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unusual facts about Luna Park, Arlington



1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

With Toby Harrah injured, the Texas Rangers did not have an active player on the AL squad in their first season in Arlington, Texas.

Abraham Lincoln Neiman

His ex-nephew Stanley visited him out of fears that few others would before Al's death at a Masonic home in Arlington, Texas in 1970.

AgustaWestland AW609

On 6 December 2002, the first ground tests of the BA609 prototype began, and the first flight took place on 6 March 2003 in Arlington, Texas, flown by test pilots Roy Hopkins and Dwayne Williams.

Andrés Calamaro

In 2005 he released El Regreso (The Return), a compilation of the live recordings from his appearance in the Luna Park Stadium earlier that year.

Ann Wilson

On November 22, 2012, Wilson sang an original arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner", accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, at the beginning of the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Arlington Farms

In late 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to move the Department of Agriculture's Experimental Farm from Arlington, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery, to its current location in Beltsville, Maryland to allow for an expansion of the military cantonment at Fort Myer.

Arlington National Cemetery

On June 9, 2010, United States Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh reprimanded Arlington National Cemetery's superintendent, John C. Metzler, Jr., and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, after a United States Department of Defense inspector general's report revealed that cemetery officials had placed the wrong headstones on tombs, buried coffins in shallow graves, and buried bodies on top of one another.

Arlington Southwest

Developed by the Big Bend Veterans for Peace, Arlington Southwest is believed to be the first permanent memorial dedicated to those fallen in the war similar to those established as the temporary Arlington West memorials in California in 2003.

Arthur Stephen Lane

Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, Lane received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1934, where he received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, Princeton's highest undergraduate honor.

Bergen Hill, Jersey City

The Claremont neighborhood lies south of Arlington Park, where before discontinuation of service the Central Railroad of New Jersey maintained station.

Buckeye Union High School

Finally, the towns of Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, and Liberty came together with the goal of forming an accredited high school.

Carlos Francis

Francis now coaches football, track, and basketball at The Oakridge School in Arlington, Texas.

Ceyli Delgadillo

Ceyli Juliann Delgadillo is a former voice actress from Arlington, Texas.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Dana Hamilton

Dana Hamilton (born November 17, 1950, Arlington, Texas) is an American hammered dulcimer player.

David H. Shepard

In 1952 he formed Intelligent Machines Research Corporation to commercialize the invention with William Lawless Jr. in Arlington, Virginia.

Dennis Reimer

General Dennis Reimer is currently on the Board of Directors for the Arlington, Virginia-based consulting firm Detica, formerly DeticaDFI and DFI International.

Don Zientara

He owns and runs Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, located just outside of Washington D.C., and is most widely known for his production work with Fugazi, Minor Threat and various other Dischord Records artists.

Edward Otho Cresap Ord, II

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington National Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

Fort Marcy

Fort Marcy Park, an earthwork fort completed in 1862 as a companion to Fort Ethan Allen, located in Fairfax County, Virginia and currently a public park

Howard Petrie

When Howard was three years old his family moved to Concord, Massachusetts The Petries later lived in Arlington, Massachusetts and then Somerville, Massachusetts, where Howard Petrie received his secondary school education.

Innerloop Magazine

The Art Institute in Arlington, Virginia, and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, also subscribed to Innerloop for its design students as a resource.

Jack Metzler

John C. Metzler, Sr. (1909-1990), superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, 1951–1972

Jacob Bitzer

On November 3, 1914 Bitzer was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the twenty seventh Middlesex District, Bitzer received 1,372 in a three way race that included fellow Arlington Resident Cyrus Edwin Dallin; James F. McCarthy of Lexington, Massachusetts.

James Ernest Karnes

James Ernest "Buck" Karnes (July 20, 1889–July 8, 1966), was born in Arlington, Tennessee and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jennifer Forwood, 11th Baroness Arlington

Baroness Arlington having 'won her fight' per the summary of her House of Lords speech by Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley, she would need to mount a well-founded petition once again to restore the Earldom of Arlington and Viscountcy of Thetford should she wish to do so, as one of the four co-heirs to those titles.

