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unusual facts about The Marshes


The Marshes

With Burning Heads included "The Lodger" / "Few Words" (cover of Burning Heads) (1998 Pandemonium Records - French release)



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Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle

Yet the Crown did not hesitate to employ him on routine errands: in 1537 Queen Jane Seymour during her pregnancy developed a passion for quail, and since quail were abundant in the marshes around Calais, Lisle devoted much time to supplying them to the Queen.

Bobby Thomson

Thomson died August 16, 2010 at his home in The Marshes of Skidaway Island, a CCRC in Savannah, Georgia.

Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region

The yellow Iris, an Iris pseudacorus, as a symbol for Brussels dates back to before 1924 with Cornette writing that the flower was chosen to represent the city as it could be found growing in the marshes - the city itself was founded on marshy ground on Saint Gaugericus Island - today even through the expansion and industrialisation of the city.

Hufaidh

Hufaidh is a mythical island in the marshes of southern Iraq, believed to exist by the Madan or Marsh Arabs.

Juan Páez Hurtado

Hurtado was born in Villafranca de las Marismas (Villafranca of the Marshes), in Seville (Andalusia, Spain).

Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes

The marshes fall within the Hurst Castle And Lymington River Estuary Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Lewis Steward

Stewart worked with the Marshes to perfect their prototype, and by 1863, they had established the Plano Harvester Works as Marsh, Steward & Company.

Macquarie Marshes

Among the variety of vegetation types supported by the marshes are River Red Gum forest and woodland, extensive beds of Common Reed, and meadows of Water Couch.

Marismeño

The Marismeño is a rare breed of horse indigenous to the marshes of the Guadalquivir River, from which it takes its name.

Marshman

The name Marshman is a family, or surname which originated in England and either refers to an occupation - namely a person whose job it was to work the marshes or it is derived from their residency possibly of Marsham in Norfolk, or in Mersham in Kent.

Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge

The Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge (translation: marshes of town) in Lima, Peru is a protected habitat for 150 species of birds including the plunger, colored duck, Puna Ibis (Yanavico), parihua and white heron, considered as the queen of the marshes for its beauty and rhythmic flight.

Pomerol AOC

While the Dutch were most notable for draining the marshes of Médoc and paving the way for viticulture in the land north of Graves, they offered the communes of the right bank of the Dordgogne a market in Northern Europe (particularly the Baltic and Hanseatic states) bypassing the grip that the port of Bordeaux had on the English market.

RENEA

Their training routes take part in the worst weather, in some of the toughest terrain that Albania has to offer: in the northeastern mountain range (the highest peak is Korabi, at 2,751 metres (9,025 feet)), the marshes of Vlora, and the swamps of Durrës and Lezha.

Riding officer

When Daniel Defoe rode through Hythe towards Rye in the 1720s he saw riding officers and dragoons searching the marshes for wool smugglers '... as if they were huntsmen beating up their game ...'

Scarborough River

In the early 17th century, Christopher Levett gave the name of the river, or perhaps the marshes it drains, as Owascoag, after the Abenaki Indian name.

Schiermonnikoog National Park

On the marshes and tidal flats thousands of birds occur, such as Common redshank, Barnacle goose, Spoonbill, Hen harrier, Oystercatcher, red knot, Bar-tailed godwit, Curlew and European Herring Gull.

Siegfried, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen

Siegfried continued and promoted the interior colonisation by settling wasteland and draining and diking marshes, as in Oberneuland (1181; a part of today's Bremen), Stuhr (1183), Osten and the marshes along the river Oste.

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

The Prince of the Marshes: And other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq (2006) is a non-fiction book by British author Rory Stewart.

The Silver Chair

Jill and Eustace are flown to the marshes on the northern edge of Narnia where they are partnered with the delightfully gloomy but stalwart Marsh-wiggle Puddleglum, who serves as a guide, hunter for food in the wilderness, and down-to-earth voice of reason.

Wild Food

#"Wetlands": Ray and Professor Gordon Hillman, an expert in the use of plants through the ages, look at the marshes and waterways which our ancestors used for travelling and as an abundant source of food.

Zhuge Liang's Southern Campaign

The plan was to lure the Shu forces into poisonous marshes around the caves of King Duosi, but Zhuge Liang was forewarned of the dangers by Meng Huo's older brother, Meng Jie, and managed to avoid the marshes all together.

Zinna Abbey

The monastery was built on the northern rim of the Fläming hill range in the marshes of the Nuthe river by Cistercian monks, descending from the monastery on the site of Burg Berge, otherwise Altenberg Abbey, in the County of Berg near Cologne.