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unusual facts about Lincoln, Montana


David Kaczynski

On April 3, 1996, police arrested Ted Kaczynski in his rural shack in Lincoln, Montana.


2011 Missouri River Flood

All six major dams along the Missouri River released record amounts of water to prevent overflow which led to flooding threatening several towns and cities along the river from Montana to Missouri; in particular Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; South Sioux City, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Jefferson City, Missouri, as well as putting countless smaller towns at risk.

Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area

The management authority for the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area is the Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition and follows Lincoln's life from his birth and childhood, to his early life and career, to the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858.

Adam of Eynsham

Adam went to France while England was under an interdict during the later part of King John's reign, but when the interdict was lifted, Hugh's successor at Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, named Adam the Abbot of Eynsham in 1213.

American Eagle Aircraft Corporation

Victor Roos, a co-founder of the 1921 Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company in Omaha, Nebraska, had left a management position with the Swallow Aircraft Company in 1928, and was tapped to head the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft Corporation.

Billy Sianis

In early 1934, two months after the repeal of Prohibition, Sianis purchased the Lincoln Tavern, a bar across the street from Chicago Stadium.

Blackwater fire of 1937

Consequently, by 1939 the first stages of the parachuting smokejumper program were initiated at Winthrop, Washington, and at two locations in Montana.

Chris Roy, Jr.

Louisiana Senate District 29, represented by the retiring Democrat Joe McPherson, also of Woodworth, was carved up into a minority district that meanders from south Rapides to Lincoln parishes.

Claude Batley

Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Wankaner Palace (1933) now Lincoln House, the American Consulate, Breach Candy; Bombay Central Station (1930); South Court or popularly now known as Jinnah House, (1935); Round Building (1937), Cusrow Baug in Colaba Causeway (1937–59) and its Agiary, known as The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary (1938), Bombay Club (1939) later Hotel Nataraj and now Inter-Continental Mumbai, Lalbhai House (1942) and Breach Candy Hospital (1950).

Claude Montana

He started his own company The House of Montana in 1979, and quickly became a darling of 1980s high fashion along with Thierry Mugler, who also favored aggressive shapes and strong colours.

Dennis Townhill

Born in Lincoln, he was educated at Lincoln School and studied under Dr Gordon Archbold Slater at Lincoln Cathedral.

Dillard's

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp.

Diocese of London

Historically the diocese covered a large area north of the Thames and bordered the dioceses of Norwich and Lincoln to the north and west.

Djamel Mesbah

In May 2010, Mesbah was called up for the first time to the Algeria national football team by Rabah Saâdane for a two-week training camp in Crans-Montana, Switzerland in preparation for the 2010 World Cup.

Donald W. Molloy

He was a law clerk to Judge James Franklin Battin, U.S. District Court, District of Montana from 1976 to 1978.

Frank Ferguson

In the story line, as Wallace visits Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff Garrett tries to keep down brawling in the cantina owned by Big Mamacita (Connie Gilchrist), who is the grandmother of the governor's young aide.

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

He also edited two volumes of Theodore Parker's Writings (1914), introduced Newton's Lincoln and Herndon (1913), and wrote brief biographies of Samuel Langdon (president of Harvard College), of Ellery Channing and of Mrs. Abbott-Wood of Lowell.

Frederick H. Chapin

Reprinted in 1987, with forward and notes by James H. Pickering, by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln

Five relatives and family friends were officially appointed to accompany the funeral train: David Davis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; Lincoln's brothers-in-law, Ninian Wirt Edwards and C. M. Smith; Brigadier General John Blair Smith Todd, a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln; and Charles Alexander Smith, the brother of C. M. Smith.

Girls' Night Out

Girls' Night Out, a song by Miley Cyrus from the album Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus

Grant City, Staten Island

Many of the streets are named after historical figures such as Lincoln Ave (after President Abraham Lincoln), Fremont Ave (after General John C. Fremont who was the first Republican candidate for President, as well as a Staten Island resident, in 1856), Adams Avenue (after President John Adams), Colfax Ave (after Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President)and Greeley Ave (after newspaper editor Horace Greeley).

Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln

Lincoln's speech was compiled by James Algar (yet another Disney Legend), who was also the main writer and producer of the show.

Greenwich Village Orchestra

In 2005, the Orchestra performed Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, narrated by former Senator Bob Kerrey.

