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unusual facts about Gardner-Webb University



Abronia umbellata

Originally described by the British botanist Aylmer Lambert, Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardner Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capitol of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.

Ade Gardner

Gardner went to St Columbas Roman Catholic School and St. Bernard's Catholic High School at Primary and Secondary level respectively.

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner

Through his brother, Major Valentine Gardner, he was the uncle of Colonel William Linnæus Gardner, an Indian officer.

American West Symphony of Sandy

The orchestra plays in venues within the Salt Lake Valley such as the Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Libby Gardner Music Hall, and the Sandy Amphitheater.

Andean hairy armadillo

The Andean hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi) is an armadillo present in Bolivia, in the region of the Puna, the departments of Oruro, La Paz, and Cochabamba (Gardner, 1993).

Atlanta freeway revolts

Rep. Pat Gardner held a meeting at Rock Springs Church in Morningside on Jan. 4, 2010 with GDOT and Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) leaders, Mayor Kasim Reed, city councilmembers and assemblypersons.

Billy Whitlock

On 23 October, he performed at a benefit along with Emmett, Gardner, and other prominent blackface entertainers.

Copperopolis, California

Author K. Martin Gardner expounds on this literary history, and Twain's friendship with renowned scientist of the time, Nikola Tesla, in his novel Copperopolis.

Crash Ensemble

It has given premieres or commissioned work by Peter Adriaansz, Raymond Deane, Arnold Dreyblatt, Stephen Gardner, Michael Gordon, John Godfrey, Andrew Hamilton, Jurgen Simpson, Gerhard Stabler, Jennifer Walshe, Ian Wilson, Linda Buckley, Judith Ring and Julie Feeney.

Cyclorama Building

In 1889, a new cyclorama painting Custer's Last Fight, was installed, but by 1890, the fashion for cycloramas had ended, and the new owner of the building, John Gardner (father-in-law of Isabella Stewart Gardner), converted it to a venue for popular entertainment, including a carousel, roller skating, boxing tournaments (including an 1894 fight of John L. Sullivan), horseback riding, bicycling, and so on.

David Lasser

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) currently awards the Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award to the best original non-fiction work dealing with aeronautics or aeronautical history.

Derrick Gardner

As of July 2011, Gardner is associate professor of trumpet in the University of Manitoba's Jazz Studies program.

Devin Gardner

Prior to the 2013 Notre Dame game, Gardner was awarded the No. 98 Michigan Football Legends jersey in honor of Tom Harmon.

Don G. Despain

Despain was born in 1940 in Lovell, Wyoming, the oldest of five children to Daniel Gordon Despain and Lillian Gardner.

Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

She was the daughter of Col. Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire (himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde) descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife (Lucy) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner (later Countess of Scarbrough), and stepdaughter of the 10th Earl of Scarbrough.

Drop City

Libre, north of Gardner, Colorado was founded by several ex-"Droppers", and was among the more well known.

Ed Gardner

Born in Astoria, New York, Gardner was a representative for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before going into show business.

Eleanor Bone

Bone was a close confidant of Gardner's initiator Dafo, and she reported that the New Forest coven was a hereditary coven that followed the old ways of the Hampshire region, and that they traced their origins to the time of the death of King William Rufus in the Norman era.

Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland

She was born Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the only child of Major Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921), a son of the 4th Duke of Sutherland, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Demarest (1892–1931), the former wife of John G. A. Leishman, Jr. and a daughter of Warren Gardner Demarest of New York City.

Essex County Natural History Society

Other members included Samuel B. Buttrick, Samuel P. Fowler, John M. Ives, John C. Lee, George Osgood, Charles G. Page, Gardner B. Perry, George Dean Phippen, William P. Richardson, John Lewis Russell, Henry Wheatland.

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Sociologist of religion Anson D. Shupe took in general a positive attitude, and praises Gardner for his humor.

Fork and Spoon Records

Fork and Spoon is a Columbia, South Carolina based independent record label founded in 2010, by Jordan Blackmon, Chris Gardner and Aaron Graves.

G. nana

Grevillea nana, C.A.Gardner, a flowering plant species in the genus Grevillea

Gardner, Massachusetts

Gardner was a filming location for the 1992 movie School Ties.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

Horace Walker

Mount Elbrus (Main West Peak, 5642 m) (Caucasus) with F. Crauford Grove, Frederick Gardner and the guides Peter Knubel of St. Niklaus in the canton Valais and Ahiya Sottaiev in 1874

I'm Not Rappaport

The 1996 film version, written and directed by Gardner, starred Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Martha Plimpton, Peter Friedman, and Ron Rifkin.

