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unusual facts about Wesley, Dominica


Ezekiel Bazil

Bazil's first venture into politics was to contest the Wesley constituency on the UWP ticket in the 2009 general election.


2013 Windward Islands Tournament

Dominica was originally scheduled to take part in the tournament but withdrew on 19 April, only two days before the tournament began, after head coach Kurt Hector and defender Noran Jno Hope were killed in a car accident on the way to Melville Hall Airport to meet their other teammates to fly to St. Vincent.

Alastair Forbes

Forbes’ first overseas posting was to Dominica in the British West Indies in 1936 as a magistrate and government officer, where much of his time was spent compiling an index of the island's laws (his assistant for many years was the barrister (later Dame) Eugenia Charles, who subsequently co-founded the centrist Dominica Freedom Party and in 1980 became the Caribbean's first female prime minister).

Aldersgate

It was a Moravian Church meeting, during a reading of Martin Luther's commentary on Romans that Wesley reported his heart "strangely warmed" — an event he described as his conversion.

Arline Judge

Judge was married seven times and had two sons; Wesley Ruggles, Jr. with first husband Wesley Ruggles and Dan Topping, Jr. with second husband Dan Topping.

Ascetical theology

Thomas of Jesus (died 1582) wrote the "Passion of Christ" and "De oratione dominica".

Charles H. Wesley

In 1965, Wesley became the Director of Research and Publications for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.

Charlotte York Goldenblatt

She is an art dealer and Smith College graduate (where she lived in Haven-Wesley House and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, although in real life Smith has no sororities) with a Connecticut blue-blooded upbringing.

Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System

Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-48567-2

Code Reading

The book inaugurated Addison-Wesley's Effective Software Development Series, edited by Scott Meyers,

Colleen McCullough

In 1984 a portrait of Colleen McCullough, painted by Wesley Walters, was a finalist in the Archibald Prize.

Coulibistrie

Coulibistrie is part of the Salisbury constituency in the Dominica House of Assembly, in which it is represented by Hector John (UWP) as of the 2009 general election.

Daniel Pancu

After a short spell in Bulgaria at CSKA Sofia, Pancu returned to Romanian football later in 2010 to play for SC Vaslui, but had a difficult time breaking into the first eleven with strong competition from Wesley and Mike Temwanjera.

Dennis Covington

Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Salvation in Southern Appalachia, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-025458-7

Dominica–France Maritime Delimitation Agreement

The treaty was signed by French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and Dominica Prime Minister Eugenia Charles.

Dominica–United States relations

The Peace Corps also provides technical assistance to the Commonwealth of Dominica, and has volunteers on the island working primarily in education, youth development, and health.

Dominican general election, 2000

General elections were held in Dominica on 31 January 2000 and saw the Dominica Labour Party led by Rosie Douglas take power defeating the previous government of the United Workers' Party led by Edison James, despite the UWP receiving more votes.

Dominican Snout

The Dominican Snout is rare, and locally distributed on Dominica in dry coastal forest and scrub, at such sites as Cabrits National Park, Morne Espagnole, and Morne Daniel.

Farey sequence

Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 1989); in particular, Sec. 4.5 (pp. 115–123), Bonus Problem 4.61 (pp. 150, 523–524), Sec. 4.9 (pp. 133–139), Sec. 9.3, Problem 9.3.6 (pp. 462–463).

Giuseppe Antonio Borgese

He was professor in the Universities of Chicago and California until the end of World War II, making friends with Thomas Mann and marrying his youngest daughter Elisabeth with whom he had two daughters, Angelica and Dominica.

Isla Aves

During a visit to Venezuela, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in June 2006, stated that Aves Island belongs to Venezuela, ending the territorial claim but not a maritime claim.

Japantown, San Jose, California

Two churches founded by Japanese over 100 years ago, Wesley United Methodist Church and San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin, thrive on the same street, Fifth Street, which now also leads to the new San Jose City Hall.

Jim Leisy

After two years he left University of Chicago Press to become a field representative and field editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, based in Philadelphia.

John Wesley Garretson

John Wesley Garretson (19 May 1812 – 7 May 1895) was a surveyor who mapped large areas of Arkansas, New Mexico and Texas in the nineteenth century.

