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unusual facts about The Sixteen



BBC Singers

Notable former members of the group include the tenor Sir Peter Pears, the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, the composer Judith Bingham and the conductor Harry Christophers (director of The Sixteen).


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2011 Queensland Cup season

It was the first time in the sixteen year history of the Queensland Cup that Wynnum Manly featured in the grand final, whilst Tweed previously featured back in 2007 where they defeated the Redcliffe Dolphins 28-18.

2014 FAI Cup

These non-league teams are composed of the sixteen clubs, which reached the fourth round of the 2013–14 FAI Intermediate Cup and the seni-finalists of the FAI Junior Cup 2013-14.

Anga

Counted among the "sixteen great nations" (solas Mahajanapadas) in Buddhist texts like the Anguttara Nikaya, Anga also finds mention in the Jain Vyakhyaprajnapti’s list of ancient janapadas.

Bond Offshore Helicopters

On 12 February 2013 Avincis Group takes delivery of two Sikorsky S-92s out of the sixteen which had been ordered by company.

Cadillac Sixteen

The Sixteen has the Cadillac logo carved out of solid crystal on the steering wheel and a Bulgari clock on the dashboard.

Flat Bridge

When the bridge was being constructed, the sixteen plantations in the Bog Walk area were obliged to send one slave in every fifty to work on the River Road, sometimes called Sixteen Mile Walk.

Francisco Robles Ortega

Francisco Robles Ortega was born in Mascota, as the third of the sixteen children of Francisco Robles Arreola (b. 1917) and Teresa Ortega de Robles (b. 1927).

Georges II d'Amboise

A member of the House of Amboise, Georges d'Amboise was born in the Kingdom of France in 1488, one of the sixteen children of Jean d'Amboise, signeur of Bussy, and Catherine de Saint-Belin.

Hugh Blaker

From 1924, Blaker became guardian to the sixteen year old William Hartnell.

Logic alphabet

Dr. Zellweger's logic alphabet offers a visually systematic way of representing each of the sixteen binary truth functions.

Lucas Cornelisz de Kock

Of his works in England, the sixteen portraits of the Constables of Queenborough Castle, at Penshurst, are the most considerable; and though few of them can be original paintings, they possess great merit.

Murray Two Dam

The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Populo

Nossa Senhora do Pópulo is one of the sixteen civil parishes that make up the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Robert L. F. Sikes

Sikes was elected to the Seventy-ninth and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1979).

Silvio Passerini

He recognized the talent of the sixteen-year-old Giorgio Vasari of Arezzo and supported him to study in Florence.

Sixteen Arhats

The Sixteen Arhats (Japanese: 十六羅漢, Juroku Rakan) are a group of legendary Arhats in Buddhism; holy men who were predecessors or disciples of the Buddha.

Stav

Stav resembles T'ai chi, with the student beginning with ritualized stances resembling the sixteen runes of the Younger Futhark.

The Westing Game

The will takes the form of a puzzle, dividing the sixteen heirs into eight pairs, giving each pair a different set of clues which consist of almost all of the lyrics from "America the Beautiful", and challenging them to solve the mystery of who murdered Sam Westing.

Tumut Pond Dam

The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.

Vinea

According to the sixteen-page appendix of L'Astrologue de Bruges (album 20), Roger Leloup had seen an ad of Nivea cream when he was a child, misreading it as Vinea.

Voltaire in Love

Voltaire in Love is a popular history of the sixteen-year relationship between Voltaire and the Émilie, the Marquise du Châtelet.

William H. Hudnut III

Over the sixteen years of his term, more than 30 major building projects took place downtown, including renovations and expansions to Monument Circle, Indianapolis Union Station, Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Indiana Convention Center.