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unusual facts about Hollins


Harshbarger House

Harshbarger House is a historic home located at Hollins, Roanoke County, Virginia.


2003 E2 nightclub stampede

As the club was African-American owned and attracted a predominantly black crowd, Jesse Jackson had in the past supported Kyles and Hollins when community groups had sought to close down the facility due to building code and other infractions.

Alfred Hollins

Hollins then presented several successful concerts including one at the Crystal Palace, where he performed the solo part of the Emperor Concerto, and a concert at Windsor in the presence of Queen Victoria.

According to some stories, Black traveled to Nottingham to hear Hollins play, and offered Hollins the position there and then.

Bury Hebrew Congregation

Bury Hebrew Congregation, also known in Hebrew as Bet Knesset Sha'ar HahShamayim (Gate of Heaven Synagogue) is an Orthodox synagogue, serving the Jewish community in the Sunnybank, Unsworth and Hollins area of North Manchester.

Dave Hollins: Space Cadet

Dave Hollins: Space Cadet was a series of five sketches on the BBC Radio 4 series Son of Cliché, produced by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.

DeAndrew Rubin

Rubin attended Dixie Hollins High School in Saint Petersburg, Florida and the University of South Florida and was a starting receiver after being redshirted in 1999.

Hanbury, Staffordshire

John Wilson (d.1839)'s memorial is a neo-classical low-relief marble plaque depicting a seated woman in doric surrounds by Hollins.

Joseph Child Priestley

Hollins & Co., Ltd., worsted spinners of Mansfield, and disaffected members of its workforce, he was appointed by the Board of Trade in 1911 to serve as Chairman of the Court of Referees for the Cambridge district, London and South Eastern Division, under the National Insurance Act 1911.

Marion Hollins

Her father, H. B. Hollins, owned a Wall Street brokerage firm, H.B. Hollins & Co.

Marquel Blackwell

After playing for Lakewood and Dixie Hollins High Schools in Pinellas County Florida, Blackwell was the quarterback at the University of South Florida for four seasons.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

At Hollins she came under the tutelage of poet and creative writing professor Richard Henry Wilde Dillard, whom she married in 1965.

Pleasley

William Hollins lived at Pleasley Vale, and oversaw the expansion of the community, with the construction of more houses for the workers, the provision of public facilities including a school, wash house, and a cooperative society, and attention to leisure activities by the establishing of a Mechanics Institute, a library and a cricket club.

Sowebo

Photographer Martha Cooper moved back to her hometown of Baltimore in 2006 and bought a home close to Hollins Market from the artist John Ellsberry where she has become the unofficial "community photographer" for Sowebo.

Union Square, Baltimore

The park and fountain – as well as parts of Stricker, Hollins and Lombard streets – were transported back to the 1850s when Union Square played the title role in the lush 1997 movie adaptation of Henry James’s biting novel Washington Square from acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland.

Via Gellia

The fabric Viyella, a wool and cotton mix, is named after the Via Gellia valley, the location of W. Hollins & Company's textile mill where it was originally produced.


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