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24 unusual facts about Cyril "Squib" Burton


Capitol Reef National Park

A House bill (H.R. 17152) introduced by Utah Congressman Laurence J. Burton called for a 180,000 acre (728 km²) national park and an adjunct 48,000 acre (194 km²) national recreation area where multiple use (including grazing) could continue indefinitely.

Charles R. Burton

He and Sir Ranulph Fiennes spent some four years organizing the Transglobe Expedition and raising money.

He took part in the Transglobe Expedition, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole.

Charreada

Assemblyman Baca did not sponsor the resubmitted legislation, instead it was sponsored by a non-Hispanic member, John Burton.

Detroit Historical Museum

The Detroit Historical Society (DHS) was founded in December 1921 with prominent Detroit historian Clarence M. Burton, its first president.

Attorney and historian Clarence M. Burton donated his collections to the Detroit Public Library in 1914, leading to the development of the Detroit Historical Museum.

Edmund F. Burton

Burton was married to Alberta Neiswanger Hall, a composer who wrote songs for children, including settings for L. Frank Baum's The Songs of Father Goose.

George Burton

George A. Burton (born 1926), accountant and last elected finance commissioner of Shreveport, Louisiana

George Despot

Despot and a friend, Shreveport CPA George Aubrey Burton, Jr., were named by Lyons as the campaign co-chairmen, largely because it was Despot and Burton who convinced Lyons to run for governor.

James H. Burton

Burton returned to Macon in October 1863, where he awaited delivery of several shipments of machinery from the firm Greenwood & Batley of Leeds, England.

Joseph R. Burton

While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection (Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses).

Laurence J. Burton

Burton was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1971).

Leicester Hunters

Former rider Cyril "Squib" Burton, who had been one of the top riders of the Leicester Stadium team in the early 1930s, took over as manager in 1950 and the team were promoted to division 2 at the end of the season.

M. C. Burton, Jr.

Burton currently works at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona as director of the ambulatory surgical center.

Oliver Shepard

On the Transglobe Expedition he travelled with Fiennes and Charlie Burton, and acted as doctor, dentist, scientist and mechanic.

Relief Society

Since April 2012, the General Relief Society Presidency has been composed of Linda K. Burton, President; Carole M. Stephens, First Counselor; and Linda S. Reeves, Second Counselor.

Sidrak and Bokkus

T. L. Burton edited a two-volume version of Sidrak and Bokkus, in which he exhaustively compared the two most complete English recenscions both with each other and with the French original.

St. Chad's Church, Burton-on-Trent

The bells went back to Taylors for refurbishment and two new trebles were cast to take the peal up to an eight; one bell was donated by local football club Burton Albion F.C. whose ground is in the parish.

T. L. Burton

L. Burton (Thomas Lingen (Tom) Burton; born 1944) is a professor at the University of Adelaide and a reputed scholar of medieval English literature, language, and dialectics.

He is the editor of the two volume Sidrak and Bokkus, which once was one of the most popular books in Middle English.

The Parent 'Hood

Tyrone Dorzell Burton was introduced as a street wise kid named T.K. in the season four premiere.

Theodore Burton

Theodore M. Burton (1907–1989), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

W. K. Burton

In 1896, after his term at Tokyo Imperial University expired, Burton went to Taiwan as an engineer, where he made outstanding contributions to improving the sanitation systems in Taiwanese cities under the authority of the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan.

He was also a childhood friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who turned to him for background information for The Engineer’s Thumb; Doyle's book, The Firm of Girdlestone, is dedicated to Burton.


British and Irish Quidditch Cup

Overall, the winners were Radcliffe Chimeras from Oxford University lead by captain Ashley Cooper, with Avada Keeledavra of Keele University taking the silver medals and The Society of Quidditch in Bangor (SQUiB) from Bangor University taking the bronze medals.

David H. DePatie

In 1957, John W. Burton became production executive for a few years until Burton accepted a position of another company that Leon Schlesinger founded called Pacific Title and Art.

Jackson Burns

His fire drag stunt from a vehicle at 246 feet totally engulfed Burns in flames at one point and damaged his Nomex fire suit ; Burns took 22 squib hits at once, 22 total in 15 seconds; and as stunt double for George Kennedy on the motion picture The Man Who Came Back, was dragged from the back of a horse for a total distance of 282 feet.

James H. Cassidy

James H. Cassidy was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Theodore E. Burton, where he served from April 20, 1909 to March 3, 1911.

John Sleeper Clarke

Among his favourite parts were as Timothy Toodle in William E. Burton's The Toodles, which ran for 200 nights at the Strand Theatre, and two roles from plays by George Colman "the Younger": Dr. Pangloss in The Heir-at-law, and Dr. Ollapod in The Poor Gentleman.

Squib kick

In Super Bowl XLI, the Indianapolis Colts decided to squib kick five of six subsequent kickoffs after Devin Hester of the Chicago Bears returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown.

Perhaps the most famous example of a squib kick is the controversial last-second kickoff return, nicknamed "The Play", during the November 20, 1982 college football game between the University of California, Berkeley ("California" or "Cal") Golden Bears and their arch-rival, the Stanford Cardinal.

Thomas Newman O'Neill, Jr.

He was a law clerk to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit from 1953 to 1954, and to Justice Harold H. Burton, Supreme Court of the United States from 1954 to 1955.