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6 unusual facts about Bassett


Bassett Unified School District

The district is located in the incorporated communities of Bassett, Avocado Heights (in part) and West Puente Valley, and in portions of the cities of La Puente, Baldwin Park, West Covina and the City of Industry.

Bassett-Lowke

Bassett-Lowke's fall was mirrored by its U.S. counterparts, the A. C. Gilbert Company and Lionel Corporation.

Bassett, California

In 1895, O.T. Bassett bought the property and Bassett Township was established.

Bassett, Minnesota

Bassett is an unincorporated community in Bassett Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located within the Superior National Forest.

Bassett, Southampton

By the time of the Ordnance Survey of 1897, Basset had been renamed Bassett Green (with a double 't'), and a more westerly area (west of Bassett Wood) was identified as Bassett.

The firm Grimshaw Architects has produced designs for the new campus, which will house a joint centre for the University of Southampton and Lloyd’s Register.


Adam Bassett

Bassett is the lighting designer for the Doha Film Festival in Qatar, a position he has held since the first festival was held in 2009.

Bassett was nominated as Lighting Director, and the three other nominees for the ceremony are Patrick Woodroffe (Lighting Designer), Tim Routledge (Moving Light Programmer) and Al Gurdon (Director of Photography).

Bassett Unified School District

Bassett Unified School District is a public school district based in Los Angeles County, CA, United States

Birmingham Bulls

Although Bassett failed to sign Gretzky, the Bulls included several future NHL stars at the beginning of their professional careers (Rick Vaive, Michel Goulet, Rob Ramage, Pat Riggin, Craig Hartsburg, and Gaston Gingras), as well as a 36-year-old Paul Henderson.

Blanche Arral

Arral was married to Hamilton Dwight Bassett, a journalist from Cincinnati.

Blore

Blore Hall was the home of the Bassett family, (from whom the Queen is descended) ; William Bassett, the last of the male line, died in 1601 and his magnificent alabaster tomb, erected by his wife about 1630, can be seen in the church.

Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Its display area includes two large operational model railway layouts (in 0- and 00-gauge), and displays of period pieces from a range of manufacturers including Bing, Bassett-Lowke, Carette, Dinky, Hornby Trains, Märklin, Meccano, Pelham Puppets and Steiff.

Charles Martin Hall

Hall was born to Herman Bassett Hall and Sophronia H. Brooks on December 6, 1863 in Thompson, Ohio.

David L. Bassett

The atlas is a series of paired slides that use Gruber's View-Master three-dimensional viewing system to display a perception of depth and levels of detail that made Bassett's work pioneering.

Ebenezer Bassett

Born in Derby, Connecticut on October 16, 1833, Ebenezer D. Bassett was the second child of Eben Tobias and Susan Gregory, who were both free blacks.

Harry Bassett

When his racing career ended Harry Bassett was retired to McDaniel’s stud farm in Trenton, New Jersey, where he sired stakes winners such as Bowstring and Lettina out of the imported mare Letty by imported Australian.

Isabel Bassett

Her mandate was to refocus the network on educational programming; however, Bassett successfully found ways to ensure that the network's most popular non-educational programs, such as Saturday Night at the Movies and Studio 2, could continue to air.

Joanna McCallum

McCallum played the missionary Alicia Bassett-Hill in the 1989 TV serial The Ginger Tree, which was based on the novel by Oswald Wynd; it also starred Samantha Bond and Daisuke Ryu.

John Bassett

In 1952, Bassett purchased part ownership of the Toronto Telegram.

Johnny Strike

Johnny Strike (born Gary John Bassett, June 6, 1948, in Bryn Mawr, PA and raised in Harrisburg, PA) is an American writer, mostly known as songwriter, guitarist and singer for the proto-punk band Crime based in San Francisco.

KMNE

KMNE-FM, a radio station (90.3 FM) licensed to Bassett, Nebraska, United States

Lucinda Bassett

Bassett founded the Midwest Center for Stress and Anxiety headquartered in Oak Harbor, Ohio in 1984.

Marnie Bassett

Bassett was born in Melbourne to academic parents, Sir David Orme Masson, a professor of chemistry, and his wife Mary, née Struthers.

