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18 unusual facts about commonwealth


Acting Prime Minister

An acting Prime Minister is a Cabinet member (often in a Commonwealth nation) who is serving the role of prime minister, whilst the individual who normally holds the position in unable or unwilling to do so.

Allana Slater

This event doubled as the first selection trial for the Commonwealth Games team, and after a month long selection camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra, Slater was named in her second Commonwealth Team.

Angela Manalang-Gloria

She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine's Commonwealth Literary Awards in 1940.

Buenavista, Agusan del Norte

On January 1, 1937 the barrio of Buenavista, by virtue of Executive Order No. 65 issued by Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon, became the Municipality of Buenavista through the efforts of assemblyman Apolonio D. Curato and Governor Jose R. Rosales, commissioner of Mindanao and Sulu Teofisto Guingona Sr., and secretary of Interior, Elpidio Quirino, with a set of appointed officials to serve for a period of one year.

David Orme Masson

In 1915 he was asked by the Prime Minister of Australia W. M. Hughes to act as Chairman of a Committee to draw up a scheme for a Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, but difficulties arose and it was not until 1920 that the Institute was established.

Dernancourt

2131 Commonwealth soldiers are buried in the military cemetery here

Ebblinghem

Ebblinghem is the site of the Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, which contains over 440 graves, most of which are servicemen from Commonwealth countries killed in the First World War.

Hottot-les-Bagues

Within the surrounding district, there was much heavy fighting through June and July 1944 as Commonwealth forces tried to press on from Bayeux in an encircling movement to the south of Caen.

John Coalter

After being Commonwealth's Attorney for several years, he was appointed to the General District court for Staunton in 1809.

Kathleen Seefeldt

In Prince William County, once the Democrats' bastion in Northern Virginia, the County Sheriff, Commonwealth's Attorney, and two members of the Board of Supervisors were the only Democrats left in County Government.

Michael McGlothlin

He began his career in public service when he was elected to Commonwealth's Attorney of Buchanan County, Virginia in 1979.

Public weal

Commonwealth, a form of government without a monarch in which people have governmental influence

SA Promo

SA Promo was founded in November 2006 by J. C. Muller, who saw an opportunity after South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth post-apartheid.

Senior Officers' School

The Senior Officers' School is a British military establishment established in 1920 for the training of Commonwealth senior officers of all services in inter-service cooperation.

Sergei Shumilin

In December 2009 he played his senior debut in the Independent States Cup in Commonwealth.

United Arab Emirates national cricket team

The game spread during World War II, The Royal Air Force of Britain and other Commonwealth forces (which included first-class and club cricketers from Australia and New Zealand) stationed in the cities like Ajman, Al Ain, Dubai and Sharjah, continued their favourite pastime.

Valladolid, Negros Occidental

This dominant sect caused the defeat of the fiery Manuel L. Quezon in the hands of the Aglipayans in the presidential election of 1935 during the Commonwealth era.

William F. Gordon

He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1809 to continue his practice and eventually became the city's commonwealth attorney in 1812.


2011 Commonwealth Youth Games medal table

The 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, officially known as the IV Commonwealth Youth Games, were a multi-sport event held in the British Crown Dependency of Isle of Man from 7 to 13 September 2011.

2012 Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions

The 2012 edition was the first held in Sofia, having been relocated from Bali, where the tournament was held for the previous three years and called the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.

Amy Jenkins

Although it was the second biggest debut novel of the year, selling over 250,000 copies in the UK and Commonwealth, critics noted that a central plot device in Jenkins' work possessed a striking similarity to the premise of Noël Coward's play Private Lives.

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Arthur Blackburn

Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE, ED (25 November 1892 – 24 November 1960) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Augustus III of Poland

He spent less than three years of his thirty-year reign in Poland, where political feuding between the House of Czartoryski and the Potocki paralysed the Sejm (Liberum Veto), fostering internal political anarchy and weakening the Commonwealth.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Australian Plague Locust Commission

With 19 staff members at its headquarters in Canberra and field offices in Narromine, Broken Hill and Longreach, the Commission is funded half by the Commonwealth government and half by the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Battle of Bakenlaagte

The 73 dead Commonwealth troops were buried on Gun Hill but later reinterred in Primrose Cemetery, Corner of Cemetery road and Beaconsfield road, Germiston in the 1960s.

Becky Lyne

Not selected for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March due to a series of injuries, the Stockport-based athlete leapt to third in the UK all-time 800 metre rankings with 1 min 58.20 sec in the Norwich Union British Grand Prix in Gateshead in June 2006, finishing second behind Kenyan Commonwealth champion Janeth Jepkosgei.

Boys' Brigade

In non-Commonwealth countries, the Founder's Badge is used in place of the Queen's Badge.

Canadian Parliamentary Review

Canadian Parliamentary Review is distributed to all federal, provincial and territorial legislators in Canada and by subscription to interested individuals and institutions in Canada, the United States and throughout the Commonwealth.

Carys Parry

This is a Welsh record and places Parry fourth amongst British hammer throwers, behind Commonwealth champions Lorraine Shaw and Shirley Webb, as well as Zoe Derham.

CHEP

In 1949, a new government under the Liberal Party of Australia decided to privatise the industry and mandated the sale of the Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool organisation.

Clan of the Gallant Canadians

The Clan of the Gallant Canadians is an unofficial Order created by The Calgary Highlanders of the Canadian Forces and the first such regimental order to be approved by the Canadian sovereign, and the first in the British Empire and Commonwealth since the time of Oliver Cromwell.

