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99 unusual facts about George "Wildcat" Wilson


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April 1 – George A. Wilson, United States Senator from Iowa from 1943 till 1949.

A.D. Wilson

Wilson Peak - Elevation 14,017 feet - This peak high in the San Juan mountains above the old mining structures in the Silver Pick Basin was named for A.D. Wilson, a chief cartographer with the Hayden Survey.

During the 1890s, Wilson relocated to Oakland, California where he and other civic leaders organized the Athenian Bank (later renamed the Security Bank and Trust of Oakland).

Alan Wilson

Allen B. Wilson (1824–1888), American inventor of the sewing machine shuttle

Alana Stewart

In 1995, she and ex-husband George Hamilton hosted their own syndicated talk show, George & Alana.

Albert Wilson

Albert E. Wilson (died 1861), American pioneer and merchant in Oregon Country

Alfred Wilson

Alfred L. Wilson (1919–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II

Allen B. Wilson

Before the end of the year, Nathaniel Wheeler, of the firm of Warren, Wheeler & Woodruff, of Watertown, Connecticut, saw one of the machines in New York city, contracted with E. Lee & Co. to make 500, and induced Wilson to remove to Watertown to superintend the work.

He was born at Willet, Cortland county, N.Y., October 18, 1834 the son of a wheelwright.

Andrew Wilson

Andrew P. Wilson (1886–after 1947), British director, playwright, teacher, and actor

Angela K. Wilson

She helped create the CASCaM program with funding and support from the University of North Texas, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Department of Education, and the United States Department of Energy.

Archie F. Wilson

During the 1950s he was a Research Associate in woods at the Chicago Natural History Museum where he kept some of his collections.

Arthur R. Wilson

In 1945 he was conferred the Freedom of the City of Dijon.

Ashraf Tai

After emerging triumphant in a tournament staged in Sri Lanka in 1980, Tai took his undefeated kickboxing record of 45–0–0 (44 knockouts, 33 in the first round)into a title shot at reigning world lightheavyweight kickboxing champion, Don Wilson of the United States.

Austroplatypus incompertus

In order for an animal to be considered eusocial, it must satisfy the three criteria defined by E. O. Wilson.

Baños de Coamo

General James H. Wilson ordered the 3rd and 4th Regular Pennsylvania Artillery to provide artillery support for the frontal assault on the Baños, while Troop C covered the right side against flanking.

Bath Local School District

The school mascot is the Wildcat for boys' sports and the Wildkitten for girls' sports.

Benjamin Wilson

Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Ben F. Wilson (1876–1930), American actor, director, screenwriter and producer

Big Robot

Rossignol says that Fallen City is based around the "broken windows theory" of James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, which says that keeping an area in good-repair changes a populations outlook and so prevents further vandalism and prevents a descent into more serious crimes.

Bragg-Mitchell Mansion

That plantation and all of the furnishings were subsequently burned when Wilson's Raiders went through that area, the irony being that Mobile itself never became a battleground as had been anticipated.

C. Herschel Schooley

In 1953 he received his M.A. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and became the acting director of the Office of Public Information, U.S. Department of Defense, under Secretary Charles E. Wilson; and the director of the Office of Public Information, Department of Defense, for Secretaries Wilson and Neil H. McElroy.

C.T. Wilson

He graduated from Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Illinois After highschool, he enlisted and served as a combat soldier in the U.S. Army.

Central Methodist Eagles

Roger B. Wilson, who later became Governor of Missouri, was a member of Central Methodist's rugby teams in the early 1970s.

Charles Erwin Wilson

Charles Erwin Wilson should not be confused with the Charles E. Wilson who was the CEO of General Electric and served President Truman as the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization.

Clark L. Wilson

He joined the U.S. Navy in World War II and served in the submarine force in the Pacific theater and was awarded the Silver Star and Gold Star.

Clyde A. Wilson

One of Clyde Wilson's most public cases ended in adultery charges that broke up billionaire Donald Trump's marriage to his first wife, Ivana.

