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unusual facts about William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington



1979 United States Grand Prix West

Canadian Gilles Villeneuve captured pole, fastest lap and the win for Ferrari, followed by teammate Jody Scheckter, as the Prancing Horses took a big step toward reclaiming the Constructor's and Driver's Championships from Lotus.

1980 United States Grand Prix West

Nelson Piquet took pole, fastest lap and his first career race win to dominate the weekend in his gleaming blue and white Brabham.

1988 Canadian Grand Prix

Both Williams drivers were suffering from continuing problems with the FW12's reactive suspension leaving Mansell and Riccardo Patrese in 9th and 11th respectively with Mansell, 3.2 seconds slower than Senna's pole time and 0.8 slower than his own 1986 pole time set in the Williams-Honda.

1988 Tooheys 1000

Due to FISA regulations the Top 10 run-off was not for Pole Position in 1988, but only for AUD$40,000 in prizemoney.

2006 Monaco Grand Prix

Schumacher's actions in the qualifying session would serve as ammunition for Schumacher's critics to go along with his actions in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix and the 1997 European Grand Prix, although to this day Schumacher himself denies any of the allegations that he "parked" his Ferrari on purpose to block Fernando Alonso from taking pole position off him.

Adrien de Gerlache

Several geographical features were named in his honor, mostly in Antarctica: Cape Gerlache, Mount Gerlache, Gerlache Inlet, Gerlache Island, Gerlache Strait and the de Gerlache seamounts, as well as Pic de Gerlache in Greenland and de Gerlache crater, near the south pole of the moon.

Alexander Albon

On 2013 was assigned by the KTR to race on 2013 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Season alongside Yu Kanamaru,and Ignazio D'Agosto and finished 28th position with 1 Fastest Lap and 1 Pole Position with 22 overall points.

Area codes 408 and 669

One receiver for at least one of the voted IMTS channels was located in a pole mount-cabinet on a utility pole along Montevina Road off California State Route 17.

Aviasud Mistral

On May 4, 1987, an Aviasud Mistral was flown to the geographic North Pole by Nicolas Hulot, a world first for this type of aircraft.

Battery Cameron

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for Soviet & Russian intelligence agencies until 2001, had a "dead drop" marker at the utility pole on the corner of Foxhall & Whitehaven, just outside the fence of the reservoir (formerly known as Battery Cameron).

Björling-Kallstenius Expedition

The exact history of the expedition is not well known, however it appears that their plan was to sail to Etah and hire local Inuit to help them reach the Pole.

Boo Morcom

His fame spread as he pole vaulted on an athletic tour of Canada with three other athletes including Babe Ruth.

Brandon Whitt

He won his first race at Memphis Motorsports Park (from the pole) after taking the lead from a spinning Ron Hornaday on the last lap.

Danza de los Voladores

In Guatemala the flying pole dance, called Palo volador, is still celebrated in Joyabaj (15 August), Chichicastenango (17–23 January) and Cubulco (26 July).

Deneb

The north pole of Mars points to the midpoint of the line connecting Deneb and the star Alderamin.

Drzymała's wagon

In 1904 he purchased a plot of land in Podgradowice (Kaisertreu) (today: Drzymałowo) in the Posen district of Bomst, but found that the newly implemented Prussian Feuerstättengesetz ("furnace law") enabled local officials to deny him as a Pole the permission to build a permanent dwelling with a heating on his land.

Flat Earth Society

Richard A. Lupoff's novel Circumpolar! describes a flat planet much like the Earth as described by the Flat Earth Society, except it has a hole at the centre instead of a North Pole, and the underside contains fictional lands such as Atlantis and Lemuria.

Gilberdyke railway station

One of the main employers near the station was the Staddlethorpe pole yard, where telegraph poles were dipped in creosote.

Greasy pole

In the UK, contests to climb a greasy pole were held at numerous fairs including the Crab Fair in Egremont, Cumbria where the contest continues to this day - alongside the annual Gurning World Championships see Gurn.

Gripping Sailor's hitch

The Gripping Sailor's Hitch(*) is a secure, jam-proof hitch used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, boom, spar, etc., when the pull is lengthwise along the object.

Guide-A-Ride

It is a rectangular box attached to the bus stop pole that displays a route map and a schedule.

Hopton Hall

Philip Gell's daughter and heiress, married William Pole Thornhill MP, on whose death the estate passed to his kinsman Henry Pole, later known as Henry Chandos-Pole-Gell (High Sheriff of Derbyshire) in 1886.

Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans

In 1930 Pole-Evans accompanied John Hutchinson and Jan Smuts on a two-month expedition through Southern and Northern Rhodesia to Nyasaland and Lake Tanganyika.

