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34 unusual facts about Helena


Brian Stacy Miller

Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Miller grew up in Helena, Arkansas, with his parents, Dr. Robert D. Miller and Trudy Lester Miller, and his siblings, Maxine D. Miller, Robert D. Miller, III and Kyle T. Miller.

Cyrus Woodman

In 1847 they bought the Helena shot tower, originally built by Daniel Whitney.

East Helena, Montana

It is part of the Helena Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Fred Childress

While born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Childress grew up in Helena, Arkansas, playing football in high school for the Central High School Cougars.

Georgetown, Arkansas

The disaster contributed to the demise the next year of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which had provided passenger and freight service since 1906 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena, Arkansas.

Helena, Alabama

Helena Elementary School, Helena Intermediate School and Helena Middle School lie within the city limits, while high school students attend Pelham High School in the neighboring city of Pelham.

It is also one of three cities, along with Alabaster and Pelham, that make up the area known as "North Shelby" or "North Shelby County".

Helena, Wisconsin

Remnants of Helena's second iteration are visible today in Tower Hill State Park, including a reconstruction of the shot tower.

Howard Freeman

Freeman was born in Helena, Montana, and began working as a stage actor in his 20's.

James F. Lloyd

Born in Helena, Montana, Lloyd attended public schools in Washington State, California, and Oregon.

James McClinton

James McClinton was born in Milwaukee, then moved to Helena, Arkansas in early childhood, and then finally to Topeka.

John B. Floyd

After graduating from South Carolina College in 1826 (by some accounts 1829), Floyd practiced law in his native state and at Helena, Arkansas, where he lost a large fortune and his health in a cotton-planting venture.

KJCQ

KJCQ-LP, a low-power television station (channel 41) licensed to serve Helena, Montana, United States

LED anti-collision light

Talon Aerospace in Helena, Alabama began a program to develop and certify an LED equivalent in 2004.

Louis S. Epes

After graduating in 1901, he taught at Homer Military Academy in Oxford, North Carolina (1901-1903); West Kentucky College, Mayfield, Kentucky (1903-1904), and conducted a private collegiate preparatory school in Helena, Arkansas (1904-1906).

Michael Witney

Witney married Donna (JoJo) Collette Bailey in 1956 in Helena, Montana.

Norman Holter

Born in Helena, Montana, Holter graduated from Carroll College in 1931 and then continued his studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating from there with a master's degree in chemistry in 1937.

Peter Joseph Hurth

Bishop Hurth even felt healthy enough in 1927 to travel to Helena, Montana, and San Antonio, Texas.

Robert J. Bulkley

Bulkley was married February 17, 1909 to Katherine Pope of Helena, Montana.

Robert Nighthawk

Born in Helena, Arkansas, he left home at an early age to become a busking musician, and after a period wandering through southern Mississippi, settled for a time in Memphis, Tennessee, where he played with local orchestras and musicians, such as the Memphis Jug Band.

Sam C. Ford

Ford died in Helena on November 25, 1961, and he is interred at Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana USA.

Samuel Beall

After briefly returning to Wisconsin after the war, Beall moved to Helena, Montana, where, in 1868, he was shot following an argument.

Samuel Ryan Curtis

After Pea Ridge, Curtis' small army moved east and invaded northeast Arkansas, capturing the city of Helena, Arkansas in July.

Shinney

Jeremy Red Eagle of Helena introduces some of the level 1 participants to shinney and double ball, which he describes as “another way of fighting without fighting.”

Sons of the Delta

Mark and Rick return to Mississippi and play at the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival in Helena, Arkansas.

Theodore M. Brantley

He remained Chief Justice until resigning for reasons of health shortly before his death in 1922, in Helena, Montana.

Thomas J. Walsh

Moving to Helena, Montana in 1890 Walsh worked on injury cases involving railroad accidents and on copper litigation.

Tipton Ford, Missouri

From 1906 to 1946, the M&NA provided passenger and freight service from Joplin to Helena in eastern Arkansas.

Tower Hill State Park

In 1830 a businessman from Green Bay, Wisconsin, named Daniel Whitney was traveling along the Wisconsin River and recognized a sharp bluff near the town of Helena as a promising location for a shot tower.

