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4 unusual facts about Boone


Al Young

In the fall of 2003, as the first Coffey Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, he taught a poetry workshop.

Flucie Stewart

He served as the head football and basketball coach for the Appalachian State Mountaineers located in the town of Boone in Watauga County, North Carolina.

Robert Coombe

On October 2008 in an email to DU students and alumni, Coombe defended the administration’s decision to retire mascot “Boone” back in 1998 after students had tried to bring the mascot back.

W. Eugene Wilson

A retiree and restaurateur from Boone, North Carolina, Wilson served seven terms in the House of Representatives.


Asheville Global Report

The organization currently produces radio programming and a television show, AGR TV, that is aired on Free Speech TV and Public-access television cable TV channels in Asheville, Atlanta, Boone, Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

Barry Fell

This is based on Fell's translation, published in the magazine Wonderful West Virginia in 1983, of two rock-cut inscriptions located at archaeological sites in Wyoming and Boone counties, West Virginia.

Boone Carlyle

In "LA X", Boone goes back alone on Flight 815 and sits beside Locke, where he finds out about Locke supposedly going on a Walkabout in Australia.

Buck Houghton

His collaboration with dramatist Clifford Odets, "The Richard Boone Show" (1963–64) was the only repertory company on television, in which a resident cast of actors played different roles in a TV play every week.

Carrollton Township, Boone County, Arkansas

Between 1920 and 1980, the population of Boone County's Carrollton Township included the total population of the town of Alpena, even though Alpena is in both Boone County and in parts of two townships in Carroll County.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Channel 18

WLNN-LP or MTN 18, a television station in Boone, North Carolina, USA

Charles Boone

Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone, born 1934), American singer, actor and writer

Cherry Boone

On October 4, 1975, Boone married writer Dan O'Neill, in a ceremony officiated by Jack Hayford, founding pastor of The Church On The Way, in Van Nuys, California.

Boone came to public attention after the death of her friend, pop singer Karen Carpenter, who died in 1983, from complications arising from anorexia nervosa.

Cumberland Parkway

The state legislature then renamed the Boone Parkway for Rogers, which sparked a controversy among residents of the region and the offspring of Boone.

Daniel Boone May

Daniel Boone May (1852 – 1878), known as Boone May, was an American gunfighter, of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Dinsmore House

Dinsmore Homestead, Burlington, Kentucky, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dinsmore House and as James Dinsmore House, in Boone County, Kentucky

Faceless Hunters

Oregon Highway Patrolmen Bob Colby and Jim Boone are assigned to Mount Rushmore, and confront Klee Pan, who explains that he 'comes from Klaramar - a world revolving within an atom on the planet Saturn' and he is looking for a stone face left on Earth millennia ago which can help prevent Saturn exploding.

Garrison's Gorillas

The four were: Actor (Cesare' Danova) a handsome, resonant-voiced con man; Casino (Rudy Solari), a tough, wiry safe-cracker and mechanic; Goniff (Christopher Cary) a slender, likable Cockney cat burglar; and Chief (Brendon Boone) a rugged, somber American Indian who handled a switchblade like he was born to it.

George M. Holmes

The George M. Holmes Convocation Center, an 8,325 seat arena in Boone, North Carolina, is named for Holmes, who was instrumental in bringing in state funds for the project.

Halloween Jack

After a little torture, Boone transformed from the Loki persona, which he now saw as useless, into the devilish Halloween Jack and went about creating a plan to get back at the Synge siblings and take over Las Vegas in the meantime.

Herman Boone

Coach Boone wrote a letter of recommendation in support of Jeffries' induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Herr

Herr, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, USA

International Motor Contest Association

The IMCA championships are held annually at the IMCA Supernationals at Boone Speedway in Boone, Iowa.

Jacob Broughton Nelson

In the 1900 census Nelson was listed as the son of Jacob Boone Nelson and Laura Hill Locke Nelson in Summerfield, Alabama.

Jerry Moore

Gerald Hundley "Jerry" Moore (born July 18, 1939) was the head football coach of the Appalachian State University Mountaineers located in the town of Boone in Watauga County, North Carolina.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

Joy Bale Boone

Joy Bale Boone spent most her life in Elizabethtown, Kentucky with her first husband, physician Shelby Garnett Bale.

K43GZ-D

K14IF was owned by Clarabelle F. Boone; under her ownership, the station began its affiliation with the Home Shopping Network.

Karl Ferdinand Wimar

He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1855-1856), a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough, Kentucky of Jemima Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.

KFFF

KDLF, a radio station (1260 AM) licensed to serve Boone, which held the call sign KFFF from 2005 to 2010

KTIA-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to serve Boone, Iowa, United States, which held the call sign KFFF-FM from 2005 to 2010

KTIA

KTIA-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Boone, Iowa, United States

Larry Boone

Boone has also co-written several singles for other country music artists, including a Number One single for Kathy Mattea, and Top Ten hits for Don Williams, Tracy Lawrence, Rick Trevino and Lonestar.

Mary Shaw Shorb

Founder and first President of the College of Idaho, Dr. Boone was a well-known botanist, and taught biology at the College.

Midwestern Hayride

Inspired by the Shreveport-based Louisiana Hayride, the show was originally called Boone County Jamboree (named for nearby Boone County in Northern Kentucky).

North Boone Community Unit School District 200

As of the ISAT testing scores in 2006, the averages of North Boone Community Unit School District 200, with the exception of the eleventh grade mathematics scores, paralleled or rose just above the state average.

Ocean Shores, New South Wales

Originally Ocean Shores was a land holding owned by reclusive billionaire D.K.Ludwig with backing from American evangelical country singer Pat Boone (named after Ocean Shores, Washington, where Boone resided in 1967).

Sam Hairston

The two other three-generation MLB families have four members each: the Boone family (Ray, Bob, Bret and Aaron) and the Bell family (Gus, Buddy, David, and Mike).

Siege of Boonesborough

The siege of Boonesborough was dramatized in an episode of the 1964 CBS television series "The Great Adventure", with Peter Graves starring as Daniel Boone.

Squire Boone

The tenth of eleven children, Squire Boone was born to Squire Boone Sr. and his wife Sarah (Morgan) Boone in Berks County, Pennsylvania at the Daniel Boone Homestead.

Think Ethnic

#"Daniel Boone" (1:16) - Who was "a trailer and a tractor" according to Tom; naturally, Dick had just stated that Daniel Boone was "a trader and a trapper."

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

She has also appeared on Fringe as Valerie Boone, the victim of a scientific experiment in the episode 'Midnight', and also guest starred on HBO's "Bored to Death".

Upton Hays

His father was Boone Hays, and his great-grandfather was famed explorer Daniel Boone.

Vietcong 2

Boone is part of a coalition of international forces from Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Wharton, West Virginia

This fatality along with another one in a separate incident in Uneeda, also in Boone County, caused West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to call for a "stand-down on mine safety" at West Virginia's mines.

William Henry Bogart

He most well known for his book on Daniel Boone, Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky (1854) which Bogart wrote in an attempt to rescue Daniel Boone from becoming entirely myth and legend.

Wuhan University School of Information Management

The predecessor of SIM was Boone Library School at Wuchang, which was founded by Mary Elizabeth Wood and Samuel T. Y. Seng in March 1920.


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