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5 unusual facts about Ashcroft


Ashcroft, British Columbia

Other movies filmed in the Ashcroft area include Cadence, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, An Unfinished Life, The A-Team, and 2012.

Ashcroft was founded in the 1860s, during the Cariboo Gold Rush, by two English brothers named Clement Francis Cornwall and Henry Pennant Cornwall, founders of Ashcroft Ranch, who emigrated to Canada from Ashcroft, at Newington Bagpath in Gloucestershire.

Ashcroft, Colorado

In 1955 Mace and his Toklat huskies were featured in the television series Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, and the ghost town was fitted with false fronts to imitate a Canadian set for the filming of the series through 1958.

Ashcroft, New South Wales

X-Factor finalists Mahogany (9th contestants eliminated) attended Ashcroft High School.

Brad Fittler - a Rugby League great, a former Ashcroft resident and also attended Ashcroft High School.


An Unfinished Life

While set in Wyoming, the movie was actually filmed in the Canadian towns of Ashcroft, Savona, and Kamloops, British Columbia.

Arar v. Ashcroft

The Center for Constitutional Rights brought the suit Arar v. Ashcroft against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and then-Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, as well as numerous U.S. immigration officials.

Arfon Griffiths

Griffiths then splashed out in the transfer market, spending £60,000 to bring in Dixie McNeil from Hereford United as Ashcroft's replacement; £8,000 for Dai Davies from Everton; and £40,000 to Coventry City for Les Cartwright.

Ashcroft Indian Band

The Ashcroft First Nation is a First Nations government Thompson Canyon area of the Central Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Ashcroft Technology Academy

ADT College was established in 1991 as a City Technology College, funded by donations from various organisations including ADT Security Services (whose owner at the time was Baron Michael Ashcroft), Unisys, British Gas and Young's (who sponsored the schools "music bunker").

Ashcroft Technology Academy, formerly ADT College, is a state secondary school within the English academy programme in Wandsworth, London, England.

Ashcroft Terminal

Located 340 km east of Vancouver and 90 km west of Kamloops, Ashcroft Terminal is situated on mainlines for both Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and Canadian National Railway (CN).

Bagpath

There they founded the small town of Ashcroft (see Ashcroft, British Columbia), built for travellers in search of gold, giving them a place to stay and saddle their horses.

Bernard Matthew Cassidy

His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.

Cheltenham College

Cheltenham College was used to film the majority of the school scenes in the 1968 British film If...., starring Malcolm McDowell, although an agreement between the school's then Headmaster, David Ashcroft, and the film's director, Lindsay Anderson (who was a former pupil and Senior Prefect), prevented the filmmakers from crediting the school.

Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft

Believing this closure to be a violation to First Amendment rights to speech and press, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Metro Times, Haddad, and Michigan Representative John Conyers filed a suit against John Ashcroft, Michael Creppy, and Immigration Judge Elizabeth Hacker (the Government) claiming that the Creppy Directive was unconstitutional.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

To date Ashcroft-Nowicki has written 17 books and designed two tarot decks, the SOL Tarot Deck with Jo Gill and Anthony Clark, and the Shakespearean Tarot with Paul Hardy.

Edward Felix Baxter

His Victoria Cross is displayed in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London.

Elle King

Andy Baldwin (whose credits include Richard Ashcroft, Björk, and David Gilmour) produced "Good To Be A Man.” Chris DeStefano (whose credits include Carrie Underwood, Howie D, and Kelly Clarkson) produced "Playing For Keeps.

Jack Goldsmith

That day Ashcroft had ruled that Bush's domestic intelligence program, Stellar Wind, was illegal.

Gonzales and Andrew Card, White House Chief of Staff, had come to try to persuade Ashcroft to change his mind and withdraw his memo.

Jackson A. Rigney

Jackson Ashcroft Rigney was born in 1913 in La Mesa, New Mexico.

John Joseph Leibrecht

He was a close friend of the late J. Robert Ashcroft, President of Evangel University and father of former Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Love Is Noise

Richard Ashcroft stated that lyrically the song is a take off of William Blake's "And did those feet in ancient time", commonly known as 'Jerusalem'.

Mersey Beat

A fellow student, John Ashcroft, introduced Harry to rock ‘n’ roll records, and the members of Rory Storm & The Hurricanes and Cass & The Cassanovas.

Mohammad Marandi

This institute, starting as a subsidiary arm to the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature of University of Tehran just a few years ago, is now a full-fledged independent center essentially concerned with post-colonial studies with a particular concentration on the critique of Orientalism, as promoted by such figures as Edward Said, Ziauddin Sardar, and Bill Ashcroft.

Monica Goodling

On May 7, 2007, National Journals "Inside Washington" column reported that it was Goodling who ordered drapes to be placed over the partially nude Art Deco statues (Spirit of Justice) in the Justice Department's Great Hall during Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

, and U.S. Route 195; also bounded by U.S. Route 195 and Point, Parsonage, South, Hospital, Elbow, Ashcroft, Richmond, Eddy, and Ship Sts.

No. 239 Squadron RAF

On 27 October 1944 during fighter affiliation training with No. 49 Squadron RAF, a Mosquito piloted by F/Lt J.H.Roberts and accompanied by Flight Engineer Sgt. A.M.Ashcroft, stalled and crashed in Stapleford Woods, Lincolnshire, with the immediate death of both pilot and passenger.

Norman Cyril Jackson

Norman Jackson's son appeared in the episode on his father's crew in Lord Ashcroft's documentary series Heroes of the Skies (broadcast on Channel Five on 4 October 2012), as well as the Discovery Channel's Air Aces (premiering October 2013).

Peter Salisbury

After Ashcroft learned that Salisury, was in contact with the former guitarist, Nick McCabe, over a possible side project, Ashcroft used this as an excuse to call McCabe.

Robert M. Lindholm

He served as an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri under John Ashcroft, where he did work for the Department of Natural Resources and the Clean Water Commission.

The Ashcroft Group

Under its umbrella is the Ashcroft Law Firm which is based in City Center Square in Kansas City, Missouri.

Yale-Lillooet

The riding is largely rural and wilderness in character despite its proximity to the Lower Mainland, it spans the Bridge River-Lillooet, Ashcroft-Thompson Canyon, Fraser Canyon, Nicola and Similkameen Districts.

Since creation its shape has remained relatively unchanged despite some minor boundary adjustments, with (e.g.) Ashcroft-Cache Creek joining Cariboo South in some elections and the Similkameen area joined to one of the Okanagan ridings.


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