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7 unusual facts about Hoover


Aviva Group Ireland

Hoover's reports that Aviva is the largest general insurer in Ireland, with a market share of more than 20%.

Chedraui

According to Hoover's, it is "Mexico's fourth-largest retailer, the supermarket giant sells groceries, apparel, and non-perishable items in 183 stores, being 136 Tienda Chedraui, 40 Súper Chedraui, 2 warehouse Chedraui and 5 Selecto Chedraui.

Hoover, Alabama

The police have a few other cars on staff as well, including a requisitioned Porsche 911 .

In 2006, the police force of the city of Hoover began using 104 Chevrolet police Tahoes.

Michael Jordan's brief professional baseball career was with the Barons in 1994.

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation

The Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation is a brand of Techtronic Industries, along with AEG, Ryobi, Hoover, Dirt Devil and Vax.

Wildwood Centre

Wildwood Centre was opened on September 29, 1991 to the south of Birmingham, but north of Hoover, Alabama on Lakeshore Drive next to I-65.


A4060 road

It then comes to a roundabout by the Hoover Plant and The Premier Inn where there are links to Aberfan and Troedyrhiw via the A4054, Merthyr Town Centre via the A4054 (the old A470).

American Relief Administration

Polish leader Józef Piłsudski has written a note of personal thanks to Hoover; one of the streets in Warsaw has been named after him; he also received honorary degrees from the Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University and Lviv University, among other honors (such as several honorary citizenships of various Polish towns).

Bass flute

Many composers are beginning to write more for the bass flute, including Katherine Hoover's Two for Two, Bill Douglas's Karuna, Sophie Lacaze's Archelogos II, Mike Mower's Obstinato and Scareso, Gary Schocker's A Small Sonata for a Large Flute, Sonny Burnett's Stone Suite, Catherine McMichael's Baikal Journey and Ennio Morricone's Secrets of the Sahara.

Baywood, Virginia

The old-time banjo player Haywood Blevins was recorded at Baywood by Peter Hoover on August 25, 1961, and the banjo player James Spencer Caudill was recorded at his home in Baywood by Blanton Owen on March 21, 1974; both of these recordings are housed at the Library of Congress's Archive of Folk Culture.

Calvin B. Hoover

Hoover was born in Berwick, Illinois to John Calvin Hoover and Margaret Delilah Roadcap Hoove.

Clark Howell

Even though Howell was a lifelong Democrat, President Warren G. Harding placed him on a special mining commission in 1922 and ten years later President Hoover appointed him to a national transportation commission.

Cornelius Edward Gallagher

Gallagher was approached by attorney Roy Cohn, who asked him on behalf of Hoover to hold hearings which would shift the blame for government surveillance from Hoover to Kennedy.

Cyril Trailor

After his football career had ended Trailor returned to his home town of Merthyr Tydfil where he was employed at the town's Hoover plant.

Edward Price Bell

Bell covered U.S. President Herbert Hoover's good will tour through Latin America, and developed a strong friendship with Hoover.

Edward R. Dewey

Dewey first became interested in cycles while Chief Economic Analyst of the Department of Commerce in 1930 or 1931 because President Hoover wanted to know the cause of the Great Depression.

Fifth Freedom

Economic freedom, which U.S. President Herbert Hoover defined as a fifth freedom.

Frank Crowe

The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World.

George Edward Akerson

Hoover had Akerson named as the secretary of the commission that ran the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, then hired Akerson as his private secretary.

George Otis Smith

In December 1930, Hoover appointed Smith to the newly reorganized Federal Power Commission and then appointed Walter Curran Mendenhall to succeed Smith as Director.

Gus Mayer

It has locations at the Colonial Brookwood Village in the Greater Birmingham area and The Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, both of which are known as high-end retail centers.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

In addition to the papers of Herbert Hoover, the manuscript holdings include those of Lewis Strauss, Gerald P. Nye, Felix Morley, Clark Mollenhoff, Robert E. Wood, Westbrook Pegler, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among others.

Herbert Hoover Supreme Court candidates

Additionally, with his failed nomination of John J. Parker, Hoover became the first president since Grover Cleveland to have a Supreme Court nomination rejected by the United States Senate.

Justice Harlan Fiske Stone also strongly urged Hoover to name Cardozo, even offering to resign to make room for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else (Stone had in fact suggested to Calvin Coolidge that he should nominate Cardozo rather than himself back in 1925).

History of Cambuslang

The extensive ironworks also attracted engineering and manufacturing during the 19th and 20th Centuries - the most prominent being Mitchell Engineering and Hoover (in the process of being shut down).

