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unusual facts about Avery's Trace


Avery's Trace

Many notable people traveled along the Trace, among them Andrew Jackson, Judge John McNairy, Governor William Blount, Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans (who later became King of France), Bishop Francis Asbury, French botanist André Michaux, Tennessee Governor Archibald Roane, Thomas "Big Foot" Spencer, and others.


All This and Rabbit Stew

Although it was produced before The Heckling Hare (after the production of which Avery was suspended from the Schlesinger studio and defected to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), it was released afterwards.

Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Avery Fisher Hall

The PBS series Live from Lincoln Center continues to feature performances from Avery Fisher Hall.

Avery Gilbert

Katie Puckrik video-interviewed Avery Gilbert for her website, 'Katie Puckrik Smells'.

Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment

Fred Neufeld, a German bacteriologist, had discovered the pneumococcal types and serological typing; until Frederick Griffith's studies bacteriologists believed that the types were fixed and unchangeable from one generation to the next.

Barbara Adler

In 2004 she participated in the inaugural Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, winning the Spoken Wordlympics with her fellow team members Shane Koyczan, C.R. Avery, and Brendan McLeod.

Bert Vaux

Vaux's Law (as labelled by Avery & Idsardi 2001, Iverson & Salmons 2003), which he first formulated in a 1998 article in Linguistic Inquiry, states that laryngeally unspecified—i.e. voiceless--fricatives become GW/sg in systems contrasting fricatives without reference to GW/sg; thus they are to be aspirated or, more technically, to be pronounced with a spread glottis.

Bob Givens

For the 1940 cartoon A Wild Hare, Avery asked Givens to redesign a rabbit character previously designed by director Ben Hardaway and character designer Charles Thorson, which Avery thought had potential, but was "too cute" in his existing design.

Brad Lidge

Lidge currently resides in Englewood, Colorado, with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children, daughter Avery Grace and son Rowan Thomas.

Brendan McLeod

Notable former members of The Fugitives include C.R. Avery, Barbara Adler, and Mark Berube.

Charles Avery Dunning

Charles Avery Dunning, PC (July 31, 1885 – October 1, 1958) was born in Croft, Leicestershire, England.

Chris Avery

Avery became second in rush yards among active players, trailing only former teammate Chris Ryan.

Connor: Spotlight

Pearl Jam: There is a poster for "Pearl Clam" in Connor and Avery's room.

Doe Avedon

The role of Dick Avery, played by Fred Astaire was based on fashion photographer Richard Avedon, who became her husband and whose idea it was to change her name from Dorcas to Doe.

Dov Tiefenbach

He began his acting career at the age of 12, first starting off in commercials before playing the role of 'Josh Avery' in the television series RoboCop (1994), and landed his first starring role as 'Murray Murray' in the short film Love Child (1995) alongside actress Neve Campbell.

Droopy

Avery took a year-long break from MGM from 1950 to 1951, during which time Dick Lundy took over his unit to do one Droopy cartoon, Caballero Droopy, and several Barney Bear cartoons.

Harlowton, Montana

The city was once the eastern terminus of electric operations (1914–74) of the Milwaukee Road railroad's "Pacific Extension" route, which went all the way to Avery, Idaho.

Harold Avery

The last Avery was heard from was in a postcard to his Aunt, written in 1943 from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

In 1882 he was rescued by a Dutch naval ship and reunited with his paternal aunt, Hanna Avery, his only living relative.

IC-TAG Solutions

Its partnerships with leading industry leaders including Alien Technology and Avery Dennison as well as its contract with GSA aided IC-TAG Solutions in strengthing and enlarging the RFID channel to territories in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia.

Jeffrey Douma

Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas McGegan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, and Helmuth Rilling.

Jody Shelley

In a 2008 regular season match against the Dallas Stars, Sean Avery hit Brad Lukowich and after the incident, Shelley and Avery began to throw water and Gatorade at each other while jawing at each other.

John Frieda

He now lives with Frances Avery Agnelli née Howe (1965), an Anglo-American architect and the widow of Fiat heir, Giovanni Alberto Agnelli (son of the Italian entrepreneur and politician, Umberto Agnelli).

Leanza Cornett

Married to ET correspondent Mark Steines, Cornett is the mother of two sons, Kai Harper (born on February 19, 2002), and Avery James (born on November 4, 2003).

Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter

He compares Nancy to actor Lee Marvin, after watching a movie marathon starring Marvin, and Avery to baseball player Derek Jeter, after he spends time with Avery at Jeter's home.

Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus

The ten founders of LLBC were Rev. Avery C. Alexander, Diana E. Bajoie, Sidney Barthelemy, Louis Charbonnet, III, Nick Connor, Joseph A. Delpit, Alphonse Jackson, Johnny Jackson, Jr., Thomas Jasper, and Richard Turnley, Jr.

Mark Stevenson

In early 2011, Stevenson released a book entitled An Optimist's Tour of the Future (published by Profile Books in January 2011 in the UK and by Avery in February 2011 in the United States), which predicts that invention and innovation can help overcome several of humanity's current problems.

On Avery Island

Avery Island is the headquarters of the McIlhenny Company, makers of Tabasco sauce.

Pam Allyn

She is the author of the Your Child’s Writing Life (Penguin Avery), Pam Allyn’s Best Books for Boys: How To Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives (Scholastic), What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child–And All The Best Times To Read Them (Penguin Avery), and Be Core Ready: Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards (Pearson).

Pat Parker

Parker was involved in the Black Panther Movement, in 1979 she toured with the Varied Voices of Black Women, a group of poets and musicians which included Linda Tillery, Mary Watkins & Gwen Avery.

Paul J. Gutman Library

Electronic resources include: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Art Index, EBSCO, S&P’s NetLibrary, Hoover’s, LexisNexis, ProQuest, MD Consult, JSTOR Stylesight, and many more.

Railroad electrification in the United States

The first division to be electrified was the Rocky Mountain Division from Harlowton, Montana to Avery, Idaho.

Richard Webber

Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) comes to Seattle and develops an interest in Richard but he refuses her advances because he is a married man.

Somerset, Ohio

The village of Somerset was established in 1810 by settlers from Somerset, Pennsylvania at the spot on Zane's Trace located midway between Lancaster and Zanesville.

St. Maries River Railroad

For several years from 1980 until the mid-1980s, Potlatch also owned and operated 45 miles of adjoining former Milwaukee Road trackage, between St. Maries and Avery, Idaho, as a private logging railroad that connected with the St. Maries River Railroad.

Stephen Morehouse Avery

Among other stars, Phyllis Avery was cast opposite Charlton Heston, George Gobel, Richard Egan, Chuck Connors, Lew Ayres, and Ray Milland.

Shortly before his death of a heart attack at his Los Angeles, California, apartment at the age of fifty-four, Avery penned the scripts for The Woman in White and Every Girl Should Be Married, a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake.

Sunny Harnett

An ash blonde, she was a favorite model of photographer Richard Avedon, who served as a thinly veiled model for Fred Astaire′s character of Dick Avery in Funny Face.

The Fabian Strategy

At the end of the episode, however, he realizes that Avery has emulated the military genius of Hannibal, outmaneuvering his Fabian strategy, and he ecstatically realizes they are a perfect match, far beyond the level of mere soul-mates.

He is not keen on the idea, but not wanting to say no or give into Avery's demands, decides to employ the Fabian strategy—named after Fabius Maximus, a Roman general who employed a strategy of avoiding battles, instead wearing the enemy down by attrition.

The Gold Diggers

The Gold Diggers (play), a 1919 play by Avery Hopwood, the source material for the 1923 film, as well as Gold Diggers of Broadway and Gold Diggers of 1933

The Return of Avery Jessup

Both Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Cho received nominations at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for their performances in this episode as Avery Jessup and Kim Jong-il respectively.

Wild and Woolfy

Wild and Woolfy is basically a color remake of the 1935 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Towne Hall Follies, also directed by Avery (albeit just credited in the other cartoon as a "lead animator") and it featured an identical storyline, despite being set in a different historical context.

William Addams Williams

His wife, Anna Louisa Nicholl, was the daughter of Rev. Illtyd Nicholl, of Tredington parish in Worcestershire, and Anne Hatch (sister of George Avery); her brothers included Whitlock Nicholl the physician, and Illtyd Nicholl who inherited property near Usk.

Xavier Avery

On August 30, 2013, the Orioles traded Avery to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for Michael Morse.


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