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11 unusual facts about Hawley


David Hawley

Hawley's grandfather was Gideon, his great grandfather was Ephraim and his great great grandfather was Joseph Hawley, a shipbuilder and the first of the name in America.

:For the rugby league footballer of the 1960s for Wakefield Trinity, see David "Dave" Hawley

It is believed by some that Captain Hawley built the first brick house within the city limits of Bridgeport, Connecticut from bricks that may have been supplied by Nero Hawley.

Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area

Several other continuous villages form part of the conurbation, including Ash, Ash Vale, Cove, Frimley Green, Frogmore, Hale, Hawley, Mytchett and Tongham.

Gold Selleck Silliman

The General's son Benjamin Silliman was born in a tavern, originally the home of Ebenezer Hawley in Trumbull, Connecticut, after his mother, Mary Silliman, fled Fairfield ahead of the invading British troops.

The Honorable Thomas Jones, a highly reputed loyalist, was captured in November 1779 by U.S. Naval Captain David Hawley and brought back to Connecticut.

Hawley, Hampshire

Including the opening sequence of the 2002 film Die Another Day in which James Bond is in North Korea.

Joseph Roswell Hawley

Hawley, a direct descendant of Joseph Hawley (Captain), first of the name in America, through Ebenezer, Joseph and Samuel, was born in Stewartsville, near Laurinburg, North Carolina, where Hawley's father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church.

Knud Wefald

He immigrated to the United States in 1887 and in 1896 settled in Hawley, Clay County, Minnesota where he engaged in agricultural pursuits while managing a partly owned lumber business.

Robert Hawley

The family lived in the house built by Robert's great uncle Ephraim Hawley on Nichols Avenue Route 108 at the south end of the village of Nichols Farms on land that had been in the Hawley family since 1670.

Nero Hawley was a slave owned by the Hawley family who won his freedom after fighting in the American Revolution.


Adams' Rangers

Either late in the Burgoyne campaign or early 1778, Adams' Company absorbed a body of men that served in the Bateaux service under Jeptha Hawley of Arlington.

Battle of Blackpool Sands

Norman Longmate says that the Earl of Warwick advised Hawley on the defensive preparations but not that he was present at the battle.

Camden Market

Singer Amy Winehouse had made her name at the Hawley Arms, and later mentioned the fire in her acceptance speech for Record of the Year at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

Come with Us/The Test

The 2002 music video for "The Test" features actress Holly Weston and is directed by Nick Goffey and Dominic Hawley, and was uploaded onto YouTube via The Chemical Brothers' vevo page on 5 August 2011 at a length of six minutes and six seconds.

Corporate liberalism

Weinstein's idea of corporate liberalism should not be confused with Ellis W. Hawley's use of the term (Daniel T. Rodgers noted that Hawley's use of "corporate liberalism" was more a description of liberal corporatism than anything else).

Drosophilidae

More extensive identification characteristics can be found in "Drosophila: A Guide to Species Identification and Use" by Therese A. Markow and Patrick O'Grady, (Academic Press, 2005) ISBN 0-12-473052-3 or "Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, K. Golic, S. Hawley, (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2005).

Encyclopédie

With Judith Hawley, Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London; Caroline Warman, Fellow and Tutor in French at Jesus College, Oxford; and David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, and presented by Melvyn Bragg.

Frijole Ranch

John Smith sold the ranch to Judge Jesse Coleman Hunter of Van Horn, Texas for $55,000 in 1942 and moved to Hawley, Texas.

Hawley Harvey Crippen

In the song "Coffee Homeground," when Kate Bush sings, "Pictures of Crippen lipstick smeared," she implies that Hawley Crippen is somewhat of an idol to the song's Arsenic and Old Lace-esque murderesses.

History of Trumbull, Connecticut

Benjamin Silliman was born in the Eliakim Beach tavern, built by mill owner Ebenezer Hawley in 1765, a few months after his mother Mary (Fish) Silliman (widow of John Noyes) fled from their Fairfield home to escape 2,000 invading British troops ordered to burn Fairfield.

Kip Hawley

In April, 2007, Mr. Hawley agreed to a partially published interview conducted by Bruce Schneier regarding TSA policies and practices.

Lothlórien

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos named her daughter Natashya Lórien Hawley, after Lothlórien.

Massachusetts Route 8A

It passes through the villages of the Dell and North Hawley before finally ending at the Vermont state line, entering the town of Whitingham as Vermont Route 8A, which shortly links to Vermont Route 112.

Robert B. Hawley

Hawley ran and was elected to the open seat as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress. A young Albert Lasker worked on his campaign before moving to Chicago and a career in advertising.

Hawley successfully ran for reelection in 1898 for the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Sander Hicks

Horns and Halos (2002), an award-winning documentary film directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, is primarily about the difficult road the author (James Hatfield) and publisher (Sander Hicks at Soft Skull Press) travelled to bring Fortunate Son, an unauthorized and controversial biography of George W. Bush to bookshelves again.

Sandy Hawley

Hawley earned his 6,450th official career victory with a win aboard Tribal Chief, a horse owned by musician/record producer Herb Alpert and his brother David Alpert.

Statue of Sekhmet

The acquisition of this piece of Egyptian art was made possible by the support of the Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust, and is now one of the museum’s iconic objects.

Steganinae

See for a discussion on this subfamily "Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook" by M. Ashburner, S. Hawley, K. Golic (not reproduced here due to copyrights).

Thomas Germain

He made a pair of tureens for Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, to designs by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier in 1735 that Henry Hawley has said "represents the apogee of the French rococo" (Hawley 1997).

Truelove's Gutter

#* Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch 6196, Burns Nu-Sonic, cymbals

Wagon Wheel, Oxnard, California

On March 2, 2009 the San Buenaventura Conservancy, a local non-profit preservation advocacy group – with attorney Susan Brandt-Hawley – filed suit in Ventura County Superior Court against the City of Oxnard, claiming that the City’s approval of the Oxnard Village Specific Plan project violated the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

Warwick Farm, New South Wales

John Hawley Stroud, the superintendent of Liverpool Orphans School, received a grant in 1804 on the present site of Warwick Farm Racecourse and named his property after Warwick in England.