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unusual facts about Wall, Northumberland



Adrián Luis González

González lives and works in Metepec, State of Mexico, a town noted for its decorative pottery, especially Trees of Life and suns with faces as wall decorations.

Alnmouth

Located at the mouth of the River Aln, the village has been an important trading port in Northumberland's past, mainly involved in the export of grain, and smuggling.

Ashburnham Pentateuch

The miniatures were used as the source of a later cycle of wall-paintings at the church of St Julian in Tours.

Bob Graham Center for Public Service

The Bob Graham Center’s Civil Debate Wall—popularly known as ‘The Wall’—is a series of interconnected touch-screen devices that allow students, teachers and citizens to share ideas and solutions to some of the most pressing political questions facing the nation.

Bukichi Miki

This was a very witty statement using the story of the Buddhist monk Daruma Daishi who faced a wall in China's Shaolin Monastery and after doing zen meditation for nine years, achieved enlightenment.

CampingWorld.com 200

On the second attempt on the back straightway, Dennis Setzer's truck was involved in an accident that had the truck sliding on its side against the wall.

Catherine Eddowes

She was standing talking with a man at the entrance to Church Passage, which led south-west from Duke Street to Mitre Square along the south wall of the Great Synagogue of London.

Crim Dell bridge

These include jumping the wall of the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg after hours, streaking through the Sunken Garden, and swimming in Crim Dell.

Everett Carll Ladd

He reached out to the public through a column in The Christian Science Monitor (1987-1995) and op-ed essays in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many others.

Free Derry Corner

When the British Home Secretary, Jim Callaghan, visited Derry in August 1969, the "Free Derry" wall was painted white and the "You are now entering Free Derry" sign was professionally re-painted in black lettering.

French Skyline

The opening track, "Latin Sirens Face The Wall," was recorded at Klaus Schulze Studios in Hambühren, West Germany, and was engineered by Klaus Schulze.

Geoff Garin

He replaced Mark Penn as the Clinton Campaign's chief strategist in April 2008, after the Wall Street Journal revealed that Penn met with Colombian official regarding a proposed free trade agreement opposed by Clinton and most labor unions.

Gill Coliseum

Inside, on the south wall of Gill Coliseum is a painted mural of many former Oregon State men's basketball players including Gary Payton, Brent Barry, AC Green, and Steve Johnson.

Gilsland

It has a population of about 400, most of whom live on the Northumberland side of the River Irthing and Poltross Burn.

Hakhel

The ceremony performed at the Western Wall in 2001 was led by the President of Israel, Moshe Katzav.

Havneparken

The quayside still features the disused railway tracks and an old railway car contains an exhibition on the local history of the neighbourhood, rusty steel profiles have been left and now serves as pergolas, upon which Honeysuckle and Clematis are trained and bits of wall from now demolished buildings have been left.

Henry Atkinson

Henry Atkinson manuscript, compiler of an early (1694-5) music manuscript in Northumberland

HMS Northumberland

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Northumberland after the English county of Northumberland, or the Dukedom of Northumberland.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

Istvan Kantor

In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael Jackson by Paul McCarthy in the Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum of Berlin.

Jason Mudrick

Fortune Magazine named Jason one of the “Best Traders of Wall Street” in 2011, specifically citing his winning bets on CIT and SuperMedia.

Jet DVD

There are eight videos (presented in chronological order of single release,) around which there are short scenes of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura goofing off while traveling through space in a space shuttle with two telephones, a TV set, a sofa, a record player, and a brick wall lining the cabin.

John Candlish

Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of John Candlish, a farmer, and his wife, Mary, née Robson.

John Heilpern

On its publication in the US by Knopf in 2007, The New Yorker described it as “compelling”, The Wall Street Journal as “masterful”, and The Philadelphia Inquirer as “a model of what a literary biography ought to be.” The Wall Street Journal named it one its Ten Best Books of the Year.

