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5 unusual facts about Meade


Custer Observatory

Meade 16" LX200GPS-SMT (currently away for maintenance).

Farm Cove Observatory

Built in 2000, the observatory has a Meade LX200R 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain F/10 telescope, purchased and on loan from Ohio State University Astronomy Dept.

Michael D. Reynolds

He worked with Meade Instruments in 2005 to develop and create Meade’s MeteoriteKit, a special set of meteorites, tektites, and impactites.

Mount Stony Brook Observatory

The dome contains a Meade 14" Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope and SBIG (SBIG-STL1001e) imaging equipment. The telescope is used for teaching undergraduate and graduate astronomy labs by the department, as well as by the Astronomy club. The observatory's imaging capabilities have been used to monitor variable stars. On the first Friday of every month during the school year the department hosts "Astronomy Open Nights" during which a lecture is given, followed by observing if the weather permits.

The Heights Observatory

In 1988-89, the Emanuel Papaelia Observatory (opened Nov'89) was built containing a 1963 vintage 12" Dall-Kirkham Cassegrain reflecting telescope belonging to the Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSA), and originally housed at Marryatville High School. In 1996, a second building (the Ingham Family Rooms) was constructed. This contained a 10" Meade LX-200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, and has a roll-off roof.


2010 Jupiter impact event

On 10 September 2012 at 11:35 UT amateur astronomer Dan Petersen visually detected a fireball on Jupiter that lasted 1 or 2 seconds using a Meade 12″ LX200.

Alexis Meade

It is also known that her mother Claire Meade and her maternal half-brother Tyler Meade-Hartley visited her in Paris in Season 4.

His example as an editor was held over Daniel Meade's head by his father Bradford and his "death" cast a pall over the entire Meade family, contributing to his mother Claire's alcoholism.

Amanda Tanen

Amanda Tanen is the attractive receptionist at MODE magazine, born 14 January 1982, and is allied with both Wilhelmina Slater and Wilhelmina's assistant Marc St. James when it comes to taking down the two major thorns in Wilhelmina's side: Betty Suarez and Betty's boss Daniel Meade (to whom Amanda is attracted).

ATV Today

Among those who presented on ATV Today were Bob Warman, Anne Diamond, Brian Maclaurin, Margaret Hounsell, Bill Spencer, Geoff Meade, Chris Tarrant, Wendy Nelson, Derek Hobson and Shaw Taylor.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Belle Meade, Tennessee

Belle Meade residents include former Vice President and 2000 Presidential Candidate Al Gore, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, and Thomas F. Frist, Jr., the co-founder and former CEO of the Hospital Corporation of America.

Bradford Meade

Bradford Emerson Meade is a fictional character in the American dramedy series Ugly Betty, portrayed by Alan Dale.

Brian Meade

Meade plays for Midfield position his local club Rathkenny and for Meath senior team since being called up in 2007 by former footballer and manager Colm Coyle.

Bristoe Campaign

Meade advanced his army to the Rappahannock River in August, and on September 13 he pushed strong columns forward to confront Lee along the Rapidan, occupying Culpeper, Virginia, following the Battle of Culpeper Court House.

Camp George Meade

Camp George G. Meade near Middletown, Pennsylvania was a camp established and subsequently abandoned by the U.S. Volunteers during the Spanish American War.

Carl J. Meade

Prior to entering active duty in the United States Air Force, Meade was a Hughes Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and an electronics design engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City, California.

Charles Francis Meade

Meade married Aileen Hilda Brodrick, the daughter of St.John Brodrick (later Earl of Midleton), by whom he had three daughters and a son.

Claudia Joy Holden

Claudia Joy Holden (née Meade) is a fictional character on the Lifetime television series Army Wives, portrayed by Kim Delaney.

Edwin Cord

During the Armor Wars storyline, Edwin Cord was released from prison where he, Senator Boynton, and General Meade were overseeing Jack Taggert operating the Firepower armor that Edwin Cord's company created.

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht

Another link exists into the Royal Windsor family through Sarah Ferguson via Wingfield, Meade, O'Brien, Fitzgerald, and then to Richard Og de Burgh, a grandson of the said Egidia de Lacy, and a greatx5-grandson of Walter de Lacey the Norman soldier.

Ernest Smythe

Ernest Meade Smythe (25 March 1904 – 9 July 1975) was an English cricketer and Indian Army officer.