Commonwealth Bank

In 1981 the bank transferred its operations in the Solomon Islands to the National Bank of Solomon Islands, which operated as a joint venture (51-49, Commonwealth and Government of the Solomon Islands).

Commonwealth Edison

In January 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that Commonwealth Edison was behind Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE), an organization that had been arguing against a proposed statewide freeze in electricity rates.

Commonwealth free trade

Commentators such as James C. Bennett and Brent Cameron have expressed the view that support for either the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth are not incompatible.

Damian McGrath

Damian has also coached the England U19 s to a World Cup 3rd place finish in 2006, coached the Junior England 7’s to a silver medal at the Junior Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2004 and toured on two Churchill Cups with the England ‘A’ team.

Dommartin-Lettrée

The church is to be found in a central position in the village and the Commonwealth war graves of five airmen of the Royal Air Force and two of the Royal Canadian Air Force lie in the churchyard immediately behind the church.

Empire Bay, New South Wales

The name was changed because there was already a post office named Sorrento in Victoria and Empire Bay was chosen because there was no other such name in the Commonwealth.

Finnegan Foundation

Founders of the foundation included: Pittsburgh Mayor Joe Barr, Commonwealth Judge Genevieve Blatt, Democratic National Committeewoman Louise M. John, Pennsylvania Gov. David Lawrence, U.S. Ambassador Matthew H. McCloskey II, U.S. Ambassador John Rice, and Pennsylvania State Treasurer Grace M. Sloan.

Giedraitis

Giedraitis family, a noble family in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth

Government House is a residence for a governor; so now many Commonwealth nations without the British monarch as Head of State name their presidential palaces State House or President's House.

Guy P. Harrison

Harrison was a recipient of the World Health Organization Award for Health Reporting in 1997 and the Commonwealth Media Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1994 (he was also a finalist for the award in 1998).

Harrisburg Air National Guard Base

In 1998, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania transferred ownership of the airport to the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA).

Harry Kirkwood

Under the leadership of Edmund Hillary, Kirkwood landed the New Zealand section of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition along with the material needed to construct Scott Base.

History of Guam

A subsequent run-off referendum held between Commonwealth and Statehood saw 73% of Guam voters choosing Commonwealth over Statehood (27%).

Hwa Chong Institution High School Band

The band has performed for the former President of the Republic of Singapore, S. R. Nathan, and taken part in the National Day Parade 2001, together with Commonwealth Secondary School Band.

Ieper railway station

The station is near the Menin Gate and other places associated with the First World War with British and Commonwealth war graves located alongside the line from the Kortrijk direction, known as Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery.

John Denison

John A. Denison, American Politician of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1875-1948

John H. Leims

After high school, he attended Northwestern University for two and a half years, and worked part-time at the Commonwealth Edison Company.

Kings Avenue, Canberra

Rather than the name of the new nation "Commonwealth of Australia" and "Federal Avenue" for the federation of the states that formed that nation, the interpretation is now "Commonwealth Avenue" for the Commonwealth of British Colonies and "Kings Avenue" for the Sovereign of that Commonwealth, violating Griffin's original intent.

Layton Cemetery

Layton Cemetery contains the graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 39 of World War II, besides, from the latter war, 26 airmen of the Polish Air Force (whose headquarters in exile were in Talbot Square in the town), and one airman of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force.

Lipka Tatars

As a reaction to restrictions on their religious freedoms and the erosion of their ancient rights and privileges, the Lipka Tatar regiments stationed in the Podolia region of south-east Poland abandoned the Commonwealth at the start of the late 17th century Polish–Ottoman Wars that were to last to end of the 17th century with the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699.

Lugbara people

Famous and well known Lugbara include Dorcus Inzikuru, the 3000-metre steeple chase world champion in Helsinki 2005 and Jackson Asiku, the previous Commonwealth boxing light-weight champion.

MFDS

The exam is a requirement to allow further specialist training for dentists in the UK and some Commonwealth countries.

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

Nathan Cleverly

In October 2008, Cleverly landed a shot at the vacant Commonwealth light heavyweight title topping the bill for the first time in his career at the Everton Park Sports Centre in Liverpool.

Newnes, New South Wales

A town, named after Sir George Newnes, the chairman of the Commonwealth Oil Corporation at the time, was established close to the mining leases.

Nick D'Arcy

On 31 March 2008, D'Arcy was charged with assault after a brawl with former Commonwealth Games triple gold medalist Simon Cowley on the night of D'Arcy's naming in the Australian Olympic team.

Pennsylvania Route 36

One of the longest and oldest highways in the commonwealth, PA 36 serves as a major connector between South Central and Northwestern Pennsylvania.

Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth

The idea of Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth returned during the January Uprising, when in 1861, a patriotic demonstration took place at Horodło.

QPM

Queen's Police Medal, a medal awarded to police officers in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth for gallantry or distinguished service

Richard Smethurst

In the following academic year (1965/66) he was simultaneously Fellow and Tutor in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and consultant to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization programme at the Oxford Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Ron Angus

Commonwealth Championships: 1993 Ireland (3rd), 1995 Malta (3rd)

State Dockyard

As of 2014 the surviving State Dockyard built ships are the MV Cape Don, a lighthouse tender built in 1962 for the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service which is now a museum ship at Balls Head Bay, Waverton.

Stokes mortar

The Stokes mortar was a British trench mortar invented by Sir Wilfred Stokes KBE that was issued to the British, Commonwealth and U.S. armies, as well as the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (CEP), during the latter half of the First World War.

Virginia Bar

Virginia State Bar - an administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia responsible for regulation of the legal profession in the Commonwealth.