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2 unusual facts about Kingsbury


Harry Needle Railroad Company

HNRC also operates as a scrap dealer, dismantling redundant locomotives and rolling stock, either on site, or at the scrapyard in Kingsbury.

Old St. Andrew's

Old St Andrew's Church, Kingsbury, a closed church in the Kingsbury area of Greater London


1956 Pulitzer Prize

William Randolph Hearst, Jr., J. Kingsbury-Smith and Frank Conniff of International News Service, for a series of exclusive interviews with the leaders of the Soviet Union.

Albert Kingsbury

2 Kingsbury died in 1943, and was buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.

Albert Kingsbury was born in Morris, Illinois and graduated from Cuyahoga Falls High School, OH in 1880.1 Kingsbury would eventually father five daughters.

Bobby Kingsbury

Kingsbury, an alumnus and 2008 Hall of Fame inductee of Fordham University and current member of the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, picked up one of the biggest hits of the tournament for Greece, an RBI triple, in their lone win, which came against Italy in the preliminary round.

Cleveland Torso Murderer

The almost identical similarities between the victims in New Castle to those in Cleveland, Ohio, coupled with the similarities between New Castle's Murder Swamp and Cleveland's Kingsbury Run, both of which were directly connected by a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line, were enough to convince Cleveland Detective Peter Merylo that the New Castle murders were the work of the “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run”.

De Smet

De Smet, South Dakota, a town in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States

Donald Kingsbury

Kingsbury has never finished the story, noting as far back as September 1982 that he was still "polishing" it (see interview with Robert J. Sawyer) and as recently as his self-supplied Readercon biography in July 2006.

Friday Night is Music Night

After the fanfare, the compère (today usually Ken Bruce, Aled Jones, Paul Gambaccini, Clare Teal or Russell Davies, but formerly Richard Baker, Jimmy Kingsbury, Robin Boyle, or Brian Kay) gives a summary of the programme, before reciting the slogan of the title.

Gary DeBacker

On September 19, 1982 in Waterford, Michigan during an 1982 ABA Leukemia "Race for Life" event that was memorial race dedicated to the memory of Todd Kingsbury (The Todd Kingsbury Memorial Race), a boy who had died of leukemia in 1981, Seven year old Gary DeBacker gave his 1981 Michigan District #1 No.1 trophy he won to Bob Kingbury, the deceased boy's father because if Todd did not stop racing due to his illness, he would have been Michigan District #1 champion and not him.

Hampton-in-Arden

The line had originally enabled passengers from the DerbyTamworth, Kingsbury, Whitacre, Shustoke and Coleshill areas to make connections at Hampton for other parts of the country, because at one time the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway had stations side by side at Hampton, at the point where the two lines met (called Derby Junction).

Hendon Brewery

Hendon Brewery (originally Kingsbury and Hyde Brewery and not to be confused with the Darwin Brewery in Hendon, Sunderland) was started by James Robb for Mr William Field of Kingsbury House in Hendon, and seems originally to have been a domestic brewery for the house with Robb conducting a little business on the side by 1851.

Joseph T. Kingsbury

Joseph T. Kingsbury was born on November 4, 1853 to Joseph C. Kingsbury and Dorcas Moore, in Weber County, Utah.

Kingsbury Hall

Many of Utah's performing arts organizations started in Kingsbury Hall including Ballet West and Utah Opera.

Kingsbury School

Kingsbury School, Warwickshire, a comprehensive school in Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Max Tetley

Tetley continued to play in 1940 under future politician Ross Hutchinson, but like his contemporary Tyson contemplated retirement in 1941 before staying on and helping a Cardinal team rebuilt with young players like Stan Heal, Bill Kingsbury and "Spike" Pola to a surprise premiership win over East Fremantle.

Mikaël Kingsbury

Kingsbury continued his blossoming season by winning the bronze medal in the moguls event of the 2011 FIS World Championships, finishing behind countryman Alexandre Bilodeau, and winner Guilbaut Colas.

MyAnna Buring

Also in 2006, Buring played Olivia in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Exeter's Northcott Theatre Company, alongside Sara Weymouth and David Gwillim, and appeared in a new play, Seduced, by Michael Kingsbury at London's Finborough Theatre.

Pioneer Pekao Investments

Company presidents: William Smith, Jr, Alicja Malecka, Philip White, Marek Żytniewski, Daniel Kingsbury, Zbigniew Jagiełło, Krzysztof Lewandowski (appointed in 2009).


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