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unusual facts about battle of St. Johns



Anerley

Arthur Bigsworth, aviator was born in Anerley in 1885, said to be the inspiration for W. E. Johns' fictional hero Biggles.

Arthur Bigsworth

It has been claimed that W. E. Johns based some aspects of his fictional hero Biggles (surname Bigglesworth) on the real-life Bigsworth, with whom he had worked at the Air Ministry.

Bartram Trail

Bartram Trail High School at St. Johns, Florida (just south of Jacksonville) is named for the scenic highway and Bartram's exploration route around the Northern St. Johns County area.

Battle of St. George's Caye

In 1783, hostilities were brought to an end by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which allowed the Baymen rights between the Belize and Hondo rivers; this was extended with the 1786 Convention of London to the Sibun River.

Colonists appealed to Jamaican Lieutenant Governor Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres, for assistance.

Battle of St. Lucia

Grant and Prescott took control of the high ground around the bay, while Medows continued on and took Vigie the following morning (14 December).

Battle of St. Quentin

Battle of St. Quentin Canal, attack by the British Fourth Army on the Hindenburg Line in September 1918

Battle of the Canal du Nord (September 1918), the French breaching of the Hindenburg line is sometimes called the "battle of Saint Quentin"

Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, attack at Mont St. Quentin near Péronne by the Australian Corps in August 1918

There have been a number of battles known as the Battle of Saint Quentin, most of which were fought in the vicinity of Saint-Quentin, Aisne in Picardy, France.

Operation Michael (March 1918), German operation which the British called the "battle of Saint Quentin"

Being Nikki

The novel begins with us meeting Emerson Watts as she is on a model shoot in St. Johns, clinging onto a rock cliff over a group of nurse sharks, for a commercial for Stark Brand deodorant.

Benjamin Hinman

Although ravaged by sickness, his regiment was the nucleus of the army led to Canada by General Montgomery and was present at the battle of St. Johns, the reduction of Montreal, and siege of Quebec.

Centre for Appropriate Rural Development

The Centre for Appropriate Rural Development (CART) is a community based sustainable development project based in Sicambeini Village, near Port St. Johns, South Africa.

Charles A. Johns

On June 4, 1918, Johns was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court to replace Wallace McCamant by Governor James Withycombe after McCamant resigned.

Cobalt therapy

In 1949, Dr. Harold E. Johns of the University of Saskatchewan sent a request to the National Research Council (NRC) asking them to produce Cobalt-60 isotopes for use in a cobalt therapy unit prototype.

Don Dubbins

Child actor Stephen Talbot delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. Johns' Church.

Frank T. Johns

Johns was posthumously awarded a Carnegie Medal for Heroism, which paid his widowed wife (who died in 1933) and the couple's two daughters a stipend of $1,000 per year.

Fred Beir

Child actor Stephen Talbot of Leave It to Beaver delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's famous address of 1775 at St. Johns' Church.

Front Page Woman

The plots of the 1937 release Back in Circulation, allegedly based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the 1938 Torchy Blane film Blondes at Work are very similar to Front Page Woman.

George Edward MacKenzie Skues

Skues was born on 13 August 1858 in St. Johns, Newfoundland and was the eldest child of William MacKenzie Skues, at the time surgeon to the Newfoundland Companies.

Harold E. Johns

A meeting in August 1946 with William Valentine Mayneord, while Mayneord was at the Atomic Energy Project at Chalk River, Ontario, contributed to Johns's making a career in medical physics.

John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

During his time in Iceland Lamburn, the putative original for “William” of the Richmal Crompton books, came into contact with Air Commander Cecil George Wigglesworth, speculated to be the original for “Biggles” of the stories by W. E. Johns.

Joshua L. Johns

He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1906 and commenced practice in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1907.

Knocking Our Own Ting

Knocking Our Own Ting is an article length satire written by Evan X Hyde discussing the Battle of St. George's Caye, a naval battle off the coast of Belize occurring in 1798.

Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery

In 1918, the division faced the German offensive in the First Battles of the Somme: Battle of St. Quentin (21 – 23 March), First Battle of Bapaume (24 and 25 March), and the Battle of the Ancre (5 April).

Lorgnette

The lorgnette was employed as a prop and affectation by early 20th century trial lawyer Earl Rogers, and one is featured on the front cover dust jacket of his biography, Final Verdict, by his daughter Adela Rogers St. Johns.

Lutterworth Press

The children's list, which built on the strength of the Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, has included well-known authors such as Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Maestro de campo

One of the most famous maestro de campo was Julian Romero, a common soldier who reached the rank of maestro de campo and that brought victory to the Spanish tercios in the battles of San Quintín and Gravelines.

Mark C. Johns

His first foray into politics was a run against congresswoman Louise Slaughter for New York's 28th congressional district in 2000.

Particularly dangerous situation

The first PDS tornado watch was issued by Robert H. Johns for the April 2, 1982 tornado outbreak across the southern and central Great Plains.

Raymond E. Johns, Jr.

# June 1996 - August 1998, Commander, 60th Operations Group, Travis AFB, Calif. (October 1996 - January 1997, Director of Mobility Forces, Operation Joint Endeavor, Bosnia)

Return to Mars

:There is also a 1955 juvenile science fiction novel of this name by W. E. Johns.

Robert H. Johns

Now retired, he is working on a project reanalyzing the Tri-State Tornado.

St. George's Caye

From 3 September through 10 September 1798, British settlers fought and defeated a small Spanish fleet sent to drive them from the area; this battle is marked as a national holiday in Belize each September 10 as the Battle of St. George's Caye.

St. Johns, Michigan

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U.S. Route 180

Shortly after following South Navajo Boulevard, however, US 180 follows a South-Southeast route, running by the Petrified Forest National Park and continuing South-Southeast to and through a small branch of the Zuni Indian Reservation, to St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona where it meets U.S. Route 191.

William Valentine Mayneord

It was during a meeting in 1946 with a young Harold Elford Johns, inventor of the cobalt-60 teletherapy unit, that Johns was prompted to go into medical physics.


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