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18 unusual facts about Carter


Carter-Lewis and the Southerners

Carter and Lewis also composed songs for a number of other artists, including Brenda Lee and P.J. Proby.

The early 1960s saw the rise of the Liverpool Sound, and Carter and Lewis recorded copies of the latest group hits and performed them for the BBC Light Programme's shows Easy Beat and Saturday Club; working with jazz musicians such as Marion Montgomery, Marion Ryan and session musicians such as Kenny Clare (drums) and Roy Deltrice (bass), under the direction of their music publisher Freddy Webb of Southern Music.

Carter-Newton House

Edward Payson was the grandson of John Newton of Lexington, first ordained Presbyterian minister in Georgia.

In September 1861, after teaching a year, he joined the Panola Guards of Thomas Cobb’s Georgia Legion, composed of many men from Madison and the county, and fought for the remainder of the war, mostly in Virginia.

Carter-Wallace

The company was formed as Carter Medicine Company which was incorporated in 1880 by John Samuel Carter of Erie, Pennsylvania.

Henry Hamilton Hoyt, Sr., son-in-law of Charles; bought a controlling interest in the company.

Carter, West Virginia

Carter was named for a prominent family of Baptist preachers originally from Albemarle County, Virginia that settled in Sago, West Virginia in the 1840s.

Carter's Grove

After hundreds of years of multiple owners and generations of families, and the death of the last resident in 1964, Carter's Grove was added to Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's (CW) properties through a gift from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1969.

A conservation easement on the mansion and 400 of the 476 acres is co-held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Carter's Little Liver Pills

In the late 19th century, the pills were marketed in the UK by American businessman John Morgan Richards.

Carter's Steam Fair

The fair has been featured in the films Hugo, The Krays, The End of the Affair and 28 Weeks Later.

Carter's, Inc.

In 2012, Carter's, Inc. announced that Braselton, Georgia would receive their one-million-square-foot, $50 million distribution center that will support their e-commerce, retail, and wholesale businesses.

Charles Bonham-Carter

Bonham-Carter first married in 1902 Gladys Beryl Coddington and they had two sons, including Victor Bonham-Carter.

Lucy Briers

Coincidentally, she appeared in an episode of Game On with Pride and Prejudice cast member Crispin Bonham-Carter, with Victoria Hamilton (Pride's Mrs Forster) in a stage production of As You Like It, and with Tom Hollander (Mr Collins in the 2005 version) in a stage production of Don Juan.

Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter

He was the son of the Liberal activists Sir Maurice Bonham Carter and his wife, the former Lady Violet Asquith, daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.

Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram

Together they had three children: Major Andrew Wigram, who was married in 1974 to Gabrielle Diana Moore; Margaret Cherry Wigram, (born 1942), who in 1972 married Lieutenant Colonel Greville John Wyndham Malet, OBE, they divorced in 1993; Anne Celia Wigram, (born 1945), in 1973 married Major General Evelyn John Webb-Carter, KCVO, OBE, DL.

Starsuckers

On 23 October 2009, six days before the Starsuckers premiere, the makers reported that they had received an e-mail from the law firm Carter-Ruck, acting on behalf of controversial publicist Max Clifford and threatening them with an injunction.

The Rose Rent

The most significant change is that Miles (Crispin Bonham-Carter) is motivated not by greed, but by secret love for his cousin, and first attacks the rose bush to convince her to let go of her devotion to her deceased husband.


Ad Carter

In 1922, Carter was hired by William Randolph Hearst to create similar kid characters for a new strip, Just Kids.

Amon G. Carter

The Southern Air Transport terminal at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, now Atlantic Aviation, was dedicated to Amon Carter in 1933.

Any Number Can Die

It starred Nicholas (Chuck), Colette Bablon (Judy), Susan Kaslow (Zenia), Charles Dickens (Roger Masters), Victoria Camargo (Celia Lathrop), M. Emmet Walsh (T.J. Lathrop), Peter von Mayrhauser (Edgars), Elizabeth Franz (Ernestine Wintergreen), Barbara Greacen (Sally VanViller), Anthony Dingman (Carter Forstman), Nick Masi Jr. (Jack Regent), and Fred Carmichael (Hannibal Hix).

