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unusual facts about Yale College, Wrexham



A483 road

Discussions have taken place to make the route from Ruabon to Oswestry a dual carriageway, as part of a plan to dual the route from Wrexham to Shrewsbury (part of which is the A5 road) in an effort to increase transport links with the M54 motorway.

Alan Bernheimer

He attended Horace Mann School, and graduated in 1970 from Yale College, where he became friends with poets Steve Benson, Kit Robinson, Rodger Kamenetz, and Alex Smith and studied literature with A. Bartlett Giamatti and Harold Bloom and poetry with Ted Berrigan, Peter Schjeldahl, and Bill Berkson.

Average worker's wage

Examples of people taking only an average worker's wage are Socialist Party politician Joe Higgins, former MP Dave Nellist in the UK, John Marek, Forward Wales' Welsh Assembly member for Wrexham, and Sinn Féin politicians in Ireland.

BBC Cymru Wales

In addition to these properties, BBC Cymru Wales also has properties in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Carmarthen, Newtown, Penrhyndeudraeth and Wrexham and at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Ben Futcher

Other footballing members of Ben's family include his uncles Ron Futcher and Graham Futcher (both ex-Chester), cousins Danny Murphy (England international) and Stephen Futcher (ex-Wrexham).

Bishop of Wrexham

The see is in the town of Wrexham where the bishop's seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Borough United F.C.

A 0-0 draw in Malta was followed by a 2-0 success at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham — a more suitable venue than the tiny Nant-y-Coed ground with its single stand and spartan changing rooms — to set up a tie with Slovakian ŠK Slovan Bratislava.

Cefn

F.C. Cefn, a football club based in Cefn Mawr, playing in the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Premier Division

Christmas Price Williams

He went to Grove Park School in Wrexham and at Mold, Flintshire before attending Victoria University of Manchester where he received a B.Sc honours degree in science and an M.Sc.

Clark Blanchard Millikan

He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, graduated from Yale College in 1924, then earned his PhD in physics and mathematics at Caltech in 1928 under Professor Harry Bateman.

David G. Johnson

Johnson grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana and is a 1978 graduate of Yale College where he studied economics and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School.

David Harding

Dave Harding, English footballer for Wrexham and Australian teams

David Lord

On his father's retirement from the Army the family moved to Wrexham and then David was a pupil at St Mary's College, Aberystwyth before attending the English Ecclesiastical College, Valladolid, Spain to study for the priesthood.

Edward Almer

He transferred the family seat from Almer to Pant Iocyn (now Pant-yr-Ochain), a house he rebuilt between Gresford and Wrexham using materials salvaged from his previous home.

Emily Baldwin

Emily was also the niece of US Representative Timothy Pitkin, the granddaughter of the Rev. Timothy Pitkin (Yale 1747), great-granddaughter Governor William Pitkin and the Reverend Thomas Clap, who was the fifth President of Yale College; and a descendant of Governors George Wyllys and John Haynes of Connecticut and Governor Thomas Dudley of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony.

Garrick Mallery

His father was Judge Garrick Mallery, who was born April 17, 1784, and graduated at Yale College in 1808.

George Cotterill

This time, Cotterill was selected as part of a predominately amateur team (most of the players were members of the Corinthian club) to play against Wales at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, and was one of only three players in the side who had previous international experience.

Glenn Fleishman

Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), and attended the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland, in 1989.

Gwersyllt railway station

Gwersyllt railway station serves the area of Gwersyllt in the town of Wrexham in North Wales.

Harry Rowe Shelley

He was born in New Haven, Conn. Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris.

Humphrey Kynaston

Humphrey later married Isabella ferch Maredudd ap Howell ap Morrice of Oswaldestre (Oswestry), daughter of Maredudd of Glascoed and Thomasina Ireland of Wrexham, Denbighshire.

Idwal Robling

In those days of limited football coverage he was used mainly as a reporter by BBC Wales and his commentaries were largely restricted to the occasional Match of the Day opt-out, Welsh Cup game or international friendly, but Cardiff City and Wrexham's exploits in the European Cup Winners Cup in the 1970s saw him commentate on some memorable European games against the likes of Real Madrid, Hajduk Split and Anderlecht.

Iñigo Liceranzu

On 30 April 1985 Liceranzu gained his sole cap for Spain, playing the entire 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Wales, a 0–3 loss in Wrexham.

Isaac E. Holmes

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Holmes attended the common schools, received private tuition, and graduated from Yale College in 1815.

John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Brainard was tutored at home by an elder brother, and entered Yale College at the age of 15 in 1811.

