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4 unusual facts about Alston


Alston's brown mouse

Furthermore, some studies have examined the functional role of FOXP2 expression in S. teguina and other vocalizing rodent species.

Both males and females produce vocalizations which are characterized by singing bouts containing both sonic and ultrasonic elements.

Hexham Courant

The full name of the newspaper is Hexham Courant incorporating Alston Herald, Hexham Herald, Haltwhistle Herald and Haltwhistle Echo, as shown on the final page of the newspaper (10 January 2014 edition).

Millican Dalton

Born on 20 April 1867 at Nenthead, Alston, Cumberland, he spent his early life in the northwest of England before his family moved to Essex.


Alexander St. Clair-Abrams

Soon after Robert Alston and Henry W. Grady joined the business; Abrams was managing editor, Grady was general editor and Alston the business manager.

All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane

Many of the cast and crew were used by Louise Alston on her next feature film, Jucy (2011), including actors Cindy Nelson, Francesca Gasteen, Ryan Johnson and Charlotte Gregg.

Alston Line

An 1846 Parliamentary Act authorised a line as far as Nenthead, providing an outlet for the lead mines in the Alston area, and plans were made to connect with railways further south.

Alston Purvis

Philip Alston Willcox Purvis (born 1943), son of Melvin Purvis, is an American graphic designer, artist, professor and author.

Brianyoungite

The type locality is the Bloomsberry Horse level of the Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England.

Dean Alston

In September 1997 The West Australian published an Alston cartoon entitled Alas Poor Yagan, which criticised the fact that the return of Yagan's head had become a source of conflict among the Indigenous Australians of Western Australia, instead of fostering unity.

Douglas Alston Gilchrist

Douglas Alston Gilchrist FRSE FHAS (1860-1927) was a Scottish-born professor of agriculture; author and government advisor.

Henry Hobart

Sir Henry Hobart, 4th Baronet (c. 1658–1698), English MP for King's Lynn, Thetford, Norfolk and Bere Alston

Henry Stone

These included Betty Wright, whose "Clean Up Woman" was a major hit in 1971 on his and Steve Alaimo's Alston label.

Jake Pitler

He was cited for that role in poet Marianne Moore's paean to the 1955 champions, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese.

Jasper Alston Atkins

Jasper Alston Atkins was born August 8, 1898, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Dr. Simon Green Atkins and Mrs. Oleona Pegram Atkins.

Joe Machine

In 1988 he was sent to Alston House Approved School, Rochester, for the theft of scrap material, and the following year to Dover Borstal for young offenders, after burgling a greengrocers in Leysdown (Isle of Sheppey).

John Alston Bodden

John Alston Hoore Bodden (born 3 October 1981 in La Ceiba, Honduras) is a Honduran goalkeeper who currently plays for Victoria in the Honduran National League.

Joseph Cameron Alston

Despite a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation which sometimes interfered with his avocation, Alston is the only male player to win each of the sport's three basic events, singles, doubles, and mixed doubles, at both the U.S. National Badminton Championships (closed to foreign competition) and the U.S. Open Badminton Championships (open to foreign competition).

In 1957 Alston won the Men's Doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships with Malaya's Johnny Heah and remains the only American to share this title.

Jucy

It is the second in a planned "quarter life crisis" trilogy from Vagg and Alston following the 2007 romantic comedy All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane.

Lambley, Northumberland

The viaduct may have been designed by George Barclay Bruce, an eminent Victorian engineer who was involved in the Alston line before leaving for India to pioneer railway construction there.

Lee J. Alston

In 2012 Alston was awarded a Clio Can award by the Cliometric Society for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics.

London Contemporary Dance School

LCDS's first year's intake included Richard Alston, Ian Spink and Siobhan Davies who went on to perform with the main company before founding their own.

McIntosh County, Georgia

Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (ISBN 0-201-55048-2) by Melissa Fay Greene narrates the events surrounding the civil rights movement in McIntosh County, particularly the demise of white Sheriff Thomas H. Poppell and the 1978 election of black rights activist Thurnell Alston to the county commission.

Pussy Tebeau

Charles Alston "Pussy" Tebeau (February 22, 1870 – March 25, 1950) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Cleveland Spiders during the 1895 season.

Sir Thomas Alston, 5th Baronet

Sir Thomas Alston, 5th Baronet (c. 1724 – 18 July 1774) was an English Baronet and Member of Parliament.

Spring Creek Raid

In the days that followed, Brink and Dixon bragged about committing the murders until one of their friends, William "Billy" Goodrich, informed Sheriff Felix Alston in Basin.

Tactile alphabet

Julius Reinhold Friedlander's Philadelphia Line, using all capital letters, similar to Alston's system, used at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tamar Valley Line

The line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston was opened for passenger traffic on 2 June 1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJ) as part of their line from Lydford to Devonport, which in effect was an extension of the London and South Western Railway's main line from London Waterloo station to Lydford, enabling the LSWR to reach Plymouth independently of the Great Western Railway.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.

Willis Alston

Serving three terms (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1831), Alston chaired the Committee on Elections during the 21st Congress.

Alston chaired the House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business during the 13th U.S. Congress.


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