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8 unusual facts about Burnham


Alice Baldwin

The Abbey, of which only some old walls and a fishpond remained in the mid-1800s, was situated about a half mile from Burnham.

Anita Willets Burnham Log House

The Anita Willets Burnham Log House, located at 1140 Willow Rd. in the Crow Island Woods of Winnetka, Illinois, was the home and studio of artist and author Anita Willets-Burnham.

Anita Willets-Burnham

In 1906, she married Alfred Newton Burnham, the nephew of architect Daniel Burnham.

Britwell

A civil parish was established at that point for the part of the estate that had previously lain in the Burnham civil parish.

Burnham-on-Crouch

The event is shared among the four established sailing clubs in Burnham: The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club (linked to the sailing club with the same name in Cowes, Isle Of Wight), The Royal Burnham Yacht Club, The Crouch Yacht Club, and The Burnham Sailing Club.

Burnham-on-Sea High Lighthouse

The Rothschild family owned it until 1996 when it was bought at auction by Patrick O'Hagan.

Office of profit

Members who wish to retire ask to be appointed to the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, or Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead.

Richard John Cork

He was the son of Harold James Cork and Ethel Mary Cork, of Burnham in Buckinghamshire.


Alan S. C. Ross

He was educated at Lindisfarne in Blackheath, Naish House in Burnham-on-Sea, Malvern College and Christ College, Brecon.

Berkshire Industrial Farm

The Berkshire Industrial Farm, (previously known as the Burnham Industrial Farm) in Canaan, New York, was a rural residential facility for troubled young men from the New York area in the late 19th Century.

Burnham Beeches

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, First Knight, Goldfinger, The Princess Bride, the 1952 Disney film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 are among the films and TV productions which have been shot at Burnham Beeches.

Burnham Double Star Catalogue

By the time Burnham retired from Yerkes Observatory, he had accumulated material for a revision of his catalogue.

Burnham Market

Burnham Westgate Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian country house, built 1783-1785 by Sir John Soane, for Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford.

Cape Canaveral Light

William H. Peck wrote about his meeting with lighthouse keeper Mills Burnham of Cape Canaveral in the Florida Star newspaper in 1887.

Charles Wilkinson

Bud Wilkinson, born Charles Burnham Wilkinson (1916–1994) U.S. football player and coach

Chase Promenade

The pavilions by Zaha Hadid and Ben van Berkel will feature information highlighting the Burnham Plan and its implications for Chicago's present and future.

Christopher Voss

He worked cases which included the Jill Carroll case in Iraq, the Steve Centanni case in the Gaza Strip, the Burnham-Sobero Abu Sayyaf case in the Philippines, and the Gonsalves-Howes-Stansell kidnapping in Colombia which culminated in the July 2008 rescue by Colombian forces.

Clark Burnham

Clark Burnham (May 22, 1802 Windham, Windham County, Connecticut – December 30, 1871 Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Crater Club

Early members purchased lots from Burnham then built simple cottages that deliberately eschewed the luxuries and decorative excesses of Adirondack "Great Camps" such as those designed by William Coulter of Saranac Lake.

El Granada, California

Burnham's other works included overseeing the design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designing the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York City.

First white child

Nada Burnham (May 1894 – May 19, 1896), daughter of the celebrated American scout Frederick Russell Burnham, was the first white child born in Bulawayo and died of fever and starvation during the Siege of Bulawayo in the Second Matabele War.

Foulness

Great Wakering village hall and the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Burnham-on-Crouch were prepared as reception centres, and a flotilla of small boats, the lifeboat, a barge and an army DUKW amphibious truck reached the stranded people and evacuated them to the reception centres.

Franklin Pierce Burnham

The Renaissance and Classical Revival design submitted by Edbrooke & Burnham was announced as the winner, and the cornerstone was dedicated on September 2, 1885.

Fred Pontin

He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946.

Heart o' the Hills

One of her only friends is geologist and school teacher John Burnham (Fred Warren).