Clyde wilson

Clyde N. Wilson (a professor of history at the University of South Carolina)

Cumberland Trail

The park is named for Justin P. Wilson in honor of his work to help make the vision of the Cumberland Trail a reality.

Dandelion Fire

Dandelion Fire is a 2009 children's fantasy novel by N. D. Wilson.

David G. Wilson

David G. Wilson, the son of Michael G. Wilson, is head of Creative & Business Affairs for Eon Screenwriters Workshop Ltd, as well as Vice-president of Global Business Strategy for Eon Productions.

Dodgeville, Wisconsin

John "Weenie" Wilson, Hall of Fame football, basketball, and baseball coach

E. B. Wilson

Edwin Bidwell Wilson, American mathematician and pioneer in vector analysis

Edgar C. Wilson

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Edwin Wilson

Edwin P. Wilson (1928–2012), American intelligence official and CIA officer

Edwin H. Wilson (1898–1993), American Unitarian and humanist leader

Frances C. Wilson

As a company grade officer, Wilson served as an Air Traffic Control Officer at Yuma and Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Stations and as an Instructor at Marine Corps Development and Education Center's Instructional Management School.

Francis H. Wilson

Wilson was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1895, to September 30, 1897, when he resigned to become postmaster.

George P. Wilson

He settled in Winona, Minnesota and read law in the offices of Lewis & Simpson and William Mitchell, a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, before being admitted to the bar at Rochester in October 1862.

Glen Wilson

Glen P. Wilson (1923–2005), executive director of the National Space Society

Guin Richie Phillips

Phillips was identified by personal items found with the body and a Wildcat tattoo on the shoulder.

Hugh Wilson

Hugh E. Wilson, American college football, baseball and basketball coach

Ian E. Wilson

With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution.

Ian Wilson

Ian E. Wilson (born 1943), chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Jack L. Wilson

In the fall of 1967 he returned to Florida to coach at Titusville High School.

James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

James H. Wilson

Grant promoted him to brevet major general on May 6, 1864, and had him assigned to command a division of cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan, which he did with boldness and skill in numerous fights of the Overland Campaign and in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

James Q. Wilson

Wilson's university text American Government (now coauthored with John J. DiIulio, Jr.) is widely sold.

Jeffrey Wilson

Jeffrey L. Wilson (born 1974), consumer technology and video game editor

Jeromey Clary

Clary proved to be an extremely durable player during his Wildcat career, starting 37 consecutive games over his final three seasons.

Jesús Mosterín

The 21st century has witnessed a vigorous revival of the idea of human nature in the hands of authors like Edward Wilson, Steven Pinker and Jesús Mosterín.

John J. B. Wilson

His book The Official Razzie Movie Guide was published in 2005 for the 25th anniversary of the Razzie awards.

Wilson traditionally held pot luck dinner parties at his house in Los Angeles on the night of the Academy Awards.

John Skinner Wilson

J. S. Wilson (1888–1969), Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson, Scottish Scouting luminary and friend of General Baden-Powell

Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson

In December, Ways of Love was voted the best foreign language film of 1950 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

"The Miracle" originally premiered in Europe in 1948 as the anthology film L'Amore with two segments, "Il Miracolo" and "La voce umana", the latter based on Jean Cocteau's play The Human Voice and also starring Magnani.

JSW

J. S. Wilson (1888-1969), prominent figure in the Scout movement worldwide, and contemporary of Lord Baden-Powell

Justice Wilson

Joseph G. Wilson, an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court

Justin Potter

Their son, Justin P. Wilson, is a Republican politician in Tennessee and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Kevin R. Wilson

Indiana athletic director Fred Glass announced the dismissal of Bill Lynch and the rest of the coaching staff on November 28, 2010, following a third straight season with only one conference victory.

Louis B. Wilson

In 1918, Wilson went overseas as the assistant director of the AEF division of laboratories and infectious diseases.

Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

Lieutenant Wilson was deployed to the Pacific theater with the 9th Marines in February 1943, making stops at Guadalcanal, Efate, and Bougainville.

Lower Moreland Township School District

Valerie Plame, CIA operative and wife of U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson whose identity was released by White House officials.

