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unusual facts about barbarians



Alexandre Tichonov

He had the distinction of being asked to play for the Barbarians on their Easter 1990 tour of Wales and was one of two Soviet players, along with Igor Mironov to play in the Rest of Europe XV in 1990 against the Four Home Unions XV at Twickenham Stadium.

Andrew Stoddart

In 1890 Stoddart again showing his openness to new ventures, became a founding member of the Barbarians, the invitational rugby club.

Andy Hazell

In 2001 he played for the England XV that took on the Barbarians and also went on the England tour to North America, playing in both midweek games and scoring a try against British Columbia.

Bedford Blues

The early successes, however, paled before the achievements of 1893-94, when the club's reputation persuaded opponents of the stature of Stade Francais, from Paris, and the Barbarians to make the journey over.

Boroughmuir RFC

Iain Paxton, British Lions Scotland & Barbarians forward and former Boroughmuir coach

Bu Zhi

In 220, the emperor of Shu Han, Liu Bei, declared war against Sun Quan in an attempt to retake Jing province, and bribed the Wuling barbarians to rebel as a way to dilute the Sun army.

Christian monasticism before 451

Forty of them were massacred in 373, and on the same day another group of solitaries at Raithe (supposed to be Elim) were killed by a second band of barbarians.

Christian Wade

He was selected for the England summer tour to Argentina, Wade scored in a warm up game against the Barbarians winning 40–12.

Cliff Morgan

His last game of first-class rugby was for the Barbarians on 28 May 1958 at the RFUEA Ground, Nairobi, versus East Africa.

Diocese of Squillace

The first known Bishop of Squillace is Gaudentius (465); Zachæus accompanied Pope Vigilius to Constantinople (551); John, previously Bishop of Lissa, in Dalmatia, having been driven out by the barbarians, was transferred to Squillace by Gregory the Great.

Dongyi

When the (c. 4th BCE) Classic of Rites recorded stereotypes about the Siyi "Four Barbarians" (Dongyi, Xirong, Nanman, and Beidi) in the four directions, Dongyi had acquired a clearly pejorative nuance.

Duke Mu of Qin

Duke Wen of Jin expelled the Di barbarians and drove them into the region west of the Yellow River between the Yun and Luo rivers; there they were known as the Red Di and the White Di.

Eastern Wu

Migrations from the north and the needed settlement from the Shanyue barbarians made it possible for the increase in manpower, agriculture, and settling the lower most parts of Wu.

Froude Hancock

Hancock went on several Easter tours with the Barbarians, scoring a try against Norman Biggs' Cardiff team in 1893.

George Cotterill

Finally, the two clubs met a few weeks later in a cricket match in which Cotterill played alongside several other prominent Corinthians, including Fry, Lindley and Charles Wreford-Brown, with the Barbarians winning by four wickets.

German Rugby Federation

The Barbarians included a host of internationals including Scott Hastings, Peter Stringer, Shaun Longstaff, Jeff Probyn, Frankie Sheahan, Russell Earnshaw, Shaun Connor, John Langford and Derwyn Jones and won 47-19 against a determined German team.

Glamorganshire Golf Club

The mounted head of a Springbok, presented to the Barbarians team after they defeated the South African national team in 1961, remains on display in the golf club’s bar to this day.

Graphic pejoratives in written Chinese

Additional "dog" radical examples of exonyms include the ancient Quanrong 犬戎 "dog barbarians" or "dog belligerents" and Xianyun 獫狁 (written with xian 獫 or 玁 "long-snouted dog; black dog with a yellow face").

Hayden Triggs

He scored a try against the Barbarians, and started in the squad's historic victories over Ireland and England.

Jimmy Parker

As well as the Brussels Barbarians Jimmy has played for Hull University RUFC, Utrecht RUFC (NL), Kituro (in Brussels) and Marlow Rugby Club in Buckinghamshire.

King David's Spaceship

The barbarians are Muslims of Indonesian origin who originally gave the planet its name.

Matsudaira Yorinori

In 1864, Yorinori was ordered by the Shogunate to proceed to Mito, in order to deal with an uprising of the Tengu Party, whose members had proposed the policy with the motto of "Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians".

Mediterraneanism

Sergi claimed the Nordics had made no substantial contribution to pre-modern civilization, noting that "in the epoch of Tacitus the Germans ... remained barbarians as in prehistoric times".

Nanman

The early Chinese exonym Man "southern barbarians" was a graphic pejorative written with Radical 142 虫, the "insect" or "reptile" radical.

Old Wesley

They celebrated their Centenary year in 1991 with a match against a star studded Barbarians team featuring Internationals such as Eric Rush, Pierre Berbizier and Tony Underwood.

Penarth RFC

Gary Teichmann captain of both the South African International squad and the Barbarians, unveiled a plaque at the clubhouse to mark the event.

Penzance RFC

It is considered a great honour to be invited to play for the Barbarians and in 1908 Barrie Bennetts was invited to join the annual tour to South Wales playing against Penarth and Cardiff.

Picquigny

After the defeat of the Huns at Lihons-en-Santerre, the inhabitants of Amiens, who had helped the barbarians, took refuge in the castle of Picquigny, to hide from the vengeance of Dagobert, where they were then besieged by him.

Res publica

After the Roman Empire collapsed in the West, the idea of res publica disappeared, as foreign to the barbarians of the Migrations Period: whenever Gregory of Tours refers to res publica, it is the Eastern Empire of which he is speaking.

Solomon Mhlaba

In 1980 he played against the touring Lions team twice, once with the Barbarians, and once as member of the South African Country Districts XV.

Terry Jones' Barbarians

He sees the common view of Rome and "Barbarians" as a result of the Roman Catholic Church popularizing the Roman version of the truth.

The Affair of the Gang of Barbarians

On February 22, 2008, six members of a group calling themselves Barbarians assaulted 19-year-old Mathieu Roumi in the same Paris suburb of Bagneux where Halimi was kidnapped.

The Rub

Four songs by The Rub were also included on one of the first MPEG digital/audio CDs, Browser Barbarians released by DMR Diversions (Ridgecrest, California).

Thurii

They established themselves for a short time in Sybaris on the Traeis but did not maintain their footing long, being dislodged and finally dispersed by the neighboring barbarians.

Wallchart

The subjects of later wallcharts included Pork and Apples, and Private Eye, perhaps doubting the usefulness of these items, satirised the growing trend with spoof advertisements for wallcharts on "Britain's Best-Loved Wasps" and "Britain's Favourite Wallcharts" as well as a cartoon depicting "Hadrian's Wallchart" (subject: Barbarians).

Western Zhou

When You replaced his wife with a concubine, the former queen's powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong barbarians to sack the western capital of Haojing and kill King You in 770 BCE.

Xie of Xia

In the 21st year of his reign, Xie fought with the surrounding barbarians of Fei, Bai, Chi, Xuan, Feng, and Yang.


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