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3 unusual facts about the Beaches


Star Ray TV

The station, which broadcasts in digital on channel 22 in Toronto's Beaches neighbourhood, was launched in 1997 when Jan Pachul, an amateur radio operator, applied to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a licence to serve the community.

Tamblyn Drugs

In 1904, with capital of $500, he opened his own pharmacy at Queen Street East and Lee Avenue, in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood.

The Beach

The Beaches, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, also commonly known as "The Beach"


Beach Hebrew Institute

The Beach Hebrew Institute was founded in 1919 by Jewish residents in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was then a largely Anglo-Saxon area in the east part of Toronto far removed from the Jewish neighbourhoods further to the west in The Ward and around Spadina Avenue.

Donald Dean Summerville

The Donald D. Summerville outdoor Olympic-sized pool (located at Woodbine Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard East in The Beaches) and the annual Donald Summerville Yacht Race, hosted by Ashbridge's Bay Yacht Club, are named after him.

Ultimate Canada

In 1980, Ken started weekly ultimate pick-up games at Kew Beach and sent team invitations to Wards Island, West End, North Toronto and the Beaches.


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Beaches in Kerala

The beaches of Kerala are ready to look prettier, with the Kerala Tourism launching a Rs. 1,000 million plan for the development of 22 beaches, including Kovalam, Alappuzha, Nattika, Cherai, Muzhappilangad, Bekal and Kappad.

Biloxi Wade-Ins

Before the beaches were desegregated homeowners claimed the beaches as private property, and despite the fact the beaches were built by the Army Corps of Engineers using taxpayer funds, African Americans were restricted to designated areas of the beachfront.

Cape May diamonds

Cape May diamonds (sometimes capitalized "Diamonds") are quartz pebbles found on the beaches of Cape May Point, New Jersey.

Dawson Leery

In the meantime, while Dawson and Oliver journey to New Jersey for a meeting with a film agent, the rest of the gang takes to the beaches of Florida for spring break; Pacey is hit on by Norwegian singer Marion Raven while working on his relationship with Audrey, while as Dawson later discovers, Joey embarks on a spring fling with Charlie Todd.

Diodora graeca

The specimens washed up on the beaches of the North Sea are almost certainly fossil (from the Pliocene and the Eemian), as this species no longer occurs in the south-eastern part of the North Sea.

Donald Callander

He received his first Military Cross as an “immediate award for courage and leadership” at La Bassée where, as commander of the battalion's anti-tank platoon, equipped only with three Hotchkiss guns Ordnance QF 2 pounders, they knocked out 21 German tanks from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, while protecting the retreat of the allies to the beaches during the Battle of Dunkirk.

Effects of Hurricane Isabel in New Jersey

The beaches of southern Ocean County experienced a loss of 3 to 4 feet (0.9 to 1.2 m) of sand, while locations further to the north experienced only minor erosion.

Flores-class gunboat

Flores and Soemba were united in the Mediterranean Sea and played an active and successful role in the landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Garigliano, Gaeta and finally, at the beaches of Normandy in June 1944.

Gold Beach

Commodore Douglas-Pennant, Naval Commander of Force "G", aboard the headquarters ship HMS Bulolo commanded the landing on Gold Beach, but the ship forced to relocate after receiving incoming fire the German battery at Longues-sur-Mer, but she remained off the beaches directing the assault.

Goody Rosen

Gooden started the 1950 season playing for the world champion Tip Top Tailors team in the Beaches league but then returned to baseball as player-manager of the Galt Terriers of the Intercounty Baseball League.

Gungunhana

The decisive battle was waged in late November 1861, along a line of nearly twenty kilometres from the beaches of Matola to the land of Moamba.

Habana del Este

The beaches are (named from West to East): Tarará; El Mégano; Bacuranao (has a bay shape, thick sand and a small Spanish fortress on its western side); Santa María del Mar; Boca Ciega; Guanabo; La Veneciana and Brisas del Mar.

Hackett Publishing Company

For example, an image of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial adorns the Hackett edition of Virgil's Aeneid, while Robert F. Sargent's famous photograph of the Allies storming the beaches of Normandy during D-Day is used with Homer's Iliad.