Marvin R. Wilson

Marvin R. Wilson is an American evangelical Biblical scholar, and Harold J. Ockenga Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.

Wilson taught at Barrington College for eight years before he became a Professor at Gordon in 1971 and has been there ever since.

Mitchell A. Wilson

His first marriage was to Helen Weinberg Wilson which produced two daughters: Erica Silverman, a literary agent, and Victoria Wilson, editor and publisher at Alfred A. Knopf.

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder

"Cerebral growth" is also a pun, as one of the objects of the museum is a human horn.

Neal C. Wilson

Neal C. Wilson's son, Ted N. C. Wilson, would follow his father's footsteps and is the current president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Neil Wilson

Neal C. Wilson, General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1979–1990

O. W. Wilson

In 1925, O.W. Wilson became chief of police of the Fullerton Police Department for two years.

O.D. Wilson

Leading the competition with a comfortable 5½ points before the last event - a 200m race with a 100kg weight on the back - the very heavy 400lb Wilson lacked the endurance and running speed to complete the course quickly and ended up losing by just half a point to the much lighter Jón Páll Sigmarsson in the overall.

Opus Dei and politics

Felzmann, on saying these things, is being inconsistent with a testimony he wrote in 1980 saying that Escrivá is "a saint for today." (Documentation Service Vol V, 3, March 1992) They claim that former members, called "apostates" by their former organization, often lend their voices to coalitions fighting their previous religious organizations (see Dr. Bryan R. Wilson).

Pheidole harlequina

Pheidole harlequina is a species of ant that was discovered and described by American biologist E. O. Wilson"E. O."

Reid Harrison

He has written for television shows such as The PJs, George & Leo, Men Behaving Badly, Brother's Keeper, Gary & Mike, George of the Jungle, Pinky and the Brain, Duckman, Drawn Together, The Mullets, 3 South, and Tak and the Power of Juju.

Robert C. Wilson

He then became an assistant prosecuting attorney for Wayne County, Michigan.

Robert Lee Wilson

Robert L. Wilson (1920–1944), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient

Robert M. Wilson, Jr.

In the summer of 1970, he enlisted in the Arkansas Air National Guard and attended basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Robert O. Wilson

During the Nanjing Massacre, Wilson was the sole surgeon responsible for treating the victims of the ongoing atrocities (although several nurses were still available) and, along with John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, was instrumental in the establishment of the Nanjing Safety Zone, which sheltered more than 200,000 people within its confined walls.

Roger C. Wilson

His works were frequently included in Lorenz Publishing's serials during this era, and many were subsequently anthologized.

Roger Wilson

Roger B. Wilson (born 1948), American Democratic politician, former Governor of Missouri

Sarah Chayes

Opposition to her opinion is rooted in the 1952 United States Supreme Court Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson case which is generally regarded as the beginning of the end of motion picture censorship in the United States.

Scottsdale Football Club

The Scottsdale team of 1973, which had been captain-coached by Bob Wilson, was inducted into the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame in 2005, the first club to receive such an honour.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

Stanley C. Wilson

Their firm is regarded as Vermont's best ever collection of legal talent, producing two Governors (Wilson and Davis), one state Attorney General (Carver), and one state Supreme Court Justice (Keyser).

The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame

Mad Scientist Hall of Fame: Muwahahahaha! is a semi-satirical non-fiction book by Daniel Wilson and Anna C. Long published in August 2008.

Theodore D. Wilson

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered for U.S. Army service and served as a non–commissioned officer in the 13th New York Regiment.

Thomas E. Wilson

In 1926, he created one of the most recognizable brand names in the world, known as Wilson Sporting Goods.

Thomas Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 1935), information scientist researching information-seeking behaviors

Toshiro Suga

He had a brief career in cinema, thanks in part to his student Michael G. Wilson, where his best known part was as Chang in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.

Tug Wilson

Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009), British Army colonel and founder and first commander of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force

Kenneth L. Wilson (1896-1979), American discus thrower and amateur athletics administrator

Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

On May 18, 1992, the amendment was officially certified by Archivist of the United States Don W. Wilson.

