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unusual facts about Dyer-Bennet Records



Alan Dinehart

Dinehart's first wife was the stage actress Louise Dyer (1895-1934), a native of Nassau County, New York.

Alden Brooks

He overcame the problem that Dyer died in 1607, several years before Shakespeare's The Tempest is believed to have been written, by arguing that this was early work, which he believed was proven by its appearance as the first play in the 1623 Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays.

Austin Hopkinson

He was a member of the House of Commons Army Committee in 1919, and the following year criticised the actions of Brigadier-General Dyer in the Amritsar massacre following the official report into it.

Barbara McMartin

Her dissertation was "One Relator Metabelian Groups" under advisors Gilbert Baumslag, Wilhelm Magnus, and Joan Landman Dyer.

Bestor Robinson

From October 9 to 12, 1939 a Sierra Club climbing team including Robinson, David Brower, Raffi Bedayn, and John Dyer, completed the first ascent of Shiprock, the erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano with nearly vertical walls on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico.

Buddy Dyer

The group Orlando Food Not Bombs sued Dyer and the city of Orlando over the ordinance in federal court.

But Beautiful

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz, a 1991 book about jazz and jazz musicians by Geoff Dyer

Cenodoxus

Jacob Bidermann, Cenodoxus, ISBN 0-292-71027-5, edited by D.G. Dyer (1974 University of Texas Press, itself a reprint of an earlier entry in the Edinburgh Bilingual Library);

Chalet School

The Chalet School is a series of approximately sixty school story novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer, initially published between 1925 and 1970.

Charles Herbert Mayo

Mayo was born in 1845, the third of three children of William Mayo, the rector of Folke, and his wife Charlotte (née Dyer).

Dawnine Dyer

It was during this period that Dyer joined forces with other winemakers and grape growers in calling for the creation of Geographic Indications and Appellations of Origin for America’s wine growing regions, including the Napa Valley AVA.

Do the needful

The Oxford English Dictionary lists examples of usage from 1709 (Richard Steele in the Tatler), 1771 (Samuel Foote in Maid of Bath), 1821 (Maria Edgeworth in a letter), 1831 (Walter Scott in his journal), 1929 (I. Colvin in his Life of Dyer), and 1992 (Jeff Torrington in Swing Hammer Swing!), the last likely used humorously.

Dyer County, Tennessee

He was instrumental in the formation of the counties of Dyer and Madison County, Tennessee.

Dyer's Oak

Gall Oak (Quercus lusitanica) of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.

Elliptic curve

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (BSD) is one of the Millennium problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Elsie J. Oxenham

She is considered a major figure among girls' story writers of the first half of the twentieth century, being one of the 'Big Three' with Elinor Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruce.

Elsie J. Oxenham is considered by collectors of British Girls' Fiction to be one of the 'Big Three'; the other two being Elinor Brent-Dyer and Dorita Fairlie Bruce.

Erythroxylum novogranatense

It was named by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, the third director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, because its country of origin was the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada—present day Colombia.

Folkways Records

Since acquiring Folkways, the Smithsonian has expanded Asch's collection by adding several other record labels, including Cook, Monitor, Fast Folk, Dyer-Bennet, and Paredon.

Giant Electric Pea

Giant Electric Pea was formed in 1992 by Michael Holmes, Thomas Waber (also founder of European independent music labels, Inside Out Music and Superball Music), Laurence Dyer and Martin Orford.

Goodbye Charlie Bright

After looking in the window of a BMW it becomes clear that Julie, the girlfriend of Francis (Dyer), another member of 'The Firm', is having sex with "local nutter" Eddie (Phil Daniels), who is some 20 years older.

Ground Zero Gallery

These shows included many other notable artists including: Stephen Lack, Manuel De Landa, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Smith, Walter Robinson, Julius Klein, Nick Zedd, Thom Corn, Mark and Matt Enger, Conrad Vogel, Phoebe Legere, Cheryl Dyer, Selwyn Garaway.

Harry Marshall Ward

Dyer persuaded him to spend time researching the biological processes involved in brewing ginger beer, and helped ensure his entry to the Linnaean society, his signature was on a letter to the prime minister of the day H H Asquith recommending a pension should be paid to his widow, Selina after his death.