Lawrence Pyke

In 1927, on his mother's death, Pyke was orphaned and he was adopted by Lawrence Adamson, the bachelor Headmaster of Wesley.

Martin K. Weiche

In 1981, Weiche was named as one of the financial backers of Operation Red Dog, a failed white supremacist plot to overthrow the government of Dominica.

Mary Wesley

The publication of Jumping the Queue in 1983 was the beginning of an intensely creative period of Wesley's life.

Matawan Regional High School

Erison Hurtault (born 1984, class of 2003), Olympic sprinter who competed in the 400 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics representing Dominica.

Maynard H. Jackson High School

Jackson's boundaries also included the campuses of three charter schools that also send children to Jackson High, Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, Wesley International Academy, and Drew Charter.

Michael Baze

On June 3, 2011, deputy Jefferson County coroner Jim Wesley reported that Michael Baze died of an accidental overdose.

Morne Rachette

Morne Rachette is part of the Salisbury constituency in the Dominica House of Assembly, in which it is represented by Hector John (UWP) as of the 2009 general election.

Multi-Facial

Mike does the reading with her in a heavy urban accent, but the casting directors cut the audition short, saying they’re looking for more of a “Wesley-Type” (presumably Wesley Snipes).

No Ennui

k.d. lang, Dayna Kurtz, Paula Cabor, Micki Korb, Claire Morkin, Paul Cebar, Paul Scher, Wesley Savick, Rob Gjersoe, Emily Saliers, Amy Ray - background vocals

Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS

Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS (1988, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-17589-4) is a book by Sonya Keene on the Common Lisp Object System.

Paul A. Russo

He was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1986 to 1988, under Ronald Reagan.

Pedro Montañez

Impressive wins over formidable foes Eddie Ran, Wesley Ramey, and Freddie “Red” Cochrane set up a title bout with Ambers on the September 23, 1937, “Carnival of Champions” show at the Polo Grounds in New York City.

Sackbut

This includes the Requiem (K626, 1791), Great Mass in C minor (K423, 1783), Coronation Mass (C major) (K317, 1779), several other masses, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore (K339, 1780), Vesperae de Dominica, his arrangement of Handel's Messiah plus two of his three great operas: Don Giovanni (K527, 1787) and Die Zauberflöte (K620, 1791).

Samuel Baptiste

His mother, Elaine Baptiste was from Willikies, Antigua, while his father, Lennard Baptiste, was originally from the town of Castle Bruce, Dominica.

Sean Strub

Strub co-authored Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley, 1985), a guide to corporate social responsibility, with Steve Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Marlin and Cracking the Corporate Closet (HarperBusiness, 1995) with Daniel B. Baker and Bill Henning.

Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet

The only son of Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet, by Catherine Anne, daughter of Major-general John Phipps, he was born at Roseau on Dominica on 20 August 1804.

Soufrière

Soufrière, Dominica, a village on the southwest coast of Dominica in the Caribbean.

Southern Wesleyan University

Ken Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University

Teddy Sandford

As a youth he played football for Tantany Athletic, Overend Wesley, Birmingham Carriage Works F.C. and Smethwick Highfield.

The Dominica Story

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island is a history book from 1975, written by famed Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch.

The Thin Dead Line

While Angel teams up with Detective Kate Lockley to investigate the source of the undead cops, Wesley ends up getting shot by one of the policemen and Gunn, Anne and some street kids hole up in the shelter while the zombie policemen try to claw their way in.

Uiliami Leilua Vi

He was educated at Tupou College and finishing off at Wesley College and Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand.

Wesley A. Clark

Wesley Allison Clark (born 1927) is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers (such as the PDP-1) the claim to be the inspiration for the personal computer.

Wesley Enoch

Wesley Enoch (born 1969) is an Australian playwright and artistic director of Murri descent from Stradbroke Island (Minjeribah) and he is a proud Noonuccal Nuugi man.

Wesley Theological College

In 1968, Parkin College and Wesley Theological College merged to form Parkin-Wesley College at the site of Wesley College.

West Indies Power

It has geothermal power development activities in Nevis, Saba and Dominica.

Wroot

His son John Wesley officiated as curate at Wroot until July 1728, after which he became Moderator of Lincoln College, Oxford.


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