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11 unusual facts about Denton


Augustus Charles Pugin

Pugin married Catherine Welby of the Lincolnshire Welby family of Denton and his developing interest in the Gothic was to be magnified in the career of their son Augustus Welby Pugin, an architect who was the leading advocate of Gothicism in 19th century England and the designer of the Palace of Westminster, home of the United Kingdom Parliament.

Catherine McKinnell

McKinnell was born in Denton and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the attended the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School in Fenham.

Denton, East Sussex

Ralph Reader who created the Gang Show for the Boy Scout movement was from the village and the local Scout pack are known as "The 2nd Denton & South Heighton (Ralph Reader's Own)".

Doyle Lawson

Every year Doyle hosts the Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival in Denton, North Carolina.

J. Neaul Haynes

Bishop James Neaul Haynes (1932–present), the sixth child of the late Bishop F. L. Haynes and Mrs. Ola Mae Haynes, was born in Denton, Texas.

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, in Denton, Nebraska, USA (Diocese of Lincoln), was established in 1994 and serves English-speaking seminarians.

Rolling Kansas

The map route suggests that the characters' hometown "somewhere in Texas" is Denton (though that city was not used as a shooting location).

Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet

In 1841 he married his second wife Sarah, third daughter of Henry Barrett of Denton.

Taavi Peetre

His personal best in discus throw was 60.84 m, achieved in April 2010 in Denton, Texas, USA.

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads is a double-disc, concept album from Lift to Experience, an indie rock trio from Denton, Texas.

Walter A. Coslet

The family moved to Sunnyside, Washington when he entered 2nd grade, to avoid having to have him vaccinated, but returned to Denton, Montana after Washington also passed mandatory vaccination laws for school aged children.


André Liohn

In 2012, with fellow photographers Christopher Morris, Jehad Nga, Bryan Denton, Lynsey Addario, Eric Bouvet and Finbarr O'Reilly, he created the project Almost Dawn in Libya, four photo exhibits in the main Libyan cities of Tripoli, Benghazi, Misurata and Zintan.

Bobby E. Denton

Senator Denton recorded four songs for Judd and later appeared on the Dick Clark Show.

Bubba Hernandez

He is a former member of the Denton, Texas based band, Brave Combo, but is best known as the bassist for The Wee-Beasties.

Curzon Ashton F.C.

Outside the stadium, a statue stands commemorating three locally born footballers associated with the World Cup; Geoff Hurst (born in Ashton), Jimmy Armfield (Denton), and Simone Perrotta (also born in Ashton).

Davidson County, North Carolina

Max Lanier and son Hal Lanier, both Major League Baseball players are from Denton.

Denice Denton

When it was discovered that protest was listed as a "credible threat" on the TALON database managed by the Pentagon's Counterintelligence Field Agency, Denton helped persuade California Senators Boxer and Feinstein to request an investigation.

Denton County, Texas

The Denton County Transportation Authority operates a bus service in the county that includes Denton, Lewisville, and Highland Village.

Denton Darrington

Senator Denton Darrington has a B.S. in Agriculture in 1963 and Post Graduate work from Utah State University.

Denton Hall, Wharfedale

Denton Hall has been used as a college for old people, and also was a location for two films: In the 1942 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Powell & Pressburger, it is the seat of the Wynne family, whose daughter Barbara marries the eponymous Colonel.

Denton Holme

The main street, Denton Street has many small shops along it and other businesses including a bingo hall and a branch of the Cumberland Building Society.

Denton Welch

William S. Burroughs cited Denton Welch as the writer who most influenced his own work(W.S Burroughs, The Cat Inside, Penguin books 2002, p67)and dedicated his novel The Place of Dead Roads to him.

General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven

On 17 January 1991, a USAF EF-111 crew of Captain James Denton and Captain Brent Brandon ("Brandini") achieved an unofficial kill against an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1, which they managed to maneuver into the ground, making it the only member of the F-111/FB-111/EF-111 family to achieve an aerial victory over another aircraft.

George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

Margo Lucey won the Miss District of Columbia beauty contest and later was the first runner-up to Miss America (1956) during which she married David Denton who became Commander of a guided missile destroyer, USS McCain.

Ironhead

Ironhead Airport, airport at Sanger, Denton County, Texas, United States

Jay Richards

: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. by Jay W. Richards, George Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas Ray, John Searle, William Dembski, Michael Denton.

John Angier

When the Oxford Act came into operation, he moved into Cheshire; but an attack of gout came on, and saying to Oliver Heywood, 'Come, son, let us trust God and go home,' he returned to Denton.

Kelly Denton

Denton switched over to the #35 Charles Hardy-owned car and completed three races for the team.

