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36 unusual facts about Adelaide


Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou

In 1010 king Robert II of France along with Odo II, Count of Blois went to Rome to secure an annulment from Robert's second wife, Constance of Arles, Adelaide-Blanche's daughter by William I. Pope Sergius IV, a friend to the Angevin counts, upheld the marriage and additionally upheld Adelaide's struggle to maintain control of lands at Montmajour Abbey.

Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy

Adelaide (or Alice, Alix — died 8 March 1279, Évian) was Countess of Burgundy from 1248 until her death.

Aubrey Lewis

He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Adelaide, Wakefield Street, where he proved to be a gifted pupil.

Australian String Quartet

In addition, ASQ has an extensive regional touring programme throughout Australia (from small mining towns, to the Northern Territory's capital, Darwin) and appears at major international festivals in Adelaide, Sydney, and Austria.

Baron Partners

Baron Partners is an Australian corporate advisory firm, with offices in Sydney and Adelaide.

Beaumont House

Beaumont House was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.

Cheltenham Park Racecourse

The racecourse was once served by Cheltenham Racecourse railway station on the Outer Harbor railway line.

Christopher Pearson

He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from Flinders University as well as a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Adelaide.

Edwin Thomas Smith

In the city council he was always anxious to improve the city and it was a result of his advocacy that Adelaide had its first tramways, King William Street was extended, and the Torrens Lake formed.

Field River

The catchment area of the Field River includes the Happy Valley Reservoir, part of Main South Road and the Southern Expressway and covers a total area of 55.3 km2.

Glover Playgrounds

Despite maps to the contrary he had no relationship with the West Terrace playground.

Hindmarsh Square

It is located in the centre of the north-eastern quarter of the city, and surrounds the intersection of Grenfell and Pulteney Streets, near the eastern end of the Rundle Mall.

Howard Florey

He was educated at Kyre College Preparatory School (Now Scotch College) and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant academic and junior sportsman.

Hugh Sheridan

In his youth he sang with State Opera Australia, played football for St Ignatius and studied drama at Unley Youth Theatre.

Hurtle Square

It is located in the centre of the south-eastern quarter of the city, and surrounds the intersection of Halifax and Pulteney Streets.

Jack Oatey

In 1957, Oatey moved to West Adelaide where he coached until 1960, reaching the finals each year but never winning the premiership.

John Tyas

In Feb. 1868 he arrived in Adelaide, and joined as a partner the firm of Carter, Tyas, & Co., Manchester warehousemen.

Ken Farmer

Kenneth William George "Ken" Farmer (born 25 July 1910 in Adelaide, South Australia – died 5 March 1982 in Adelaide) was an Australian rules football player in the South Australian National Football League during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

Kilburn station

Kilburn railway station, Adelaide, a TransAdelaide station on the Gawler railway line

Lower North East Road, Adelaide

Lower North East Road or Payneham Road or A11 highway is a road connected to National Route A17 (Portrush Road) in South Australia.

Madeline Rees George

She held this post until 1908 when the school was merged into the Adelaide High School, and she was made headmistress of the new institution, in the same Grote Street premises.

Mitcham Primary School

Three years later the Mitcham Railway Station was opened next to the school on the new Adelaide-Aldgate line, creating with the school, a new centre of the Mitcham community.

Moses Aaron Richardson

He acted for some time as librarian of the Melbourne Mechanics' Institute, but eventually became a journalist and editor of the ‘Wallaroo Times.’ From 1874 he taught drawing and watercolour painting at Adelaide, where he died on 28 November 1877.

National Campus Band Competition

Since then, the National final has travelled around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Lismore, Adelaide and Wollongong) and the competition has attracted more and more bands, as well as receiving great kudos from the music industry.

Osmond Gilles

He is remembered by Gilles Street in the Adelaide Central Business District, Glen Osmond Road, OG Road and the Adelaide suburbs of Glen Osmond and Gilles Plains.

Ramsay state by-election, 2012

One opinion poll was conducted and released by the in-house polling group at The Advertiser, Adelaide's main newspaper.

Red-bellied black snake

It can be found in the urban forest, woodland, plains and bushland areas of the Blue Mountains, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns and Adelaide.

Rising Sun Research

The privately held company was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Adelaide, Australia.

Rundle Park

It is bounded by East Terrace, Botanic Road, Dequetteville Terrace and Rundle Road.

Sam Clark

Clark is a graduate of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and was a keen participant in several high school theatre productions, including a main role in West Side Story.

