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10 unusual facts about Griffith


Fairy painting

A 2003 book, The Art of Faery, written by David Riche and mentored by Froud, contributed to the careers of twenty fairy artists of this revival movement, including Amy Brown, Myrea Pettit, Jasmine Becket-Griffith, Philippe Fernandez, James Browne, and Jessica Galbreth, many of whom went on to author individual art books.

Griffith High School

Griffith High School is a coeducational, New South Wales government public school located in Griffith, New South Wales, Australia.

Griffith, Australian Capital Territory

Griffith is named after Sir Samuel Griffith, who was chosen in 1903 as the first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and retained his position until retirement in 1919.

Griffith, sized at approximately 3 km², is one of Canberra's oldest suburbs, with several of its streets designed according to Walter Burley Griffin's original designs for Canberra.

Griffith is home to Canberra's first private Catholic boys school, St Edmund's College, a Christian Brothers school opened in 1954.

Griffith, Indiana

Strack went on to become a success in Northwest Indiana, and the chain is currently known as Strack & Van Til.

In the popular movie "A Christmas Story" starring Peter Billingsley, a brief reference was made to Griffith, Indiana.

Griffith's experiment

A German bacteriologist, Fred Neufeld, had discovered the three pneumococcal types (Types I, II, and III) and discovered the Quellung reaction to identify them in vitro.

Mary Stevenson

In January 1925 she married Robert Stevenson, and they emigrated to Queanbeyan in New South Wales in March 1925, moving to the Canberra suburb of Griffith in 1926.

Matthew Darby-Griffith

He took the additional name of Griffith upon inheriting the estate of Padworth in the English county of Berkshire.


10th Tony Awards

Produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, and Harold Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor.

1908–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Ralph Sayles, J. Griffith Hays, trainer George A. May
Middle row (l to r): Gregory Peck, captain Joseph P. Wilson, unknown
Front row (l to r): Carl Raiss, unknown

9th Tony Awards

Produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, and Harold Prince.

A Run for Your Money

Meanwhile, Twm recognizes a familiar face: Huw Price (Hugh Griffith), a down-on-his-luck harpist and traditional Chief Singer with whom he had once won the grand prize at an important Welsh music festival.

Arminianism

Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.

Arthur Marvin

He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including The Adventures of Dollie (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as Pippa Passes in 1909.

Betty Lynn

In 2006, Lynn retired from acting and relocated to Mount Airy, North Carolina, the hometown of Andy Griffith and the town on which Mayberry is believed to have been based despite Griffith's repeated denials.

BM Linx

BM Linx was a psychedelic rock group formed in 2005 by Tony Diodore (guitar & violin) with Jonathan Murray (bass), and Andrew Griffith (drums).

Calvin Griffith

Under Calvin Griffith's ownership, just a few years after his father's death, the Senators were moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1961.

Danny Flowers

These included "Tulsa Time" for Don Williams and Eric Clapton; "Back In My Younger Days" for Don Williams; "Gulf Coast Highway" for Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, and Nanci Griffith (co-written with Griffith and James Hooker); and "Before Believing" from Harris' Pieces of the Sky.

Darren Collison

Collison was born in Rancho Cucamonga, California to parents Dennis and June (Griffith), who were both elite track and field athletes for Guyana.

Edward G. Begle

Edward Griffith Begle (27 November 1914 – 2 March 1978) was a mathematician best known for his role as the director of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG), the primary group credited for developing what came to be known as The New Math.

Edward Griffith Colpoys

Griffith's operations were successful and in September 1814 he led an amphibious operation up the Penobscot River, seizing several towns and forcing the United States Navy to scuttle the frigate USS Adams at Hampden rather than see her captured by Griffith's forces.

Elvis and Andy

The song is an up-tempo in which the male narrator states that, while his lover is not from the Southern United States, she "likes Elvis and Andy / So she's fine and dandy with me." Presumably this refers to Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith/Taylor.

Francis M. Griffith

Griffith was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Holman.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Jim Fritzell

These included the Walter Brennan sitcom The Real McCoys (1957–62), The Andy Griffith Show (1960–68) and the long-running CBS TV series M*A*S*H, on which they worked for five seasons, contributing 35 episodes.

John Griffith Williams

Griffith Williams was a lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a member of Territorial Army (United Kingdom), joining in 1964 and becoming part of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve when it was created in 1967.

Justin Griffith

In February 2012, Griffith returned to the Raiders, this time as an offensive Quality Control coach.

