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11 unusual facts about Garfield


A Week of Garfield

It is the third video game to be based on Jim Davis' Garfield Comics.

Crazy Castle series

Kemco later produced their Mickey Mouse versions in the Crazy Castle series and released most of these versions exclusively in Japan, while continuing their Looney Tunes versions outside of Japan; however, some were based on other licenses such as Jim Davis's Garfield comic strip and The Real Ghostbusters animated television series.

First International Conference of American States

But destiny intervened: President Garfield was assassinated on 19 September 1881 and the new President Chester A. Arthur, who was no friend of Blaine's, quickly removed him from the State Department.

Garfield, Portage County, Wisconsin

Garfield is located in central Wisconsin approximately half way between Rosholt and Nelsonville on Portage County Road A, about two and a half miles west of Peru.

Garfield, Washington

Garfield and Genesee, Idaho, were the filming locations for the rural scenes of the 1991 film Talent for the Game, starring Edward James Olmos.

Garfield: Caught in the Act

Sega Channel subscribers could download Garfield: The Lost Levels, that featured 3 different levels.

Garfield's Holiday Celebrations

Garfield is awakened by the Binky The Clown Show and learns that it is Halloween.

Garfield's Nightmare

A ride that shares the game's name was created for Kennywood Park in 2004.

Garfield's Pet Force

On the planet Dorkon, Professor Wally (the professor counterpart to Wally) shows Emperor Jon (the Emperor counterpart to Jon Arbuckle) his new invention, The Moscram ray gun, a device powered by the Klopman crystal that can scramble inanimate objects and organisms into new creatures under the user's control.

Stig Kristensen

There are no specific main characters, like in Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield, but there are recurring characters and personalities which appear, e.g. the two goldfish.

Yahoo! Messenger

In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by ICQ, it also offers (on Microsoft Windows) features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message windows, some of which include authorized themes of famous cartoons such as Garfield or Dilbert), address-book integration and Custom Status Messages.


A Garfield Christmas

In a brightly decorated house, Garfield is awakened by Jon dressed as an elf, who says it is Christmas and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasagna before opening his gift, which consists of a robotic Santa Claus which reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants, pleasing him until Jon actually wakes up Garfield, who realizes he was dreaming.

Bethany Beach, Delaware

On December 22, 1976, a sculpture (widely but incorrectly referred to as a "totem pole") created by Hungarian sculptor Peter Toth – who erected a sculpture in each of the 50 U.S. states as a tribute to Native Americans – was dedicated at the intersection of Delaware Avenue (Route 1) and Garfield Parkway.

Bill Melendez

In addition to producing Peanuts specials, Bill Melendez, as well as Lee Mendelson, has also produced specials for the comic strip Garfield.

Center on Halsted

Collaborators in the past have included the Museum of Contemporary Art, After School Matters, The Chicago Historical Society, The University of Chicago, The Chicago Architecture Foundation, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Garfield Park Conservatory, the Chicago Blackhawks and the Chicago Cubs.

Christian Standard

The Standard was founded in Cleveland, Ohio by W.S Streater, W.J. Ford, J.P. Robinson, T.W. Phillips, C.M. Phillips, G.W.M. Yost, James A. Garfield and Isaac Errett, with Errett serving as the editor.

Citation index

In an early study in 1964 of the use of Citation Analysis in writing the history of DNA, Garfield and Sher demonstrated the potential for generating historiographs, topological maps of the most important steps in the history of scientific topics.

Democracy: An American Novel

In a 1961 foreword to the novel, Henry D. Aiken states that the U.S. president of the novel "bears some resemblance to Andrew Johnson, to Garfield, and to Grant".

Demographics of Metro Detroit

As of 2005 the closest remaining large Little Italy near Detroit was Via Italia in Windsor, Ontario and there was a group of remaining Italian shops and restaurants along Garfield Road in Clinton Township.

Ertl Company

Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars.

Eugene Garfield

Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955.

Four Mothers

The Lane Sisters (Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, and Lola Lane), Page, and Raines appear in all three films, and also made a similar picture together playing different characters called Daughters Courageous (1939) which also co-stars John Garfield.

Garfield Heights City School District

Named after World War II Medal of Honor recipient William A. Foster, Garfield's first Elementary School serves children Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and is currently under Principal Karen Ruane and Associate Principal Sandy Powers.

Garfield North, Victoria

Garfield North is a bounded rural locality in Victoria, Australia.

Garfield Place Historic District

In 1881, the street's name was changed to Garfield Place in memory of recently assassinated President James A. Garfield.