Samuel James Mitchell

Samuel Mitchell graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1890 and was admitted to the Bar and practised with Paris Nesbit QC and later Robert Ingleby QC.

St George College, South Australia

The senior school is located a short distance away, on the corner of Henley Beach Road and South Road, on the site of the former Thebarton Primary School.

Tjilbruke

This site is situated at Bedford Park within the grounds of Warriparinga Wetland and Sturt River.

Upper Hermitage, South Australia

Upper Hermitage's history revolves around agriculture and viticulture, as well as sand and freestone quarries, whose yields were used since early settlement days to build many South Australian public buildings, including the Adelaide Town Hall, General Post Office, Supreme Court and St Peter's Cathedral.

William Adey

He attended state primary schools before studying at Grote Street Training College in 1894 and at Melbourne Training College in 1907; he also studied part-time at the University of Adelaide (1909–15), although he never graduated.

Zephyr Quartet

The Zephyr Quartet is a string quartet based in Adelaide, South Australia.


1983 Australian Drivers' Championship

Port Macquarie privateer Andrew Miedecke drove his RT4 to 3rd in the championship despite only deciding to race after watching Costanzo win the first round of the series in Adelaide on television.

1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships

The 1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide in Australia and was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

2008 Ordina Open

The men singles featured ATP No. 5, Valencia titlist and French Open quarterfinalist David Ferrer, Queen's Club quarterfinalist Richard Gasquet, and Australian Open quarterfinalist and Adelaide runner-up Jarkko Nieminen.

5MMM

In 1993, Hoyts Media which owned the Triple M radio network in the eastern states had bought 5KKA but could not adopt the Triple M call-sign in Adelaide as a community radio station already had the call-sign 5MMM.

Anthony Fane, 13th Earl of Westmorland

Fane was born at Curzon House, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London, the second and youngest son of Francis Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Adelaide Ida, daughter of Richard Curzon-Howe, 1st Earl Howe.

Archibald Watson

His portrait (by William Beckwith McInnes) hangs in the Adelaide University's anatomy department.

Attunga

Attunga, Toorak Gardens, a mansion in the Adelaide suburb of Toorak Gardens, South Australia

Boak

Travis Boak, AFL footballer currently contracted to the Port Adelaide Power

Brian Faehse

Faehse represented South Australia with distinction 19 times between 1948 and 1956 and played in the 1950 (Brisbane), 1953 (Adelaide) and 1956 (Perth) Australian National Football Carnival's.

Bridgewater, South Australia

It is the former end of the Adelaide-Bridgewater railway line; this route was closed in 1987.

Cheong Liew

He then became the owner of the popular Adelaide restaurant Neddys, where the menu consisted of mostly Malaysian and Chinese dishes.

Clare Moore

Moore began performing in 1974, playing drums for a singing nun (Sister Janet Mead) in Adelaide.

Dario Vidošić

In February 2007, he played for the Australian Under-23 team, the Olyroos, in an Olympic qualifier in Adelaide, scoring the 11th goal in Australia's 11–0 win over Chinese Taipei.

Diocese of Adelaide

The Anglican Diocese of Adelaide, led by the Anglican Bishop of Adelaide (1847–1970)

Electoral district of Adelaide

The electorate's name comes from the city which it encompasses, Adelaide is named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German born Queen consort of the King of England, King William IV.

Faizal Saari

He also played in the Adelaide League and made seven strikes for Forestville in three appearances.

Frances Adamson

Adamson was born in Adelaide, Australia, and educated at Walford Anglican School for Girls and The University of Adelaide, where she received a Bachelor of Economics.

Gavin Wanganeen

Since retiring from football, Wanganeen has focused on business interests involving ownership of three Anytime Fitness centres at Modbury, Port Adelaide and Essendon.

Gawler Central railway line

The line was constructed in 1857-58 to connect the Adelaide with copper resources at Kapunda and Burra, as well as to provide passenger and freight services to the new town of Gawler.

George Edward Fulton

Their homes were at Stanley Street, North Adelaide until 1888, then "Davaar" on the Hutt Street corner of South terrace (later owned by Sir Jenkin Coles, then from 1893 a residence in Brougham-place, North Adelaide, previously owned by E. M. Bagot.

Harness racing in Australia

The state's premier track is Globe Derby Park in Adelaide.

Henry of Marcy

Henry returned to the Langudeoc in 1181 and led a military attack on Roger's town of Lavaur, which Roger's wife Adelaide immediately surrendered to him without giving a fight.

