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unusual facts about Fairfield, Greater Victoria



Allene Roberts

Allene Roberts (born September 1, 1928) was born in Fairfield Highlands, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama.

Amory-Ticknor House

Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, Feb. 19, 1892.

Assumption College

Richard Ryscavage, S.J., Director of Center for Faith and Public Life and Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Fairfield University, nationally known expert on immigation and refugees

Assyrian genocide

A monument to the victims of the Assyrian genocide has been built in Fairfield in Australia, a suburb of Sydney where one in ten of the population is of Assyrian descent.

Carol M. Highsmith

Carol Highsmith (then McKinney) graduated from Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis in 1964, then spent a year in college at the now-defunct Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.

Carterville, Illinois

Other Black Diamond schools include Johnston City, Christopher, Zeigler-Royalton, Sesser-Valier, Elverado, Hamilton County, Fairfield, Carmi-White County, Trico, Vienna, as well as a few other schools for particular sports.

Charles S. Drew

A hardcover version of Drew’s report of Indian attacks on settlers in the Oregon Territory was published by Ye Galleon Press of Fairfield, Washington in 1973.

Chepstow Railway Bridge

The adjoining site, now occupied by the engineering firm Mabey Bridge (formerly Fairfield Mabey), is still (as of 2012) engaged in prefabricated bridge construction, and in 1987 was responsible for building the A48 road bridge which now runs alongside the railway bridge.

Connecticut Ska

It was recorded at Edge Studios in Fairfield, Connecticut and features the lineup of Michael Pellegrino, Ron Ragona, Rick Omonte, Dave Karcich, Chris Rhodes, James Riley and Pat Gingras.

Donnie Hume

Donald Corbin Hume (born August 29, 1985 in Fairfield, California) is a retired professional baseball pitcher.

Fairfield East, New South Wales

Fairfield East gets its name from its neighbour Fairfield which in turn was named after the family estate of Captain John Horsley, an early settler.

Fairfield horseshoe

Fairfield Horseshoe is a classic circular hillwalking ridge walk route starting from Rydal or Ambleside in the English Lake District that takes in all the fells that surround the valley of the Rydal Beck.

Fairfield Intermediate School

Notable alumni of Fairfield Intermediate include Stan Walker (2002–2003), an actor and Australian Idol-winning singer, and Scott Styris (1987–1988), an all-rounder who has played for the Black Caps and Northern Districts.

Fairfield Preparatory School

The catchment area for Fairfield is large due to the school’s popularity with children travelling from Loughborough and the surrounding villages and from as far as Leicester, Nottingham, Rutland and Derby.

Fairfield Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

John Andrew Shulze retired to Fairfield Township following his 1823-1829 term as governor of Pennsylvania.

Fairfield, Alabama

Other retail businesses are concentrated along Aronov Drive, northwest of Western Hills Mall, though those strip malls have declined due to closures of Kmart, Winn-Dixie, and Sears locations.

Fairfield, Derbyshire

George Kitchen, the Everton, West Ham United and Southampton goalkeeper, was born in Fairfield in 1876.

Fairfield, Greater Victoria

Fairfield is a neighbourhood of Victoria, BC.

Fairfield, Idaho

The Soldier Mountains and Smoky Mountains of the Sawtooth National Forest (Fairfield Ranger District) are north of the city, offering many outdoor recreational opportunities.

Fairfield, Stogursey

By 1870 Alexander Acland-Hood controlled the estate.

Fairfield, Victoria

City of Northcote - the former local government area of which Fairfield was a part

Fairfield, Waikato

Fairfield Bridge crosses the Waikato River and connects Fairfield with suburbs west of the river.

Waikato Diocesan School is a private girls secondary school with boarding facilities.

Fernwood, Greater Victoria

Fernwood is a neighbourhood near downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, bounded by the neighbourhoods of Jubilee, North Park, Fairfield, Downtown, Oaklands and Harris Green.

Glenn Cummings

Cummings currently works for the Goodwill Hinckley School in Fairfield, Maine as President and Executive Director.

Gold Selleck Silliman

The General's son Benjamin Silliman was born in a tavern, originally the home of Ebenezer Hawley in Trumbull, Connecticut, after his mother, Mary Silliman, fled Fairfield ahead of the invading British troops.

