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Wellington Cricket Club have a ground off Courtland Road, and have two teams in the Somerset Cricket League. [65] Wellington A.F.C. football Club was formed in 1892 and now play in the Western Football League. [66] Wellington Bowmen is an archery club formed in 2001. It uses facilities at the rugby club and at Court Fields School. [67]
Wellington is located in southeastern Iroquois County at (40.541261, -87.680772). [3] Illinois Route 1 passes less than a mile west of the village, leading north 18 miles (29 km) to Watseka, the county seat, and south 5 miles (8 km) to Hoopeston.
In 1972, fragmentary fossils of anatomically modern humans were found at Chouqu and Gangzilin, in Zuojhen District, Tainan, in fossil beds exposed by erosion of the Cailiao River. Though some of the fragments are believed to be more recent, three cranial fragments and a molar tooth have been dated as between 20,000 and 30,000 years old.
In Wellington all but one of the clocks stopped working in the Dominion Observatory, and ceiling lights in the Evening Post offices swayed 'more vigorously' than they had the week before". [25] The earthquake of 13 February 1931 is widely regarded as an aftershock of the larger event ten days earlier.
The Day Book (Chicago, IL) [115] Albert, a hunting guide: Adult: ♂: 1909: n/a: Tuya Range of the Cassiar Mountains in British Columbia: As Albert sat alone at a campfire while his client and crew were off clearing wood for a trail, he suddenly saw a wolf standing next to him. Immediately the wolf attacked him on the shoulder.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is a 551-bed non-profit teaching hospital located in Chicago. Founded in 1897, the hospital operates a Level I trauma center and Level III Perinatal Center. Its license number is 0005165. [5] The hospital is a part of Advocate Aurora Health.
In Ancient Egypt, the rulers of the Twelfth Dynasty (c. 2000–1800 BC) undertook a far-sighted land reclamation scheme to increase agricultural output. They constructed levees and canals to connect the Faiyum with the Bahr Yussef waterway, diverting water that would have flowed into Lake Moeris and causing gradual evaporation around the lake's edges, creating new farmland from the reclaimed land.
Willington is a village and civil parish located in the English county of Bedfordshire.It is west of Moggerhanger on the road from Sandy to Bedford.The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Welitone and as Wilitona in c. 1150, from Old English tun (homestead) among the willows, [2] and is part of the ancient hundred of Wixamtree.