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unusual facts about Upper East



Vehicle registration plates of Ghana

On the vehicle registration plates, one will see the first letter from the name of the region and the letter 'R' which denotes Region; however, four of Ghana's ten Regions: Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Upper East and Upper West do not take the format whereby the letter 'R' and the first letter from the name of the Region are used - AS, BA, UE and UW are used for Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Upper East and the Upper West Regions respectively.


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Café Nicholson

Over the years Cafe´ Nicholson moved around to several addresses on Manhattan's Upper East Side, although it is most remembered for its location near the Queensborough Bridge.

Dan, Israel

According to Eric Ripert, chef and proprietor of Le Bernadin, considered the leading seafood restaurant in New York, and Jean Francois Bruel, chef of Daniel, a Michelin 3-star rated restaurant in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the best caviar on the market today is produced by Kibbutz Dan.

Frank Hogan

Another high-profile case involved the exoneration of George Whitmore, Jr. in 1963 after his confession regarding the murder of two women in their upper east side Manhattan apartment was found to be false.

Harry Simeone

On May 22, 2000, Simeone and his wife, by then living on the Upper East Side of New York City, officially established the Harry and Margaret Simeone Music Scholarship at Yale University by bestowing a gift of US$1 million.

Jenny Humphrey

Jenny is back in episode "Easy J" and returns to the upper east side with a bang.

MZ Wallace

Based in New York, its stores are located in the Manhattan neighborhoods of SoHo, the West Village, and the Upper East Side and were designed by New York-based German architect, Annabelle Selldorf.

Northern Territories

Historical name of part of Ghana, a former British Empire protectorate, itself divided into the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions of modern Ghana.

Patricia Buckley

Aside from their home in Stamford, Connecticut, the Buckleys also had an Upper East Side duplex in Manhattan and leased the Chateau de Rougemont, a former monastery, near Gstaad, Switzerland, for the winters.

Sharp's Ridge

The nearest "antenna farms" to Sharp's Ridge are on Holston Mountain in upper East Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV stations in the Tri-Cities (Bristol, Virginia-Kingsport, Tennessee-Johnson City, Tennessee) Designated Market Area (DMA), and the Signal Mountain broadcast antenna farm, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV station antennas in that DMA.

Upper East Region

The national capital of Accra is also connected to the region by the N2 which terminates in Kulungugu in the Upper East Region.

The N10 originates from Yemoransa in the Central Region and connects through Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and terminates at Paga in the Upper East Region.

Vehicle registration plates of Ghana

There are ten Regions in Ghana: Ashanti, Brong-Ahafo, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, Upper East, Upper West, Volta and Western.

Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study

It is located on Lake Drive in the Upper East Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, overlooking Lake Michigan.