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unusual facts about Bales


Group development

Bruce Tuckman reviewed about fifty studies of group development (including Bales' model) in the mid-sixties and synthesized their commonalities in one of the most frequently cited models of group development (Tuckman, 1965).


Battle of Laredo

On March 18, 1864, Major Alfred Holt led a Union force of about 200 men from Brownsville, Texas, to destroy 5,000 bales of cotton stacked at the San Agustín Plaza.

Ben Belitt

A bachelor, he became a good friend of the dancer (and fellow teacher at Bennington) Bill Bales, of his wife, the actress Jo Van Fleet, and of their son, Michael Bales, and regularly spent the important holidays of the year with this family at Bennington or in New York City.

Bird's Point, Missouri

The railroad ran from Bird's Point through Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Texarkana, Texas and to Gatesville, Texas, offering planters a convenient route to transfer their cotton bales to the Mississippi for water transport to markets in the Midwest.

Carter F. Bales

A Democrat, Bales was the candidate to the U.S. House of Representative from New York’s 3rd Congressional District in 1972, but lost the general election in the Nixon Landslide.

Chenab Group

Mian Latif's brother Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq (Director Procurement) was also awarded by WWF for producing most organic cotton bales in the world in 2009, Chaudhry Ashfaq is an ex-MNA, former District Nazim of Toba Tek Singh and was Senior Vice President of PML-Q.

Daikoku-ten

He is often portrayed holding a golden mallet called an Uchide no kozuchi, otherwise known as a magic money mallet, and is seen seated on bales of rice, with mice nearby (mice signify plentiful food).

Haywire

Baling wire, used in an agricultural setting and industrial setting for everything from mending fences to manually binding square bales of hay

Kandahar massacre

Bales' lawyer, John Henry Browne, later stated that his client was upset because a fellow soldier had lost a leg in an explosion on 9 March.

Rocky Mount Mills

In the western counties, Union General George Stoneman stationed his cavalry in the Fries Woolen and Cotton Mill while his troops destroyed nearly 1,700 bales of cotton the company had stored in High Point, NC.

Thomas Charles Lethbridge

In 2003, a group of admirers of his work calling themselves "The Sons of T.C. Lethbridge" (Doggen Foster, Kevlar Bales and Welbourn Tekh), with the aid of Julian Cope and Colin Wilson, released A Giant: The Definitive T.C. Lethbridge, a set containing a booklet and two CDs containing music accompanying discussions of Lethbridge's work.

Titus Salt

In 1836, Salt came upon some bales of Alpaca wool in a warehouse in Liverpool and, after taking some samples away to experiment, came back and bought the consignment.

Wool bale

The existence of bales in ancient times is attested by the custom of the English Lord Chancellor to sit on the so-called Woolsack from which he presides over the House of Lords.


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