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unusual facts about land-grant



A Coruña Airport

On 16 August 1973, Aviaco Flight 118 crashed while trying to land at Alvedro Airport.

ACP–EU development cooperation

The Treaty of Rome granted associated status to 31 overseas collectivities and territories (OCTs) and provided for the creation of a European Development Fund (EDF) intended to grant technical and financial assistance to the countries which were still under European rule at the time.

Al-Qadim

Thematically, the land of Zakhara is a blend of the historical Arabian Empire, the stories of legend, and a wealth of Hollywood cinematic history.

Beyond a Joke

Meanwhile, Kochanski (Chloë Annett) decides to educate Lister (Craig Charles) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) on the finer points of etiquette by introducing them to a virtual reality rendition of "Pride and Prejudice Land" in "Jane Austen World".

Bree Hamilton

Bree was born in 1983 and was the result of an affair between Brooke Freeman's (Beth Allen) mother, Annette (Louise Wallace) and her husband Grant's (Alan Lovell) best friend.

Carrying Place

Portage or carrying trail, place where watercraft or cargo are carried over land from one body of water to another

City of Whittlesea

18% of its land area was ceded to entities created in 1994 — the Doreen and Arthurs Creek districts were lost to the new Shire of Nillumbik, while Kinglake West went to Shire of Murrindindi and Somerton to the City of Hume.

Echelmeyer Ice Stream

The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr. Keith A. Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992–93 and 1994–95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.

Eko Atlantic

On 21 February 2013, a dedication ceremony was held at the reclaimed land of Eko Atlantic, with Goodluck Jonathan, Bill Clinton, Babatunde Fashola and Bola Tinubu attending.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Godric of Finchale

Upon Aelric's death, Godric made one last pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and then returned home where he convinced Ranulf Flambard, the Bishop of Durham, to grant him a place to live as a hermit at Finchale, by the River Wear.

Grant Golden

In 1953, Grant, who is Jewish, competed in the Maccabiah Games and captured three gold medals in the men's singles (over South African Sid Levy), the men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and the mixed doubles with partner Anita Kanter.

Grant Park Symphony Orchestra

The Grant Park Symphony Orchestra or simply the Grant Park Orchestra is a publicly sponsored symphony orchestra that provides free performances in the Grant Park Music Festival during the summer months in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Herman van Speult

On 21 January 1623 had he prepared two ships for an expedition to islands near New Guinea, to map more of New Guinea, and to explore for "the South Land".

History of Rijeka

Along these roads, marked by several castles and outposts (Senožeče, Gotnik (Guettenegg) and Prem) guarding the land communications from the Quarnero towards Carniola, the contemporary Slovenia.

IBM 1500

Seeded by a research grant in 1964 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, the IBM 1500 CAI system was initially prototyped at the Brentwood Elementary School (Ravenswood City School District) in East Palo Alto, California by Dr. Patrick Suppes of Stanford University.

Ibn Khordadbeh

Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern Asian coast as far as Brahamputra, The Andaman Islands, peninsular Malaysia and Java.

James Pyke Thompson

In 1924 the land surrounding the family house in Canton, Cardiff was also presented to the city; it was renamed Thompson's Park.

Jobs for Youth-Chicago

This effort resonated with the perspectives shared in Alex Kotlowitz' There Are No Children Here, Nicholas Lemann's 'The Promised Land—both of them best sellers—and MacArthur Genius awardee William Julius Wilson's groundbreaking, The Truly Disadvantaged.

Katrin Fridriks

She also presented at the Goss-Michael Foundation for the MTV Re:Define project in 2011, at the Liverpool Biennial in 2008 and has undertaken commercial commissions for premium global brands, such as Land Rover’s 60th anniversary event or Ralph Lauren for the "Art Stars" project.

Kerschenbach

Furthermore, they came not from Rome, but rather from the Kannenbäckerland (“Jug Bakers’ Land”, a small region still known for its ceramics industry) in the Westerwaldkreis, also in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

The museum houses many important breakthrough paintings of the Papunya movement and Arnhem land artists.

Land of Hunted Men

Land of Hunted Men is a 1943 American film directed by S. Roy Luby, one of the Range Busters films.

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

Dorothy then finds a new way to get back to the Land of Oz only to discover that her old friends the Scarecrow (Dan Aykroyd), Tin Man (Kelsey Grammer), Cowardly Lion (Jim Belushi) and the entire Land of Oz are all in grave danger.

Levy Chapel

Commodore Levy Chapel, the U.S. Navy's oldest land-based Jewish Chapel, at Naval Station Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia

Lost Dakota

Lost Dakota is a portion of land that was left over after the division of the Dakota Territory into other states in the late 19th century.

Manuel Candamo

One of them, Teresa De La Cruz, founded the convent Canonesas de La Cruz, and was given the title of Servant of God in 1981 by the Catholic Church, which means her life is being studied in order to eventually grant her the title of Saint.

Martin's Additions, Maryland

In 1896, Harry M. Martin began buying land from the Chevy Chase Land Company and others and called his holdings "Martin's Additions to Chevy Chase".

