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15 unusual facts about Jasper


Central Baptist Association

Currently they have headquarters in Jasper, Virginia, including a tabernacle, a children's home and a youth Bible camp.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport

The airport is home to two small air charter operators conducting scenic tours of nearby Jasper National Park, Mount Robson and the Columbia Icefields as well as providing aerial services for mining, forestry and wildlife research.

James Stanley Freeman

James Stanley Freeman (May 12, 1874 in Jasper, Alabama – April 26, 1960 in Jasper, AL), known as "Big Jim", was an Alabama millionaire in the early 20th century and one of the first Americans to amount a fortune through Wall Street investments.

JasPer

The name "JasPer" has simultaneous connotations with Canada's Jasper National Park, with the semi-precious gemstone, jasper, and with "JP" as an abbreviation of the JPEG-2000 standard.

Jasper, Florida

Shortly after "Killers of the Dream" was published she received an honorary degree from Howard University, a historically black college, with the declaration, "You are a dangerous revolutionist. There is enough dynamite in what you say to blow up the very foundation of segregated civilization."

Lillian Smith, author of the 1944 best-seller Strange Fruit, was born in Jasper before relocating with her family to Clayton, Georgia at age 14.

Jasper, Indiana

The "Fest" is a celebration between Jasper and its German sister-city Pfaffenweiler, a small village in southwest Germany.

Jasper, Missouri

Jasper is the nominal setting of the 1989 movie Road House, starring Patrick Swayze; however, the movie was not actually filmed in Jasper.

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway (a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

Sean Weatherspoon

Weatherspoon attended Jasper High School in Jasper, Texas where he was a versatile athlete who was an accomplished three-sport star in Texas, including as a linebacker in football.

The family moved back to Texas in 1988, settling in Jasper, Texas.

Whistler railway station

The line is now mostly freight only, but the luxury-class Rocky Mountaineer tour trains now operate from North Vancouver via Whistler to Jasper.

William J. Schroeder

William J. Schroeder (1932, Jasper, Indiana – August 7, 1986), was one of the first recipients of an artificial heart at the age of 52.

WTJP-TV

The station's signal is relayed on low-power translator station, W51BY (channel 51) in Jasper.


100 Monkeys

The band has recently risen to fame due in part to the popularity of member Jackson Rathbone, an actor who plays the character Jasper in the Twilight Saga movie series.

Ardon, Iowa

It is located at the intersection of 250th Street and Jasper Avenue, four miles east of Cranston, at 41.366543N, -94.317809W.

Bert is Evil

In 1998 Dino Ignacio, Wout J Reinders and Jasper Hulshoff Pol accepted the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award for Best Weird Website at the Palace of Fine Arts auditorium in San Francisco.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

CIRK-FM

CIRK-FM was a rebroadcaster in Jasper, Alberta with local tourist information and has changed to its current call letters CJAG-FM.

CKEM-DT

The two stations share studios located at Enterprise Square on Jasper Avenue Northwest in Downtown Edmonton, CKEM's transmitter is located near Yellowhead Highway/Highway 16A; CKEM also operates a rebroadcast transmitter in Red Deer on VHF channel 4.

Contexts

Fischer was succeeded by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, who edited the journal from 2005 to 2007, injecting a certain amount of controversial humor such as New Yorker cartoons and a column written by "Harry Green" (actually Jasper) called "The Fool."

Cyril Rootham

The Stolen Child, Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity and City in the West (a poem by his son Jasper) are among his finest achievements.

Edward Coke Crow

Census Place Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, Family History Library Film 1254694, NA Film Number T9-0694,Page Number 443D

Grunge speak

The events of Jasper's prank would be documented in the 1996 film Hype!, a documentary about the grunge scene of the early 1990s.

Immune to Murder

Other members of the cast (in credits order) include David Schurmann (O.V. Bragan), Robert Bockstael (David Leeson), Carlo Rota (Spiros Papps), Susannah Hoffmann (Sally Leeson), Giancarlo Esposito (Ambassador Theodore Kelefy), Seymour Cassel (James Arthur Ferris), Manon von Gerkan (Adria Kelefy), George Plimpton (Cook), Richard Waugh (Capt. Jasper Colvin), Matthew Edison (Nate the Trooper) and Steve Cumyn (D.A. Herman Jasper).

James M. Jasper

Graduating in 1975 from Saint James School, where he was elected Senior Prefect, Jasper attended Harvard College.

