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14 unusual facts about Carpenter


Carpenter, Kentucky

Carpenter was named for its first postmaster and doctor, Ensley A. Carpenter, who moved to Whitley County shortly after the Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Carpenter, Mississippi

A former railroad town located seven miles from Utica in the extreme northwestern corner of the county, Carpenter was named for Joseph Neibert Carpenter, president of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbia Railroad.

Carpenter, North Dakota

Carpenter is located in the north-northwest of the county, 11 miles west-northwest of Saint John, North Dakota, near the border with Manitoba Province, Canada.

Carpenter's Anole

It is found in Amistad Caribe, Huetar Norte, Cordillera Volcanica Central, Guanacaste, Tortuguero; outside Costa Rica it is found from northwestern Colombia to Costa Rica.

is a small, green lizard with an orange dewlap and smooth ventrals, found in the Rio Reventazón, Turrialba, Cartago Province, Costa Rica.

Carpenter's Battery

John Cadwalider Carpenter, born in 1839 at Covington, Virginia served as Captain of the battery after his brother Joseph was wounded; he commanded the battery through many engagements, including fifteen major battles, and lost an arm in combat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, but survived the war.

Carpenter's shed on Gardiners Island

A carpenter's shed built in 1639, on Gardiners Island in New York is allegedly the oldest surviving wooden structure built in New York and was purportedly built when Lion Gardiner first settled on the island.

Haygood

Carpenter-Haygood Stadium, an American football stadium in Arkadelphia, Arkansas

John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

He was appointed a life peer on 1 May 1972, as Baron Boyd-Carpenter, of Crux Easton in the County of Southampton.

John Kendall-Carpenter

He was also Chairman of the committee that organised the first Rugby World Cup in 1987.

He appeared as a club player for Penzance & Newlyn, forerunners of the Cornish Pirates, before moving on to Bath, where he was dubbed "Prince of Cornerflaggers", while he taught rugby at both Clifton College and Wellington School.

Kingston-upon-Thames by-election, 1972

The Kingston-upon-Thames by-election of 4 May 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Boyd-Carpenter was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority.

Thomas Boyd-Carpenter

In retirement, he became chairman of the Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster Heath Authority and then chairman of the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

William Boyd Carpenter

His fourth son, Archibald (26 March 1873 – 27 May 1937), was a Conservative MP and minister, as was Archibald's son the Lord Boyd-Carpenter (2 June 1908 – 11 July 1998).


5th United States Colored Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel James S. Brisbin and his second in command, Carpenter, led their dismounted soldiers forward toward the Confederate defensive works.

Andrew Jeptha

He was the son of a Cape Town carpenter and was educated at the Marist Brothers School in Hope Street, Capetown.

C. darwinii

Camponotus darwinii, Forel, 1886, a carpenter ant species in the genus Camponotus

Capuciati

The origin of the Capuciati is traced to a poor carpenter of Le Puy, named Durand, who claimed to have had an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1182.

Charles Cyphers

After appearing in Halloween in 1978, Cyphers worked with Carpenter two years later, playing Dan O'Bannon in The Fog, a 1980 horror film which also starred Tom Atkins, Cyphers's fellow Halloween cast member Jamie Lee Curtis, his Assault on Precinct 13 co-star Darwin Joston, and Nancy Kyes, who worked with Cyphers in both Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween.

Cherry Boone

They had met in 1982, while Carpenter was attending resident therapy in New York City with psychotherapist Steven Levenkron.

Clarence Ray Carpenter

According to Irven DeVore, "for the succeeding thirty years almost all of the accurate information available on the behavior of monkeys and apes living in natural environments was the result of Carpenter's research and writing."

Dana Carpenter

Carpenter received his professional wrestling training from Killer Kowalski.

Emiliano R. Fernández

He was a traveler and a late sleeper, he lived for a while in Sapucai, then in Caballero, then in San Pedro, Puerto Casado, Puerto Pinasco, Rancho Carambola (Brazil), and besides being a musician and a poet, he was also known for various activities such as carpenter, scouts guide, and forest man.

Fa'afiaula Sagote

He was working as a taro farmer and carpenter when he was approached by director Tusi Tamasese, who offered him the lead part -that of dwarf farmer Saili- in what was to be Samoa's first ever feature film, The Orator (2011).

Faith Brown

The production toured until the end of 2002 and a CD single was released featuring the tracks "Sunset Boulevard" (performed by her co-star Earl Carpenter), "With One Look" and "The Perfect Year" (a duet with Carpenter).

Gentle Thunder

Gentle Thunder, born Lisa Carpenter, is a Native American flautist of Cree heritage with three solo albums to date.

Gottfried Silbermann

He was born in Kleinbobritzsch (now a part of Frauenstein, Saxony) as the youngest son of the carpenter Michael Silbermann.

Harold Thompson

Harold H. Thompson (born 1908), carpenter, recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Heroism

Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk

She, in turn, married Sir Robert Clifton, 5th Baronet, of Clifton Hall, MP (1690–1767), and had one daughter Frances Clifton (d 8 November 1786) who married George Carpenter, 3rd Baron Carpenter, later 1st Earl of Tyrconnel (1723–1762) and had many children.

Hermon P. Carpenter

Carpenter graduated from Sue Bennett Memorial School, now Sue Bennett College, at London, Kentucky, and worked his way through Kentucky Wesleyan College, where he received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1909.

Hugo Kükelhaus

In 1919 Hugo Kükelhaus finished his Abitur in Essen, began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Essen and, as a travelling journeyman (Geselle), travelled through Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltics.