Matzendorf-Hölles

Matzendorf-Hölles is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Mixed Company of Yale

Bellamy Young '92, stage and film actress. Starred in This Life and Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway and currently plays Mellie Grant on the ABC show Scandal.

North Tipperary

The centre is known as 'the Golden Vale', a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties Limerick and Cork.

Nothing Ever Happens

Its commentary relates to how oblivious most of us are to the world around us e.g. "the Martians could land in the car park and no one would care" but in its last line before the chorus becomes suddenly cynical..."they'll burn down the Synagogues at six o'clock and we'll all go along like before," which is a reference to Kristallnacht.

Office of Education

On Monday, February 1, 1858, a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture was presented to the Senate "praying that a donation of land be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges." Neither of the proposals was accepted until the time of the Lincoln administration (1861–65), after which it became necessary to gather information on the many schools already in existence, as well as on those being built.

Pond Inlet

Barren-ground Caribou, Ringed Seal, Narwhals and Polar Bears are just some of the wildlife that can be encountered while traveling out on the land.

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Pristichampsidae

Pristichampsids were land-living (terrestrial) crocodilians with longer legs than living species of crocodilians.

Roger de Beler

That the family was settled in Leicestershire we know from a license obtained by the judge in 1316 to grant a lay fee in Kirkby-by-Melton, on the Wrethek in that county, to the warden and chaplains of St. Peter, on condition of their performing religious services for the benefit of the souls of himself and his wife Alicia, his father and mother, and ancestry generally.

Sarjana Muda

10.Bangunlah Putra Putri Pertiwi (Awaken Sons & Daughters of the (mother)land) - A nationalistic song referencing three aspects of Indonesian national identity, Garuda, the winged bird, Pancasila, the national philosophy, and the Indonesian flag

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

Sea foam

Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.

St Matthew's Church, Guildford

It was a small octagonal mud-brick church, hastily built on land donated by Governor James Stirling on his Woodbridge estate, next to where Guildford Grammar School now stands.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Supreme Rock

He is remembered primarily for his role in Funnell's completion of the Grand Slam of Eventing, winning the Badminton Horse Trials, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day and The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials.

Tatyana Vedeneyeva

She became well known amongst the Soviet children of 70s and 80s for her leading role in children programs Good Night, Little Ones!, and Visiting a Fairy Land (V gostiakh u skazki) as "Aunt Tania".

Tempestarii

Agobard of Lyons also referenced a related belief amongst his parishioners--a belief that tempestarii were in league with a mythical race of cloud-dwellers who came from a land named 'Magonia' ("Land of Magic", "Land of Thieves").

Termit Massif Reserve

WWF has classified this reserve as part of the larger ecoregion of the South Saharan Steppe and Woodlands ecoregion that includes a strip of desert land which extends from central Mauritania, Mali, southwestern Algeria, Niger, Chad, and across Sudan to the Red Sea, and borders southern fringes of the Sahara Desert.

Todd Hedrick

Hedrick was awarded several grants and fellowships including a Graduate Research Grant from the Mellon Foundation and a DAAD Summer Fellowship from the Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

Ulnaby

It is thought that the reduction in size of the village was in response to the success of the cloth industry, which encouraged change from labour-intensive arable land to pasture.

Whova

In July 2013, Whova has received a grant from US National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to further accelerate its development of people search and automatic name disambiguation technology.

William Hovell

Hovell explored and reported on the land surrounding Western Port and to the north of it, and near the coast to the east at Cape Paterson he discovered "great quantities of very fine coal".


see also

Albion River

The name was originally applied to a land grant in 1884 by William A. Richardson, and the river inherited the name of the grant.

Allegany Indian Reservation

Historically the reservation was adjacent to the Cornplanter Tract, a 1500-acre perpetual land grant given to Seneca chief Cornplanter and his descendants that extended into Pennsylvania.

Caymus, California

It was located on Rancho Caymus, a Mexican land grant, a very notable wine producing area.

Ceolfrith

In 674, Benedict Biscop received a land grant from King Ecgfrith for the explicit purpose of erecting a monastery.

Charter colony

The Council of New England authorized a land grant, allowing the company rights to the area between the Charles and Merrimack rivers to the Pacific Ocean westward.

Clayton, West Virginia

The first land grant in Clayton was made in 1786 to Colonel James Graham of Lowell.

Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

Colorado Springs founder William Jackson Palmer was the land-grantor of several institutions in Colorado Springs, including the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind.

David Burn

He failed to qualify for a land grant returned to Edinburgh in 1829, divorcing his wife there.

Dixon, New Mexico

The area was inhabited by Tiwa peoples from nearby Picuris Pueblo, then settled by Spanish colonists under the 1725 Embudo Land Grant.

Doaktown, New Brunswick

Robert Doak was able to purchase a large amount of the original land grant and built a farm and grist mill on the property.

Don José Vidal

The Spanish Commandant, José Vidal, preferred to remain on Spanish territory, and petitioned the Spanish Governor-General Manuel Gayoso de Lemos for a land grant across the Mississippi River from Natchez.

