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5 unusual facts about Dow


Carling Station

It is near Dow's Lake the western terminal of the Rideau Canal skating rink (in winters only) and a key site during the Canadian Tulip Festival in May.

Coachman's Cove

The first names associated with the settlement were Downey, Bailey, Norman, Dobbin, Dow, Demfy, and Drover.

Dow's Lake

It commemorates the role Canadian forces played in the liberation of the Netherlands, and a reproduced cast of the sculpture exists in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

HMCS Carleton

On 17 December 1943 HMCS Carleton moved to its current facilities at Canadian Forces Reserve Barrack Dow's Lake, when the new "stone frigate" was inaugurated in the presence of Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada.

Winterlude

Dow's Lake also has a large skating area and hosts various activities.


132d Air Refueling Squadron

With the inactivation of Dow AFB in 1968, most of the base was purchased by the city of Bangor and reopened the following year as Bangor International Airport.

Alex Dow

It was at this convention that Dow introduced Ford to Thomas Edison.

Alexander Dow

Alexander Dow (1735/6, Perthshire, Scotland – 31 July 1779, Bhagalpur) was an Orientalist, writer, playwright and army officer in the East India Company.

American Research Center in Egypt

ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome.

Asia News

Asia Business News (ABN) was a business news channel by Dow Jones and Company

Bill Dow

Bill Dow recently completed his M.A. in Liberal Studies at Simon Fraser University through an examination of Greek tragedy and the writing of a ‘new’ tragedy – Cupid’s Arrow, that tells the beginnings of the story of Jason and Medea – the pre-quel to Euripides’ Medea.

Canadian Jewish News

The main Toronto edition of the CJN in recent years had a rotating group of guest columnists: among them were academics Norma Baumel Joseph and Norman Ravvin of Concordia University; Sarah Horowitz of York; Gil Troy of McGill; Gerald Steinberg of Bar Ilan University, as well as Jean Gerber in Vancouver, and Rabbi Dow Marmur and Avrum Rosensweig in Toronto.

Clarence W. Barron

The Bancroft family remained the majority shareholder of Dow Jones until July 31, 2007 when Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. won the support of 32 percent of the Dow Jones voting shares controlled by the Bancroft family, enough to ensure a comfortable margin of victory.

Culture of Saint Martin

Among the island's leading cultural artists are Isidore "Mighty Dow" York, kaisonian, panman; Roland Richardson, Impressionist painter; Nicole de Weever, dancer, broadway star; Lasana M. Sekou, poet, author, independence advocate; Clara Reyes, choreographer; King Timo, kaisonian; Tanny and The Boys, string band music group.

Damond Jiniya

The duo quickly went on the road with acts such as Godhead (band), Mortiis, Switchblade Symphony and Christian Death touring the U.S. Canada, Mexico and Europe (1997–2003) DOW became a trio in 1998 adding Christian Death drummer Steven "Divine" Wright.

Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna

The historian Ludwig Jedlicka, co-founder of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) and director of the Austrian Institute for Contemporary History (since 1961) became the first director of the new institute.

Don Howland

Prior to the Bassholes, Howland played guitar and sang with the Gibson Brothers, a Columbus, Ohio-based demented roots rock band that included Monsieur Jeffrey Evans, Dan Dow, Ellen Hoover, and later Jon Spencer Rich Lillash and Lamont "Bim" Thomas.

Dow AgroSciences

Dow AgroSciences operates brand names such as Sentricon, Vikane, Mycogen, SmartStax, Pfister Seed, Phytogen, Prairie Brand Seed, Profume, Renze Seeds and Triumph Seed.

Dow Mossman

Following the publication of The Stones of Summer, Dow was mentally exhausted and spent several months in an Iowa sanitorium.

Dow Tate

Chester Dow Tate, 1997 Dow Jones Newspaper Fund National Journalism Teacher of the Year and Texas' Max Haddick Teacher of the Year, has advised Shawnee Mission East High School's student publications since August 2002.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (June 27, 1824 – November 19, 1904) was a writer, reformer, and philanthropist, born on Beacon Hill, Boston to Sargent Smith Littledale and Ednah Parker (Dow).

Ellen Weiske

Weiske works at Dow Studio on Deer Isle, Maine where she teaches and continues to expand on her multi-media body of work.

EPCglobal

EPCglobal's board of governors includes representatives from EPCglobal, GS1, Auto-ID Labs, Cisco Systems, DHL/Exel Supply Chain, Haier Group Company, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, LG Electronics, Lockheed Martin Corporation, METRO AG, Novartis Pharma AG, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Procter & Gamble, Sony Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Ewan Dow

During season 2008/09 Dow served on the Board of Cowdenbeath Football Club in the joint role of Club Secretary and Media Officer.

