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15 unusual facts about Dexter


4432 McGraw-Hill

Originally erected at Stinchfield Woods near Dexter, Michigan, in July 1969, the telescope was moved to its current location in 1975 through the generous financial support of McGraw-Hill Incorporated and the Sloan Foundation.

Blanche Barrow

Buck was severely wounded in the withering gunfire, shot through the head and Blanche took shards of glass in her eyes, but all five gang members escaped to an abandoned amusement park near Dexter, Iowa.

Dexter, Kansas

The "Oh Henry!" Candy Bar was invented by a man named Tom Henry of Arkansas City, whose family now runs a candy factory on route K-15 in Dexter, Kansas called "Henry's Candies".

Dexter, Michigan

Dexter residents typically send their children to public institutions, including Cornerstone Elementary School, Bates Elementary School, Wylie Elementary School, Creekside Intermediate School, Mill Creek Middle School, and Dexter High School.

Dexter, Oregon

The nearby Dexter Lake Club was used in the filming of the road trip scene in the movie Animal House.

Ego Trip

Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, a 1999 animated television movie based on the animated series Dexter's Laboratory

Elizabeth Brater

In the Democratic primary, she defeated a fellow member of the Michigan House, John Hansen of Dexter.

Jeff Coffin

Born in Massachusetts and raised in New England, Jeff began playing alto sax in fifth grade while living in Dexter, Maine under the tutelage of the one band director for the entire district, Arthur Lagassee.

Jennie Ritter

Jennie Ritter (born June 1, 1984) is an American, former collegiate All-American, right-handed softball pitcher originally from Dexter, Michigan.

Jimmy Hope

A few months before the robbery, he and Abe Coakley were briefly imprisoned the Deep River Bank in Deep River, Connecticut and were questioned by police regarding the violent bank raid in Dexter, Maine.

Royal S. Copeland

Born in Dexter, Michigan to parents Roscoe P. Copeland and Frances J. (Holmes) Copeland, Royal Copeland graduated from the Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University) with a bachelor's degree.

Samuel Dexter

Samuel W. Dexter, founder of Dexter, Michigan, was his son.

State Bar of Michigan

Kenneth N. Sanborn and Charles C. Lockwood assisted Milo Radulovich, a resident of Dexter, Michigan, in his fight against the United States Air Force.

Wireless Washtenaw

As of November 2010, the network provided wireless internet access options to downtown Ann Arbor, Manchester, Saline, Chelsea, and Dexter.

Woundfin

The Dexter National Fish Hatchery in Dexter, New Mexico studies the woundfin in an effort to help conserve the species, and has successfully spawned the fish in captivity.


Al Dexter

Other inductees that night along with Dexter were George Jones and Ray Winkler.

Alex Wexo

Since then Wexo has guest starred on numerous hit television show's such as The Mentalist, CSI, The Unit, Entourage and Dexter.

Andrew Dexter, Jr.

During the War of 1812 Dexter relocated to Athens, New York, where he lived with his father and brother, who assisted him in using New York's lenient bankruptcy laws to partially satisfy his creditors and rebuild his finances.

Aspen Extreme

Aspen Extreme is a 1993 film about two ski buddies, TJ Burke (Paul Gross) and Dexter Rutecki (Peter Berg), who move from Brighton, Michigan to Aspen to seek a better life.

Barrie Dexter

Following the referendum in 1967 which removed provisions in the Australian Constitution which discriminated against Indigenous Australians, the Prime Minister Harold Holt invited Dexter to join the anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner and H. C. Coombs to form the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (CAA) and advise on national policy.

Beating like a Drum

The EP features six original Eskimo Joe tracks remixed by: Dexter, Sneaky Sound System, Teenager, P-Money, Bumblebeez and a mash-up of "Black Fingernails, Red Wine" and "From the Sea" by Nick Launay.

Black Toast Records

Since its launch, the company has placed music in television series (including “True Blood,” “Dexter,” “Treme,” and “The Wire,” and others), motion pictures (including “Arthur” with Russell Brand, “When In Rome” with Kristen Bell, “I Love You, Phillip Morris” with Jim Carrey, “Dead Silence,” “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood,” and others).

Brooklyn Bushwicks

All the famous players of the time came to play exhibitions at Dexter Park including Dizzy Dean, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Medwick.

Coat of arms of Hungary

The dexter (left side from the viewer's point) features the so-called Árpád stripes, four Argent (silver) and four Gules (red) stripes.

Coat of arms of Nunavut

:and for Supporters: On a compartment dexter of Land set with Arctic poppies, dwarf fireweed and Arctic heather proper sinister ice floes Argent set on barry wavy Azure and Argent dexter a caribou sinister a narwhal both proper.

Darrell Dexter

Dexter, himself, lost his seat, the first sitting premier of Nova Scotia to do so since Ernest Armstrong in 1925.

Deb Carson

Beyond her radio and television broadcasting accomplishments, Carson has also appeared in numerous television shows and movies such as Dexter, Desperate Housewives, The Mentalist, The Unit, Will & Grace, Ghost Whisperer, Evan Almighty, and many others.

Dexter and sinister

In 1945, one of the changes ordered for the similarly arranged Flag of the President of the United States by President Harry S. Truman was having the eagle face towards its right (dexter, the direction of honor) and thus towards the olive branch.

Dexter Lee Vinson

Dexter Lee Vinson was an inmate at the Greensville Correctional Facility in Jarratt, Virginia who was executed by lethal injection on April 27, 2006.

Dexter W. Draper

Dexter Wright Draper (May 23, 1881 – August 22, 1961) was an American football player and coach, as well as a pediatrician.

