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7 unusual facts about Garland


Aqib Talib

In March 2011, police in Garland, Texas issued a felony warrant for Talib for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after accusing him of firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend.

Garland-Lincoln LF-1

In 1975, Frank Tallman piloted the repainted the LF-1 to appear in The Great Waldo Pepper.

Model N12237 was featured in Hell in the Heavens (1934), Dawn Patrol (1938), and Men with Wings (1938).

Garland, Arkansas

A. Lynn Lowe, former chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas and the party's 1978 gubernatorial nominee against Bill Clinton, farms at Garland near the Red River.

Paul Thayer Iaccaci

He married Marie L. and they divorced on 12 April 1938 in Garland, Arkansas.

Steve Wyrick

Steve Wyrick (born May 12, 1970) is an American magician from Garland, Texas who is best known for performing as a headliner in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Las Vegas Hilton beginning in August 2011.

William S. Heatly

He was succeeded by the Republican Anita Dorcas Hill (1928–2003) of Garland in Dallas County, in a renumbered and fully reconstituted district.


Ācārakkōvai

Acharakkovai literally translates to "the garland of right conduct" of a Saiva author, Kayatturp Peruvayil Mulliyar.

Ada Smith

Garland-Bryan declined to press charges, but wrote an official complaint about the incident to then-Senate Minority Leader Martin Connor, who responded by asserting that he had "no authority" to punish Smith.

Andre Cushing III

Cushing is a Republican State Senator from Maine's 33rd Senate District, representing Carmel, Charleston,Corinna, Corinth, Dexter, Dixmont, Etna, Exeter, Garland, Glenburn, Hampden, Kenduskeag, Levant, Newburgh, Newport, Plymouth, and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.

Arena Publishing Co.

The journal featured articles and essays by the company's authors, like Garland and Schindler, plus early work by Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Upton Sinclair.

Avery County, North Carolina

Oz Days at the former Land of Oz theme park on Beech Mountain in the fall also attracts visitors who love the legacy of the famous Judy Garland movie "The Wizard of Oz" based on Frank Baum's famous book.

Billy Van Zandt

Van Zandt is the co-author and star of the Off-Broadway plays You've Got Hate Mail, Silent Laughter, Drop Dead!, and 20 other theatrical plays written with Jane Milmore, including A Night at the Nutcracker, Wrong Window, and summer stock perennial Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. He also wrote The Property Known as Garland for wife Adrienne Barbeau, which ran Off-Broadway at the Actor's Playhouse in 2006.

Bonnie Garland murder case

The Garland case foreshadowed others in which the circumstances of the killing were muddied by the personalities of the victim and accused, such as the Preppie Murder case, in which Jack Litman, Herrin's lawyer, represented the defendant.

David Begelman

In 1993, a book by Coyne Steven Sanders about the history of Judy Garland's CBS Television series The Judy Garland Show (1963–64) devoted a chapter to possible embezzlement of Garland's funds by Begelman.

Donald Garland

Garland is buried at the Heverlee War Cemetery near Leuven, Belgium.

Durban Light Infantry

The garland which surrounds the coloured badge comprises the Thistle of Scotland, the Tudor Rose of England and the Shamrock of Ireland – symbols taken from the old colour – and the other two flowers, the Protea, the National flower of South Africa and the Strelitzia, the flower of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal).

Flag of the Governor-General of New Zealand

To mark the transition to independence, the New Zealand Government requested that the garland of laurels on the Governor’s flag should be replaced by one of fern leaves, the fern leaf was already recognised as one of New Zealand's national symbols.

Frog Design Inc.

Many of today’s design leaders started at Frog Design, including Herbie Pfeifer, Paul Montgomery, Tylor Garland, Steven Skov Holt, Jon Guerra, Gadi Amit, Ross Lovegrove, Tucker Viemeister and Yves Behar.

Garçon à la pipe

The oil on canvas painting depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe in his left hand and wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.

Garland Aircraft Company

Patrick Garland and Doug Bianchi built a version of the French Piel Emeraude light aircraft that would meet British airworthy requirements.

Garland Independent School District

George Washington Carver School - A segregated all African American school named after the African American scientist that was officially closed December 31, 1970, when Garland ISD desegregated.

Garland Wilson

Garland Lorenzo Wilson (June 13, 1909 – May 31, 1954) was an American jazz pianist born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, perhaps best known for his work with Nina Mae McKinney.

Grinder's Switch featuring Garland Jeffreys

Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch is the debut album of the band Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch and was released by Vanguard Records in 1970.

Guruvayurappan

Manjula stood near the banyan tree crying and Poonthanam who passed by told her "Guruvayurappan knows what's in your heart, keep the garland on the banyan tree and he will take it".

