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26 unusual facts about Albany


129th Field Artillery Regiment

Only the 1st Battalion is presently constituted as an active unit, and is assigned to the Missouri Army National Guard, with its headquarters in Maryville, Missouri, and has subordinate elements located in armories in Albany, Independence, and Chillicothe, Missouri.

Albany, Indiana

Each summer Albany plays host to a series of "cruise-in" car show events at the McDonald's on the west side of the city.

Albany, Minnesota

Albany is part of Minnesota's 6th congressional district currently represented in Federal Congress by (R) Representative Michele Bachmann and Minnesota Senators (D) Amy Klobuchar and (D) Al Franken.

Albany, New Hampshire

The town was incorporated and renamed Albany in 1833, when the New York Central Railroad from New York City to Albany, New York was chartered.

Albany, Ohio

free blacks, many of whom had migrated from the Upper South, settled the village in the mid-19th century.

Albany, Pennsylvania

The village is located in central Albany Township, the northernmost and most sparsely populated of all the townships in Berks County.

Anne Grant

Born in Glasgow to British military officer Duncan Macvicar, Anne mainly grew up in and around Albany, New York, where her father was stationed.

Berkeley Parents Network

About 90 percent of BPN members live in the East Bay communities of Berkeley, Oakland, Albany, El Cerrito, and Richmond.

Brittany Wakelin

Wakelin attended Albany Senior High School on Auckland's North Shore in Albany, Auckland, New Zealand.

Cacadu District Municipality

The municipality is a new, multi-ethnic administration, formed by the ANC government through the merging of the predominantly Afrikaans-speaking western part of the Eastern Cape, together with Xhosa areas near the Fish river, and the English district of Albany (with its own distinctive local culture, dating back to the 1820 settlers).

Cape grysbok

The Cape or southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.

Cape Henlopen

Those settlers were subsequently spread out onto Verhulsten Island (Burlington Island) in the Delaware, at Fort Orange (now Albany) in the Hudson River and at the mouth of the Connecticut River in order to finalize the claim to New Netherland as a North American province according to the Law of Nations (Hugo Grotius).

Crinipellis zonata

The species was first named as Agaricus zonatus by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1872, based on specimens found near Albany, New York.

End of a Year

End of a Year started as a side project for a number of Albany musicians already involved in full-time bands.

Frank Aloysius Tierney

Frank Aloysius Tierney (April 13, 1879 - September 17, 1923) was a tenor singer, the secretary to Governor Martin Henry Glynn, and later the Deputy Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation in Albany, New York.

J. R. Monterose

The last decade and a half of Monterose's life was spent gigging mostly at various upstate New York venues, including the Lark Tavern in Albany.

John J. Ghezzi

John J. Ghezzi (January 1, 1911 - May 9, 1983 Albany, Albany County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

John Papworth

In the 1960s, he was imprisoned along with Bertrand Russell for anti-nuclear protests, and also was placed in Albany, Georgia mail for Civil Rights activities.

One King Down

One King Down was a straight edge hardcore band from Albany, New York that recorded and performed from 1994 until 2001.

Shubuta, Mississippi

Shubuta residents made history in Albany, New York, where their residential neighborhood was designated an historic district.

Unitec Institute of Technology

The main campus is situated in Mt Albert, Auckland City, while a secondary campus is situated in Henderson, Waitakere City, and a third campus in Albany, North Shore City which opened in August 2011.

Waldemar Kaminski

Waldemar Kaminski (July 23, 1917 near Albany, New York – June 21, 2006, Buffalo, New York) was a grocer and anonymous philanthropist in Buffalo.

William Harrell Nellis

He graduated from Las Vegas High School and subsequently joined the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps on December 9, 1942, training in Albany, Georgia.

WLOX

The addition of CBS to WLOX-DT2 is be similar to a launch made by sister station WALB in Albany, Georgia.

WMGT-TV

Further complicating matters, WSB-TV in Atlanta—then an NBC affiliate—put at least a grade B signal into much of the northern portion of the market, while WALB-TV in Albany and WSAV-TV in Savannah, both on VHF, could be seen in some parts of, respectively, the southwestern and southeastern portions.

WSST-TV

Its digital signal only extends 50 miles (80 km) from Cordele, but it's seen on many cable systems in the region, including Albany and Perry.


105th New York State Legislature

The 105th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3 to June 2, 1882, during the third year of Alonzo B. Cornell's governorship, in Albany.

136th New York State Legislature

On September 18, 1913, the New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments met in the Senate chamber at the State Capitol in Albany.

1970 Pulitzer Prize

Steve Starr of Associated Press, Albany, New York Bureau, for his news photo taken of militant black students following their takeover of Willard Straight Hall Cornell University, Campus Guns.

2013–14 Albany Devils season

Former New Jersey Devils center Sergei Brylin was hired in September as an Albany assistant coach, joining Tommy Albelin and Dave Caruso.

61st New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The companies were all recruited principally in New York City, except Company C at Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, and the second Company I, recruited in Albany and vicinity.

A.L.A. catalog

He tried to obtain suggestion from Columbia faculty members through their lectures on “bibliography and literature in their areas of expertise” when the School of Library Economy was established in 1887, and later Dewey moved to University of the State of New York in 1888, where he continued his work on catalog by asking his library employees and students in Albany to compile the catalog through scholarly journals.

Albany Airport

Albany International Airport in Albany, New York, United States (FAA/IATA: ALB)

Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home

Home attacked Dunbar Castle, then captured the Chief Herald, the Lyon King of Arms at Coldstream and held him ransom for his mother who was a prisoner of Albany's lieutenant Antoine d'Arces.

Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Although Prince Andreas is the dynastic senior male line descendant of Prince Albert he is not the heir to his grandfather's suspended British title Duke of Albany; instead Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha would inherit the dukedom as heir-male of the last Duke of Albany through his grandfather Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Andrew S. Draper

He then served as a member of the Albany School-board, superintendent of the public instruction at New York City, and superintendent of schools at Cleveland, Ohio before becoming the President and Regent of the University of Illinois in 1894.

Charles Lavine

Lavine campaigned on "Fix Albany" but voted to re-elect Sheldon Silver as Speaker of the Assembly.

Collingwood Park, Western Australia

The ground is home to North Albany Football and Sporting Club, Albany Football Club and Collingwood Park Cricket Club and has hosted several large events such as Crusty Demons's West Coast Carnage Tour and in 2008 hosted an AFL NAB Challenge Cup match between West Coast Eagles and Collingwood.

DePauw Avenue Historic District

Washington C. DePauw, a wealthy New Albany banker, was the original owner of the land.

East Antarctic Shield

Lastly, relationships in the Bunger Hills-Windmill Islands correspond closely to those in the Albany-Fraser Orogen of western Australia.

Evan Chambers

Chambers' music has been recorded on the compact disks The Old Burying Ground (Dorian Sono Luminus DSL-92113), Cold Water, Dry Stone (Albany, Troy 422), Brutal Reality (Albany, Troy 354), Simple Requests (Cambria CD-1088), "Collaborations" (Equilibrium CD-66), Alternating Currents (Centaur CRC 2492) and "Beyond the Red Line" (Mark Custom MCD-6537).

Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham

On 23 June 1684, Lord Howard sailed from Virginia for Albany, New York with his daughter, Philadelphia, where he and New York Governor Thomas Dongan brokered a July peace treaty with the Iroquois.

Geraldine Walther

Geraldine Walther’s recordings include Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik and Der Schwanendreher with the San Francisco Symphony (both on London/Decca), Paul Chihara's Golden Slumbers with the San Francisco Chamber Singers (Albany), and Lou Harrison's Threnody (New Albion).

Hillsdale, New York

In 1776 Henry Knox passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from Albany, New York to Boston, Massachusetts.

Hughson

Hughson Mansion, historic home in Albany County, New York, United States

James Thomas Foley

Judge Foley's father was a good friend of Albany Political Boss Dan O'Connell.

Jamestown Bridge

The roadway deck through the cantilevered span was an open steel-grid deck, similar to that of the Castleton Bridge just south of Albany, NY or the now demolished Sikorsky Bridge on the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut.

Japanese battlecruiser Ibuki

She escorted a convoy of 10 troop transports crossing the Tasman Sea with HMS Pyramus to Albany, Western Australia in November.

John McEneny

In the 1997 primary, McEneny unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Mayor Gerald Jennings for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of the City of Albany.

John V. L. Pruyn

He studied law and in 1832 was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Albany.

Joseph Lewi

There he was appointed on the staff of the Albany hospital, and became a member and later president of the Albany County Medical Society, and senior censor of the State Medical Society.

Loudonville, New York

The hamlet is named after John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun and was originally a 19th-century summer resort for some of Albany's wealthiest residents.

Mary Foote Henderson

Henderson was educated at Temple Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College), Saratoga Springs and at Ashgrove Seminary, in Albany, finishing at a French school in New York City.

Mary Rose McGeady

Mary Rose McGeady (June 28, 1928, Hazleton, Pennsylvania - September 13, 2012, Albany, New York) was an American Roman Catholic nun who was widely acknowledged for her work with homeless youth in the United States.

National Labor Relations Board v. Sands Manufacturing Co.

Gross, James A. The Reshaping of the National Labor Relations Board: National Labor Policy in Transition, 1937-1947. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Philip Schuyler

A statue of Schuyler, created by sculptor J. Massey Rhind in 1925 stands on the grounds of Albany's city hall.

Postmodern religion

Griffin, David Ray (1988): Spirituality and society : postmodern visions. Albany.

Regina Benjamin

On May 8, 2010, she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctorate of Pharmacy from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at the college's 130th Commencement ceremony held at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York.

Republican National Convention

It was carried by an early version of the NBC Television Network, and consisted of flagship W2XBS (now WNBC) in New York City, W3XE (now KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and W2XB (now WRGB) in Schenectady/Albany.

Sarah Kofman

"Metaphoric Architectures," in Laurence A. Rickels (ed.), Looking After Nietzsche (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).

Scott Marr

After falling in the 2006 America East championship game, Albany returned to claim the conference title and an NCAA appearance in 2007.

The Knickerbockers

They were spotted by producer and singer-songwriter Jerry Fuller playing the University Twist Palace in Albany, New York, and he subsequently signed them to Los Angeles-based Challenge Records.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

Blaine won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1888

Harrison, however, dominated in much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1972

This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located.

West Digital Television

As GWN7 consists of three different stations licensed in Albany/Bunbury, Kalgoorlie and Geraldton, and a fourth licensed to the rest of the state as part of the Remote Commercial Television License scheme, West Digital Television's network is made up of four separate stations.

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on New Year's Day, 1833 to Rufus Wheeler Peckham and Isabella Adoline; his mother died when he was 15.

WHSH

WPYX, a radio station (106.5 FM) licensed to Albany, New York, United States, which used the call sign WHSH from 1973 to 1980

Wilhelm von Freytag

Burne, Alfred, The Noble Duke of York: The Military Life of Frederick Duke of York and Albany, London: Staples Press (1949).