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15 unusual facts about Compton


Alan Calzatti

A few years later, he directed and shot his first music video for the group Compton's Most Wanted.

Compton Potters' Arts Guild

A follower of the Home Arts and Industries Association, set up by Earl Brownlow in 1885 to encourage handicrafts among the lower classes, Fraser-Tytler, the wife of Victorian era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts, had offered to design and build a new mortuary chapel when the council in Compton, Surrey were developing a new cemetery.

Compton Triptych

The Compton Triptych comprises three terracotta portrait heads, plinthed together, which celebrates the parish of Compton, Guildford and the diverse figures who have contributed to this Surrey community.

Compton, Surrey

Compton, Waverley, a hamlet near Farnham in the Waverley district of Surrey, England

Compton, Guildford, a village and civil parish in the Guildford district of Surrey, England

Compton, Waverley

Compton has given its name to the local roads Compton Way and Old Compton Lane, and is notable as the home of Moor Park House, the former mansion of Sir William Temple, where Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels lived and worked.

Compton, Wolverhampton

In the late 19th-early 20th century, Compton was home of a distinguished local artist Joseph Vickers de Ville (1856–1925).

Across the Smestow valley the terrain rises again in the direction of Finchfield.

Detroit's Most Wanted

After watching an episode of America's Most Wanted Brandon Greene suggested the group change their name to "Detroit's Most Wanted" referencing to the both America's Most Wanted List and the California rap group Compton's Most Wanted.

Dresta

At end of the same year, they made three guest appearances in Eazy-E's posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton.

Found Drowned

He never sold his four social realist paintings, which were first exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881-2 and are now all held by the Watts Gallery in Compton, near Guildford in Surrey.

Money Trees

He also assesses his current situation in his hometown Compton and reflecting on the immortalization of his uncle after he was shot.

Murder of Yetunde Price

Price came into the public eye when she was the victim of murder by shooting on September 14, 2003, in Compton, in Los Angeles County, California, known for its history of gang violence.

The All-Pervading

He presented it to the Tate Gallery in 1899 and it is now on loan from Tate Britain to the Watts Gallery in Compton, Guildford.

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt (1901–1987) was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey (1959–83).


A Drink and a Quick Decision

The album was first released as a digital download on 18 June 2007, then released on CD and 12" vinyl 11 September 2007 in the US, and 8 March 2008 in the UK. The US edition of the album comes with the bonus track "Old Man," a Neil Young cover, a music video by Steven Compton for "Old Man" consisting mostly of the band recording the song, and an enhanced video of "By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of a Place for Me.

Caitlin Compton

Compton's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 14th in the 4 x 5 km relay at Liberec in 2009 while her best individual finish was 48th in the 30 km mass start event at those same championships.

Clint Compton

Compton then induced Roger Freed to ground into a run-scoring double play before Bill Robinson popped out to Carmen Fanzone for the final out of Compton's appearance, and as it would turn out, his major league career.

Compton Potters' Arts Guild

The resultant Romanesque/Gothic revival exterior of the Watts Mortuary Chapel aroused such interest, that before work on the polychrome interior had started, Watts had set-up permanent Arts and Crafts communities in both Compton and her home-town of Aldourie, Scotland.

Compton Valence

Compton Valence is known locally for its display of snowdrops, which fill the road verges in late winter.

Cyclamen rhodium

peloponnesiacum J. Compton & Culham is pink with a deep carmine-pink mouth and grows in shaded woodland in the Taygetus Mountains in the southern Peloponnese and near Mt. Aroania in the north.

Fathy Salama

Soon the child of Shobra,'Compton of Cairo', made visits to Europe and to New York to learn Jazz with such great artists as Barry Harris, Sun Ra, Roman Bunka, Malik Osman, Hal Galper, Ossman Kareem and Pat Patrick.

For Crying Out Loud

"For Crying Out Loud" is the title of a song written by Jimmy Compton and Phil Wood, and recorded by American country music artist Davis Daniel.

Frank Hardcastle

Hardcastle was born at Firwood Hall, Tonge, near Bolton, Lancashire (demolished 1969), and was the fourth son of James Hardcastle of Firwood and Pen-y-lan, Ruabon, Denbighshire and Hannah Compton Jackson.

Frederick Keel

In 1902 Keel married Dora Compton, the second daughter of the English-born German landscape painter and mountain climber, Edward Theodore Compton.

