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The Treaty Tree (Afrikaans: Verdragboom or Traktaatboom) is a 500-year-old white milkwood tree on Treaty Road and south of the rail line in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa. Peace was made under the tree on 10 January 1806 after the Battle of Blaauwberg, thereby starting the second British occupation of the Cape and leading to the permanent ...
Woodstock is a fictional character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts.He is a small yellow bird of unknown species and Snoopy's best friend. The character first appeared in the March 4, 1966, strip, though he was not given a name until June 22, 1970. [8]
Fifty-five years after Woodstock, the Message Tree was cut down under rainy skies Wednesday due to its poor health and safety concerns. The owners of the renowned concert site were reluctant to lose a living symbol of the community forged on a farm in Bethel, New York, on Aug. 15-18, 1969. But operators of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts ...
The Treaty Tree is an old milkwood tree in Treaty Road where in 1806 the peace treaty between the English and the Dutch after the Battle of Blaauwberg was signed. Until 1834 slaves were sold under it and along with convicts also hanged. Woodstock cave is a fairly large but shallow cave (it's more of an overhang) halfway up Devil's Peak
The largest known elm tree in Woodstock is located close to the Woodstock Fairgrounds (2020). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 61.8 square miles (160 km 2), of which 60.5 square miles (157 km 2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2 or 2.10%) is water.
Though Woodstock first appeared in the "Peanuts" comic in 1967, he wasn't named until 1970. In the June 22, 1970 strip, Snoopy says, "I finally found out what that stupid bird's name is and you'll ...
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [18] [19] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [18]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
Arms of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent: Royal arms of King Edward I, a bordure argent for difference Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (5 August 1301 – 19 March 1330), whose seat was Arundel Castle in Sussex, [1] was the sixth son of King Edward I of England, and the second by his second wife Margaret of France, and was a younger half-brother of King Edward II.