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7 unusual facts about Hinton


Chesapeake and Ohio 614

For several weeks in January and February 1985, 614 (now 614T, symbolizing it as testing) hauled coal trains between Huntington and Hinton, West Virginia.

Farthinghoe railway station

The Second World War saw Farthinghoe handle ammunition destined for the RAF's Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield.

Hinton Admiral railway station

Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England.

Hinton Skydiving Centre

Hinton Skydiving Centre is a BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving drop zone at the Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield, on the west side of Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire, England.

Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield

The K21 is used for first-time flyers and trial-lessons, the K13 is used as a trainer, and the Ka6 is used for solo pilots, as is the Astir (G-CGBJ) used for more experienced pilots.

Hinton-on-the-Green

The River Isbourne valley divides Hinton into the "East Village", near to the church, and the "West Village".

Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport

The airport is home to two small air charter operators conducting scenic tours of nearby Jasper National Park, Mount Robson and the Columbia Icefields as well as providing aerial services for mining, forestry and wildlife research.


A. Ghastlee Ghoul

In 2006, Hinton was in John E. Hudgens' documentary, American Scary, in which he talked about being the horror host "A. Ghastlee Ghoul".

Alistair Hinton

His other compositions include sonatas, variations and other works for piano, a violin concerto (dedicated to Jane Manning), songs (amongst them settings of Rabindranath Tagore, Hinton's Opp. 9 and 12), works for the organ, a string quintet (for two violins, viola, cello, double-bass and soprano, and lasting for 2 hrs 45 mins in performance), and a Sinfonietta.

Battle of Deorham

The location of the Deorham is Hinton Hill near to Dyrham in South Gloucestershire.

Bayesian approaches to brain function

During the 1990s researchers including Peter Dayan, Geoffrey Hinton and Richard Zemel proposed that the brain represents knowledge of the world in terms of probabilities and made specific proposals for tractable neural processes that could manifest such a Helmholtz Machine.

Charles Foxcroft

Foxcroft was the son of Edward Talbot Day Foxcroft (c.1837–1911), born Edward Talbot Day Jones, the owner of Hinton House at Hinton Charterhouse in Somerset.

Charles Henry Goode

He was born at Hinton, near Peterchurch, Herefordshire on 26 May 1827, and was apprenticed at the age of 12 years to a drapery establishment in Hereford, and in 1845 he proceeded to London, where he worked for Goode, Gainsborough and Co., and was one of the first members of Sir George Williams' Young Men's Christian Association.

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside

Hinton's department was responsible for the design and construction of most of Britain's major nuclear plants, including Windscale, Capenhurst, Springfields and Dounreay.

During World War II, Hinton was seconded to the Ministry of Supply and became Deputy Director General, running ordnance factory construction and in charge of the Royal Filling Factories.

Hinton then worked for Brunner Mond,later part of ICI, where he became Chief Engineer at the age of 29.

Church of St John the Baptist, Hinton Charterhouse

The parish is part of the benefice of Freshford, Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse within the archdeaconry of Bath.

Galaxina

Robert "Buzz" McHenry (J.D. Hinton); Maurice (Lionel Mark Smith), a black humanoid alien with pointy ears and bat wings; and Sam (Tad Horino), an Asian man who quotes Confucius.

Hinton Ampner

Hinton Ampner House is a stately home with gardens within the civil parish of Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, near Alresford, Hampshire, England.

Hinton Blewett

William Rees-Mogg took the title of Baron Rees-Mogg, of Hinton Blewett, when he was made a life peer in 1988, although in 1998 he and his family moved to nearby Mells.

James Hinton

In their fictional graphic novel on the Ripper, From Hell, authors Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell extend Hinton's concern over social problems to prostitution in Whitechapel, which became the hunting grounds for the Ripper after his death.

Lease of Life

Exterior sequences for Lease of Life were filmed in Beverley (Gilchester) and the nearby village of Lund (Hinton St. John) in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Leigh Hinton

Hinton joined Leeds on a two-year deal along with team-mate and Welsh international back-row Rhys Oakley at the start of the 2006–07 season from Newport Gwent Dragons making his début against London Welsh at Headingley on 3 September 2006.

Peter Hinton

Peter Hinton is a British archaeologist and the current Chief Executive of the Institute for Archaeologists.

Simple 8

It was adapted by company members Dudley Hinton and Sebastian Armesto (who also directed it).

Sowers, Texas

Hinton and Alcorn later participated in the fatal ambush that halted Barrow and Parker's spree on May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana.

Spencir Bridges

Spencir Todd Bridges (born July 15, 1998) is an American child actor, best known for his role in Daddy Day Camp as Ben Hinton (previously played by Khamani Griffin).

Time's Champion

The BBC, who hold the copyright in Doctor Who and had rejected Hinton's original proposal in 2004, were not involved.

It also features plot elements from Hinton's earlier book The Quantum Archangel.

William Augustus Hinton

William Augustus Hinton (15 December 1883, Chicago, Illinois – 1959, Canton, Massachusetts) was an American bacteriologist, pathologist and educator.

William H. Hinton

In the 1980s, Hinton's daughter Carma Hinton, returned to Long Bow to make a series of documentary films, including Small Happiness and To Taste 100 Herbs.

Hinton later accepted a post as an English teacher at the Northern University in Southeast Shanxi province, near Changzhi City, in a liberated district.

William Hinton

Bill Hinton (William Frederick Weston 'Bill' Hinton) (1895–1976), British professional footballer

WMTD

WMTD-FM, a radio station broadcasting at 102.3 MHz on the FM band, licensed to Hinton, West Virginia


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