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5 unusual facts about Blackstone


Blackstone, Virginia

Bishop James Cannon, Jr., first President of Blackstone College, achieved fame as the leading prohibition advocate in the nation.

Branch Bocock

Bocock died at the age of 62 on May 25, 1946 at his home in Blackstone, Virginia.

Laurence Tosi

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Tosi held a number of senior positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. including chief operating officer of Merrill's trading and investment banking division.

Waterford, Rhode Island

Waterford is a village located on St. Paul Street in North Smithfield, Rhode Island and Blackstone, Massachusetts.

WKLV-FM

The station returned to the air from New Rochelle, New York on May 30, 2011 as a K-LOVE affiliate under the WKLV-FM calls (the WKLV calls are currently in use on an AM radio station in Blackstone, Virginia).


Alliance Data

In May 2007, Alliance Data and The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, announced plans for Alliance Data to be acquired by The Blackstone Group.

Blackstone Audiobooks

In January 2013, Blackstone Audio was acquired by AudioGO for an undisclosed sum.

Blackstone River

The river is named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1623, and became the first settler of present day Boston in 1625.

Bradshaw Brook

Starting life as Cadshaw Brook draining a valley named Green Lowe Clough on Turton Moor, the brook feeds the Turton and Entwistle Reservoir and Wayoh Reservoir (the latter also fed by Blackstone Brook and Whittlestone Head Brook).

Champlain Hudson Power Express

TDI, whose board is chaired by former Ontario Premier David Peterson, is backed by Blackstone and was announced on February 23, 2010.

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Ralph Thomas in Notes & Queries, 4th Series, II August 8, 1868 gave the following list of the abridgements of Blackstone’s Commentaries.

Boorstin, Daniel J., The Mysterious Science of the Law : An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries, (Univ. Chicago, 1996).

Crewe, Virginia

In November, 2005, the Virginia Department of Rail and Public transportation provided an emergency funding for a bus route between Crewe and Blackstone in order to provide access to the Walmart, Food Lion, and other shops in Blackstone to those without other means of transportation.

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Faye Blackstone

Faye Blackstone was elected into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1982, the same year that her husband was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame.

Harry Blackstone

Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885–1965), a famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Harry Blackstone, Jr.

Dutch illusionist Hans Klok and Darren Romeo perform the famous "Blackstone Floating Light Bulb" illusion under a licensing agreement with Blackstone Magik Enterprises Inc.

Blackstone's PBS's Square One TV, where he used magic tricks to teach mathematics to young people was a favorite of his.

Blackstone was born Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. in Three Rivers, Michigan, the son of noted stage magician Harry Bouton Blackstone, Sr. (also known as "The Great Blackstone").

High End Systems

Blackstone Audio Visual moved from a small shop in central Austin to spacious offices in north Austin in the mid 1980s, in the same complex as Dell computer.

Kendall Foss

Kendall Blackstone Foss (1904-1964) was a journalist and author who helped found the Free University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany in 1948.

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.

Justice Alito, joined by Justice Thomas, agreed that the ATS does not apply extraterritorially and additionally declared that the statute only applies in the United States for violations of international law as it was understood by Blackstone in 1769.

Lists of landmark court decisions

Charter rights are not “discovered” in the sense proposed by Blackstone, and therefore are not retroactive.

Massachusetts Route 122A

In Millbury, Route 146 crosses the river again, passing through the center of town before meeting Route 146, near the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley shopping center.

New York County Courthouse

Above the seated figures are portraits of six lawgivers: Hammurabi, Moses, Solon, Justinian, Blackstone and John Marshall.

Ngaanyatjarra dialect

Most Ngaanyatjarra people live in one of the communities of Warburton, Warakurna, Tjukurla, Papulankutja (Blackstone), Mantamaru (Jameson) or Kaltukatjara (Docker River).

Paul McCullough

Their occupations in the films usually dictated what Clark's character name was: when photographers, such as in Alibi Bye Bye, Clark was named "Flash"; when chefs, Clark was "Cook"; when lawyers, Clark was "Blackstone", etc.

Paul W. Shafer

He was a student at Ferris Institute (now Ferris State University), Big Rapids, Michigan, and studied law by correspondence with the Blackstone Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

Peter Josyph

What One Man Said to Another: Talks With Richard Selzer Unabridged Audiobook (Blackstone, 2002) ASIN B000FIMFPU

Property Law in Colonial New York

English structural influence was due in large part to the widespread textual invocation of Blackstone.

According to political scientist Donald Lutz, no European authorities were cited more often than Blackstone and Montesquieu during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and each were quoted nearly three times as often as the next person on the list, John Locke.

Taj Boston

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

Tanya Donelly

The album release featured Donelly on vocals, guitars and keyboards, Rich Gilbert (of Human Sexual Response, Goober & the Peas, Blackstone Valley Sinners) on pedal steel, Fisher on bass, and drummers David Lovering (formerly of the Pixies) and Jones.

Vincent Gale

His other acting credits include the films Bye Bye Blues and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, and the television series Neon Rider, Queer as Folk, Da Vinci's Inquest, X-Men: Evolution, Dragon Boys, Eureka, Blackstone, Stargate Universe and Battlestar Galactica.

William Eugene Blackstone

On June 5, 1866, Blackstone married Sarah Lee Smith (daughter of Philander Smith) and settled in Oak Park, Illinois in 1870, where he very successfully engaged in the "business of building and property investments".

William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

As Camden reader of ancient history he rivalled the reputation of Blackstone.

Woods Theatre

The Woods was designed in the grand style of movie palaces of the early 20th century by the firm Marshall and Fox, which also designed such still-extant Chicago structures as the Blackstone Theatre (later renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre) and the Drake Hotel.


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