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unusual facts about Windmill


A Jitney Elopement

Most of the film was made in San Francisco and includes scenes of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the large Windmills still in the park's west side.


Aartselaar

It is known for its 1801 windmill (Heimolen) as well as the cycling race called Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen.

Barbados Cricket Buckle

To his left a wattle and daub slave hut can be seen and to the right a cane crushing windmill by an Roystonea oleracea cabbage palm tree.

Beckwithshaw

Beckwithshaw Horse Trials, organised by British Eventing, is an annual cross country event held at Beaver Horse Shop on Windmill Farm.

Boffa Island

Named by the US-ACAN for W. C. Boffa, observer with the then Army Strategic Air Command (SAC), who assisted Operation Windmill parties in establishing astronomical control stations in the area in January 1948.

Cape May County, New Jersey

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms, including Trachycarpus fortunei (Chinese Windmill Palm) and Needle Palms, would work quite well in the landscape, these plants having survived for many years also in other parts of coastal New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.

Chain pump

From the 13th century onwards, the Chinese also used windmills (adopted from the Islamic world) to power square-pallet chain pumps.

Church of St Thomas the Martyr

Further income was raised through a windmill below Jesmond (confirmed as the chapel’s property in 1408) and more land, in Whickham, left to the chapel in the will of Roger Thornton in 1429.

Cley Windmill

Cley windmill was owned by the grandfather and father of James Blunt (born Blount), who spent time at the mill during his childhood.

Colley Gate

Colley Gate is the name of the road between Windmill Hill and Greenways part of the A458 road connecting Halesowen with Stourbridge

Dickey Lee

Lee is included as co-writer and singer on singer-songwriter Michael Saxell's 2005 album Wonky Windmill on the song "Two Men".

Dutch Windmill

Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer who was nicknamed The Dutch Windmill

Elisha K. Green

He was a manufacturer of windmills, pumps and engines, selling his first windmill to developer Prudent Beaudry.

Fabyan

Fabyan Windmill, an authentic, working Dutch windmill dating from the 1850s located in Geneva, Illinois

Fylde College, Lancaster

The college emblem is a windmill and is represented in the JCR logo as a sketch of the Marsh Mill at Thornton.

Glossary of mill machinery

A fantail is a small windmill which is used to keep a windmill facing into the wind automatically.

Most windmills had four sails, although some had five (Boston), six (Waltham, Lincs) or eight sails Heckington, Lincs and there is one recorded twelve sailed windmill (Cottenham, Cambs).

Goëngahuizen

There are three windmills in Goëngahuizen, De Jansmolen, De Modderige Bol and Heechheim.

Gymnastic formation

The performance of the NGOs, such as the SGI, is widely variable, such as, bi-dimensional wave, sky rocket, windmill, walking wall, walking pyramid, catapult, instantaneous stand-up pyramid, instantaneous stand-up tower, three-layers' plane tower, four-layers' tower, and rarely five-layers' tower.

Hartsville, New York

In the fall of 2005, it was publicly revealed that Irish windmill company Airtricity was planning to build several windmills in Hartsville, and had signed contracts with several landowners for the use of land on which to put these windmills.

Holgate Windmill

Holgate Windmill is a tower mill at Holgate in York, North Yorkshire, England which has been restored to working order.

Il borgomastro di Saardam

In August he was incognito in Zaandam (Saardam) in order to study the Dutch shipbuilding and wind powered industries.

Kazys Boruta

His most notable work, Baltaragio malūnas (Baltaragis' Windmill), was adapted as a play, a movie Devil's Bride, and a ballet.

Oedo

In 1976, their plan was greenlighted with cultivating a land of 1601235 ft²(45,000 pyeong), growing rare plant species such as Agave americana, Rose of Sunshine, windmill palms, and C. peruvianus (a kind of cactus).

Old Dutch Mill

Fabyan Windmill or Old Dutch Mill, Geneva, a windmill in Illinois

One for the Man Over There

The Tides won the 2006 ATL's Rock School event, and after headed off to Windmill Lane in Dublin to record their new album.

Osterley

Besides Osterley House and Park, the district is also known for embracing one of the London residences of The Sultan of Brunei (The Aviary Farm in Windmill Lane).

Puddle City Racing Lights

Puddle City Racing Lights is the debut album by Windmill, released in the UK on Melodic Records in 2007, and in the US on Friendly Fire Recordings in 2008.

Small River Lea

The river forms a boundary with the Lee Valley youth hostel at Cheshunt before flowing under Windmill Lane close to Cheshunt railway station.

Stock tank

These tanks are filled either by a pump, windmill, creek, spring, or even rely on runoff water from rain or melting snow.

Stone Windmill

Stone Windmill (Morristown, New York), also known as McConnell's Windmill, listed as "Stone Windmill" in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Sydney Observatory

In 1848, a new signal station was built by the Colonial Architect, Mortimer Lewis, on top of the fort wall on Windmill Hill.

Terling

The latter is a mixture of old properties and newer buildings, including the house converted from a windmill which was featured in the film Oh, Mr Porter!.

The Old Mill

The Old Mill is featured in the World of Color presentation at Disney California Adventure Park, and there is a snack stand called 'The Old Mill' in an actual windmill at Disneyland Paris

Vivian Van Damm

In 1931, Laura Henderson had opened the tiny, one-tier Windmill Theatre as a playhouse, but it was not profitable and soon resorted to showing films.

Walter Dulany

In 1808 the younger Walter Dulany sold his family house at Windmill Point to the United States Government, which assigned the house to the commander of Fort Severn which was subsequently built there.

Windmill Down

Windmill Down is a rural location near the town of Hambledon in Hampshire.

Windmill Performing Arts

Internationally, Windmill have performed in many countries, including in the US (including Off-Broadway), New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea.

Windmills in Jersey

St Ouen's Windmill, or Moulin de la Campagne is a tower mill in Grantez, Saint Ouen, that was converted into an artillery observation post by the Germans during World War Two.


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