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Freeman, West Virginia

Freeman, Upshur County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia


'Igginbottom

'Igginbottom were an English progressive rock band, featuring Steven Robinson (guitar), Allan Holdsworth (guitar, vocals), Dave Freeman (drums) and Mick Skelly (bass).

10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

Abram Robertson Byram

Abram Robertson Bryam married Elizabeth Freeman Elliot in Tynemouth, England in 1848.

Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters

The AIA Guide to New York City says of the building that it is one of Freeman's "lesser works".

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Charles E. Freeman

In September, 1973 governor Dan Walker named Freeman to the Illinois Commerce Commission, a rate regulatory agency with power over telephone, electricity and gas companies.

Christopher Levett

Levett was the son of Percival Levett, a York merchant and innkeeper, and was admitted a freeman of York as a merchant himself.

Cop Block

In July 2010, Pete Eyre and Adam "Ademo Freeman" Mueller, members of the organization were arrested for videotaping officials at the Franklin County, Massachusetts jail.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Daniel E. Freeman

Besides his monographs, Freeman has published essays on Italian opera of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, eighteenth-century keyboard music, and the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, the Bach sons, Antonio Vivaldi, and Josquin des Prez.

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Ducey's Bass Lake Lodge

In 1941, Buddy Freeman constructed Freeman's Bass Lake Lodge on the north shore of Bass Lake, California about one mile west of the Pines Village.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890.

Finescale saddled darter

Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.

Florida Keys Council of the Arts

Projects currently underway include the Freeman Justice Center in Key West; Fire Stations in Key Largo, Big Pine and Conch Key; the Key West International Airport and the Murray Nelson Government Building in Key Largo.

Godfrey M. Hyams

In the early twentieth century, he was the principal financial manager for the construction of the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and the Tidewater Railway in Virginia, which were combined in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN), completed in 1909.

Good, West Virginia

Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.

Harper, West Virginia

Harper is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Hebron, West Virginia

Hebron is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Heinkel He 219

The aircraft was flown to Freeman Field, Indiana for flight testing along with a second of the three He 219s: a He 219 A-5 prototype, Werknummer 290060 and given the foreign equipment number FE-612.

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

ISG Weirton Steel

In 1905 Weir and his partner, James Phillips, bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Jimtown, West Virginia

Jimtown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Joan Freeman

In 1962, Freeman was cast as Marilyn Hayes in the doom and gloom classic film, Panic in Year Zero! alongside veteran film stars Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, and singer teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Just Don't Want to Be Lonely

"Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" is a song written by Bobby Eli, John Freeman and Vinnie Barrett and made popular by Ronnie Dyson.

Kathleen Freeman

In 1954, Freeman played receptionist Miss Seely for lawyer Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) in Athena.

Kathy Mattea

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Ralph M. Freeman

Freeman also served on the Flint Board of Education from 1935 to 1949 and was its president for four years.

Red House, West Virginia

Due to the extremely windy mountain terrain, WV 34 is a very dangerous road for a 21 mile stretch from its junction with WV 62 to Kenna, where it intersects with County Route 21, which provides access to I-77.

Remenham

His grandson and heir William Peere Williams Freeman dealt with the manor in 1833 and sold it to Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks – later a baronet.

Rockland, West Virginia

Rockland is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Roger Dobson

Interviewees include Javier Marías (King Xavier), Jon Wynne-Tyson (ex-King Juan II) and his wife Jennifer, Fay Weldon, Brian Stableford, Bob Williamson (King Robert the Bald), William L. Gates (King Leo), Oliver Cox, Cedric Boston (King Cedric), A. S. Byatt and Arthur Freeman.

Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman

Narrowly defeated in the 1997 general election, he was shortly afterwards elevated as a life peer to the House of Lords and sits as Baron Freeman, of Dingley in the County of Northamptonshire.

Ruffin Pleasant

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

Songs in a Mellow Mood

#"Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Cahn, Chaplin, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols) – 2:58

The Railway Magazine

One of those who shared authorship of the series after his death was the Great Eastern Railway engineer Cecil J. Allen (1886-1973) who became sole author from 1911 until succeeded by O. S. Nock in 1958, when Cecil J. Allen moved his performance column to Trains Illustrated (later renamed Modern Railways), edited by his son, G. Freeman Allen.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

TTFN

In Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, a 1968 Disney featurette, the voice of Tigger was performed by Paul Winchell, whose wife Jean Freeman suggested that he ad-lib the line.

Tygart Valley River

The brothers John and Samuel Pringle, who had taken up residence along the Buckhannon tributary of the Tygart (in present Upshur County) in 1761, acted as their contemporary Daniel Boone was doing in Kentucky and guided numerous immigrant settlers into the main valley of the Tygart which at that time abounded in game and fertile bottomlands.

United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008

Both Representative Alan Mollohan (D-1st District) and Representative Nick Rahall (D-3rd District) had more formidable challenges from Republicans when compared to 2000 and 2002.

Vehmic court

The Freischoeffen also provided the subject for Berlioz's unfinished opera Les francs-juges, the overture to which provided the signature tune for 'Face to Face', the well-known early series of British television interviews, conducted by the Rt Hon John Freeman MBE.

Woody Freeman

After his own campaign, Freeman continued to contribute to Republican candidates, including former U.S. Representative Rick Lazio of New York, the unsuccessful candidate against Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in the 2000 general election.


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