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unusual facts about Holt, Aust-Agder


Kristiansand Teacher Training College

Kristiansand Teacher Training College (Kristiansand Lærerhøgskole) was established as Holt Seminary in Holt, Aust-Agder, Norway in 1839.


A Little Trip to Heaven

Holt bluffs, claiming a hidden camera will help sort out who was truly on the bus; many leave, and his co-worker (Peter Coyote) quickly tells him their company wants him to investigate a crash in the remote and desolate town of North Hastings, Minnesota.

Agder

The previous most credible source, Ptolemy, gives the briefest of sketches, only citing all of Norway as the Chaedini ("country people").

Alamance, North Carolina

Holt's mill produced the well-known "Alamance Plaids", the first factory-dyed cotton cloth produced south of the Potomac.

Albin Francisco Schoepf

Befriended by Joseph Holt, Schoepf served as a clerk first in the U.S. Coastal Survey and later in the U.S. Patent Office and the War Department (working under Holt).

Aurora Inn

The Aurora Inn renovation team included Pleasant Rowland, Katie Waller(Director of Aurora Foundation) and Steve McGlynn(Project Manager), Holt Architects of Ithaca, McGlynn Interiors of Skaneateles and Northeast Construction Services of Syracuse.

Bertha Merrill Holt

After World War II Bertha and Clary Holt moved to Burlington, North Carolina, and raised three children, a daughter, Harriet, and two sons, Merrill and Jefferson Holt.

Bromham and Rowde Halt railway station

After the completion of the Devizes line, the junction at Holt allowed the fastest route from London to the West Country.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Charlene Holt

Holt's first credited role was as Lisa, a model, in If a Man Answers, a 1962 comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee.

Charles C. Holt

Charles C. Holt (21 May 1921 – 13 December 2010) was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cheden Holt

Cheden Holt, situated on a hilltop about a mile from the rural village of Hambledon in Hampshire, was a home venue of the Hambledon Club.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Duncan Hames

He moved to Holt in Wiltshire, and from 2003 to 2007 served as a member of West Wiltshire District Council.

E. Clive Rouse

The son of Edward Foxwell Rouse (a furniture-maker in Acton, west London) and his wife Frances Sarah Sams (whose family had been dairymen to Buckingham Palace), Rouse was educated at St. Ronan's School, Worthing, then Gresham's School, Holt, and the St Martin's School of Art.

Eileen Derbyshire

She married retired engineer Thomas W. Holt on 1 April 1965, and the following year they had a son, Oliver.

Frog Design Inc.

Many of today’s design leaders started at Frog Design, including Herbie Pfeifer, Paul Montgomery, Tylor Garland, Steven Skov Holt, Jon Guerra, Gadi Amit, Ross Lovegrove, Tucker Viemeister and Yves Behar.

G.I. Orange

G.I. Orange was a British New Wave and pop band, formed in the mid 1980s by the brothers Karl Whitworth (lead vocals and guitar), Simon Whitworth (bass guitar and vocals), and Mark Whitworth (keyboard and vocals), plus Gary Holt (drum and vocals).

Georgia Holt

After performing in a singers' workshop in July 1978 at Studio One in Los Angeles, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, and Dinah Shore booked Holt to appear on their television talk shows.

Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre

The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, is a public swimming pool complex located on the corner of High street & Edgar Street, Glen Iris, Melbourne, Australia.

Holt Junction railway station

After the completion of the Devizes line, the junction at Holt allowed the fastest route from London to the West Country.

Holt, Michigan

Joseph Holt was the U.S. Postmaster General during that time.

Jack Holt

Johnny Holt, also known as Jack Holt, (born 1865), Everton, Reading and England footballer

James Dyson

Dyson was sent to Gresham's School, a boarding school, Holt, Norfolk, from 1956 to 1965, when his father died of cancer.

John Furey

He is best known for his role in the 1981 horror film Friday the 13th Part 2 as Paul Holt.

John Tusa

Tusa junior was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in History.

