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unusual facts about Twelfth-century Renaissance



12th Canadian Ministry

The Twelfth Canadian Ministry was the first cabinet chaired by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

2011 Slovak Open

It was the twelfth and sixth edition of the tournament which was part of the Tretorn SERIE+ of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit.

Alexander McKim

McKim was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, where he served from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1815.

At Va'Ani

The song was performed twelfth on the night (following Belgium's Ann Christy with "Gelukkig zijn" and preceding Turkey's Semiha Yanki with "Seninle Bir Dakika").

Azim Jah

Azim Jah (died 1874) was the brother of Azam Jah, the eleventh Nawab of the Carnatic and uncle of Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan, the twelfth and last Nawab of the Carnatic.

Bamboléo

The release from the twelfth episode (called The Spanish Teacher) in season 3 of the show is named "Bambolero/Hero" and main vocals is by Chord Overstreet (playing the character Sam Evans on the show)

Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip

Barfing in the Backseat: How I Survived My Family Road Trip (ISBN 978-0448443287) is the twelfth book in the Hank Zipzer children's book series by Lin Oliver and Henry Winkler.

Barregarrow

Located between the twelfth and thirteenth milestones on the famous TT course, the crossroads is a landmark on the famous road racing course.

Barzillai Gannett

Gannett was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and served from March 4, 1809, until his resignation in 1812.

Bleu pétrole

Bleu pétrole (Petrol blue) is the twelfth studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in March 2008 on Barclay Records.

Christiane Pilz

Pilz reached into the international stage in triathlon, when she placed twelfth at the 1999 ETU Triathlon European Championships in Funchal, Madeira, and in 2000, she claimed her first medal at the FISU World University Triathlon Championships in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary.

Clara Nordström

Born the daughter of a physician and a peasant woman in Karlskrona and brought up in Växjö (Sweden), she was bed-ridden owing to illness up to her twelfth year.

Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West

Dan Fogelberg Live: Greetings from the West is the twelfth album by American singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1991 (see 1991 in music).

Decretum

The Decretum Gratiani is a collection of Canon law compiled in the twelfth century by a jurist named Gratian.

Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1990

In the County Championship, they won six matches to finish twelfth in their eighty-sixth season in the Championship.

Differential heat treatment

In Japan, from the legendary time of the famous smith Amakuni, hamons were originally straight and parallel to the edge, but by the twelfth century AD, smiths such as Shintogo Kunimitsu began producing hamons with very irregular shapes, which provided both mechanical and decorative benefits.

Donizo

Donizo (also Domnizo, Donizone) of Canossa, was an Italian monk in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

Dzyarzhynsk

The Lithuanian Twelfth Schutzmannschaft (auxiliary police) Battalion's 1st Company, led by Lieutenant Z. Kemzura, massacred between 1,000 and 1,900 Jews from the city on October 21, 1941, shooting them and throwing them into a pit; many were buried alive.

Elijah Brigham

Brigham was elected as a Federalist to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1816.

Estell Manor, New Jersey

For ninth through twelfth grades, public school students attend Buena Regional High School, which serves students from Buena Borough and Buena Vista Township, together with students from Estell Manor City Newfield and Weymouth Township who attend the school as part of sending/receiving relationships with the Buena Regional School District.

Fixin' to Die Blues

In 2010, G. Love and The Avett Brothers recorded the song under the title "Fixin' To Die" for G. Love's twelfth studio album, "Fixin' To Die" on Brushfire Records.

Flacinus

A document of 27 May 912 in the Libro de los Testamentos that cites Flacinus is a twelfth-century forgery of the bishop Pelagius, not as it claims of a certain bishop Hermenegild.

Grosse Ile High School

Grosse Ile High School (often abbreviated GIHS) is a public high school located in Grosse Ile Township, Michigan serving ninth through twelfth grades.

Henry C. Deming

He entered the Union Army in September 1861 as colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers.

Hiroomi Takizawa

Takizawa later switched to skicross, and made his World Cup debut in January 2005 with a twelfth place in Pozza di Fassa.

