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unusual facts about emigrant


Emigrant Peak

is a prominent mountain peak on the western edge of the Absaroka Range near Emigrant, Montana.


Baptist Convention of Hong Kong

Mission work among the Cantonese was temporarily halted in 1845 when Shuck returned to the United States although Chaozhou language work continued among transient emigrant coolies with the Deans who were later joined by John W. Johnson and William Ashmore in 1860.

Bernt Tunold

His father, an emigrant from Stryn, and his mother, a native of Vanylven, had established a farm on the church grounds on the island.

Calheta de Nesquim

In 1948, new bells and a clock were added to the front facade, along with images of Santa Filomena and Santa Teresinha, due to the patronage of Lourenço Oliveira (a U.S. emigrant and former resident).

Cherokee Trail

There the trail turned west near present day Tie Siding, and proceeded along the Colorado/Wyoming border to Green River and to Fort Bridger where it struck the other emigrant trails.

Ciril Kotnik

During this time, he established contacts with the political activist Janko Kralj, and Slovene emigrant from Gorizia, who also helped many anti-Nazis and Jews to escape persecution.

Degadoga

Degadoga, (Cherokee, "Tatoka"), was an 1810 Cherokee emigrant to the Arkansaw area of the Louisiana Territory.

Demographics of Greece

At the same time a large Sephardi Jewish emigrant community from the Iberian peninsula established itself in Thessaloniki, while there were population movements of Arvanites and Vlachs, who established communities in several parts of the Greek peninsula.

Dobrova, Dobrova–Polhov Gradec

Joe Sutter (born 1921), the "father of the Boeing 747," son of Franz Suhadolz (1879–1945), an emigrant from Dobrova

Dutch name

However, Dutch names in English directories (e.g. reference lists of scientific papers) may be ordered on the full name including all prefixes (Van Rijn would be ordered under 'V'), partly because many Dutch emigrant families to English-speaking countries have had their prefixes capitalized for them, whether they liked it or not, like Martin Van Buren or Steve Van Dyck, and normal practise in English is to order on the first capitalized element.

Elisabeth Castonier

In London she was also a correspondent for the News Chronicle and the New Statesman and also for emigrant newspapers like the Pariser Tageszeitung and the Wiener Tageblatt.

Emigrant Trail

The Emigrant Trails were the northern networks of overland wagon trails throughout the American West, used by migrants from the eastern United States to settle lands west of the Interior Plains during the overland migrations of the mid-19th century.

Emigration from Kosovo

As the population of Kosovo mainly consisted of Kosovar Albanians, emigrant population was of a corresponding composition, with about 90% Albanians besides smaller numbers of Kosovo Serbs, Bosniaks, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians, Turks etc.

Fort Bridger

In 1845, Lanford Hastings published a guide entitled The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California, which advised California emigrants to leave the Oregon Trail, at Fort Bridger, pass through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile waterless drive, loop around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoin the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass).

Glencoe I

James Jackson was an Irish-American emigrant who had built up a business in Nashville and started the farm Forks of Cypress in northern Alabama.

Homestead Steel Works

Andrew Carnegie, (a Scottish emigrant), bought the 2 year old Homestead Steel Works in 1883, and integrated it into his Carnegie Steel Company.

James McBratney

James McBratney (a.k.a. Jimmy From Queens) was born in 1941 to emigrant Catholic parents from Northern Ireland in 1941.

Juan Jose Warner

From 1849 to 1861, the ranch was important as a stop for emigrant travelers on the Southern Emigrant Trail, including the Gila River Emigrant Trail and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

Louis Vasquez

By 1843 they had built Fort Bridger on Blacks Fork of the Green River, which became as much an emigrant station as trading post.

Meda Mládková

During her time in Paris, she became acquainted with Jan Viktor Mládek, an emigrant, who in 1945 became one of the first Governors of the International Monetary Fund.

Mormon Trail

At this open area, where the Iowa School for the Deaf is now located, the LDS emigrant companies paused and camped, forming what was called the Grand Encampment. From this site on July 20, the Mormon Battalion departed for the Mexican-American War.

Olivier Robitaille

He trained in medicine with Joseph Morrin, working as an intern at the Marine and Emigrant Hospital.

Oregon Route 58

By the 1850s, Emigrant Pass, slightly south of OR 58's crossing at Willamette Pass, was being used by emigrants to the Oregon Territory as a way over the Cascades.

Raul Hilberg

Hilberg was amazed by this highly educated, German-Jewish emigrant passing over the genocide of European Jews in order to expound on Napoleon and the occupation of Spain.

Red Star Line

The works of art of the Red Star Line emigrants made by the Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) will be exhibited there, next to Red Star Line memorabilia of the collection of Robert Vervoort.

Sam Poo

Poo was a Chinese emigrant to Australia during the Gold Rush, but instead of mining took to highway robbery on the road between Gulgong and Mudgee.

Sandy Flash

James Fitzpatrick was born in West Marlborough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania the son of an Irish emigrant.

Sävsjö

The Swedish emigrant Jonas Bronck, founder of the borough The Bronx, New York City, was born outside of today's Sävsjö town in the little village of Komstad.

Shinkichi Tajiri

Shinkichi Tajiri (Los Angeles, December 7, 1923 – Baarlo, Netherlands, March 15, 2009) was a Dutch-American sculptor of Japanese ancestry (a nisei or second generation emigrant from Japan).

Soběslav

Jaroslav Brodský ( 22. March 1920 - †12. August 1981 in Torontu-Canada); pedagogue - school director, „prisoner of the regime“ (1950–1960), founder of the K 231 organization, emigrant, publicist.

The Wild Colonial Boy

The Irish version is about a Jack Duggan, young emigrant who left the town of Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland, for Australia in the early 19th century.

There's a Good Time Coming

Independent testimony quoted by John Dodds indicates that the song was popular with new immigrants to the United States; it was recorded as being sung on the emigrant ships as they approached New York Harbour.

Thomas Larkin

Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858), early American emigrant to Mexico and a signer of the original California Constitution

Tunstall, Staffordshire

Jabez Vodrey is a noted emigrant potter, the first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Viktor Vida

In Argentina he contributed to the Croatian emigrant publication Hrvatska revija.

Vita, Sicily

More recently, its inhabitants have slowly left the town in order to move towards Northern Italy and foreign countries, with possibly its largest emigrant community located in Toronto.

William Nobles

William Nobles (guide), 1851 trail guide through Emigrant Gap in Sierra Nevada, see Lassen Peak


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