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21 unusual facts about Ithaca


Ariadna bicolor

He brought the spiders from Ithaca and made them a home that had blocks nailed together that each had a hole.

Asterios Polyp

The title character, Asterios Polyp, is a professor and architect of Greek and Italian descent who teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Elijah B. Torn

Elijah B Torn ( born 1979 in Ithaca, New York) is an electronic musician who lives and performs in New York City.

Emmanuelle Jouannet

On the international sphere, Emmanuelle Jouannet manages the double American French training of the Columbia University of New York and the Cornell University of Ithaca.

Grace Miller White

Born Mary Esther Miller, she lived her whole life in Ithaca, New York.

Harry Lourandos

Lourandos was born in Sydney in 1945, to migrant parents from the island of Ithaca in western Greece.

Henry Bishop Horton

Henry Bishop Horton (1 September 1819 Winchester, Connecticut - 3 December 1885 Ithaca, New York) was an American inventor, remembered chiefly for his inventions in automatic music players and clock-making.

Ithaca

In addition, the participation of Ithacans during the siege of Messologi and the naval battles with Turkish ships at the Black Sea and Danube was significant.

Ithaca Creek

Ithaca in Greece has one of the world's largest natural harbours and is famous in legend as Homer's Ithaca, the home of Ulysses, whose delayed return to the island is one of the plot elements of the Odyssey.

James Chester Bradley

James Chester Bradley (1884, West Chester, PA - 1975, Ithaca, NY) an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera.

Károly Bezdek

This included a period of about 7 years at the Department of Mathematics of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Laila Macharia

In 1995, Macharia earned a Bachelor of Laws (J.D.) and Master of Laws (LL.M) from the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York.

Malachi Bogdanov

Currently Ithaca he is delevloping a film script based on the play.

Meconema thalassinum

It is native to Europe, but was introduced to the United States, becoming established first in the west of Long Island and having since extended its range there to Rhode Island and Scarsdale, Stony Brook, and Ithaca, New York .

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

The OAI held a meeting at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) in September 2000 to improve the interface developed at the Santa Fe Convention.

Rod Crewther

After his PhD, he held postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Sabacon cavicolens

It was originally described from Bat Cave, Carter County, Kentucky and New Hampshire, and a year later found under rotten logs in a deep gorge at Ithaca, New York.

St. Clair, Pennsylvania

Anthony F. C. Wallace: St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, Paperback and with corrections 1988 ISBN 0-8014-9900-3 LCCN n/88/37772

The Burns Sisters

The Burns Sisters are an American folk music group from Ithaca, New York known for their tight harmonies.

The Post-Standard

The newspaper partly caters to this audience as well, covering many stories from the Ithaca, Utica, and Watertown areas.

Tops Friendly Markets

In March 2010, it was announced that an additional five stores, including one in Ithaca, New York, would close.


Andreas Lekatsas

He soon found wealth, and a return journey to Ithaca inspired his nephews Anthony JJ Lucas and Marino Lucas to also move to Australia.

Andrew DeWitt Bruyn

Bruyn was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1837, until his death in Ithaca on July 27, 1838.

Anthony JJ Lucas

Migrating just before his younger brother Marino Lucas (Marinos Lekatsas) from their hometown of Exoghi (Exogi) on the Greek island of Ithaca in 1886, the young man quickly began to build his fortune.

Applied Radiochemistry

Applied Radiochemistry was an important collection of lectures by German chemist Otto Hahn published in English in 1936 by the Cornell University Press (Ithaca, New York) and simultaneously by the Oxford University Press (London).

Archer MacMackin

Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne appeared as the stars in the Essanay films being filmed in Ithaca.

Atil

Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ.

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.

Being and Time

Christopher Fynsk, Heidegger: Thought and Historicity (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1993, expanded edn.), ch.

Carolyn K. Peterson

On February 27, 2004, Nyack mayor John Shields announced that he would recognize the New Paltz marriages and on March 1, 2004, Ithaca's mayor Carolyn K. Peterson declared that she would recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.

Chalkeia

Its panoramic views includes the hills to the northwest, the Ionian Islands including Zante, Kefalonia, Ithaca, the Echinades and the Peloponnese to the south including the Panachaiko, Movri and the Scollis mountains.

Charles Brady King

King was first sent to Trinity College in Port Hope (Ontario) for two years, then went to Cascadilla School in Ithaca, New York, for preparation for entrance to Cornell University.