Frank Merrill

Frank Dow Merrill (December 4, 1903 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts – December 11, 1955 in Fernandina Beach, Florida) is best remembered for his command of Merrill's Marauders, officially the 5307th Composite Unit (provisional), in the Burma Campaign of World War II.

Fred McLafferty

In 1956, he became the Director of Dow’s Eastern Research Lab in Framingham, Massachusetts.

George Francis Dow

The John Ward House was moved to its present site in 1910 and restored by the Peabody Essex Museum, under the direction of curator and early preservationist George Francis Dow.

Glass Plus

Dow Chemical acquired it through its 1986 purchase of Texize.

Globe Trade Centre

The company's shares are included in the international Dow Jones STOXX Eastern Europe 300 index, the GPR250 index, which comprises the 250 biggest and most liquid real estate companies of the world, and the FTSE European Public Real Estate Association/National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts Emerging Index.

Grace Ingalls

Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow (May 23, 1877, Burr Oak, Iowa, USA – November 10, 1941) was the fifth and last child of Caroline and Charles Ingalls.

Harold Dow Bugbee

Bugbee was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, to Charles H. Bugbee and the former Grace L. Dow.

Head Standard

A number of metal skis were introduced over the years, among them the 1942 All Magnesium, a post-war run of 1,000 Metalite aluminum skis from Chance Vought, the stainless steel Chris Ski, the aluminum Alu-60 (later known as the TEY True-Flex), the Dow Metal Air Ski, and the Gomme from the UK.

Hugh Dow

Sir Hugh Dow, GCIE, KCSI (8 May 1886 – 20 November 1978) was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj.

Joseph Gutnick

In the teeth of that application prepared by Geoffrey Robertson QC, Tim Robertson SC, London based Human Rights lawyer, Mark Stephens (solicitor) and Sydney based lawyer, Paul Reidy the case was settled on 15 November 2004, Dow Jones settled the case, agreeing to pay Gutnick some of his legal fees.

Mike Dow

During his first term, Dow worked with county leaders to secure the construction of Mobile Government Plaza, the first governmental structure in the United States to house both city and county government.

Montreal Planetarium

President of the board of directors of Dow Breweries, Gendron convinced Dow to create a world-class planetarium in Montreal, as part of the Canadian Centennial celebrations.

Mulch

Isopropanolamine, specifically 1-Amino-2-propanol or DOW™ monoisopropanolamine, may be used as a pigment dispersant and color fastener in these mulches.

Robert Joseph Dwyer

In 1943, he edited work on the diary of Albert Tracy, a soldier in Albert Sidney Johnston's troops during the Utah War and in 1946 he edited a volume on Mormon pioneer Lorenzo Dow Young which contained a biography of Young by James Amasa Little, an edited diary of Lorenzo Dow Young and additional information on the pioneer's extensive family.

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Roy Dow

Dow appeared in the documentary Quantum Hoops, a 2007 film directed by Rick Greenwald, that follows the California Institute of Technology's basketball team—the Caltech Beavers—in their attempts to end a 21-year losing streak during the final week of the 2006 basketball season.

Sint Maarten

Among the leading cultural artists of the island are Isidore "Mighty Dow" York, kaisonian, panman; Roland Richardson, Impressionist painter; Nicole de Weever, dancer, broadway star; Lasana M. Sekou, poet, author, independence advocate; Clara Reyes, choreographer; Tanny and The Boys, string band music group.

Stephen Dow Beckham

Stephen Dow Beckham is a noted American historian known for his work with Native Americans and the American West, especially the Pacific Northwest and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Sterling, Connecticut

Charles Dow, of Dow Jones fame, was born in this community.

Thomas Dow Jones

Thomas Dow Jones was born in the United States of America on December 11, 1811, in Oneida County, New York.

Tim Sample

He has also narrated many films and books on tape, including Robert McCloskey’s children's classic Burt Dow: Deep-Water Man, Stephen King’s The Sun Dog, and a reconstructed version of the 1930 documentary From Stump to Ship.

Todd Harrison

Harrison has appeared on Fox, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV and in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Worth, Fortune, Barron's, Dow Jones MarketWatch, New York and Canada's National Post, and contributed articles to various market-related publications.

Unipol

:"Unipol", styled as "UNIPOL", is also the name of a technology for plastics production developed by Union Carbide (now a subsidiary of Dow).

William Dow

Born at Muthill, Perthshire, he was the eldest son of Dr William Dow (1765-1844), Brewmaster, and Anne Mason.


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