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unusual facts about Babbitt


Ryazan Plant for Manufacturing and Processing Non-Ferrous Metals

Ryaztsvetmet offers a selection of lead powder and feathered tin, solder alloys, Babbitts, lead pipes and goods (anodes & wires)


Bear Head Lake, Minnesota

Nearby places include Babbitt, Embarrass, Waasa Township, and Eagles Nest Township.

Birch Lake, Minnesota

Birch Lake is an unorganized territory in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located north of Babbitt, and south of Ely and Morse Township.

Bruce Babbitt

Babbitt wrote a book in 2005 titled Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America, where he proposes to amend the Endangered Species Act so that it is used to identify, conserve, and protect landscapes, watersheds, and ecosystems whether or not an endangered species exists there.

After leading the League of Conservation Voters Babbitt served for eight years, 1993–2001, as the United States Secretary of the Interior during Bill Clinton's administration.

Composition for Four Instruments

The organization of the pitch classes throughout the piece is consistently and undeniably self-referential (Babbitt 1987, 27).

Disney animators' strike

In addition to Babbitt, among the notable animators that left following the strike were Bill Tytla, Walt Kelly and Virgil Partch.

Fine Arts Quartet

The Quartet also performed contemporary music in performances, commissions, and recordings, and helped to make composers such as Bartók, Shostakovich, Bloch, Babbitt, Wuorinen, Martinon, Hindemith, Shifrin, Crawford-Seeger, Johnston, and Husa better known and accessible to the public.

Frederick H. Babbitt

In 1920 Babbitt was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor, losing the Republican nomination to James Hartness.

George T. Babbitt, Jr.

As a teenager in the late 1950s, Babbitt became the original drummer for The Ventures rock group.

Middletown studies

Critics of American culture, such as H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.

What Goes Up

Upon arriving in Concord, New Hampshire in January 1986 to cover the hometown hooplah for the looming Space Shuttle Challenger launch where Concord teacher Christa McAuliffe is among the mission's crew, reporter Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan) decides to call an old college friend, only to discover an apparent suicide.


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