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unusual facts about Gentry


Gentry, Arkansas

The next decade saw the beginning of the construction of a power plant by Southwestern Electric Power Company (often known as SWEPCO).


Alwyn Howard Gentry

Several plant species have been named after Gentry, including: Acidocroton gentryi, Citharexylum gentryi, Crossothamnus gentryi, Eleutherodactylus gentryi, Hedyosmum gentryi, Metalepis gentryi, Palicourea gentryi, Phyllanthus gentryi, Sobralia gentryi and Zamia gentryi, as well as a bird, Herpsilochmus gentryi.

Barinthus

Barinthus, a character in the "Merry Gentry" series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton

Blois family

Although the family have lived in the region for several decades they were not given the estate by the landed gentry from Blois following the invasion by the Normans in the 11th century.

Brady P. Gentry

Gentry was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1957).

Breaker! Breaker!

J.D. (Chuck Norris), a trucker from California, returns from the road to learn that an old friend was killed by Sergeant Strode (Don Gentry), a policeman in Texas City.

Burke's Landed Gentry

A few ancient gentry families survive on reduced means on the ancestral estate, for example the Fulford family of Great Fulford, near Dunsford in Devon, which featured on the 2012 TV series "Country House Rescue", which Burke's Landed Gentry states to have occupied their current home since the reign of King Richard I.

Burmese names

Scholars such as Thant Myint-U have argued that the rise of complex Burmese personal names resulted from the collapse of the Burmese monarchy, which ended the sophisticated system of Pali-Burmese styles, crown service and gentry titles, leaving the majority of Burmese with single syllable names.

Carolina Nairne

#Those illustrative of the characters and manners of the old Scottish gentry, such as "The Laird o' Cockpen," "The Fife Laird," and "John Tod"

Charles Allen Duval

Numerous members of the landed gentry commissioned Duval, for example: Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton who built the present Arley Hall in Cheshire.

Çift-Hane

Ayan (provincial gentry) took possession of çiftliks because of administrative abuses.

Colley Cibber

His mother, Jane née Colley, came from a family of gentry from Glaston, Rutland.

Danger Theatre

In the final telecast of Danger Theatre on August 22, 1993, Tropical Punch was replaced by a segment entitled 357 Marina del Rey, which starred Todd Field as Rake Rowe and Ricky Harris as Clay Gentry in a spoof of shows centered around private detectives living and working in sun-and-fun vacation locales, such as 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, and Hawaiian Eye.

Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions

According to SmithKline Beecham lobbyist Simon Gentry, the company allocated 30 million ECU from the start for a pro-Directive campaign.

Druzhina

Unlike his predecessors, Casimir I the Restorer promoted landed gentry over the druzhina as his base of power.

Dublin Evening Mail

The paper was an instant success, with first editor Joseph Timothy Haydn from Limerick seeing its readership hit 2,500 in a month, making it at that stage (when few could read, and the only people who bought papers were the gentry and aristocracy) the city's top seller.

Eugene Horak

He also painted many portraits of Polish gentry and was interested in Huguenot and Polish history as well, making some paintings on the topic.

Eve Gentry

Gentry also taught "Pilates" in the early 1960s at New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts Theater Department.

Fattburger

The band was formed by saxophonist Hollis Gentry, keyboardist Carl Evans Jr., bassist Mark Hunter, drummer Kevin Koch, and guitarist Steve Laury in San Diego during the early 1980s.

Gentry Miller

Gentry Linn Miller (born January 28, 1988) from Wichita, Kansas was Miss Kansas Teen USA 2006 and a top 10 finalist at the Miss Teen USA 2006 pageant.

Greg Habeeb

He is a partner at Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore, a business law firm in Roanoke, Virginia.

Huw Morus

Huw was sponsored by several members of the gentry of north-east Wales, including William Owen of Brogyntyn, Sir Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaeth, and Sir Thomas Myddleton of Chirk Castle.

Jerauld R. Gentry

Gentry was the project pilot on a series of F-4E spin susceptibility and prevention tests with Burt Rutan as project engineer.

Kevin Gentry

From 1991 to 1997, Gentry served as executive vice president of the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia.