Japanese general election, 2012

On 23 November, Mayor of Nagoya Takashi Kawamura, former state minister Shizuka Kamei and former farm minister Masahiko Yamada joined forces together to launch Tax Cuts Japan – Oppose TPP – Zero Nuclear Party as another "third pole" national political party.

John Darras

Elizabeth was now married to John Mawddwy or de la Pole, lord of Dinas Mawddwy, who vigorously pursued his wife's claim.

John Paul Puthusery

Chamaram, Ilakkangal, Palangal, Rachana, Arorumariyathe, Avidathe Pole Ivideyum, Ormakkayi, Sandhya Mayangum Neram, Kattathe Kilikkoodu, Kathodu Kathoram, Utsavapittennu are some of his major works.

KBER

Every year, KBER hosts an event known as "The North Pole Express" which is a take on the story The Polar Express and is an event co-hosted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Mark Winterbottom

At the third round of the year at Pukekohe Park Raceway in New Zealand, he achieved his career first pole by edging out Holden's Garth Tander.

Mike Burgmann

The #33 Mazda was qualified in 39th position, almost 10 seconds slower than the pole time set by Nissan driver George Fury.

Monkey stick

The Keef Trouble ‘Zob Stick’ is distinguished by the addition of a sprung-boot attached to the bottom of the pole and a metal sleeve round its centre, this being hit with a serrated wooden stick.

Navy Electronics Laboratory

World headlines came early in this program from several events—the submerged voyage of USS Nautilus from the Pacific to the Atlantic, via the North Pole, in 1958, and the surfacing at the pole of USS Skate the following year, both with NEL’s Dr. Waldo Lyon aboard as chief scientist and ice pilot.

Pepe Oriola

He left the first round in Italy in a three way tie for first place in the Yokohama Trophy with Stefano D'Aste and Alex MacDowall, having started from the class pole position in race one.

Polar vortex

Saturn's south pole is the only known hot polar vortex in the solar system.

Pole dance

Actress Sheila Kelley was so taken with the sport, which she learned whilst preparing for her role in Dancing at the Blue Iguana, that she launched her own pole-based exercise programme.

Reciprocation

Reciprocation in geometry, an operation with circles that involves transforming each point in plane into its polar line and each line in the plane into its pole

Richard Dunwoody

Their route followed one which had previously been attempted by Ernest Shackleton and was both the first successful completion of that route on foot as well the first successfully completed new route to the South Pole in ten years.

Ryzhikh

Lisa Ryzih (born 1988), Russian-born German pole vaulter, sister of Anastasija

Samuel Oschin

He was a noted adventure traveller, retracing Robert Peary's voyage to the North Pole, paddling up the Amazon in a dugout canoe, and crossing the Alps on an elephant following the model of Hannibal.

São José dos Pinhais

It is the third pole of Brazil automotive, housing automakers Volkswagen, Audi, Nissan and Renault.

Sempronius Densus

While most of the assassins hacked Galba's corpse to pieces and paraded his severed head on a pole, two of them sought out Piso, who had taken refuge in the Temple of Vesta.

Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet

Sir William Pole, 4th Baronet (1678–1741), of Colcombe Castle, near Colyton and Shute, near Honiton, Devon, was an English politician.

South Pole Carbon

South Pole Carbon, in partnership with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in 2012 developed a Carbon Screening tool to unveil greenhouse gas emissions profiles of more than 40,000 publicly listed companies.

Speakon connector

Speakon connectors are rated for 30 A RMS continuous current, higher than 1/4-inch TS phone connectors, two-pole twist lock, and XLR connectors for loudspeakers.

Stored energy printer

Hexavalent chrome plating on the pole-piece, combined with careful design, more than doubles speeds and improves life-span.

Takaaki Nakagami

He once again took pole at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and again finished second, this time behind Championship leader and home rider Scott Redding.

The Troubles in Crossmaglen

4 March 1978 - Nicholas Smith (20), 7 Platoon, B Company, 2 RGJ, Royal Green Jackets, British Army was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb while removing an Irish flag from a telegraph pole in Crossmaglen.

Wally Herbert

The British explorer Tom Avery had disputed Herbert's conclusion after repeating Peary's expedition in 2005 and reaching the North Pole with his team.

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (20 May 1763 – 22 February 1845), known as Lord Maryborough between 1821 and 1842, was an Anglo-Irish politician and an elder brother of the Duke of Wellington.

Winston Wong

The Expedition will travel 3,600 miles across Antarctica, from Patriot Hills on the west coast to the South Pole, heading north from there through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range, down the Leverett Glacier and across the Ross Ice Shelf to the coast at McMurdo.


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