Laurel Goodwin

Augusta becomes distraught as her father (played by Jackie Gleason) makes some questionable business deals under the influence of alcohol and, without consulting the rest of the family, causing strife within the household and making her beau's dad, who happens to be the local bank owner, forbid his offspring from associating with the Griffith family.

Mambilla Plateau

The Mambilla Plateau, cradle of the Bantu-speaking peoples (Zeitlyn & Connell, 2003; Griffith, 2007; Martin, 2009),and inhabited for over four millennia, is found in the southeastern part of Taraba State of Nigeria under Sardauna local government area (the former Mambilla District set up in January 1940, which became known as 'Mambilla Local Authority' in 1970, and then as 'Mambilla Local Government Area' in 1981) .

Melony G. Griffith

Griffith also host a local Public-access television show entitled "Modern Mentors" for the town of District Heights, Maryland.

Motor Booty Affair

The Choral Reef(er, Bubbly Vocalizations): Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington, Mallia Franklin, Shirley Hayden, Cheryl James, Lynn Mabry, Dawn Silva, Linda Brown, Richard "Kush" Griffith, Raymond Spruell, Mike "Clip" Payne, Joey Zalabok, Robert "P-Nut" Johnson, Larry Heckstall, Overton Loyd

Myrtle Vail

After the show ended, Vail became a low-keyed supporting actress in films, best known for roles in the low-budget cult films A Bucket of Blood (1959) and The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), written by her grandson Charles B. Griffith, and directed by Roger Corman, for whom Griffith has written and/or directed several films.

New South Wales C30T class locomotive

Even in the very last years of steam power, they could still be found well spread over the state in such places as Temora, Griffith, Cowra, Dubbo and Narrabri West.

Nia Griffith

Griffith became a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in Carmarthen then Gowerton Comprehensive School in Swansea.

Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Very Blue Moon, a 1984 album by Nanci Griffith, and its title track

Onionhead

Filming on Onionhead was held up for a week in November 1957 when Andy Griffith came down with the Asian flu.

Oriental Institute, Oxford

Department of Egyptology and the Ancient Near East (also based at the Griffith Institute of the Ashmolean Museum)

Owen Gwyn

He was from Denbighshire, the third son of Griffith Wynn, of the Wynn family of Gwydir.

Parker Griffith

Griffith ran for re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2010, but was defeated in the June 1 GOP primary by Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks.

Queensland Institute of Business and Technology

It also delivers Griffith University’s Mixed English and Academic Program, University Foundation program (Certificate IV) and Postgraduate Qualifying Program.

Raymond Griffith

The coming of sound ended Griffith's acting career, but he did have one memorable role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front.

Sean Parlaman

Parlaman was born in Los Angeles County, California, to Griffith Mead Parlaman (20 April 1923 – 22 October 1991) and Doris V. Simmons Parlaman (22 November 1923 – 11 February 2007); he fell to his death in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand.

Shimon Dotan

In 1991, Dotan wrote and directed The Finest Hour starring Rob Lowe, Tracy Griffith and Gale Hanson.

Stormy Monday

Between the time of the film being shot and its release Working Girl was released and Griffith became an Oscar-nominated star.

The Eternal Three

The film was made from a screen story by Neilan and is now a lost film, although a brief production scene of director Marshall Neilan with stars Raymond Griffith, Hobart Bosworth, and Claire Windsor appear in the restored film Souls for Sale.

The Greatest Thing in Life

There is some speculation, however, as to whether some of the shots originated in Salisbury Plain, in the United Kingdom, or was footage purchased by Griffith from Franz Kleinschmidt.

The John Bohlen Lectureship

1879: Phillips Brooks, The Influence of Jesus, Griffith Farran & Co.

The Morning Exchange

Fred Griffith was demoted to a field reporter with morning meteorologist Mark Johnson taking his place as co-host, along with former WJW-TV news anchor Robin Swoboda.

Thelma Lou

Thelma Lou appeared as a semi-regular character in 26 episodes of the The Andy Griffith Show from 1961 until 1966 when the character was dropped from the show.

Tugendhat chair

Gerry Griffith in Chicago created examples in the 1960s for use in the United Airlines Executive Office Building designed by Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

What It Was, Was Football

Capitol released the record in the same year, which soon had sold nearly 800,000 copies, and was instrumental in launching Griffith's career in television, stage, and film.

WHRP

In June 1995, control of permit holder Digesu Broadcasting, Inc., was transferred from Frank Digesu Sr. to R. Parker Griffith and Thomas H. Griffith.

William McRee

He was the son of Major Griffith McRee, a veteran of the American Revolution, and the daughter of Dr. John Fergus of Wilmington.