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unusual facts about Albert H. Woods


Max Neal

According to a June 24, 1922 article in The New York Times titled "Woods Back with 40 Foreign Plays", producers Albert H. Woods and Charles B. Dillingham traveled to Europe to collect plays to re-produce in the States, of which Parquette No. 6 by Max Neal and Hans Gerbeck were one.


Albert H. Maggs

He qualified for the Wimbledon Championships, and he won the All Ireland Men's Championship.

Albert H. Maggs Composition Award

The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs, a Melbourne-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine.

Albert H. McGeehan

Albert H. McGeehan (born October 1944), was mayor of Holland, Michigan from 1993–2009.

Albert H. Small

He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, National Advisory Board Music Associates of Aspen, Department of State Diplomatic Rooms Endowment Fund, James Madison Council of the Library of Congress, Tudor Place Foundation, The Life Guard of Mount Vernon, Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and the National Archives Foundation.

Andrew Schultz

He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award (1982), the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (1985), APRA Award (1993) and the Schueler Award (2007).

Arthur Addison

A son Walter C. Addison, a champion rifle shooter of Orroroo, married Gertrude Madeleine Woods (19 Oct 1872 – ), daughter of E. J. Woods, on 8 May 1900.

Arthur B. Woods

As was the case with many non-prestige British films of the 1930s, little attention or care was given to Woods' films after their original cinema run, and most of his films from the mid-1930s are now considered lost.

This was a thriller, but Woods spent the next four years making comedies and musical films (including three with popular singer Keith Falkner which represented Falkner's entire screen output) before starting also to take on crime films, starting with The Dark Stairway, made in 1937 and released in early 1938.

Many of his films involved collaborations with producer Irving Asher, cinematographer Basil Emmott and screenwriter Brock Williams, while another frequent association was with actress Chili Bouchier.

Consolidated P-30

When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation failed, the chief designer of the YP-24, Robert J. Woods was hired by Consolidated Aircraft.

David Woods

David B. Woods, USN Admiral, former commandant Guantanamo prison camp

E. J. Woods

Bishop Augustus Short called, informing him that the church authorities would have nothing to do with any other local architect, and in 1869 he left the partnership with Wright, and was soon entrusted with the preparation of working drawings for the Cathedral.

Edmond Butler

During 1869, while assigned to guard the Fort WallaceDenver stage route, Butler volunteered to join an expedition under Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Woods against the Pawnees.

Frank Woods

Frank P. Woods (1868–1944), member of the United States House of Representatives

Frank E. Woods (1860–1939), screenwriter and one of the 36 founders of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Harry McGregor

Harry M. Woods (Henry MacGregor Woods, 1896–1970), Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist

Hoyt Taylor

Albert H. Taylor (1879–1961), American electrical engineer; radar developer

Ickey Shuffle

The Ickey Shuffle was a touchdown celebration done by former National Football League fullback Elbert "Ickey" Woods of the Cincinnati Bengals after he would score a touchdown.

James B. Woods

He was a business partner with his brother-in-law J. Shannon Clift in a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's.

James P. Woods

Woods was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth and Sixty-sixth Congresses to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of Carter Glass.

He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress and served from February 25, 1919, to March 3, 1923.

James Shannon Clift

Clift operated a commission merchant and ship brokerage business in St. John's in partnership with James B. Woods, his brother-in-law.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Johann Reichhart

He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

Louis E. Woods

In 1944, Wood also had the distinction of sending off to war a 42-year-old pilot named Charles Lindbergh.

Shortly after his return to the United States in August 1926, he was ordered to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., for duty in the Aviation Section of the Major General Commandant's Department.

Mail privileges of Guantanamo Bay detainees

According to the United Press International an unnamed military official attributed the change in policy to the recent appointment of the new camp commandant Rear Admiral David B. Woods.

Mount Bumstead

It was discovered by R. Admiral Byrd on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition flight to the South Pole in November 1929 and named by him for Albert H. Bumstead, chief cartographer of the National Geographic Society at that time, and inventor of the sun compass, a device utilizing shadows of the sun to determine directions in areas where magnetic compasses are unreliable.

Reginald Purdell

He tried his hand at film directing in 1937 with two comedies Don't Get Me Wrong, a Max Miller vehicle co-directed with Arthur B. Woods, and Patricia Gets Her Man.

Samuel D. Woods

He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh Congress and served from December 3, 1900, to March 3, 1903.

Woods was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Marion De Vries.

He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.

Simeon De Witt

On May 25, 2010 the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History exhibited the oldest surviving Anglo-American star map, hand-drawn in 1780 by Simeon De Witt, in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery.

Thomas H. Woods

He also served as the first president of Citizens National Bank, also known as Citizens Savings Bank which was started in 1888.

Tom Roeser

In 1958 he was named press secretary to a newly elected Republican congressman, Rep. Albert H. Quie of Minnesota.

Viper of Melody

# "Midnight Stars and You" - 3:22 (James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods)

Wampus cat

A musical ensemble who recorded several tracks in 1937 and 1938, and consisting of six or seven string musicians including Oscar "Buddy" Woods, were billed as 'The Wampus Cats'.

When the Moon Comes over the Mountain

"When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" is a popular song, published in 1931, and credited as written by Howard Johnson, Harry M. Woods, and Kate Smith.


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