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4 unusual facts about Dwight


Dwight, Illinois

Another new downtown building now on the National Register was Frank L. Smith Bank opened in 1906, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Prince Albert went on to become King Edward VII and the people of Dwight have never tired of talking about the visit.

James G. Strong

Born in Dwight, Illinois, Strong attended the public schools of Dwight, Illinois from 1876 to 1879, the Episcopal Mission of Greenwood Agency, S.Dak.

Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel

The hotel is the setting, though not the actual filming location, for "Dwight's Speech" in the American television show The Office.


A Benihana Christmas

At the end of the day, Jim tells Pam that a helicopter will be arriving to take Dwight to a welcoming party at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

A535

RUB A535, a topical analgesic manufactured by Church & Dwight

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare

The special features the Welcome To My Nightmare album in its entirety, with the addition of the song "Ballad of Dwight Frye" from the Alice Cooper album Love It to Death.

Ambler's Texaco Gas Station

Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 66 and Illinois Route 17 in Dwight, Illinois, United States, Ambler's Texaco Station was built in 1933 by Jack Schore on property originally owned by Otto Strufe.

American Pie Presents: Beta House

John White stars as Erik Stifler, a college freshman who pledges the Beta House fraternity led by his cousin, Dwight Stifler (Steve Talley).

Steve Talley as Dwight Stifler, the pledge master and leader of the Beta House

Ashburton, Baltimore

It is located near Liberty Heights Avenue and Hilton Street and home to many prominent African-Americans including Baltimore's former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, State Senator Lisa Gladden, State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, State Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, childhood home of Current Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Clerk of the Court Frank Conaway, Attorney Dwight Pettit, and many more.

Backstage: Lakers

Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic shoots around with the team before a game at STAPLES Center, and meets Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard in the training room.

Bill Holford

Bill Holford (né William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer.

Blanche Arral

Arral was married to Hamilton Dwight Bassett, a journalist from Cincinnati.

Bluesology

As Baldry's music drifted more towards the cabaret market, Dwight became disenchanted with the band, and so simultaneously began to develop songwriting skills in collaboration with Bernie Taupin whilst working as a session musician.

Carleton Free Press

It covered Carleton County and the upper Saint John River valley and was owned by local entrepreneur Dwight Fraser and its publisher is Ken Langdon.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dwight Rhoden has created over 90 ballets for Complexions, as well as numerous other companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Arizona Ballet, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company, the Dance Theater of Harlem, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet and New York City Ballet.

Dwight Armstrong

Dwight Alan Armstrong (August 29, 1951 – June 20, 2010) was an American anti-Vietnam War activist who was one of four persons involved in the August 24, 1970, Sterling Hall bombing on the campus University of Wisconsin–Madison, in an act of political protest against the University's research efforts on behalf of the United States armed forces.

Dwight Armstrong drove away with his brother, Leo F. Burt, and David S. Fine to a truck stop where they celebrated the bombing.

Dwight Crandell

Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell (1923 - April 6, 2009) was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century.

Dwight Deere Wiman

Dwight Wiman was born in Moline, Illinois, one of two boys born to William Wiman and Anna Deere, a granddaughter of John Deere.

Dwight School

In 2009, Dwight opened Dwight School Canada, located on Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island, Canada.

Dwight Stewart

Dwight Stewart is a former American professional basketball player and a member of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks 1994 NCAA champion men's basketball team.

Eisenhower Presidential Center

The Eisenhower Presidential Center, officially known as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum or Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, includes the Eisenhower presidential library, President Dwight David Eisenhower's boyhood home, Museum, and gravesite.

Gatemouth Moore

Arnold Dwight Moore (November 8, 1913, Topeka, Kansas – May 19, 2004, Yazoo City, Mississippi), better known as Gatemouth Moore and later Reverend Gatemouth Moore, was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter and pastor.

Geneva Summit

The Geneva Summit (1955) was held on July 18, 1955 and was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France

Heavy Competition

Dwight said under Michael's leadership, the office was like the Roman Empire, the Wild West, war-torn Poland, and Poland all at once.

Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

Lincoln Service

Senator Dick Durbin suggested the Dwight–Alton upgrades will create some 900 jobs, while the overall project could generate 24,000.

