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2 unusual facts about Native Land


Ben Maddow

Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942).

Native Land

Famous African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson participated as an off-screen narrator and vocalist.



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Anatolian Bulgarians

After the Liberation of Bulgaria, many Anatolian Bulgarians returned to their native land, with some settling in Yagnilo and Dobroplodno, Varna Province, Svirachi, Oreshino, Byalopolyane, Ivaylovgrad in Haskovo Province exchanging their property with that of Turks from Bulgaria.

Argyle, New York

Since many of the original settlers were from Argyll, Scotland, they adopted the name of their native land to the town.

Bobby Limb

So popular was their appeal in their native land that Bert Newton even called them "Australia's Lucille and Desi".

Cleveland Stokers

Those who represented the Stokers so well in the field during 1968 included Ruben "The Hatchet" Navarro, a world-class defender who made numerous national-team appearances with Argentina, his native land - where his name and play remain legendary - and Enrique Mateos, a veteran goal scorer from Spain - part of the powerful Real Madrid dynasty of the late 1950s.

Elkan Naumburg

Naumburg was born in Treuchtlingen, Bavaria, in 1835, and emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 15 to escape the growing anti-Semitism of his native land.

Guo Jing

Guo's most outstanding trait is his constant strife for moral rectitude, as observed when he faces a dilemma after Genghis Khan attempts to force him to lead the Mongol army to attack his native land.

Ich hab' mich ergeben

In Estonia song which uses same tune Mu Isamaa armas (My beloved native land, text: Martin Körber) was until 2009 Estonian official flag song.

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

Neil Humphreys

The title of the book is ostensibly a nodding reference to Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island, a travel book about Humphreys' native land, Britain.

Nikolai Yut

Shortly before his death, traveled all the family, made valuable gifts to be buried in the village Siner, in their native land.

Oscar Hilman

By improving the living conditions of Filipinos in the military base in Balad, Iraq, he was, in effect, also serving his native land.

Saint Fiacre

Seeking greater solitude, he left his native land and sought refuge in France, at Meaux.

Serge Schmemann

1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Echoes of a Native Land

Stephen Dzubay

He had served as an Eastern Catholic priest in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, prior to his reception into Orthodoxy, and had been a schoolmate of St. Alexis Toth in their native land.

Tahirih Justice Center

Fauziya Kassindja was a Togolese teenager who fled her native land in 1994 to escape from a forced polygamous marriage and a tribal practice of female genital cutting.

White Crane Films

Focusing primarily on Tibet-related subjects, its productions include, The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche (1991), The Trials of Telo Rinpoche (1993), A Stranger in My Native Land (1998), The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet (1998), the Tibetan feature film, Dreaming Lhasa (2005), and The Thread of Karma (2007).