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unusual facts about Bancroft


Bancroft, Nebraska

This was designed based on symbolism in Niehardt's Black Elk Speaks (1932).


Ashbel H. Barney

Also present were Barney's son and daughter with Morris K. Jesup, Theodore Wood, Salem H. Wales, Darius Ogden Mills, Benjamin Brewster, Parker Handy, Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, Peter F. Baker, Duncan Cryden, Charles Atterbury, Hugh Murdock, Louis Murdock, James H. Thompson, Charles H. Adams, George C. Magoun, Russell Sturgis (son-in-law of Danford N. Barney), Appleton Sturgis (son of Russell Sturgis), A. Bancroft and W.P. Seymour.

Bancroft family

A notable family member of the following generation was Mary Bancroft, Hugh Bancroft's daughter by his first marriage.

Bancroft School

Myra Kraft (née Hiatt), (1942–2011), Bancroft Class of 1960: Philanthropist with the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation; Robert K. and Myra H. Kraft Foundation; American Repertory Theatre; Brandeis University; United Way of Massachusetts Bay; Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston; Kraft Stadium for American football in Jerusalem.

2009: Signed agreement with Tongji University, Shanghai, China, to establish a teacher and student exchange program between Bancroft and Tongji’s Number 1 High School.

Buena Vista Marsh, Wisconsin

Buena Vista Marsh is located on fragmented lands south of the Village of Plover and the Wisconsin River, east of Biron, Wisconsin Rapids, and Kellner, north of State Road 73, Adams County, and Waushara County, and west of Bancroft and Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51.

Clarence W. Barron

The Bancroft family remained the majority shareholder of Dow Jones until July 31, 2007 when Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. won the support of 32 percent of the Dow Jones voting shares controlled by the Bancroft family, enough to ensure a comfortable margin of victory.

Edward Bancroft

At the age of sixteen, Bancroft was apprenticed to a physician in Killingworth, Connecticut, but ran away after a few years.

Bancroft worked as a spy for Benjamin Franklin in Britain before the Revolution, and while serving as secretary to the American Commission in Paris.

Bancroft now encountered another colonial agent in London, Benjamin Franklin, representative of Pennsylvania.

Effie Bancroft

Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft likewise presented at their theatre a number of prominent actors, among them Hare, Coghlan, the Kendals, and Ellen Terry.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

Historian Francis Parkman praised Bancroft's The Native Races in The North American Review, but Lewis H. Morgan was more critical, based on his newly published theory of Indian culture, in an article named Montezuma's Dinner.

Jeremiah Bancroft

The first entry of Bancroft's diary relates to the successful Battle of Fort Beauséjour by an assault military force.

Jeremiah Bancroft was born in Reading, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1725 and died there from smallpox on November 25, 1757.

Keith Bancroft

Claude Keith Bancroft (30 October 1885 in Fontabelle, St Michael, Barbados – 12 January 1919 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the second West Indian touring side to England in 1906 as their wicket-keeper.

Martin Duberman

He has written more than twenty books, including ones about James Russell Lowell (a National Book Award finalist), Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (Bancroft Prize winner), Paul Robeson, Stonewall, a biography of Howard Zinn and the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey.

Philip Haas

His feature films include Angels and Insects, set in Victorian England, which was nominated for an Academy Award and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, Up at the Villa, an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas, The Situation, a political thriller set in Iraq, released in 2006, and the highly regarded The Music of Chance (1993).

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand is an obscure form of shorthand described in a book titled Marsh's Manual of Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand: Being a Complete Guide to the Best System of Phonography and Verbatim Reporting published by H.H. Bancroft & Company in 1868.

Sodalite

Significant deposits of fine material are restricted to but a few locales: Bancroft, Ontario, and Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, in Canada; and Litchfield, Maine, and Magnet Cove, Arkansas, in the USA.

Stantonbury

Bancroft is a haven for birds and one of the best places to see a Common Kingfisher.

The Links at Monck's Landing Golf Club

The Links at Monck's Landing Golf Club derives its name from the proximity of present-day City of Kawartha Lakes County Road 45, which began its existence as The Monck Road, a former colonization route extending from Lake Couchiching in the west to its eastern terminus in Bancroft.

Tony Bancroft

Bancroft also served as English voice director on Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso in 2003.

In May 2008, it was announced that Bancroft would co-direct, along with Jim Rygiel, visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, an animated folk tale titled Bunyan and Babe.


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