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unusual facts about Wallis-et-Futuna



Alf Wallis

Born at North Carlton in Melbourne to carpenter William Wallis and Mary Ann, née Gorman, he attended state schools at Horsham and Moreland before becoming a cutter's apprentice and journeyman.

Anna Wolkoff

She was allegedly associated with Wallis Simpson, a client of her couture business, and also under suspicion by British counter-intelligence.

Annabelle Wallis

Maternal niece of Richard Harris, Wallis was born in Oxford, England, but spent much of her childhood in Portugal attending Saint Dominic's International School.

Arthur Wallis Mills

(Edith Margaret Garrud) By Arthur Wallis Mills, originally published 1910 for Punch Magazine and The Wanganui Chronicle.

Battle of Grocka


Fieldmarshal Wallis, charged with negligence, was court-martialled and condemned to imprisonment in the castle of Spielberg.

Bertram Wallis

Between the wars, Wallis also made a number of films, including The Cost of a Kiss (1917), as Lord Darlington; Victory and Peace (1918), as Bob Brierley; The Wandering Jew (1933), as Prince Bohemund; A Dream of Love (1938), as Liszt 'old'; Chips (1938), as Smuggler; A People Eternal (1939), as The English Prince; and Shipbuilders (1944), as Caven Watson.

In the 1920s, the now mature Wallis began to play character parts, appearing with great success as Louis XV in Madame Pompadour (1923) by Leo Fall, Frederick Lonsdale and Harry Graham, starring with Evelyn Laye and Derek Oldham.

Blue-crowned Lorikeet

The Blue-crowned Lorikeet (Vini australis) is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago, including: ʻAlofi, Fotuhaʻa, Fulago, Futuna, Haʻafeva, Niuafoʻou, Moce, Niuē, Ofu, Olosega, Sāmoa, Savaiʻi, Tafahi, Taʻu, Tofua, Tonga, Tungua, ʻUiha, ʻUpolu, Varoa, Vavaʻu, and Voleva.

Bob Wallis

For the third album, The Wallis Collection, Al Gay replaced Richford and, following an illness, Buckner left to be replaced by Alan Poston.

Brecht Wallis

After an evenly fought match Brecht Wallis was announced the winner by unanimous decision and moved on to the tournament finals against American Mighty Mo where he suffered his first loss by a devastating KO in a second round.

Caspar Wolf

He travelled with Wagner or a minister Jakob Samuel Wyttenbach in Berner Oberland and Wallis.

Comedytrain

Over the years Comedytrain has become the home of famous Dutch comedians, like Hans Teeuwen, Theo Maassen, Najib Amhali, Hans Sibbel, Thomas Acda, Ronald Goedemondt, Jan Jaap van der Wal, and Sanne Wallis de Vries.

Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr.

After a second marriage, to Ernest Simpson, and a subsequent divorce, Wallis Spencer married the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and became the Duchess of Windsor.

Bessie Wallis Warfield (1896–1986), only child of Teackle Wallis Warfield, member of a prominent Maryland family; they married in Baltimore on November 8, 1916.

Eduard Ortgies

Ortgies acted as his agent for a few years, but Wallis fell ill and went into a gradual decline up to his 1878 death at the hospital of Guayaquil.

Franz Petrasch

At the beginning of hostilities Petrasch commanded a Division of Wallis’ 1st Corps under Charles on the Danube, and served at the Battle of Stockach 25 March.

Geoffrey Thorndike Martin

He obtained an MA from Cambridge University in 1966 and became a Lady Wallis Budge Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, a post which he held until 1970.

Harry Stopes-Roe

His wife—Mary Eyre Wallis, later Mary Stopes-Roe—was the daughter of the noted engineer Barnes Wallis.

Horn Island

Hoorn Islands, a group of two islands, Futuna and Alofi, in the Pacific Ocean, now part of Wallis and Futuna

Human Garbage

#"I Wanna Drink" (Farren, Wallis) – originally on Mick Farren's Vampires Stole My Lunch Money LP

India of Inchinnan

It is similar in style to Wallis, Gilbert and Partners' Hoover Building in Perivale, London.

The office block was similar in style to Wallis, Gilbert and Partners' Hoover Building in Perivale, London.

J. H. Wallis

H. Wallis was a writer whose best-selling book Once Off Guard (in later publications it was called The Woman in the Window) was made into a film, The Woman in the Window (1944), directed by Fritz Lang.

James and Mary Wallis

In April 1835, James and Mary Wallis, along with another missionary couple and a number Maori Chiefs from Hokianga arrived – via a three day sailing journey at Kāwhia Harbour.

