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unusual facts about Argosy



Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg

The casino was originally named Argosy Casino, and was operated by Argosy Gaming Company, which was taken over in 2004 by Penn National Gaming, which operated casinos under the Hollywood brand.

Hugh Falkus

After the war he left Doris and in 1950 he married Diana Vaughan, the young editor of Argosy magazine, but on 12 May 1951 Diana was drowned, along with Charles Osborne, Bill Brendon and Sam Lee, in a boating accident off the coast of Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, while they were making a film about the local shark hunting industry.

Isaac Asimov short stories bibliography

Asimov also wrote a one-page comic strip called "Star Empire" in the May 1990 issue of Argosy (art by Charles Schneeman).

Jizzle

;More Spinned Against: (which first appeared in Argosy), tells of how the legendary Arachne finds herself in the clutches of a spider-obsessed collector and of the deal she makes with the collector's wife Lydia.

Kevin McCourt

He was born 14 April 1915 in Tralee, County Kerry, second son among three sons and one daughter of John McCourt, originally of Banbridge, County Down, clerk with the congested districts board at Tralee, and later a distributor with Argosy Libraries, and Mary Christina McCourt (née Small) of Co.

Margate Entertainment

Margate also owns Colliers Media Company, a major magazine and E Magazine publisher of such noted magazines as SPORT, Silver Screen, Argosy, Pet Parade, Studio X, Boxing Illustrated, Bowling Illustrated, and 1000 Jokes.

Robert C. Stanley

Stanley also worked for other important paperback book publishers such as Bantam Books and Signet Books and also worked as an artist for cover or interior artwork for magazines such as Adventure, Argosy, Redbook, Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post.

They Found a Cave

In 2010, a company called Argosy Films, set up a website to find the production crew and actors/actresses of They Found a Cave and Bungala Boys for the 50th anniversary.

Trimaran Capital Partners

The Argosy team had been involved in many of the most prominent high yield financings of the preceding two decades, for companies including RJR Nabisco, Beatrice Foods, and Storer Communications.

Youth Argosy

Student travelers with the organization were referred to as 'Argonauts', although etymologically 'argosy' has no relation to Jason and the Argonauts.


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