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unusual facts about The Border


International Marine Passenger Terminal

For the three years it was in production the CBC drama The Border used the customs facilities of the terminal as the headquarters of an elite customs and border squad.


1997 nationalist riots in Northern Ireland

At least 30 others sought treatment at first aid houses or at Letterkenny Hospital across the border.

A. Wesley Stuart

Time magazine reported that he declared he had "been a smuggler all his life—and intended to keep on being one," adding that he "never came through the border in my lifetime that I did not smuggle something."

Daisy Beaumont

Beaumont's other television work includes a variety of shows, among others The Border, EastEnders, Hotel Babylon, A Touch of Cloth, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Mumbai Calling and The Bill as well as a small movie role in Shanghai Nights, which also starred Jackie Chan.

John Hiatt discography

"Too Late" and "Skin Game" on the soundtrack to the movie The Border, 1982 (also featuring a cover of "Across the Borderline" by Freddy Fender)

Mobile phone signal

This phenomenon, which is also common in other VHF radio bands including FM broadcasting, may also cause other anomalies, such as a person in San Diego "roaming" on a Mexican tower from just over the border in Tijuana, or someone in Detroit "roaming" on a Canadian tower located within sight across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.


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1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka

Although the primary objective was to reach the border undetected, there were two skirmishes before the unit reached Štiavnik, the Slovak border town.

4th Land Force Brigade

It is covering the territory of southern Serbia, from the border with the Republic of Macedonia in the south to the border with Bulgaria in the east and the administrative border with Kosovo in the west to the area around the city of Leskovac in the north.

Aberford Dykes

The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.

Agardhelva

Agardhelva is a river forming the border between Sabine Land and Heer Land at Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Arroyo Concepción

On the southeastern outskirts of Arroyo Concepción is the border crossing, which links Puerto Suárez and Puerto Quijarro with the city of Corumbá on the Brazilian side.

Azerbaijani Air Forces

Plans were announced for the US to modernize one radar station near the Iranian border at Lerik and another near the border with Georgia at Agstafa.

Battle of Mir Ali

The Battle of Mir Ali was a bloody military engagement occurred between 7 October and 10 October 2007 and involved Taliban militants and Pakistani soldiers around the town of Mir Ali, Pakistan (North Waziristan), the second biggest town in the semi-autonomous region on the border with Afghanistan.

Boian culture

The culture's geographical extent went as far west as the Jiu River on the border of Transylvania in south-central Romania, as far north as the Chilia branch of the Danube Delta along the Romanian border with Ukraine and the coast of the Black Sea, and as far south as the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea in Greece.

Byron P. Howlett

North Vietnamese attacks at Lộc Ninh (in Bình Long Province), Song Be (in Phước Long Province), and at Con Thien and Khe Sanh, (in Quảng Trị Province), were other actions which, combined with Đắk Tô, became known as "the border battles."

Carrer de Pelai, Barcelona

It's the border between the central districts of Ciutat Vella and Eixample, and runs from the intersection of Plaça de Catalunya with La Rambla and the El Triangle shopping centre, to Plaça de la Universitat.

Chandrabadani Devi

On the border of tahsil Devaprayag and Pratapnagar is the well known temple of Chandrabadni Devi, lying at the top of the mountain about 10 km.

Cinergy

The Ontario government, across the border in Canada, followed suit at the request of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Dariush Homayoon

Fifteen months later, he left Iran through the border with Turkey and went to Paris.

East Karelian Uprising and Soviet–Finnish conflict 1921–22

This period of disagreement and uncertainty about borders was ended with the Treaty of Tartu, where Finland and the Baltic states first recognised the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic as a sovereign state, and established the border between Finland and RSFSR.

East Oak Lane, Philadelphia

East Oak Lane is defined by the borders of Cheltenham Avenue at the north (the border between Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township), Broad Street on the west, Godfrey Avenue at the south, and the Tacony Creek to the east.

Falam Township

Falam Township is mountainous, running east-west from the foothills above the Neyinzaya and Myittha rivers to the high peaks of the Chin Hills in the Arakan Mountain Range and down to the border with Mizoram State, India.

Finnish–Swedish border

Across the border from Tornio to Haparanda runs the European route E4 (Finnish National Road 29 on the Finnish side).

Grays Armory

The unit's original purpose was twofold: to provide assistance and support to the local law enforcement authorities of the time as well as to provide a first line of defense for the city in the event that the fighting in Canada's Rebellions of 1837 spilled over the border and into the United States resulting in a third war with the United Kingdom in less than a century.

