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2 unusual facts about Stony


Stony

Stony graduated from Reykjavík College of Music with a degree in jazz drumming and music theory.

As well as studying dramatic acting at Reykjavik School of the Arts, after attending Akureyri Junior College.


2011–12 Big East Conference men's basketball season


§§ – does not factor two neutral games played, vs. Illinois State, in the 2011 Cancún Challenge, and vs. Stony Brook, in the 2011 Holiday Festival, which do not have attendance figures on record.

2011–12 Stony Brook Seawolves men's basketball team

In October 2011, Stony Brook announced a new partnership with New York cable provider Cablevision to broadcast 8 Men's basketball games and 3 Women's basketball games through the Optimum Network in the Long Island area.

Alia Sabur

On 19 February 2008, at 18 years of age (3 days before her 19th birthday), she was appointed to the position of International Professor as Research Liaison with Stony Brook University by the Dept. of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea.

Chromera velia

Chromera velia was first isolated by Dr Bob Moore (then at Carter Lab, University of Sydney) from the stony coral (Scleractinia, Cnidaria) Plesiastrea versipora (Faviidae) of Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia (collectors Thomas Starke-Peterkovic and Les Edwards, December 2001).

David Block

In May, the advance of the 1st Guards Brigade was halted by the enemy dug in on Monte Piccolo, a bleak and stony hill south of Arce.

Debbe Dunning

Dunning is married to American volleyball player Steve Timmons and has two children: a daughter, Spencer Schae (born 1996) and a son, Stony (born in 2000).

Eldad Tarmu

Eldad studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, holds a masters degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles and a master of arts degree in Classical Composition from Stony Brook University, New York.

Epic Horse

At the time Holmes "had just been on vacation in the English county of Dorset where my imagination had latched on to tales of smugglers and wreckers and beautiful hills overlooking long stretches of stony beach".

Eremophila alternifolia

alternifolia occurs in arid areas of Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory and the Barrier Range in New South Wales, in many different habitats with stony or red soil.

Ero aphana

This is the case in England where the species seems to be on the increase and is found on dry heathland with patches of bare stony ground and among sparse Ulex europaeus and Pinus sylvestris.

Foot plough

It is an implement of tillage peculiar to the Highlands, used for turning the ground where an ordinary plough cannot work on account of the rough, stony, uneven ground.

Gaebelein

Frank E. Gaebelein (1899 - 1983), founder of The Stony Brook School and editor of the Expositor’s Bible Commentary.

Glegir Mawr SSSI

It is a stony coastal headland and has been designated principally because of the occurrence of Tuberaria guttata the Spotted Rockrose which is a nationally rare plant and also the County flower of Anglesey.

Henry Brainerd McClellan

After studying for the ministry at Williams College, from which he graduated in 1858 aged 17, McClellan moved to Stony Point Mills in Cumberland County, Virginia where he became a schoolteacher.

Jedediah Huntington

About 21 October, the enemy destroyed and abandoned their posts at Stony and Verplanck's Points, so the Connecticut Line was ordered to those locations, where they began repairs.

John S. Toll

While he was there, SUNY@Stony Brook, one of four SUNY centers created by then-governor Nelson Rockefeller (briefly Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford), and, until recently, the only four allowed to call themselves "universities", grew to more than 17,000 students from a handful who started their academic careers before the campus was even finished, at the now-defunct State University of New York on Long Island (SUCOLI).

John W. Sexton

Sexton's poetry has appeared in many leading Irish journals including The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, THE SHOp, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book and The Penny Dreadful Magazine.

Katol

GSI said the sample is a stony meteorite dominated by silicates (olivine and others) with a little iron.

Ken Lemke

In 2012, with Stony Plain MLA Fred Lindsay retiring, Lemke ran for the Progressive Conservative (PC) nomination.

Le Hocq

Just below Le Hocq Tower, west of the groyne of boulders, is a more pleasant sandy beach, which stretches round the headland to a very stony stretch of beach which reaches as far as Rocqueberg (Witches' Rock) and La Motte (Green Island).