Hoover Field

In February 1927, a group of aviators and aviation companies, led by aviation pioneer Henry Berliner, called for the establishment of a new, larger airport on the site of just across Military Road (the southern boundary of Hoover Field).

Hoover free flights promotion

Part of the Trouble at the Top series, the "Hoover Flights Fiasco" was watched by 1.7 million viewers.

John W. Baumgartner

In that era the 12th District covered roughly the area north of Pico Boulevard and south of Griffith Park, with Hoover Street on the west.

Joseph A. Rochford

Founded in 1989 by the Timken, Hoover, Deuble, and Stark Community Foundations, the mission of the partnership is to mobilize private sector resources to help Stark County’s districts and schools build the capacity to initiate and sustain changes resulting in high student achievement.

Juan Luis Carrera

In this capacity Carrera has worked with bands like: Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Bright Eyes, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, The Hold Steady and Hoover.

Larry Hoover

Larry Hoover provided vocals in the form of telephone conversations on a pair of tracks from the Geto Boys' 1996 album The Resurrection; track 1: "Ghetto Prisoner," and track 14: "A Visit with Larry Hoover," specifically.

Mariposa Township, Ontario

Such crops as were exported were teamed in the winter time south to a village (now deserted) called Port Hoover, on the north shore of Lake Scugog, thence across the lake to Caesarea, in Scugog, and south by road to Port Whitby, on Lake Ontario.

Maxine Chernoff

Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, co-translated with Paul Hoover; (Omnidawn, 2008)

North Potomac, Maryland

Cabin John and Robert Frost middle schools feed into Thomas S. Wootton High School in nearby Rockville, Maryland, Herbert Hoover feeds into Churchill High School in nearby Potomac, Maryland, and Jones Lane feeds into Quince Orchard High School.

Paul Hoover

Hoover was a founding board member and former president of the independent poetry reading series, "The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago," which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004.

Paul J. Gutman Library

Electronic resources include: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Art Index, EBSCO, S&P’s NetLibrary, Hoover’s, LexisNexis, ProQuest, MD Consult, JSTOR Stylesight, and many more.

Pedestrian scramble

In Los Angeles County, pedestrian scrambles are used in the Rodeo Drive commercial area of Beverly Hills, at the intersection of Westwood and La Conte Avenues in the Westwood section of Los Angeles immediately adjacent to the UCLA campus, and at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street near the University of Southern California, as well as in Pasadena at the intersection of Raymond and Colorado.

Peirson Mitchell Hall

The 11th District originally encompassed an area south of Downtown, bounded on the north by Sixth Street, on the south by Pico Boulevard, on the west by Hoover Avenue and on the east approximately by San Pedro Street.

Richard B. Hoover

Since 1997, Richard B. Hoover has published numerous papers in scientific conference proceedings and in peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and book chapters describing controversial evidence and claims for the existence of indigenous microfossils of cyanobacteria and other filamentous prokaryotes in the CI1 (Ivuna and Orgueil) and CM2 (Murchison and Murray) carbonaceous meteorites.

RIDGID

RIDGID's orange tools, sold exclusively in North America at Home Depot, are made by TTI the parent company of Milwaukee, AEG, Ryobi power tools Homelite, Hoover, Dirt Devil, and Vax.

Tamara Hoover

Tamara Hoover (born 1977) is an art teacher who was forced to resign from her position at Austin High School in Texas, a part of the Austin Independent School District, for allegedly being the subject of explicit photos that had been posted on Flickr, a public photograph sharing website, by her girlfriend Celesta Danger, a photographer for the Texas Rollergirls.

Tommy McAvoy

McAvoy worked as a storeman at the Hoover factory in Cambuslang, and was a shop steward for the Amalgamated Engineering Union; following the succession of trade union mergers, he is now a member of Unite the Union (Amicus Section).

Utica, Montana

One of Utica's most famous local residents was the western painter C.M. Russell, who at the time was a young cowhand hired by a local rancher and gold miner named Jake Hoover.

Vincent A. Hoover

Hoover came to Los Angeles about the age of thirty with his mother and his father, Dr. Leonce Hoover, whose original name was Huber; the elder Huber was born in Switzerland and had studied medicine at the University of Paris.

Washington University Libraries

Databases provided by Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Hoover's, and Disclosure; receives comprehensive real-time stock and other market information through the Bloomberg and Bridge Information Systems; maintains a book collection of around 30,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 400 major business journals, magazines, and newspapers.

WVVB

WERC-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Hoover, Alabama, which used the call sign WVVB from September 2008 to July 2009


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