Loren Leman

Loren Dwight Leman (born December 2, 1950) was the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, traces his family history in Alaska to a marriage in Kodiak more than 200 years ago between a Russian shipbuilder and an Alutiiq woman from Afognak.

Melville Shavelson

He also wrote,produced and co-directed the six-hour ABC screenplay to the 1979 television miniseries Ike about Dwight D. Eisenhower, based on the World War II exploits of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.

New York Court for the Trial of Impeachments

Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19

Oscar W. Ritchie

In concert with some of his colleagues at Kent State he also co-founded the Portage County Family Planning, Counseling and Mental Health Center in Ravenna, Ohio with Dr. Dwight I. Arnold, a KSU Emeritus professor, and Dr. John Guidabaldi (Chairman, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Ed.), in 1962.

Paul Lieberstein

On March 22, 2012, it was announced that Lieberstein would step down from his showrunner role to focus on a planned spin-off series featuring Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, which was tentatively called "The Farm" and Lieberstein was set to be the showrunner.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

In 2000, Orr, in conjunction with Libman, began a series of commissions for contemporary ballets inspired by American music, including such musicians as Indigo in Motion, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Lena Horne, Billy Strayhorn, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and Cole Porter, with choreography of Kevin O'Day, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Dwight Rhoden, Derek Deane, Matjash Mrozewski, and Twyla Tharp.

Poldark

By the end of the first series, Dwight has become involved with heiress Caroline Penvenen (Judy Geeson), who is conflicted between her love for the hard-working Dwight and her desire for a life of leisure.

Prince Family Paper

Michael plans to meet Dwight at the IHOP pancake eatery after they visit Prince Family Paper, but Dwight insists IHOP is "socialist" and prefers the American restaurant chain Denny's.

Ralph Williams

Ralph E. Williams (1917–2003), United States Navy officer and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sarepta Therapeutics

Its primary products are Morpholino oligomers (PMOs), synthetic nucleic acid analogs that were conceived of by James Summerton and invented by Summerton with Dwight Weller, and are being developed under the name NeuGene Antisense.

Sereno Edwards Dwight

His publications include Life of David Brainerd (1822); Life and Works of Jonathan Edwards (ten volumes, 1830), of whom he was a great-grandson; The Hebrew Wife (1836), an argument against marriage with a deceased wife's sister; and Select Discourses (1851); to which was prefixed a biographical sketch by his brother William Dwight (1795–1865), who was also successively a lawyer and a Congregational preacher.

Shanley

Bernard M. Shanley (1903-1992) was most well known for his work with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Spyder Turner

He continued recording in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a song for the movie The Last Dragon (billed on the soundtrack as Dwight David).

Streets of Bakersfield

Actor and comedian Vince Vaughn sang the song live with Dwight Yoakam to a live audience in Bakersfield, California on his Wild West Comedy Tour.

Terri Lyne Carrington

The album features Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker, with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.

Theodore William Dwight

Dwight was particularly interested in prison reform; he collaborated on A Report on Prisons and Reformatories in the United States and Canada (1867), served as president of the New York Prison Association, and was a delegate to the International Prison Congress at Stockholm in 1878.

This Boy's Life

Eventually Wolff's mother becomes involved with Dwight Hansen (see below), and they settle in Concrete, Washington, north of Seattle, a place with plenty of natural beauty and, in their case, more than its share of personal desolation.

Thomas E. Caldecott

That same year, Caldecott bought a pharmacy at Dwight Way and Shattuck Avenue, later moved to Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street in the Webb Block, a building which was designated a local landmark in 2004.

Tim Dwight

In 2007, The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette sports staff voted Dwight the all-time greatest athlete from that newspaper's circulation area, topping other notables like NFL quarterback Kurt Warner and 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson

Tribulations

The song is featured in the 2005 video game Project Gotham Racing 3, the 2006 video game Driver: Parallel Lines, and in the episode of The Office "Night Out", when Michael and Dwight visit Ryan in a club in New York City.

Twilley

The Great Lost Twilley Album, the third and final album from the Dwight Twilley Band, recorded 1974–1980, released in 1993 on Shelter Records

William Dwight

As commanding officer of 70th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Dwight led his regiment during the Battle of Williamsburg, where he was seriously wounded on May 5, 1862, along with losing half of his command.


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