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30 unusual facts about Dover


Albany Plan

Benjamin Chew, then a young lawyer from Dover, Pennsylvania who served as secretary, and Richard, both from Philadelphia, were among the members of this committee and the Pennsylvania delegation.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Brewster Body Shield

The Brewster Body Shield or Brewster Body Armor was the first effective body armor developed for the United States Army in World War I, designed by Dr. Guy Otis Brewster from Dover, New Jersey.

Cross Channel Intelligence Community

In 1985 there were approximately 14,000 passengers travelling through the Port of Dover.

Dover-Sherborn High School

Dan Itse, Class of 1976, engineer, inventor, and member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

Dover, Kansas

In the Fall of 2008 Good Morning America ran a competition to determine the "Country's Best Pie."

Dover, Massachusetts

Joseph F. Enright, submarine captain in the United States Navy, commanded the USS Archer-Fish and sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano

In 2012, Mitt Romney, a Republican, defeated Barack Obama, a Democrat, in the general election 56% to 43% in Dover.

Milt Schmidt, former Player, Coach and GM of the Boston Bruins.

Bohdan Pomahač, plastic surgeon who led the team that performed the first full face transplant in the United States.

Matthew A. Reynolds, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs

Dover, Minnesota

Dover is part of the Dover-Eyota School District.

Dover, Pennsylvania

:The Pennsylvania Academic Standards require students to learn about Darwin's Theory of Evolution and eventually to take a standardized test of which evolution is a part.

During the 1863 Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War, Dover was briefly occupied overnight, June 30—July 1, by Confederate cavalry under J.E.B. Stuart.

Dover, Virginia

Its two distinguishing features are Stoke (a prominent house where Teddy Roosevelt was a frequent guest) and the Champe Ford Memorial (an obelisk commemorating John Champe, handpicked by George Washington to re-capture Benedict Arnold after his defection to the British side.

Other notable residents include Virginia Warner (daughter of Sen. John Warner) and billionaire Jacqueline Mars of Mars Candy.

The Amazing Race (9.3) shows many of the contestants passing '629' in the dead of night on their way to Dulles Airport.

Dover's powder

Dover's powder was a traditional medicine against cold and fever developed by Thomas Dover.

Emanual Davis

As a 6'4" (1.96 m) guard, Davis played college basketball at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware.

Hector Carlier

In 1933 Hector had married the 23 years younger Dutch Amelia Goossens (died in 1989,) from Woensdrecht, in Dover, Great Britain.

Helmut Bennemann

He claimed his first aerial victory on 26 August, when he shot down a Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfire near Dover.

Isaac Coffin

c. 1801, the son of Admiral Francis Holmes Coffin and baptized on 24 August 1801 at St Mary the Virgin, Dover, Kent.

James McDonald Chaney

He was pastor of the church at Dover, Missouri from April 24, 1858 until October, 1867; he served as Stated Supply of the church at Kansas City, Missouri from 1868-1869; and Stated Supply at Dover, MO, from 1869-1870.

Knoxville Raceway

The driver with the most 410 feature wins at the Knoxville Raceway is Danny Lasoski of Dover, Missouri with 100 feature wins.

Komla Agbeli Gbedemah

In the United States, Gbedemah is most widely known from an incident on 10 October 1957 when U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized to him after he was refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover, Delaware.

New Hampshire Route 155

The highway runs from Epping in Rockingham County to Dover in Strafford County.

Prince Ludwig the Indestructible

On meeting Blackadder, he claims to have been disguised as "Big Sally", a barmaid Blackadder knew at a pub in Dover called The Old Pizzle he once frequented.

PS Duchess of Montrose

From 14 July 1915 she was stationed at Dover under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Duff Thomson Royal Naval Reserve and from April 1916 she was stationed at Dunkirk.

Wild Bunch

On April 3, 1895, the Wild Bunch, without Doolin, held up a Rock Island train at Dover but were unable to open the safe with the $50,000 army payroll.

William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes

He was an award-winning sports writer and sports editor of the Delaware State News in Dover, Delaware, before embarking on a career in Federal government human resources.


Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

Azalea Park, Florida

Schools within the neighborhood include Azalea Park Elementary School, Chickasaw Elementary School, Dover Shores Elementary, Englewood Elementary School, Stonewall Jackson Middle School, and Colonial High School.

Baron Skelmersdale

The title was created in 1828 for the former Member of Parliament for Westbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Clitheroe and Dover, Edward Bootle-Wilbraham.

Bay View Historical Society

They have restored the area surrounding the Pryor Avenue Iron Well and designated historical landmarks at the following locations: Beulah Brinton House, Bay View United Methodist Church, Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddler's Hall, St. Augustine School, St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Estes Home, Kneisler's White House Tavern, Club Garibaldi, Trowbridge Street School, Dover Street School, European Copper Beech Tree, Immaculate Conception Church, and the Keller Winery.

BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun

It was emplaced near Dover in 1940, and the combination was named "Pooh", after Winnie-the-Pooh.

Bluebird

Examples are Jan Peerce's signature song, "Bluebird of Happiness", "Over the Rainbow" ("Somewhere over the Rainbow/Bluebirds fly"), "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" ("I'm Always Chasing Rainbows/Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain"), and "The White Cliffs of Dover" ("There'll be bluebirds over/The White Cliffs of Dover").

Buddy Parrott

Parrott and Petty won at Dover, and was chief for Petty's 200th career victory in the 1984 Firecracker 400 at Daytona International Speedway.

Carnival Splendor

Carnival Splendors godmother is Myleene Klass, who on 8 June 2008 christened the vessel in Dover in a lighthearted ceremony where she played Sailing on the piano, while a Royal Navy diver climbed up five decks on a rope, and broke the bottle of champagne on the bow by hand.

