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unusual facts about El Hijo de L.A. Park



Aletha Maybank

She has appeared or been profiled on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show, BET's 106 & Park, HuffPost Live, Our World with Black Enterprise, FOX 5 NY Good Day Street Talk, and various other outlets.

Carta Brava, Jr.

Carta Brava, Jr. participated in the tournament along with second generation wrestlers Bestia 666, Hijo del Canek, El Hijo de L.A. Park, El Hijo de Máscara Año 2000, El Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Kung Fu, Jr., Bobby Lee, Jr., Trauma I and Ultraman, Jr. Carta Brava, Jr. lost in the first round to El Hijo de L.A. Park.

Dr. Charles R. Drew Science Magnet

The Science Magnet is physically connected to the Buffalo Museum of Science at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.

Duncan Hines

By 1953, Hines sold the right to use his name and the title of his book to Roy H. Park to form Hines-Park Foods, which licensed the name to a number of food-related businesses.

Edwin Moss Watson

He was known as "Col. Watson" although he never served in the military; he came by the title "more or less honestly," he said, when Guy B. Park, governor of Missouri from 1933 to 1937, named him an honorary colonel on his staff.

Gary Brazil

Manager Jim Smith gave him just five starts in 1989–90, as indifferent form and injuries kept Brazil behind strike partners Mark McGhee and Micky Quinn in the first team pecking order at St James' Park.

George Park

George S. Park (1811–1890), Texas War of Independence hero and founder of Parkville, Missouri, Park University and Manhattan, Kansas

Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park, the former name of Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in Buffalo, New York; designed by Frederick Law Olmsted

John R. Park

In 1855 Park entered medical school at New York University where he was a student of the chemist, historian and philosopher, John William Draper.

Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park

The stadium is named after Charleston's longest serving (and current) mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr..

Keshia Chanté

On September 26, 2013, BET President Stephen Hill announced on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show that Chante will be a new co host for 106 & Park alongside rapper Bow Wow starting on October 1.

KZJK

Nationwide Communications bought both the AM and FM stations from the estate of its longtime owner Roy Park, then Nationwide was bought by Jacor, which spun the station off to Infinity Broadcasting (which later became part of CBS Radio).

Lovers' Park

Following a year of research, French designer architect Pierre Rambach presented the sketches of the new Lovers' Park project in 2006 and received the approval of the Yerevan City Council.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Park

The park contains four contributing structures: the brick Shelter House (1904); Buffalo Museum of Science building (1926); Greenhouse (1907); and Humboldt Park Casino (ca. 1926).

Microwave News

In his 2000 book Voodoo Science, Robert L. Park described Microwave News as "an influential newsletter devoted entirely to the EMF-health issue" (Page 141).

Park House Museum

Thomas lent the property to his youngest brother Theodore Jones Park who ran a general merchandising and forwarding business with his brother John R. Park.

Park-McCullough Historic House

The house was built in 1864-65 by attorney and entrepreneur Trenor W. Park (1823-1882), who was born in nearby Woodford, Vermont but amassed his fortune overseeing the mining interests of John C. Fremont in California.

Robert Park

Robert H. Park (1902–1994), American electrical engineer and inventor

Roy H. Park

In the late 1940s, the Grange approached Park to find a way to market their excess food products; Park approached well-known food critic Duncan Hines to lend his name to a brand of packaged food products.

Showtime Steppers

Stepping has also been featured on TV shows including A Different World, Sister, Sister, BET's 106 & Park, and NBC's America's Got Talent.

Somen Tchoyi

In a feat revered as 'Tchoyi Story 3' by Baggies fans (referencing the film Toy Story 3) he scored a hat-trick against Newcastle United at St. James' Park on the last day of the 2010–11 season, rescuing a point after being down 3–0 early into the second half.

The Senior

In an interview with 106 & Park, Ginuwine revealed that Missy Elliott and Tweet were initially among the additional producers for the album, however their contributions never made the final cut.

Tré Armstrong

Armstrong has appeared on the television programs Top of the Pops, Canadian Idol, 106 & Park and the MTV Video Music Awards.

Trenor W. Park

Julia Catlin Taufflieb received the Légion d'honneur to recognize her support of the Allied effort during World War I, when she turned her mansion in France into a 300 bed hospital near the front lines.

Park was a candidate for the 1874 Republican nomination for Governor, but withdrew in favor of the eventual nominee and general election winner, state Supreme Court Justice Asahel Peck.

Volador Jr.

Volador, Jr.'s uncles wrestle as Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado and he's the cousin on lucha libre legend L.A. Park and wrestler El Hijo de Cien Caras.

Walter Reckless

He earned his Ph.D. in criminology in 1925 from the University of Chicago and that same year joined with sociologists Ernest Burgess and Robert Park in crime studies in the same place.

William W. Park

Known as "Rusty" since childhood, Park is a Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts and a long-time member of the congregation of King's Chapel in Boston, where he has held the post of Senior Warden and currently serves as Trustee.

The President of the United States in 2008 appointed Park to the Panel of Arbitrators for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

He has served as Arbitrator on the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland and the Appeals Tribunal of the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, and currently sits on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 14 Financial Services Roster.

William Westwood, 2nd Baron Westwood

After a string of defeats, Newcastle went down 2–1 to Arsenal at St James' Park and hundreds of demonstrators called for the chairman's resignation with angry shouts of Westwood out.

Willie Taylor

Their music video, "Leave Me Alone", appeared on BET's Midnight Love, Cita's World, Hits from the Street, and as a New Joint of the Day on 106 & Park.

WTVR-TV

Havens sold WTVR-TV, WMBG-AM, and WCOD-FM to Roy H. Park Communications in 1966, earning a handsome return on his investment of 40 years earlier.

WWHT

That format and call letter assignment remained in place until 1979, when new owner Roy H. Park broadcasting changed the station's format and call letters.


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