John K. Kane

He graduated from Yale College in 1814, studied law with Joseph Hopkinson, and was admitted to the bar on April 18, 1817.

Jonathan Leavitt

He and the former Emelia Stiles had four daughters, including Sarah Hooker Leavitt, Mary Hooker Leavitt, Emilia Stiles Leavitt (later Mrs. E. T. Foote), and a son Jonathan, who died in 1821 while attending Yale College, an event that threw his father into profound depression.

Maesgeirchen

It is the third largest single housing estate in Wales behind Gurnos, Merthyr Tydfil, the second largest and Caia Park in Wrexham, which is the largest with nearly 12,000 inhabitants.

Mark Cartwright

He was a bi-part player at Wrexham until the 1998–99 season where he played in 43 matches and produced a fine performance in a 0–0 draw at Manchester City.

Paul Schmidtberger

Originally from Schooley's Mountain in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, Schmidtberger attended the Lawrenceville School and is a graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School.

RAF Wrexham

The first noted involvement of aviation with Wrexham was in 1912 when Gustav Hamel visited the Racecourse Ground to entertain the public with air displays.

Raphael Hayyim Isaac Carregal

While in Newport, Carregal became an intimate friend of Ezra Stiles, afterward president of Yale College.

Reg Barton

Barton enjoyed a rare run in goal for Chester late in the 1964–65 season, which included a 6–1 win over arch rivals Wrexham.

Richard Storrs Willis

He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841.

Robert McLaughlin

Bobby McLaughlin (1925–2003), Northern Irish footballer who played for Wrexham, Cardiff City and Southampton, see 1953–54 Cardiff City F.C. season

Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham

The see is in the town of Wrexham where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows.

Ron Guthrie

Later joining near rivals Blyth Spartans Ron was part of the famous 'giant killing' team that reached the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1978 losing to Wrexham in a replay at St James Park watched by over 42,000 with thousands locked outside, but not after drawing a potential home tie against Arsenal in the Quarter Finals.

Sam McMillan

Sammy McMillan, association football player (Manchester United, Wrexham, Northern Ireland)

Shrewsbury to Chester Line

On 28 April 2008, Wrexham & Shropshire began providing services along the section of line between Wrexham General and Shrewsbury, continuing via Wolverhampton to London Marylebone.

Soccer Night

ITV Wales lost the rights to show highlights of Wrexham's matches when the club was relegated to the Blue Square Premier league at the end of the 2007/8 season (a result of Setanta Sports possessing exclusive rights to the Football Conference leagues).

Southsea, Wrexham

The Wrexham historian Alfred Neobard Palmer noted that the name Southsea first appeared on the rate books as early as 1786, though also commenting that this was "an absurd name which should never have been adopted, especially as there was an appropriate name ready to hand".

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.

Tony Lormor

He scored the winner on his League debut against Wrexham, finished the season with eight goals, only one fewer than leading scorer Gordon Hobson,

Virtus Vecomp Verona

The group Virtus Fans, founded in 2006, have a friendship with antifa supporters groups all over the world: Livorno Calcio, Ternana Calcio, Cosenza Calcio, Lanciotto, Celtic Glasgow, Wrexham, Olympique Marseille, Rayo Vallecano, FC St. Pauli, RSV Goettingen 05, TSV 1860 München and Bubi Merano (futsal).

William Watson Andrews

He was born at Windham, Windham Co., Conn., graduated in 1831 at Yale, and in 1834 was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational church at Kent, Conn. He early accepted the tenet of the Catholic Apostolic Church, commonly spoken of as the "Irvingites," and in 1849, having given up his charge at Kent.

Wrexham and Minera Railway

In the 1870s a further extension, the Wrexham and Minera Joint Railway, was built from Brymbo through to an end-on connection with the LNWR's Ffrith Branch, which ran from Llanfynydd to Coed Talon near Mold.

Wrexham Lager Beer

However Graesser reformed the brewery as, and found a non-local market in export sales, primarily through railways such as the Great Western Railway (who were also the primary method of shipping the beer out of Wrexham), shipping lines such as Cunard, and the British Army; there was documentary evidence of the lager appearing in many places, such as Khartoum as early as 1898.

WSMR

Wrexham, Shropshire and Marylebone Railway, a former train operating company in the United Kingdom

Yali School

Brownell Gage, Warren Seabury, Lawrence Thurston, and Arthur Williams, all graduates of Yale College in the 1890s, founded Yale-in-China, and brought the mission to Changsha between 1901 and 1905.


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