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7 unusual facts about Curtis


Arthur Curtis

Arthur Hale Curtis (1881–1955), American football player and coach, gynecologist

Arthur R. Curtis (1842–1925), Union Army officer during the American Civil War

Cork Kent railway station

Originally built by Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy of Liverpool at a cost of £1,955, the engine was obtained by the Great Southern and Western Railway to run services from Dublin to Cork.

Curtis/Live!

Originally released in May 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label (distributed through Neil Bogart's Buddah Records), the album's twelve tracks (track listing below is from the 2000 Rhino reissue, which includes two bonus tracks) — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's Bitter End nightclub in New York City.

Curtiss SO3C Seamew

Lettice Curtis, in her book "Forgotten Pilots", stated 'that although its standard fuel tanks held 300 gallons, it would only just take off with the eighty gallons' fixed as the maximum for Air Transport Auxiliary trips.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

In the early teens Edward S. Curtis (ethnographer, photographer, and soon to be film maker whose major subject was the North American Indian) commissioned Braham to compose a score for In the Land of the Head Hunters.

Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House

The house was purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, the first wife of author and humorist James Thurber (1894–1961), and it was used as a weekend or holiday home.


Ashok Das

He is known for his teaching and has received university and department awards for his teaching including the Department Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester four times (1987, 1990, 1997 and 2006), the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1991), and the 2006 William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate teaching.

Aubrey Suwito

The recording also includes the musical vocal talents of Jaclyn Victor, Juwita Suwito and Russell Curtis.

Brandon Curtis

Curtis has produced three albums for the American post-metal band Russian Circles: Geneva (2009), Empros (2011) and Memorial (2013).

Christian History

It was established by Ken Curtis in 1982 and published by the Christian History Institute.

Chuck Curtis

In the 1957 Cotton Bowl, Curtis threw two touchdown passes and ran for another TD to lead the Horned Frogs to a 28-27 win over Syracuse and standout running back Jim Brown.

David A. Hodell

In 1995, Hodell, Curtis and Brenner published a paleoclimate record from Lake Chichancanab on the Yucatán Peninsula that showed an intense, protracted drought occurred in the 9th century AD and coincided with the Classic Maya collapse.

David Saperton

When Hofmann had a falling out with Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok (later Zimbalist), the founder and president of the Curtis Institute, Saperton was dismissed from the Institute together with Hofmann.

Demorest

Ellen Louise Demorest (née Curtis) (1825-1898) — US fashion arbiter and milliner, wife of William Jennings Demorest

Dick Doran

He served as a "life teacher" and devoted friend to young Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who studied with Gary Graffman at Curtis.

Fluffernutter

Archibald Query invented a creation he called Marshmallow Creme in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1917, while Amory and Emma Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, invented Snowflake Marshmallow Creme in 1913.

Garniss Curtis

Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 ~ died December 19, 2012) was a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

Haven Gillespie

He first gained notice in 1925 with "Breezin Along With The Breeze", in collaboration with Egbert Van Alstyne, Ervin R. Schmidt, and Loyal Curtis, which was recorded by Josephine Baker among many others.

Henry Wellcome

Henry Solomon Wellcome was born in a frontier log cabin in Almond, Wisconsin to Rev. S. C. Wellcome, an itinerant missionary who travelled and preached in a covered wagon, and Mary Curtis Wellcome.

Hornsleasow Roughs

The site supports the nationally rare Perfoliate Pennycress and other rare plantlife such as Curtis' Mouse-ear, Early Gentian, Field Fleawort and Burnt Orchid.

Hubbs' beaked whale

He believed it to be Andrews' beaked whale (a very similar species found only in the Southern Hemisphere), but Joseph Curtis Moore, an expert on beaked whales at Chicago’s Field Museum, reassigned it to a new species, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, in 1963, naming it in his honor.

Hybla Valley, Virginia

The Mason family's Hollin Hall plantation, just south of Alexandria, had become the property of several owners, including Edward Curtis Gibbs and the Wilson family.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Jesse William Curtis Jr.

On August 3, 1962, Curtis was nominated by President John F. Kennedy to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California created by 75 Stat.

Joe Curtis

In September 1909, Curtis was hired to serve as the head football coach for the School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

Katherine Whitney Curtis

While historical figures such as Esther Williams and Annette Kellerman are recognized for similar contributions, important historical details regarding the origin of the word "Synchronized Swimming", its reference to the Olympic sport and the technical structure of that sport are all credited to Curtis.

