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2 unusual facts about Landis


Electoral history of Fred F. Steen, II

Electoral History of Fred F. Steen, II, former mayor of Landis, North Carolina, now North Carolina State House Representative for the 76th NC House District covering parts of Rowan County, North Carolina.

Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis (1866–1944), American jurist who served as federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as first commissioner of organized baseball from 1920 until his death


1924 New York Giants season

It eventually led to the life-time suspension of O'Connell and Giants coach Cozy Dolan by Commissioner Landis, although future-Hall of Famers Frankie Frisch, George Kelly, and Ross Youngs were also implicated.

American Werewolf

An American Werewolf in London, a 1981 film directed by John Landis; starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter

Amy Records

Paul Simon, (pre-dating Simon & Garfunkel), together with children's music producer and songwriter Bobby Susser, released records in 1961 and 1962 under the names Tico and The Triumphs with "Motorcycle" (Amy 835 charted #97) and Jerry Landis with "Lone Teen Ranger" (Amy 875 charted #99") with little success as did garage band Kinetic Energy with their version of Dale Hawkins 1957 hit "Susie Q" (Amy 11,028) in 1969.

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1945

The committee had initially planned to meet in February; but the long search for a successor to Landis, along with the retirements of Barrow and Quinn as club presidents, delayed the meeting until April 25, one day after Albert "Happy" Chandler was elected as the new commissioner.

Bill Landis

William Henry Landis (born October 8, 1942 in Hanford, California) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1963 through 1969 for the Kansas City Athletics (1963) and Boston Red Sox (1967–1969).

Bryn Mawr School

Other structures built of complementary materials include Howell (1969) which houses the Upper School and the Edith Hamilton Library, Hardy (1969) for science and math, the Cafeteria (1948), Katherine Van Bibber Gymnasium (1959), the Lower School complex designed by Marcel Breuer (1972), Centennial Hall (1987), the Barbara Landis Chase Dance Studio (1992), the Lower School Science building (1996), the Admissions Cottage (1997), and a variety of small outbuildings and additions.

Charles B. Landis

Landis was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1909).

Chicago Federal Building

The verdict was later set aside but in 1920, Landis went on to become the first Commissioner of Baseball.

Dracula Reborn

Produced by Ray Haboush, the film stars Corey Landis, Victoria Summer, Krash Miller, Stuart Rigby and Keith Reay.

Floyd County High School

Coached by Mrs. Sara Landis, the ensemble performed Go Ask Alice, a play based on the popular fiction novel by Beatrice Sparks.

Fred F. Steen, II

A cost analyst from Landis, North Carolina, he served as the town's Mayor for eight years until he was appointed on 16 February 2004 to fill the seat of W. Eugene McCombs, who died in office.

Frederick Landis

Landis was elected to the Seventy-fourth Congress on November 6, 1934, but died in a hospital in Logansport, Indiana, November 15, 1934, before Congress had convened.

Geoffrey A. Landis

Landis has also been a faculty member of the International Space University; in 1998 he was on the faculty of the Department of Mining, Manufacturing, and Robotics in the Space Studies Program, and in 1999 he was on the faculty of the 12th Space Studies Program at the Suranaree University of Technology in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand.

Gerald W. Landis

Landis was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1949).

Gregory Benford

Working in collaboration with, among others, science fiction writers Cramer, Forward, and Landis, Benford worked on a theoretical study of the physics of wormholes, which pointed out that wormholes, if formed in the early universe, could still exist in the present day if they were wrapped in a negative-mass cosmic string.

Harry Landis

Indeed, Landis' other film roles have been pretty minor, as in Dunkirk (1958), Doctor in Distress (uncredited, 1963), The Informers (uncredited, 1963), Private Potter (1962), Operation Bullshine (1959) and Ransom (1975) with Sean Connery.

Harry Richard Landis

Landis was born to Jason and Alice Landis in Miller Township, Marion County, Missouri, between Hannibal and Palmyra, where he grew up on the family farm.

Landis joined the United States Army in October 1918, and joined the Student Army Training Corps while attending Central Methodist University in Missouri.

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Dr. Landis has been granted many honors in her distinguished career and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Neurological Association.

Positively False

The World Anti Doping Association (WADA) and its president Dick Pound come in for some particular criticism, with Landis describing them as Judge, Jury and Executioner and labeling Pound as "a liar" who attempted to smear Landis by allegedly releasing information to the media undermining Landis' case.

Landis was stripped of his TDF title in September 2007; in May 2010 he confessed to doping and accused Lance Armstrong of doing the same, contradicting the entire premise of the book.

Reed G. Landis

Colonel Reed Gresham Landis (July 17, 1896 – May 30, 1975) was an American military aviator and the only son of federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first Commissioner of Baseball.

Sleazoid Express

Founded as a one-sheet (later to expand to four to six pages) by Bill Landis, an NYU grad, projectionist and devotee of the crime-ridden sleaze houses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole Times Square milieu of drugs, violence and prostitution.


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