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unusual facts about Traitor's Ford


Sibford Gower

However, Parliamentarian sympethisers were executed on the outskirts of the village, at a place that has since been known as Traitor's Ford.


1988–89 Los Angeles Kings season

Gretzky himself was considered a "traitor" by some Canadians for turning his back on his adopted hometown, his home province, and his home country; his motivation was widely rumoured to be the furtherance of his wife's acting career.

Alexandre Adler

His positions have sometimes led to polemics, such as his qualification of France Inter radio journalist Daniel Mermet as a "Brejnevian journalist," head of Politis newspaper Bernard Langlois as a "repugnant journalist" (journaliste répugnant) and Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières France as a "Jewish traitor" because of his criticisms of Israel and the US' policies.

Baron Strabolgi

The eighteenth-century gentlewoman Mrs. Mary Dixie was heiress to the traitor George Brooke (who was attainted and executed for his part in the Bye Plot against James I) and his wife Elizabeth, eldest sister of the last Baron Burgh; Brooke had been brother and heir to the last Baron Cobham of Kent, who had been attainted for his part in the Main Plot.

Battle of Blackburn's Ford

Moving slowly, the army reached Fairfax Court House on July 17; the next day, McDowell ordered division commander Brig. Gen. Daniel Tyler to look for a fording point across Bull Run Creek and to "keep up the impression that we are moving on Manassas".

Battle of Grauholz

However, at Wichtrach he was attacked by either Bernese soldiers or farmers, who believed him to be a traitor, and murdered.

Blast Off at Woomera

The launch site is Woomera Rocket Research Station in South Australia but there may be a Soviet traitor amongst the ground crew...

Champe Rocks

Champe Rocks are named for Sergeant Major John Champe (1752–1798), a Revolutionary War soldier who became a double agent in an attempt to capture the American traitor General Benedict Arnold.

Dnyaneshwar Mulay

In Nov 2012, at rally in Maldives to protest against leasing of Ibrahim Nasir International Airport to Indian infrastructure major GMR Group, Mr.Riza, a political appointee called Mr. Mulay a traitor and enemy of Maldives and Maldivian people.

Domingos Fernandes Calabar

The composer Chico Buarque, along with Ruy Guerra, made in 1973 a play entitled: "Calabar: The Praise of Treason" where he first traitor to the condition of Calabar was revisited.

Eastleigh to Romsey Line

The line between Eastleigh and Romsey was reopened for passenger traffic in May 2003 with a re-built station at Chandler's Ford.

Fallen London

It is implied that someone known as the Traitor Empress – most likely Queen Victoria – sold the city to the bazaar and allowed it to be taken to spare the life of her husband Albert, Prince Consort.

Han Jian

Hanjian, in Chinese culture a highly derogatory and pejorative term for a traitor

Harry Cole

Harold Cole (1906–1946), known as Harry, British soldier and traitor

Ila Detention and Security Prison

After the war it changed its name to Ilebu prison and on 8 May 1945 became a camp for prisoners, held in custody and judged traitors from World War II.

Jacques-François Menou

General in chief of the Armée de l'Interieur, he was denounced as a traitor, put on trial and acquitted in 1795.

Janice Em

Soon, however, it is discovered that the Haydonites actually seek to destroy all users of Protoculture, and Vince Grant has Janice imprisoned on the belief that she is a traitor, given the Haydonite technology in her systems.

Jayne Brook

During the late 1980s, she worked for a while in Great Britain, appearing with Tom Conti and John Standing in The Old Boy Network, a single season ITV comedy series about three spies (an ex-MI5 agent, an ex-MI5 traitor who'd been working for the KGB, and an ex-CIA officer) who set up as private investigators after the end of the Cold War.

Jøssingfjord

During the war, the term Jøssing came to mean a Norwegian patriot, the opposite of a Quisling (or traitor).

Leonard Burt

On 16 June 1945, as a Commander in the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, Burt was assigned to accompany war-time traitor William Joyce (also known as "Lord Haw-Haw") back to London to be tried for treason, after Joyce was captured by British forces in Germany.

Lupeni Strike of 1929

The film, inspired by The Battleship Potemkin, portrayed the event as part of the class struggle and was also directed against the then-disgraced underground party activists; the role of the traitor Lucan was based on Vasile Luca (who participated in the preparations for the strike), fictionalised as the embodiment of human abjectness.

Oppas

In Alexandre Herculano's Eurico, o Presbítero, Oppas is portrayed as a traitor to his own country, whose troops treacherously went to the conqueror's side, and a close collaborator of the conquerors Musa and Tarik.

P. W. Singer

Singer has also worked with a variety of entertainment world projects, with Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, including the movies Traitor, and Whistleblower, the TV series Strike Back and Curiosity, as well as the 24: Redemption movie/DVD, broadcast in 2008.

