal won only two games, ending the season with a 2–9 record, the school's worst since a 1–10 season in 1983.

A. King Dickson

The three wins were against the University of the Pacific, Santa Clara College, and the San Jose Normal School; the two losses were versus Berkeley and Stanford (1st teams?).

An Ode to Life

The drama achieved the highest viewership rate in Year 2004 (17%) despite being broadcast at the 7pm slot (which is generally perceived to have lower viewership figures), defeating other popular dramas in the same year such as Spice Siblings, Double Happiness and A Child's Hope 2.

Battle of Fort Cumberland

Commodore Sir George Collier had previously dispatched the HMS Vulture into the Bay of Fundy on rumors of privateering activity there, so he ordered the HMS Hope to locate the Vulture so that she could assist.

British Columbia Highway 5

It is so-named because near Hope, it generally follows the Coquihalla River, for about 60 km (37 mi), and uses the Coquihalla Pass.

Bruce Carroll

In 2012 Carroll co-wrote the piece Hands of Hope with fellow performers, David Meece and David L Cook.

Bryan Malessa

His story "Looking Out For Hope" (Voices of the Xiled, Doubleday, 1994) in memory of Raymond Carver was made into a short film directed by Phil Harder and scored by the rock band Low.

Chin Christian College

Among the first lecturers at CCC were Rev. Zam Mang, Rev. Tial Lian, and Rev. Dr. Jones Mang Hope.

Chinese exonyms

"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.

Collective memory

Jan Assmann: Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies, Stanford UP 2005

Cypriot Annan Plan referendums, 2004

The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said, "We will respect the choice which Greek Cypriots have expressed today. But I hope that they will continue to reflect on whether this choice is the right one for them."

Edward Salwey

Salwey was the son of Humphrey Salwey of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme and his wife Anne Littleton, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton.

Elias Smith Dennis

Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 19 February it was revealed that France 2 had selected Congolese singer and dancer Jessy Matador to represent France at Eurovision, with the hope of creating a summer hit and to promote the 2010 FIFA World Cup in France.

George Louden

Business meant Louden never had the tiniest hope of going on an tour to Australia, though he was doubtless much better suited to the cast-iron Australian pitches than any English professional bowler of the time.

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

George Rickey

In 2010, his sculpture "Two Open Rectangles, Horizontal" that was located in situ west of the SBC (now ATT) office building in downtown Dallas was moved to a site just outside the Bob Hope Peristyle Courtyard of the Owen Art Center, which houses SMU's Meadows School of the Arts.

Going Spanish

Hope told Walter Winchell that he had starred in the film and then added "When they catch Dillinger, they're going to make him sit through it twice."

Gordon Palmer

Colonel Palmer married, May 6, 1950, in Duns, Lorna Eveline Hope, daughter of Charles William Hugh Bailie, of Manderston, Berwickshire, by which marriage the Palmer family came into possession of Manderston.

Government College of Technology, Coimbatore

The Government College of Technology, Coimbatore was founded in 1945 as Arthur Hope College of Technology (named after Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour), under the patronage of the philanthropist Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu (G.D. Naidu).

History of Fianna Fáil

The election of Tony Blair in Britain gave renewed hope of an agreement for peace in Northern Ireland, an issue that has traditionally always been an aspiration of Irish Governments.

Hope and Anchor, Islington

Other bands which played at the Hope and Anchor include The Cure, The Stranglers, The Only Ones, The Police, The Stray Cats, The Pogues, Dire Straits, U2, Joy Division, Oliver Coates, The Men They Couldn't Hang amongst others.

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

Islamic Supreme Council of America

According to an unidentified blogger of the weblog "Sufi Muslim Council Exposed", in 2005 Kabbani told UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw: “We are glad to see changes taking place in the political mechanisms in the Middle East. We hope to see an end to tyranny and we are happy to observe a strong upsurge in freedom of speech, freedom of belief and political openness in the region.”

Jan Broberg Felt

Some of her film credits include: Slaughter of the Innocents (HBO), Poof Point (Disney), Message in a Cell Phone (Disney), The Secret Keeper (Columbia TriStar), Bug Off, The ButterCream Gang, (Feature Films for Families), Hope For Troubled Teens, Nadir, Family First, Little Secrets (Columbia TriStar), Mobsters and Mormons, and The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey.

Jeanne Ruark Hoff

Jeanne Ruark Hoff (born c. 1960 in Mississippi) is a former college basketball player for Stanford University and the mother of Olympic swimming medalist Katie Hoff.

King's Stairs Gardens

The park was given Village Green status in March 2012 by Southwark Council under the Commons Act 2006, a move which campaigners hope will thwart any future development.

Lee Ann Womack

On December 11, 2000, Womack performed "I Hope You Dance" at the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert.

Lifespring

Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in this training called it either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%).

Loopt

That summer, Stanford sophomores Sam Altman and Nick Sivo worked to build the first prototype of Loopt.

Lucinda Green

Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer was born in Andover, Hampshire, England to Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer (died 1977) and Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope, a daughter of the second Marquess of Linlithgow, who served as Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.

Mocha Island

Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith of the University of Otago and José-Miguel Ramírez-Aliaga of the University of Valparaíso hope to win agreement soon with the locals of Mocha Island to begin an excavation search for Polynesian remains on the island.

Monroe Spaght

A named Chair in Chemistry was created in his honor at Stanford University; the incumbent Monroe E. Spaght Professor of Chemistry is Edward I. Solomon.

Olympian Publishing

The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki (2006) (with introduction by Jim Rose of The Jim Rose Circus)

Robert Logan Jack

An early piece of work was an examination of the coal resources of the Cooktown district, and in August 1879 he began an exploring expedition to the most northerly part of Queensland in the hope that payable goldfields might be found.

Sing For Hope

Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization founded by opera singers Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora.

Stanford Center for Design Research

The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's famed Design Division, with money from companies including Apple Computer, BMW, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba Corporation.

Stanford Clock Tower

On May 10, 1983, when then-Stanford president Donald Kennedy unveiled the new clock tower, he burst out laughing: the clock's west face had been covered with Mickey Mouse's face and hands by an unknown prankster.

Steffy Forrester

Since 2010, Steffy's storyline has revolved around a love triangle with Hope and her husband Liam Spencer (Scott Clifton).

Steve Dils

He played six seasons with the Vikings and started most of the 1983 season, where he was paired in the backfield with former Stanford teammate Darrin Nelson.

Takabuti

At that time the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as N. mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as Dermestes vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as Dermestes pollinctus Hope, 1834).

Terman

Frederick Terman (engineer; 1900-1982), Provost of Stanford University, credited with establishing Silicon Valley

The Teacher Salary Project

American Teacher also features interviews with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Deputy Secretary of Education Brad Jupp, the founder of The Equity Project Charter School Zeke Vanderhoek, Stanford Professor of Education Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford economist Eric Hanushek, and several regional and national teachers of the year.

Thomas Blom Hansen

He has two children with his first wife, and is married to an Assistant Professor at Stanford Sharika Thiranagama, daughter of the Tamil activist Rajini Thiranagama (1954 –1989).

Valery Chalidze

The primary translator of Amerikanskie Federalisti was Gregory Freidin of Stanford, with consultation from Leon Lipson of Yale Law School.

Voice of Hope

Voice of Hope seeks to provide children living in the neighborhoods of West Dallas with strong character models, education support, life skills, and family support services needed to become productive Christian citizens.

William Snow

William Snow (academic), Stanford University professor affiliated with formation of the American Social Health Association

William Ward Duffield

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.


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