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5 unusual facts about Carver


Beau MacMillan

At 16 years old, MacMillan started working at Crane Brook Tea Room in Carver.

Carver, Massachusetts

Carver is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Second Plymouth district, which also includes Wareham and a portion of Bourne.

Carver, Oregon

The center of Carver is located along the Clackamas River, three miles southwest of the center of Damascus, and five miles east of Clackamas.

Horace Baker Log Cabin: Located on the south side of the Clackamas River, across from Carver, and managed by the Baker Cabin Historic Society, the original log cabin is restored and the site is maintained for historic interest.

Damascus, Oregon

The initiative's passage resulted in the incorporation of the former unincorporated communities of Damascus and Carver into the City of Damascus, a step which prevents nearby cities from annexing the community.


Appalachian String Band Music Festival

The Festival takes place each summer at Camp Washington-Carver, in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

Baker Boys: Inside the Surge

Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, is a 2010 four-part documentary series following the soldiers of Baker Company, Task Force 1-15 Infantry, 3d Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), during their deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom at Combat Outpost Carver during the troop surge of 2007.

Bicton, Devon

The younger daughter Margaret Denys (d.1649) married Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

Bill Landry

In 2003, Landry's production of The George Washington Carver Project was also distributed by the Tennessee Department of Education to schools in Tennessee through the Carver Project website.

Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui

Brian Drummond as Toa Matau, Toa of Air, a lighthearted being & Toa Onewa, Toa of Stone and a former carver, headstrong and independent.

Carver Yachts

In 1992, Carver (under Genmar Holdings ownership) bought the bankrupt Trojan Yachts assets and started to produce a new Trojan line of Express cruisers which were marginally popular in their category and were discontinued in 2002.

Carver–Hawkeye Arena

The arena also serves as the site of commencement exercises for several of the university's colleges, and has hosted concerts by artists such as Whitney Houston, *NSYNC, Metallica, Guns 'n Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and speeches by Former President Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

The western section begins at the west junction of U.S. Highway 12 in Wayzata and heads westward through Minnetonka Beach, Spring Park, Mound, and Minnetrista before crossing the Carver County line and continuing as Carver County Road 24.

County Road 92 is a series of roads beginning at County 50 in Rockford, passing through Greenfield, Independence, Minnetrista, and St. Bonifacius before ending at the Carver County line and continuing as Carver County Road 30.

Data science

On 10 November 1998, C.F. Jeff Wu gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Statistics = Data Science?" in honor of his appointment to the H. C. Carver Collegiate Professorship in Statistics at the University of Michigan.

Death Train

Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), the head of UNACO (United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation), entrusts the mission of stopping the train and its deadly cargo to field operatives Mike Graham (Pierce Brosnan) and Sabrina Carver (Alexandra Paul) who are forced to form a reluctant partnership as the international balance of power hits crisis point.

Diana Van der Vlis

Two other roles on soap operas that she played were Sherry Rowan on Ryan's Hope and Susan Ames Carver on The Secret Storm when she was a substitute for Judy Lewis in the role.

Diesing

Freda Diesing (1925–2002), a female carver of Northwest Coast totem poles

Fannie Porter

She later claimed she had married Carver in Fort Worth prior to his death in 1901, but there are no records to verify the alleged marriage.

Garland Independent School District

George Washington Carver School - A segregated all African American school named after the African American scientist that was officially closed December 31, 1970, when Garland ISD desegregated.

Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival

• Giant pumpkin carving is provided by Farmer Mike, a professional pumpkin carver that turns giant pumpkins (up to a thousand pounds) into faces and reliefs.

Henry Mainwaring

His brothers were Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Carver to Prince Henry, George Mainwaring, the defender of Tong Castle, and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, the Recorder of Reading.

High Arctic relocation

Carver Looty Pijamini was commissioned by the Canadian government to build a monument to the High Arctic relocation which took place in 1955.

Holcombe Burnell

Margaret Denys (d. 1649), married in 1623 Sir Arthur Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire, carver to Prince Henry, eldest son of King James I.

