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11 unusual facts about Cameron


Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy baronets

In the 20th century the family fell on harder times and they gave Charlecote Park to the National Trust.

Cameron, Illinois

Prior to 1996, the Southwest Chief, and its predecessor, the Santa Fe's famed Super Chief, traveled to Galesburg on the Chilicothe subdivision by way of Joliet, Streator, and Chillicothe.

Cameron, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri was able to convince the railroad to bypass its rivals in St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas and Parkville, Missouri to create the "Cameron Branch" of the railroad.

Cameron, Montana

This area is prime pasture land of rich hay extending to the foot of the Sphinx Mountain.

Carl McCardle

Carl W. McCardle (May 31, 1904 - July 11, 1972) was born in Cameron, West Virginia and earned a B.S. at Washington and Jefferson College.

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway

--does it have a name?--> south of Cameron Between Spooner and Trego, Wisconsin is used by the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad.

Leeds South by-election, 1908

The Conservatives originally seemed to be favouring the candidacy of Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy, scion of the well-known Lucy family.

Neil Clephane-Cameron

In 2000 Neil Clephane-Cameron wrote The 1066 Malfosse Walk, which talks about the closing events of the Battle of Hastings in which the fleeing Saxons briefly stood against a pursuing group of Norman knights and nearly succeeded in killing Duke William.

Much of his work is centred around research into the events of 1066, in particular the Battle of Hastings.

In the late 1990s Neil Clephane-Cameron initiated and led a successful national protest against alterations proposed by English Heritage to Battle Abbey to include a Tea Rooms and service road on a portion of the historic battlefield.

Women of Manhattan

Directed by Ron Lagomarsino, the cast featured Nancy Mette as Billie, J. Smith-Cameron as Rhonda, Jayne Haynes as Judy, Keith Szarabajka and Tom Wright.


Annie Wood

She was recently sister-in-law to Cameron Diaz in My Sister's Keeper and appeared in the role of sexy and quirky "Lara" in the Lionsgate Dane Cook/Jessica Alba movie Good Luck Chuck .

Archaeoraptor

The scandal is sometimes used by creationists like Kent Hovind, Kirk Cameron, and Ray Comfort to cast doubt on the hypothesis that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Arizona Thunder

Many of the players grew up and played youth soccer in AZ including Randy Soderman, Rick Soderman, Jason Vanacour, Milo Iniguez, Mark Kerlin, Derick Brownell, Kenneth Wright (Thea), Sasha Hunter, Dave Cameron, along with many implants like Milos Tomic, Chris Scotti, and the Dunn Brothers.

Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan

Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (17 December 1919 – 1993), was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 by a court on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law.

Battery Cameron

Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who spied for Soviet & Russian intelligence agencies until 2001, had a "dead drop" marker at the utility pole on the corner of Foxhall & Whitehaven, just outside the fence of the reservoir (formerly known as Battery Cameron).

Battle of Achnashellach

Hector Munro was also made constable of Strome Castle on behalf of the MacDonnells of Glengarry by King James V. Previously Ewen Cameron had been constable of Strome Castle for the MacDonalds of Lochalsh.

Big Society

Two days after the initiative's launch in Liverpool, an article in Liverpool Daily Post argued that community organisations in the city such as Bradbury Fields show that Cameron's ideas are already in action and are nothing new, and that groups of community-based volunteers have for many years provided "a better service than would be achieved through the public sector".

Blowout preventer

Documents discussed during congressional hearings June 17, 2010, suggested that a battery in the device's control pod was flat and that the rig's owner, Transocean, may have "modified" Cameron's equipment for the Macondo site (including incorrectly routing hydraulic pressure to a stack test valve instead of a pipe ram BOP) which increased the risk of BOP failure, in spite of warnings from their contractor to that effect.

Brea Olinda High School

Though not an alumnus, James Cameron, Director of such blockbuster films as Terminator 2, Avatar and Titanic lived in Brea and drove the lunch truck for BOUSD food services while writing The Abyss

Cam Cameron

Cameron has also been widely praised for the development of RS Senior Quarterback Zach Mettenberger who had the best season of his LSU career with a 64.9% completion percentage, and a 22 to 8 Touchdown to Interception Ratio.

Cameron McKenzie-McHarg

Cameron McKenzie-McHarg (born 17 April 1980 in Leongatha, and educated at Scotch College, Melbourne) is an Australian rower.

Carol Driver

She has also freelanced as a TV anchor for Channel 10 in Australia - including for Prime Minister David Cameron's appearance at the Leveson Inquiry.

Charles E. Kearney

He along with Kersey Coates and Robert T. Van Horn persuaded the railroad to build a cutoff of their line from Cameron, Missouri to Kansas City for the first bridge across the Missouri River which opened in 1869.

Coffee, Kill Boss

Coffee, Kill Boss is a 2013 film starring Eddie Jemison, Noureen DeWulf and Robert Forster, and co-starring Richard Riehle, Zibby Allen, Chris Wylde, Jack Wallace, Denise Grayson and W. Cameron Tucker.

Commonwealth free trade

Commentators such as James C. Bennett and Brent Cameron have expressed the view that support for either the Anglosphere or the Commonwealth are not incompatible.

Doctor Finlay

The show stars David Rintoul as Dr. Finlay, Ian Bannen as his semi-retired practice partner, Dr. Cameron, and Annette Crosbie as his housekeeper, Janet.

Dr. Finlay

The main characters were Dr. Finlay, a junior partner in the practice, played by Bill Simpson, Dr. Cameron, the craggy senior partner, played by Andrew Cruickshank, and Janet, their unflappable housekeeper and receptionist at Arden House, played by Barbara Mullen.

