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unusual facts about WOLD-FM


WOLD-FM

The song, "W*O*L*D", would prove more popular with disc jockeys who could identify with the song than the general public, although it did reach #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1974, almost exactly six years after the real WOLD-FM signed on in Virginia.


Æthelstan Mannessune

His father, Manne, had owned land at Chatteris and Wold, both on Ely, while the Libellus Æthelwoldi Episcopi ("Little Book of Bishop Æthelwold") associated a priest named Manne with land at Haddenham, a place only a few miles distant.

Battle of Cropredy Bridge

With Essex and Waller in pursuit, he was still in danger, but on 7 June, the two Parliamentarian generals (who disliked each other) conferred at Stow on the Wold, and agreed that Essex would march westward to relieve the siege of Lyme Regis, while Waller shadowed the King.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire

Radio Gloucestershire has two AM transmitters, both on 1413 kHz, at Stow-on-the-Wold and at Berkeley Heath.

L-vocalization

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").

Maugersbury

Maugersbury is located less than a mile from Stow-on-the-Wold, which was originally called Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward(prossibly Edward the Martyr).

Partial least squares regression

Partial least squares was introduced by the Swedish statistician Herman Wold, who then developed it with his son, Svante Wold.

Slezské Pavlovice

The wold vegetation also protects Natural Reserve of Velký Pavlovický rybník behind the Prudnik river on the right side of the road towards Hlinka

Susse Wold

In addition to her many TV, film and stage roles, Wold has toured the world reading H. C. Andersen's works.

Telstar 301

Other entities that also used the satellite included Group W, Wold/Keystone Communications (which used the satellite to feed Paramount Television's syndicated output including Entertainment Tonight, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.), Compact Video, Lorimar/Telepictures, and Warner Bros. Television.

Wold Newton, Lincolnshire

In October 2009, the war memorial in Wold Newton was used by the constituency MP, Shona McIsaac, as evidence for the poor condition of the UK's war memorials.

Yorkshire Wolds

Recently excavated long barrows at Fordon on Willerby Wold and at Kilham have been carbon dated to around 3700 B.C. A well-known round barrow of this period is the monumental Duggleby Howe, at the western end of the Great Wolds Valley, partially excavated in 1890 by J.R. Mortimer.


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