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3 unusual facts about V. C. Andrews


Accidental incest

In the Dollanganger series by V. C. Andrews, Christopher and Corrine, the parents of the main character Cathy and her three siblings, are revealed to have been half-uncle and niece, but never learn that they are also half-brother and sister.

Troy Tatterton

Troy Langdon Tatterton is a fictional character created by V. C. Andrews and continued by ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman in the bestselling novels in the Casteel series.

V. C. Andrews

Her novels were so successful that, after her death, her estate hired a ghost writer, Andrew Neiderman, to write more stories to be published under her name.


Ally Dawson

He signed for Limerick F.C. in 1990 and returned to Scotland later that season with Airdrie, before becoming Player/Manager of Maltese league club Luxol St. Andrews.

Andrews Causeway

The President, at 11:05 a.m., alighted from his car and was greeted by Mrs. Charles O. Andrews (widow of the former United States Senator) and Mr. Charles O. Andrews, Jr.

Arthur Andrews

Arthur L. Andrews (1934–1996), Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Air Force

A. W. Andrews (1868–1959), British geographer, poet and mountaineer

Beau Biden

After being elected, he appointed former Delaware Attorney General and International Judge Richard S. Gebelein as Chief Deputy Attorney General, and former assistant U.S. Attorney Richard G. Andrews was appointed as State Prosecutor.

Charles B. Andrews

In 1863 he moved to Litchfield, and became the partner of John H. Hubbard, then in large practice; here he at once took a prominent position at the bar, advancing rapidly till he became its leader.

Charles Bellamy

Bellamy's career first began during the summer of 1717 when he raided three ships off the coast of both New England and New Brunswick, before sailing northwards to establish a fortified encampment somewhere in the Bay of Fundy (most likely Saint Andrew's where he continued attacking fishing and raiding ships off the southern coast of Newfoundland.

Elizabeth B. Andrews

Andrews was elected as a Democrat by special election to the Ninety-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, United States Representative George W. Andrews.

Elizabeth Price Foley

Foley was a Senior Legislative Aide for health policy to U.S. Congressman Ron Wyden of Oregon and Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews of Texas.

Eric T. Washington

In 1979, Chief Judge Washington began his legal career with the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, Texas, where he engaged in a general labor and employment practice prior to relocating to Washington, D.C. to serve as Legislative Director and Counsel to U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews of Texas.

Foxburg Country Club

After participating in a cricket match in Edinburgh, Scotland, Fox visited St. Andrews to see the game of golf being played.

George W. Andrews

Andrews was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry B. Steagall.

Heaven Casteel

Heaven Leigh Casteel is the protagonist of the novels in the Casteel series created by V. C. Andrews, and concluded by Andrew Neiderman upon her death.

Hurlock, Maryland

William N. Andrews, U.S. Representative for Maryland's 1st congressional district (1919–1921), born in Hurlock on November 13, 1876.

J. M. Andrews

In 1902 he married Jessie (d. 1950), eldest daughter of Bolton stockbroker Joseph Ormrod at Rivington Unitarian Chapel, Rivington, near Chorley, Lancashire, England.

J. N. Andrews

John moved to South Lancaster, Massachusetts, where the children could stay with the Harris family.

John Murray Prain

He lived at Longrigg, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland and married Lorina Helen Elspeth Skene.

Joseph James Hargrave

His family took him to Scotland in 1846 where he studied at Madras College, St. Andrews, and completed his studies as a surveyor in 1859.

Józef Sękalski

He remained in St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, after the war, with his partner Roberta Hodges, a painter herself.

Julia C. Collins

In 2006, William L. Andrews of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mitch Kachun of Western Michigan University collected Collins' writings and her unfinished novel and published them, with commentary and notes through Oxford University Press.

Kenneth Andrews

Kenneth R. Andrews (1916–2005), academic who wrote and thought on business policy or corporate strategy at the Harvard Business School

Larry Siedentop

After retirement, Siedentop was a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, The Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and a Visiting Fellow in the Philosophy and Public Affairs program at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Lunan, Angus

A 16th-century priest of Lunan church, which is in the hamlet of Lunan Bay, Walter Mill, was one of the last Scottish Protestant martyrs to be burned at St. Andrews.

Mark E. Andrews

In addition to his work as a businessman, Andrews served as a part-time law school instructor; as a director of the English-Speaking Union; as advisory chairman of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens; and as a trustee of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

Mean 18

Mean 18 featured the Augusta National and Pebble Beach and St. Andrews courses.

Midnight Whispers

Midnight Whispers is the fourth novel in the Cutler series, written in 1992 by the ghost-writer of V. C. Andrews novels, Andrew Neiderman.

Monk Hesleden

Despite the disappearance of the church, the parish lives on in name, and following the reorganisation of parishes in the 1980s, now includes the churches of St. James at Castle Eden, St. Andrews at Blackhall, St Marys in Horden, St. Cuthbert in Peterlee, and the Church at Hesleden.

New Brunswick Southwest

Major towns include St. Stephen, St. Andrews, St. George, Grand Bay–Westfield, McAdam, Harvey Station, Fredericton Junction, Gagetown, and the Kingsclear and Hanwell regions near Fredericton.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Originally the station had an overall roof designed by the architect G.T. Andrews.

Richard Andrews

Richard G. Andrews (born 1955), U.S. District Court judge and former state prosecutor in Delaware

Ross Memorial Museum

The Ross Memorial Museum is a personal decorative arts collection displayed in a fine early 19th-century house in the National Historic District of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.

S-algol

S-algol is a computer programming language derivative of ALGOL 60 developed at the University of St. Andrews in 1979 by Ron Morrison and Tony Davie.

Selkirk—Interlake

In addition to Selkirk, the riding includes the communities of St. Andrews, St. Clements, Rockwood, Woodlands, Brokenhead, Stonewall and the R.M. of Bifrost

Store Skagastølstind

Another popular route of ascent is via Andrews renne (Andrew's couloir), used in the first ascent of A. W. Andrews and party in 1899.

The Wildflowers series

The Wildflowers is a novelized miniseries credited to V. C. Andrews, but ghostwritten by Andrew Neiderman.

TWA Flight 847

Hezbollah specialist Magnus Ranstorp of the University of St. Andrews, credits "leading Hezbollah members Hassan Izz-Al-Din (later involved in the Kuwait Airways Flight 422 hijacking in 1988) and Mohammed Ali Hammadi whose brother was one of the heads of the Hezbollah SSA (Special Security Apparatus). Iran assisting Hezbollah operatives in the "supervision and planning of the incident itself and as an active participant in the defusion and resolution.

William Heaton

The picture at left is from the much publicized trip to St. Andrews, the famed Scottish golf course.

William Hunter Campbell

James J. Andrews, also a civilian, recruited Campbell and 22 soldiers from three Ohio regiments, the 2nd, 21st and 33rd Ohio Infantry.

Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba

It is bordered by the Rural Municipality of Gimli, the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews, and the Village of Dunnottar as well as Lake Winnipeg.


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