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3 unusual facts about Eason & Son


Angela's Ashes

After being urged to take the postman test at the post office, Frankie soon decides not to take it and to deliver newspapers and magazines for Eason's.

EM News Distribution

The company is a joint venture between Eason News Distribution and Menzies News Distribution (owned by John Menzies plc) and was formed in 2007 by the merger of their respective distribution businesses.

John O'London's Weekly

While McCourt is delivering magazines to shops for the company Eason's, his boss learns from the Irish government that copies of John O'London's Weekly must be censored because they contain an article about birth control.


Batman: Son of the Demon

DC Comics published a new printing of Batman: Son of the Demon in 2006 featuring new cover art by Andy Kubert for the first time in standard comic book size with a cover price of $5.99 US, tying in with the "Batman & Son" arc.

Calverstown

It was the first international motor race to be held in Great Britain, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

Cambridge, Illinois

The Henry County Court House, designed by Thomas J. Tolan & Son, Architects, of Fort Wayne, Indiana (1875–1878), is the key architectural landmark of the village.

Courtyard Shopping Centre

Letterkenny's oldest Eason's bookstore and Heatons, the department store in which billionaire retail entrepreneur and Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has a 50% stake, are among the outlets to be found inside.

De Schelde Scheldemusch

In 1935 the Dutch dockyard NV Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, based at Vlissingen (Flushing) on the Schelde (Scheldt) estuary moved into aircraft manufacture with the acquisition of the staff of the Pander Company.

Edward Goodland

In civilian life, he was one of the six employees who were left in charge of the antique furniture and jewellery company Mallett & Son by the company founder in 1930, and he became both chairman and managing director.

Featherbed

The big London furniture store Heal & Son offered to clean and "purify" old beds with new steam machinery.

Harby, Leicestershire

Built by Messrs E. Wragg & Son of Nottingham, at a cost of £210, it was removed when the chapel was modernised for its current use.

Harold Avery

His father was the owner of the W. Avery & Son company which made needles, pins and needle cases during the second half of the 19th century.

Helen Stenborg

Stenborg appeared on stage in revivals of A Doll's House, A Month in the Country, and The Crucible; the original, belated US production of Noël Coward's Waiting in the Wings, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play; and the Lanford Wilson plays, The Rimers of Eldritch and Talley & Son winning the Obie Award for her performance in the latter.

James Boughtwood Comber

On leaving school, Comber worked briefly for the seed company of Sutton & Son at Reading before beginning an apprenticeship at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1951.

Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son is a 1999 film that was adapted from a collection of short stories of the same name by Denis Johnson.

Lawn mower

In the 1850s, Thomas Green & Son of Leeds introduced a mower called the Silens Messor (meaning silent cutter), which used a chain to transmit power from the rear roller to the cutting cylinder.

Learn How to Read and Write, Son

The main plot unfolds in a mountainous village somewhere in Arcadia (the movie was filmed in Stemnitsa, Dimitsana and the surrounding areas) shortly after Metapolitefsi.

Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold's brother Marc Eidlitz was the founder of a major construction firm, Marc Eidlitz & Son Builders N.Y.C. in New York, which built the St. Regis Hotel and many other projects.

Louis Baron, son

Louis Bouchêne, known as Louis Baron, fils (born Paris 24 December 1870, died Dieppe 30 November 1939), was an actor and singer, who took part in many operettas and comédie-musicales, and was in 30 films between 1929 et 1938.

Marvelman

Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son.

Minos EMI

In 1991, EMIAL purchased a controlling share of Minos Matsas & Son, a record company founded by pioneering Greek music industry executive and prominent rebetiko musician Minos Matsas, in 1927, and which also edited music under the label Odeon and which produced, since then, records under the Minos label.

Monasterevin

It was the first international motor race to be held in either Ireland or Great Britain, an honorific to Selwyn Edge who had won the 1902 event in Paris driving a Napier.

Monastery of The Holy Spirit, Sheffield

The architect was Hadfield & Son and the building was modelled on the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity at 140 Rue du Bac in Paris.

Paul Gauci

The firm, located at 9 North Crescent, Bedford Square, was among the leading lithographers of the day, ranking with Charles Joseph Hullmandel and Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.

South African Class 16E 4-6-2

The Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive was designed by A.G. Watson, the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1929 to 1936, and built by Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany.

South African Class 61-000

The Class 61-000 type DH 1420 diesel-hydraulic locomotive was designed and built for the South African Railways (SAR) by Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany.

Sunbeam Arab

After submission to the Internal Combustion Engine Committee of the National Advisory Committee Sunbeam received an order for 1,000 in March 1917, increased to 2,000 in June 1917 as well as another 2,160 to be built by Austin Motors (1,000), Lanchester Motor Company (300), Napier & Son (300) and Willys Overland (560) in the United States of America.

Swanson

For the majority of its run, Swanson sponsored the game show, The Name's the Same, with Robert Q. Lewis, alternating sponsorship with, first Bendix Home Appliance division of Avco; and then Johnson's Wax.


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