USS Helena

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Helena, after the city of Helena, Montana.

Walter A. Coslet

After taking the State Merit Test he moved to Helena, Montana for his first real job as a clerk in the Department of Labor in 1944.

Walter Allen Coslet (born in Lewistown, Montana on October 31, 1922, died in Helena, Montana on November 29, 1996) was a well known science fiction fan, collector, and fanzine publisher as well as a charter member of the International Society of Bible Collectors, writing many articles for the society's publications.

Woodruff High School

Woodruff High School (Arkansas) — a former high school in West Helena, Arkansas in Helena-West Helena School District

Yvette Guilbert

Helena, Montana Daily Independent, Chit Chat Of Affairs Mundane In Land Of Gaul, Wednesday Morning, 10 November 1928, Page 11.


1989 Helena train wreck

The Helena Train Wreck occurred in the early morning on February 2, 1989 in Helena, Montana, USA, when 48 cars of a Montana Rail Link freight train that had been decoupled from their locomotives by a train crew on Mullan Pass rolled backwards down the pass, traveling nine miles back into the city of Helena and colliding with a work train at a railway crossing near the center of the community.

Barlow Respiratory Hospital

It was paid for by the Los Angeles Optimists Club and has stained glass windows donated by James Slauson and a second by Mrs. Helena Torrance in memory of her husband, Jared Sidney Torrance.

California Conquest

Arturo Bordega and Julia Lawrence eventually travel to Fort Ross, where they are able to capture Fredo Brios (as well as a fictional Russian princess, Helena de Gagarine, and a high-ranking Russian army officer), and otherwise manage to thwart the treasonous conspiracy.

Colleen Opoku Amuaben

Dr. (Mrs.) Colleen Helena Opoku Amuaben is the General Overseer of Precious Seed Chapel International with fifteen branches in Central Africa – Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa and Almeria, Spain and Ghana, with the headquarters situated in Tema and is the founder of Save Them Young Mission Incorporated.

Copper Kings

He became a hero in Helena, Montana, by campaigning for its election as the state capital instead of Anaconda.

Count Christian of Rosenborg

Countess Feodora Mathilde Helena af Rosenborg (born 27 February 1975 at Frederikssund), married firstly on 31 July 2004 at Holmens Kirke, Copenhagen, Eric Hervé Patrice Patte (born 20 August 1976 at Pont-à-Mousson, France), and divorced in 2005, without issue.

De Valls Bluff, Arkansas

Major General Frederick Steele proceeded to DeValls Bluff from Helena, and the city was used to house supplies and injured Union soldiers for the remainder of the war.

Diethard Hellmann

He collaborated with singers such as Peter Schreier, Aldo Baldin, Ria Bollen, Ursula Buckel, Eva Csapó, Agnes Giebel, Julia Hamari, Ernst Haefliger, Philippe Huttenlocher, Georg Jelden, Helena Jungwirth, Siegfried Lorenz, Adalbert Kraus, Horst Laubenthal, Karl Markus, Barbara Martig-Tüller, Friedreich Melzer, Klaus Mertens, Siegmund Nimsgern, Ernst-Gerold Schramm, Verena Schweizer, Jakob Stämpfli, Ortrun Wenkel, Kurt Widmer and Edith Wiens.

Edward John Payne

In 1899 Payne married Emma Leonora Helena Pertz, the elder daughter of Major Pertz of Holt, Norfolk, and of Koblenz, Prussia, and they set up home at Holywell Lodge, Wendover, Buckinghamshire.

Elaphe helena monticollaris

Its light brown body is often adorned with white and dark brown spots (E.h.helena) or with black and white transverse stripes (E.h.monticollaris).

Emanuel Bachrach-Barée

Bachrach-Barée was born in Oderberg in Austrian Silesia to Jewish parents, the miller and merchant Philipp Israel Bachrach (1818-1892) and his wife Helena née Kremser (1837-1921).

Erin Anttila

Erin Helena Maureen Anttila (née Koivisto, born Helsinki, Finland 2 July 1977), known in Finland as simply Erin, is a Finnish singer who rose to fame with the pop group Nylon Beat.