Hebron Church, Long Ashton

The Church arose out of a Sunday School and youth club by Mr Dyer, who cycled weekly from Keynsham to run the clubs.

Hebron Church in Long Ashton, North Somerset, near Bristol in England, was first founded in 1934 by Ernest Dyer.

Henry Dyer Grindle

Henry Dyer Grindle (November 19, 1826 – September 14, 1902) was a Manhattan physician and abortion provider in the 1870s who worked under the name H.D. Grindle.

Horace Dyer

In 1926, Dyer was appointed as the special prosecutor in connection with an investigation and subsequent prosecution of Clarence Saunders, the founder of the Piggly Wiggly supermarkets, in connection with fraudulent sales of the company's stock.

Jane Ballard Dyer

They returned to South Carolina in 1988 and Dyer worked as a pilot at FedEx for the past 20 years, currently flying as an A300 Captain.

Liam Hess

His most recent appearance has been the role of Peter Dyer in the feature film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, produced by Paramount Pictures.

Mary Dyer

The next day, as she was escorted to the gallows by Captain John Evered of the Boston military company, Evered said to her "...that she had, previously been found guilty of the same charge, and been banished, that she now had one last chance to repent and be banished again." Dyer refused and was then hanged.

Michael Dyer

As a true freshman in 2010 Dyer rushed for 1,093 yards on 182 carries and five touchdowns, breaking the Auburn record for most rushing yards by a freshman, previously held by Bo Jackson.

Monika Steiner

Major collections of Monika Steiner's artwork are held by the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in San Luis Obispo, California, the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City, Panama, the JW Marriott Hotel Ankara, in Ankara, Turkey, and the Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California, as well as by the Ashlyn Dyer Foundation, Ron Gutman, Dorfmusem Bönigen, and John Jaber.

Oliver Dyer

Dyer later travelled to Washington, D.C. to record sessions of 30th Congress as its first shorthand reporter.

Pamela Dean

Pamela Collins Dean Dyer-Bennet (born 1953), better known as Pamela Dean, is an American fantasy author whose most notable book is Tam Lin, based on the Child Ballad of the same name, in which the Scottish fairy story is set on a midwestern college campus loosely based on her alma mater, Carleton College in Minnesota.

Richard D. Cotter

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.

Robert Dyer

Dyer married Elizabeth Bartlett, daughter of Josiah and Sarah Ann (Hughes) Bartlett, on 15 April 1845, at St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in London.

Robert Dyer was admitted to the diaconate on 3 May 1849; and was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Edward Field.

Ron Dyer

In 2011, Brad Hazzard NSW Minister for Planning appointed Dyer as a Joint Chair of a Review of the NSW Planning System together with former NSW Environment Minister Tim Moore.

Sammy White's Brighton Bowl

During the trial, witnesses testified that in the days following the murders Dyer had paid off an overdue car loan as well as prepaid three months rent at the YMCA where he had been living.

Samson Dyer

Dyer applied for British citizenship six years later, and stated to the Governor, Sir John Cradock, that he was permanently employed culling seals and had prepared skins of some 24,000 seals over four seasons.

Scratchwood

The area close to Scratchwood is acid grassland which has uncommon species such as dyer's greenweed and heath speedwell.

St. John River expedition

Dyer, West, and Allan returned to Machias by way of the Oromocto and Magaguadavic rivers.

Unrealised Projects

Ami Clarke, Sarah Conway-Dyer & Claire Coupe, David Cunningham, Debbie Daniel, Neva Elliott, Jarrod Fowler, Cecilie Gravesen, Robert Kiff, Uta Kögelsberger, Josh Love, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Sophie Risner, Ola Stahl, Paul Stanley, Cecilia Wee.

William Gunn

Bill Gunn Dam, structure at Lake Dyer in Australia, named for the politician

William Turner Thiselton-Dyer

His principal works are an English edition of Sachs Text-Book of Botany (1875), editions of the Flora Capensis and of the Flora of Tropical Africa, and Index Kewensis (1905).

He married Harriet Anne Hooker, daughter of Joseph Dalton Hooker, in 1877; they had one son and one daughter.


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