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3 unusual facts about Lakeland


Lakeland, New York

The community includes a few gas stations, a Byrne Dairy with an indoor Subway (restaurant), two churches, a few small restaurants, a car dealership, a credit union, Johnny Mac's Pizzeria and Deli, Solvay Middle School, a Best Western hotel, and a golf course.

Lakeland, Queensland

1873 in association with Christie Palmerston they prospected on the newly discovered (1873) Palmer goldfield, shortly thereafter with Robert Sefton finding traces of gold on the Batavia River (now known as Wenlock River).

The village is named for William Lakeland who was born in 1844 at Rose Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and was one of the earliest and most energetic prospectors of Cape York Peninsula.


Auburndale, Florida

Auburndale High School is the only high school in Auburndale, although nearby Tenoroc High School serves students in both Auburndale and Lakeland.

Ælfwald II of Northumbria

Lakeland author W. G. Collingwood 1917 book The Likeness of King Elfwald: A Study of Iona and Northumbria imagined the life of Ælfwald.

Bridgeland Community, Texas

In designing Lakeland Heights, architectural firm Looney Ricks Kiss extensively researched traditional Houston neighborhoods, including West University Place, The Heights, Southampton and Southside Place, for architectural inspiration.

Carl Julian Sanders

He was the Co-Founder of the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies for Educational Opportunities, Inc. of Lakeland, Florida, also serving on its Board of Directors (1976-2000).

Citrus Connection

The system operates a fleet of 33 buses on 14 routes in the Lakeland area, including service provided for Winter Haven Area Transit to the neighboring cities of Auburndale, Winter Haven and Bartow.

Douglas DC-7B N836D

Since then, the aircraft has been flown to airshows in the USA, including EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Thunder over Michigan and Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida.

Flat Fell

It is included in Alfred Wainwright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland book, sharing a chapter with Dent.

Florida Marine Raiders

The Lakeland Raiders were founded by Michael Mink in his mothers vision of helping players get a second chance.

Florida Tarpons

The May 6 game against Lakeland was originally scheduled for May 5, but had to be moved due to a conflict with Germain Arena's other tenant, the Florida Everblades', post-season playoff series.

Gee Bee Model Z

One, a faithful reproduction of the original aircraft, was constructed by Jeff Eicher and Kevin Kimball of Mount Dora, Florida, and is housed in the Fantasy of Flight museum in Lakeland, Florida.

Hagerstown Regional Airport

In July and August 2011 the airport had service from Direct Air operated by Dynamic Airways to Lakeland, Florida and Myrtle Beach.

Holker

Lower Holker, civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria

Karen Olivo

She attended the Lois Cowles Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in nearby Lakeland, Florida, and later the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music.

Lakeland Dairies

Lakeland Dairies Group is an Irish dairy co-operative based in Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland.

Lakeland Flying Tigers

The team's new name and colors pay homage to the Lakeland School of Aeronautics, later the Lodwick School of Aeronautics, which trained over 8,000 pilots between 1940 and 1945, some of whom later flew with the Flying Tigers in China during World War II.

Lakeland Radio

Signals come from the Kendal transmitter next to the A684 on 100.1 MHz and from the Windermere transmitter at the side of Windermere Lake on 100.8 MHz and from Keswick Forest on 101.4 MHz The RDS name is LAKELAND.

Lakeland–Winter Haven metropolitan area

Polk County is the headquarters of Publix Supermarkets, a regional grocery chain and Polk's top private employer, as well as W. S. Badcock Corporation, Watkins Motor Lines, Saddle Creek Corporation, and The Mosaic Company.

Mario Bencomo

In 1987 he obtained the "Adquisition Prize, Second Florida Biennial Exhibition", Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.

Mecklenburg Lake District

The main terminal moraine of the Pomeranian stage of the Weichselian, the ridge that runs from Eberswalde-Chorin through Feldberg, Mecklenburg Switzerland to the Kühlung ridge near Kühlungsborn, borders the lakeland to the north.

Norm Ellenberger

In 2003 he accepted a position as head coach of the girl's basketball team at Lakeland Union High School in nearby Minocqua, leaving at the end of the 2004-05 school year.

Northern Circuit

The Northern Circuit stretches from Carlisle in Cumbria at its northernmost point, running through Lakeland to the port of Whitehaven in the West, on through Preston and Burnley in Lancashire to Manchester, Liverpool and Chester.

Paul Lakeland

Lakeland has come out in support of controversial theologian Roger Haight in the magazine "Commonweal".

Lakeland feels the Church should seek to imitate the Holy Trinity where he feels the three persons are coequal and not hierarchal.

Pilsdon Pen

Pilsdon Pen is said to have consoled Dorothy Wordsworth as she pined for the Lakeland hills when staying nearby.

Salland

The region is most likely named after the river IJssel, anciently known as Isala, and the lakeland Sallzee at the confluence of the rivers Vecht and IJssel.

Seth McKeel

Following the reconfiguration of legislative districts in 2012, McKeel was drawn into the 40th District, which was based entirely in Polk County and included most of metropolitan Lakeland.

Seth McKeel (born on June 5, 1975) is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 40th District, which includes most of metropolitan Lakeland in Polk County, since 2012.

The Shield Ring

The Northmen successfully fend off a series of Norman attempts to overrun Lakeland, but the story comes to its crux when Ranulf le Meschin leads the largest and seemingly final attack, coming down from Cockermouth.

Tina Machado

She competed in the Miss USA 1985 pageant as Miss Hawaii USA and was a semi-finalist in the nationally televised pageant broadcast live from Lakeland, Florida in May 1985.

Ultimate Indoor Football League

Of these markets, five (Rome, Tupelo, and Lakeland) previously had teams in the AIFL, while Estero previously had a team in arenafootball2; The Cincinnati Commandos and Marion Blue Racers have come previously from the Continental Indoor Football League; and the Erie Explosion moves from the Southern Indoor Football League.

Walter Wolf

In 1993 Wolf helped finance the unsuccessful US Fire Apparatus company Firewolf Industries, housed in a former Piper Aircraft factory building near Lakeland, Florida, US.

Watendlath

Near the bridge is a cairn to the Lakeland fell-runner Robert Graham, who in 1932 set a Lakeland 24-hour record of 42 tops, which was not equalled for 28 years.

Water Crag

A summit on the Circuit of Devoke Water, Cumbria, England, and one of The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

WCIE

WKES, a radio station (91.1 FM) licensed to Lakeland, Florida, which held the call signs WCIE from 1975 to 1988 and WCIE-FM from 1988 to 1997

WKES

Licensed to Lakeland, Florida, USA, it serves the Tampa Bay area from its studios at Keswick Christian School in Seminole.

WMFP

WMFP maintains studio facilities located on Lakeland Park Drive in Peabody, and its transmitter (which is shared with radio station FM-128) is located in Needham.

WMOR

WMOR-TV, a television station (channel 19) licensed to serve Lakeland, Florida, United States


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