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40 unusual facts about Bethesda


1099 14th Street

Cohen was the principal owner of Ronald Cohen Investments (a real estate investment and management firm located in Bethesda, Maryland).

25376 Christikeen

It is named after Christine Keen, an American homeschool educator in Bethesda, Maryland.

A Postcard from the Day

The Psychedelly, Bethesda, Maryland ("Goin' All the Way/Glendora", "Stepping Stone", "Mean Screen", "Reverse Psychiatry", "When We Were Kids")

Allie Lewis Clapp

Clapp is the daughter of Patricia G. Lewis and Dr. Randall J. Lewis of Bethesda, Maryland.

Anil CS Rao

His work has been exhibited previously at the Capitol Art Network gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, Touchstone Gallery in Washington DC, India Art Gallery in Pune, India and the Gallery Space in Hyderabad, India.

ArcLight Hollywood

In 2014 the first location outside California will open at Westfield Montgomery in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bangor, Pennsylvania

Around Bangor one can also see piles of slate residue and shale reminiscent of the area around Bethesda, Wales.

Barbados Blackbelly sheep

In 1904, the USDA imported a small flock and transported them for study to Bethesda, Maryland.

Bethesda, Gwynedd

The town was the site of a three-year strike led by the North Wales Quarrymen's Union from 1900.

Bethesda is the birthplace of Welsh novelist and poet Caradog Prichard, author of Un Nos Ola' Leuad, and of the singer Leila Megane.

Bethesda, Ohio

When the railroad reached the village in 1852, the Central Ohio Railroad built a station and named it Burr’s Mills in honor of Merrick S. Burr,who operated a sawmill in the area.

Cesar Alzona

As part of the Philippine Military and Diplomatic Corps in Washington DC, his daughters Cezarina Barbara and Esperanza Patricia were born at the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, while he made a name in public and civic service.

Chevy Chase View, Maryland

Resident students are zoned to schools in the Montgomery County Public Schools district, specifically to Rosemary Hills Elementary School (PreK-2), North Chevy Chase Elementary School (3-6), Westland Middle School, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.

Durward Gorham Hall

He was also the co-founder and a member of board of trustees of the Uniformed Services, University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland from 1973-1981.

Emily Rooney

She has an identical twin sister, Martha, who is Chief of the Public Services Division at the United States National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.

Gary Clark

Clark was the owner of the now closed South Beach Restaurant and Martini Lounge in Bethesda, Maryland.

George Ludwig

George Döring Ludwig, M.D. (January 4, 1922 – November 24, 1973) was an American professor of medicine and medical researcher noted for developing the first application of ultrasound to the human body for medical purposes, at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, in the late 1940s.

Gio Batta Gori

Gio Batta Gori is an epidemiologist and fellow with the Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he specializes in risk assessment and scientific research.

Greg Fahy

He was also Head of the Tissue Cryopreservation Section of the Transfusion and Cryopreservation Research Program of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he spearheaded the original concept of ice blocking agents.

J. Heinrich Matthaei

Whilst a post-doctoral visitor in the laboratory of Marshall Warren Nirenberg at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, he discovered that a synthetic RNA polynucleotide, composed of a repeating uridylic acid residue, coded for a polypeptide chain encoding just one kind of amino acid, phenylalanine.

Joe Gyau

Born in Tampa, Florida, he grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he played youth soccer for the Bethesda Roadrunners before joining the IMG Soccer Academy in 2009.

John F. Mulholland, Jr.

Born in Clovis, New Mexico, Mulholland grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.

Kathi Martuza

After moving to Maryland with her family, she continued with Maryland Youth Ballet in Bethesda.

Leo Zulueta

Leo Zulueta was born in 1952 in a naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

Manugistics

Manugistics originated in 1969 in Bethesda, Maryland as Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC) with some of the people who originally implemented APL as a programming language at IBM.

Michael F. Good

Postdoctoral training was as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Molly Miller

American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland.

Oakmont, Maryland

Chartered in 1918, the village includes both sides of Oak Place and the south side of Oakmont Avenue, across Old Georgetown Road from the National Institutes of Health, in the Bethesda, Maryland postal area.

Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty

National Institutes of HealthBethesda, Maryland, US (1968–1969, 1984–1986 and 1990–1991)

Pascal Fries

From 1999 to 2001 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Desimone in the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda in the USA.

Peter Keisler

Originally, Keisler, a resident of Bethesda, Maryland and a practising lawyer in Washington, D.C., was considered for a Maryland seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit during the spring of 2001.

Raquel C. Bono

In September 1999, she was assigned as the director of Restorative Care at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, followed by assignment to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from September 2001 to December 2002 as the medical corps career planning officer for the Chief of the Medical Corps.

RelayNet

RIME was built up, starting in 1988, from a master hub owned by Bonnie Anthony, a local Psychiatrist, in Bethesda, Maryland and a subordinate hub owned by her brother, Howard Belasco, in The Bronx, New York.

Scott Hanson

In 2002, Hanson moved to sister network Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as a main anchor and reporter.