James Shepherd Freeman

James Shepherd Freeman (April 30, 1900 in Jasper, AL – August 7, 1962 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD) was a World War II Admiral in the United States Navy and the son of James Stanley Freeman.

James W. Faulkner

His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.

Jasper County, Missouri

All of Jasper County is a part of Missouri’s 32nd District in the Missouri Senate and is represented by Ron Richard (R-Joplin).

Jasper Heywood

Jasper Heywood, SJ (1535 – 9 January 1598) was the English translator of three Latin plays of Seneca, the Troas (1559), the Thyestes (1560) and Hercules Furens (1561), and a Jesuit missionary.

Jasper McLevy

Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878—November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933-1957.

Jasper Wrath

In time, complications in obtaining British work permits, they take a holiday in Majorca, Spain co-writing some of Jasper Wrath’s most memorable compositions, i.e.: "You", "The Dream", "Somewhere Beyond The Sun", "The City", "Touch The Sky", and "The Ghost of Way".

John Lounsbery

One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Colonel, Jasper and Horace Badun, Sergeant Tibbs

Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus

The ten founders of LLBC were Rev. Avery C. Alexander, Diana E. Bajoie, Sidney Barthelemy, Louis Charbonnet, III, Nick Connor, Joseph A. Delpit, Alphonse Jackson, Johnny Jackson, Jr., Thomas Jasper, and Richard Turnley, Jr.

Mike Bonifer

Born on December 31, 1953, in Jasper, Indiana, Bonifer grew up on a farm near Ireland, Indiana, the oldest of six children of Bob and Fern (Henke) Bonifer.

N. W. Jasper

W. (Bill) Jasper is the President, Director, and CEO of Dolby Laboratories.

Phillip M. Landrum

He returned to the practice of law in Jasper, Georgia until he was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1977).

Pierre Courbois

In 1999 he founded the so called "Double-Quintet" and in 2003 his famous "Five-Four-Sextet", with, to name a few, Eric Vloeimans, Ilja Reijngoud, Jasper Blom, Paul van Kemenade and Niko Langenhuijsen.

Ricardo Ainslie

Following the 1998 racially motivated dragging death of James Byrd, a black man killed by three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas, Ricardo Ainslie explored the impact of the murder on that community in several scholarly journal articles.

Samuel More

Samuel More was the husband of Katherine More, whose father, Jasper More, was master of Larden, a 1000-acre estate between Much Wenlock and Ludlow in Shropshire, England.

Saskatchewan River Crossing, Alberta

It is the only place offering basic services between Lake Louise and Jasper, including gasoline, restaurant, and lodging.

South Africa at the 2011 All-Africa Games

Men - Roland Schoeman, Gideon Louw, Darian Townsend, Leath Shankland, Jean Basson, Jasper Venter, Mark Randall, Gerhardus Zandberg, Charl Crous, Darren Murray, Cameron van der Burgh, Neil Versfeld, Thabang Moeketsane, Neil Watson, Garth Tune, Chad le Clos, Riaan Schoeman, Malesela Molepo, Edward Johanniesen

Stanley Thompson

Thompson's many world-famous courses include the Banff Springs Hotel Golf Course in Banff, Alberta, the Jasper Park Golf Course in Jasper, Alberta, the scenic Fundy National Park Course in New Brunswick and the Highlands Links in Ingonish, Nova Scotia, all four are publicly accessible and located in Canadian National Parks.

Steinhagen Reservoir

The Southwestern Power Administration, U. S. Department of Energy, markets the power and energy generated by the hydropower plant to the Sam Rayburn Municipal Power Agency for distribution to its customers in Jasper, Liberty, and Livingston, Texas and Vinton, Louisiana.

The More children and the Mayflower

Jasper More, a descendant of Samuel More, prompted by his genealogist friend, Anthony Wagner, searched his attic and discoverd a 1622 document which detailed the adultery of the children's mother, Katherine More.

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh

The computer used in Jasper's hideout, in the film Children of Men, to show the video feeds of intruders breaking in is a TAM.

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen

Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (January 30, 1767 – September 1811) was a German explorer of Arabia and Palestine from Jever, German Frisia.

Vizsla

Former White House Press Secretary and cohost of The Five, Dana Perino has owned two Vizslas, Henry (deceased) and Jasper.

Wayne Perkins

In 1968, drummer Jasper Guarino helped Perkins land a steady job as a session guitarist in a studio owned by Quin Ivy called "Quinvy's" in Muscle Shoals.