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unusual facts about Fairbanks-Morse


Frederick W. Griffith

The company manufactured packing and sealing products; and was taken over by Colt Industries in 1975.


Alaska gubernatorial election, 2006

Murkowski also faced opposition from former state lawmaker and Fairbanks businessman John Binkley.

Alice Cordelia Morse

The Woman's Building was designed by Candace Wheeler, a member of the Cooper Union Advisory Council when Morse enrolled.

Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle (April 27, 1851 – February 16, 1911) was an American historian and author from Worcester, Massachusetts.

Anna Holbrook

Anna Kathryn Holbrook (born April 18, 1956 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson on Another World, a role she played originally from 1988 to 1991.

Bash: Latter-Day Plays

The plays premiered at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in New York City on June 24, 1999 and featured performances by Ron Eldard, Calista Flockhart and Paul Rudd.

BBC Two Launch ident

This animation is accompanied by a trumpeted fanfare, composed by Freddie Phillips, and which was based on the morse code translation of 'BBC Two'.

Big Dipper Ice Arena

The Fairbanks Gold Kings, a hockey team which began in 1974 as a league team sponsored by the Teamsters Union Local 959, played at the Dipper for many years before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Bud Morse

In early June 1929, and just out of college, Morse was signed with the San Francisco Mission Reds of the Pacific Coast League.

Carlton E. Morse

From 1922 to 1928, Morse was employed at the Sacramento Union, the San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald, The Seattle Times, Vancouver Columbian, Portland Oregonian and The San Francisco Bulletin.

Cassiar Country

After the excitement of the gold rushes, the Cassiar was nearly forgotten until the early 1940s when the American military built the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, British Columbia to Fairbanks, Alaska, thus further opening up the area and providing ease of transportation like never before.

Charles W. Morse

In 1912 Morse became ill, and a panel of Army doctors declared that he suffered from Bright's disease and other maladies and would soon die if he remained in prison.

Daniel J. Fairbanks

Fairbanks has also served as a visiting professor at Universidade Estadual de Londrina and Southern Virginia University.

Diogenes

Diogenes Small, fictional character created by Colin Dexter in the Inspector Morse series of books

District of Alaska

In 1902 the Alaska Railroad began to be built, which would connect from Seward to Fairbanks by 1914, though Alaska still has no railroad connecting it to the lower 48 states today.

Ed Morse

2012 When Republican Representative R.J. Harwood retired and left the District 2 B seat open, Morse challenged Representative Phil Hart, who had been redistricted from 3B.

Encaenia

The Encaenia is depicted in the film Shadowlands and in the Morse episode "Twilight of the Gods", and is depicted in the Jeffrey Archer novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

Freeman H. Morse

Morse was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861).

George Washington Morse

In 1858, Washington Morse along with D. B. Parsons and J.H. Abbott was commissioned by the government of Minnesota to establish a State road from Waterville to Owatonna.

H. Gary Morse

After the couple divorced, Mary Louise married Clifford Morse, and lived in Central Lake, Michigan.

H. Morse Stephens

After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, at the suggestion University of California President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Morse joined the Committee of 50, and in consultation with Governor Pardee, moved to the Earthquake History and Statistics Committee.

Heegaard splitting

Assuming smoothness the existence of a Heegaard splitting also follows from the work of Smale about handle decompositions from Morse theory.

Inundation, Gibraltar

Colonel Robert Morse of the Royal Engineers, Gibraltar's senior engineer at the time, was vehemently opposed as he feared that it would weaken the northern defences.

Jaguar Mark 2

The Mark 2 is also well known as the car driven by fictional TV detective Inspector Morse played by John Thaw; Morse's car was the version with 2.4 L engine, steel wheels and Everflex vinyl roof.

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks

Some of Fairbanks’ artwork is owned by institutions such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Boston Public Library, the Wye House and Myrtle Grove on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Alhambra in southern Spain.

KDMD

KDMD-LP, a low-power television station (channel 32) licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States

King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Kansas

Featuring performances by Steve Walsh and Steve Morse, the album was recorded on February 14, 1989 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during their In the Spirit of Things tour.

