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unusual facts about Thorn, Bedfordshire


Houghton Regis

Its parish council provides certain sports and open space amenities and includes the ancient hamlets of Bidwell, Thorn, and Sewell.


Anna Nalick

She recorded with a group of musicians that included Smith on bass, Thorn on guitar, Rosse and Zak Rae on keyboards, Lyle Workman and Stuart Mathis on guitar, Joey Waronker and Matt Chamberlain on drums.

Arthur Macnamara

His family was wealthy; the Macnamara family owned many buildings, including a castle at Llangoed, Wales, a country house called Caddington Hall in Hertfordshire, and an estate at Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire.

Bishop of Northampton

The Eastern District consisted of the counties of Cambridgeshire (with the Isle of Ely), Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, and Suffolk, all from the former Midland District, and the counties of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from the London District.

Blood Knight

The Blood Knight, a fantasy novel by Greg Keyes in the "The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" series

British Approvals Board for Telecommunications

At that point in history, British Telecom was a state monopoly, and even by 1982 BT only allowed (via approval) the four British manufacturers (STC, GEC, Plessey, and Thorn-Ericsson) to supply its twenty five types of phone through them, and not independently.

C.H. Latimer-Needham

He left the RAF in 1935 and formed his second company, Luton Aircraft, at Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire, where he designed the Buzzard, Minor & Major.

Castle Thorn Software

Castle Thorn Software was a small, independent computer game developer located in Hamilton, Montana, USA.

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Salford, Bedfordshire

Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church in Salford, Bedfordshire, England.

Church of St Mary, Linslade

Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed church in Linslade, Bedfordshire, England.

Cranfield School of Engineering

The Cranfield School of Engineering is one of the schools of Cranfield University, an English University located on the Cranfield campuses in Bedfordshire.

De Havilland Gipsy Six

A preserved Gipsy Six engine is on public display at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, another is on display at the Science Museum (London).

Dunstable, Massachusetts

It is likely named after the town of Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England, home of Edward Tyng, the town's first settler.

Eastern Region Ministry Course

Students tend to come from the Eastern region of England, including the counties of Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire (or parts thereof).

Francis Dillingham

Francis Dillingham (Dean, Bedfordshire – 1625, Wilden, Bedfordshire) was an English Protestant scholar and cleric.

Imnaha River

Below the historic forest ranger station, Adams, Schleur, Spring, Snell, Loyd, Keeler, Jody, Thorn, Dunlap, Rippleton, Dead Horse, High Camp, and Deer creeks enter from the right before Sheep Creek enters from the left near Imnaha at RM 19.5 (RK 31.4).

Jonathan Strahan

He was also co-publisher of Eidolon Books which published Robin Pen's The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters, Howard Waldrop's Going Home Again, Storm Constantine's The Thorn Boy, and Terry Dowling's Blackwater Days.

Lucas Watzenrode the Elder

In 1448 he and other burghers of Thorn are recorded as having been summoned to court at Limburg.

Lungcast Records

The label released music by Erase Errata, Menace Dement, Loudspeaker, Motherhead Bug, Helivator, Missing Foundation, Mechanical Bride, Rah Bras, Bullet in the Head, Sulfur, Thorn, Circle X, and Men's Recovery Project.

Marquess of Ailesbury

On 18 March 1664, Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin in the Peerage of Scotland was created Baron Bruce, of Skelton in the County of York, Viscount Bruce, of Ampthill in the County of Bedford, and Earl of Ailesbury, in the County of Buckingham, all in the Peerage of England.

Melchbourne Preceptory

On two occasions the Hospitallers of Bedfordshire came into collision with the canons of Dunstable Priory, on account of one of the customs of their order.

Ngagane

Of Zulu origin, the name is variously said to mean ‘the unexpected one’, referring to the way the river may suddenly come down in flood; ‘thorn-tree river’, referring to Dichrostachys or Acacia trees growing along the banks, or ‘skeleton river’, the reference being uncertain.

Osborn baronets

The third Baronet was Governor of New York and Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire.

Östra Torn

Östra Torn, roughly translated as "East Thorn" (referring to the plant Thornapple), is an eastern city-district in the Swedish town of Lund.

Pamphill

It was built through the will of Roger Gillingham of the Middle Temple, who left property in Bedfordshire, Hackney and Stepney to trustees, in assurance that they would raise £400 for a close next to Pamphill Green.

Raymond Swann

His elder son Alec has also represented Bedfordshire and played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire and Lancashire.