Christophe Moyreau

Contemporary sources also mention a treatise by Moyreau, Petit abrégé des principes de musique par demandes et réponses (1753), which has been conserved at Orléans (Médiathèque), at the Cornell University of Ithaca and at the Newberry Library of Chicago (USA).

Frank Battisti

Guest soloists and conductors appearing with the Ithaca High School Band while Battisti was conductor of the ensemble included Benny Goodman, Carl "Doc" Severinsen, Donald Sinta, Harvey Phillips, The New York Brass Quintet, Jimmy Burke, Vincent Persichetti, Norman Dello Joio, Thomas Beversdorf, Clyde Roller, Frederick Fennell, William D. Revelli and Walter Beeler.

Hangar Theatre

The Hangar Theatre is a non-profit, regional theatre located at 801 Taughannock Boulevard in Ithaca, NY.

Hiram Sibley

Sibley funded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Homer's Ithaca

William Gell—writing in 1807—he believed Homer's "Ithaca" was on the Aetos isthmus of Ithaki island, facing east, in or near the bay of Vathy.

Ithaca and Owego Railroad

It connected the town of Ithaca, on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake with the town of Owego on the Susquehanna River to the south.

Janet Biggs

Biggs' video work has been recently presented at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Glaskasten Marl Sculpture Museum (Marl, Germany), the Mint Museum (Charlotte NC), the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), the McNay Museum (San Antonio, Texas), the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Videonale 13 (Bonn, Germany) and tbe Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Jean-Pierre Renouard

Jean-Pierre Nicolas Renouard was freed by British troops from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the 15th of April 1945.23 After a long recovery, he left for the United States and studied at the School of Business Administration of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

John Joseph Davye

He held degrees from the University of Miami (FL) 1952 and Ithaca College (NY) 1965 where he studied composition with Warren Benson.

Living Downstream

On April 3, 2010, Living Downstream had its world premiere in Ithaca, New York, where Sandra Steingraber is a Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College, and lives with her family.

Livingston Farrand

He also expanded Cornell-in-China with the University of Nanking and in 1931 saw the arrival in Ithaca of students from the Soviet Union.

Matt Fallon

Fallon accepted and Anthrax began writing & recording their next album “Spreading the Disease” at Pyramid Studios in Ithaca, NY, however Fallon left before finishing the album and he was replaced by Joey Belladonna.

Mia Korf

Korf grew up in Ithaca, NY, and attended Cornell University, where she lived in Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Moses Coit Tyler

He became professor of English language and literature in the university of Michigan in 1867, and held that position until 1881, except in 1873-1874 when he was literary editor of the Christian Union; from 1881 until his death at Ithaca, New York, he was professor of American history at Cornell University and chairman of the Department of History.

Music for Prague 1968

The work was commissioned by Ithaca College and was premiered in January 1969 in Washington, DC at the Music Educators National Conference by Dr. Kenneth Snapp and the Ithaca College Concert Band.

Ocean of Definitive Meaning

Jeffrey Hopkins (translator) and Kevin Vose (editor) rendered the Ocean of Definitive Meaning into English as Mountain Doctrine, published by Snow Lion, Ithaca in 2006 .

Reesa Greenberg

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2006, Aesthetics of Trauma: five installations of Charlotte Salomons "Life as Theatre" Reading Charlotte Salomon, Michael P. Steinberg and Monica Bohm-Duchen Editors, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London.

Robert Tuttle Morris

Morris was one of the doctors that have promoted the construction of an hospital at Ithaca, the Memorial Hospital, which was finished in 1889 (but the formal opening of the Hospital was on January 1, 1892) and later on a College Infirmary.

Rosalinda Baldoz

She had received two scholarships grants in industrial relations: a Colombo Plan scholarship in Australia and a US Agency for International Development (USAID) scholarship at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Sundae

Supporting Ithaca's claim to be "the birthplace of the ice cream sundae", researchers at The History Center in Tompkins County, New York, provide an account of how the sundae came to be: On Sunday, April 3, 1892, in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church minister, and Chester Platt, co-owner of Platt & Colt Pharmacy, created the first historically documented sundae.

Utica College

Teams are known as the Pioneers and compete in the Empire 8 Athletic Conference along with Elmira, Alfred, Hartwick, Ithaca, Nazareth, Stevens Institute of Technology and St. John Fisher.

Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey

The game then passes through the cave of Polyphemus, Aeaea and Circe, Scylla or Charybdis, Thrinacia and finally home to Ithaca, where the player must win an archery contest to win Penelope.