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8 unusual facts about Flushing


Albert Lee Ueltschi

He spent his winters in Vero Beach, Florida, but worked daily in the warmer months at FlightSafety's headquarters at the Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in Flushing, Queens, New York.

Hermann Grab

He died fully invalid in 1949 in New York and was buried at Flushing Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

Lazar Weiner

Lazar Weiner (Cherkassy, 1897 - Flushing, Queens, March 13, 1982) was an Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer of Yiddish song.

Michael Walpole

When Henry Walpole was taken prisoner at Flushing, Michael went to his assistance and procured his ransom.

Social problems in Chinatown

Manhattan's Chinatown continues to grow (having almost completely engulfed Little Italy) but its ever higher property values have driven many Chinese New Yorkers – both businesses and customers – to the Flushing Chinatown in Queens.

Spiratone

Mail orders were filled from their larger warehouse store on Northern Blvd. in Flushing, Queens.

Thomas F. Bayard

Bayard was educated in private academies in Wilmington and, after his father moved to New York City for business reasons, in Flushing, New York.

Tim Latham

Latham was born in Flushing, Queens, New York and was raised in and around the area until leaving to attend Boston's Berklee College of Music from where he graduated in the summer of 1989.


Augustin Přeučil

Among his activities was the theft of a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIa serial number W9147 of 55 OTU based at RAF Usworth, near Sunderland, in which he flew to Flushing in the Netherlands on 19 September 1941.

Cadwallader D. Colden

Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 Springhill, near Flushing, Queens County, New York – February 7, 1834 Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey) was an American politician.

Channel Dash

The Germans had suffered unexpectedly small damage and losses: Scharnhorst hit two mines, off Flushing and Ameland, but arrived safely at 10:00 on 13 February at Wilhelmshaven (the damage took three months to repair).

Colden Family Cemetery

While Colden himself is buried another private cemetery in the Queens community of Flushing where he died, a tablet was erected in his memory at the entrance.

De Schelde Scheldemusch

In 1935 the Dutch dockyard NV Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, based at Vlissingen (Flushing) on the Schelde (Scheldt) estuary moved into aircraft manufacture with the acquisition of the staff of the Pander Company.

Flush toilet

1924-1927: Philip Haas of Dayton, Ohio, designed and improved a water closet flushing and recycling mechanism similar to those in use today, incorporated in US Patents 1,576,600, 1,601,210, 1,605,939, 1,623,109, 1,629,914, 1,638,395, 1,639,997, 1,660,922.

Flushing and North Side Railroad

Flushing citizens, feeling they had been tricked into building the Flushing and Woodside in order to scare the Flushing and North Side into selling out to the LIRR, convinced wealthy residents of College Point and Whitestone, including Conrad Poppenhusen, to incorporate the Flushing and North Side Railroad in 1868.

The Flushing and North Side Railroad is a former railroad on Long Island built by Conrad Poppenhusen as a replacement for the former New York and Flushing Railroad.

Flushing Bay

On September 21, 1776, the Colonial patriot Nathan Hale was captured by the British Army near a tavern at Flushing Bay after being fingered as a spy.

Flushing Meadows Carousel

On May 7, 2012 NY Carousel Entertainment was awarded the contract to operate both the Flushing Meadows and Forest Park Carousels.

Flushing Remonstrance

According to Kenneth T. Jackson, the Flushing Remonstrance was remarkable for four reasons: it articulated a fundamental right that is as basic to American freedom as any other, the authors backed up their words with actions by sending it to an official not known for tolerance, they stood up for others and were articulating a principle that was of little discernible benefit to themselves, and the language of the remonstrance is as beautiful as the sentiments they express.

Four flush

In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as "four flushing" in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.

G. J. Renier

Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.

Both his grandfathers were from Ostend, West Flanders, his grandmothers were locals from Flushing and Middelburg.

Herodias Gardiner

Hicks went off to live with the Dutch, and was in the process of obtaining a divorce from her in Rhode Island in December 1643, when he sent a letter from Flushing, New Netherland to Rhode Island magistrate John Coggeshall.

Himanshu Suri

Born and raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, Suri graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 2003, where he was the vice president when the September 11 attacks happened two blocks away.

John Bowne

His house at Bowne Street and 37th Avenue in Flushing still stands, and is open to the public as Registered Historic Place.

John Thomas Jones

Jones acted throughout the operations in Zeeland as chief of the engineers' staff, and in that capacity carried out all the arrangements for the attack of Rammekins and Flushing.

Lady Mary Wroth

Her father was first earl of Leicester and Viscount Lisle of Penshurst Place, a poet and governor of Flushing, Netherlands.

Loharinag Pala Hydro Power Project

Impacts on the rivers will be mitigated by the release of a 0.85–1.1 m3/s minimum environmentally acceptable dry season flow from the Loharinag–Pala dam, the release of monsoon season flushing flows, and yearly restocking of rivers above and below the barrage sites with snow trout.

Medisafe International

The flushing of a surgical instrument by itself is not sufficient to remove bio-burden as flushing alone does not produce a mechanical action.

Paul Jean Clays

We may mention, among others, "The Beach at Ault," "Boats in a Dutch Port," and "Dutch Boats in the Flushing Roads," the last in the National Gallery, London.

Redeemer Lutheran School

The Lutheran School of Flushing, operated by The Lutheran Church of Saint John, and Redeemer Lutheran School, operated by Redeemer Lutheran Church, joined together to create The Lutheran School of Flushing & Bayside in 1984.

Rosemarie DeWitt

DeWitt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Rosemarie Braddock and Kenny DeWitt.

Seton Portage, British Columbia

The beaches of the Portage were so busy with men coming and going that they were given the names Wapping and Flushing, after the busy London Tube stations of the same names.

Slim Twig

In addition to co-releasing Slim Twig's latest LP, A Hound at the Hem, Calico Corp. has released an EP, Flushing Meats, by Eric Copeland, and most recently, Zacht Automaat, a double LP by the eponymously-named Toronto duo.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

Notable clients include the nation's oldest Hindu temple, the Hindu Temple Society of North America, in Flushing, New York City, Prison Fellowship International, Muslim students in Richardson, Texas, seeking to pray the dhuhr prayer on the campus of Lloyd V. Berkner High School, and a Zen Buddhist silent meditation center in New York state that neighbors claimed would make too much noise.

Tito Muñoz

Born in Flushing, Queens, Muñoz first studied music in the New York City Public School System, where he took up violin at the Louis Armstrong Middle School.

Walter Poppe

He participated in Operation Market Garden, leading the 59th Infantry Division where he led his troops across a river crossing between Breskens and Flushing.

William Caton

At Flushing and Middelburg he found English congregations, and was roughly handled at both places for interrupting their services.

Willie Degel

Degel opened his first restaurant, Hollywood and Main, in June 1990 in Flushing, Queens.


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