Rod Thorn

On August 11, 2010, Thorn was hired as president of the 76ers, taking over the title from Ed Stefanski, who remained with the team as the general manager.

Samuel ibn Seneh Zarza

According to Zunz, his surname is derived from the Spanish town Zarza (= "thorn-bush"), and is accordingly synonymous with the Hebrew "seneh."

Samuel Tucker

Tucker was among the prisoners but received parole on 20 May and was exchanged for British Capt. Wardlaw, whom Tucker had captured when Boston took HMS Thorn in September 1779.

Slip End

The name of Slip End possibly has a connection with the brickworks, Slip is an old English word for clay and End is quite common in Bedfordshire and not unknown in other counties.

Southill, Bedfordshire

In 1914, the village was described as follows: "Southill, parish and village with railway station (1½ miles north-west, Midland Railway), east Bedfordshire; parish 5734 acres, population 989, ecclesiastical district 954; village 3 miles south-west of Biggleswade; Post Office; Telegraph Office at station. In vicinity is Southill Park, seat".

Squire sidecars

In 2002 Motor Cycle News set a Guinness World Record for a motorcycle and trailer reaching a timed speed of 139.5mph at Millbrook in Bedfordshire, UK, pulling a Squire D21 trailer behind a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 motorcycle.

Steven Lines

He was dismissed for a single run by Hallam Moseley in Bedfordshire's innings, while with the ball he took the wickets of Peter Roebuck, Ian Botham and Nigel Popplewell for the cost of 28 runs from 10 overs.

Swakop River

In the arid lower reaches there is a more limited flora on the Swakop River valley itself, with the typical gallery vegetation from Ana Trees (Faidherbia albida), tamarisk (Tamarix), camel thorn (Acacia erioloba), Salvadora, various fig species, Euclea and also tobacco (Nicotiana spp.), Jimsonweed (Datura) and mesquite (Prosopis spp.) as invasive species.

T. Thorn Coyle

Thorn Coyle was born September 24, 1965 and was reared in the Catholic faith in Whittier, California.

The Thorn

The Thorn starred John Hassberger as Jesus Christ with supporting roles of Bette Midler as the Virgin Mary; James Harrison as Joseph; John Greenburg as John the Baptist; Fred LaBour as the Angel Fred; Richard Pollard as Rabbi Gabriel; Diana David as Salome; and Jack Castor and Chi Chi as queens.

Theodore Wade-Gery

Born into a long-established Bedfordshire family, he was educated at Winchester College, a contemporary of Arnold J. Toynbee and R.M.Y. Gleadowe, and at New College, Oxford, which he left with a First in Classical Moderations in 1911.

Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey

In 1833 he succeeded his aunt as second Earl de Grey according to a special remainder and also inherited the Wrest Park estate in Silsoe, Bedfordshire.

Thorn Creek Nature Center and Preserve

Thorn Creek Woods Nature Center and Preserve is located in Will County, Illinois near the municipality of Park Forest, Illinois.

Ungampalayam

Now the river is a large Sewage and banks are full of the Prosopis juliflora or Seemai karuvel or Vilayati babul an invasive thorn bush.

Vachellia drepanolobium

At one site in Kenya, four ant species compete for exclusive possession of individual whistling thorn trees: Crematogaster mimosae, C. sjostedti, C. nigriceps, and Tetraponera penzigi.

Watzenrode

Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–1462), Hanseatic League tradesman in Thorn (Toruń), Prussia, grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus

Wellingborough School

Wellingborough School RAF section is linked to No. 5 Air Experience Flight at RAF Wyton, where cadets are flown on Friday afternoons in the Grob Tutor training aircraft, and to 616 Volunteer Gliding Squadron, at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, where cadets go on Sundays to fly in the Grob Vigilant motor glider, and where Flt Lt Walker is a C Category instructor.

William Drury Lowe

After his marriage in 1827 to Caroline Esther Curzon daughter of Lord Scarsdale they lived at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent for a while before he took up the challenge of running the estate near Kimbolton in Bedfordshire.

William Lee Antonie

The son of Sir William Lee, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and brother of Harriet Lee, he lived at Totteridge Park, formerly in Hertfordshire and owned Colworth House near Sharnbrook in Bedfordshire.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.

Ziziphus mucronata

Some Bantu tribes believe that it is safe to shelter under a buffalo thorn during a thunderstorm, as protection from lightning.


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