John Goddard

John Theodore Goddard, solicitor appointed by Wallis Simpson as an adviser to her during divorce proceedings

Kapeliele Faupala

The coronation took place in the presence of the French Secretary General to the Administrator Superior of Wallis and Futuna, since the current Administrator Superior, Richard Didier, was traveling outside of Wallis and Futuna at the time.

King Creole

Wallis selected Michael Curtiz, a noted director of the Hollywood studio system whose works included The Adventures of Robin Hood, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Casablanca.

Kristy Cates

Playing Ruth Wallis herself along with a barrage of other characters (including a medicated Mary Poppins, and a Follies Bergere wannabe), Cates garnered positive reviews from critics.

Louise Wallis

A French house music fan and francophile, Wallis has performed twice at the French Institute’s 12-hour extravaganza ‘My Night With Philosophers’.

Magic City Jazz Orchestra

Rhythm Section: Robert Dickson and Chris Wendle on bass, Tom Wolfe and Jim Wallis on guitar, Steve Sample, Jr (son of Steve Sample, Sr) and Sonny Harris on drums, and Ray Reach on piano and organ.

Mike + The Mechanics

The album was released in April 2011 featured both Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar on vocals, Luke Juby on keyboards, Gary Wallis on drums, and Anthony Drennan on guitar and bass.

New Hampshire Route 1A

Route 1A proceeds north out of North Hampton and along the coastline past Rye Beach, Rye North Beach, Wallis Sands, and Odiorne Point State Park, where it turns west, away from the ocean.

Oak Hall, Haslemere

In January 1969 Mr Wallis sold Oak Hall and its grounds to the Wispers School Educational Trust.

Old Buckenham Airport

In 2012 the airfield manager, Matt Wilkins, announced that Wallis had been given lifetime membership as member number 007, celebrating his contribution to the airfield, aviation and marking his appearance as James Bond in You only live twice with the autogyro Little Nellie which Wallis had built and demonstrated to Albert R. Broccoli.

Olivier, Count of Wallis

In the 1792 campaign of the War of the First Coalition, Wallis commanded a mixed division in the corps of Friedrich Wilhelm, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg on the upper Rhine and the Moselle, stationed on the Rhine river between Basel and Strassburg.

Palmer R. Chitester Fund

Wallis therefore introduced Chitester to his old friend Milton Friedman in early 1977 (shortly after Friedman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences).

Provo Wallis

Admiral Wallis died in 1892 at his country home in Funtington, England, not far from Portsmouth and was buried in the village church yard.

Regular Hadamard matrix

W. D. Wallis, Anne Penfold Street, and Jennifer Seberry Wallis, Combinatorics: Room Squares, Sum-Free Sets, Hadamard Matrices, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1972.

Severn Teackle Wallis

In September of that year Wallis was arrested with many members of the legislature and other citizens of the city and state (including the police marshal George Kane and mayor George Brown), and imprisoned for more than fourteen months in various forts.

STP-Paxton Turbocar

Wallis, a distant relative of famed British engineer Barnes Wallis, had developed a workable plan for harnessing a gas turbine to a race car.

Taualuga

This dance form has been adopted and adapted throughout western Polynesia, most notably in the Kingdom of Tonga, Uvea, Futuna, and Tokelau.

The Kiss of the Vampire

Gerald (Edward de Souza) and Marianne Harcourt (Jennifer Daniel), are a honeymooning couple in early 20th-century Bavaria who become caught up in a vampire cult led by Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) and his two children Carl (Barry Warren) and Sabena (Jacquie Wallis).

The Stonebreaker

Wallis is believed to have painted The Stonebreaker as a commentary on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which had formalised the workhouse system for paupers and discouraged other forms of relief for the poor.

Wallis Cinemas

Big Screen Advertising has supplied pre-film advertising to all of Wallis' cinema locations since 2004, when Val Morgan Cinema Advertising (Wallis' previous advertising agent) was absorbed by rival cinema chain Hoyts.

William N. Leonard

Two of his brothers also became high-ranking officers: Army Major General Charles F. Leonard, Jr. and Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel John Wallis Leonard, who was killed in action in World War II.

XPF

CFP franc, the currency used in the French overseas collectivities (collectivités d’outre-mer, or COM) of French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna


see also

Bureau d'études des postes et télécommunications d'outre-mer

La Poste postage stamp agency, the Postage Stamp and Philately National Service, proposed its printing service to the Overseas collectivities, its subsidiaries in Mayotte and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and the independent public postal operators in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis-et-Futuna.