Instant Crush

Gardner previously directed Daft Punk's music video for "The Prime Time of Your Life" and was involved in the feature film Daft Punk's Electroma as well as the Alive 2006/2007 tour.

Isabella Stewart Gardner

In the Titian Room, Titian's magnificent painting of Europa (1561–1562) hangs above a piece of pale green silk, which had been cut from one of Isabella Stewart Gardner's gowns designed by Charles Frederick Worth.

Jorge Muñiz

Coque was born in Ciudad de México to parents Marco Antonio Muñiz ("Mexico's Favorite Singer / Showman") and Olga Gardner Meza.

Joy Gardner

Joy Gardner was a 40-year-old African-Caribbean community mother and illegal immigrant from Jamaica who was killed during a struggle with the police at her home in Crouch End, London on 28 July 1993.

Komedia

In 1998 the company moved into a former Tesco supermarket on Gardner Street in the North Laine area of Brighton.

LeRoy Gardner Jr.

Football coach Lou Holtz, Gardner said, had given him $500 for a football player.

Gardner earned undergraduate and master's degrees in psychology at the University of Minnesota.

LMS diesel shunter 7050

At some point it was rebuilt with a Gardner engine and was used at the Royal Navy base at Botley, Hampshire.

Marcia Gardner

Marcia Gardner is an Australian screenwriter who has worked on such shows as Paradise Beach, Pacific Drive, Medivac, All Saints, Heartbreak High, Stingers (which she script produced) and Blue Heelers.

Massachusetts Route 101

From Templeton, Route 101 enters the city of Gardner, acting as one of the main streets through town.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Nobody Lives for Ever

Future Bond author Raymond Benson said "This is far and away John Gardner's best James Bond novel, and it is precisely because it is such a personal plot for the leading character. It's a plot reminiscent of From Russia, With Love, and it moves along excitingly! The chase idea was splendid indeed, and the reader is chased along with Bond throughout the book."

Poultry Bowl

The bowl was aimed at small colleges that didn't have bowl opportunities, and for the initial game, the selection committee also considered Elon, Jacksonville State, Troy, Grabmling, Carson Newman and Jackson State before settling on Stephen F. Austin and Gardner-Webb.

Regio Centurion Private School

Dr. Calitz's studies in the work of Dr. Montessori, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner and Erikson strengthened her view that young children have incredible potential and the will and motivation to find answers for themselves and take control over the exploration of the world they live in.

Riley Gardner

Gardner was born in Ree Heights, South Dakota, and was the son of Hugh Gardner and Ruth Speicher Gardner.

Roderick Parkes

He married in 1939 Eileen Mary Ernestine (4 May 1915 – 21 July 1977) daughter of Captain Neville Gardner, and half-sister of the mathematician R.E.A.C. Paley.

The Computer Museum, Boston

A Files section contains general documents of the founding and operation of the museum from the Internet Archive, the Computer History Museum, Gordon Bell and Gwen Bell, and Gardner Hendrie.

Virginia Opera

Some notable performers who have sung with the company or been presented in concert include: Luciano Pavarotti, Beverly Sills, Renée Fleming, Barbara Dever, Jeannine Altmeyer, Ashley Putnam, Cristina Nassif, Frederick Burchinal, John Aler, Rockwell Blake, Randy Locke, Jake Gardner, Sujung Kim, Frank Porretta, Grant Youngblood, Fabiana Bravo, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Randall Scarlata, and Thomas Rolf Truhitte.

Wesserpeton

Wesserpeton was first named by Steven C. Sweetman and James D. Gardner in 2013 and the type species is Wesserpeton evansae.

Wiccan Rede

According to Don Frew, Valiente composed the couplet, following Gardner's statement that witches "are inclined to the morality of the legendary Good King Pausol, 'Do what you like so long as you harm none'"; he claims the common assumption that the Rede was copied from Crowley is misinformed, and has resulted in the words often being misquoted as "an it harm none, do what thou wilt" instead of "do what you will".

William Linnæus Gardner

Gardner served as a leader of irregular horse (captain) under Lake and in the same capacity (lieutenant-colonel), performed services under Sir David Ochterlony in Kaman from 1814–15.

Witchcraft Today

In the book Gardner also repeats the claim, which had originated with Matilda Joslyn Gage, that 9 million victims were killed in the European witch-hunts.


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