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14 unusual facts about Denison


4780th Air Defense Wing

On May 13, 1971, the last graduating class flew its F102s in formation over Sherman and Denison, Texas as a farewell to its two host cities.

Denison, Iowa

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge depicts a changing Denison in the early twenty-first century in his book Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town. This book features photographs by Maharidge's photographic partner and fellow Pulitzer-winner, Michael Williamson.

Denison's barb

Equally if not more important breeding efforts have been carried out by Chester Zoo and two amateur fish-lovers from Chennai, Venkatesh and Murali (as reported by The Hindu in October 2008).

Specifically, they are found in four locations — Cheenkannipuzha (a major tributary of Velapattanam River), the Achankovil river, the Chaliyar river and near Mundakayam town.

George Taylor Denison

Denison family names abound in the area, including the present day names of Denison Square, Denison Avenue, Bellevue Avenue, Major, Robert, Borden, and Lippincott Streets.

John Merlin Powis Smith

Having migrated to America, Smith lived on the farm of an uncle in Denison, Iowa.

KFXK-TV

To this end, McLaughlin also held construction permits for KLNL on channel 19 in Nacogdoches, KLPH-TV on channel 42 in Paris, and KLDS on channel 20 in Denison.

Knollwood, Texas

It is part of the ShermanDenison Metropolitan Statistical Area.

KWN31

It also broadcasts hourly weather observations for the following cities: Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, McKinney, Terrell, Mineola, and Mount Pleasant; and elsewhere around the region: DFW Airport, Sherman-Denison, Tyler, and Texarkana.

Robert S. Stevens

As head of construction, and later the railroad's General Manager, Stevens was responsible for the founding of Parsons, Kansas, Denison, Texas, and other towns along the route.

Ryan Beckman

Ryan finished his amateur baseball career in 2009 at Grayson County College in Denison, Texas.

Sir Frederick Milner, 7th Baronet

He was married in 1880 to Adeline Gertrude Denison, the daughter of William Beckett-Denison, and had one son, William Frederick Victor Mordaunt Milner.

William Beckett-Denison

He had arrived at Wimborne railway station to change trains for Bournemouth, and while waiting went for a walk.

Beckett was the son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, of Grimthorpe, Yorkshire and his wife Maria Beverley, daughter of William Beverley.


Australian Flag Society

In 2008 the AFS lobbied members of the Tasmanian parliament for a public inquiry to be held in response to a motion proposed by Denison Labor MHA Lisa Singh to have the Australian Aboriginal Flag stand in Parliament House, Hobart.

Boyer River

In southern Sac County it turns southwestward and flows through Crawford, Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties, past the towns of Deloit, Denison, Arion, Dow City, Dunlap, Woodbine, Logan and Missouri Valley.

Charles Denison

Denison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses and served until his death in Wilkes-Barre.

Christopher William Codrington

# Sir Gerald William Henry Codrington, 1st Bt. (1876), of Dodington Park, * 1850, + 1929, Md. 1887, his first half-cousin maternally Lady Edith Henrietta Sybil Denison, + 1945, d.

David F. Denison

Denison was the Chair of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) from June 4, 2009 - June 15, 2011, and a corporate director of since June 23, 2005.

Dr. John M. Denison Secondary School

The Denison Wind Ensemble travelled to Ottawa in May 2010 to compete in the national music contest, MusicFest Canada.

Edith Iglauer

She is the author of several non-fiction books, including Denison's Ice Road (1975), Seven Stones, a profile of the architect Arthur Erickson (1971), and The New People: The Eskimo's Journey into our Time (1966).

Edward E. Denison

Denison was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1931).

Edward H. Lingo

In 1872 he moved to Denison, Grayson County, Texas, which had recently become a railroad town and a center of population and industry, and entered a partnership with J. P. Leeper & Company, later Waples, Lingo & Company.

Haskell Monroe

While working on his master's degree, he taught history at nearby Denison High School in Denison, Texas and served in the Navy Reserve.

Howbery Park

Other owners of Howbery Park were Henry Bertie Williams-Wynn (who purchased the house in 1867), Harvey du Cros (in 1902) and George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham.

John A. Denison

Denison graduated with honors from Springfield High School and, like his father, attended Harvard University where he received his undergraduate degree in 1898 and his law degree in 1901.

John Denison-Pender

Pender (he assumed the additional name of Denison, his mother's maiden name, in 1890) was the third son of Sir John Pender, the founder of the Eastern Telegraph Company.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

John G. Denison

John G. Denison was the acting CEO and Chairman of the Board of ATA Airlines and Global Aero Logistics, Inc at the time of ATA's shutdown due to financial insolvency.

Denison returned to his former post as acting CEO of ATA Airlines following Subodh Karnik's abrupt departure in March 2008.

John Giles Price

During his first years, Price's actions were staunchly supported by Governor Denison, but by 1852 he expressed regret at the extent to which corporal punishment was used.

Josef Svoboda

Svoboda’s honors and awards include honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Arts in London, Denison and Western Michigan universities in the United States, and awards from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).

Joseph Denison

(See Bleeding Kansas.) Over the next several years Denison was part of a small group that settled and built the abolitionist town of Manhattan, Kansas, at the union of the Kansas River and the Big Blue River in the Flint Hills.

KDSN

KDSN-FM, a radio station (107.1 FM) licensed to Denison, Iowa, United States

Leopold Broinowski

Broinowski contested the Australian House of Representatives at the 1922 federal election, running unsuccessfully as one of three endorsed Nationalists in Denison.

Mazinaw Rock

Near the bottom of the rock face there is also an engraved tribute to Walt Whitman, inscribed for Flora MacDonald Denison, who ran the inn in the provincial park during the 1910s.

Nancy Lynn

After graduating from Denison University, Lynn began working for Procter & Gamble in the 1980s, and became one of the first women to hold a position as manufacturing plant manager.

Selinsgrove Speedway

Selinsgrove Speedway was built in 1945 under the supervision of Joie Chitwood, a Hollywood stunt man and race car driver from Denison, Texas.

Sherman–Denison metropolitan area

The Sherman–Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Grayson – in North Texas, anchored by the cities of Sherman and Denison.

Sherman, Texas

In 1901 the first electric "Interurban" railway in Texas, the Denison and Sherman Railway, was completed between Sherman and Denison, Texas.

Texas State Highway 11

State Highway 11 was one of the original twenty-six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the 'Jefferson Highway.' In 1917 the routing was proposed from the Oklahoma border at Denison, south on present day U.S. Highway 69 through Whitewright into Greenville.

Texas-Oklahoma League

Future Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby played for the Hugo Scouts and Denison Champions teams in 1914 before joining the 1915 St. Louis Cardinals.

The Denison/Kimball Trio

The Denison/Kimball Trio (sometimes known as DK3) were a musical duo consisting of guitarist Duane Denison and drummer Jim Kimball.

U.S.S.A.

After their initial collaboration, Barker and Denison recruited vocalist Gary Call and drummer Johnny Rabb.

William Des Vœux

Des Vœux married Marion Denison Pender (1856–1955), daughter of John Pender, in 1875.