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9 unusual facts about Greenfield


Edward Irvin Scott

He was born on May 13, 1846 in N. Greenfield, New York, the son of Alexander Hamilton Scott and Sophronia Wood Seymour.

Greenfield, Arkansas

The town lies at the foot of Crowley's Ridge, a lengthy formation that stretches for miles across the state.

Greenfield, California

On February 27, 2008, Greenfield Elementary was placed under "Intensive" help due to the school's failure to raise their Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Results under the No Child Left Behind Act for the past five years by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O'Connell.

Greenfield, Edmonton

111 Street also gives residents access to the new LRT stations at Southgate and Century Park.

Greenfield, Greater Manchester

A second line, known as the Micklehurst Line, cut through the village and was mainly used for freight.

The poem was written in the Oldham dialect of English, and was very popular in the 19th century.

Administration under the West Riding County Council led to problems, as Greenfield came under the administration of Holmfirth for such things as the fire service, despite Holmfirth being significantly further away than Oldham.

Greenfield, Iowa

Greenfield was the primary location for the filming of the 1971 satirical comedy film Cold Turkey, produced by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke.

Water-sensitive urban design

WSUD technologies can be implemented in a range of projects, from previously pristine and undeveloped, or Greenfield sites, to developed or polluted Brownfield sites that require alteration or remediation.


2002 Glasgow floods

The East End of Glasgow was the worst affected district of the city, 200 people were evacuated from their homes in Greenfield and Shettleston on the Tuesday night.

22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry

Jacob C. Higgins was selected to serve as colonel, A. J. Greenfield as lieutenant colonel, and George T. Work, Elias S. Troxell, and Henry A. Myers as majors.

Albert Prefontaine

Born in Upton, Canada East (now Quebec), the son of Firman Prefontaine and Matilda Desautel, Préfontaine was educated in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Aron Magner

In March 2010, Magner and The Disco Biscuits performed a benefit concert at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Bowl which generated the revenue needed to fund and install a $30,000 solar energy system at Greenfield Elementary, a public school located in Center City Philadelphia.

Belleau Woods, Lexington

Its boundaries are Man o' War Boulevard to the south, Hickman Creek to the north and east, and a combination of Belleau Woods Drive and Greenfield Drive to the west.

Bokaro district

ArcelorMittal Steel giant ArcelorMittal is looking to set up a 12 million tonne greenfield plant in Bokaro.

Brightwood, Springfield, Massachusetts

Brightwood is scheduled to receive a stop on Springfield's new, northbound, intercity commuter rail, headquartered at Union Station and headed north through Chicopee, Holyoke, Northampton, South Deerfield, and Greenfield, to Brattleboro, Vermont.

Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport

The airport is the first major greenfield public airport development in Australia since the development of Melbourne's Tullamarine, although other locations such as Hamilton Island have been developed in that period.

Charleston, Tennessee

Germany based chemical company Wacker Chemie broke ground in 2011 on a new solar-grade polysilicon production facility (550-acre Greenfield site).

Chelmer Village

The development was started by Countryside Residential PLC in 1978, using an holistic approach to create a self-contained community on previously greenfield land, of the manors of Springfield Barnes and Cuton Hall.

Chloe Greenfield

Greenfield appeared in the music video for the song "Alive with the Glory of Love" by the band Say Anything.

Chris Bashinelli

As a part of Bridge the Gap TV, Bashinelli has interviewed figures including Paleontologist Richard Leakey, former NBA player and Humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo, and the Founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

Chris Zurawsky

Chris is a member of St. Rosalia Parish, in Greenfield, as well as the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition, the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

County Road 92 is a series of roads beginning at County 50 in Rockford, passing through Greenfield, Independence, Minnetrista, and St. Bonifacius before ending at the Carver County line and continuing as Carver County Road 30.

Dave Greenfield

It was a piece of music written by Greenfield during recording for The Meninblack, which was discarded by other members of The Stranglers, that Hugh Cornwell later adapted into their biggest hit "Golden Brown", although the band themselves did not initially see this as a potential single, let alone an Ivor Novello award winning, UK number 2 hit single.

On the albums The Raven, Gospel According to the Meninblack and Aural Sculpture, Greenfield used a Korg VC-10 vocoder.

David A. De Armond

He was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, attended Lycoming College and moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Davenport; moved to Missouri in 1869 and settled in Greenfield, Missouri, Dade County, Missouri.