Jules Garesche Ord

His father, the then Captain Edward Otho Cresap Ord (October 18, 1818 Maryland–July 22, 1883 in Havana, Cuba and buried on July 22, 1898 in Arlington Cemetery), married Mary Mercer Thompson (January 22, 1831 Virginia–July 15, 1894 San Antonio, Texas) on October 14, 1854.

Kelly Stand Road

Kelly Stand Road is an unpaved road running between East Arlington and Stratton, Vermont in southern Vermont.

Kevin Gentry

From 1991 to 1997, Gentry served as executive vice president of the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Arlington, Virginia.

Larry Tidwell

Last season, the Lady Cardinals again defeated SFA in the first round of the tournament before falling to Texas-Arlington in the semifinals.

Lizzie Arlington

Arlington came from the Pennsylvania Coal Region, where she accustomed to play baseball with her father and brothers.

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Madison Pettis

Madison Pettis was born in Arlington, Texas on July 22, 1998, to Steven and Michelle Pettis.

Matthew L. Klunder

Rear Admiral Matthew L. Klunder is the Chief of Naval Research at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Virginia.

Mel Behney

He currently lives in Arlington, Texas and since 2007 has been a manager at First American Commercial Real Estate Services.

Nathaniel Moore Banta House

The Nathaniel Moore Banta House is an Arts and Crafts residence adjacent to the Muller House on the grounds of the Arlington Heights Historical Museum, USA.

North Cambridge, Massachusetts

North Cambridge, also known as "Area 11", is a neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts bounded by Porter Square and the Fitchburg Line railroad tracks on the south, the city of Somerville on the northeast, Alewife Brook and the town of Arlington on the northwest, and the town of Belmont on the west.

Paul Pierce

At the 2010 NBA All-Star Game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Pierce became the first Celtic since Larry Bird to win the Three-Point Shootout.

Piney Orchard, Maryland

Piney Orchard Ice Arena, located at the corner of Piney Orchard Boulevard and Riverscape Drive, had been the practice site for the Washington Capitals ice hockey team until 2006, when they moved to their newly built practice facility, Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Virginia.

Pioneer Valley Zendo

Eishin Ikeda, who had later been leading the Bean Town Sangha (founded by Eishin Ikeda and Michael Flessas) whose first meetings where held on the second floor of a book store in Arlington, Massachusetts and returned as the present resident priest in 2006.

Ronnie Jones

Though currently an assistant at Martin High School in Arlington, Texas, Jones has served on coaching staffs at numerous colleges and NFL teams.

Roy J. Glauber

He currently lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, and is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where both past and present students enthusiastically praised his teaching to Harvard Crimson reporters.

S. Elizabeth Birnbaum

She currently (2013) serves as co-chair of the Arlington County and City of Alexandria Joint Task Force to restore Four Mile Run.

Slammiversary 10

A publication from the University of Texas at Arlington newspaper, The Shorthorn, gave accounts of many residents that expressed desire to see the company return for future events, highlighting their experience as "moneys worth" and "one of the best wrestling shows" they've seen.

Sullins College

Sometimes in the thirties, Martin also opened a subsidiary institution, Arlington Hall, in the Virginia outskirts of Washington, D.C. During World War II, Arlington Hall was closed, and the facilities came under the control of the government, which operated it as an American Bletchley Park—a super secret facility where enemy radio messages were carefully decoded.

Urban terrorism

The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had redirected toward Washington, D.C. in an attempted attack on the United States Capitol Building.

Virginia State Route 123

SR 123 passes by the Marden House before entering the northwestern corner of Arlington County and meeting the northern end of SR 120 (Glebe Road).

WEAM

WZHF, a radio station (1390 AM) licensed to Arlington, Virginia, United States, which used the call sign WEAM from its founding in 1948 until 1984


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