ELY (EE-lee)
1.
American actor best known for playing Tarzan on TV
2.
English cathedral city
Common
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star Ron; English cathedral city; England's Isle of ___;
Cambridgeshire cathedral city
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Tarzan
Ron
Ely or
Ronald
Ely (born
21 June 1938) is the stage name of the American actor born Ronald
Pierce in
Hereford, Texas. After playing various bit-parts (including an
airplane co-pilot in the 1958 movie South Pacific), he first
became known for starring as Tarzan in a 1966 U.S. television
series of that name. His height (6' 4") and athletic build
also won him the title role in the 1975 Doc Savage film, as well
as various guest shots -- in a 1978 Fantasy
Island episode,
for example, he played Mark Antony in a Roman military short
tunic and breastplate that displayed almost as much of his
physique as his Tarzan costume had.
In
the 1980s, he starred in the series Sea
Hunt and
hosted the musical game show Face
the Music.
Ely
is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. It is 14 miles
(23 km) north-northeast of Cambridge.
Ely
was for a long time informally considered to be a "city"
by virtue of being the seat of a diocese. In 1974 the status was
confirmed by Royal charter on the parish council of the successor
parish to Ely Urban District.
With
a population of 15,102 in 2001, Ely is the third smallest city in
England after Wells in Somerset and the City of London, and the
sixth smallest in the United Kingdom, with St David's, Bangor,
and Armagh also being smaller than it.
It
is commonly said that Ely derives its name from 'eel' and '-y' or
'-ey' meaning island. This may be true, due to the position of
Ely, an island in low-lying fens that were historically very
marshy and rich in eels. It is also known as the Isle of Ely
suggesting an island. It has even been claimed that, during the
11th century, monks of the town used eels as currency to pay
their taxes. People are said to have walked around on stilts or
used boats to get around the Fens and only people of the Fens
knew the correct route so they wouldn't drown.
The
city's origins lay in the foundation of an abbey in 673 AD, a
mile (1.6 km) to the north of the village of Cratendune on the
Isle of Ely, under the protection of St Ethelreda, daughter of
King Anna. The abbey was destroyed in 870 by Danish invaders and
not rebuilt for over a hundred years. The site was one of the
last holdouts in England to the rule of William I, its leader
Hereward the Wake remaining independent until his surrender in
1071. Following William's defeat of Hereward he commissioned the
construction of Ely Castle. It was demolished some time in the
13th century.
Oliver
Cromwell lived in Ely for several years after inheriting the
position of local tax collector in 1636. His former home dates to
the 16th century and is now used by the Tourist Information
Office, as well as being a museum with rooms displayed as they
would have been in Cromwell's time. Cromwell was one of the
Governors of the Thomas Parson's Charity, which dates back to the
sixteenth century and was granted a Royal Charter by Charles I.
The Original Charter and copies of the Minute Book containing
Oliver Cromwell's handwriting and signature have recently been
loaned to the Ely Museum. The Charity still provides Grants and
Housing to deserving local applicants.
Historical
documents relating to Ely, including Church of England parish
registers, court records, maps and photographs, are held by
Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record
Office in Cambridge.
This
article is licensed under the GNU
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It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ron
Ely" and
'Ely, Cambridgeshire'
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