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9 unusual facts about grace


All Saints Church, Bakewell

It is used for, amongst other things, concerts by Bakewell Choral Society and the annual Commemoration service of Lady Manners School when they staff and pupils give thanks to Grace, Lady Manners, for founding their school in 1636.

There is also a monument to their son, George Manners and his wife Grace.

Bal Bullier

It was located at 39 Avenue Georges Bernanos in the district of Val-de-Grace in the 5th arrondissement, at the location of Bullier Centre CROUS.

Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School

Notable alumni include Cary Fowler (59), Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Shiva Rea (81), creator of Prana Flow yoga, and Mike McCarley (88), President, NBC’s Golf Channel.

Grace, Too

In 1995, The Tragically Hip performed the song on Saturday Night Live.

Howard 'Grace' Cup

Such relics of England's favourite saint were treasured until the English Reformation.

Johnson-Grace

The founders later talked to Irving Reed at the University of Southern California, who had an idea for an improved image compression algoritihm, and started implementing such an algorithm; this became the ART image file format.

William Grace

William Russell Grace, mayor of New York and the founder of W. R. Grace and Company

Yellowstone hotspot

Other manifestations of the Yellowstone hotspot: Rexburg Volcanic Field (4.3 Ma), West of Rexburg, Idaho; Henry’s Lake Volcanism (1.3 Ma), Henry's Lake; Blackfoot Volcanic Field (3 Ma), Northwest of Soda Springs, Idaho; Gem Valley Volcanic Field (600 to 50 ka), near Grace, Idaho.


...Best II

The UK and European release of the record featured the right half of a 1960s biker couple photograph by Dennis Hopper on its sleeve, with Best...I completing the picture; the U.S. sleeve was designed by singer Morrissey and once again features Richard Davalos, co-star of East of Eden (other shots of Davalos grace the covers of Strangeways, Here We Come and the U.S. edition of Best...I).

2013 Huang Case in Qatar

Matthew moved to Doha with his wife, Grace, and their three adopted children, in 2012 because MWH Global relocated him there to work for two years on a major infrastructure project related to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

A Man Called Hero

She identifies herself as Kate (Grace Yip), the daughter of Shadow (Dion Lam), Hero's senior.

Abigail Spencer

In early 2011 she landed the lead role on ABC drama pilot Grace by Krista Vernoff.

Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church

The Grace Bible Collage in Nakuru exist to train pastors and the other training location is Trinity Bible Institute in Meru.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Charles FitzGerald, 4th Duke of Leinster

Lord Henry FitzGerald (Kilkea Castle, 9 August 1863 - 31 May 1955), married in Taplow on 21 January 1891 Inez Charlotte Grace Boteler (Taplow, 18 - 1967).

Charles Paul

On The Secret Storm Paul began his practice of using "leitmotif" themes to underscore specific characters, such as his stately tune for lovable matriarch Grace Tyrell (Marjorie Gateson) and his vampy lament for her toxic daughter Pauline Harris (Haila Stoddard).

Dirty Water Club

The club has also seen some original 1960s performers, such as The Monks, Kim Fowley, and Sky Saxon of The Seeds, grace its stage.

Don Gummer

They have four children: musician Henry (his musician name is Henry Wolfe), Louisa, and actresses Mamie and Grace.

Elizabeth Barry

The actor Thomas Betterton said that her acting gave "success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader", and the critic and playwright John Dennis described her as "that incomparable Actress changing like Nature which she represents, from Passion to Passion, from Extream to Extream, with piercing Force and with easy Grace".

Eric Metaxas

He is best known for two biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Evangelical and Reformed Church

United States President Theodore Roosevelt attended Washington D.C.'s Grace Reformed Church, an Evangelical and Reformed congregation.

Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Encompass World Partners (formerly Grace Brethren International Missions), CE National, Brethren Missionary Herald Company and Women of Grace USA are ministries formed by the FGBC to help fulfill their mission of making Jesus known.

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.

Francis Palgrave

#Sir Reginald Palgrave, KCB; or Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829-1904); md 1857 Grace Battley, daughter of Richard Battley.

Fremont Rider

Grace Godfrey died in 1950 and one year later Rider married Marie Gallup Ambrose who was the daughter of Asa Oran Gallup, the Club’s manager at the time Rider was there with Melvil Dewey.

Fyfe Robertson

He married Elizabeth (Betty) Smith in 1928 and the couple had two daughters, Elizabeth, a singer and conductor, and Grace, a well known photographer.

Gladiateur

Gladiateur is called a legend by France Galop and "One of the best horses ever to grace the turf in any century" by the National Sporting Library of Middleburg, Virginia.

Grace Baptist

Grace Baptist is a name used by various churches and associations of Reformed Baptists.

Grace Point Church

Grace Point has had many notable guests such as Kirk Whalum, Mike Huckabee, David Robinson, Alvin Gentry, and Josh Davis.

H. V. Meyerowitz

The Rev. H.M.Grace, the Principal of Achimota College in the Gold Coast (Ghana), offered Meyerowitz the job of arts and crafts supervisor.

Harley Hunt

Hunt served as associate pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Angeles, Washington (1966–1968) and as senior pastor of Gregory Heights Baptist (now Burien Community) Church in Seattle, Washington (1968–1974), Clearfield Community Church in Clearfield, Utah (1974–1983), Emerald Baptist Church in Eugene, Oregon (1983–1985), and Grace Baptist Church in Tacoma, Washington (1994–2004).

