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27 unusual facts about Waterloo


Albert Maier

As a young man he had travelled to America, where he was converted to the Christadelphian church and taught by A. H. Zilmer, a German-speaking Christadelphian of Waterloo, Iowa.

Canadian Association of Magicians

The first 5 conventions were scheduled to take place every second year, and the first 4 took place in the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

They arrived in Britain in 1902, establishing over the years nursing homes in Waterloo and in Cumbria (1921).

Church of Saint Joseph, Waterloo

The Church of Saint Joseph of Waterloo (French - Église Saint-Joseph de Waterloo) is an 18th-century Belgian church in Waterloo dedicated to Saint Joseph.

Claire Curtis-Thomas

She is also involved with the Waterloo Partnership, a charity based in her constituency which raises money for Waterloo, Sierra Leone.

Europay International

The merged entity was headquartered in Waterloo, Belgium, on the same premises as EPSS (European Payment Systems Services) and MasterCard EMEA (the MasterCard region comprising Europe, the Middle East and Africa).

Harold Albrecht

Albrecht grew up in the riding in which he was elected and was educated in Waterloo Region at Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School, and then at Waterloo Lutheran University (which is now Wilfrid Laurier University).

KHAK

It is based in the Cedar Rapids Market, but it is heard in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Quad Cities Markets as well in spots.

Les Pastoureaux

Les Pastoureaux (literally: "The Shepherd Boys"), Petits Chanteurs de Waterloo et de Louvain-la-Neuve (Waterloo & Louvain-la-Neuve Boys' choir) is a Belgian choir of boys and men based in Waterloo, Belgium.

Luke Fulghum

Fulghum began his career in 1998 playing at junior level for the Waterloo Black Hawks in Waterloo, Iowa.

Metro Morning

However Metro Morning was broadcast on the Paris, Ontario transmitter (serving Kitchener-Waterloo) until the start of local morning programming on March 11, 2013.

Region of Waterloo International Airport

The airport's former name, Waterloo Regional Airport, is now used by Waterloo Regional Airport in Waterloo, Iowa.

Ribble Motor Services

The L3/L30 Liverpool, Bootle, Waterloo to Crosby stage carriage service was the most frequent in its class.

Tom Carnegie

Carnegie's father was a Baptist minister, which led to moving the family during Carnegie's childhood from Connecticut to Waterloo, Iowa, Pontiac, Michigan and finally Kansas City, Missouri.

Valley, Nebraska

Valley and neighboring Waterloo operate a consolidated school system, Douglas County West Community Schools.

Wairarapa Connection

The train stops at all stations along the line from Masterton to Upper Hutt, before running along the Hutt Valley Line to Wellington station stopping only at Waterloo and Petone stations.

Waterloo 94

Waterloo 94 was a Canadian semi-professional ice hockey team in Waterloo, Quebec.

Waterloo North

In 1947, it was re-defined to consist of the city of Kitchener, the town of Waterloo and the townships of Wellesley and Woolwich, and the northern part of the township of Waterloo.

Waterloo Partnership

The Waterloo Partnership is a British Charity based in Waterloo and Crosby areas of Liverpool raises money for its Sierra Leone namesake.

Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School

Bob Schlegel & Myrna Schlegel, who made a $2 million donation to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1998 to create the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship

Waterloo, Alabama

In the 1930s, the town was moved to its current location when the Tennessee Valley Authority completed the Pickwick Landing Dam, which impounds Pickwick Lake.

Waterloo, Illinois

At this point in time Illinois was considered a county of Virginia, and so the commission received by Captain Moore came from the Governor of Virginia, Patrick Henry.

This partnership, which goes by the portmanteau Portaloo, has since assised other communities in the area to establish Sister Cities programs of their own, including Columbia/Gedern, Belleville/Paderborn, and Millstadt/Groß-Bieberau.

James Moore and many of the settlers that followed him had been members of George Rogers Clark's Illinois campaign of 1778.

Waterloo, London

Waterloo Road also dates from this time, built on land belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The area is part of a business improvement district known as Waterloo Quarter, which includes The Cut and the Old Vic and Young Vic theatres, including some sections in the London Borough of Southwark.

Waterloo, Victoria

The locality is the birthplace of Ernest Chinnery (5 November 1887- 17 December 1972), an Australian anthropologist and public servant who worked extensively in Papua New Guinea and visited communities along the Sepik river.


Alan Unwin

He attended a rally for the Reform Party in May 1997, in which party leader Preston Manning called for federal prisoners to be stripped of their voting rights (Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 16 May 1997).

Alfred Cope

Cope was raised in Lambeth (Waterloo), London, the eldest of eleven children born to Alfred and Margaret.

Ankō Itosu

Remember the words attributed to the Duke of Wellington after he defeated Napoleon: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

Anna Valley

Tasker Waterloo Iron Works(Taskers of Andover) opened here in 1809 and survived as a manufacturing industry until final closure in 1984.

Blackstock Road

There are four bus services running along it, the 4, 19, 106 and 236, reaching out to Battersea, Waterloo or Archway, Hackney Wick and Whitechapel respectively.

Bonapartism

Napoleon II, Emperor of the French (1815), Claimant (1815–1832), son of Napoleon I. Briefly reigned as Emperor in France for a fortnight in June–July 1815, after his father's abdication following the defeat at Waterloo.

British Rail Class 74

One exception to this were the frequent balancing runs between their home depot of Eastleigh and their day-time out-stations of either Clapham Junction yard or Stewarts Lane depot in readiness for night-time postal and newspaper trains from Waterloo.

