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unusual facts about Milton, West Virginia



10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

Alison Goring

Alison Goring (born November 15, 1963 in Toronto) is a Canadian curler, who currently skips her own team, while throwing lead stones, out of the Milton Curling Club, in Milton, Ontario.

BBC Domesday Project

The National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes has two working Domesday systems accessible by visitors to the Museum.

Blossom Elfman

"Blossom," as she is known, and Milton are the parents of writer, director and publisher Richard Elfman, born March 2, 1949, and musician and composer Danny Elfman, born May 29, 1953.

Botanical Garden of Faial

The collection includes common and hybrid varieties of Cattleyas, Vandas, Lael, Gongora, Stanhopea, Milton, Epidendros, Dendrobii, among others, including a rare specie from the island of Madagascar that contributed to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Church of the United Brethren in Christ

Orville and Wilbur Wright, who invented the airplane, were the sons of United Brethren bishop Milton Wright.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Crown of Immortality

The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890.

Eyeless in Gaza

The title of the book, like Milton's poem, recalls the biblical story of Samson, who was captured by the Philistines, his eyes burned out, and taken to Gaza, where he was forced to work grinding grain in a mill.

Finescale saddled darter

Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave

Frances Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924) (see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann Milton.

Franklin Hobbs

He has been a director of Molson Coors, Lord Abbett, GMAC, and other corporations, as well as serving on the Boards of Harvard University and Milton Academy.

Gladys Dick

Dick's years at Johns Hopkins and Berlin "marked her introduction to biomedical research" and provided opportunities to study experimental cardiac surgery and blood chemistry with Harvey Cushing, W.G. MacCallum, and Milton Winternitz.

Godfrey M. Hyams

In the early twentieth century, he was the principal financial manager for the construction of the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and the Tidewater Railway in Virginia, which were combined in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN), completed in 1909.

Good, West Virginia

Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon

However, for the American edition, songs were composed by Milton and Anne Delugg, who had provided the song "Hooray for Santy Claus" for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964).

Harper, West Virginia

Harper is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Hebron, West Virginia

Hebron is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

Jimtown, West Virginia

Jimtown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Kathy Mattea

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School.

Linwood Clark

He graduated from Milton Academy of Milton, Massachusetts, in 1899, from the American University of Harriman in Harriman, Tennessee, in 1902, and from the law department of the University of Maryland in 1904.

Ludowy Theatre

Notable plays of the time included productions by Jerzy Krasowski, such as adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men (1956) with Franciszek Pieczka (as Lenny Small) and Witold Pyrkosz (as George Milton).

Marion Jorgensen

In 1930, she returned to Los Angeles and, despite being Christian and attending exclusive schools which restricted their enrollees to gentiles, she married Jewish-American talent agent, Milton Harold Bren.

Microscopic Milton

Microscopic Milton was a tiny kid who lived in a clock on the mantelpiece in a house owned by Mrs. Witherspoon (who like Nanny from Jim Henson's Muppet Babies and Mammy Two Shoes - is only seen from the shoulders down), who was unaware of Milton's existence.

Milton, Delaware

The town was known by various names until 1807, when it was named for the English poet, John Milton.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

MPB4

The initial lineup featured Miltinho (Milton Lima dos Santos Filho, Campos dos Goytacazes, October 18, 1943), Magro (Antônio José Waghabi Filho, Itaocara, RJ, November 14, 1943-August 8, 2012), Achilles (Achille Rique Reis, Niterói, RJ, May 22, 1948) and Ruy Faria (Ruy Alexandre Faria, Cambuci, RJ, July 31, 1937).

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

Orson Lowell

Born in Wyoming, Iowa, Lowell was the son of landscapist Milton H. Lowell.

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Red House, West Virginia

Due to the extremely windy mountain terrain, WV 34 is a very dangerous road for a 21 mile stretch from its junction with WV 62 to Kenna, where it intersects with County Route 21, which provides access to I-77.

Rockland, West Virginia

Rockland is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Ruffin Pleasant

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

Socialism and Freedom Party

Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Michel Löwy, Vladimir Safatle, Marcelo Freixo, Chico Alencar, Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Renato Roseno, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, João Machado, Pedro Ruas and others.

Steven N. S. Cheung

He took the most iconic photo of Milton Friedman, which was featured on the cover of Friedman's treatise Capitalism and Freedom.

Stoney Street Baptist Church

A further schism in 1849 formed Mansfield Road Baptist Church (initially known as Milton Street General Baptist Chapel).

Thomas Overton

His parents were James Overton and Mary Waller; his father was a great-grandson of Robert Overton, the Parliamentarian military commander during the English Civil War (and friend of Marvell and Milton).

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008

Both Representative Alan Mollohan (D-1st District) and Representative Nick Rahall (D-3rd District) had more formidable challenges from Republicans when compared to 2000 and 2002.

Water biscuit

In 1801, Josiah Bent began a baking operation in Milton, Massachusetts, selling "water crackers" or biscuits made of flour and water that would not deteriorate during long sea voyages from the port of Boston.


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