Hicks from the Sticks

The album was the brainchild of music journalist Nigel Burnham who wanted to showcase the best New Wave bands in the North of England.

Hiram Burnham

Early in the war Burnham became lieutenant colonel of the 6th Maine Infantry on July 16, 1861.

Howard Mather Burnham

Burnham attended a military high school in Hamden, Connecticut and upon graduation he attended Sanborn's school in Concord, Massachusetts and Lawrence scientific school (now known as Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hundred of Bempstone

The hundred of Bempstone contained the parishes of Biddisham, Brean, Burnham, Chapel Allerton, Mark, Weare and Wedmore.

James Burnham

Writing for The Partisan Review, Burnham was also an important influence on writers such as Dwight MacDonald and Philip Rahv.

Jessie Dellosa

He was also the Group Commander of the Special Operation Task Group “Sulu” instrumental in the neutralization of Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Solaiman and the release of the Burnham couple in 2007.

Jonathan Meyrick

He returned to the Diocese of Oxford as Team Vicar of Burnham with Dropmore, Hitcham and Taplow until 1990, when he moved to become Team Rector of Tisbury, Sarum and Wells until 1998.

Kevin Burnham

Kevin Lobdell Burnham (born December 21, 1956 in Hollis, New York) is an American two-time Olympic medalist in the sport of sailing.

Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties

An article in Science magazine by John Bohannon describes some of the criticisms, as well as some responses from the Lancet report's lead author Gilbert Burnham.

Lois Wilson

Lois W. also known as Lois Wilson (née Burnham) (1891–1988), co-founder of Al-Anon and wife of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill W.

Niki Burnham

While at Michigan Law School Burnham was in the same section as Cynthia Leitich Smith and Pat DeWine.

Ohio Penitentiary

The Burnham Square Condominiums, named after urban planner and architect Daniel Burnham, who designed Columbus's Union Station, and the Nationwide Arena now stand on the site of the former penitentiary.

Portishead

Portishead Radio, a worldwide maritime radio communications station based in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England

River Burn

The River Burn, Norfolk, which flows into the North Sea at Burnham Overy Staithe in the county of Norfolk, England

Royal Corinthian Yacht Club

Tiny Mitchell, Commodore of the Royal Corinthian in Burnham wanted to sail his 6 metre in the Solent and he bought the building from Rosa's estate, and set up the Southern branch.

Seaview Terrace

From 1966 to 1971, the Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows used Burnham-by-the-Sea as the exterior set for the fictional Collinwood Mansion.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham

He believed Burnham was fascinated by power and was sympathetic to Nazi Germany while they appeared to be winning, but by 1945 had transferred his sympathy to the USSR He noted however that the theme of a new (and probably servile) society – neither capitalist nor socialist – was predicted in many works such as Belloc's The Servile State, and dystopian novels such as Wells' The Sleeper Awakes,Zamyatin's We and Huxley's Brave New World.

Seth Burnham

Currently, Seth Burnham is an active volleyball coach and maintains a presence on the interactive volleyball website Volleyball 1on1 where he appears in instructional volleyball videos.

String Trio of New York

Burnham was replaced by Regina Carter after his departure in 1991, who then left in the mid-1990s.

The American Chestnut Foundation

TACF was founded in 1983 by a group of prominent plant scientists, including Nobel Prize-winning plant breeder Norman Borlaug; Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; independent chestnut researcher Philip Rutter; and the late Charles Burnham, a Minnesota corn geneticist.

Tommy Trojan

The Trojan Shrine was sculpted by Roger Noble Burnham and based on a variety of USC football players, including Russ Saunders, Ernie Pinckert, Henry Becker, Larry Stevens and John Ward.

Wellington Racing Club

Founded as the Wellington Jockey Club in 1854, the first race meetings held by the club were at Hutt Park in 1854 and at Burnham Water on the Miramar Peninsula.

William Wadsworth Hodkinson

Soon thereafter Hodkinson joined with Roderick Burnham, the son of Frederick Russell Burnham, to form the Central American Aviation Corporation and Companía Nacional de Aviación in Guatemala.


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