• the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade?

Facts on topics related to Edward Harland

Gustav Wilhelm Wolff

• Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff?

Belfast

• Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
• RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland, including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
• Irish architect Thomas Duff designed St. Patrick's School in Belfast, believed to be the city's last surviving gothic building?
• almost 60% of Belfast's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports?
• historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
• playwright Sam Thompson's Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?
• when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast?

Glasgow

• Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation?
• Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians, including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
• Clyde Fastlink, a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow's proposed light rail system?
• Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
• Greenbank Gardens near Glasgow, Scotland were built by Robert Allason, a slave trader?
• a Glasgow-born railway engineer, John Harley, was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football?
• in 1865, Dr Edward William Pritchard, who poisoned his wife and mother-in-law, became the last person to be publicly executed in Glasgow?
• in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station currently located in Glasgow, Scotland near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887?
  
• the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1960 was (and remains) the worst peace time loss of life for the United Kingdom fire services?
• the Willow Tearooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is the most famous of many new Glasgow tearooms opened in the early 20th century due to the emergence of the Temperance movement ?

Newcastle upon Tyne

• an explosion in 1854 sparked off a great fire (pictured) killing 53 and levelling significant parts of Gateshead and Newcastle?
• in 1977 United States President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech containing the local Geordie phrase "Ha'way-tha-lads!" at Newcastle Civic Centre (pictured), a civic centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England?

Liverpool

• Liverpool actor and guitarist Ozzie Yue used to flick pieces of paper at Paul McCartney in art class when they attended the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys?
• Liverpool businessman Sir William Bower Forwood raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral?
• Liverpool-based singer-songwriter Eugene McGuinness once performed for Sir Paul McCartney?
• the Beatles' song "Polythene Pam" was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene?
• All Saints' Church, Childwall is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool, England?
• La Princesse (pictured), a giant mechanical spider, roamed the streets of Liverpool, England as part of the 2008 European City of Culture celebrations?
• Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
• SS President (pictured) became the first transatlantic steamship to founder when she disappeared in 1841 en route from New York to Liverpool with 136 people on board?
• St George's Church, Everton (pictured) and St Michael's Church, Aigburth were two of the three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg which contained many cast iron components?
• the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool's large Irish community in 1860?