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3 unusual facts about Verges


Battle of Torroella

The previous days the enemies attempted with no success to force the fording at Verges, and then moved to Ullà and Torroella de Montgri.

Verges

Jacques Vergès, French lawyer, well known for defending war criminals.

Vergès

Paul Vergès, French (Reunionese) politician (communist party).


Adenanthos × pamela

A bushy shrub intermediate between its parents in habit, leaf shape and flower colour, it is known only from road verges in the Scott River area, where its parent species co-occur.

Compton Valence

Compton Valence is known locally for its display of snowdrops, which fill the road verges in late winter.

Cruciata laevipes

laevipes is found in meadows, road verges, riverbanks, scrub and open woodland, generally on well-drained calcareous soils.

Élie Kroupi

Éli Verges Napoles Kroupi Zahi (born 18 October 1979 in Sassandra) is a French-Ivorian football forward who currently plays for Ourouba Club Fujairah in UAE Second Division.

Howden, Tasmania

Nestled between the majorly-developing township of Kingston and the smaller Margate, it verges on bushland but is only a half-hour drive away from Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Martí Vergés

Martí Vergés Massa, usually known as "Martín Vergés", (born 8 March 1934 in Vidreres, Girona) is a former Spanish footballer.

Richard Cowley

He is thought to have been an original shareholder in the Lord Chamberlain's Men when they re-formed in 1594; but little is known about his career, except for the fact that he played Verges in Much Ado About Nothing, along with William Kempe as Dogberry.

Steven Blakeley

Blakeley played Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing with the British Shakespeare Company on their 2009 tour of the United Kingdom, Dublin, Norway and Prague.

Street

Later it acquired a dialectical meaning of "straggling village", which were often laid out on the verges of Roman roads and these settlements often became named Stretton.


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