Hardwell Castle

It is situated in the civil parish of Compton Beauchamp in the Vale of White Horse, very close to the small settlements of both Compton Beauchamp and Knighton, 2 miles from Uffington and 1 mile from the hilltop Uffington Castle.

I Just Want to Celebrate

Compton, California rappers N.W.A. sampled "I Just Want to Celebrate" in the song "Real Niggaz Don't Die" from their 1991 album Niggaz4Life Rapper Foxy Brown also sampled "Real Niggaz Don't Die" in the song "BWA" from her 1999 album Chyna Doll.

Impact Motorsports

Compton and Impact ran the entire season, and finished third behind Kenny Irwin Jr. and Rick Crawford for Rookie of the Year.

Jeff Sellers

Jeffrey Doyle (Jeff) Sellers (born May 11, 1964 in Compton, California) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox from 1985 through 1988.

Julia Compton Moore

Compton was a graduate of Chevy Chase Junior College, Chevy Chase, Maryland and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, prior to her marriage.

MC Chill

He took only part on the debut album of Compton's Most Wanted, It's a Compton Thang, as the group disbanded after he was sentenced to three years imprisonment.

Micro black hole

For sufficiently small M, the reduced Compton wavelength (\scriptstyle{\lambda \; = \; \hbar/Mc} , where ħ is Reduced planck constant) exceeds half the Schwarzschild radius, and no black hole description exists.

Molly Dobbs

The character of Molly was introduced as the daughter of local baker Diggory Compton (Eric Potts) in 2005.

Monte Cinto

On May 26, 1883, a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the guide F. Devouassoud and the landscape painter Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that now bears Tuckett's name.

Moscow, Tennessee

Compton Newby Crook, who was born in Rossville, Tennessee and who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, grew up in Moscow.

Nether Compton

Harald Penrose (1904-1996), British test pilot and aviation author, lived in Nether Compton for more than 50 years in a house of his own design.

Newby Hall

The present owners, the Compton family, descended from William Weddell, have restored the property.

Newton Compton Editori

After devoting mainly to reprints, starting from 2000s Newton Compton also publishes previously untranslated horror, science fiction, fantasy and historical novels by authors such as Simon Scarrow, Lisa J. Smith and Stuart MacBride.

Nick Compton

Compton made his England debut opening the batting with captain Alastair Cook in their first tour match against India A, but made a third ball duck in England's only innings.

North Long Beach, Long Beach, California

The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by Del Amo Blvd and the Bixby Knolls neighborhood.

O. Milton Gossett

Over the span of his career at Compton, Gossett worked on advertising campaigns for such clients as Black & White, Chase & Sanborn Coffee, El Producto, Ivory, Kelly Tires, Knickerbocker Beer, Procter & Gamble, Socony Mobil Oil Company, and Tender Leaf Tea.

Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L'Isle

On 15 November 1980, he married Isobel Tresyllian Compton, the youngest daughter of the civil servant Sir Edmund Compton.

Piru

The Pirus, a Compton, California, street gang that became one of the founding members of the Bloods

Real Muthaphuckkin G's

The music video for "Real Muthaphukkin G's" was shot in Compton, California and starts with a scene picturing lowriders and then Eazy-E comes to rap his verse, when he says "all of the sudden Dr. Dre is the G thang; but on his old album-covers he was a she-thang", a picture of Dr. Dre from the World Class Wreckin' Cru days shows up on the screen where he is wearing mascara and lipstick.

Rebel Records

The label was founded in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1959 by Dick Freeland, Bill Carroll and Sonny Compton.

Rossville, Tennessee

Compton Newby Crook, who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, was born in Rossville.

Sean Compton

Compton is the biological son of the late trucking talk show pioneer Dale Sommers and brother of Steve Sommers.

St Eugene's Cathedral

In the mid 1950s this instrument was replaced with an 11 rank extension organ by the John Compton Organ company of London.

Stacy Compton

Soon afterwards, Melling announced that Compton would pilot their #9 Kodiak Ford Taurus in the Winston Cup Series in 2000.

Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

In 1622, Ulick married his only wife Anne Compton, the daughter of William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton and his wife Elizabeth Spencer.

Vertical deflection traffic calming device

Compton began designs on the speed bump after noticing the speed at which motorists passed Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was chancellor.

Watts Gallery

Compton's burial ground, nearby, houses Watts' remains and is dominated by the Italianate Watts Mortuary Chapel, designed by Mary Seton Watts.

William Whorwood

He was the second or third son of John Whorwood of Compton, near Kinver one of a family of minor gentry, who had long lived at Compton, in Kinver, Staffordshire.