Kim Weild

Among her many collaborators and associates are Anne Bogart (SITI Co.), Diane Paulus, Tina Kronis and Richard Algers, George Balanchine, Caryl Churchill, Max Stafford-Clark, Simon Curtis, André Gregory, Antoinette LaFarge, Judith Malina, Larry Moss, Mike Nichols, George Morrison, Sabrina Peck, Abraham Pulido, Richard Schechner, Paul Sills, Tadashi Suzuki and Robert Wilson.

Knickerbocker Greys

The Knickerbocker Greys was founded by Mrs. Augusta Lawler Stacey Curtis, the wife of Dr. Edward Curtis, a noted New York physician who served on the staff of the Surgeon General of the Union Army, and assisted in the autopsy on the body of President Abraham Lincoln.

Kotzschmar

Hermann Kotzschmar, the German musician whom Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was named after

Lysøen

In 1974, Bull's granddaughter Sylvea Bull Curtis of Connecticut donated the island to the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments.

Mac Maoláin

# Curtis McMullen Professor of Mathematics Harvard Curtis T. McMullen

Mustafa Hamsho

Hamsho continued to fight, defeating Curtis Parker, future world champion Bobby Czyz, and former three-division world champion Wilfred Benítez during 1982 and 1983, then received a return visit to take on Hagler in a rematch in October 1984 in NYC's Madison Square Garden.

Nephew Tommy

A number of independent films are on his resume, including 2011's N-Secure and The Heart Specialist with Zoe Saldana, where he played nightclub owner Curtis and was credited as "Nephew Tommy".

Perizoma

Zerynthia Curtis, 1830 (non Ochsenheimer, 1816: preoccupied)

Pizzicato Five

The album would spawn two of their most loved songs: "Twiggy Twiggy" and "Baby Love Child" (the latter song finding its way onto the Futurama episode "Leela's Homeworld" as well as Adam Curtis' 2011 documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", in which it serves as title music.

Research Foundation for Governance in India

Curtis Riep – International Relations graduate from University of Calgary, Canada

Richard D. Braatz

He has received many honors including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.

Samuel Ryan Curtis

In 1864, Curtis returned to Missouri, fighting against the Confederate invasion led by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

Scraping Tokyo '95

#"Isolation" (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris) – 3:02 originally by Joy Division

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

Singing Melody

In the 2000s, Singing Melody formed the reggae group L.U.S.T with Lukie D, Thriller U, and Tony Curtis.

Siraj Wahhaj

The Alliance was founded by scholars including Wahhaj, Zaid Shakir, Hamza Yusuf, Talib Abdur Rashid, Asim Abdur Rashid, Ihsan Bagby, R. Mukhtar Curtis, Sherman Jackson, Amir al-Islam and many others.

Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914–1948), John Lee Curtis Williamson, "The Original Sonny Boy Williamson", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records (recordings from 1937 to 1948)

SONOR Ensemble

Members included UCSD Faculty such as Philip Larson, Edwin Harkins, Carol Plantamura, János Négyesy, John Fonville, Robert Zelickman, Steven Schick, Charles Curtis, Aleck Karis, Peter Farrell, Bertram Turetzky as well as associates and graduate students such as Päivikki Nykter, Hugh Livingston, Susan Barrett, Ross Karre, Rob Esler, Fabio Oliveira, Gregory Stuart, Justin Dehartand and Orin Hildestad.

Stacy Curtis

Curtis then began a new career as a children's book illustrator, eventually illustrating more than 25 children's books, including a New York Times Best Seller, Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Happy Kids, a version of Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People simplified for children.

The American Astronaut

Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in rare goods, living or otherwise.

The Girl in the Café

Curtis was better-known as a writer of romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually (the latter of which he also directed and had featured Nighy).

The Lurker at the Threshold

The character Misquamacus is also the villain of the 1976 novel The Manitou (which was made into a film starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Burgess Meredith and Michael Ansara in 1978), the 1979 novel Return of the Manitou, the 1993 novel Burial, the 2005 novel Manitou Blood and the 2010 novel Blind Panic, all by Graham Masterton.

The Other Side of Benny Golson

Scott Yanow of Allmusic says, "Tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson's third recording as a leader was significant in two ways. It was his first opportunity to work with trombonist Curtis Fuller (the two would be members of The Jazztet by 1960) and it was one of his first chances to really stretch out on record as a soloist; up to this point Golson was possibly better known as a composer".

The Tall Guy

In a 2003 mid-career retrospective about Richard Curtis, The Guardian described the film as being "patronised in one sense by critics while not patronised in the other by audiences.".

Westmount High School

Jeffrey Khaner, Principal Flutist, Philadelphia Orchestra, Flute Professor Juilliard School and Curtis Institute


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