Cyril Golding-Bird

After time as vicar of St Barnabas', Dover, he began a long period of service overseas: first as Dean of the Falkland Islands; then a similar post in Newcastle, New South Wales following which he was ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Kalgoorlie.

Del-One

Eligibility for membership is extended to employees of the State of Delaware; anyone who lives, works or worships in Georgetown, Milford, Newark, Wilmington and the West Dover area, and over 200 select employee groups.

Desert Research and Technology Studies

Space suits tested during Desert RATS include ILC Dover's Mark III and I-Suit.

Dover Hill

SS Dover Hill, a UK cargo ship completed in 1918 as the SS Clan Macvicar, renamed SS Dover Hill in 1936 and scuttled in the Normandy landings in 1944.

Dover House

Dover House was designed by James Paine for Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, Bart., MP, in the 1750s and remodelled by Henry Flitcroft, as "Montagu House", for George Montagu, created 1st Duke of Montagu, who had removed from Bloomsbury.

When Scotland acquired a devolved parliament, the responsibilities of the Scottish Office were reduced and, in 1999, was renamed the Scotland Office with Dover House remaining as its chief London building.

Dover Street

Oliver Wendell Holmes in Our Hundred Days in Europe records staying at Mackellar's Hotel, 17 Dover Street, where "we found ourselves comfortably lodged and well cared for during the whole time we were in London".

In the 1920s many notable photographers were based in Dover Street including Paul Tanqueray, Hugh Cecil and Alexander Bassano.

Edward Murdstone

After being released from a debtor's prison, Mr Micawber is forced to move to Plymouth and David flees the factory to find his aunt Betsey Trotwood at Dover.

Erlangen program

Heinrich Guggenheimer (1977) Differential Geometry, Dover, NY, ISBN 0-486-63433-7.

Eyota, Minnesota

Eyota is part of the Dover-Eyota School District.

Frogcircus

That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.

Graham Ibbeson

He has created bronze sculptures in towns and cities across Britain including Leeds, Cardiff, Dover, Barnsley, Doncaster, Northampton, Chesterfield, Middlesbrough, Perth, Otley and Rugby.

Great Synagogue of London

Krinsky, Carol H., Synagogues of Europe; Architecture, History, Meaning, MIT Press, 1985; revised edition, MIT Press, 1986; Dover reprint, 1996

Gwyn Prosser

He was a port engineer for Aramco in Saudi Arabia from 1977-8, then chief engineer for Anscar from 1978-9, and Sealink Ferries from Dover from 1979-92.

Heawood number

Saaty, Thomas L. and Kainen, Paul C.; The Four-Color Problem: Assaults and Conquest, Dover, 1986.

History of organic farming

He published his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries (1911, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-43609-8).

Kenneth Dover

Dover featured in an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme "In the Psychiatrist's Chair", presented by Anthony Clare.

Lincoln Akerman School

After finishing eighth grade, Lincoln Akerman students generally continue on to either public Winnacunnet High School or to a private school such as Phillips Exeter Academy or St. Thomas.

Michael Alford

Upon landing at Dover he was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of being Father Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, for whose apprehension the government had offered a reward.

MS European Endeavour

The ship was built in 2000 for Merchant Ferries as Midnight Merchant for a planned service between Liverpool and Belfast, however the ship was chartered to Norfolkline for their new service between Dover and Dunkirk and remained on that route until July 2006 when she was replaced by one of three new ships for the service.

MS Pride of Dover

She mainly operated the Dover–Calais route for P&O until 2010.

MV Volcan de Tacande

After 7 December 1997, during operation between Calais - Dover, the SeaFrance Monet was laid up in Dunkerque.

New York State Route 343

The highway helped General George Washington's troops during the American Revolutionary War and was also the main supply route to the hamlets of Payne's Corners (now Amenia), Washiac (now Wassaic) and Dover Plains.

Newick format

It was adopted by James Archie, William H. E. Day, Joseph Felsenstein, Wayne Maddison, Christopher Meacham, F. James Rohlf, and David Swofford, at two meetings in 1986, the second of which was at Newick's restaurant in Dover, New Hampshire, US.

Ophrys sphegodes

Despite its apparent vulnerability, it has very successfully colonised the chalk spoil dumping grounds created near Dover at Samphire Hoe from the excavations of the Channel Tunnel.

RMS Lady of Mann

Requisitioned as a personnel ship at the outbreak of war, she had a good turn of speed, and was able to get in and out of the Dunkirk bombardments and lift 4,262 men back to the relative safety of Dover and Folkstone.

San Ferry Ann

Wordlessly, with soundtrack and sound effects, it tells the story of a holiday crossing from Dover to Calais.

SECR R class

LCDR R class – a class of 0-4-4T locomotives built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) in 1891

Something Big

In the frontier of the southern New Mexico Territory, Joe Baker (Dean Martin) is an aging restless bandit determined to do "something big" before his fiancée Dover McBride (Carol White) arrives from the East.

SS Dover Hill

On 17 May Dover Hill and three other ships left the Kola Inlet and went via the White Sea to Economia on the Northern Dvina River.

Steve Thompson

Steven Thomson (born 1978), Scottish footballer, currently at Dover Athletic

The Devil in Dover

The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America is a 2008 book by journalist Lauri Lebo about the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District intelligent design trial, through her own perspective as a local reporter on the trial as she confronted her own attitudes about organized religion and her father who was a fundamentalist Christian.

West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania

On July 1, J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry rode north-south through the township following the Battle of Hanover on their way to Dover.

WZLO

Under its previous ownership, WDME referred to itself on-air as, "The only radio station in the world broadcasting from a railroad passenger car." WDME's studios were located in a converted Amtrak coach formerly situated beside Routes 6 and 15 to the north and west of Dover-Foxcroft.