Halsbrücker Esse

With a height of 140m it was the highest smokestack in the world at its completion and it remains the tallest brick building in Europe (the Anaconda Smelter Stack in Montana is higher) and is a technical and industrial historical monument.

Harley Frank

On September 26, 1996 Frank shipped half a truckload of Barley, that had been grown on his Reserve, in a native owned truck, to a buyer in the nearby Blackfoot Reservation in Montana.

Henry Lundy

This time, Lundy earned the win, narrowly beating Almarez by unanimous decision, 38–37, 38–37, 38–36 at the Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island.

Hibernian Hall

Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall, Anaconda, Montana, also known as Hibernian Hall

James E. English

Sadly, in Steven Spielberg's 2012 epic Lincoln movie, both English and Augustus Brandegee, his abolitionist Republican colleague from Connecticut, are given two fictional names and are both shown, erroneously, to have voted against the amendment.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Khem Shahani

Khem Shahani is best known for his discovery of the DDS-1 strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus in 1959, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

KWYB

On September 30, 2013, the Cowles Publishing Company acquired Max Media's Montana television station cluster (KWYB, fellow ABC affiliates KFBB-TV/Great Falls, KHBB-LD/Helena and KTMF/Missoula and NBC affiliate KULR-TV/Helena) for $18 million.

Little Bighorn

Little Bighorn River, (previously called Little Big Horn River) a tributary of the Bighorn River in Wyoming and Montana

Little Big Horn College, two-year tribal college of the Crow Nation in Crow Agency, Montana

Lucy Lambert Hale

On March 4, 1865, Booth attended Lincoln's second presidential inauguration with a ticket that Lucy had procured through her father.

Montana Air National Guard

As state militia units, the units in the Montana Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.

Naglfar

In his study of treatment of hair and nails among the Indo-Europeans, Bruce Lincoln compares Snorri's Prose Edda comments about nail disposal to an Avestan text, where Ahura Mazdā warns that daevas and xrafstras will spring from hair and nails that lay without correct burial, noting their conceptual similarities.

Nellie Leland School

Henry M. Leland was a Detroit automotive pioneer who founded both the Cadillac and Lincoln automotive companies.

NFL '95

It is the last Sega football game to feature Joe Montana, as its sequel, Prime Time NFL Football starred Deion Sanders.

Nicholas Sheran

After his service in the American Civil War, Sheran followed a fellow soldier (Joseph Healy, a member of the Kainai Nation who was adopted by the Healy family) to Montana where he worked as a prospecter and trader.

Office of Education

On Monday, February 1, 1858, a petition of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture was presented to the Senate "praying that a donation of land be made to each of the States for the establishment of agricultural colleges." Neither of the proposals was accepted until the time of the Lincoln administration (1861–65), after which it became necessary to gather information on the many schools already in existence, as well as on those being built.

Patrick Williams

John Patrick Williams (born 1937), Member of the US House of Representatives from Montana, 1979-1997, generally known as Pat Williams

Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School

In a self-paced class, students complete coursework through Calvert, Lincoln Interactive and Little Lincoln.

Philip Frowde

It was acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 16 January 1726–7, James Quin representing Eurydamas and delivering the prologue by Lewis Theobald.

Ruby, Arizona

It was founded as a mining town in Bear Valley, originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak.

Scarface: The World Is Yours

The game begins in the film's final scene, with the mansion of Tony Montana (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) being raided by assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Robert Davi).

Sunnyslope Mountain

John C. Lincoln, an Ohio inventor and industrialist who founded Lincoln Electric, relocated to the Sunnyslope district in 1931 with his wife Helen, to treat her tuberculosis; almost immediately, the Lincolns became major financial supporters of Desert Mission and took on key leadership roles in the organization for most of the remainder of their lives.

UGF

University of Great Falls, a private Catholic university located in Great Falls, Montana, U.S.A.

United States presidential election in Montana, 2012

The 2012 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 6, 2012 as part of the 2012 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated.

White Square

White Square Office Center was co-developed by AIG/Lincoln and Coalco, as the first phase of the White District development.

William T. Major

He founded the First Christian Church (affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination) and built the city's first public meeting hall, Major's Hall, which hosted an early convention of the Illinois branch of the Republican Party and became best known as the site of "Lincoln's Lost Speech".

William Thomas Shave Daniel

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.


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