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5 unusual facts about Fonda


Caughnawaga

Caughnawaga, a village of the Mohawk nation inhabited from 1666 to 1693, now an archaeological site near the village of Fonda, New York.

Fonda, New York

After a French attack on the village, Kateri and many other Mohawk moved to a mission village, Kahnawake, established near Montreal in Quebec, Canada.

Ruth Stafford Peale

She was born in Fonda, Iowa to Canadian parents, Methodist clergyman Frank B. Stafford and Loretta A. Stafford, and died on February 6, 2008 in Pawling, New York, aged 101.

Sitka Pioneer Home

The sculpture was supposed to be modeled after real-life pioneer William "Skagway Bill" Fonda originally of Fonda, New York.

Thomas Grassmann

Thomas Grassmann, OFM Conv, (December 18, 1890 - October 1, 1970) was a Conventual Franciscan friar and historian and archaeologist of Colonial New York, who discovered the site of the Mohawk American Village of Caughnawaga near Fonda, New York.


Contamina

The novel Secuestro y fonda de Cela en Contamina by José de Cora, is set in the pueblo and recounts a fictional history of the kidnapping of 1989 Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela by three local inhabitants.

Eagum

Amonbg Jellis Fonda’s best known descendants are American actor Henry Jaynes Fonda (1905–1982), an American Academy Award-winning film and stage actor, and his daughter Jane Fonda (1937- ), two-time Academy Award-winning actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru.

Firecreek

Stewart and Fonda's first film together had been the musical comedy On Our Merry Way two decades earlier, and they made The Cheyenne Social Club two years after Firecreek.

La Grandiosa Bertita

La Grandiosa Bertita (The Grandiose Berta), is a Chilean fonda that is installed during the Fiestas Patrias in the O'Higgins Park in Santiago, Chile.

Live from the Henry Fonda Theater

Live from the Henry Fonda Theater was a live concert of the band Dredg, released on DVD as a promotional tool for their third album, Catch Without Arms.

Los Tres

The band began a new traditional event during the 1996 Chilean national independence holiday, on 18 September, by founding a Fonda called Yein Fonda (a pun on Jane Fonda) in the park Plaza Ñunoa in Santiago, where they performed during several days folk music with friends.

Mecca, California

This film inspired the outlaw biker film genre, and marks Peter Fonda's first appearance as a biker - three years prior to Easy Rider.

Monster-in-Law

It marks a return to cinema for Fonda, being her first film in 15 years after Stanley & Iris.

No Ordinary Baby

Fonda was nominated for the best actress (miniseries or TV film) award at the 2002 Golden Globes for her role in the film.

Patricio Contreras

He appeared next to Gregory Peck and Jane Fonda in the 1989 movie "Old Gringo".

Planchette

In 1868, the C.Y. Fonda sheet music company of Cincinnati published the “Planchette Polka,” composed by August La Motte, dedicated to Kirby & Co, which was the dominate planchette manufacturer of the day.

Resistance Inside the Army

Fonda now was vilified, framed, arrested, threatened, spat on as "Hanoi Jane", Jane was cheered, yes loved, world-wide by tens of thousands rank-and-file G.I.'s when she toured with her radical F.T.A. (Fuck or Free the Army) show.

Sullavan

Margaret Sullavan (1909–1960), an Oscar-nominated American actress and wife of Henry Fonda, William Wyler, and Leland Hayward

The Cheyenne Social Club

He also specifically asked that his friend Fonda be cast; they had most recently worked together two years previously in Firecreek.

The Dollmaker

Fonda's character, Gertie, is hesitant to leave their home; her husband Clovis believes that it will bring the family a regular income and better way of living.

Wrong Man

The Wrong Man, a 1956 film by Alfred Hitchcock which stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles


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