Dexter Wansel

The remaining sound was filled in by Dexter's rhythm section called The Planets featuring Darryl Brown, Calvin Harris, Bobby Malach, Al Harrison and the aforementioned Graves.

Diogenes

Diogenes Small, fictional character created by Colin Dexter in the Inspector Morse series of books

Do I Hear a Waltz?

The first run-through was disastrous, and Dexter immediately lost interest, leaving most of the work to his assistant-cum-choreographer Wakefield Poole.

Femi Temowo

After graduating, Temowo provided regular guitar accompaniment for popular artists such as Phillippe, Julie Dexter, Samantha Mumba, and Misteeq, with whom he also toured.

Frank Close

Close was a pupil at King's School, Peterborough (then a grammar school), where he was taught Latin by John Dexter, brother of author Colin Dexter.

Jason Butler Rote

Jason Butler Rote is an American television writer, known mainly for his work at Hanna-Barbera (now Cartoon Network Studios) on Cartoon Network animated television series like Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls

Jimi Simmons

Jimi "Dexter" Simmons was a Muckleshoot/Rogue River Indian man who was accused of killing a prison guard in Walla Walla Penitentiary in 1979.

Johnny Dexter

Johnny Dexter was a fictional footballer who appeared in three different comic strips in the British boys' comic Roy of the Rovers during the 1970s, 80s and 90s.

Joseph Mazzello

Mazzello's most notable roles were as Douglas Gresham in Shadowlands and Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, both in 1993, Dexter in the 1995 film The Cure, and "Sledgehammer" Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.

KDEX

KDEX-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Dexter, Missouri, United States

Kristin Dattilo

In addition, she appeared on an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, nine episodes of Dexter, three episodes of Tracey Takes On..., along with many other television appearances which also include Beverly Hills, 90210, Angel, Friends, Veronica Mars and Two and a Half Men.

Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz

Arms: Argent, on a fess vert a sword of two points with rounded ends proper hilted and pommelled or points to dexter in chief a lion passant gules armed and langued azure in base a pair of scales gules.

Municipal Borough of Finchley

The dexter supporter was a lion, from the arms of the Countess of Pembroke, from whom the Comptons, lord of the manor were descended.

New England Art Union

The board included Everett, Dexter, and Longfellow, and a mix of prominent Bostonian businessmen, artists, and other notables: Joseph Andrews; Thomas G. Appleton; Edward C. Cabot; Alvan Fisher; Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham; James B. Gregerson; Chester Harding; Joshua H. Hayward; George S. Hilliard; Albert G. Hoit; Jonathan Mason; Benjamin S. Rotch; G. G. Smith; Charles Sumner; C. G. Thompson; and Ammi B. Young.

New York State Route 12E

In the center of the hamlet, the highway intersects with NY 180, a road leading to Dexter in the south and the Thousand Islands region in the north.

Remember the Monsters?

Showtime president David Nevins praised the series finale against fan backlash by saying "The fundamental design of where they ended Dexter was really well conceived. He had to sacrifice the one person who was closest to him in the world, and he had to leave. That was where it was headed for a very long time."

S.A. Griffin

Notable television guest star credits include Perry Mason, Matlock, Alien Nation, Designing Women, Melrose Place, Las Vegas, Dexter, Days of our Lives and appears as Dr. Osiris in the ride film In Search of the Obelisk directed by Douglas Trumbull at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada since 1992.

Space Ace

A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of cartoon shorts based on current video games) with Space Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt.

Steve Abadie-Rosier

Building down the myth of the overgifted criminal, that was popularized by The Silence of the Lambs, Basic Instinct or Dexter, this book suggests the innovative concept of “psychopathological fortress”, through which the criminal phenomenon is analyzed.

Subir Chowdhury

Among the contributors listed are Richard E. Boyatzis, James A. Champy, Allan R. Cohen, Jay A. Conger, Samuel A. Culbert, Christopher DeRose, Dexter Dunphy, David Finegold, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, Rob Goffee, Robert L. Heneman, Harvey A. Hornstein, Andrew, Kakabadse, Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries, Edgar H. Schein, and Noel M. Tichy.

The Brigand

The film bears a resemblance to The Prisoner of Zenda with Dexter playing a dual role of a rogue exile who impersonates a King in danger of being overthrown by his cousin played by Anthony Quinn.

The Capitol Albums, Volume 2

Instead, the CDs were mastered from mixes prepared by Capitol A&R executive Dave Dexter, Jr., who, in 1965 took the submaster tapes from Capitol Records' vaults and added reverb to several tracks and simulated stereo on mono tracks (the proof that these are Dexter's mixes being the false start on "I'm Looking Through You").

Tico Wells

He was Tim in the movie The Wishlist, and played Dexter Williams, the younger brother of Denzel Washington's character Demetrius Williams, in Mississippi Masala.

Tommy Bahama

The Tommy Bahama brand has been placed in: Luck, Couples Retreat, Meet the Parents (and Fockers sequels) and 50 First Dates; as well as TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Scrubs, Dexter, Psych and continually on character Sam Axe from USA Network's Burn Notice, The Simpsons Movie, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Tone Rodriguez

In addition to comics, Rodriguez has also contributed to television shows including Numb3rs, Dexter and E-Ring.

Unadilla Township, Michigan

The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.

William Clapp House

The house was built in 1806 for the marriage of William Clapp (March 3, 1779 - February 29, 1860), son of Capt. Lemuel and Rebecca (Dexter) Clap who built the nearby Captain Lemuel Clap House.

XHTVM-TV

TV Azteca and Showtime in the United States signed an agreement in September 2008 under which Proyecto 40 began to carry Dexter, Nurse Jackie and other Showtime programs.