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unusual facts about Harney


Harney, Minnesota

Harney is a small unincorporated community in Thomson Township, Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.


Ainslie Roberts

They made friends with characters like Bill Harney, a bushman, raconteur and writer, and Gwoya Jungarai or "One Pound Jimmy", famous for being depicted on earlier Australian stamps and in Walkabout magazine.

Bill Harney

Bill Yidumduma Harney (c. 1932- ), Wardaman elder, artist, and writer, who is the biological son of William Edward Harney

Chiselmouth

They are typically found in warmer parts of streams and rivers in the drainages of the Columbia River, Fraser River, and the Harney-Malheur system of the Great Basin.

Clinton Tyree

He became a wild hermit, living first in Harney County (a fictional Florida county), where he adopted the name "Skink,” and was simply viewed as an eccentric, albeit a potentially violent one.

Cozzens

The Cozzens House Hotel, later known as the Canfield House, was a pioneer hotel located at 9th & Harney Streets in downtown Omaha.

Disabled Sports USA

Disabled Sports USA Officers include Robert Meserve, Robert Harney, MD, Steven D. Goodwin and Todd Sajauskas, and Board Members Anjali Forber-Pratt, Carol Harnett, Gregg Baumgarten, Jeff Underwood, Joel Berman, John B. Lincoln and Ralph Green.

Edward Harney

Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney (31 August 1865 – 17 May 1929) was an Irish lawyer who sat in both the Australian Senate and the British House of Commons, and who also had a political and legal career in Australia.

George Julian Harney

Harney's support for the North in the American Civil War upset Joseph Cowen and in November 1862 Harney was forced to resign.

Harney became interested in the international struggle for universal suffrage and helped establish the Fraternal Democrats in September 1845.

Harney Peak

Harney Peak is the site of the Sioux Native American Black Elk's "Great Vision" which he received when nine years old and the site to which he returned as an old man, accompanied by writer John Neihardt, who popularized the medicine man in his book Black Elk Speaks.

Iron Shell

When General Harney and his troops made a surprise attack in 1855 against the Brulé at present day Lewellen, Nebraska, Chief Iron Shell was there and fought against Harney's troops.

John Philip Holland

Aidan Harney Playwright Aidan Harney wrote the play: "Submarine Man: the little known life of John Philip Holland" in 2008 and it had two national tours in Ireland.

Lake Harney

Lake Harney, named for General William Selby Harney is a lake that straddles the county line between Volusia County and Seminole County Florida at the coordinates latitude 28°45’21.404”, longitude 81° 03’36.019”.

Lennon Bermuda

#Wayne Furbert, Robert "Sai" Emery, Will Black, Francesca Dill, Ed Christopher, Ronnie Lopes, Dennis Moniz, Gita Blakeney, Paul Harney, TraceyLynn Harney, Adam Melvin – "All You Need Is Love" (Lennon–McCartney)

Malheur Reservation

When U. S. Army units under the command of General Oliver O. Howard began moving towards their positions, the united Paiutes and Bannocks decided to flee into the Blue Mountains to the north of the Harney Basin.

Mary Harney

Indian pharma tycoon Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, appointed Harney to the board of Biocon, a Bangalore-based company employing 7,000 and expanding in Malaysia.

P Ranch

Hudson's Bay Company fur trappers were the first Europeans to visit the Harney Basin.

Paul Harney

As his competitive playing days were winding down, Harney used his prize money to open his own course in East Falmouth, Massachusetts, which he owned until his death.

Price–Harney Truce

The Price–Harney Truce was a document signed on May 21, 1861 between United States Army General William S. Harney (Commander of the U.S. Army's Western Department) and Missouri State Guard commander Sterling Price at the beginning of the American Civil War.

St. Louis Arsenal

This action had been ordered over a week before by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, but blocked by General Harney's refusal to execute his orders.

Ted Ferrioli

He represents Senate District 30, which encompasses Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler, and portions of Clackamas, Deschutes, and Marion counties.


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