Gurupá

:This article is about a city on the island of Marajó; for the island, see Ilha Grande do Gurupá; for the Amazon.com content delivery system, see Gurupa; for the Portuguese colonial land grant, see captaincy of Gurupá.

History of North Carolina State University

As a land-grant college, NC State would provide a “liberal and practical education” while focusing on military tactics, agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding classical studies.

History of North Georgia College and State University

The Morrill Act required all students in land-grant colleges to receive some military training and the college only had one military instructor at a time, until Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 and the college established an ROTC the same year.

Jesse Cornplanter

Because he left no heirs, his death officially marked the expiration of a treaty granting Cornplanter's heirs a perpetual Pennsylvania land grant along the Allegheny River; seven years later, much of the tract would be flooded as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam.

Kendall County, Texas

:December 20 - Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller sell their rights in the land grant to Adelsverein.

La Habra Stakes

Once a land grant named by its owner, Rancho Cañada de La Habra, it's one of southern California's earliest settlements.

Las Animas

Rancho Las Animas, a land grant in Santa Clara County, California

Lower Brandon Plantation

Martin's new plantation built on the 1616 land grant was initially named "Martin's Brandon", apparently incorporating the family name of his wife, Mary (née Brandon) Martin, daughter of Robert Brandon, a prominent English goldsmith and supplier to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Malahide, Ontario

Malahide Township was named for Malahide Castle in Malahide, Ireland, birthplace of land grant administrator Colonel Thomas Talbot in 1810.

Manuel Domínguez

Manuel Dominguez (1804–1882), heir to the Rancho San Pedro land grant

Marlborough, New York

A land grant (patent) of this territory was made to Captain John Evans of the Royal Navy in 1694, and one of his first settlers arrived in 1697.

Maxwell Land Grant

Beginning in 1922, Waite Phillips, an oilman from Tulsa, Oklahoma also assembled a block of land on the Maxwell Land Grant.

Meusebach–Comanche Treaty

Only five Adelsverein settlements were attempted in the Fisher-Miller land grant area: Bettina, Castell, Leiningen, Meerholz, and Schoenburg.

Münchenbuchsee Commandery

This land grant included the villages of Münchenbuchsee, Wankdorf and Worblaufen as well as vineyards on Lake Biel.

Nine Partners Patent

The Little Nine Partners Patent (1706), land grant in Dutchess County, New York, USA

The Great Nine Partners Patent (1697), land grant in Dutchess County, New York, USA

Norman Cleaveland

Norman raised eyebrows with his assertion that his grandfather's death was not accidental but due to lingering animosity with a group known as the Santa Fe Ring over the land grab that occurred of the original land grant.

Paula Gunn Allen

Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, New Mexico Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation.

Pilar, New Mexico

In February 1793 the region was taken possession of by 20 persons who had received it as a land grant (Cieneguilla Grant) from the King of Spain Charles IV through his military governor in New Mexico, Don Fernando Chacón.

Rio Linda, California

The Rio Linda/Elverta community is located on part of the Rancho Del Paso Mexican land grant of 1844.

Roland Warpole Loane

Loane had a land grant at Pittwater and after 1818 purchased several areas in the country, including one at Eastern Marshes in the Oatlands district, and a number of small areas in Hobart, on which he built houses which he let to government officers.

Scottsmoor, Florida

Scottsmoor was settled in 1861 by James Garvin, who acquired the land through the Spanish Land Grant.

Silverado, California

Portions of the town sit on a former Mexican land grant Rancho Lomas de Santiago.

Squak Mountain

The initial land grant of 590 acres to form the park was made by the Bullitt family.

State cessions

#Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Its original land grant from the British Monarch to William Penn was for the land between the 42nd parallel and the 38th parallel in latitude, and extending westward five degrees in longitude.

Thomas Bullitt

When a number of his militia company exercised their land grant bounties in what would become Bath County, Virginia, he bought land there and built an Inn at Hot Springs in 1766.

Thornhill Francis Broome

William Richard Broome was the owner of the southern portion of the historic Spanish land grant Rancho Guadalasca in Ventura County, which lay from Pitcher Slough to and beyond Sycamore Canyon with minor property breaks.

Trinoda necessitas

For example, the land grant of Æthelberht of Kent to a thegn in 858 was free of obligation, except explicitly for military service, bridge repair, and fortification.

United States Court of Private Land Claims

At first the Congress tried to deal with each land grant by special bill and the House had a Committee on Private Land Claims, seats on which were sought after as a way of dispensing patronage.

University of West Virginia

Following the decision in Brown v. Board of Education State was desegregated, gave up its land grant status and was placed under the Board of Education as well.

William Pedley

Pedley went to America where he was manager of the San Jacinto Land Company, who developed part of the Sobrante de San Jacinto land grant at Riverside, California.

Wilmington, Los Angeles

The Port of Los Angeles district of Wilmington was included in the 1784 Spanish land grant of Rancho San Pedro.

WQBC

Michael M. Davis a native son of Lorman, Mississippi- the site of Alcorn State University, the first African-American land grant institution in the United States