Jason Deere

He has written memorable songs for acts like Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, LeAnn Rimes, Jessica Simpson, Jim Brickman, SHeDAISY, Be Be Winans, Natalie Grant, Point of Grace, Wanessa Camargo, Leonardo, Luiza Possi, The Wreckers and he has a lengthy list of film, television and production credits.

Jenůfa

Leoš Janáček: Jenůfa – Magda Olivero (Soprano), Jeda Valtriani (S), Nicola Zaccaria (Bass), Margherita Benetti (Soprano), Giuseppe Morresi (Baritone), Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano), Maria Grazia Allegri (Soprano), Nella Verri (Mezzo Soprano), Silvana Zanolli (Soprano), Renato Cioni (tenor), Jerzy Semkow (Conductor); La Scala Orchestra and Chorus.

John D. Spreckels

In October 1877, he married Lillie Siebein in Hoboken, New Jersey, and together they had four children: Grace (born September 1878), Lillie (born November 1879), John (born April 1883), and Claus (born March 1888).

Joseph Robert Wright, Jr.

Wright held various positions with W. R. Grace and Company, Grace Energy Company, and Grace Environmental Company from 1989 to 1994 (Director, EVP, President, Vice Chairman, Chairman).

Keeping Mum

When nagging congregant Mrs Parker (Liz Smith) comes over to discuss the problem of the church flower arranging committee, Grace, under the impression that Mrs Parker is about to turn them in, attempts to hit her over the head with a frying pan, but is prevented by Gloria.

Mess of You

"Mess of You" is a pop rock song written by Alana Grace and Michael Ochs for Grace's second studio album With One Word (2009).

Michael Henry Herbert

Wilson's eldest daughter, Mary (also called May) married New York landowner Ogden Goelet (they were the parents of Mary Goelet) and his youngest daughter, Grace, married Cornelius Vanderbilt III; his son Orme was married to the daughter of Mrs. William Astor, "the" Mrs. Astor.

Milicz

Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707.

Monique Mercure

In 1999, she won another Genie award for her role as Grace Gallagher, an elderly resident in Conquest set in Conquest, Saskatchewan.

Mrs. Simpson

Wallis Warfield Simpson, who subsequently married the former King Edward VIII and became known as Her Grace the Duchess of Windsor.

Paolo da San Leocadio

His other works include a Virgin of the Grace in the church of San Miguel at Enguera (province of Valencia), a St. Michael in the Diocesan Museum of Valencia, the Virgin of the Knight of Montesa in the Museo del Prado of Madrid and the Holy Conversation in the National Gallery, London.

R. graveolens

Ruta graveolens, the common rue or herb-of-grace, a flowering plant species native to the Balkan Peninsula

Robert Cushman Murphy

The author of over 600 scientific articles, he also wrote such books as Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913 and Oceanic Birds of South America. In 1951, Murphy led the expedition that rediscovered the Bermuda Petrel, or cahow, a bird believed to have been extinct for 330 years.

Robert Samut

On 26 May 1968 Dr. Giorgio Borg Olivier, then Prime Minister of Independent Malta, in the presence of the Governor General and Lady Dorman, of His Grace Mgr Michael Gonzi, and many other personalities, unveiled a marble plaque on the façade of the Lion House to commemorate the birthplace of Prof. Samut.

Saint Eustace

The novels "The Herb of Grace" (US title: Pilgrim's Inn) (1948) by British author Elizabeth Goudge, and Riddley Walker (1980) by American author Russell Hoban, incorporate the legend into their plot.

Sarah Rhodes

On 1 December 1807 in Leeds, Sarah married a banker, Stephen Nicholson (1779 Chapel Allerton -23 Feb 1858 Roundhay), son of William Nicholson and Grace Whitaker, who inherited Roundhay Park and Chapel Allerton estates on 8 February 1833 after the death of his older half-brother Thomas' widow.

Siddur and mahzor

Birchon, widely known by its Yiddish name "bentscher", a small book appropriate for use at the table containing the Birkat HaMazon, Grace after Meals, and frequently other prayers and songs recited at a Shabbat or holiday table such as Kiddush and Zemirot.

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt, 1st Baronet

He married in 1884, Frances Layland (Lady of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, CBE 1920) of Stonehouse, Wallasey.

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

So This Is Love

So This Is Love (film) (aka The Grace Moore Story), a musical starring Kathryn Grayson

Timothy Francis Donovan Aaron

In 1890, Donovan Aaron, his wife Barbara (Volz), and children Annie, Florence (Frank), Mary, and Grace moved to Jersey City NJ.

War against Sigismund

Then Fleming’s widow Ebba Stenbock is said to have approached the Duke and responded: “If my late husband had been alive, Your Grace would never have entered herein.”

William Cadman

William Cadman (Rotherhithe 4 April 1883 - Dalat, 7 December 1948) was an English missionary in Vietnam with his wife Grace.

Without Grace

Without Grace would later perform to over 700 people at the GP2 Series launch in Valencia on April 2006, which was attended by the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Bernie Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and Patrick Kluivert.

Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2005

In some notable local results, Emmerson Mnangagwa, speaker of the previous parliament, and tipped at one time to succeed Mugabe but recently fallen from grace, lost his seat Kwe-kwe to the MDC's Blessing Chebundo.


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