ETX

Meade ETX telescope, popular line of compact Maksutov-Cassegrain telescopes made by Meade Instruments Corporation

Garth Meade

Garth Meade (b. 1930 Johannesburg, South Africa) was a comedian and actor active in Australia from 1970.

George Sykes

Meade and general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant agreed that Sykes was not a good choice for the upcoming Overland Campaign in May 1864, so when the Army of the Potomac was reorganized that spring, Sykes lost his corps and was sent to uneventful duty in the Department of Kansas.

Giving Up the Ghost

Interestingly, the head of Bradford Meade in Betty's refrigerator was a parody of Friday the 13th Part 2, where Jason puts his mother's head in the fridge before he kills the last survivor, Alice Hardy, from the first film.

Henry Grubstick

Henry is an accountant on the 3rd floor for Meade Publications who catches Betty's eye.

J. Meade Falkner

John Meade Falkner (8 May 1858 – 22 July 1932) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, Moonfleet.

Jemalle Cornelius

He attended Fort Meade High School, and he played for the Fort Meade Miners high school football team.

King George V School, Seremban

Those that attended the opening ceremony includes Tuanku Muhammad Ibni al-marhum Tuanku Antah which is the Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan; Sir Hugh Clifford, the High Counselor of the British colony; Mr. Woffle, Negeri Sembilan’s resident and J.M Meade, Negeri Sembilan’s school Inspectorate.

Leona Roberts

Roberts was best known for her portrayal of Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind, together with Harry Davenport, who played Doctor Meade.

Muldraugh, Kentucky

The Meade Co. portion of Muldraugh is part of the Louisville–Jefferson Co. metropolitan statistical area, while the Hardin Co. portion is included in the Elizabethtown metropolitan area.

North Hykeham

A foundry, Lincoln Castings, on Station Road closed in February 2007; the last owners were the Meade Corporation of Malmesbury.

Raphael Meade

However, the signings of Paul Mariner and Charlie Nicholas meant Meade had been pushed down the pecking order at Arsenal, and he made only eight appearances in 1984–85.

Richard Kidder Meade

Meade was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George C. Dromgoole.

Roger Clyne

Roger Meade Clyne (born January 13, 1968) is the lead singer, songwriter, rhythm guitar player, kazoo-ist, and harmonica-ist for Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.

Social dividend

The social dividend is a key feature of many models for market socialism, and has been proposed by Oskar Lange, Abba Lerner, James Meade and more recently by the economists James Yunker and John Roemer.

St Nicholas' Church, Gayton

In September 2013, James Meade, son of equestrian champion Richard Meade, and Lady Laura Marsham, daughter of Julian Charles Marsham, 8th Earl of Romney, who lives in nearby Gayton Hall, got married in this church.

Stickney, South Dakota

Stickney, South Dakota was the hometown of Tyler Meade in the hit U.S. comedy-drama Ugly Betty.

Type 99 light machine gun

Harry Davenport (Dr. Meade in "Gone With the Wind"), portraying Nick Charles' father, remarks that there is nothing wrong with that as thousands of our boys brought guns back.

Tyson Meade

Meade installed Kittens-obsessed Chicagoan Matt Johnson on bass and Eric Harmon on drums, promoted Trent Bell to lead guitarist, and the Kittens set to work on their third album, Pop Heiress, with A-list producer John Agnello.

Tyson Todd Meade (born September 15, 1962) is an American musician, painter, writer, teacher, and disc jockey best known as the principle singer and songwriter for pioneering alternative rock bands Defenestration and Chainsaw Kittens.

United States Military Railroad

At the conclusion of the Overland Campaign in 1864, LTG Grant directed MG Meade to transfer his Army of the Potomac to the south side of the James River in effort to capture the Confederate rail center of Petersburg and sever Richmond’s supply lines.

Vassar Haiti Project

The Vassar Haiti Project was founded in 2001 by Vassar College Director of International Services Dr. Andrew Meade and his wife Lila, and is led largely by Vassar student volunteers.

Whitin Observatory

The facilities include a 24-inch Boller and Chivens reflector with a CCD and retrofitted with a DFM control system, a 12" Fitz/Clark refractor, a 6" Alvan Clark refractor, a Hale Spectrohelioscope, and six Meade 8" SCTs.

William Fiske

Billy Fiske, born William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, American Olympic medal-winner and WWII fighter pilot


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