When Poonthanam saw this, he called out to the Lord saying "That's Manjula's Garland, let it also fall".

Hank Garland

At the request of Gibson Guitar company president, Ted McCarty, Garland and fellow guitarist Billy Byrd strongly influenced the design of the Byrdland guitar, which derived from the Gibson L-5 guitar Garland is seen holding in the photograph.

In the Good Old Summertime

In the Good Old Summertime was the second to last film that Judy Garland made at MGM (with the final being Summer Stock).

Indies Monument

Three years after the monument was unveiled, Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu laid a decorative garland at the monument on July 19, 1991 during his state visit.

Joseph Fort Newton

At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.

Ken Garland

Garland is the designer of several games including Connect and Rivers, Roads & Rails.

Kilkenny, New Hampshire

The Willard Bowl north of Mount Waumbek, drained by Garland Brook, was considered as a site for development of a ski area in 1971, when it was owned by former governor Hugh Gregg.

Lesburlesque

The troupe began as a duet burlesque routine idea, but following favourable responses from established burlesque performers Kitty Liquor, Mona Von Chrome, Isobella Lash and March Violets vocalist Rosie Garland, aka Rosie Lugosi, Pixie dedicated herself to making Lesburlesque into a fully fledged cabaret group.

Mannadiyar

The marriage ceremony proceeds with priests chanting mantras and Thalikettu at the Muhurtham specified in lagna patrika — tying the Thali chain in the bride's neck and exchange of garland (Maala Mattal) each other thrice.

Matangi

She has long hair, a smiling expression and intoxicated eyes, and wears a garland of kadamba flowers and various ornaments.

Matthew Ritchie

Ritchie is married to Garland Hunter, an artist and actress who appeared in The Tao of Steve.

Maurice Garland Fulton

Maurice Garland Fulton was born on December 3, 1877 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Melvin Bullitt

Bullitt starred at Naaman Forest High School in Garland, Texas, where he was team MVP as a senior after totaling 78 tackles (43 solo), five pass deflections, and three interceptions.

Merrick B. Garland

Lynn Garland's grandfather, Samuel Irving Rosenman, was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (a trial-level court of general jurisdiction rather than an appellate court) and a special counsel to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

Moreton Morrell

Moreton Hall, is a Grade II listed building in the village built on land bought in 1903 by Charles Tuller Garland, a son of a rich New York banker.

Norway Scholarship

His name was Arthur Ivor Garland Jayne, son of The Lord Bishop of Chester.

Oak Apple Day

The Garland King who rides through the streets of Castleton, Derbyshire, at the head of a procession, completely disguised in a garland of flowers, which is later affixed to a pinnacle on the parish church tower, can have little connection with the Restoration, even though he dresses in Stuart costume.

Samuel Garland, Jr.

In 1993, the Central Maryland Heritage League, owners of parts of the Fox's Gap battlefield (part of the South Mountain State Battlefield Park, erected and dedicated a commemorative marker near the spot of Garland's death near the earlier 1889 marker erected by Union soldiers of the IX Corps to Gen Jesse L. Reno on Reno Monument Road.

Silver Fox rabbit

The Silver Fox breed was developed after 14 years of selective breeding by Walter B. Garland of North Canton, Ohio and was the third breed to be developed in the United States.

Staatliche Antikensammlungen

An outstanding example for antique jewellery is the gold Funerary Garland from Armento (4th century BC).

The Boatniks

Young and awkward, Coast Guard Ensign Thomas Garland (Morse) suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero, which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild (Powers), a young woman who runs a sailing school.

He is handing over the reins to Ensign Tom Garland (Robert Morse), a polite but remarkably clumsy fellow who will now report to Commander Taylor (Don Ameche), a man who fought in World War II with Garland's father and holds him in high regard.

The Garland Touch

The rest of Judy's original albums released before her death on June 22, 1969 came from two movie soundtracks -- Gay Purr-ee (1962) and I Could Go On Singing (1963); from her 1963-64 CBS Television series, The Judy Garland Show; from 1964 concert performances at the London Palladium (featuring solos and duets with her daughter Liza Minnelli); and from Garland's last engagement at the Palace Theatre in 1967.

William G. Higgs

William Garland Higgs (born c. 1952) is an American businessman and co-founder of Mustang Engineering.

William May Garland

The Garland family built a summer home called Casa Ladera in Pebble Beach, California, and it was there he was stricken, and subsequently died in Monterey, California 26 Sep 1948, shortly before his 50th wedding anniversary.

Witch's ladder

When Charles Godfrey Leland received news of the Wellington find whilst in Italy, he investigated and found that the witches there used a similar form, called a "witches garland"; the item was made of cord, and contained black hen feathers.


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