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unusual facts about Edwin L. Drake



C. D. Atkins

With Edwin L. Moore and Louis G. MacDowell in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Charles D. Drake

While in the Senate he was chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-first Congress).

His uncle, Benjamin Drake (1795–1841), was an American historian, editor, and writer.

Chloe Frazer

Chloe returns in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, working with Nate, Sully and new character Charlie Cutter to infiltrate the inner circle of Katherine Marlowe, who possesses the clues about the details of Sir Francis Drake's voyage to Arabia.

Cromwell Dixon

His achievement earned him $10,000, presented to him by Governor Edwin L. Norris.

Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park

Originally called Sugar Pine Point State Park, its name was changed in 2003 to honor Edwin L. Z'berg, a California state assemblyman who specialized in environmental legislation and worked to develop state parks and other natural areas.

Edwin L. Moore

With Louis G. MacDowell and C. D. Atkins in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Elena Fisher

Fisher appears in all three video games in the main series: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

However, close to the release of the first game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, her chin was further defined, and her hair made blonde.

Fighting Man of the Plains

Fighting Man of the Plains is a 1949 film directed by Edwin L. Marin.

Given Campbell

Soon after leaving university he came to St. Louis to begin practicing law and was for a short time in the office of Charles D. Drake, later a U.S. Senator from Missouri, and he was admitted to the bar in 1856.

He found it impossible to practice law in Missouri because of the new "test oath" in the 1865 Drake constitution.

James A. Drake

Drake and his wife, Magali (Garriga) Drake, reside in Viera, Florida.

Two of his biographies, Ponselle: A Singer’s Life (Doubleday & Company), and Richard Tucker: A Biography (E. P. Dutton Company), with forewords by tenor Luciano Pavarotti, were selected as “Books of the Month” by the National Book Clubs of America.

Jim Drake

James M. Drake (1837–1913), American soldier who fought in the American Civil War

John M. Drake

There is also a smaller mountain, Drake Butte, located in the Maury Mountains in Crook County that is named in his honor.

Drake and several other cavalry officers led lengthy explorations through eastern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho searching for Indian raiders.

John R. Drake

Drake was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 15th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1817, to March 3, 1819.

Louis G. MacDowell

With Edwin L. Moore and C. D. Atkins in the 1940s, he helped develop a new process for making concentrated orange juice.

Ludwig Meyn

In the spring of 1856, Meyn began with simple hand tools, the first drilling for oil in Dithmarschen, three years before Edwin L. Drake, tapped the first oil well in Pennsylvania.

Marcus M. Drake

Upon the resignation of Grover Cleveland as mayor on November 20, 1882 to take the Governor's seat, the Common Council elected Drake to fill the vacancy until a special election could be held in early January 1883.

During his commissionership, a giant boulder was placed in the meadow of Delaware Park, marking the burial site of 300 unknown soldiers of the War of 1812.

Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs

While the response to both editions of the book has been generally favorable, it remains controversial among some Burroughs aficionados, particularly for Lupoff's argument that the Barsoom series was heavily influenced by Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905) and The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician (1890) by Edwin L. Arnold.

Mechem

Edwin L. Mechem, Governor of New Mexico 1951-1955, 1957-1959, and 1961-1962, United States Senator from New Mexico 1962 to 1964.

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake is an album performed by a side project of Cardiacs, created by Tim Smith, Sarah Smith and William D. Drake.

Okan Yalabık

He also played the Arabic and Colombian Walla in the 2011 PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

Royal Game of Ur

In the Action-adventure game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, one of the hidden treasures is the board game.

Stamford Hospital

After consultation with his his friend and attorney, Edwin L. Scofield (later the second mayor of Stamford), regarding possible philanthropies, he gave the initial funding for the hospital by selling some of his property.

Theodore W. Drake

was an American cartoonist, graphic artist, and sports artist known for creating the college-sports mascot the Notre Dame Leprechaun.

Thomas S. Estes

In early 1938 Estes received an honorable discharge from the Marines to join the United States Foreign Service as a clerk and was assigned to the legation in Bangkok, Thailand under American Minister Edwin L. Neville and Holbrook "Chappy" Chapman.

William D. Drake

The other band members were the then-current Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman and two other former Cardiacs members (keyboard player and co-singer Mark Cawthra and bass player Jon Bastable (who'd been a backup Cardiac during Cawthra's tenure in the band).


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