International Festival of Animated Objects

Past programming has included Canadian marionette superstar Ronnie Burkett, BC spectacle artists Three on the Tree, Tsimphisan carver Victor Reece, Cirque du Soleil artist Mooky Cornish, Phillip Huber (of "Being John Malkovich" marionette fame), Frank Meschkuleit ("Bride of Chucky", "The Left Hand of Frank"), Calgary's The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Red Smarteez, and Czech group Buchty a Loutky, amongst others.

Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball

Prior to playing in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, the Hawkeye men's basketball team played in the Iowa Field House, which is still used today by the school's gymnastics teams.

Iowa's men's basketball team plays their home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena, a 15,500-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Iowa City, Iowa.

Jesse Carver

Football writer Brian Glanville who was close to Jesse in Italy revealed in recent years that months after accepting the Coventry job Carver was offered the England manager’s job but turned it down because he had given his word to City chairman Erle Shanks.

John Deare

Meanwhile he also served an apprenticeship to the London carver Thomas Carter from 1776 to 1783, when he completed it and began sculpting as a freelancer, especially for his old master as well as for John Bacon (whose work he admired) and John Cheere.

Kalamazoo Civic Players

Founders of the theatre included Dorothy Dalton, Norman Carver Sr., Howard Chenery, Ruth Noble, Paul Fuller, Louise Carver, and Jean Huston.

Kirk in the Hills

The church contains sculpture by some of the leading architectural sculptors of the day, Lee Lawrie, Corrado Parducci, and John Angel and stone carver Harry Liva.

Manitoba Reform Party

Ken Carver received 97 votes in Crescentwood, and anti-bilingualism activist Fred Debrecen received 388 votes in Portage La Prairie.

Max Carver

Carver was born in San Francisco to parents Robert Martensen, a doctor and writer, and Anne Carver, a philanthropist and community activist.

Moses Carver

In a state strongly divided by the tensions leading to the Civil War, the independent-minded and eccentric Moses Carver was in a difficult position, since he offended Confederates by being a Unionist, and Unionists by owning slaves.

Nathaniel Carver

This story apparently convinced his fellow countrymen, and indeed, when Nelson died in 1805, a letter from Boston arrived in England, which repeated Carver's version of events.

Nicolas Pineau

Pineau, the son of the carver Jean-Baptiste Pineau (died 1694), who appears in the Bâtiments du Roi accounts for Versailles and elsewhere from 1680, was the outstanding talent among those designers and craftsmen who accompanied Alexandre Le Blond to St. Petersburg in 1716.

On his return to Paris, Pineau found the Régence manner had been transformed in the decade of his absence by the carver-designer François-Antoine Vassé and the designer Gilles-Marie Oppenord (see Rococo).

Northwest Coast art

Also Guujaaw, another notable carver and builder who is also Haida political leader.

Plymouth High School

Plymouth North High School of Plymouth, Massachusetts, formerly Plymouth-Carver High School, and prior to that, Plymouth High School.

Randie Carver

In the fight against Kabary Salem in September 1999, Carver was headbutted repeatedly during the early rounds in a foul filled bout.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Ricardo Antonio Chavira (born September 1, 1971) is an American actor, known for his role as Carlos Solis on Desperate Housewives, and also as John Carver in the video game in Dead Space 3.

Robert Colescott

In his George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook, he re-imagined Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting of the Revolutionary War hero, putting Carver, a pioneering African American agricultural chemist, at the helm of a boat loaded with black cooks, maids, fishermen and minstrels.

Socialist Labor Party Hall

During one political gathering in 1903, illustrating the sometimes volatile nature of political groups at this time, an argument broke out between socialists and anarchists, ending in the essentially random but fatal shooting of Elia Corti, a prominent Italian stone carver responsible for the panels on the Robert Burns Memorial statue in Barre.

Stanley C. Wilson

Their firm is regarded as Vermont's best ever collection of legal talent, producing two Governors (Wilson and Davis), one state Attorney General (Carver), and one state Supreme Court Justice (Keyser).

Tony Cetinski

Tony Cetinski starred in the RTL Televizija TV show Mjenjačnica (Exchange Office) where he swapped for a day with a stone carver.

Wareham, Massachusetts

Wareham is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Second Plymouth district, which also includes Carver and part of Bourne.

Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated

In 1986, the co-op undertook the construction of three new apartment divisions on Phillip Street, next to the existing property, named Carver, Clayfield, and Kershaw.


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