Sergey M. Bezrukov

He took up his present position in 2002, as Section Chief in the Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland.

Stephen A. Lesser

Lesser was born in Bethesda, Maryland, the son of Virginia Hirst Lesser, a painter and teacher of art and piano, and Dr. Alexander Lesser, a Hofstra University professor of Anthropology.

Taj Boston

A month later, Host Marriott Corp. of Bethesda, Maryland, acquired the hotel from Blackstone for $100 million.

The Overachievers

Robbins chose Whitman because "in the mid-1990s, in many ways Alexandra Robbins was these students, rushing through the same hallways, cramming anxiously for tests in the same classrooms, battling rivals on the same varsity fields." Whitman is also one of the best public schools in the nation and is located in Bethesda, Maryland.

The Road to Mecca

It was inspired by the story of Helen Martins who lived in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa and created The Owl House, now a provincial heritage site.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki

The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto.


3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

It is a spin-off to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series as main characters Polly, Jo and Ama are about to attend South Bethesda High School, the school the original sisterhood (Bridget "Bee" Vreeland, Lena Kaligaris, Carmen Lowell and Tibby Rollins) attended.

Augustine B. Kelley

Kelley was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served until his death in Bethesda, Maryland.

Balfour Beatty Construction

2004: Completion of the two largest contracts to date, the Gaylord Texan Resort Hotel & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas and the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Benjamin Wills Newton

The feud ultimately led to the division of the Plymouth Brethren in 1848 when George Muller, the co-leader of Bethesda chapel, a brethren assembly in Bristol, allowed visitors from Ebrington Street into fellowship in Bristol and was slow to comply to Darby's ultimatum for all assemblies to condemn Newton's heresy.

Bethesda Lutheran Communities

Founded as Good Shepherd Lutheran Home of the West in Terra Bella, California, Bethesda provided assistance to help the organization get started and, in the 1970s, the two agencies even partnered on a successful joint fundraising initiative.

Bethesda North Hospital

Over the years, Bethesda met this need by adding maternity services; providing regionally recognized specialty services, including a breast center, fertility center and endoscopy services; investing in increasingly sophisticated diagnostic imaging and neurological equipment; and offering open-heart surgery.

Chevy Chase Bank

According to ABA routing information it was based in Laurel, Maryland, while the bank's headquarters offices were in downtown Bethesda, Maryland, at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East-West Highway.

Cynthia H. Milligan

Besides her academic position, Milligan is currently a director of Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California; the Gallup Organization, Omaha, Nebraska, and Princeton, New Jersey; Calvert investment funds, Bethesda, Maryland; and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan.

David Taylor Model Basin

The new navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

Eavan Boland

The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press, 2008.

F. Curtis Dohan, Jr.

He went on to complete an internship and residency in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, before becoming a research associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

Geography of Washington, D.C.

However the District is ringed by high-rise buildings in many nearby suburbs like Arlington, Silver Spring, and Bethesda.

Geology of Wales

Purple and green slates of Cambrian age were worked at vast quarries on the flanks of Snowdon and at Bethesda, Dinorwig, Corris and Blaenau Ffestiniog.

James Shepherd Freeman

James Shepherd Freeman (April 30, 1900 in Jasper, AL – August 7, 1962 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD) was a World War II Admiral in the United States Navy and the son of James Stanley Freeman.

Lawrence H. Cohn

He received his graduate medical training from 1962 to 1971 at Boston City Hospital/Harvard, the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, the University of California at San Francisco and the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Mike Cowan

He is an avowed "Deadhead" (ardent fan of the American rock and roll band The Grateful Dead), and is a member of Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland where he resides with his wife, Jennifer, and their child, Bobbie.

North Bethesda, Maryland

The far southern edge of the North Bethesda CDP was originally the country estate of the Grosvenor family, whose lineage includes Alexander Graham Bell and a former President of the National Geographic Society.

Nuclear pharmacy

The concept of nuclear pharmacy was first described in 1960 by Captain William H. Briner while at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Paul Ebert

He had internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital under Alfred Blalock, and then spent two years as a Senior Assistant Surgeon at the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Sallyann Amdur Sack

A recipient of IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award, she resides in Bethesda, Maryland, where she is a clinical psychologist in private practice, having received her degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University.

Stephen Hahn

From 1993-95, he served as chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Prostate Cancer Clinic, Clinical Pharmacology Branch, in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a senior investigator at the NCI.

Tilden Middle School

After completing 8th grade, students go on to attend Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland.

Wayne Gretzky Hockey

Bethesda Softworks published Wayne Gretzky Hockey shortly after Peter Pocklington traded Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings on 9 August 1988.

Wilfrid Worland

Wilfrid V. Worland (1907–1999) was an architect who between the 1930s and the 1990s shaped the suburban landscape of Washington, D.C., by specializing in town houses and who designed two developments named for him --"Worland", a five-story apartment building on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington, D.C., and a town house cluster also called "Worland" on Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda, Md.

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.