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4 unusual facts about Lionel


Lionel, LLC

Similarly, the plan also called for the estate of the late Martin Davis (former chairman of Gulf+Western Industries/Paramount Communications Inc.) to provide US$21.9 million to Lionel, and the Davis estate would now have a 28.6 percent share in the reorganized company.

Following the reorganization plan, Neil Young was no longer a minority shareholder in the Lionel company; however, Calabrese insisted that the company wanted Young to remain involved, claiming that Neil would have an "ongoing role in the company", but that this role would be "up to Neil".

In 1992 Richard Kughn and musician Neil Young, an avid model railroader, created Liontech, chartered to develop exclusive new model train control and sound systems.

Lionel changed hands again in 1995, when Kughn sold controlling interest in the company to an investment group that included Neil Young (a longtime fan of model trains and of this brand) and the holding company Wellspring Capital Management, which was headed by former Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western) chairman Martin Davis (he had left the board of Viacom, which bought Paramount the previous year).


145th Street Bridge

In an episode of The Jeffersons TV show (The Expectant Father), Lionel and George get drunk on Timberwolfs and go to paint Lionel's name on the bridge.

Alton Limited

O-scale models of the Alton Limited's Pacifics or passenger cars have been produced at different times by Lionel, MTH, and K-Line.

Anne Kellas

This group gathered around Lionel Abrahams had included at various times the writers Anne Schuster, Sinclair Beilis, Basil Du Toit, Debbie Aarons, novelist, critic and editor Ivan Vladislavic, academic and publisher Shirley Pendlebury, Michael Gardiner, Francis Faller, and others.

Arthur Perkins

Bertie Perkins (Arthur Lionel Bertie Perkins, 1905–1992), English cricketer

Bells of San Angelo

Lionel Bates arrives from England saying Scotland Yard is on the hunt for an English national named George Wallingford Lancaster.

Cyril Houri

Cyril Lionel Houri (born April 1969 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a New York-based entrepreneur who has founded two geolocation technology companies: InfoSplit, Inc. and Mexens Technology Inc. (now called Navizon.

Fort Hammenheil

Those detained included Upatissa Gamanayake, Lionel Bopage, Podi Athula (Victor Ivan), Loku Athula (N. Jayasinghe), Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda and Mahinda Wijesekara (who was to later to become a minister).

Frederick Lambart, 9th Earl of Cavan

Captain the Honourable Lionel John Olive Lambart (1873–1940), married in 1906 an American heiress, Adelaide Douglas Randolph, and had one daughter, Lady Edith Foxwell "The Queen of London Cafe Society".

Galaxina

Robert "Buzz" McHenry (J.D. Hinton); Maurice (Lionel Mark Smith), a black humanoid alien with pointy ears and bat wings; and Sam (Tad Horino), an Asian man who quotes Confucius.

Gang Related

Renegade police detectives Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Jake Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) gun down narcotics dealer Lionel Hudd (Kool Moe Dee), after the three engage illegally in drug trafficking; this is in order to recover the cocaine Hudd purchased from them.

Gayle Hunnicutt

She played Lionel's wife in The Legend of Hell House (1973) and Tsarina Alexandra in Fall of Eagles (1974).

Georgina Cookson

She was no less busy in the 50s, with notable appearances including Lionel Shapiro’s The Bridge for Bristol Old Vic (1952); 13 for Dinner (Duke of York's Theatre, 1953); the world premier of I Capture the Castle, with Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and a young Roger Moore, which opened at Grand Theatre, Blackpool before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in 1954; and Robert Morley’s Six Months’ Grace (Phoenix Theatre, 1957).

Give Us a Clue

Give us a Clue returned for a special Comic Relief episode on 5 March 2011 with Sara Cox, Christopher Biggins, Lionel Blair, Una Stubbs, Holly Walsh, Jenni Falconer and David Walliams.

Good Times, Wonderful Times

In 2008 Lionel Rogosin's son Michael Rogosin produced and directed a 24-minute documentary entitled Man's Peril about its making, tracing the fascinating history and politics in a saga as daring and uncompromising as the story behind Come Back, Africa.

Great Sooty Satyr

Lionel G. Higgins and Norman D. Riley (1988) Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London

Hamp's Boogie Woogie

"Hamp's Boogie Woogie" is a 1944 instrumental written by Milt Buckner and Lionel Hampton and performed by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra.

Harvard Law School Parody

The 2013 Harvard Law Parody followed Dorothy, Scarebro, Tina Tinman, and Lionel as they attempted to obtain the comb of Wicked Witch Noah Feldman.

I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto

In the Lionel C. Martin directed music video from July 14-15, 1997, the perspective is a first-person viewpoint of Shakur.

John Culver

Culver was the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, for a year following his tenure at Harvard College.

K-Line

Like competitor MTH Electric Trains, MDK was a large Lionel dealer, and its mail-order ads appeared in magazines such as Model Railroader in the late 1970s.