Iowa Highway 1

North of Fairfield, Iowa 1 passes the Fairfield Municipal Airport and Maharishi Vedic City.

Ives House

Charles Ives House, Danbury, Connecticut, listed on the NRHP in Fairfield County, Connecticut

James Melvin Scott

One of five children (one of whom died in infancy), he grew up in Fairfield, Missouri, seven miles south of Warsaw near Route 83.

John L. Hines

On May 7, 1925 Hines dedicated the landing field at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington to the memory of Lieutenant Alexander Pearson, Jr. who was killed on September 2, 1924 in Fairfield, Ohio while flying the Curtiss R-8 in preparation for the upcoming Pulitzer Trophy Race.

Joseph Fitzgerald

Joseph D. FitzGerald (born 1899), 3rd President of Fairfield University

Lester González Perez

On January 7, 2011 González will fight the undefeated Mexican American Brandon Gonzáles in Fairfield, California.

Leung Ying

Leung Ying (also known as Loy Yeung) was a Chinese mass murderer who, at the age of 29, killed 11 people and wounded another four on a farm near Fairfield, California on August 22, 1928, before escaping the scene.

M.I.U. Album

The idea, by staunch Transcendental Meditation follower Mike Love, was to record another new album—initially intended as a Christmas release—at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, (hence the M.I.U. title).

Produced by Al Jardine and songwriter Ron Altbach, the album's title stems from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, where the majority of the album was recorded.

Maddingley Mine

In the early 1940s brown coal was mined and transported in large quantities by rail from the nearby Rowsley Station, with dedicated trains running between Maddingley and the Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM Siding) at Fairfield, Melbourne.

Mary Silliman

The new couple moved to Gold’s farm in Fairfield soon after, merging their previously independent households.

Meredith Wallace

Dr. Wallace formerly was the Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny Professor of Health Sciences at the Fairfield University School of Nursing located in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Mortimer Jordan High School

That streak carried over into the 2010 season, and ended at 59 games when Jordan lost to Angelo Rodriguez High School of Fairfield, California in the ESPN RISE/Nike Fastest to First Tournament in Huntington Beach, California on March 25, 2010.

National Computer Camps

There are locations at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where Dr. Zabinski is a professor of physics and engineering; Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia; and John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Oprah's Next Chapter

Throughout the first season, Oprah interviews Aerosmith's Steven Tyler at his New Hampshire home; journeys to Haiti with Sean Penn nearly two years after a devastating earthquake took the lives of more than 300,000 people; tours Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas as her personal guide; has a slumber party at Southern chef Paula Deen's Georgia estate; and travels to a small town in Iowa devoted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

Percival Pembroke

51 s/n K66-B4001 is located at the Essex County Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey.

Petr Paucek

He relocated from Oregon to Maine in 2005 to conduct research at the Thomas M. Teague Biotechnology Center in Fairfield.

Public transport in Istanbul

 Thames of London, England (models of 1890-1893); Napier, Shanks & Bell of Glasgow, Scotland (models of 1893-1894); Fairfield Shipbuilders of Glasgow, Scotland (models of 1903-1906, 1910–1911, 1914–1929, and 1938–1962); Armstrong Shipbuilders in Newcastle and Glasgow, United Kingdom (models of 1905-1907); Atl.

Richard Arrington, Jr.

Arrington's father moved his family to the steel-town of Fairfield from rural Sumter County, Alabama when Richard Jr. was five years old to take a job with U.S. Steel.

Sakowitz

L. J. Hooker, an Australian retail development firm, purchased the Sakowitz chain in 1988 so that a location could be opened at Forest Fair Mall (now Cincinnati Mall) in Forest Park, Ohio and Fairfield, Ohio.

Wateree

Lake Wateree, a reservoir in Kershaw, Fairfield, and Lancaster counties, South Carolina

Winfred Tubbs

Winfred O'Neal Tubbs (born September 24, 1970 in Fairfield, Texas) is a former professional American football player.

Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1

There were only six airfields in the country large enough to accommodate the massive bomber, and after careful consideration the decision was made to base it at Wilbur Wright Field in Fairfield, Ohio because of its close proximity to McCook Field, and its resources.


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