John Swinburne

Sir John Swinburne, 7th Baronet (1831–1914), English legislator who served as High Sheriff of Northumberland, grandson of Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

Joseph Plura

After several years of working for Prince Hoare, where it thought he was the sculptor of the bust of Beau Nash which today adorns the wall of the Pump Room in Bath and at the time was attributed to Hoare, he opened his own studio in Bath by 1753 where the piece now displayed at the Holburne Museum "Diana and Endymion" was used as a centrepiece.

Kalec Castle

The castle, of which only a single tower and some sections of wall survive intact, stands on slope known as Breg, near the source of the river Pivka, at an elevation of 618 m.

Kosel

The Kosel (also pronounced Kotel), short for Ha-Kotel Ha-Ma'aravi, Hebrew for "the Western Wall" in Jerusalem

Larry Wall

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.

London Trocadero

Remains of old attractions could still be seen around the centre, such as a wall with a gun-barrel motif that used to house a James Bond ride.

Ming City Wall Relics Park

The Ming City Wall Relics Park is accessible by Beijing Bus to Dongbianmen (Routes 25, 29, 39, 43, 44, 59, 434, 525, 610, 674 and 特2), Chongwenmen East (Routes 12, 25, 39, 43, 44, 525, 610) and Jianguomen South (Routes 25, 39, 43, 44, 52, 122, 434, 637, 638, 750 and 特2); and by Beijing Subway to Chongwenmen (Line 2) and Jianguomen (Lines 1 and 2).

Montée du Gourguillon

On 14 November 1305, a wall of the street on which some people were sat collapsed on the motorcade of Pope Clement V, who had just been crowned Pope in the basilica of Saint-Just by the King of France Philippe le Bel.

PGN

Peptidoglycan, a polymer consisting of sugars and amino acids that forms a bacterial cell wall

Phoebe Washburn

An earlier work, Heavy Has Debt, (exhibited in 2003 in Grinnell, Iowa), was a "massive, shingled wall of debris," produced largely from mounted cardboard.

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

The work was dedicated to Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Northumberland, who was married to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

Sack of Amorium

The city's fortifications were strong, with a wide moat and a thick wall protected by 44 towers, according to the contemporary geographer Ibn Khordadbeh, and the caliph assigned each of his generals to a stretch of the walls.

Shaheed Ganj Mosque

It had a projecting mehrab (niche), facing toward Mecca as in all mosques, in the centre of the west wall where the imam leads the prayers.

Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet

He married Emma, daughter of Richard Henry Alexander Bennet of Babraham, Cambridgeshire, on 13 July 1787; she was a niece of Frances Julia (née Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell), second wife of the 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston

A memorial to physician and botanist Dr. William Withering, who pioneered the medical use of digitalis (derived from the foxglove), is situated on the south wall of the Lady Chapel, and features carvings of foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae, a plant named in his honour.

St Michael's Church, Burwell

Set against the wall beneath this is a table tomb dating from the late 18th century, carved with a skull and laurels.

Terminal moraine

One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm.

Tharangambadi

The rampart wall is a fairly large four sided structure, with bastions at each cardinal point.

Thomas Ballantyne Martin

Martin was the son of Angus Martin, a surgeon from Forest Hall in Northumberland; his mother Robina was from Wooler.

Trichuris muris

After establishing their place in the intestinal wall, the adult worms mate and release unembryonated eggs into the environment via the feces.

Universal War One

Enormous, incomprehensible and terrifying, "the wall" is centered on Uranus's moon Oberon, cutting off access to any planet beyond Saturn.

Uppland Runic Inscription 53

Uppland Runic Inscription 53 is a runestone built into a wall in the intersection between the thoroughfares Prästgatan and Kåkbrinken in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Vokes Theatre

A wall exists showing the signatures of some of those who came to Wayland including Ellen Terry, George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Katharine Cornell; the house archives show that other guests included diva Geraldine Farrar, and actors Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, Norah Bayes, and others.

Wall gun

Bolt action wall guns firing metallic cartridges were used in India and China in the late 19th century.

William of Alnwick

William of Alnwick (c. 1275 – March 1333) was a Franciscan friar and theologian, and bishop of Giovinazzo, who took his name from Alnwick in Northumberland.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.


see also

Bobby Waugh

Robert Waugh is the owner of a farm in Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland.