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Westerway railway station

As the timber industry became more important to the area, sawmills were built and the railway was used to transport logs to Boyer and Hobart.


Abel Boyer

Boyer was discharged from custody through the intervention, he says, of Harley, to whom he boasts of having rendered services.

For this reason doubtless Alexander Pope gave him a niche in The Dunciad (book ii. 413), where, under the soporific influence of Dulness, "Boyer the state, and Law the stage gave o'er" his crime, according to Pope's explanatory note, being that he was "a voluminous compiler of annals, political collections, &c."

Antarctic...huh?

The original score is primarily composed by Matt Hoyt and Joe Plummer, with help from friends Casey Butler, Pat Cummings, and Trevor Boyer.

Arthur Boyer

Born in Montreal, Canada East, the son of Louis Boyer and Marie-Aurélie Mignault, Boyer studied in Montreal and at the University of London.

Boyer rifle

The 1800 variant was named after its creator Daniel Boyer of Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.

Bright Side of the Road

"Bright Side of the Road" has been covered by many artists over the years, including: Shakira, Josh Graves, Hothouse Flowers, Raul Malo, Jerry Garcia Band, 001 Ensemble, Brendan Boyer, Antawn Jefferson, and David West.

Cluny Brown

A plumber's niece (Jennifer Jones) and a refugee (Charles Boyer) meet in England prior to World War II, and Una O'Connor, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, and Richard Haydn are around to take up what slack there is.

Dalun

Dalun, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad (دالون – Dālūn), village in Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran

Damla

Damla Espid, a village in Dehdasht-e Gharbi Rural District, in the Central District of Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.

Derek Boyer

Boyer currently holds the Guinness World Record for heaviest truck pulled, after he pulled a Kenworth K104 truck weighing 51,840 kg (114,287 lb - 51.84 metric tons) over a level 100 ft (30.48 m) course in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on 6 March 2005.

Boyer has portrayed Bayman in DOA: Dead or Alive and promoted the steel products company Orcon, as Orcon's "Man of Steel", featuring Orcon's trackside promotional efforts at V8 Supercars events where Orcon has been a sponsor of race teams, Larkham Motor Sport, WPS Racing and Ford Performance Racing.

Dwight Boyer

Boyer discussed the 1927 disappearance of the SS Kamloops, and the 1929 foundering of the SS Milwaukee, in Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes (1968), and retold an account of the 1975 disappearance of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in his last book, Ships and Men of the Great Lakes (1977).

Fath

Fath, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province

Félix Lévitan

Lévitan capitalised on the transatlantic interest he expected by encouraging Boyer to ride not in his sponsor's jersey but in the stars and stripes, normally reserved for the American national champion.

Ford Thunderbird

The men and their teams generally credited with the creation of the original Thunderbird are: Lewis D. Crusoe, a retired GM executive lured out of retirement by Henry Ford II; George Walker, chief stylist and a Ford vice-president; Frank Hershey, chief stylist for Ford Division; Bill Boyer, designer Body Development Studio who became manager of Thunderbird Studio in spring of 1955, and Bill Burnett, chief engineer.

George Boyer

Boyer is associate editor of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and has been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and of Social Science History.

Jacques Boyer

Boyer raced as an amateur in Europe from 1973, after joining the ACBB club in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt.

Boyer also competed in and won the 1980 Coors Classic in the USA, and the 1985 Race Across America completing the 3,120 miles in nine days, two hours, and six minutes.

The French team manager, Cyrille Guimard, described Boyer as "un marginal", a description hard to translate but which suggests an outsider, almost a hippie.

The British journalist Dennis Donovan, working for the London magazine Cycling remarked on Boyer's intense religious beliefs.

In 2006, Boyer participated in the Race Across America again, this time in the new "Solo Enduro" category which requires all participants to use 40 hours of rest (stopping) during the race at official stations along the course.

Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles

Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles, a French nobleman, was born at Aix, in Provence, in 1650, and was procurator-general of the parliament of that town.

Lucienne Boyer

In 1927, Boyer sang at a concert by the great star Félix Mayol where she was seen by the American impresario Lee Shubert who immediately offered her a contract to come to Broadway.

Max Boyer

On October 9, 2010, IWS held its final show before ceasing its operations, during which Boyer made his return and wrestled his first match in two and a half years, defeating Vanessa Kraven, Alex Silva, Kid Kamikaze, Mike Bailey and then–champion, former partner Shayne Hawke in a six–way elimination match to regain the IWS Canadian Championship.

Michael Boyer

Michael Boyer (January, 1960) is an American actor who plays the role of the Pied Piper of Hamelin in performances in Hamelin, Germany.

Mitch Bouyer

Mitch Bouyer (sometimes spelled 'Bowyer', 'Buoyer', 'Boyer' or 'Buazer', or in Creole, 'Boye') (1837–June 25, 1876) was an interpreter and guide in the Old West following the American Civil War.

Mur, Iran

Mur-e Jowkar, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province

Office québécois de la langue française

Daniel Boyer : Secrétaire général de la (FTQ) (Vice-President of the Québec Federation of Labour)

Patrick Boyer

Boyer now operates an independent publishing company, Blue Butterfly Books, which publishes a growing collection of fiction and non-fiction works.

Perfect Combination

Vicki Randle, Jim Gilstrap, Bonnie Boyer, Myrna Matthews, Carla Vaughn, Linda Imperial, Kevin Walden, Ben E. Epps, Dennis Saunders, Frank Loverde, Yolanda Glass, Leslie Ann Jones, John Lehman - Backing vocals

RC Písek

The club was founded in 2008 by three employees of Schneider Electric in the town, Emmanuel Boyer, Bastien Loiseaux and Lenka Hauptmanova.

Reba Rambo McGuire

The McGuires have written numerous songs for other artists, including Debby Boone, The Bill Gaither Trio, The Archers, Sandi Patty, David and Nicole Binion and Dave Boyer.

Richard O. Boyer

Richard Owen Boyer (January 10, 1903 – August 7, 1973) was an American freelance journalist who, before appearing at a Senate hearing, had contributed profiles to The New Yorker and written for the Daily Worker.

William Boyer

A graduate of the Drama Centre London, Boyer has appeared in plays written by Shakespeare, Molière, Odettes, Miller, Mamet, and others.

Willson Osborne

He taught music theory and composition at Philadelphia's New School of Music (now part of the Boyer College of Music at Temple University).


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