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7 unusual facts about Ballard


Ballard-Hudson High School

Ballard-Hudson High School is a high school in Macon, Georgia.

Ballard, California

The wine producing region around Ballard was featured in the Academy Award nominated film Sideways.

Carolyn Dorin-Ballard

She made it to the semi-finals where she was defeated by Clara Guerrero.

With the support of her sister and husband, her career took off in 1994, when she began a string of 8 titles in 4 seasons beginning with her first singles title, the Lady Ebonite Classic.

Her career totals were 20 PWBA titles, 2 Player of the year awards, 3 major titles (1997 and 2001 Brunswick World Open, 2001 WIBC Queens), and 3 WIBC Titles (2000 All-Events Champion, 2001 Team Champion, 2004 Doubles Champion with Lynda Barnes).

Craft Brew Alliance

At first, the brewery was a small shop in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard.

Kringle

The Ballard area of Seattle, Washington; Solvang, California; central Iowa; and Burr Ridge, Illinois are among other places to find kringles in the U.S.


2011 Gator Bowl

Fourteen of these came in the third quarter on two rushing touchdowns by Ballard of seven yards and one yard, while the final touchdown that made the score worse than the 1968 Ohio State-Michigan game came via a Relf 31-yard pass to Michael Carr in the fourth quarter.

A Christmas Story: The Musical

The cast featured Dan Lauria as Jean Shepherd, John Bolton as The Old Man, Caroline O'Connor as Miss Shields, Erin Dilly as Mother, Zac Ballard as Randy, and with Johnny Rabe and Joe West both alternating as lead character Ralphie, played in the 1983 film by Peter Billingsley, one of the show's producers.

Albert Ballard

Ballard also became active in the local Labour Party, joining the Fabian Society, and later acting as its local Chairman.

APW/Vendetta Pro Unified Tag Team Championship

On January 5, 2013, The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit) defeated SU/KA and the defending Champiosn The Ballard Brothers in a Triangle Tag Team Match in Hayward, California to become the first team to win the Unified Tag Team Titles on an All Pro Wrestling Event.

Ballard Designs

Ballard Weeks got her start in the retail industry after winning Metropolitan Home magazine's home decorating contest.

Ballard Street

Ballard Street is a comic panel created by Jerry Van Amerongen and distributed by Creators Syndicate that has run since 1991.

Barbara Martin

She and her groupmates, Diana Ross (then known as Diane), Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard, signed a recording contract with Motown founder Berry Gordy on January 15, 1961 as The Supremes, a name that Ballard had chosen (as she was the only group member in the studio at the time) from a list provided by Motown songwriter, Janie Bradford, and became part of the Motown stable of performers.

Believe Me, Xantippe

The film is based on a 1913 William A. Brady-produced play by John Frederick Ballard, Believe Me Xantippe, which on the Broadway stage had starred John Barrymore.

Benko Gambit

The Benko Gambit is featured in Jack McDevitt's short story, "Black to Move", anthologized in both Standard Candles and again in the 2009 collection Breach The Hull, as well as in William Ballard's short story "Retrograde Analysis", published in Analog Science Fiction.

Brigid Marlin

Her portrait of Ballard was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1989, and she has also painted portraits of the Dalai Lama and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Child of God

Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps."

Christian Ballard

Christian Ballard comes from a family of established Detroit musicians which include his great-uncle Hank Ballard of The Midnighters and Hank's cousin Florence Ballard of The Supremes.

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie

"Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley!," a 1925 song by Billy Rose, Ballard MacDonald and Joseph Meyer

Colin Robert Ballard

Ballard spent his early life in Scotland and then in Kent before attending the United Services College, Westward Ho!, Devon in 1885.

David W. Ballard

The territory was still reeling from the mismanagement of Ballard's predecessor, Caleb Lyon, deeply divided over the controversial decision to move the capital from Lewiston to Boise, and nearly broke because former territorial secretary Horace C. Gilson had embezzled most of the territory's funds while serving as acting governor between Lyon and Ballard's administrations.

Del Ballard, Jr.

At the Fair Lanes Open nationally-televised championship match, Ballard was facing Pete Weber for the title.

Donald E. Ballard

Sent to Vietnam, Ballard served as a corpsman in the Quang Tri province with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (Mike 3/4) of the 3rd Marine Division.

El Centro de la Raza

Taco carts, trailers, trucks, and buses became common along Seattle's arterials, even in the traditionally Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood.

Fort Collins Coloradoan

The section features Katy Piotrowski's "On the job' column for those looking to find or change jobs or careers, "Small business" by syndicated columnist Rhonda Abrams and WorkBytes, a workplace column for Generation X written alternately by Dawn Sagario and Larry Ballard, both of The Des Moines Register.

Going Down for the Third Time

A few months after this was recorded, Ballard was replaced by Cindy Birdsong.

Herreshoff Castle

It is said that Ballard painted an oriental rug design on the castle's great room floor, based on an actual carpet in the nearby Jeremiah Lee Mansion.

High Rise

However, financing fell through and Roeg and Thomas did Bad Timing instead, and Thomas later went on to adapt Ballard's Crash for the screen with director David Cronenberg.

Jackie Ballard

Ballard lost her seat at the 2001 general election by 235 votes, to the Conservative candidate Adrian Flook.

John Laing plc

Along with Sir Robert McAlpine and George Wimpey, Laing is mentioned in the opening preamble to the 1960 Dominic Behan satirical Irish ballard McAlpine's Fusiliers.

Louis W. Ballard

Ballard studied music at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa, where his composition instructor was Bela Rozsa; he later studied privately with Darius Milhaud, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Carlos Surinach, and Felix Labunski.

Martini Creek

Hogan, Michael and Ballard George, Air Quality and Noise Analyses for the Bypass Alternative, Devil's Slide Improvement Project, Caltrans District 4, prepared by Earth Metrics Inc., Burlingame, CA (1984)

Mike Ballard

Ballard went to Ocean Lakes High School, where he led the team to a second place finish in the 2001 Virginia AAA State Tournament, setting a school record in ERA with a 0.69 ERA.

Myths of the Near Future

The Mercury Prize-winning band Klaxons named their debut album after the book, and have been quoted as saying they are fans of Ballard's work, reflected in their science fiction and futuristic lyrical content.

Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith was shot by Lucien Ballard on approximately 46 different locations in the Inyo National Forest (in parts of southern California and southwestern Nevada) and the Owens Valley (of southern California) in the Eastern Sierra mountains.

Norvell House

Located in the community of Ballard, in the vicinity of Sunset Hill, it sits on its original-sized lot with impressive heritage trees and retains its flanking carriage house.

Saint Germain Foundation

Ballard was hiking on the slopes of Mount Shasta in California, and claimed Saint Germain appeared to him and began training him to be a "Messenger".

Stories of a Stranger

# "Program Director" (with Rasun) (Marc Roberge, Jerry Harrison, Glen Ballard)– 5:44

Sukiyaki and Other Japanese Hits

1-1, 1-3, 2-2, 2-4, 2-6 (Rokusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura); 1-2 (K. Sakamoto/Trad, arr T. Hagiwara); 1-4, 2-3 (Y. Aoshima/D. Lima); 1-5 (Y. Aoshima/H. Nakamura); 1-6 (Fred Tobias/Clint Ballard, Jr./Sazanami); 2-1 (Y. Yamada/D. Lida); 2-5 (Wittstatt/Loose/Sazanami)

The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2

The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 2 is a short-story collection by J. G. Ballard, published in 2006.

The Kindness of Women

The Kindness of Women is a 1991 novel by British author J.G. Ballard, a sequel to his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun, which drew on the author's boyhood in Shanghai during World War II, presenting a lightly fictionalized treatment of Ballard's life from Shanghai through to adulthood in England, culminating with the making of Steven Spielberg's 1987 film Empire of the Sun.

The Very Best of Rainbow

#"I Surrender" (Ballard) - 4:01 (from Difficult to Cure, 1981)

Tia Ballard

Outside of voice acting, Ballard has co-created a Super Mario Bros. themed online comic called Koopasta.

Unified Tag-Team Championship

On January 5, 2013, The Suburban Commandos (T-Rent and D-Unit) defeated SU/KA and the defending Champion Ballard Brothers in a Triangle Tag-Team match in Hayward, California to become the first team to win the Unified Tag-Team titles on an All Pro Wrestling event.

Volant Vashon Ballard

Ballard was made a Companion of the Bath in 1815 and obtained his flag rank (rear-admiral) in May 1825 reaching Rear-Admiral of the Red by seniority before his death at his home in Cavendish Terrace, Walcot near Bath on 12 October 1832.


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