Edward Irvin Scott

He was educated at the District School, Juliet Garner's Select School in West Greenfield and Robb's Boys' Academy at Saratoga Springs, New York.

Eloise Greenfield

Greenfield was born in Parmele, North Carolina, and grew up in Washington, D.C., during the Great Depression in a housing project called Langston Terrace, named after John Mercer Langston, that provided a warm childhood experience for her.

Ford R. Bryan

Ford R. Bryan (13 May 1912 – 14 May 2004) was a member of the Ford family of Dearborn, who provided authentic historical information about the Ford family based almost entirely the Ford Archives of Henry Ford Museum and associated Greenfield Village.

Greenfield Belser

Greenfield/Belser has designed brands and programs for over 300 law firms including large international firms such as Jones Day, Clifford Chance and Morgan Lewis and small firms such as Marger Johnson.

Greenfield Hill

Several officers of the AIG Financial Products unit live in Greenfield Hill and their homes were scenes of protest at the time of a scandal concerning the payment of $165 million in bonuses to employees of that unit.

Greenfield School Community and Arts College

Greenfield Community College is a secondary school on the outskirts of Newton Aycliffe.

How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head

#"Crying in the Rain"(Howard Greenfield / Carole King) — 4:56 (Coverversion, The Everly Brothers, 1962)

James C. Alvord

Alvord was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 4, 1839, until his death in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on September 27, 1839, before the Congress assembled.

John E. Hull

General John Edwin Hull (May 26, 1895, Greenfield, Ohio – June 10, 1975) was a U.S. Army general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, commanded Far East Command from 1953–1955 and the U.S. Army, Pacific from 1948-1949.

John W. Olver Transit Center

Currently, Peter Pan Bus Lines and Greyhound Lines intercity bus service to Greenfield stops at the Olver Center and is a proposed passenger rail station on the rerouted Amtrak Vermonter line, currently serving communities from Union Station in Washington, DC to St. Albans, Vermont.

Kent Shaw

As a series, Underwood lasted until 2004 and featured poets like John Gallaher, Katie Ford, Suji Kwock Kim, Dan Beachy-Quick, Mary Szybist, Joyelle McSweeney, Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, Jeff Clark, Richard Greenfield, and many others.

KLOK

KLOK-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Greenfield, California, United States

Lakeland School District, Pennsylvania

It comprises the boroughs of Jermyn and Mayfield and the townships of Carbondale (to be distinguished from the city of Carbondale which it partially surrounds), Greenfield, and Scott.

Lauren Greenfield

On January 24, 2013, Lauren Greenfield won a lawsuit brought by the film's main subject David Siegel.

Levy County, Florida

On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida of St. Petersburg announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for its Levy County plant, a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1,100 MW each.

Luke Greenfield

Greenfield directed the critically acclaimed television pilot, "Aliens in America" and produced the film, "Role Models".

Pakyong Airport

The Punj Lloyd Group was awarded the 264-crore contract to construct a runway, taxiway, apron drainage system, and electrical work for the greenfield airport in January 2009.

Philadelphia Orchestra Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition

The Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition is a music competition held by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Roxabell, Ohio

It is located slightly more than 3 miles (about 5 km) north of State Route 28, midway between the cities of Chillicothe — the county seat of Ross County — and Greenfield.

Springboig

Springboig lies to the north of Shettleston, Budhill and east of Greenfield, Carntyne and Lightburn Hospital and Greenfield Park, and is just south of Edinburgh Road (A8) and Cranhill.

Springfield Terminal railroad bridge, Deerfield

The railroad crossing at this location dates to 1850 when a branch of the Fitchburg Railroad opened from Grout's Corner west to Greenfield.

Strangefolk

In September 2007 The Tells performed a Jack White themed late night set at the StrangeCreek Festival in Greenfield, MA, covering songs by The White Stripes and The Raconteurs.

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music

Up to 1968 the writing team comprised Ivan March, Edward Greenfield and Denis Stevens.

Thomas B. Greenfield

Greenfield argued against the positivist orientation of the so-called Theory Movement in educational administration and proposed a subjectivist approach to the study of educational administration.

Western Illinois Valley Conference

A total of 14 school are members: Ashland (A-C Central), Bluffs, Carrollton, Concord (Triopia), Greenfield, Hardin (Calhoun), Jacksonville (Illinois School for the Deaf), Jacksonville (Routt), Mt. Sterling (Brown County), Pleasant Hill, Virginia, White Hall (North Greene) and Winchester.


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