Magnesium ion in large amounts is an ionic laxative, and magnesium sulfate ( common name: Epsom salt ) is sometimes used for this purpose.

St Cuthbert is also the namesake of St Cuthbert's College in Epsom, New Zealand, which celebrates St Cuthbert's Day on 21 March as a day of school celebration.

It is sometimes suggested that a few weeks beforehand Emily Davison and other suffragettes were ' practising ' grabbing horses in the park near her mother's house in Morpeth ; and that they drew straws to decide who should be the one to go to Epsom.

Horse-racing historian Michael Tanner, in a 2011 television interview at Epsom, pointed out that as Emily Davison was standing on the inside of the bend at Tattenham Corner, amidst heaving crowds, and with no racetrack commentary like there is today, it would in fact have been impossible for her to have any idea whether the King's horse Anmer had in fact already gone past or not when she stepped out onto the racecourse to make her protest ; and that at the speeds the horses were going it would not have been practicable for her to identify any particular horse anyway even if she'd meant to.

The Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards ( 2, 423 metres ), and is scheduled for early June each year.

However, the Epsom Derby is the original.

The 1952 drama film Derby Day, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Michael Wilding and Anna Neagle, is set entirely round the Epsom Derby.

Nijinsky II sired 155 Stakes / Group winners, and is the only sire to have a winner of the Kentucky and Epsom Derbies in the same year.

There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the ' Sanford Arms ', which almost certainly derives from ' Sand Ford ', so this adds weight to the suggestion that ' Guildford ' is a corruption of ' Gold Ford ', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.

North Cheam is situated about a mile north of the village at the crossroad between Cheam Village and Worcester Park, Epsom and Morden.

The access junction for the A3, linking it on the north with the Broadway and on the south with the A240 Kingston Road toward Epsom, is known as the Toby Jug Roundabout, named after the public house which stood beside it until demolished in 2002.

Waddon railway station is on the line between West Croydon railway station and Epsom Downs or Sutton.

Epsom is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States.

The highest point in Epsom is the summit of Fort Mountain, at above sea level, in the eastern part of town.

The school today is public and takes students from Pembroke and from the neighboring towns of Allenstown, Epsom, Chichester, and historically, Deerfield.

The May meeting includes several nationally significant races such as the Chester Vase, which is recognised as a trial for the Epsom Derby.

Glyn Johns ( born 15 February 1942, Epsom, Surrey, England ) is an English musician, recording engineer and record producer.

* Examples: sodium phosphate ( and variants ), potassium sodium tartrarate, magnesium citrate, magnesium hydroxide ( Milk of magnesia or Cream of magnesia ), magnesium sulfate ( which is Epsom salt ).

It is separated from Leatherhead by the M25, and from Epsom by Ashtead Common.

A & E for the Leatherhead area is at Epsom General Hospital.

Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England.

Named after the town in England noted for its horse-racing, Epsom also has a race track.

From the 1840s until the 1890s Epsom was noted for its rich pasture land which supported both dairy herds and grain crops.

Other areas recommended for inclusion that were never part of Greater London included Epsom and Ewell, Caterham and Warlingham, Esher, and Weybridge.

Nijinsky was given a rating of 138 by Timeform, the second highest for a winner of the Epsom Derby up to that time.

Epsom Chapel was demolished in 1950 when Goucher College sold a portion of its property for development of the Towson Plaza shopping center, now Towson Town Center.

The University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester or UCA ( a merger of the local Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College and Kent Institute of Art & Design ) offers higher education.

Epsom is famous for the Epsom Downs Racecourse which hosts the Epsom Derby ; painting by Théodore Géricault, 1821.

The University for the Creative Arts has one of its five campuses in Epsom.

The station is of historic interest being the arrival point for Queen Victoria and her entourage prior to taking a carriage up to Epsom Downs.

State schools include Blenheim High School, Epsom and Ewell High School, Glyn Technology School, North East Surrey College of Technology ( NESCOT ) and Rosebery School for Girls and also The Beacon School Banstead.

Isabella was sent to school in Heidelberg, Germany, for two years where she became an accomplished pianist and afterwards returned to Epsom.

He also wrote incidental music for John Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Marriage à la Mode, George Etheridge's The Man of Mode, Nathaniel Lee's Gloriana, and Thomas Shadwell's Epsom Wells.

The very wealthy Dr. Plesch shared Etti Plesch's passion for Thoroughbred horse racing, something that had been influenced by her maternal grandfather Alexander Baltazzi who won the 1876 edition of the Epsom Derby with Kisber.

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The flotation medium consists of a skin-temperature solution of water and Epsom salts at a specific gravity that allows for the patient to float supine without worry of safety.

His best plays are Epsom Wells ( 1672 ), for which Sir Charles Sedley wrote a prologue, and the Squire of Alsatia ( 1688 ).

Furthermore, confusion bedevilled National's potential coalition options: New Zealand First showed reluctance to reveal whether it would support National or Labour post-election, whilst ACT ( often seen as National's natural coalition partner due to the similarities in some of their policies ) criticised National for not openly supporting ACT leader Rodney Hide's bid to win the electorate seat of Epsom.

* The University for the Creative Arts, formerly University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester

There are several prestigious schools located in and around Mt Eden including St Peter's College, Epsom Girls Grammar School and Auckland Grammar School, as well as the Epsom Campus of the University of Auckland ( previously the Auckland College of Education ).

The field usually includes fillies which ran previously in the Epsom Oaks, and several have won both races.

* There are several bus services through the town, linking to Epsom, Sutton and Croydon, which all have good onward bus and rail connections.