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4 unusual facts about Craven


Craven, Saskatchewan

Craven is the hometown of NHL hockey player Tanner Glass formerly of the Winnipeg Jets and now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and of runner Kendra Schaaf.

Drystone Radio

Drystone Radio, operating online and on 103.5FM (formerly 106.9FM), is a not-for-profit community radio station operating from Cowling, North Yorkshire to listeners across South Craven and the Yorkshire Dales.

Kelloe

The Lordship of the Manor of Kelloe was bought by the Tempests of Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire, and bequeathed by Sir Henry Vane-Tempest to his daughter, Lady Frances Vane, who married the third Marquess of Londonderry.

West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service

In addition, WYMAS' coverage extended into the Craven area of North Yorkshire with ambulance stations at Grassington, Ingleton, Settle and Skipton, covering the western side of North Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales.


Avery Craven

Avery Odelle Craven (August 12, 1885 near Ackworth, Iowa – January 21, 1980, Chesterton, Indiana) was a historian who specialized in the study of the nineteenth-century United States and the American Civil War.

Ben Craven

In 2007, Craven recorded the EP Under Deconstruction as a free download, protesting against the use of DRM in the music industry.

Charles Elliott Johnson

Charles Elliott Johnson is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's fourth House district, including constituents in Craven, Martin and Pitt counties.

Coastal Carolina Regional Airport

Craven Regional Airport has previously been serviced by Midway Airlines, American Eagle, Piedmont Airlines, Charter Express, United Airlines, Wheeler Airline, Henson Airlines and National Airlines.

Courtenay Ilbert

Ilbert was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Hertford, Ireland, Craven, and Eldon law scholar.

Craven and District Football League

The league is essentially based on Craven and so includes several teams from the main Craven centres such as Skipton, Settle, Cross Hills and Cononley, but its catchment extends into nearby districts of Lancashire and West Yorkshire with, for example, teams from Bradford, Colne, Ilkley, Keighley and Pendle also taking part.

Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness

In November 2007, the Cumbria rugby league team had their biggest ever win at Craven Park when they beat the United States national rugby league team 70-0.

Cyberdreams

Titles announced by Cyberdreams but never completed include Hunters of Ralk, a role-playing video game designed by Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax, and Wes Craven's Principles of Fear, based on a concept by film director Wes Craven.

Danie Craven

The family farm was named for Steeton in West Yorkshire, home to Craven's paternal grandfather, John Craven (1837-90), who came to South Africa as a diamond prospector.

Earl of Craven

This first Earl is not entirely forgotten – Harriette Wilson begins her famous memoir, "I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven." He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl.

Edmund Jowett

Jowett was born in Yorkshire, England, at Bradford, on 6 January 1858 to Joseph Jowett and Sarah, née Craven.

Frank Ingram

Francis Hamilton Ingram (September 17, 1905 in Craven, Saskatchewan – April 1, 1985 in Edmond, Oklahoma) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks.

Friar Garth Farmhouse

Friar Garth Farmhouse is a grade-II-listed farmhouse located on Finkle Street in the village of Malham, Craven, North Yorkshire, England.

Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven

He and his brother William founded the Craven Hunt, and he appears in James Seymour's 1743 A Kill at Ashdown Park, a picture owned by the Craven family until 1968.

Honey Craven

Craven was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame in 1999, having his name etched in the rafters along with other "Garden Greats" from Buffalo Bill to Muhammad Ali to The Rolling Stones.

Each year Craven shoehorned upward of 300 horses into the fifth-floor walk-up that served as the stabling area at the Garden, an after-dark maneuver that often took place while a New York Rangers hockey game was being played below.

James Parke, 1st Baron Wensleydale

He studied at The King's School, Macclesfield before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 February 1799, where he won the Craven scholarship, Sir William Browne's gold medal, and was fifth wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in classics.

Jay Craven

Craven attended Boston University for undergraduate studies where he studied and developed a lifelong friendship with Howard Zinn.

Leck, Lancashire

In the Carboniferous to Jurassic periods these major earth movements formed the dramatic landscape of Lonsdale and the Aire Gap in Craven District

Martha Lloyd

Martha was the eldest daughter of Rev. Noyes Lloyd of Bishopstone in (Wiltshire and his wife, Martha Craven.

Michael A. Gorman

Michael A. Gorman (July 9, 1950 – December 2, 2012) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's third House district, including constituents in Craven and Pamlico counties, from 2003-2004.

Nightmare Cafe

The pilot debuted to mixed — although overall positive — reviews, with comparisons drawn to the Nightmare on Elm Street series of movies (no doubt due to Craven and Englund's involvement), The Twilight Zone, Fantasy Island, Quantum Leap, Cheers, Moonlighting and Topper.

Creator Wes Craven's original concept for the series involved standalone episodes akin to The Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories, but with regular characters bookending the tales ("like Twilight Zone meets Cheers", as Craven often said in interviews).

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the seven districts of administrative county of North Yorkshire: Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby; as well as the unitary authority of City of York.

Old Meadowbank

While taking evasive action to avoid hitting fallen race leader George Hunter who had suffered engine failure, Craven hit the fence.

Pendle Council election, 1999

The Labour gains came in the wards of Craven, Vivary Bridge and Whitefield, while the Conservatives took the seats of Barrowford, Earby, Foulridge and Reedley.

Princess Caprice

The lyrics were by A. Scott-Craven, Harry Beswick and Percy Greenbank.

Roger Finn

When Craven left, Finn took on the role of presenter, along with Helen Rollason.

Scripsi

For several years in the 1980s a weekly radio show ‘Scripsi of the Air’ was also presented by Heyward, Craven and others on Melbourne Radio Station 3RRR.

Shiloh Baptist Church

Mount Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, New Bern, North Carolina, listed on the NRHP in Craven County

Starbotton

She wrote in her diary I went into John Symondson's house at Starbotton in Craven, where I lay one night, and then on to Pendragon.

Stokesay Castle

In 1869 the Craven estate, now heavily in debt, was sold to the wealthy industrialist John Derby Allcroft who paid for another round of extensive restoration during the 1870s.

Stonebridge, London

The exclusive Craven Park Estate of large houses was built in the 1860s and later, roughly at the same time as the Midland Railway constructed the Dudding Hill Line (now a freight line), which gave its new residents access to central London.

Thomas George Coventry

He was born in London, the son of the Earl of Coventry and Lady Blanche Craven, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College in Camberley.

Thomas William Edmondson

Thomas William Edmondson, Ph. D., (1869– 5 November, 1938) was an Anglo-American mathematician, born at Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England.

Tunis Craven

The English poet Henry Newbolt immortalized Commander Tunis' sacrifice in Craven

U.S. Acres

Wade Duck (voiced by Howard Morris): Wade is the "cowardly craven duck" of the farm.

Vicary Gibbs

During this period, he was a devoted classical scholar, a King's Scholar at Eton and a Craven scholar at King's College.

William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven

Lord Craven married Cornelia Martin, (1877-19 May 1961), the only daughter of a wealthy American banker, Bradley Martin at Grace Church, New York City, on 18 April 1893.

William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle

The Earldom of Albemarle which he inherited from his mother, included a large estate in Yorkshire, notably the wapentake of Holderness, including the castle of Skipsea, and the honour of Craven, as well as estates in Lincolnshire and elsewhere.


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