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unusual facts about Buffalo-Lancaster Regional Airport


Lancaster Airport

Buffalo-Lancaster Regional Airport (formerly Buffalo-Lancaster Airport) in Lancaster, New York, United States (FAA: BQR)


Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

49 of the passengers were high school exchange students visiting Peru from Buffalo, New York.

Battle of Pease River

The site was long a favorite of the Comanche, providing both cover from the fierce blue northers that hit the plains, and ample forage for their ponies, with easy buffalo hunting from the nearby herds.

Bob Burden

Bob Burden (born 1952, Buffalo, New York) is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of Flaming Carrot Comics and the Mystery Men.

Booji Boy

Booji Boy publicly announced his pending resignation on multiple occasions, most recently on August 13, 2007, yet he appeared at a Summerfest concert on July 4, 2010 and on July 8, 2010 at the Town Ballroom In Buffalo, NY.

Buffalo Grove ambush

The Buffalo Grove ambush occurred near Buffalo Grove, Illinois, a small, unincorporated settlement in present-day Ogle County.

Buffalo gun

Buffalo rifle, a later, often breechloading cartridge rifle during the period of commercial buffalo hunting

Buffalo, Missouri

James B. Potter, Jr. (born 1931), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–71

Buffalo, Victoria

The town was originally settled as a part of the rail-line link between Foster and Leongatha during the late 1800s.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

Cedric Smith

Cedric C. Smith (1895–1969), All-American football player for the University of Michigan and the Buffalo All-Americans

Chief Blue Horse

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months.

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes.

Clara Sipprell

Because of the work of George Eastman and the establishment of the Eastman Kodak Company in Buffalo, the city became an important center for American photography in the early part of the 20th century.

Cow dung

A buffalo chip, also called a meadow muffin, is the name for a large, flat, dried piece of dung deposited by the American Bison.

David D. Kirkpatrick

He was born in Buffalo, New York, earned a B.A. in history and American studies at Princeton University, graduating magna cum laude, and attended the graduate program in American Studies at Yale.

Dennis Gabryszak

By January 2014, that number grew to seven, including Kristy Mazurek, who hosts a Sunday political TV talk show for Buffalo's NBC affiliate, WGRZ.

Engineering, Science, and Management War Training

During 1940, Cornell University started courses in aircraft structures and stress analysis at Buffalo, New York, for Bell Aircraft and Curtis Wright.

Finast

The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets, its Buffalo, New York-based unit.

Gerry Meehan

After completing his undergraduate degree from Canisius College in Buffalo, he graduated from the University at Buffalo School of Law in 1982.

Gill Action Fund

The campaign, called Fight Back New York, successfully ousted Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), Sen. William Stachowski (D-Buffalo), and Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Queens) replacing each of them with senators who support marriage equality.

HarborCenter

The HarborCenter will become the home of the Buffalo Jr. Sabres and recently acquired Buffalo Regals youth hockey organization.

Harry Castlemon

He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York.

Henry Brimm

A native of Buffalo, New York, Brimm finished his career with a 26–17–4 record.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Iver Johnson

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and wounded U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).

Jim Ailinger

He was part of an initiative to boost gate attendance for the Buffalo, New York franchise, mixing local talent such as Ailinger with big-name stars such as Benny Boynton, Eddie Kaw, Pete Calac and Swede Youngstrom.

John Aloysius Green

In addition to the Champion quarries, Mr. Green opened a quarry on Buffalo Creek, worked the old state quarry on the Wapsipinicon River for a time, a quarry at Wasioja, Minnesota, and one at Shuster, Missouri.

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Lake Tianchi Monster

It was claimed that a large buffalo-like creature attacked three people, but was shot six times.

LANSA Flight 502

More than half of the passengers belonged to a single group, sponsored by the Buffalo, New York based International Fellowship student exchange program, consisting of 49 American high school exchange students, along with their teachers, family members, and guides, who were returning from a visit to nearby Machu Picchu to their host families in the Lima area.

Lemp Mansion

"Cragwold", in western Kirkwood, had an observation tower, two servants' houses, and a collection of birds, antelope, sheep, yaks, buffalo and other animals.

Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004

The concert was shot and recorded in downtown Buffalo on Niagara Square in front of Buffalo City Hall.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

"It is composed of 12 prize winning acts which have never before appeared in Buffalo, with Ted Mack, former conductor of Shea's Buffalo Orchestra, returning in the role of master of ceremonies. On the screen will be Mickey Rooney, the delightful star of the Judge Hardy family series, in his newest role, "Hold That Kiss" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe. Shea's Buffalo News will conclude the bill."

Makrokosmos

The first volume of the set was composed in 1972, while the last was completed in early 1979; the first performance of all four volumes in sequence was given by Ivar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, Stephen Manes, Freida Manes, Jan Williams and Lynn Harbold, in Buffalo, New York, on 12 June 1980.

Marva J. Daniel Futures Preparatory School

Futures Academy is located in the Fruit Belt of Buffalo's East Side, and a few blocks away from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

North-West Rebellion

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government,and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

Peter Ambroziak

Drafted from the Ontario Hockey League's Ottawa 67's, Ambroziak debuted with Buffalo's American Hockey League affiliates, the Rochester Americans, in the 1991–92 season; however he never fulfilled the potential that the scouts had seen in him.

Red Hill Valley Parkway

Opponents asserted that two groups would be the chief beneficiaries of the expressway: long-distance truckers travelling from Detroit to Buffalo, and land developers on the Hamilton Mountain.

Robert H. Jackson United States Courthouse

The courthouse pavilion lobby contains monumental colored glass panels designed by Buffalo-area native Robert Mangold, a major figure in the geometric abstraction movement.

Robitaille

Mike Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player, defenceman for, among other teams, the Buffalo Sabres, for which he currently serves as commentator

Samuel Decius Hubbard

He moved to Mondovi in Buffalo County in 1878, and was elected a fourth time to the Assembly in 1884 for Buffalo County as a Republican, with 1,604 votes to 1,177 for Democratic former Assemblyman George Cowie.

Sattler

Sattler's, a regional department store chain headquartered at 998 Broadway, Buffalo, New York

Seymour H. Knox I

This article is about the Buffalo merchant and businessman; see Seymour Knox for other people with this name.

United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming, 2008

Other Republicans running include conservative former state Treasurer Cynthia Lummis, state Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, businessman and rancher Mark Gordon of Buffalo, and retired naval captain and 2006 candidate Bill Winney who had garnered 40 percent of the vote against Cubin in the 2006 primary.

United States presidential election in New York, 1884

Blaine won much of upstate New York, including a victory in Erie County, home to the city of Buffalo, although Cleveland did manage to win Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with several rural upstate counties.

United States presidential election in New York, 1972

This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located.

Wallace E. Cunningham

He commenced his formal architectural instruction at Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York, and then the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by Marya Lilien, one of the first female apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.

WDCX

WDCX-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States

Willis Page

He was also the associate conductor in Buffalo, New York, where he conducted three quarters of all concerts and has been guest conductor for several orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra (seven times), Denver, St Louis, Rochester, Hartford, Muncie, Yomiuri, Toronto and Jerusalem.


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