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unusual facts about The Bath


The Bath

The Child's Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (also known as The Bath)



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Adam C. Stacey

Stacey entered public life by seeking a seat on the Bath Charter Township Board of Trustees in 2004.

Adda bar Ahavah

Rab Adda's said: "The man who is conscious of sin and confesses it, but does not turn away from it, is like the man who holds a defiling reptile in his hand; were he to bathe in all the waters of the world, the bath would not restore him to cleanness. Only when he drops it from his hand, and bathes in but forty seahs (about 100 gallons) of water he is clean." (Babylonian Talmud Taanit 16a; compare Tosefta Taanit 1:8.)

Bath by-election, 1929

The Bath by-election, 1929 was a parliamentary by-election held on 21 March 1929 for the constituency of Bath in Somerset.

Bath Club

After the bombing, it was housed by the struggling Conservative Club at 74 St James's Street, which eventually agreed to a full merger in 1950 under the name of the Bath Club, retaining the Conservative Club's St James's Street club house until 1959.

Bath People's Assembly

In February 2012, the Bath People's Assembly launched a petition to Bath and North East Somerset Council calling for them to switch their bank account from NatWest to an ethical bank, as part of the wider Move Your Money campaign.

Bath Preservation Trust

The Bath Preservation Trust is an independent charity based in Bath, Somerset, England which exists to safeguard the historic character of the city of Bath, the only complete city in the UK that (along with its environs) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and to champion its sustainable future.

Battle of Kandahar

For his services, General Roberts received the thanks of Parliament, and was appointed both Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) and Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1880, becoming a baronet the following year.

Bishopstrow

In 1817 William Temple built a new house on the north side of the road using the Bath architect John Pinch the elder.

Carl Curman

Curman made the plans for the bath house and designed a façade modelled on the Ca' Vendramin Calergi in Venice.

Corsley

Corsley House was built for the Barton family in 1814, designed by the Bath architect John Pinch the elder as a Greek revival mansion around a previous house.

Fairfield House, Bath

Since then it has been used as a day centre by a number of groups including the Bath Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens' Association, Age Concern, the Ethiopian Coptic Church and a Rastafari church.

Great Pulteney Street

Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge.

Harry Gem

Among Gem's sporting interests was the game of rackets, which he played at the Bath Street Racquets Club adjacent to the Racquet Court Inn in Bath Street, Birmingham with his friend Augurio Perera, a Spanish merchant based in Birmingham.

Igor Kipnis

His appearances at international and domestic festivals included Bachwoche Ansbach, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, and Ludwigsburg in Germany, the Bath Festival in Great Britain, Gulbenkian in Portugal, Lanaudière in Canada, the Israel Festival, the Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord, the Madeira Bach Festival, Poland's Music in Old Crakow, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, and Prague Spring International Music Festival.

Johan Niclas Byström

Among Byström's numerous productions the best are his representations of the female form, such as Hebe, Pandora, Juno suckling Hercules (infra), and the "Girl entering the Bath".

John Duncan Lowe

At the early age of 42, in 1991 Lowe was appointed Crown Agent for Scotland and in 1995 was invested CB, (Companion of the Order of the Bath.) In 1997 Lowe was appointed Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, a position he held until his death at Edinburgh the following year.

John Eveleigh

He began his practice in Bath in the 1780s, but went bankrupt after the failure of the Bath City Bank and moved to Plymouth.

John Wayne Glover

He then ran the bath, swallowed a handful of Valium with a bottle of Vat 69, slashed his left wrist and lay in the tub to die.

Martha Gunn

The Morning Herald described Martha Gunn as "The Venerable Priestess of the Bath"

Philip Watson

Before his retirement to Oxfordshire he was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Bath and County Club.

Pontia daplidice

In Central Asia, the Bath White ranges from Baluchistan, Peshawar, Chitral, Kashmir and along the Himalayas right across the Central Himalayas up to Darjeeling.

Royal United Hospital

The combined institution opened as the Bath United Hospital in 1826 in Beau Street in a building designed by John Pinch the elder.

Ruth Manning-Sanders

Her story, "The Goblins at the Bath House," from A Book of Ghosts and Goblins is read by Vincent Price on an LP titled "The Goblins at the Bath House & The Calamander Chest," which was published by Caedmon in 1978 (TC 1574).

Sachin Kundalkar

His 2005 documentary short film The Bath, starring Rajat Kapoor, is based on an explicit gay theme.

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

The film is based on the 1900 novel, The Bath Comedy by Agnes and Egerton Castle.

The Right Size

From their earliest shows, such as Que Sera, The Bath, Flight to Finland and Moose, The Right Size often tried out productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe or London International Mime Festival, and then toured in the UK, Europe and internationally, sometimes in collaboration with the British Council.

Wick, Gloucestershire

Nearby Blue Lodge was once the home of Black Beauty author Anna Sewell and Tracy Park on the Bath Road (now a golf club called The Park) was thought to be the inspiration for Black Beauty's Birtwick Park.