James W. Adams

James W. Adams of Southville, Kentucky was a carpenter, builder, and designer in south central Shelby County, Kentucky.

Joe Niekro

He appeared on Late Night with David Letterman on August 15, 1987, wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying a power sander, while serving a suspension for having a nail file on the mound.

John Carpenter Garnier

Carpenter Garnier, born Carpenter, was the son of John Carpenter of Mount Tavy, Tavistock, Devon and his wife Lucy Garnier, daughter of Rev. William Garnier.

Joseph Henri Picard

He apprenticed as a carpenter before coming west in 1884 to Fort Qu'Appelle and then Regina.

Leominster

John Abel (1578/9-1675), an English carpenter and mason, granted the title of 'King's Carpenter', who was responsible for several notable structures in the ornamented half-timbered construction, notably the market house known as Grange Court (1633) in Leominster, which originally stood in Broad Street, but was rebuilt in 1855 near to the Priory Church.

Louise Botting

After her divorce from writer and explorer Douglas Botting, she married Leslie Carpenter who at the time was Chief Executive Officer of the FTSE-100 firm Reed International (now Reed Elsevier).

Luigi Tarisio

He was born at Fontaneto d'Agogna, near Novara, Piedmont, of humble parents and is said to have trained as a carpenter, playing violin as a hobby.

Midvinterblot

In 1997, Nationalmuseum bought the painting from the collector ordered a frame for stretching the canvas from Per Målare a carpenter in Gagnef, Dalarna, and installed it permanently where Carl Larsson had intended it to be.

Novella Carpenter

In March 2011, the City of Oakland told Carpenter she would have to close her Ghost Town Farm because she was selling excess produce without a permit.

On the Up

Tony Carpenter is a self-made millionaire who turned his South London minicab firm into a successful chauffeur-driven car service.

Ōura Church

Constructed by the master carpenter of the Glover Residence, Koyama Hidenoshin, it was originally a small wooden church with three aisles and three octagonal towers.

Paul Carpenter Standley

Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.

Phineas Hitchcock

He married on December 27, 1858 at Omaha, Nebraska, Annie M. Monell, the daughter of Lucinda Carpenter and Dr. Gilbert C. Monell, an 1839 graduate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the Old Settlers' Association.

Point Reyes Lighthouse

The lighthouse was used as a location for the 1980 John Carpenter film The Fog.

Prize money

One eighth was divided among the wardroom warrant officers (surgeon, purser, and chaplain), standing warrant officers (carpenter, boatswain, and gunner), lieutenant of marines, and the master's mates.

Pumuckls Abenteuer

It is a sequel series to 1980s TV series Meister Eder und sein Pumuckl (Master carpenter Eder and his Pumuckl) and the cinematric movie Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter (Pumuckl and the blue Klabauter).

He is invisible to people around him except for chef Odessi (Towje Kleiner) with whom Pumuckl lives, since he left his fried master carpenter Eder (Gustl Bayrhammer) during the events of the 1994 cinematric movie Pumuckl und der blaue Klabauter (Pumuckl and the blue Klabauter).

Pygostyle

The term must have been known as early as around 1400 AD, when a carpenter had been contracted to provide new choir stalls for St Mary's Church, Nantwich.

Rodney A. Grant

He has also appeared in other films such as John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, Wild Wild West, Geronimo: An American Legend, White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf, Wagons East!, The Substitute, War Party, and Powwow Highway.

Samuel Carpenter

Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania was named in honour of the birthplace of Samuel Carpenter "purchased 5,000 acres (20 km2), 4,200 acres (17 km2) within the present boundaries of the township. In 1709, Carpenter, then Treasurer of Pennsylvania, began to sell tracts of land to migrating Quakers. In 1717, Horsham Township was established as a municipal entity by a vote of the people."

Sharon Carpenter

Carpenter is also a co-creator and main cast member of the VH1 reality series, “The Gossip Game”, a show that follows the lives and careers of seven female media personalities reporting on the hip-hop entertainment industry.

The seven cast members are Vivian Billings, Sharon Carpenter, K. Foxx, JasFly, Kimberly Osario, Candice Williams, and Angela Yee.

St Teilo's Church, Llandeilo Tal-y-bont

The new roof timbers were sourced from Northeast Wales and a new rood screen and a loft were carved from Radnorshire oak by the project's head carpenter.

Wckr Spgt

The band consists of Joel Huschle, Mark Givens, and Dave Carpenter and, over the years, a plethora of guest musicians and artists, notably John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats, Ian Carlson of The Desperation Squad, and the members of Nothing Painted Blue (Franklin Bruno, Kyle Brodie, and Peter Hughes).

What Happens in Vegas

At the same time easy-going carpenter Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher) is fired from his job by his father, Jack, Sr. (Treat Williams).

William Fishbourn

There, on January 8, 1702, he married Hannah Carpenter (March 3, 1685 – July 25, 1728), daughter of Samuel Carpenter, a deputy governor of Pennsylvania.

William Hall-Jones

Hall-Jones was born in Folkestone, Kent, England, landed at Dunedin in 1873 and became a carpenter and later a builder in Timaru.

William L. Carpenter

William Lewis Carpenter, born January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, died July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York.

William Thomas Carpenter

William Thomas 'Will Tom' Carpenter, born November 16, 1854 in Johnson County, Missouri, the youngest son of James and Cynthia (Johnson) Carpenter, was a legendary cowman who authored a book about his experiences.

WYCD

Morning Show (5 a.m.-10 a.m.): The Dr. Don Morning Show - Dr. Don Carpenter, Rachael Hunter, Steve Grunwald & Jason The 300lb Cowboy