Leskovik

Edith Durham, who traveled the area during the last Ottoman period, would give a description of the town in her book "The Burden of the Balkans" as: "Leskovik is a quiet small place, solid and stony, built much like a North Wales village, but clean and tidy, the population mostly Bektashite Moslems. Some of the Christian women had a small cross tattooed between their eyebrows. There is small church, and a Greek school...".

M. digitata

Montipora digitata, the finger coral, a stony coral species found in East Africa, the Indo-West Pacific, Kenya, Mozambique and Rodriguez

Mayfield, Canterbury

It was he who essentially invented the heavier, more robust farming gear needed when it became quite clear that the lightweight harrows and plows previously used could not handle the stony conditions and it was he who lived to see Mayfield grown from one or two houses to a functioning, prosperous settlement.

Morris, Pennsylvania

Campgrounds in the area—Twin Streams in Morris, Stony Fork Creek near the village of Stony Fork, Leonard Harrison State Park west of Wellsboro, and Pettecote Junction in Cedar Run—offer a variety of sites for tents and recreational vehicles.

Old stone face

Judge Dredd - Futuristic policeman from 2000 AD comic; also called "Old Stony Face"

Polytrichum alpinum

The moss may also colonise stony soil, boulders and snowy grikes above the treeline.

Republican-American

The base of the building is made of Stony Creek pink granite; the herringbone ceilings that graced the vaulted waiting room are constructed with Guastavino tiles (also used in New York’s Grand Central Terminal and the adjacent Oyster Bar); and the station’s prominent clock tower, embellished with eight gargoyles, was modeled after the Torre del Mangia on the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena Italy.

Robin Lingle

Lingle transferred from Olney High School to The Stony Brook School, graduated from The Stony Brook School, where he became the first athlete to win two championship cross-country meets on the same day, the Ivy Preparatory School League and the Eastern Scholastics States Championships.

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach.

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

In addition to her current position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins College, the University of Innsbruck, Göttingen University, Princeton University, the University of California, and others.

Seebe, Alberta

Scenes from the movie Open Range, starring and directed by Kevin Costner, were filmed on the Stony Indian Reserve directly across the Bow River from Seebe in 2003 when it was still an inhabited hamlet.

Silent mutation

Steffen Mueller at the Stony Brook University designed a live virus vaccine for polio in which the pathogen was engineered to have synonymous codons replace naturally-occurring ones in the genome.

Stony Fork Creek

Stony Fork begins at the confluence of its east and west branches in the Tioga State Forest northwest of Morris.

Stony Hill Vineyard

Stony Hill Vineyard is located south of the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park in the northern reaches of the city of Saint Helena, California.

Stony Hill, Jamaica

Stony Hill is a residential neighbourhood in St. Andrew Parish, Surrey County, on the northern outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica.

Stony Lake

Rollway Lake, also known as Stony Lake, in Newaygo County, Michigan, USA

Stony Point Fashion Park

Stony Point finally opened on September 18, 2003, the day Hurricane Isabel made landfall in nearby Outer Banks.

Stony Point, New York

Richard Humann (1961–), conceptual artist, born and raised in Stony Point until age 18

Teufelsrutsch

The name "Devil's Slide" was inspired by a local tale, according to which the residents of Wendelsheim (a nearby village) once tricked the devil into sliding down the stony slope on his bare bottom.

The Source of Sviyaga River

This lies about 5 km to the southwest from village of Kuzovatovo, where the land rises to a height of 332 m above sea level, combined sand by stony adjournment of paleogen.

Thornton and Allerton

As well as the villages of Thornton and Allerton, the ward includes the hamlets of Sandy Lane, Stony Lane, Broom Hill, School Green and Leaventhorpe.

Woodsville

Woodsville Brook, a tributary of Stony Brook in Mercer County, New Jersey


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