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unusual facts about Hamm's Bear


Hamm's Bear

Tollefson went on to create such characters as the Little Flame Girl for Minnegasco and Albert & Stanley for Grain Belt Beer.


467th Bombardment Group

In combat, the unit served chiefly as a strategic bombardment organization, attacking the harbor at Kiel, chemical plants at Bonn, textile factories at Stuttgart, power plants at Hamm, steel works at Osnabrück, the aircraft industry at Brunswick, and other objectives.

524th Bombardment Squadron

Specific targets included a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, an aircraft assembly plant in Brunswick, ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt and Leipzig, synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg and Gelsenkirchen, marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in Mesnil au Val and Berlin.

Ascheberg

The neighbouring cities, towns and municipalities of Ascheberg are (clockwise, starting in the North) the city Münster, the town Drensteinfurt (District Warendorf), the city Hamm, the town Werne (District Unna, the municipalities Nordkirchen and Senden (both District Coesfeld)

B-Tribe

B-Tribe, or The Barcelona Tribe of Soulsters, is a musical project of the German-born musicians and producers Claus Zundel, Markus Staab and Ralf Hamm ("The Brave"), who are also known for their Sacred Spirit project.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

On 18 December 1843, the Prussian government granted a concession to the CME for the line from Deutz (now a suburb of Cologne) through Mülheim am Rhein, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Altenessen, Gelsenkirchen, Wanne, Herne and Castrop-Rauxel to Dortmund and on to Hamm, Oelde, Rheda, Bielefeld and Herford to Minden.

DB Class 82

The engines were predominantly employed in the marshalling yards at Bremen and Hamm as well as on the harbour lines of Emden and Hamburg.

DRG Class 05

After World War II, the three engines came to the engine shop in Hamm, Westfalia.

Egg cream

In the television sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, an episode in which Jon Hamm hosts features a skit called "Two A-Holes At An Ad Agency in the 1960s" (parodying Mad Men), and the Pete Campbell character offers the clients an egg cream to assuage them.

Friedrich Hidding

Friedrich Wilhelm Hidding (born 6 November 1926 in Hamm) is a German former field hockey player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Gina-Maria Adenauer

Gina Maria Adenauer (born 16 August 1985 in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a female race car driver from Germany.

Glenn B. Hamm

Hamm taught art at Carlow College from 1963 to 1964, West Virginia University from 1965 to 1969 and Virginia Commonwealth University until his death from Lou Gehrig's Disease in 1980.

Hagen–Hamm railway

The Hagen–Hamm railway is a continuous two-track, electrified main line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, connecting Hagen via Schwerte, Holzwickede and Unna to Hamm.

Hamm, Luxembourg

It is the home of the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, the final resting place of 5,076 American servicemen, including General Patton.

Holme Lacy

Holme Lacy is not from Old Norse holmr "island" like other places of the name Holme, but from the fairly similar Old English hamm "land in a river-bend".

Isaac Van Horne

He and his son in law Dr. John E. Hamm founded the White Glass Co. of Zanesville Ohio in 1815, of which he was President.

İsmail YK

Ismail YK, also known by his full name İsmail Yurtseven (born July 5, 1978, Hamm, Germany), is a Turkish pop singer and composer of Turkish descent.

Karl Hopf

Karl Hopf (Hamm, Westphalia, February 19, 1832 – Wiesbaden, August 23, 1873) or Carl Hermann Friedrich Johann Hopf was historian and expert in Medieval Greece, both Byzantine and Frankish.

Ksawery Pruszyński

He died in unexplained circumstances on June 13, 1950 in a car accident in Rhynern, south of Hamm, about 50 miles northeast of Düsseldorf.

MacFarlane's bear

MacFarlane shipped the skin and skull to the Smithsonian Institution where they were placed in storage and soon forgotten.

Margherita Arlina Hamm

Born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Hamm grew up in Bangor, Maine, but left after high school to make her career as a reporter for the Boston Herald.

Hamm produced one relatively progressive book, Ghetto Silhouettes (1902) with David Warfield, but her favorite subject, following the war-related books, was the American and New York elite.

Margo Hamm

While Hamm only spent the 1968 NASCAR season as an official owner, she was the employer of Stan Meserve; who had one finish in the "top ten" while under her employment.

Meindert van Ham

Meindert van Ham (Meinhard von Hamm, or Meinert van (den) Hamm(e)) (c. 1470-after 1545) was an army commander from Hamm in Westphalia.

Moroccan Spirit

Moroccan Spirit is a down tempo new age/ethnic fusion musical project/album by German musicians Ralf Hamm, Markus Staab and Claus "The Brave" Zundel, Ibiza-based producers of Sacred Spirit, B-Tribe and other projects.

Not for Attribution

Two real BPD officers, former Homicide Detective Donald Worden and former Commissioner Leonard Hamm, appear in the episode's opening as midnight shift homicide detectives.

Otto Kumm

Following his graduation from the Oberrealschule (secondary school) in Hamburg-Hamm he received a vocational education as type setter from 1 April 1925 and 31 March 1929 at the Hamburger Abendblatt (Hamburg Evening Newspaper).

Roger Touhy

In 1933, Capone had corrupt law enforcement officers arrest Touhy for the kidnapping of William A. Hamm, the brewery heir.

Royal Westphalian Railway Company

The Royal Westphalian Railway was initially established only to fill the 32 km-long gap between Hamm and Lippstadt, connecting the Münster–Hamm line of the Munster–Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1848 with the line being constructed at the same time by the Cologne-Minden-Thuringian Connection Railway Company (Köln-Minden-Thüringischen-Verbindungs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, KMTVEG).

The network eventually extended about 315 km from Rheine via Hamm to Warburg and from Welver (near Hamm) to Oberhausen.

Selma Ergeç

Born in Hamm, Germany, she studied medicine at Westfalia Wilhems University in Münster for 3 years and psychology and philosophy at the FernUniversität Hagen.

Theodore Hamm

Hamm currently serves as the director of the Journalism and New Media Studies program at St. Joseph’s College, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

THTR-300

Operations started on the plant in Hamm-Uentrop, Germany in 1983, and it was shut down September 1, 1989.

Wadersloh

It is situated approximately 10 km north-west of Lippstadt and 30 km east of Hamm.

Wallenborn

In 1559, Count Hans-Gerhard enfeoffed Hugo Zandt Voit in Hamm (Voit = Vogt) with, among other things, an estate in Wallenborn.


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