Joseph F. Holt

Holt was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third in 1952 and served three additional terms until he declined to run for reelection in 1960.

Karenus Kristofer Thinn

From 1891 he was a presiding judge (lagmann) in Hålogaland, Borgarting and Agder.

Kilen

Kilen, Aust-Agder, a village in Tvedestrand municipality, Aust-Agder, Norway

Kilen, Vest-Agder, a village in Songdalen municipality, Vest-Agder, Norway

King road drag

It was invented by David Ward King, who went by "D. Ward King" and who was a farmer whose farm was in Holt Township, near Maitland, Missouri.

Laura Pendergest-Holt

On May 12, 2009, Pendergest-Holt was indicted by a Houston federal grand jury on two counts of obstructing a fraud investigation and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Mike Holt

Mike Holt appeared as 'Punchy' in Kimberley Jim, the 1965 South African musical comedy film directed by Emil Nofal and starring Jim Reeves.

Moses Kinkaid

The Old Nebraska State Bank Building in O'Neill, in which Kinkaid had his law office from 1884 until his death, is now the Holt County Historical Museum.

Noah Haidu

Noah has been associated with artists such as Jeremy Pelt, Jon Irabagon, Duane Eubanks, Winard Harper, Willie Jones, III, Corcoran Holt, Jason Brown, McClenty Hunter, Steve Johns, Marcus McLaurin and Peter Brainin.

Paya language

At the time of initial Spanish contact, Pech was most likely spoken from Trujillo in the west to Cabo Gracias a Dios in the east, and as far south as the upper Patuca River (Holt 1999).

Raindance Foundation

Guerrilla Television by Michael Shamberg and Raindance Corporation (1971 Holt Rinehart and Winstin, New York, Chicago, San Francisco ISBN 0-03-086714-2, and paperback ISBN 0-03-086735-5).

Raphael Pumpelly

Elizabeth Cabot who married Henry Holt, Jr., the son of Henry Holt, founder of Henry Holt and Company and Taber Florence, and Pauline Cabot who married George Pierce Metcalf, son of Stephen Olney Metcalf.

Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry

It remained in the Holt area until May 1918 when it went to Ireland with the 2nd Cyclist Brigade and was stationed at the Curragh and Mullingar until the end of the war.

Straumsfjorden

Straumsfjorden, Aust-Agder, a lake in Bygland and Valle municipalities in Aust-Agder county

The Camels

2006 saw the band record three tracks for the Bra Boys documentary, as well as songwriter Jamie Holt contributing the film's theme song "My Brothers' Keeper" & 18 other pieces for the original score.

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

There are many similarities between The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission and The Dirty Dozen, including the presence of the sergeant (in this case, Holt) on the mission;, a dumb, but big-hearted GI who killed someone with their bare hands, and is challenged by the major, but quickly disarmed during training; a big party with female company just before the mission; and numerous instances of similar dialogue.

The Stone and Holt Weeks Foundation

On July 23, 2009, brothers Stone Weeks, 24, and Holt Weeks, 20, both students at Rice University, were killed on Interstate 81 in Shenandoah County, Virginia, when a tractor-trailer truck struck their car, resulting in a multi-vehicle collision.

Tim Holt

Following the war, Holt returned to films, appearing as Virgil Earp to Henry Fonda's Wyatt Earp in the John Ford western My Darling Clementine (1946).

Torry Holt

Holt joined NFL Network in 2010 as an analyst on the network’s signature show, NFL Total Access, as well as other NFL Network shows and specials.

Trolleybuses in Leeds

Funding was approved for the North Route to Bodington and an extension to Holt Park, the South Route to Stourton and a section of the city centre loop linking these two lines.

Turntable.fm

A number of entertainment executives have also invested, including Lady Gaga and her manager, Kanye West, Troy Carter, MTV's Courtney Holt, former Facebook executive Tim Kendall, The Roots, and Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary.

Value Expectations

Prior to co-founding AFG, Resendes was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as director of research for HOLT Value Associates.


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