Henderson Crake

The species is found in dense to open forest throughout the island plateau, both in forest dominated by Pisonia and Pisonia/Xylosma, and in Timonius thicket, also occurring in Pandanus-Thespesia-Argusia embayment forests and coconut groves on the beaches (Jones et al. 1995).

Jean René Baroux

In August 1944, he landed with allied forces on the beaches around Saint-Tropez, France, as part of Operation Dragoon which launched a 25-mile front onto the German invasion forces in Provence.

José María Menéndez Menéndez

The Amadeus has been declared a National Monument by the Chilean Government, and his remains are on the beaches of the bay of San Gregorio (Chile), on the Strait of Magellan.

L'Art de Vivre

Originally christened as Marie Brizzard, her original purpose was to ferry ammunition to the beaches of Normandy to help the Allies fighting in the Somme.

Lambayeque Region

Legend tells that in ancient times, a great float of balsa rafts arrived at the beaches of the existing San José cove.

Lunar calendar

An example of this is the lunar calendar of the Banks Islands, which includes three months in which the edible palolo worm mass on the beaches.

Maleme

Its beach is made of fine pebbles and is popular though often less crowded than the beaches of Gerani, Agia Marina and Platanias.

Mani Peninsula

Some popular beaches during the summer are Kalogria and the beaches by Stoupa harbor, while Kardamyli and Agios Nikolaos have good pebble and sand beaches, too.

Marion Bryden

The Beaches—Woodbine riding, now renamed as Beaches—East York, has remained in NDP hands since that time with Bryden being succeeded by Frances Lankin and Michael Prue.

Massey Shaw

During the Second World War, the Massey Shaw, along with a volunteer crew of firemen, formed part of the flotilla of small vessels which were sent to Dunkirk to help evacuate British troops from the beaches.

Merewether, New South Wales

In 2006, organisers of Newcastle Surfest announced that the competition would be moving from Newcastle Beach to Merewether Beach, in order to capitalise on the beaches superior surfing conditions, caused by the rock bottom of the beach, compared to the mud bottom of Newcastle Beach.

Muck diving

The term muck diving was first used by Bob Halstead to describe diving off the beaches made up of black sand in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Operation Acid Drop

Each raid consisted of one officer and 14 men, their targets were the beaches at Hardelot and Merlimont in the Pas-de-Calais, France with the aim of carrying out reconnaissance and if possible, to capture a German soldier.

Park Farm, Kent

Park Farm and its surrounding areas has easy access to the coast being less than 10 miles or 20 mins to the beaches and seaside towns of Dymchurch, St Mary's Bay, Hythe, Greatstone or Camber Sands.

Pousada da Ria

The Pousada is located along the southern arm of the isthmus between the municipality of Murtosa and Aveiro, between the beaches of São Jacinto (along the coast) and the protected natural reserve of the Ria estuary.

Royal Naval Commandos

Landing at Salerno and Anzio, they undertook tasks including clearing mines from the beaches.

Sámara

The quality of the beaches in Sámara and neighboring Carrillo made the area a high priority region of tourism industry development for the Costa Rican government shortly after the opening of Liberia's Daniel Oduber International Airport.

Seton Portage, British Columbia

The beaches of the Portage were so busy with men coming and going that they were given the names Wapping and Flushing, after the busy London Tube stations of the same names.

Sling swimsuit

Corresponding to the advent of Lycra, sling swimsuits first emerged in the early 1990s, and are more popular on the beaches of Europe including Saint-Tropez, Marbella, Mykonos and Ibiza.

That Ol' Wind

In December 1995, "That Ol' Wind" made its chart debut as an album cut, along with "It's Midnight Cinderella" and "Rollin'", which also charted as album cuts, and "The Beaches of Cheyenne", his then-current single.

União das Freguesias de Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso

Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso includes landmarks such as Póvoa de Varzim City Park, the ruins of the Cividade de Terroso, the beaches of Aver-o-Mar, the hillside village of Terroso and Amorim's churches.

William Lane

He died on 26 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, having been editor of the Herald from 1913 to 1917, much admired, having lost one son Charles at a cricket match in Cosme in Paraguay, and another Donald on the first day of the ANZAC landings (25 April 1915) on the beaches of Gallipoli.