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8 unusual facts about Borden


Borden House

Borden-Pond House, Worcester, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Borden-Winslow House, Fall River, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Borden, Indiana

Norman M. Coats of Kirkwood, Missouri has written a book called Growing Up on Daisy Hill, which chronicles his early years being born and raised in the nearby hills and hollows of Borden during the Great Depression.

Borden, Kent

It may also stem from the settlement there of the de Bourdon (now Borden) family which came from Bourdonnay, in Normandy, France with William the Conqueror in 1066.

Borden's Ice Cream

In May 2009 the Foundation sold the store to Lafayette Red's health club owner Red Lerille, who bought the property with the intention of keeping the local icon alive in Lafayette.

James W. Borden

His brother, physician Joseph Borden (1806–1875) and his family moved to California and named the town of Borden, California.

Khem Shahani

Borden Award of the American Dairy Science Association for Excellence in Research in Dairy Manufacturing (Dairy Microbiology and Dairy Chemistry) - 1964

SuperXclusivo

Within a week, sixteen sponsors had removed their commercials from the show's timeslot, including Aquafresh, AT&T, Borden, Claro Puerto Rico, Triple-S, Sprint, and Walmart.


Anne Lagacé Dowson

Her great uncle Pierre Édouard Blondin was a Conservative Minister in Prime Minister Robert Borden's government, and went on to become Speaker of the Senate.

Borden Institute

To date, the Borden Institute has published nearly 20 volumes of the Textbook of Military Medicine (TMM) series.

In 1992, to honor Lieutenant Colonel William Cline Borden (Major Walter Reed’s personal physician and conceiver of the original Walter Reed General Hospital) the Center’s name was changed to Borden Institute.

Borden Memorial Hospital

It was founded by the China Inland Mission, from money donated by the Borden family after the death of William Whiting Borden.

Borden System

Because the distance between lines of longitude get smaller with increasing latitude, the Borden System changes at 64 degrees north latitude, from a width of 4 degrees of longitude to a width of 8 degrees in order to keep the area within each designate roughly the same.

CFB Borden

This facility has also hosted air cadets and sea cadets since 2003, when the Borden Air Cadet Summer Training Centre was closed.

Dmytro Lazorko

He retired from farming in 1943 and moved to Borden, where he found work in a garage.

Elsie the Cow

A live cow representing Elsie appeared on stage at the Borden's exhibit in the Better Living Pavilion at the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair, in a musical revue with a score by the Broadway composer Kay Swift.

George Taylor Denison

Denison family names abound in the area, including the present day names of Denison Square, Denison Avenue, Bellevue Avenue, Major, Robert, Borden, and Lippincott Streets.

Green tea ice cream

During a certain period of the 1980s in Japan, Meiji Dairies started selling its Green Tea Ice Cream with Lady Borden Brand, however after a while Meiji Dairies stopped selling that product.

Harold Lothrop Borden

The death of Lieutenant Harold Lothrop Borden at Witpoort on 16 July 1900 occurred when Lieutenant John Edgar Burch and he, while assisting the Royal Irish Fusiliers and some New Zealanders withstand a Boer assault on Witpoort ridge, led a counter-attack.

Hexamethylenetetramine

The French SNPE factory closed in 1990; in 1993, the production of hexamethylenetetramine in Leuna, Germany ceased; in 1996, the Italian facility of Agrolinz closed down; in 2001, the UK producer Borden closed; in 2006, production at Chemko, Slovak Republic, was closed.

If the Smoke Don't Get You, the Meatloaf Will

If The Smoke Don’t Get You, The Meatloaf Will is an art exhibit produced by Muistardeaux Collective (Thomas Borden, Eric Gibbons, Khyssup Muistardeaux), between June 29-July 5, 2008 at the Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco, California.

Michigan Condensed Milk Factory

Hopkins successfully completed negotiations, and Borden constructed this creamery, designed by William D. Kyser, Superintendent of the Borden Creamery in Fairport, New York in Mount Pleasant.

Monster Pig

Later news reports brought forward allegations that the entire story was the result of a canned hunt scheme cooked up by Eddy Borden, the owner of Lost Creek Plantation, and Keith O'Neal of Southeastern Trophy Hunters, to build up business for the then four-months-old Lost Creek hunting plantation, trying to create their own news event along the lines of the 2004 “Hogzilla” event.

Naval Aid Bill

At the urging of the Admiralty's First Sea Lord Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister Borden agreed to finance the construction of three dreadnoughts for $35 million.

Sheff v. O'Neill

Justice David Borden authored the dissent, with Justices Robert Callahan and Richard Palmer concurring with the dissent.

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.

The Blade Runners

Borden and Hellwig originally teamed as part of Powerteam USA, a group of four wrestlers who debuted in 1985 after being trained by Red Bastien and Rick Bassman.

The Satan Killer

starring = Stephen Sayre
Billy Franklin
James Westbrook
Belinda Borden
Cindy Healy
Nick Delon
Christopher Litz
Mark Kinsella

The Vigilantes Return

When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie.

William Cline Borden

In 1909 Borden was named Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University.

Yelena Lanskaya

Recently, Yelena has co-produced and edited Russian theatrical musical First Love: It’s The Music! (“Первая Любовь: Вот Такая Музыка!”), produced by Sony, CTC Media and Bill Borden and Barry Rosenbush, producers of High School Musical.


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