KOZR

KOZR-LP, a low-power radio station (102.9 FM) licensed to serve Gentry, Arkansas, United States

Laam

Lamane, the landed gentry as well the title of ancient kings of the Serer people

Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry.

Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

He served as mentor and writing teacher to many of them, including novelists Lee Smith, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Annie Dillard, and Sylvia Wilkinson; poets Jane Gentry Vance and Elizabeth Seydel Morgan; literary editor Shannon Ravenel; literary critics Anne Goodwyn Jones and Lucinda MacKethan; and many more.

MacMahon baronets

James Frost's 1893 "History and Topography of the County of Clare" mentions that in August 1585 Sir John Perrott, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, required the principal gentry of Thomond to sign an Indenture which, among other things, abolished all Irish titles.

Margvelashvili

Formerly, the Margvelashvili were listed among the gentry (aznauri) and recognized as such in the Russian Empire in the 19th century.

Moravica District

Certain of them were built in the time of the Serb gentry of the Nemanjić, Lazarević and Branković dynasties.

Peter Stretch

The first settlers of Philadelphia were mainly artisans, many of them belonging to the English gentry, who sold their property and came to America to escape religious persecution.

Robert Mansell

Mansel was a Welshman, the son of Sir Edward Mansel of Penrice and Margam (died 1585), although he later established himself among the gentry of Norfolk.

Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine

The 15th century Vaughan family, gentry of Bredwardine, Tretower and Hergest, were prominent in eastern Wales and the Herefordshire borderland.

Rufe Gentry

Born in Daisy Station, near Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Gentry first pitched in organized baseball as part of the company team when he worked for Hanes Hosiery in Winston-Salem.

Saltigue

The Lamanes, - the ancient Serer kings and landed gentry, should not be confused with the post-Guelowar Lamanes who were merely the landed gentry and provincial chiefs answerable to the king.

Shams al-Din ibn Fazl Allah

As such, he had significant support amongst the members of the Bashtini gentry and the military.

Shetland literature

In the British era, which properly began for Shetland with the Napoleonic Wars, Shetlanders have developed a literature in variant written forms of the spoken Shetlandic tongue, as well as in English - the first widely published writers were two daughters of the Lerwick gentry, Dorothea Primrose Campbell and Margaret Chalmers writing for the most part in a rather formal English.

Shi Siming

However, a Lady Xin, a daughter of local gentry, insisted on marrying him despite her family's opposition, and she was eventually successful in doing so.

Sir Edward Littleton, 2nd Baronet

Neither cousin marriage nor inter-generational marriage was unusual among 17th-century gentry.

Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet

Bridgeman urged Ottley to appeal to the Shropshire gentry for reinforcements, as he believed an attack by Sir William Brereton, the main Parliamentarian commander in the region, imminent.

St Leonards-on-Sea

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.

Tecoma

Tabebuia chrysantha subsp. meridionalis A.H.Gentry (as T. spectabilis Planch. & Linden)

The Throwback

The plot is based around the ancient Flawse family, landed gentry based at the falling-down Flawse Hall, (near "Flawse Fell") in the wilds of Northumberland, just south of the Anglo-Scottish border.

Thomas Hughes

In 1880, he acquired the ownership of Franklin W. Smith's Plateau City and founded a settlement in America — Rugby, Tennessee — which was designed as an experiment in utopian living for the younger sons of the English gentry, although this later proved largely unsuccessful.

Waxies' Dargle

In the 19th century, during the Summer, the gentry of Dublin would travel out to Bray and Enniskerry with their entourages and have picnics on the banks of the River Dargle.

William Randolph

Around 1675 he married Mary Isham (1660 Bermuda Hundred, James River, Henrico County, Virginia–25 December 1735 Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia), whose father, Henry Isham (c. 1628 Pytchley, Northamptonshire–c. 1676 Bermuda Hundred, James River, Henrico County, Virginia), was from a gentry family in Northamptonshire.

William Whorwood

He was the second or third son of John Whorwood of Compton, near Kinver one of a family of minor gentry, who had long lived at Compton, in Kinver, Staffordshire.

Yuan An

Born in Ruyang (汝陽), Ru'nan (汝南) commandery (near modern Shangshui, Henan province) to a gentry family, Yuan An inherited knowledge in the Book of Changes from his grandfather Yuan Liang (袁良), who had reached the position of magistrate around 25.


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