Halina Poświatowska

Halina Poświatowska (born Helena Myga, May 9, 1935, Częstochowa, Poland – October 11, 1967, Warsaw, Poland) – Polish poet and writer, one of the most important figures in modern Polish literature.

Helena Palaiologina

Helena resented her husband having appointed James Archbishop of Nicosia when he was sixteen years old.

Helena Palaiologina, Despotitsa of Serbia

After Smederevo fell to the Ottoman Turks on 20 June 1459, Helena left Serbia and fled to the Greek island of Leukas where she converted to Catholicism.

Helena Swanwick

Helena Lucy Maria Swanwick, née Sickert CH (1864, Munich – 16 November 1939) was a British feminist and pacifist.

Horpyna

She foretold that Bohun will marry Helena, become a hetman and be betrayed by one of his friends.

Just de Noailles

# Charles Antonin (March 13, 1810 – August 24, 1852 – Chateau du Val (Seine-et-Marne)), styled comte de Noailles, commander of the Légion d'honneur, married in Paris, 25 1849, Anne Marie Elena Cosvelt;

KBLL

KBLL-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Helena, Montana, United States

KBMI

KBMI-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to serve East Helena, Montana, United States

King Biscuit

King Biscuit Time, a blues radio show broadcast from Helena, Arkansas on KFFA

KWYB

On September 30, 2013, the Cowles Publishing Company acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster (KWYB, fellow ABC affiliates KFBB-TV/Great Falls, KHBB-LD/Helena and KTMF/Missoula and NBC affiliate KULR-TV/Helena) for $18 million.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Proskurov has been the site of an intimate outdoor theatrical performance for many summers, and the family (and Helena's interns) are preparing the final details of the show when successful Hollywood actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt) arrives.

Murder of Helena Rapp

The Minister of Police Roni Milo and the leader of the right-wing nationalist Moledet party Rehavam Ze'evi were present at Helena Rapp's funeral.

Paradise Film Entertainment

Angel Dark, Bonny Bo, Helena Sweet, Jessica Moore, Julia Taylor, Katy Caro, Marsha Lord, Nikki Rider, Sabrina Rose, Sharka Blue

Saint Helena Airport

Prosperous Bay Plain is one of the few remaining sites on Saint Helena that holds significant ecological diversity; according to a 2004 review by Atkins Management Consultants, the survival of numerous endemic species critically depend on preservation and protection of the location; it also is an important nesting site for the Wirebird, Saint Helena's national bird which is nearly extinct.

Saints Constantine and Helena, Bulgaria

Constantine and Helena, the Euxinograd royal summer palace, park and winery, and the Sofia University Botanical Garden, also known as Ecopark Varna.

Santa Helena Esporte Clube

Santa Helena Esporte Clube, commonly known as Santa Helena, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Helena de Goiás, Goiás state.

Stephanie Leonidas

Her younger brother Shane (who is now known as Dimitri) and younger sister Georgina Leonidas are also actors, while her other sister Helena is a teacher.

Stony Hill Vineyard

Stony Hill Vineyard is located south of the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park in the northern reaches of the city of Saint Helena, California.

The Midnight Folk

It features: Sam Salter, Nickolas Grace, Charles Dance (as Abner Brown), Deborah Findlay, Andrew Sachs, Liz Smith, Helena Breck, Jon Glover, Ewan Bailey, Ann Beach, Harry Myers, Graham Seed, Miranda Keeling, Bethan Walker, Mark Straker, Sam Dale, Ian Masters, Joseph Kloska and Christine Kavanagh.

Titulus Crucis

The Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme was built about 325 AD by Saint Helena (the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great) after her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, during which she reportedly located the True Cross and many other relics which she gave to the new church.

Trochetiopsis erythroxylon

Saint Helena redwood is completely unrelated to the redwood tree of California and other trees called redwood.

Woodgrove Secondary School

The school was founded by pioneer Principal Mrs Helena Song Kheng Sin in year 2000, and opened by Dr Maliki Osman, MP for Sembawang GRC in 5 July 2002.