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Huston–Tillotson University

Bobby Bradford, Jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader, and composer.


82nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment arrived at Falmouth, Virginia late in November; participated in the battle of Fredericksburg; returned to its camp at Falmouth; was active at Chancellorsville in May, 1863; after a short rest at Falmouth marched to Gettysburg and there suffered fearful loss, 192 members out of 365 engaged, Col. Huston being numbered among the dead.

Abbie Huston Evans

Abbie Huston Evans (20 December 1881, Lee, New Hampshire - October 1983) was an American poet, and teacher.

Allegra Huston

When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she was subsequently brought up by filmmaker John Huston (1906–87), her mother's estranged husband (Soma was his fourth wife).

Battle of San Pietro Infine

Both the battle and the plight of the civilian population have inspired numerous accounts, most famous of which is the John Huston film The Battle of San Pietro.

Charlie Huston

In January 2013, it was announced that Huston was working on the pilot for FX's adaption of the Brian Bendis/Michael Avon comic book Powers.

Clan Houston

The family also acquired a substantial barony near Whitburn, West Lothian, where Huston House, which was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, still stands today.

DC Shoes

On the final night of May 2013, a launch event was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S. for the first signature model skate shoe of Huston's career, with Pete Rock in the role of DJ.

Eiko Ando

When director John Huston was looking for an actress for the part of Okichi, a friend of Ando's who worked in the Tokyo office of 20th Century-Fox recommended Ando to Huston.

Helsinki Senate Square

The title sequence of John Huston's The Kremlin Letter (1970) was filmed over the square at night, including the silhouette of the Cathedral.

Kalamazoo Civic Players

Founders of the theatre included Dorothy Dalton, Norman Carver Sr., Howard Chenery, Ruth Noble, Paul Fuller, Louise Carver, and Jean Huston.

Leonard Gardner

In their memoirs, producer Ray Stark and director John Huston both cited it as among their finest achievements.

Nancy Huston

Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada, the city in which she lived until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, USA.

Robert Patten Adams

Adams was married twice; his first wife, who died in 1867, being Harriett Matilda, daughter of the Captain George King, R.N. He then married Kate, daughter of the George Francis Huston, JP, of New Norfolk, Tasmania.

San Pietro Infine

The town was the site of a major military engagement in World War II and, thus, the subject of a well-known war-time documentary about that battle, The Battle of San Pietro, directed by John Huston.

Simeon Arthur Huston

Their first child was Wilber B. Huston, who won the 1929 Edison scholarship contest

Tamika Huston

The investigation’s biggest break came when the Spartanburg Public Safety Department discovered that a key found in the Honda had been matched to an apartment unit located at the Fremont School Apartment complex and blood evidence found in that Spartanburg apartment matched Tamika Huston’s DNA.

In August 2005, more than a year after Ms. Huston was first reported missing, a positive identification was made on human remains found off Highway 290 in Duncan, South Carolina.

The Carnival Man

The film is fifteen minutes long and it is the first-ever film appearance of Huston, the father of actor and director John Huston and grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston.

The Last Run

However, Huston and Scott, who previously worked together on the 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning, had fights on the set.

Thomas Patrick Huston

Huston began experimenting with GarageBand by creating a unique collage of sounds by mixing talk from Polish radio, distortion, drum beats, and keyboards, and his goal in each instrumental is usually to have the soundscape represent the title of each song.

Walter Huston

He was the father of actor and director John Huston, the grandfather of Pablo Huston, Walter Anthony (Tony) Huston, Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, and Allegra Huston, and the great-grandfather of actor Jack Huston.

White Hunter Black Heart

The main character is based on real-life director John Huston; at times, Eastwood can be heard drawing out his vowels, speaking in Huston's distinctive style.

Wise Blood

A film was made of Wise Blood in 1979, directed by John Huston, and starring Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes and John Huston himself as the evangelist grandfather.


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