Lawrence Salander

On 6 April 2011, Leigh Morse, the former director of the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was found guilty by a New York jury of one count of scheming to defraud.

Levi Lapper Morse

Morse was a devout member of the Primitive Methodist Church and was a delegate to its centenary conference in Toronto.

Midnight Sun Run

Race director Mike Styles said the idea of the costumed division was to create a Fairbanks version of San Francisco's Bay to Breakers race.

Nenana River

The upper valley of the river furnishes approximately 100 mi (160 km) of the northern route of both the Alaska Railroad and the Parks Highway (Alaska State Highway 3) connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage.

Princess Tours

Princess Tours runs ten cars a day (five north, five south) from Anchorage to Fairbanks on the Alaska Railroad, stopping at Talkeetna, Denali, and occasionally Whittier.

Puff model

In a joint program called University Partnering for Operational Support (UPOS) between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (early 2000s), Puff was integrated into the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) volcano monitoring system by Rorik Peterson and David Tillman.

Richard Auguste Morse

When other performers, such as Boukman Eksperyans and Manno Charlemagne, left the country in exile, Morse and his band chose to stay in Port-au-Prince.

In one particular instance, Morse was summoned before Evans François, the brother of Colonel Michel François, who told Morse that any number of assassins would be willing to kill him for as little as fifty cents in payment.

Richard McGee Morse

He married Emerante de Pradine, a Haitian singer, in 1954 and had two children, Richard Auguste Morse, who currently resides in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Marise Morse Mahos who resides in Washington DC.

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse (August 19, 1911- July 1, 1988) was an American inventor and scientist credited with invention of the orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robinson, Minnesota

The boundary line between Eagles Nest Township and Morse Township is nearby.

Ruthmere Mansion

In the hallway are a doll collection, a grandfather clock and art hanging on the walls and stairwell, including The Lost Profile by William Morris Hunt, a portrait of the painters' wife, and a self-portrait by Samuel F. B. Morse.

Sigurd F. Olson

He led canoe expeditions for a group that became known as the "Voyageurs," which routinely included Eric W. Morse, Denis Coolican, Blair Fraser, Tony Lovink, Eric W. Morse, Elliott Rodger, and Omond Solandt.

Stryker

The 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from Fairbanks, Alaska's Fort Wainwright began its initial deployment in August 2005 to Summer 2006.

The Boatniks

Young and awkward, Coast Guard Ensign Thomas Garland (Morse) suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero, which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild (Powers), a young woman who runs a sailing school.

The Knickerbocker Buckaroo

Fairbanks plays a hedonistic New York City aristocrat who tries to change his selfish ways by heading to Sonora, Texas to carry out a campaign of altruism.

The Shackshakers

• You Drive Me Insane
• Please Don't Tell Me (featuring Joe Terry of The Morells)
• Sweet Nothins
• (She's My) Rockabilly Baby
• When Will This Heartache End (featuring Bill Cowsill)
• The Ballad Of Desiree
• Morse Code Of Love
• Hey Doll Baby
• I'll Find A Way
• Hurricane (featuring Steve Bloomfield of Matchbox)
• Lotta Lovin' (featuring The Roses)
• No Other Love
• Hit The Brakes
• They Don't Know

United States presidential election in New York, 1904

Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

In 1933 Clark married Barbara Frances Morse and moved to Cazenovia, New York, where he taught high school English and began his fiction-writing career.

Wilds P. Richardson

The Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, surveyed under his supervision in 1904, was named the Richardson Trail to honor him.

World Plus

RaeJean served as the postmaster of Chatanika, a small town north of Fairbanks, until 1977 when she was convicted of embezzlement and postal money order fraud.


see also

Carlton Skinner

After leaving the governor's post in 1953, Skinner lived in various locations around the world, serving as chief financial officer for American President Lines, Colt Industries, and Fairbanks-Morse.

EnPro Industries

Businesses operated by EnPro Industries include Compressor Products International, Fairbanks Morse Engine, Garlock Sealing Technologies, GGB Bearing Technology, Technetics Group and STEMCO.