Vibrating shuttle

It was actually invented by Allen B. Wilson in 1850, just one year before he would invent the rotary hook design that would eventually prevail over all other lockstitch bobbin driver designs.

Waldo Covered Bridge

The bridge was used as an access route in April 1865 by Wilson's Raiders during the American Civil War, a cavalry group led by Union Army General James H. Wilson.

Welcome W. Wilson, Sr.

Welcome W. Wilson served in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as a five-state Director of Civil and Defense Mobilization, a division of the Executive Office of the President.

William A. Wilson

Wilson met his wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Johnson, at Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1936 and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1937 before marrying in 1938.

Winston P. Wilson

In 1944 he became commander of the 16th Photographic Squadron, responsible for photographic mapping and charting missions in South America, Alaska and the continental United States.


2012 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season

On October 15, 2011, team owner C. J. Wilson said that he would miss the season due to its interference with the 2012 Major League Baseball season.

Anna Fortune

While the JSA All-Stars were struggling in a battle against the King of Tears, a powerful beast summoned by Johnny Sorrow, Anna Fortune instantly appeared in the scene after leaving her boyfriend "Wildcat" at home and took out a gauntlet and trapped the King of Tears in it.

Arvo Ojala

Among the TV and film stars that Ojala taught to shoot included James Arness, Robert Culp, James Garner, Kevin Kline, Paul Newman, Hugh O'Brian, Clint Walker, and Thomas F. Wilson.

Bill Munson

While with the Los Angeles Rams in 1965, he and several of his teammates played cameo roles as football players in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

Cliff Livingston

In 1965 while with the Rams, he and several of his teammates appeared in cameo roles in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

However, despite his impressive record, his one loss had been a third round knockout against Darroll "Doin' Damage" Wilson on HBO the previous year which halted his momentum and hurt his status as one of the premier up-and-coming heavyweights.

History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Famous factories included Wheeler & Wilson, which produced sewing machines and exported them throughout the world, Remington UMC, Bridgeport Brass, General Electric Company, American Graphophone Company (Columbia Records), Warner Brothers Corset Company (Warnaco) and the Locomobile Company of America, builder of one of the premier automobiles in the early years of the century.

Island restoration

Isolated islands have been known to have greater levels of endemism since the 1970s when the theory of Island biogeography, formulated by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson was developed.

Joe Scibelli

In 1965 he and several of his Ram teammates had cameo roles as football players in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the 12th Wildcat."

Julienne Marie

She then turned down a role playing the sister of Lucille Ball in Wildcat to step into the original production of Gypsy as Louise in the role originated by Sandra Church.

Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1928

Consisting of wealthy planters, businessmen, and New Orleans's Regular Democratic Organization political bosses, the political leadership of the state united behind the candidacy of U.S. Congressman Riley J. Wilson of Ruston in July 1927.

Michael Jon Hand

Efforts to arrange deals included incorporating a company in Pretoria, South Africa, and sending Bernie Houghton with two Nugan Hand employees to the United States to meet Edwin P. Wilson.

Quagmire's Baby

The episode featured guest performances by Luke Adams, John Bunnell, Max Burkholder, Noah Gray-Cabey, Christine Lakin, Brittany Snow, Mae Whitman, and Tom Wilson, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series.

Ren Shields

He co-wrote the song with George "Honey Boy" Evans "In the Good Old Summer Time" amongst other songs such as "Dreamy Eyes", and "Come, take a Trip in My Air-ship".

State of the Planet

It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond.

Steve Englehart

When the plot did not arrive, I called him, and he denied he'd ever made any commitment to delivery by Friday — as far as he was concerned, artist The Jayne Mansfield Story

The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of the The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made.

Wildcat Mountain

Battle of Camp Wildcat (Battle of Wildcat Mountain), an American Civil War battle in Laurel County, Kentucky

WWON

An interactive, and updated website with local news headlines was restarted, and coverage of Wayne County Wildcat sports, and Tennessee Titans football was added to the programming line-up.