Edwin Cameron

Cameron has co-authored a number of books, including Defiant Desire – Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (with Mark Gevisser) and Honoré's South African Law of Trusts.

Fading Suns

Author: Todd Bogenrief, Vidar Edland, Chris Wiese, Andrew Greenberg, Bill Bridges, Phil Cameron, Richard Ashley, Thomas Baroli, Ruben Ramos, Mark Stout, James Sutton

Fitz Hinds

Delmont Cameron St Clair Hinds (born 1 June 1880 at Westbury Road, St Michael, Barbados, death details unknown) was a coloured West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.

Frank Mechaly

MacKeen did open offices in the U.S. and was worn by original cast members of Charlie’s Angels (ironically Cameron Diaz who embraced Frank Mechaly’s 575 DENIM jeans also starred in the modern remake of Charlie’s Angels taking over the iconic role of Farrah Fawcett who wore his father’s MacKeen jeans) Frank Mechaly’s mother, Cathy Mechaly was also the original fit-model for MacKeen jeans.

Girl power

And tellingly, Cameron has done it by mixing the sober feminism of his Terminator and Aliens characters with the sexed-up girl power of a Britney Spears concert.

Glenn Cameron

Cameron played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL.

Jason Cameron

Jason Cameron (born April 19, 1969) is an American television presenter and actor most notable for his role on the TLC reality show, While You Were Out and is currently hosting Man Caves and Desperate Landscapes for the DIY Network.

Jim B. Tucker

Tucker’s investigation took him firstly to Glasgow to interview the six-year-old and his mother Norma about Cameron’s reported recollections of life on the isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, around 200 miles from the family’s home in Glasgow.

Lighthouse Festival Theatre

Dear Johnny Deere by Ken Cameron, based on and featuring the music of Fred Eaglesmith

Lonneke Engel

She has worked with other world's top photographers including Herb Ritts, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, Inez and Vinoodh, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Patrick Demarchelier, Regan Cameron and Gilles Bensimon.

Lynn Ullom

Ullom left Cameron in 1987 to accept a teaching job at Lakeland High School in Freeport, Ohio.

Nick Allott

Allott is Managing Director of Cameron Mackintosh Ltd and "effectively Sir Cameron's right-hand man".

No Rain, No Rainbow

The opening track "Seven Hours" features, frontman Ryan Zimmerman's wife, Michelle along with many other guest vocalists throughout the album such as Craig Mabbitt of Escape the Fate, Beau Bokan and Jared Warth of Blessthefall and Cameron Martin of The Irish Front.

Orca wetsuits and sports apparel

Orca sponsors a number of leading triathletes, including recently retired Olympic champion Hamish Carter, ITU athletes including Kris Gemmell, Courtenay Atkinson, Tim Don and Debbie Tanner, and Ironman competitors including Craig Alexander and Cameron Brown.

Prahova County

Some of the biggest international corporations like Coca-Cola, Unilever, InBev, Johnson Controls, Cameron, Weatherford, Michelin, Timken and others have invested heavily in the recent years.

Richard Wade

The success of recent exports such as Cameron Wake (Miami) and Stefan Logan (Pittsburgh) -- both former B.C. Lions—has shown that CFL players can thrive in the NFL.

Ride Ranger Ride

Texas Ranger Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and cavalry Lieutenant Bob Cameron (George J. Lewis) are competing for the attentions of Dixie Summerall (Kay Hughes), the beautiful daughter of Colonel Summerall (Robert Homans) at Fort Adobe, Texas.

Rosemary Forbes Kerry

Rosemary was also the mother of another son, Cameron, who is General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was formerly a Boston lawyer, an adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School and a convert to Judaism; and two daughters, Diana and Margaret Peggy.

Scone

And if the mythology put forward by Sheila MacNiven Cameron be true, the word may also be based on the town of Scone, Scotland, the ancient capital of that country – where Scottish monarchs were still crowned even after the capital was moved to Perth, then to Edinburgh; on whose Scone Stone the monarchs of Great Britain and the United Kingdom are still crowned today.

SS Empire Cameron

Empire Cameron was on a voyage from Alexandria, Egypt, joining the convoy at Oran and leaving at her destination of Augusta, Italy.

St. Mary's Church, Castlemartin

The church has hosted Mass on a number of occasions, as well as family weddings, such as those of Susan Cameron to Tarik Wildman (before an Episcopal Dean) and of Gavin O'Reilly to Alison Doody, and at least one funeral, that of Tony O'Reilly's mother, Alison.

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum

The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Museum is a military museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Tom Foolery

Devised and produced by Cameron Mackintosh, it premiered in London at the Criterion Theatre, directed by Gillian Lynne, on 5 June 1980, where it had a successful run.

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)

On October 20, 2009, WNBA President Donna Orender, lead investors Bill Cameron and David Box, Tulsa mayor Kathy Taylor, Oklahoma governor Brad Henry, and head coach Nolan Richardson were present for a press conference announcing that the Detroit Shock would relocate to Tulsa.

V8 Ute Racing Series

Drivers have included former Australian NASCAR champion Kim Jane, actor George Elliot, country music singer Adam Brand, Television host Grant Denyer, driving instructor Gary Baxter, former Waratahs and Australian Sevens Rugby Union player Ben Dunn and former NRL Roosters player Jack Elsegood who is also the 2009 series champion former V8 Supercar drivers, Cameron McConville and Nathan Pretty.

Wayne Sowell

Wayne Sowell is married to Dr. Marietta Cameron, an associate professor of computer science at Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama.