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9 unusual facts about Bend


Bend, Texas

At the 1904 World's Fair, Jumbo Hollis pecans won the bronze medal for being the largest displayed.

Donald L. McFaul

Attended high school in Bend, Oregon, graduating in 1975 with a 3.47 GPA ranking 64 of 399 in his class.

Epic LT Dynasty

The LT was designed by Epic Air LLC of Bend, Oregon to meet demand for a kit-built high-performance single turboprop-engined six-seat private owner aircraft.

Jon Fogarty

Fogarty lives in Bend, Oregon, where he enjoys mountain biking and outdoor training.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

Credited in 1928, along with F.R. Welles and Charles A. Brown, with donating 100 acres of land that would become Pilot Butte State Scenic View in Bend, Oregon.

Mohini Bhardwaj

Bhardwaj currently works as a coach at Acrovision Sports Center in Bend, Oregon.

Oregon State University Extended Campus

In 1982, Liberal Studies courses were offered at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, Oregon, which paved the way for OSU’s first distance degree program in Liberal Studies.

William Vandevert

When Drake came to build irrigation canals and develop the city of Bend in the early 1900s, Bill helped give him the lay of the land.

Wishram, Washington

As a result, the SP&S was extended southward from Wishram, Washington toward Bend, Oregon.


1875 in sports

Billy Mosforth of Sheffield FC is noted for his "screw shot" which gives him the ability to "bend" the ball in flight.

Aornos

The site lies north of Attock in Punjab, on a strongly reinforced mountain spur above the narrow gorges in a bend of the upper Indus River.

BBC Two 'Window on the World' idents

Electric Proms 2007 - A number of neon style lines at the bottom of the screen that bend to form a 2.

Big Bend Country

Boat Encampment, near the Big Bend of the Columbia's most northerly point, is the historic site of a long-established fur trading cache and campsite on the annual York Factory Express.

Buckeye, Arizona

Buckeye is served by Valley Metro via a rural bus line connecting Phoenix-Goodyear-Gila Bend-Ajo.

Carex pilulifera

These stalks bend as the seeds ripen, and the seeds are collected and dispersed by ants of the species Myrmica ruginodis.

Coquille Indian Tribe

Parts of the communities of Bandon, Barview, Coos Bay, and North Bend extend onto reservation lands.

Crataegus anamesa

Crataegus anamesa, the Fort Bend Hawthorn, is a species of hawthorn that is endemic to Texas, in North America.

Danube Bend

The Danube Bend (Hungarian Dunakanyar) is a curve of the Danube in Hungary, close to the city of Visegrád.

Dean A. Hrbacek

Republican precinct chairs from four counties, including Harris, Brazoria, and Galveston in addition to Fort Bend, later nominated dermatologist and Houston city councilwoman Shelley Sekula-Gibbs as a candidate in 2006.

Fishermans Bend, Victoria

Fishermans Bend is a primarily industrial centre at the foot of the West Gate Bridge and contains major establishments for the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Holden Australia, Hawker de Havilland, the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, Kraft Foods, Toyota Australia, and port security.

Fujioka, Gunma

Fujioka has sister cities in Hakui (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan), Regina (Canada), Jiang Yin (China) and Bend (Oregon, United States).

Geology of Bolivia

The bend occurs at the latitude of Cochabamba and corresponds to eastward proyection of the Arica elbow, the bend of south Amicas coastline at the Peru-Chile border.

Georgette Vincent

She had a few chances to pitch, due in part to the South Bend's strong pitching rotation headed by Jean Faut, Lillian Faralla, Josephine Hasham and Ruth Williams.

Great Bend High School

Great Bend High School is a public high school located in Great Bend, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12.

Guy, Texas

According to unofficial returns, Precinct 1068 located in Guy had the distinction of having the highest percentage (90.5%) of votes for Mitt Romney of any Fort Bend County precinct in the 2012 election.

John H. Striebel

Born in Bertrand, Michigan, Striebel began working at the age of 14 as a political cartoonist for the South Bend Daily News, receiving recognition as the youngest front-page cartoonist in the country.

Kentucky Bend

The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313.

KOAB

KOAB-FM, a radio station (91.3 FM) licensed to Bend, Oregon, United States

KOTH

Southwest Oregon Regional Airport (ICAO code: KOTH), a public airport located in the city of North Bend, in Coos County, Oregon, USA

Lake Granbury

The proposed construction of the De Cordova Bend Dam in the mid-1950s became the impetus for John Graves' book, Goodbye to a River.

Leandro N. Alem

Parque Alem, one of two large parks in Rosario, Santa Fe, is named after Alem, and has a heroic statue of him, trying to bend a quebracho log, representing the motto of the Radical Civic Union, Se quiebra pero no se dobla ("It breaks but it does not bend", an expression of commitment to principles).

Malcolm Wilmot

He was a general merchant and operated a shipping business at the Bend of Petitcodiac (later Moncton).

Melqart

The Hellenistic novelist, Heliodorus of Emesa, in his Aethiopica, refers to the dancing of sailors in honor of the Tyrian Heracles: "Now they leap spiritedly into the air, now they bend their knees to the ground and revolve on them like persons possessed".

Miss Texas USA 2003

The top twelve semi-finalists were: Andria Mullins (Austin), Amanda Moore (Bayou City), Crystle Stewart (Fort Bend County), Christie Lee Woods (Houston), Lauren Wilson (Woodway), Ruth Shoulders (North Harris County), Katie Zawora (San Antonio)

Miss Texas USA 2008

At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Crystle Stewart of Fort Bend County was crowned by outgoing titleholder Magen Ellis.

Narinder Dhami

Her most famous and biggest selling book was Bend It Like Beckham, a novelisation of the film.

Operation Fischreiher

General Friedrich Paulus' 6th Army, and part of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth, was to advance across the Don river towards the city of Stalingrad on the Western bend of the Volga river.

Osrūshana

The Oshrusana lay to the south of the great, southernmost bend of the Syr Darya and extended roughly from Samarkand to Khujand.

Palos Verdes Hills

The Wayfarers Chapel is on the south face of the hills, overlooking the Pacific at the western entrance of Portuguese Bend.

Philip Pope

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single "The Chicken Song" with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

Prentiss, Bolivar County, Mississippi

Seeking to permanently avoid the ambush point at Beulah Bend, Union commander Thomas Oliver Selfridge ordered a channel dug across the peninsula around which Boulah Bend flowed.

Ranch to Market Road 2322

RM 2322 passes through the village of Briarcliff before terminating at the entrance to Pace Bend Park, an LCRA-maintained park.

Regent's Canal

It performs a sharp bend at Camley Street Natural Park, following Goods Way where it flows behind both St Pancras railway station and King's Cross railway station.

Shaver Transportation Company

Henderson also was used in the film Bend in the River in 1952, which was filmed in Oregon and on the Columbia River, and starred James Stewart.

Siege of Isfahan

The Afghans lacked artillery to breach the city walls and blockaded Isfahan in order to bend Shah Sultan Husayn Safavi, and the city's defenders into surrender.

Sophia Mundi Steiner School

The school is located in the Heritage listed St Marys building of the Abbotsford Convent artistic and historic precinct and overlooks a bend of the Yarra River and the Collingwood Children's Farm.

South Bend Silver Hawks

The name "Silver Hawks" was chosen as an homage to the once popular Studebaker Silver Hawk automobile, which was manufactured in South Bend.

South Bend, Texas

South Bend is an unincorporated community in Young County, Texas, United States.

Southern Songhay languages

Humburi Senni, classified by Nicolaï 1981 as "Central Southern Songhay", is spoken in a Songhay language enclave around Hombori, south of the Niger River's great bend.

Spoon bending

Parapsychologist and author Dean Radin has reported that he was able to bend the bowl of a spoon over with unexplained ease of force with witnesses present at an informal PK experiment gathering in 2000.

Strachkvas

According to Cosmas’s chronicle, Saint Adalbert of Prague in 994 offered his episcopal see to Strachkvas, explaining that Strachkvas came from the Přemyslids, and it would be easy for him to bend people to his will; but Strachkvas refused the episcopacy.

Texas Coastal Bend

For example, the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera) is found only west of the Texas Coastal Bend, or more specifically the Balcones Fault.

Thomas Embling Hospital

The hospital is named after Thomas Embling, an English born doctor, who emigrated to Australia and was appointed Resident Medical Officer at the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum.

U.S. Route 31

As US 31 approaches southern South Bend, Indiana it converges with US 20 and proceeds westwards then north on a freeway (the St. Joseph Valley Parkway), bypassing South Bend and proceeding into Michigan.

UQ Business School

Most of the school’s staff are located at the St Lucia campus, a 114-acre site located seven miles from the centre of Brisbane within a bend in the Brisbane River.

Vinegar Bend, Alabama

Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell, Major League Baseball pitcher and U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, was born across the state line in Mississippi but the family's residence was on the Vinegar Bend, AL mail route therefore Vinegar Bend was recorded as his birthplace and he was nicknamed for the community.

WHME

WHME-TV, a television station (channel 46 analog/48 digital) licensed to South Bend, Indiana, United States


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