Archean Soundtrack

Archean Soundtrack was formed in 2009, when actors Roger Parkins and Josh Carter met whilst working on Arthur Miller's play All My Sons at London's East 15 Acting School.

Box End

Carter landed on the coast of what is now the state of Georgia and settled around what is now known as the city of Americus.

One of Carter's direct descendants is former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Bruce Chambers

He then became coach at Dallas Carter High School, coaching the freshmen and junior varsity before becoming varsity assistant to Freddie James in 1989.

Cameron Thor

He and Alice Carter co-own Carter Thor Studio, and he has coached actors including Gerard Butler, Wentworth Miller, Cameron Diaz, Drew Carey, Christina Applegate, Tom Welling, Jamie King, Faye Dunaway, Sylvester Stallone, David Arquette, Sharon Stone, Helen Hunt, Johnny Knoxville, Garry Shandling, Gwen Stefani, Macy Gray, Courteney Cox, Madonna, Ryan Guzman and Kathryn McCormick.

Carter Brown

In the early 1980s, Yates and Richard O'Brien of The Rocky Horror Show fame wrote a musical of The Stripper, described in classic Carter Brown terminology as ‘the girl who says it all from the neck down’.

Carter DeHaven

In the 1959-1960 season, Carter DeHaven appeared four times in various roles and Gloria DeHaven once, as Rosemary Blaker in the episode "Love Affair", on the CBS western television series, Johnny Ringo, starring Don Durant.

Clarence H. Blackall

He designed the 1894 Carter Winthrop Building, which was the first steel frame structure in the city of Boston.

Dalriada Festival

So far artists who have appeared at DalriadaLIVE include General Fiasco, Duke Special, Amici, The Priests, Brian Houston, David Phelps, Ronan Keating, Sharon Corr, Nathan Carter and Lisa McHugh.

Darrell Leonard

His compositions have been featured in the film The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood and the Eric Simonson play "Carter's Way".

Der Kuhhandel

In early 1935, Weill and Vambery collaborated with Reginald Arkell (book) and Desmond Carter (lyrics) on a three-act English-language musical comedy version of the operetta called A Kingdom for a Cow.

Eduardo Arriola

Eduardo Alonso Arriola Carter (born 11 October 1972 in Tela, Atlántida) is a retired Honduran football player.

Emily Dolvin

In 1970, she was a staff member, host, and delegate for the Georgia Democratic Party, and she was the inauguration reception chairman for Carter's inauguration as governor of Georgia in 1971, and served as the volunteer coordinator for Carter’s gubernatorial campaigns.

Fraulein Spy

On the Bombay to New Delhi leg of the world tour Julia Baron (Carter's assistant in Run, Spy, Run and The China Doll) joins the group.

G. William Miller

In November 1978, only 11 months into his term, the dollar had fallen nearly 34% against the German mark and almost 42% against the Japanese yen, prompting the Carter administration to launch a "dollar rescue package" including emergency sales from the U.S. gold stock, borrowing from the International Monetary Fund, and auctions of Treasury securities denominated in foreign currencies.

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Hodding Carter III

Another brother, Thomas Hennen Carter (1945–1964), killed himself while playing Russian roulette.

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

As President Carter lives in Plains, the area surrounding the residence is under the protection of the United States Secret Service and is not open to the public.

Johnnie Crutchfield

He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 to 2010, representing District 14, which included Carter, Garvin, Love and Murray counties.

Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones (1952–1969), was the son of Helen Myrl Carter (of country music's Carter Family) and of Glenn Jones.

Kenny Carter

He finished 5th in 1981 and repeated the result in 1982 in Los Angeles after a controversial Heat 14 exclusion following a coming together with defending champion (and eventual 1982 winner) Bruce Penhall in which Carter fell and was excluded for being the reason the race had to be stopped (Carter slid through the fence).

KPRS

In 1950, Andrew "Skip" Carter began operating KPRS as the nation's first Black radio station west of the Mississippi River with a transmitter donated by former Kansas governor, Alf Landon.

Le'Shai Maston

Maston graduated from David W. Carter High School of Dallas in 1989 and was a member of the Carter 1988 Texas state championship football team.