International Association of Wagner Societies

Wagner societies can be found in all parts of the world, including Venice, Great Britain, Shanghai, Tokyo, Lisbon, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ankara, New York, Toronto, Cape Town, Bangkok, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

James Robin

In the London office of Robert Torrens in 1851, with fellow Guernsey citizens James Thoume and N. P. Le Bair, Charles took a lease on the Kent Town section of Adelaide, then known as "Dr. Kent's Section", with an option to convert to freehold.

John Bonython

John Lavington Bonython (1875–1960), Australian publisher and Lord Mayor of Adelaide, son of Langdon Bonython, aka Lavington Bonython

Lawrence A. Mysak

from the University of Adelaide in 1963 (where he was supervised by George Szekeres ) and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967.

Louis Buvelot

He is represented in the galleries at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Castlemaine, and his bust by Bertram Mackennal and a portrait in oils by J. C. Waite are also in the Melbourne gallery.

Loxton, South Australia

Grantley Fielke (b. 1962), former Australian rules footballer who played for West Adelaide in the SANFL and for both Collingwood and the Adelaide Crows in the VFL-AFL between 1979 and 1997.

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.

Marion Football Club

Marion continued in the competition known as the Glenelg District Football Association, Glenelg-South-West District Football Association, Glenelg-South Adelaide Football Association and finally the Southern Metropolitan Football League until it folded at the end of the 1986 season.

Mark Dickel

Dickel's brother, Richard, is currently the head coach of the Adelaide Lighting and former Waikato Piston, Otago Nugget, Southland Shark, Southland Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 coach.

Mount Hill, South Australia

The Water Witch and Porter parted there, the Porter returning to Port Lincoln with Gawler and the Water Witch to Adelaide via Point Riley, near Wallaroo.

Natalie von Bertouch

Natalie von Bertouch has an older sister, Laura von Bertouch, who formerly played with the Adelaide Thunderbirds and has been a member of the Australian national team.

Oliba Cabreta

He also had a legitimate daughter named Adelaide, who married John d'Oriol, lord of Sales.

Ong Keng Sen

He is particularly well known for his performance at the Perth Festival of King Lear in 1997, his Desdemona at the Adelaide Festival, Australia in 2000, and his Search:Hamlet at the Kronbourg Castle in Elsinore and Copenhagen.

Parliament House, Adelaide

A design by prominent Adelaide architect Edmund Wright and his partner Lloyd Taylor was selected winner.

Pinnaroo, South Australia

The railway is not currently available for transport between the states, as the line from Tailem Bend was converted to standard gauge soon after the main Adelaide–Melbourne line was converted, but the line to Ouyen remains as broad gauge.

Riverton, South Australia

A passenger who was travelling on the Broken Hill Express from Adelaide fired a number of shots into the dining room, and Percy Brookfield, the Member of Parliament for Broken Hill, was shot and killed when he tried to disarm the gunman.

Ronald S. Baron

In 2007, he paid USD $103 million for a house in East Hampton, New York—the most ever paid for a residential property at that time—from Adelaide de Menil, heiress to the Schlumberger fortune.

Rory Schlein

Schlein, who when home in Australia lives in the southern Adelaide suburb of Hallett Cove and calls the Gillman Speedway his home track, won the Australian Under-21 Speedway Championship in 2003 and 2004 and finished 2nd to Chris Holder in 2005.

Sarah Kernochan

Kernochan was born in New York City, the daughter of Adelaide (Chatfield-Taylor), an international organization consultant, and John Marshall Kernochan, a law professor.

The Boy James

Critical and public acclaim has led to the show being the longest running of Belt Up Theatre's repertoire, and was one of the two shows that were part of their international debut in the Adelaide Fringe Festival, in 2012 (alongside Outland).

Thorvald Solberg

Thorvald Solberg was married to Mary Adelaide Nourse of Lynn, Massachusetts.

Tom Warhurst

Tom Warhurst, Jr., (b. 1963), Australian rules footballer for Norwood and Adelaide

Tommy Walker

Poltpalingada Booboorowie (c. 1830–1901), known as Tommy Walker, Aboriginal personality in Adelaide

Transitplus

Transitplus was based in Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills and had two depots located in Aldgate and Mount Barker.

Ulrich I, Lord of Hanau

Ulrich I was the eldest son of Reinhard I and his wife Adelaide, who was a sister of Ulrich II, the last Count of Hagen-Münzenberg.

William Lawrence Bragg

After beginning his studies at St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1904 he went to the University of Adelaide at age 14 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908.

William Maturin

He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig Elizabeth Buckham on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commisariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in 1851.