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5 unusual facts about Abram


Golborne

The closure of the colliery led to the loss of employment for a large proportion of Golborne's population as well as people from nearby towns such as Abram, Lowton and Ashton-in-Makerfield.

Hindley Green

Hindley Green is one of five communities (the others being Abram, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Bryn and Hindley) served by the Hindley Neighbourhood Policing Team, based at Bamfurlong Police Station.

Lancashire Coalfield

The Giant's Hall Fault passes by Abram, west of Ince Hall Colliery, west of Gidlow and under Giant's Hall Farm to Standish Church.

Wigan Urban Area

The historic town of Wigan forms an integrated conurbation along with the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan districts of Orrell and Ince-in-Makerfield, this is connected by ribbon development to Standish, Platt Bridge and Abram.

The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the contiguous areas of Ince-in-Makerfield, Orrell and Wigan itself), along with the outlying areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale.


Abram Calvin Wildrick

Abram Calvin Wildrick (August 5, 1836 - November 16, 1894) was a Union brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was the son of former New Jersey U.S. Representative Isaac Wildrick.

Abram Khavin

Abram Leonidovich Khavin (1914 – January 19, 1974, Kiev) was a Ukrainian chess master.

Abram Petrovich Gannibal

Abram Gannibal is a protagonist of the Soviet comedy movie How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor, although the film's plot has almost nothing to do with Gannibal's real biography.

Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Robertson Bryam married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848.

Anthonians

Abram Atar Poresigh retired to the Libanus with three companions, and founded the monastery of the Most Holy Saviour under the protection of St. Anthony, to supply members for mission work.

Coral Smith

Much curiosity and speculation has arisen over Smith's relationship with Abram Boise from Road Rules: South Pacific during Battle of the Sexes 2.

David Abram

Abram is founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE); his essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared often in such journals as Orion, Environmental Ethics, Parabola, Tikkun, and The Ecologist, as well as numerous anthologies.

East Central Franklin, Maine

The territory consists of four townships, which are Reddington, Mt. Abram, Salem, Freeman, and Madrid.

Fredell Lack

Fredell Lack was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the oldest of three children of eastern European (Latvian) immigrants Abram I. Lack and Sarah Stillman (who was a sister of noted painter Ary Stillman).

George Koval

George Koval's father, Abram Koval, left his home town of Telekhany in Belarus to emigrate to the United States in 1910.

Gordon Denlinger

He and his wife reside in Narvon, Pennsylvania and have four children: Evan, Abram Preston, Blake, and Mariah.

Henry A. Barnhart

Barnhart was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Abram L. Brick.

J. Eugene Harding

Harding was born in Excello, Ohio, the son of paper manufacturer Abram E. Harding and his wife Christine.

John David Booty

Booty is the younger brother of former Cleveland Browns and Oakland Raiders quarterback Josh Booty (who threw for 3,951 yards and 24 touchdowns during two years with LSU's football team) and former LSU and Valdosta State University wide receiver Abram Booty (who caught 117 passes for 1,768 yards during three years at LSU).

Morris Berthold Abram

As a civil rights activist, Abram was instrumental in ending the County Unit System of voting in Georgia, which many argued favored Georgia's rural, white population at the expense of its more urban black population.

Norm Abram

Abram is also on the board of trustees of Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and delivered the 2001 commencement speech at The North Bennet Street School in Boston, which is renowned for its commitment to teaching craftsmanship.

Sluggy Freelance

Even as early as 1999 The Tech, MIT's oldest and largest newspaper provided a stellar review by Contributing Editor Dan McGuire of Abram's first printed collection, Is It Not Nifty? Poking fun at the Internet's stereotypical association with pornography, McGuire introduces Sluggy Freelance as a cutting edge alternative endeavor on this virtual frontier and the relative artistic freedom it allows its creator, and ability to speak well to the culture of its audiences.

Smith W. Brookhart

Brookhart was born in a cabin on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, the son of Abram C. and Cynthia Wildman Brookhart.

Yerxa

Cabot's Pueblo Museum, a California historic site built by Cabot Abram Yerxa (1883-1965)


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