Lillian Gordy Carter

In 1977, Lillian Carter appeared in a cameo, as herself, in the made-for-TV movie, "Lucy Calls the President", starring Lucille Ball.

Lowenstein Sandler

Lewis J. Paper, the Democratic candidate for New Jersey State Senator in the 25th district in 1977, and a former Carter Administration official and author.

Michele Carter

Michele Carter was on the SCRAMJET team, led by Richard Baker, and including Matthew Sernett, Ed Stark, Stacy Longstreet, and Chris Perkins; this team updated the setting and cosmology of D&D as the fourth edition was being developed.

Mrs. Leslie Carter

In 1887 she filed for divorce on the grounds of physical assault and abandonment, but in 1889, Mr. Carter obtained the divorce naming actor, H. Kyrle Bellew, as co-respondent.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Pancho Carter

In more recent years, Carter has served as a spotter for Sam Hornish, Jr., Vitor Meira, Dillon Battistini, Dan Wheldon, Martin Plowman and Adrián Campos, Jr..

Poole Pottery

The Carter company produced much of the ceramic tiling used on London Underground stations built in the 1930s and, of particular note, made the relief tiles, designed by Stabler, showing symbols of London–some of these can still be seen on stations such as Bethnal Green.

Professor Carter Nichols

Carter Nichols sends him and Dick back in time to meet Marco Polo and discover the secret of the rocket.

R. H. Barlow

Note: A rewritten version of 'Annal' V, "The Tomb of the God", appears in Lin Carter, ed, Kingdoms of Sorcery; Carter rewrote it from a half-legible copy, all he could find at the time.

Ralph Carter

Carter is best known for his work as a child and teenager, both in the Broadway musical Raisin (based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun) and as the character Michael Evans, the youngest member of the Evans family, on the 1970s sitcom Good Times.

Roslyn Gentle

Roslyn Gentle is an Australian actress, best known for her role in the television series Prisoner as librarian/prostitute Laura Gardiner/Brandy Carter – an inmate who suffers from multiple personality disorder – in 1983.

Ryan Laird

Ryan has co-wrote many songs with artists such as Nick Carter, Aaron Carter, Alli Sims, Intern Adam (who co-wrote the song "Luv Me" by Ryan Laird), Eric Silver and Jason McCoy (co-wrote Ryan's BDS Canada Country Chart top 10 single “I'm Your Man”).

Sunny Side of Life

Sunny Side of Life is a documentary film from 1985 about the musical Carter Family focusing on the children of A.P and Sara who still live in the mountains and are trying to keep the legacy of their ancestors alive, at the Carter Fold near Maces Spring, Virginia.

The Ballad of Sally Rose

# "K-S-O-S/Instrumental Medley: Ring of Fire/Wildwood Flower/Six Days on the Road" (Harris, Kennerley; June Carter, Merle Kilgore, A.P. Carter, Earl Greene, Carl Montgomery) – 2:50

The Crests

In January 2014, Carter interviewed with broadcasting legend Joe Franklin on the Bloomberg Radio network.

The Curious Room

Carter's television work also included a controversial documentary entitled The Holy Family Album, which is not published here.

The Eyes of the Tiger

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring’s treasure gleamed in the Swiss bank vault…hair-triggered for sudden death to Nick Carter!

The Ivory Goddess

According to Morgan Holmes, citing de Camp friend Loay Hall, Carter actually did none of the writing, and the story was actually written by de Camp in collaboration with his wife Catherine Crook de Camp.

Ty Carter

Carter and Army Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry are the only Medal of Honor recipients in any branch of service still on active duty.

White House china

It was first used at a dinner function attended by Gerald Ford and Mrs. Ford, Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter, George H. W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, and Lady Bird Johnson.

William Byrd III

Byrd III eventually fathered five children by his first wife (Eliza Carter, m. 1748, d. 1760), and fathered ten more by his second wife, Mary Willing, daughter of Charles Willing of Philadelphia.

William Lockhart Garwood

1629 (President Jimmy Carter previously had nominated Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr. to the seat, but the United States Senate had declined to act on Jefferson's nomination before Carter's presidency ended).

Wilmer Carter

Assembly member Carter graduated from San Bernardino High School and San Bernardino Valley College, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master’s Degree in education from California State University, San Bernardino.