Michael Bassett

Bassett resumed his academic career, publishing several books on New Zealand political history, and contributing to the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the British Dictionary of National Biography.

Minnesota Fight

Rickard shared the contest's hundred-dollar prize with another entry, Marion Bassett's "Our Minnesota".

Nathan Bassett

Some of Bassett's nicknames include The Hound, Bassy, Bruce and Fred Basset – after the comic strip which appears in many Australian newspapers.

Orewa Speech

Nicky Hager's 2006 book The Hollow Men claims that the speech was written, in part, by Michael Bassett, a claim denied by Bassett.

Orland P. Bassett House

Enock Hill Turnock remodeled Bassett's former house, "Bonnie Heights", and may have continued a working relationship with Bassett.

Oscar T. Bassett

Charles Nebeker Bassett (October 8, 1880 – June 10, 1944), son of pioneer O.T. Bassett was born in Indiana, and educated in the schools of Indiana, graduating from Wabash College with the class of 1900.

Otsego County, New York

The City of Oneonta is the home of Hartwick College, the State University of New York at Oneonta, A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital an affiliate of the Bassett Network, major retail activity, and numerous small businesses.

Our Minnesota

The judging committee could not decide between Bassett's entry and Truman Rickard's "Minnesota! Let's Go!" (later known as "Minnesota Fight") and split the prize between the two.

Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores

Robert Leslie of Kinclaven, Perthshire, and of Westminster, London (c. 1598 - c. 1675), married first Frances, widow of Sir John Pakington and daughter of John and Dorothy (Puckering) Ferrers, and married second, at St Giles in the Fields, London, on 4 November 1633, Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Pigott) Bassett

Robert de Herle

Robert Herle was associated with the Bassett family of Drayton in 1339 as retainer to the Bassett manors of Moulton, Buckby, Olney and Walsall.

Samuel Silas Curry

Among them were Horace G. Rahskopf, Sara Stinchfield Hawk, Lee Emerson Bassett, Azubah Latham, and Gertrude Johnson.

Sci-Fi Valley Con

The convention was such a success its first year that the promoter, Casey B. Bassett, decided to move the convention to Altoona's Jaffa Shrine Center.

Shep and the Limelites

All three had previous experience in other groups: Shep with The Heartbeats (notable for "A Thousand Miles Away"); Bassett with The Five Sharps and then, with Baskerville, in The Videos.

The Mating of Millie

The next day, Millie learns that Tommy Bassett (Jimmy Hunt), a young boy she knows and likes very much, has lost his mother in a traffic accident.

Thomas B. Stanley

Anne was the daughter of John David Bassett (July 14, 1866 – February 26, 1965), a founder of Bassett Furniture, and Nancy Pocahontas Hundley (November 21, 1862 – January 11, 1953).

Toronto Toros

Initially, Bassett wanted to move the team into a renovated CNE Coliseum, while Bill Ballard — Harold's son, who was running the Gardens while his father served a prison sentence — wanted the team at the Gardens and opposed the plan to upgrade the Coliseum.

Following the season, with the drop in attendance and onerous lease terms at the Gardens, Bassett moved the club to Birmingham, Alabama, where they were renamed the Birmingham Bulls for the 1976–77 season.

United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge

The 2010 finalists were: Abbeyfield School, Bradford Grammar School, The Community Science College @ Thornhill, Dinnington Comprehensive School, Girls Aloft (Victoria College), Horsforth Secondary School, John Leggott College, Lostock Hall, Royal Liberty School, Thornton Grammar School, Wootton Bassett School and Worksop College.

Watermouth Castle

His heir was thus his sister Harriet Mary Bassett, who became on 7 January 1858 the wife of Charles Henry Williams (1834–1908), MP, of Pilton House, Pilton, near Barnstaple.

West Coast Fever

Part way through the season a horrible injury to Jessica Shynn put her in the operating room, and Bassett lost her confidence and composure, seeing an important drop in accuracy.

William Bassett

William Bassett, Jr. (1624–1703), whose daughter Elizabeth Proctor was accused of witchcraft in the 1692 Salem Witch Trials

Windebank

Sir Thomas Windebank, 1st Baronet (born c. 1612), M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.


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