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unusual facts about garnet


John Plumptre Carr Glyn

They are sometimes called the Ashanti Ring, or, in a punning reference to Wolseley's first name, the Garnet Ring.


Aaron Rowand

When he was with the Phillies, Rowand and his family lived in Garnet Valley, which is in Delaware County, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alfred Dampier

Robbery Under Arms (1890) - with Garnet Walch, adapted from the novel - later filmed in 1911

Almandine

When the color inclines to a violet tint, the stone is often called Syriam garnet, a name said to be taken from Syriam, an ancient town of Pegu (now part of Myanmar).

Another Century's Episode

The game's opening theme is "Garnet Moon", performed by Hitomi Shimatani; an instrumental version also plays during the game.

Emilio Schuberth

In 1953, he helped to find many famous fashion designers including the Fontana sisters, Alberto Fabiani, Vincent Ferdinand, Giovannelli-Sciarra, Mingolini-Heim, Garnet, Simonetta Stefanelli the U.S. - Italian High Fashion Syndicate.

Everard Digby

On 21 October Digby, his wife, Garnet and Vaux were at Harrowden celebrating a delayed Feast of St Luke.

Garnet Mimms

In 1961, Mimms and Sam Bell from the Gainors left to form a new group, Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters, with Zola Pearnell and Charles Boyer.

Garnet Mimms (born Garrett Mimms on November 16, 1933 in Ashland, West Virginia) is an American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues.

In the 1980s, Garnet found his calling ministering to lost souls in prison, but in 2007, returned to recording and a year later, released a new gospel album Is Anybody Out There? on the Evidence label, produced and (primarily) written by Jon Tiven.

Garnet Moon/Inori

Garnet Moon and Inori were the opening and ending theme for the PlayStation 2 robot action game, Another Century's Episode respectively.

Garnet Sixsmith

Just before the game began, Portage Lakes' William "Lady" Taylor told Garnet; "I'm going to break your break tonight".

Art then convinced Garnet and several other Canadian players to play in the very first openly professional league, the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League (WPHL).

Harry Miner

Harry (Henry) Garnet Bedford Miner was born in Raleigh Township, near Cedar Springs, Ontario, on 24 June 1891.

Hitoshi Okamoto

He has created an alternate version of the "GARNET CROW" songs "Crystal Gauge" and "Mysterious Eyes", the latter of which Okamoto had released under the "Super Light" name.

Jacksonville Bulls

The team colors of garnet, orange and silver were taken from the three college football teams most popular in the area; garnet from the Florida State Seminoles, orange from the Florida Gators, and silver from the pants worn by the Georgia Bulldogs.

Jubilee Trail

They arrive in Santa Fe several months after leaving St. Louis and Garnet is reunited with Florinda, who was traveling "in sin" with a deacon from St. Louis.

Lewis Leigh Fermor

In 1921 he was awarded the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London for a paper published in 1913 on the use of garnet as a geological barometer, as a marker of the pressures to which rocks had been subjected.

Morrie Rath

Rath attended Swarthmore College, but did not play for the Garnet Tide, for the school had not yet established a baseball program, but did pledge Delta Upsilon Fraternity during his tenure.

Surrey Hills, Victoria

The latter streets are named after English places (Croydon, Guildford & Surrey) and Sir Garnet Road, named in honour of a famous British Army General (Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, born in Ireland, who served a distinguished career and became a hero in the British army in the late 1800s & early 1900).

Tim Williamson

Reginald Garnet "Tim" Williamson (6 June 1884 in North Ormesby, Middlesbrough – 1 August 1943 in Redcar) was an English football player who made 602 appearances as a goalkeeper for Middlesbrough, scoring two goals, as well as 7 appearances for England.

Treasure of Pouan

The "Treasure of Pouan" consists of a number of gold and garnet cloisonné jewels and ornaments, buried with a skeleton uncovered in 1842 at Pouan-les-Vallées and identified as the burial of a 5th-century Germanic warrior.

Westmere, New Zealand

Westmere is broadly bisected by Garnet Road and is bounded by Coxs Bay to the North and the green belt running from Western Springs, the Auckland Zoo and Western Springs College to the South and West.


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