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2 unusual facts about Hardwick


Hardwick, Vermont

The predominant business following the Civil War was granite quarrying, especially after the Portland & Ogdensburg Railway opened service through the town and facilitated shipment of stone.

Buildings around the country made with Hardwick granite include the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Chicago City Hall, and the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., as well as numerous city halls and custom houses.


Alan Hardwick

Hardwick left Derbyshire to become a sub-editor with the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald in Swindon in 1969, then moved on to become a news editor for the now defunct Lincolnshire Chronicle.

Bess of Hardwick

Bess of Hardwick is a character in The Other Queen, by Philippa Gregory, as well as the title character of A Woman of Passion by Virginia Henley.

Billy Hardwick

According to his son, Chris Hardwick, on the Opie & Anthony Show on August 12, 2010, Hardwick was the last athlete to film a beer commercial profiling athletes.

Chuck Hardwick

Charles Leighton Hardwick (born November 8, 1941 in Pulaski County, Kentucky) is a former state legislator in New Jersey, and a former Senior Vice President at Pfizer.

Death in Blackpool

Aunty Pat was last heard in The Zygon Who Fell to Earth, where she was played by Lynsey Hardwick and written by her creator Paul Magrs.

Exhortation to the Greeks

Hardwick, Michael, "Contra Apionem and Antiquatates Judaicae: Points of Contact" in Feldman, Louis H. and Levison, John R. (eds.), Josephus' Contra Apionem (Brill Publishers, 1996), pp. 369–402.

Faith Page

She appeared on KING talk radio with Bob Hardwick, performing the song.

Gilbertville

Gilbertville, Massachusetts, a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County

Golden Horseshoe Saloon

The show's MC introduced various skits featuring a traveling salesmen, played by Wally Boag, and later Dick Hardwick.

Hadnall

General Sir Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, who lived at nearby Hardwick Grange, is buried here.

Hardwick Hall

Hardwick Hall was used to film the exterior scenes of Malfoy Manor in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

Henry George Lyons

In 1896, he married Helen Hardwick, a daughter of the London architect Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892).

Herbert Lewis Hardwick

Hardwick lost the title to Charley Burley on 22 August 1938, at Hickey Park in Millvale, Pennsylvania.

Kites Hardwick

It lies in the valley of the River Leam which passes under the A426 at Thurlaston Bridge, just north of Kites Hardwick.

Massachusetts Banishment Act

Timothy Ruggles, of Hardwick, in the county of Worcester, a member of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765

Oil City Symphony

Oil City Symphony is a musical with a book by Mike Craver, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, and Mary Murfitt and songs by various composers.

Old Furnace

Old Furnace, Massachusetts, a village in the town of Hardwick, Worcester County

Omari Hardwick

Omari Hardwick (born January 9, 1974) is an American actor, known for his roles in the TV series Saved and Dark Blue, and in the movies Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna (2008), The A-Team (2010), Kick-Ass (2010) and Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010).

Otto Hardwick

In his biography of Ellington, author James Lincoln Collier says that “In a Sentimental Mood,” “Sophisticated Lady,” and “Prelude to a Kiss” are adaptations of Hardwick melodies.

Passion Radio

Presenters include former Big Brother 6 housemate Eugene Sully, Ryan Morrison on drivetime, Brighton's Honey Club resident Adam H, Trance DJ Matt Darey, Graham Gold and former Atlantic 252 presenters Simon Hardwick (who is the managing director of the company) and Dave James.

Refugee Boy

Mr. Hardwick allows Alem to stay for a few days and on the final day he brings in the Refugee Council who send Alem to a children's home.

Rindos v Hardwick

Rindos v. Hardwick was a landmark case of Internet defamation heard in 1994 in which Western Australian lawyers representing a visiting American academic sought to create a legal precedent by deeming an email sent by Gil Hardwick to have alleged paedophilia against David Rindos, a probationary lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.

Ruscote

Ltd. or Alcan Industries Ltd. pig and rolled Aluminium factory was opened in 1931 on land the firm had bought in 1929 on the east of the Southam road, in the then hamlet of Hardwick.

Rusty Jeffers

Rusty was once a model (but now retired) for COLT Studio under the name "Carl Hardwick" in the 90s before he got his professional status.

Shaun Woodward

Ben: Story of Ben Hardwick by Esther Rantzen, Shaun Woodward (Penguin Character Books, 1985) ISBN 0-563-20331-5

Terrible Trio

In Batman: The Animated Series, the Terrible Trio are bored, rich men versions of Warren Lawford (voiced by Bill Mumy), Armand Lydecker (voiced by David Jolliffe), and Gunther Hardwick (voiced by Peter Scolari).

Thomas Hardwick

Hardwick altered the design to create a suitably grand facade, with a Corinthian portico six columns wide, based on that of the Pantheon in Rome, and a steeple, its top stage in the form of a miniature temple, surrounded by eight caryatids.

Beyond London, St John's Church, Workington was built in 1823 to Hardwick’s design and although built of local sandstone it bears some resemblance to the Inigo Jones St Paul's Church in Covent Garden which Hardwick had previously restored.

Thomas W. Hardwick

On April 29, 1919, as a direct result of his sponsorship of the Immigration Act, Senator Hardwick was targeted for assassination by adherents of the radical anarchist Luigi Galleani, who mailed a booby trap bomb to his residence in Georgia.

Walter Cope

Walter Cope was probably born at Hardwick Manor near Banbury, Oxfordshire, third son of Edward Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Mohun, daughter of Walter Mohun of Overstone, Northamptonshire (who married Walter's stepfather, George Carleton of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, after Edward Cope's death in 1557).


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