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unusual facts about Farmer's Delight


Farmer's Delight

Lane, a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1792-1793, was a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Whiskey Rebellion, and had been a member of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.


Alexander Huie

Huie was born at Tayco in the Riverina to Scottish farmer Alexander Huie and Mary Eliza, née Carige, who had been born in British Grenada.

Bansha

Another family member of a later generation was Catherine, daughter of Patrick McCarthy, farmer, of Ballygurteen, Kilmoyler, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Bill Stouffer

Stouffer and his wife, Sue Ellen, currently live on their family farm in Saline County, Napton, Missouri, where Stouffer has been an active farmer since 1967.

Bracken County, Kentucky

White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first sold at the 1867 St. Louis Fair by the farmer Mr. Webb from Higginsport, Ohio.

Carl Heinrich von Siemens

Carl Heinrich von Siemens (often just Carl von Siemens) (March 3, 1829 in Menzendorf, Mecklenburg - March 21, 1906 in Menton, France) was a German entrepreneur, a child (of fourteen) of a tenant farmer.

Charles Crombie

Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.

Claude Fuller

Claude A. Fuller (1876–1968), lawyer, farmer and U.S. Representative from Arkansas

D. B.'s Delight

D.B.'s Delight featured two regular co-hosts- a live performer (successively, St. Louis media celebrities Julius Hunter, "Young" Bobby Day and later Guy Phillips) and a puppet character called "D.B. Doorbell" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby Miller).

David Gregg

David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1916), farmer, diplomat and Union cavalry general in the American Civil War

David McGregor

David McGregor Rogers (1772–1824), farmer and Member of the 2nd Parliament of Upper Canada

Donald Black

Donald Elmer Black (1892–?), Canadian politician, farmer and merchant

Elaine Stuhr

Elaine Stuhr (born 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Bradshaw, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature and farmer.

Evelyn Temple Emmett

His father was a pioneer farmer, prospector and track-cutter, a colourful and multi-faceted personality.

Farmer Al Falfa

Next came a series of shorts produced by Terry for Bray Studios, starting with Farmer Al Falfa's Cat-Tastrophe (1916).

Farmer Wants a Wife

In September 2009, Farmer Wants a Wife returned to British television for a series on Channel 5, presented by singer and television personality Louise Redknapp.

Federal Farmer

The Federal Farmer was an Anti-Federalist who wrote a methodical assessment of the proposed United States Constitution that was among the more important documents of the constitutional ratification debate.

Ferdinand Tönnies

Ferdinand Tönnies was born into a wealthy farmer's family in North Frisia, Schleswig (today Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein), then under Danish rule.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

Fred Schmitz

Schmitz (December 25, 1820 - February 8, 1905) was an American musician and farmer from Northeim, Wisconsin who served a single term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Manitowoc County.

Georg Friedrich Zundel

Georg Friedrich Zundel (13 October 1875 in Iptingen, Wiernsheim - 7 June 1948 in Stuttgart) was a German painter, farmer and art patron.

Gong farmer

Despite being well-rewarded, the gong farmer's job was considered by historians on The Worst Jobs in History television series to be one of the worst of the Tudor period.

Hugh Shaw

Hugh Murray Shaw (1876–1934), farmer, rancher and Canadian federal politician

Isaac Darkin

Evading an attempt to capture him several hours later, which included a four-hour pursuit and a fall from his horse, an exhausted Darkin asked a local farmer near the village of Upavon for a bed for the night.

Jacobson v. United States

Among its other targets had been another middle-aged Nebraska farmer, Bob Brase, of Shelby.

James Hume Cook

Hume Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books.

John Candlish

Candlish was born in Tarset, Northumberland, the eldest son of John Candlish, a farmer, and his wife, Mary, née Robson.

Kempster Blanchard Miller

His brother was businessman, rancher and citrus farmer Azariel Blanchard Miller (1878–1941), founder of the city of Fontana, California.

Lena Tabori

Two award winning books published by Welcome include, The Oxford Project by Stephen G. Bloom, photographed by Peter Feldstein and American Farmer, The Heart of Our Country with photographs by Paul Mobley and text by Katrina Fried.

Longview Race Riot

After the shootout, Meredith telephoned a farmer named Jim Stephens, who lived about five miles west of Longview, at Willow Springs, and asked him to stop Bush.

Lower Light protest statues

The statues were made by local resident and farmer, Stephen Jones, as a protest against the establishment of a dump in the late 1990's by the Olsen government, as part of a plan to replace the Wingfield Waste & Recycling Centre.

Ludwig Plagge

Born in Landesbergen, Plagge completed eight years of school and became a farmer.

Luigi Bolis

Bolis's career was short and intense, he retired at just 39 in 1879 in the midst of success to the banks of the Cherio River at his splendid villa in Gorlago as a farmer.

Merrydown

The very first batch of Merrydown Vintage Cider was fermented from 450 gallons of apple juice using a 300 year-old oak cider press borrowed from a local farmer and within a year the scale of production had outgrown Mr Ward's garage at his home in Rotherfield and the partners bought Horam Manor, with seven acres of land.

Norman Wilson

Norman Frank Wilson (1876-1956), Canadian farmer and political figure

Politics of Samoa

One of the founding members was Va'ai Kolone - a famous farmer turned politician from the rural Savaii constituency of Vaisigano.

Poul Reichhardt

Poul Reichhardt got a special popularity during his performing in the so-called Morten Korch movies in the 1950s based upon novels written by a just as popular Danish regionalist light literate – here he normally played the honest young farmer fighting for his happiness and for his love.

Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America

The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America was formed by Robert L. Hill of Winchester, Arkansas, a black tenant farmer.

Ralph Anderson

Ralph G. Anderson (1923–2010), American engineer, farmer, and founder of engineering firm Belcan

Robert Baxter

Robert Andrew Baxter (1879–?), farmer and politician in Ontario, Canada

Robert Hamilton Russell

Russell was born at Farningham, Kent, England, the youngest son of James Russell, a farmer, and his wife Ellen, née Phillips.

Roy Heferen

Heferen became a wheat farmer after buying land on the Boggabilla-Camurra Railway line at Croppa Creek near Moree.

Suzan Farmer

Suzan Farmer also had lead roles in several Hammer horror films of the 1960s, including The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966).

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer says that the main setting of the story is in the vicinity of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

The Last Temptations

Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer, leader of religious revival - bass

Thomas Morton

Thomas Lewis Morton (1846–1914), English-born farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada

Tiebreak Theatre

Frog in Love (2002) by David Farmer, based on books by Max Velthuijs.

Vinters

Jānis Vinters (born 1971), Latvian rally racing motorcycle rider and farmer

Warren Spannaus

Warren R. Spannaus (born December 5, 1930) is an American politician from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and former Attorney General of Minnesota.

Waterside hot water hay pellet furnace

The waterside hot water hay pellet furnace was invented by Gus Swanson a farmer from Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

William Shepherd Allen

Another son, Colonel Sir Stephen Shepherd Allen, (1882–1964) was a New Zealand lawyer, farmer, local body politician, and Mayor of Morrinsville.


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