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3 unusual facts about Dresser


Dresser-Rand Group

In 1985, Dresser Industries furthered their reach in the energy conversion and power generation market with the acquisition of a 50% share of the Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk gas turbine division, the producer of the KG2, the world's first radial gas turbine.

Dresser Industries, whose history dated back to the 1880s, was formed from the 1938 merger of the Solomon R. Dresser Company and the Clark Brothers Company of Olean, New York.

Florence Knoll

Dressers and desks are all square in design but never lack for quality.


Christopher Dresser

Some of Dresser’s metalwork designs are still in production, such as his oil and vinegar sets and toast rack designs, now manufactured by Alessi and Alberto Alessi goes so far as to say Dresser 'knew the techniques of metal production better than any designer who has come to Alessi'.

Edwin F. Hunter

In another landmark legal ruling several years later, James Roach v. Dresser Industries, Hunter classified the Louisiana Acadians, popularly termed "Cajuns", as a national minority group.

Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo

Part of Pearl Jam's "World Wide Suicide" clip was filmed in the dresser rooms of the stadium.

Fictionmania

Helen Boyd described a typical plot as involving a man being feminized by his wife or girlfriend, commonly as punishment; the wife then forces the man to go out in public dressed as a woman, sometimes double-dating with his wife/girlfriend and two men, and the stories often end with the cross-dresser giving a blowjob to a man.

Harry Lennix

He is best known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats and as Boyd Langton in the Joss Whedon television series Dollhouse.

Haulpak

The name was adopted as Wabco Haulpak when R. G. LeTourneau's business was bought by Wabco, and the Haulpak name continued through Wabco's purchase by American Standard, the operation's purchase by Dresser Industries, the merger into Komatsu-Dresser, and for a time after Komatsu took over complete ownership from Dresser.

I Stay in Love

As a form of product placement, her fragrance is shown on a dresser in her Boudoir.

Island Pond, Vermont

The town was the setting of the memoir A Dresser of Sycamore Trees, by Garret Keizer.

Jack McMullen

McMullen starred alongside Ian Hart and Dervla Kirwan, playing the part of Daniel, who is a cross-dresser.

Joseph Dresser Tetley

Joseph Dresser Tetley was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 8 July 1867 to 19 June 1869, when he resigned.

Kevin Dresser

Born in Fort Dodge and a native of Humboldt, Iowa, Dresser was a two-time high school wrestling state champion and four time place winner fifth (freshman) and sixth (sophomore) Humboldt High School.

Killer BOB

During the filming of a scene in the pilot taking place in Laura's room, Frank Silva, a set dresser, accidentally trapped himself in the room by inadvertently moving a dresser in front of the door.

Lovie Austin

A fancy dresser and a well-liked person, she was often seen racing around town in her Stutz Bearcat with leopard skin upholstery, dressed to the teeth.

Oren Jacoby

Jacoby has directed plays at Theater for the New City, the Williamstown Theater Festival, Ensemble Studio Theater, the West Bank Cafe and regional theaters, including new works by Richard Dresser, Quincy Long, Botho Strauss, and Franz Xavier Kroetz as well as classics by Moliere, Chekhov, and Pirandello.

Palácio da Alvorada

In the back, on a wood dresser stand the statues of Saint John the Evangelist (17th century), Saint Joachim (18th century).

Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu

However, the person who actually mooted the idea of forming PESAKA was Thomas Kana, a former dresser at Kuala Belait.

Philostratus of Lemnos

Written in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.

Rhoda Morgenstern

Rhoda gave up her career as a window dresser/costume designer and pursued a career as a photographer in the time between the 1978 cancellation of Rhoda and the 2000 made-for-television movie Mary and Rhoda.

Sanford Sylvan

Sylvan received Grammy and Emmy awards for the role of Chou En-Lai in Nixon in China by John Adams and received five additional Grammy nominations: Fussell's Wilde (2009); Adams's The Wound-Dresser (1990), which was written for Sylvan; Fauré's L'horizon chimérique (1999); Beloved That Pilgrimage (1992); and the soundtrack for the Penny Woolcock Film of Adams' opera, The Death of Klinghoffer (2003).

Şinasi

Altina Schinasi (1907-1999), American sculptor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, window dresser, designer and inventor

Steven-Elliot Altman

Altman then focused his efforts in the technology field, where he created many successful multimedia departments for existing Advertising Firms, including Anderson & Lembke, and helped established firms like Ingersoll-Dresser to develop their online business models, and served in multiple Director positions at new firms like Eurohealthnet and Metrixlab to help develop their business models from the ground up.

Sylvin Rubinstein

Sylvin Rubinstein (1914 Moscow, April 30, 2011, Hamburg) is a Russian dancer and cross-dresser, who was a member of the resistance to Nazism during World War II.

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

At the time this movie was produced he was the European rival of famous American cross-dresser Julian Eltinge, who starred in very similar plotted World War I propaganda film The Isle of Love (original title Over the Rhine).


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