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3 unusual facts about The Glen


Emma Tennant

Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family's faux Gothic mansion The Glen in Peeblesshire.

The Glen

I pulled over, jumped up on the warm hood of my rusty '77 Malibu, and my tired eyes watched night fall over the Mojave Desert for the first time.

Heading west on a winding road from Las Vegas at twilight, I found myself in a rose-colored canyon unlike any glen I had ever seen.



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2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen

The 2013 Cheez-It 355 at The Glen was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 11, 2013 at Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, New York.

Albert Scott Crossfield

He has been inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame (1983), the International Space Hall of Fame (1988), the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame (1998), Aerospace Walk of Honor (1990), The Glen A. Gilbert Memorial Award (1990) and the National Air and Space Museum Trophy (2000).

Anshei Glen Wild Synagogue

Among the early arrivals to the Glen Wild area, in 1904, were Simon Jaffe and his family, of Lithuanian descent like other Jews in the area.

Carisbrook

Located at the foot of The Glen, a steep valley, the ground is flanked by the South Island Main Trunk Railway and the Hillside Railway Workshops, two miles southwest of Dunedin city centre in the suburb of Caversham.

Diane Yatauro

Today, she maintains her strong ties with community through active membership at the Glen Cove Sons of Italy, Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce, the Junior League, and the North Shore Historical Museum.

Fiach McHugh O'Byrne

The rebel lookout on the peak of Lugnaquilla sounded the alarm, and Grey ordered his men to descend into the glen with a drum roll.

Flora Kidd

Her love for the Scottish highlands is evident in the warmth of the characters depicted in Stranger in the Glen (1974).

Frank Kelly

Many of his popular radio sketches originated from "The Glen Abbey Show" on RTÉ Radio 1 in the 1970s-1990s.

Glen Canyon Dam

In detective novel Wet Desert by Gary Hansen, the Glen Canyon Dam is destroyed by environmental terrorists.

Glen Finglas Estate

The Glen Finglas Estate is a property in the Trossachs, Scotland managed by The Woodland Trust.

Glen Grey

The Glen Grey district became part of the Transkei, within which it was named Cacadu district (not to be confused with the current Cacadu District Municipality, which is further to the west) and is now the magisterial district of Lady Frere.

Glen Meakem

He also hosts The Glen Meakem Program, which airs Saturday afternoons from 12-1 pm and Sunday mornings from 8-9am on FM News Talk 104.7 in Pittsburgh.

Glen Pean powerline span

The Glen Pean Powerline Span is a span of an overhead powerline which crosses Glen Pean, west of Loch Arkaig in the Highlands of Scotland.

Glen Roy

The village of Roybridge and Roy Bridge railway station are sited where the River Roy joins the River Spean, and from there a narrow single track road runs north up the glen for almost 10 miles to Brae Roy Lodge.

The glen runs north from Glen Spean which takes the main A86 trunk road and the railway of the West Highland Line, both running about a further 14 miles southwest via Spean Bridge to Fort William.

Glen Springs Sanitarium

The Glen Springs Sanitarium (also known as The Glen Springs) was a hotel and sanatorium located high above Seneca Lake on the western hillsides of the village of Watkins Glen, in Schuyler County, New York.

Groudle Glen railway station

One of the main draws to the area today is that Groudle Glen has its own heritage railway nearby, the Groudle Glen Railway, which was built in 1896 to serve the zoo which had opened 1893 on the outer edge of the glen.

Joseph Barcroft

Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richardson Malcomson of The Glen, Newry - a property purchased for his parents by his mother's uncle, John Grubb Richardson and adjoining his own estate in Bessbrook.

Lady of the Glen

Lady of the Glen was published by Kensington Books in April 1996, with cover art by book illustrator Anne Yvonne Gilbert.

Lehigh Gorge State Park

The southern access point is just off exit 74 of Interstate 476 via U.S. Route 209 through Jim Thorpe and across the bridge to the north bank on Pennsylvania Route 903 to the Glen Onoko neighborhood, formerly East Mauch Chunk the left bank or northern part of the borough of Jim Thorpe.

Paul Bowman

Paul Bowman-MacDonald, a fictional character from Monarch of the Glen

Richard Norgaard

His commitment to and involvement in the environmental movement began when he served as a river guide to David Brower, then Executive Director of the Sierra Club, for the Glen Canyon stretch of the Colorado River in the early 1960s.

Robert Pollok

During this time, he anonymously published three poems: Helen of the Glen, The Persecuted Family, and Ralph Gemmell.

Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area

In 2005, the annual Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California was relocated to the park from its long-established location at the Glen Helen Regional Park (home of the San Manuel Amphitheater) in Devore, California.

Somervell County, Texas

Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History in New York spotted the Adams "giant man tracks" in a tourist shop in Gallup, New Mexico, and, while recognizing them as fakes, was still intrigued enough to travel to Somervell County to see the Glen Rose area for himself.

Towson University buildings and structures

In 1936, the Works Progress Administration, part of Roosevelt's New Deal, had spent over $55,000 in its work on "The Glen".

Trouble in the Glen

Trouble in the Glen is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles and Forrest Tucker.

Trumpington

Lady Dorothy Trumpington-Bonnet, a fictional character in the Monarch of the Glen TV series

W49AY

W49AY, known on-air as WAY-TV, is a low-powered religious station based and licensed in Birmingham, Alabama, owned and operated by the Glen Iris Baptist Church, who also owns WGIB radio.

William M. Hadley

He was honored at his retirement by having an annual (perpetual) scholarship given in his name by the Glen Ellyn Schools, and a multi-million dollar experimental middle or Junior High School named in his honor, William M. Hadley School, located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.