L'envie d'aimer

Written and composed by Pascal Obispo, Lionel Florence, who had already several number-one hits in France such as "Savoir aimer" and "Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps", Serge Guirao, who had written for Art Mengo, the song was very moving.

Lionel Bootle-Wilbraham, 6th Baron Skelmersdale

Postwar, Lionel-Wilbraham saw service in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis of 1922, and then went to India to serve as ADC to the Governor of Madras (1924–27).

Lionel Corporation

The Lionel 2333 diesel locomotive, an EMD F3 in the colorful Santa Fe "Warbonnet" paint scheme, introduced in 1948, became the Lionel company icon and the icon of the era, yet Lionel declined rapidly after 1956.

Lionel Cranfield

Monty Cranfield, Lionel Montague Cranfield, (1909–1993), Gloucestershire cricketer and son of Lionel Cranfield (cricketer)

Lionel D'Ade

Lionel Smythe D'Ade (c. 1875 in Trinidad – unknown) was a West Indian cricketer who toured with the first West Indian touring side to England in 1900.

Lionel Frederick Dakers

Lionel Frederick Dakers CBE (1924 – 2003) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Ripon Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.

Lyonel Trouillot

Lionel Trouillot (born Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on December 31, 1956) is a novelist and poet in French and French Creole, a journalist and a professor of French and Creole literature in Port-au-Prince.

Malcolm Leslie, 20th Earl of Rothes

On 17 July 1926, he married Beryl Dugdale, daughter of Lionel Dugdale of Crathorne, a former High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and sister of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne.

My Name Is Not Susan

In the song's music video directed by Lionel C. Martin, Houston is featured playing both herself and a character named "Susan." The video is suggested by several elements in the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, both containing a man involved with an obsessive love for both a glamorous blonde and down-to-earth brunette played by the same actress.

Paul Glynn

He was inspired to follow Padre Lionel Marsden, a former prisoner-of-war of the Japanese on the Burma Railway, to work for reconciliation with the people of Japan.

Richard Needham

Needham is the son of Francis Needham, 5th Earl of Kilmorey, and Helen Bridget Fandel-Phillips, daughter of Sir Lionel Fandel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet.

Sound Charades

: The master of the genre was undoubtedly Lionel Blair, and who will ever forget him, exhausted and on his knees, finishing off An Officer and a Gentleman in under two minutes?

T. J. Cook

Cook made his debut on July 22, 2011, at Strikeforce Challengers: Bowling vs. Voelker replacing an injured Guto Inocente against Lionel Lanham.

T. Rice Holmes

In 1888, he married Isabel Isaacs, the daughter of Lionel Isaacs of Mandeville, Jamaica.

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Sir Denis Nayland Smith (Lewis Stone) of the British Secret Service warns Egyptologist Sir Lionel Barton (Lawrence Grant) that he must beat Fu Manchu in the race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910, Headington Hill near Oxford – 25 March 1982, Tolo, Greece) was an English Marxist historian of Africa "who did more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" in the UK.

Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps

The music was composed by the singer himself, while the lyrics were written by Lionel Florence, a famous composer who had previously worked with many artists such as Alain Chamfort, Faudel, Florent Pagny, Jane Birkin, Pascal Obispo and Patricia Kaas (later, it has also composed for Nolwenn Leroy, Natasha St-Pier and many others).

Un monde à changer

The song written and composed by Lionel Florence, Patrice Guirao and Matthieu Mendès is taken from the forthcoming French musical Robin des Bois, an adaptation of Robin Hood, that premiered on Palais des congrès de Paris on 26 September 2013 starring M. Pokora.

UWA Hardcore Wrestling

This event took place at the Bolton Fairgrounds in Bolton, Ontario and included the following participants: Osiris, Asylum, Bishop, Mickey Knight, Blue Jabroni, Nick Watts, Lionel Knight and Ruckus.

Viscount Brookeborough

3) Lionel Godolphin Brooke (1849–1931), a Brigadier-General in the Connaught Rangers, and

Wes Butters

As a voice-over, Wes has been heard on An Audience with Take That, An Audience with Lionel Ritchie and The Brit Awards, as well as the Top of the Pops rundown and ads for Asda.

Wilfrid Foster

Major Wilfrid Lionel Foster CBE DSO (2 December 1874 – 22 March 1958) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in their early years in first-class cricket.

William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon

The arms are Courtenay impaling the arms of his wife's father as Duke of York: Quarterly 1st: Royal arms of Lionel, Duke of Clarence; second and third, Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster; fourth, Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March.

World Jewish Relief

Founding members included Simon Marks, chairman and managing director of Marks & Spencer, Sir Robert Waley Cohen, managing director of Shell Oil, Lionel and Anthony de Rothschild, managing partners of N M Rothschild & Sons, and Dr Chaim Weizmann, who would later become the first President of Israel.


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