Live and Sweaty

Keating made no comment, but Denton continued to up the ante over the course of the year, protesting outside Parliament House and organising petitions urging the Prime Minister to accept the challenge.

Mario Edwards, Jr.

As a junior, he recorded 127 tackles, 50 tackles for loss and 18 sacks leading Denton Ryan to a state runner-up finish against Austin Lake Travis led by Michael Brewer.

Mario was raised in Denton, Texas, where his father played for the Dallas Cowboys, Edwards attended Prosper High School for his freshman and sophomore year, where he started at defensive end for the state champion Eagles as a freshman.

Mark Denton

Mark Denton's photographic career began with experiments using a 35mm in his garden in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, but it was a meeting and ensuing friendship with the landscape photographer Joe Cornish that inspired the move to photographing the countryside in larger formats.

Mythic Entertainment

Greg Zeschuk, Chief Creative Officer
Rob Denton, Group General Manager
Eugene Evans, General Manager
Jeff Hickman, Studio Executive Producer

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

This direct liaison is notable in that it was NRC Chairman Joseph Hendrie, Denton's superior, who interacted with Pennsylvania's governor Dick Thornburgh.

Richard Greswell

Greswell was born at Denton, Lancashire, on 22 July 1800, the fourth son of the Rev. William Parr Greswell, was educated first by his father, and afterwards at Worcester College, Oxford, on the foundation of which college he was placed on 1 June 1818.

Robert H. Briggs

A member of the Miller Eccles Study Group's board of directors, Briggs also wrote "The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows Massacre: Toward a Consensus Account and Time Line," as well as reviews of Sally Denton’s American Massacre, Will Bagley’s Blood of the Prophets, and Richard E. Turley, Jr. et al's Massacre at Mountain Meadows.

Sanger, Texas

Cattle from the ranches of north Denton County were driven up the old cattle trails through Sanger to northern markets.

Sir David Dale, 1st Baronet

In 1866 he embarked on extensive shipbuilding enterprises in co-operation with the firms of Richardson, Denton, and Duck of Stockton, Denton and Grey of Hartlepool, and Thomas Richardson & Sons of Hartlepool, who combined together with a view to amalgamation.

SNR Denton

In January 2011 SNR Denton opened in Hong Kong following the assimilation of the Hong Kong office of Hammonds.

Solomon Wilbur Denton

Solomon Wilbur Denton (1816-1864) was an early member of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (formerly Denton Community Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Denton) serves the communities of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.

The Primordial Emotions: The Dawning of Consciousness

Denton distinguishes between primordial emotions, "imperious states of arousal and compelling intentions to act" (p.7) driven by activation of interoceptors and involving ancient, lower brain regions such as the medulla, midbrain and hypothalamus, and "classic" emotions, such as anger, fear and love, driven by distance receptors (vision, hearing, olfaction) and mediated by higher, more recently evolved brain regions.

The Virgin Wolves

The Virgin Wolves are an American rock band that formed in Denton, Texas, featuring five members, many of whom have been involved in other successful projects: Chase Robbins (of Memphis May Fire), Jaimeson Robbins, Kristin Leigh (solo), Steve Phillips, and Carson Coldiron.

TWU

Texas Woman's University, the second largest public university in Denton, Texas

Welborn

Bob Welborn (1928 - 1997) of Denton, North Carolina is a former NASCAR Grand National (now Sprint Cup) driver

When Hell was in Session

A United States Naval Aviator, Denton was shot down and captured, spending the next seven years and seven months as a POW.

White Springs Television

White Springs Television was seen on outlets including WANN-LD 32.4 in Atlanta (formerly on WYGA-LD 16.2); WWCG-LP in Columbus, Georgia; KFLA-LD Los Angeles; KDEO-LD Denver; KHPK-LP Denton, Texas; and KITL-LP Boise.

Winfield K. Denton

Denton was elected to the Eighty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on December 30, 1966 (January 3, 1955-December 30, 1966).

Denton was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953).

Woke on a Whaleheart

The arrangements of labelmate and former Royal Trux vocalist and guitarist Neil Michael Hagerty are featured on the album, and Callahan's band consists of vocalist Deani Pugh-Flemmings, guitarist Pete Denton, violinist Elizabeth Warren, percussionist Thor Harris, bassist Steve Bernal, and keyboard/lap steel player Howard Draper.

Wollaston School

The Wollaston School catchment area includes the villages of Bozeat, Brafield-on-the-Green, Castle Ashby, Chadstone, Cogenhoe, Denton, Easton Maudit, Great Houghton, Grendon, Irchester, Little Houghton, Strixton, Whiston, Wollaston and Yardley Hastings.