Gregorio Araneta Avenue

It is an 8-10 lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) which travels from Sergeant Rivera Street, at its north end in Balintawak, and meets Nicanor Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, City of Manila.

History of Greek

As Greek culture under Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) and his successors spread from Asia Minor to Egypt and the border regions of India the Attic dialect became the basis of the Koiné (Κοινή; "common").

Hubert Deutsch

The River Danube was the border between the American and Sovietic zones, with Linz in the American zone and its sister town, Urfahr, in the Sovietic one.

Joël Prévost

Born in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Prévost was adopted soon after birth by a family from northern France, renamed Jean-Luc Potaux, and grew up at Trith-Saint-Léger, close to the border with Belgium.

Kamarupa

The southern boundary was near the border between the Dhaka and Mymensingh districts in Bangladesh.

Lacolle River

It passes through the village of Lacolle by a large coil, then flows into the Richelieu River by its western shore, 4.8 km north of the border Canada-United States.

Lifton, Devon

Lifton is a village and civil parish in Devon, South West England near the confluence of the rivers Wolf and Lyd, 1¼ miles south of the A30 trunk road and very near the border between Devon and Cornwall.

Little Bear Peak

Little Bear is bisected by the boundary between the Rio Grande National Forest to the west and private property to the east, and is on the border between Alamosa County and Costilla County.

Mentonasc dialect

It is still spoken by a minority (approximately 10%) in the city of Menton and in the following municipalities: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Castellar, Castillon, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès and Sospel, near the border with Italy.

Michael Henry Herbert

He created with the U.S. Secretary of State John Hay a joint commission to establish the border between the U.S. district of Alaska and British interests in the Dominion of Canada, where gold had been found in the 1890s, which resulted in the definitive Alaskan boundary treaty of 1903.

Murtino

Murtino is a city of Macedonia that lies on the border between the Strumica Municipality and the Bosilovo Municipality, with a majority of its area in the Strumica Municipality.

Nabu-apla-iddina

Although Aššur-nāṣir-apli claimed to have conquered the border fortresses Hirimmu and Harutu in his own inscriptions, this may be a restatement of his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II’s campaigns.

Numana

Svarchi, located one mile west of the border with the comune of Sirolo.

River De Chute

This section of the river forms the border between Carleton County, New Brunswick and Victoria County, New Brunswick.

Ruffey Lake Park

It is situated around Ruffey Lake in a portion of a valley through which the Ruffey Creek runs, forming the border between Doncaster and Templestowe.

Ruritania

In 2006, Ignacio Padilla published La Gruta del Toscano (ISBN 84-204-7072-4), a novel in which Ruritanians discover a cavern in the Himalayas, somewhere on the border between China and Nepal.

Santa Elena River

The Santa Elena River is a river of Bolivia in the Chuquisaca Department, Nor Cinti Province, partly on the border of Inka Wasi Municipality and San Lucas Municipality.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Shehyni

Located at the border with Poland, it is best known as the site of the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing.

Sherry, Wisconsin

This Township is heavily Timbered with Maple Oak Birch & Pine Maple Oak & Birch being the prevailing Kinds - along the Border(?) of Mill Creek there is some good scattering Pine - along the Border(?) of the small stream (?) almost invariably(?) find alder thickets caused by Beaver dams.

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

St George's Church, Worthing

Its boundaries are the railway line to the north, the border with Adur district to the east, the English Channel to the south and the High Street and Steyne to the west.

Swedish county road 260

Swedish county road 260 (Länsväg 260) is a primary county road in Sweden from the Lugnet junction on the border of Stockholm and Nacka to the Handen junction beneath national road 73 in Haninge.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

Toka

Toka A village near Nevasa Dist AhmednagerThe Border of The Great Maratha Samraje near Godawari River where Pravara meets Godavari River is Toka

Traveling library

A camel library service exists in Kenya which is funded by the Kenyan government and as a charity in Garissa and Wajir near the border with Somalia.

Tyalgum, New South Wales

Another major natural feature is the valley environment around the village created by the Border Ranges and Mount Warning.

Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội

Some members went back to Vietnam while others stayed in the border provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi along the Chinese border with Vietnam.

Wadi al-Qarn – Burqush Important Bird Area

It lies at an altitude of 1,175 – 1,500 m next to the village of Burqush in the Anti-Lebanon mountains, near Mount Hermon and close to the border with Lebanon.

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky

Attempting to leave for Germany to continue his education, he was stopped at the border and brought back, a virtual prisoner, to Vinitza.

Zangezur

Zangezur Mountains, mountain range that defines the border between Armenia and Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Azerbaijan)