Charleroi Metro line 54

Trams drive on the right between Sud and Waterloo, then on the left between Samaritaine and Gilly.

Colleen Rusholme

Colleen Rusholme (born November 5, 1973, in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario) is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster.

Duncan MacLeod Timeline:1792-1891

On June 18, on the battlefield of Waterloo (present-day Belgium), Duncan carries a sick soldier on his back and meets Immortal Darius on his way.

Edmund Concanon

In this was they held onto the remain of the property in the parish of Killascobe; Edmund's father named the family home "Waterloo" in commemoration of Wellington's victory.

General Lying-In Hospital

Since March 2013 the building comprises part of the Premier Inn Hotel Waterloo.

Gerald Hagey

This idea proved somewhat controversial, and Hagey ultimately became the founding president of the University of Waterloo in 1957, when the science and engineering faculties he had established broke away from the rest of Waterloo College, which later became Wilfrid Laurier University.

Gisela C. Lebzelter

: Canadian Protestantism and the Jewish Plight During the Nazi Era, (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0-88920-288-7, ISBN 978-0-88920-309-9 (pbk.)

Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood

It was one of the first churches built from funds voted by Parliament to mark Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and hence known as a "Waterloo Church".

Illuminati

Other theorists contend that a variety of historical events from Waterloo, the French Revolution, President John F. Kennedy's assassination to an alleged communist plot to hasten the New World Order by infiltrating the Hollywood film industry, were all orchestrated by the Illuminati.

John Ruggie

Ruggie has a BA in politics and history from McMaster University in Canada; a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley; a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from McMaster; and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from University of Waterloo.

Killingworth locomotives

It was named after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who, after a speedy march, arrived in time to the battle of Waterloo and helped defeat Napoleon.

KWWL

KFMW, an FM radio station (107.9 MHz) licensed to Waterloo, Iowa, United States, which previously held the KWWL-FM callsign

Lambeth Orchestra

It gives a regular series of 6 concerts each year at All Saints Church, West Dulwich and St John's Waterloo.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences

The campus in Kitchener, known as the Waterloo Regional Campus, shares facilities with the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Waterloo.

Mushfiqur Rahman

He is an active member of the Sigma Chi North American fraternity based out of Evanston, Illinois, and he is a Global Representative for the University of Waterloo.

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands

When Napoleon returned from Elba, during the Hundred Days the prince was given command of a detachment of Wellington's army which was posted in a fall back position near Braine should the battle taking place at Waterloo be lost.

Rocquencourt

After the defeat of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, Grouchy's army withdrew to Paris via Namur and Dinant, reaching Paris on 29 June, a few days before the Prussians, who camped at Versailles.

Savvas Chamberlain

During his time at the University of Waterloo, he invented many silicon image sensors, introduced new technology on MOSFET and Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) devices, and developed some fundamental theories.

Second Anglo-Maratha War

Wellesley, who went on to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo, would later remark that Assaye was tougher than Waterloo.

Stig Anderson

In the early stages of ABBA, Anderson co-wrote many of the songs' lyrics, among them some of the band's biggest hits, such as "Ring Ring" (1973), "Waterloo" (1974), "Honey, Honey" (1974), "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" (1975), "Mamma Mia" (1975), "S.O.S" (1975), "Fernando" (1976), "Dancing Queen" (1976), "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (1977), and "The Name of the Game" (1977).

Thénardiers

The inn, which is forced to close down after Cosette is taken, is called "The Sergeant at Waterloo", because of a peculiar adventure that M. Thénardier had following the famous battle.

Tom Carnegie

While living in Waterloo, Iowa, Carnegie would listen to radio broadcasts of a young Ronald Reagan and credits Reagan with being one of his main broadcasting inspirations and influences.

Universal transit pass

Both universities in the city of Waterloo, Ontario (Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo) have implemented U-Pass programs in their tuition fees, allowing full-time students year-round unlimited travel on the Grand River Transit bus system anywhere in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo using their student card.

Watcyn Thomas

A teacher by profession, he moved to St Helens to teach at Cowley Grammar School in 1929, and played rugby for Waterloo and Lancashire, captaining Lancashire to the championship in 1934-35.

Water supply and sanitation in Belgium

In Mons surface water from the Maas is treated to provide another 30% of the city's water needs; in Vedrin, part of Namur, water is pumped from an abandoned Pyrite mine; springs in Genappe, wells in Waterloo and Zaventem, and mines in Ligny and Écaussinnes provide the remainder of Brussel's water supply.

WBTC

Unlike most radio stations in the Northeastern United States assigned to the clear-channel frequency of 1540 kHz (all of whom must sign off at sunset to protect KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa and/or ZNS-1 in Nassau, Bahamas) WBTC has 5 watts of night power assigned, but signs off nightly at 9:00 p.m., give or take live sports play-by-play events.

Western Fair

The Western Fair Museum and Archives began with the efforts of Inge Sanmyia, who was working on her Ph.D. in history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario in 1997.

William C. Leggett

Leggett was born in 1939 in Orangeville, Ontario, He received his high school education at Orangeville District High School and a B.A. from Waterloo University College (now Wilfrid Laurier University) in 1962.

William Menster

Menster was then assigned to be the associate pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Waterloo, Iowa.

WLKI

WLKI's primary service area includes the cities of Angola, Fremont, Clear Lake, Orland, and Waterloo in Indiana, Coldwater, Bronson and Camden in Michigan, and Edon, Ohio.