Patrick Heenan

Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, 1910–1942, British Indian Army officer, alleged spy and traitor

Prix de Mai

Subsequent prizes went to such works as Le traître, (The traitor) by André Gorz, La Gana by Fred Deux (under pseudonym Jean Douassot), and Je by Yves Velan (1960), which did not meet with popular success, and the prize disappeared in short order.

Recent Songs

"Came So Far for Beauty" seems to be an unaltered outtake from the unfinished 1975 album Songs for Rebecca (the horns may have been added later), which also included early versions of "The Traitor" and "The Smokey Life" (then with music by John Lissauer).

Robert Prager

A local newspaper, the Edwardsville Intelligencer, called it "unlawful and unjustifiable" but argued that a traitor would be dealt with just as harshly in Germany.

Sergei Khudyakov

His wife and younger son were also arrested on 13 January 1951 as members of a family traitor to the motherland, and sent to Krasnoyarsk Krai in the Taseyevsky District.

Shadows Over Camelot

Players take on the roles of Knights of the Round Table (with the possibility that one player takes the role of traitor) and play the game by fulfilling quests.

St. Anne's Church, Warsaw

During the Warsaw Uprising of 1794, part of the national Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, Bishop Józef Kossakowski, considered the traitor of the nation, was executed in front of the church (hanged with a great applause by Warsaw inhabitants).

Tanacharison

The Ohio Company fort was surrendered to the French by Croghan's half-brother, Edward Ward, and commanded by his business partner, William Trent, but Croghan's central role in these events remains suppressed, as he himself was in 1777, when Pittsburgh's president judge, Committee of Safety chairman, and person keeping the Ohio Indians pacificed since Pontiac's Rebellion was declared a traitor by General Edward Hand and exiled from the frontier.

The Little Traitor

The Little Traitor is set in 1947 Palestine, when the area still was ruled by the British, tells how 12-year-old Proffi (Ido Port) befriends the hated enemy, in the form of English Sgt. Dunlop (Alfred Molina), and sticks with him despite the suspicions of friends and family.

The Marlows and the Traitor

In the introduction to the Girls Gone By edition of The Marlows and the Traitor, Antonia Forest admits she never intended to write a series of books about the Marlows.

The Mysterious Lady

He sends his nephew to Warsaw, posing as a Serbian pianist, to seek out the identity of the real traitor and thus exonerate himself.

Traitor's Knot

It is also volume four of the Alliance of Light, the third story arc in the Wars of Light and Shadow.

Traitor's Purse

Operation Bernhard was a real life German plot to flood wartime Britain with counterfeit currency – however this did not become public until after the end of the war, so Allingham was unaware of it at the time the novel was written.

Tunnel Through the Deeps

In an alternative history, the United States lost the American Revolutionary War, George Washington was shot as a traitor, and America is still, in 1973, under the control of the British Empire.

U.S. Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia

On August 2, 2013, an editor linked to the US senate with the IP 156.33.241.5 //en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward Snowden&diff=prev&oldid=566904988 edited the Wikipedia page of whistleblower Edward Snowden to change his description from "dissident" to "traitor".

Umanosuke Ueda

Ueda was considered one of the first "traitor heels" in Japan, as he broke societal mores by dyeing his hair and using a brawling style, and teaming with a hated gaikokujin heel, Tiger Jeet Singh.

Union of Kėdainiai

Bogusław became commonly known in Poland as Gnida ("Louse") by his fellow nobles and Janusz became known as Zdrajca (Traitor).

Walerian Łukasiński

Soon afterwards he was denounced by a traitor for his involvement with secret conspirational organizations, and he was arrested by the Russian authorities and sentenced to 7 years of hard labour in Zamość.

Walther Jervolino

Deeply influenced by the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, an Italian writer, he tried to imagine a different destiny for Pinocchio, which was guilty, according to Jervolino, of being a traitor towards his father, Geppetto.

Wang Lang

Cao Zhen called for his subordinates to help, and Wang Lang decided to try and persuade him to surrender (even though Guo Huai was skeptical about it) and engaged Zhuge Liang in a battle of words, but was soundly defeated, with Zhuge Liang scolding him as a dog and a traitor and other nasty words and from the shock of this, he fell off his horse, and died on the spot.

White's Ford

The ford was named after Captain Elijah V. White, a Confederate cavalry officer and leader of the cavalry battalion known as the Comanches.

It was used in many major actions, including the crossing into Maryland of the Confederate army prior to the Maryland Campaign and Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart's ride around Union Major General George B. McClellan on October 10, 1862, when he used the ford to cross into Loudoun County, Virginia.

Witch trials in early modern Scotland

He subsequently believed that a nobleman, Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, was a witch, and after the latter fled in fear of his life, he was outlawed as a traitor.


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