Garfield Ridge, Chicago

Garfield Ridge stretches from Pershing Road, just north of the Stevenson Expressway (Interstate 55), to 59th Street from north to south, and from the railroad 1/4 mile east of Cicero Avenue to Harlem Avenue going west, with Archer Avenue as its main artery.

Garfield statues

The town of Upland is erecting "Ice Cream Lover Garfield", to be placed near Ivanhoe's Restaurant, 979 S Main Street.

George G. Hall

George Garfield Hall (born 5 March 1925), is an applied mathematician and scientist of distinction, known for original work and contributions to the field of Quantum chemistry.

Gits'iis

An earlier chief of the Gits'iis, according to Garfield, had been one Abraham Lincoln, named not for the U.S. president but for an employer named Lincoln and for the biblical Abraham.

Gnorm Gnat

The strip appeared in The Pendleton Times in Pendleton, Indiana in the 1970s, but failure to take the character to mainstream success led Davis to instead create the popular comic strip Garfield.

Henry Clark Corbin

He was attending Hayes' successor, James A. Garfield, when Garfield was shot in 1881, and was present at his death in Elberon, New Jersey.

Here Comes Garfield

Garfield decides to go home, but when he attempt to warn Jon about Odie, Jon thinks that Garfield is just suffering fleas and Garfield gives up telling Jon, but realizes how boring life is without Odie around, so that night, Garfield decides to rescue Odie.

Leon Garfield

Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel Jack Holborn, for adult readers but a Constable & Co. editor saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded him to adapt it for a younger audience.

Lorenzo Brentano

In this line of work he published a report of the trial of the assassin of President Garfield, and a history of the celebrated case of Kring v. Missouri (see List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 107).

Lucretia Garfield

She first met James Garfield in 1849 when they were classmates at Geauga Seminary in Chester, Ohio, and followed him to the Eclectic Institute, where he began courting her.

Morey letter

It was purportedly from James A. Garfield, the Republican presidential candidate, and suggested that Garfield was in favour of Chinese immigration.

Pepsi Blue

Although heavily promoted by PepsiCo, including advertisements by the pop singer Britney Spears and the bands Sev and Papa Roach, as well as in the movies The Italian Job and Garfield: The Movie, it is widely seen as a commercial flop as sales remained low.

Phil Ortiz

Background design supervisor for The Simpsons TV series 1987—88: FILM ROMAN Layouts and model design for the Garfield Christmas Special, Garfield, The Saturday Morning Series, and Garfield’s Nine Lives

Pomeroy, Washington

The town has been the seat of Garfield County ever since 1882, despite fierce competition in the 1880s with neighboring towns Pataha and Asotin.

Ron Kersey

Tyrone Garfield "Ron (Have Mercy)" Kersey (April 7, 1949 – January 25, 2005) was an American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger most known for writing the music to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps.

Rusty Mills

Mills' additional television animated credits included Garfield's Thanksgiving in 1989, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Pink Panther and Pals, and The Replacements.

San Diego Jewish Film Festival

:The festival draws more than 20,000 ticket holders at five theatres throughout San Diego County: AMC La Jolla 12 Theatres, the UltraStar Mission Valley Cinemas at Hazard Center and UltraStar Poway Creekside Plaza 10, the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC, and on the campus of San Diego State University at the Not Quite Kosher Film Festival.

Saturday's Children

Warners originally cast Priscilla Lane in the lead but Garfield was sure that the Lane Sisters would somehow have to be written in as well.

Sharon Hollows

Garfield Weston Foundation's Outstanding Principals Awards Program conferences in Vancouver and Calgary.

Star route scandal

Garfield's investigation revealed among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.

The Big Give

Donations from the public were doubled by a number of sponsors, including Arts & Business, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Reed Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Candis Magazine and Ethiopiaid.

Times of Northeast Benton County

In addition to the city of Pea Ridge, the newspaper covers the communities of Little Flock to the south, Avoca and Brightwater to the southeast, Garfield, Lost Bridge and Gateway to the east, and historically — though intermittently in recent years — Jacket and Mountain to the north in Missouri.

Tom Copeland

Copeland was elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1957, for District 11, which encompassed the counties of Asotin, Columbia, Garfield and parts of Walla Walla.

Tom Sito

He co-directed the animation for the Warner Bros 2001 movie Osmosis Jones, and contributed to other animated films such as Garfield (2005), the PBS TV series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns (2008), and the 2006 Taiwanese short Adventures in the NPM, which won first prize at the 2006 Tokyo Anime Festival.

Vernee Watson-Johnson

In 2006, Watson-Johnson had roles in three films: The Ant Bully, The Celestine Prophecy and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties.

Vice President's Room

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.