Joseph Bouck

Elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-second Congress Bouck served as United States Representative for the twelfth district of New York from March 4, 1831 to March 4, 1833.

Koki Eto

He would then lose the title to Yodmongkol Vor Saengthep on November 29, 2013 in his first title defense in Chonburi via twelfth-round knockout.

Lakeville, Massachusetts

On the state level, Lakeville is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of two districts, the Ninth and Twelfth Bristol Districts.

Les Loges, Seine-Maritime

William the Conqueror’s granddaughter, the Empress Matilda gave this area to a Nicolas Estouteville in the twelfth century, to thank him for his support and loyalty.

Lobar the Wolf

Lobar the Wolf was the leader of a troupe of Brabançon mercenaries which had fought in numerous battles all across Europe in the latter half of the twelfth century.

Malhação

Like American soap operas, cast and characters change from year to year, but actors and characters who have stayed for long in the soap are, among others, Alexandre Slaviero whose character "Kiko" has experienced changes (he has gone from student, to bad boy, to steroid addict, to model) and Sérgio Hondjakoff, whose character Cabeção, was in the story from seventh to twelfth season.

Menachem Zioni

Meïr (as does Heidenheim, Pijjutim und Pajtanim, p. 8), a payyeṭan of the twelfth century well known under the name of "Menahem b. Machir" (Zunz, "G. V." 2d ed., p. 405).

Pippo Baudo

In 2007, he hosted, for his twelfth time, the Festival di Sanremo, with Michelle Hunziker; he now exceeds Mike Bongiorno, who hosted eleven times.

Plato Tiburtinus

Charles Homer Haskins: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1927

Plympton, Massachusetts

Plympton is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Twelfth Plymouth District, which includes Kingston and portions of Duxbury, Halifax, Middleborough and Plymouth.

Quicumque

Quicumque Christum Quærtis is the opening line of the twelfth and last poem in the "Cathemerinon" of Prudentius.

Rafael Merry del Val

The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain.

Road Rules: South Pacific

Road Rules: South Pacific is the twelfth season of MTV's reality show Road Rules that takes place in the South Pacific.

Sacri

Anni Sacri (March 12, 1950),is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII issued on the twelfth anniversary of his coronation.

Saint-Germain-en-Coglès

In the twelfth century, it belonged to the abbey of Saint-Florent de Saumur before being united to the diocese of Rennes XIV.

Schwetzingen

Schwetzingen was mentioned as "Suezzingen" for the first time in 766, recorded in the late twelfth-century Codex Aureus of Lorsch, but there are already traces of settlement from the Stone Age.

Stepan Fedorov

He finished twelfth in the men's singles event at a World Cup event in Calgary on 21 November 2009.

Toujours de nous

Toujours de nous (Always of us) is the twelfth studio album by francophone recording artist Mario Pelchat.

Vincent Pettway

Pettway lost the title in the next defense against Paul Vaden via twelfth round TKO.

Wassailing

The West Country is the most famous and largest cider producing region of the country and some of the most important wassails are held annually in Carhampton and Dunster (Somerset) and Whimple (Devon), both on 17 January (old Twelfth Night).

Whatever You Want

Whatever You Want is the twelfth studio 1979 rock album by the British band Status Quo.

William Lancaster

William de Lancaster I, or William Fitz Gilbert, was a nobleman of the twelfth century in Northwest England

Wonastow

Wonastow has a twelfth-century church dedicated to St. Wonnow or Saint Winwaloe, believed to have been built on a seventh-century religious site.

Yang Ti-liang

Yang was born in Shanghai on 30 June 1929 to an influential family which had roots in what was Nanguan in Xiangshan County of Guangnan East Circuit (now Zhongshan, Guangdong Province) since the early twelfth century, although they had resided in Shanghai since the early nineteenth century.

Zavala, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zavala was part of the Serbian medieval župa (district) of Popovo, referred to in the Chronicles of the priest Dukljanin and in a deed of gift of prince Miroslav issued to the Church of St Peter in Lim at the end of the twelfth century.


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