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21 unusual facts about Norman


Aldwyn Sappleton

He is also a four-time All-American track and field athlete, while playing for the Oklahoma Spooners, at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Britten-Norman

The company's historic home is located at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight although airframes have been assembled under sub contract in Romania for more than 40 years.

Domfront, Orne

Beginning from the strategically sited castle of Domfront, the dispossessed count Henry, youngest son of William the Conqueror, rallied support among local lords and eventually ruled the Anglo-Norman dominions as Henry I of England.

Earl of Clare

The title derives from Clare, Suffolk, where a prominent Anglo-Norman family was seated since the Norman Conquest, and from which their English surname sprang from possession of the Honour of Clare.

Fyffes

In 1960 At Bembridge Airport, Isle of Wight, Britten-Norman Ltd began trials of their new Cushioncraft—their name for an air-cushion vehicle built for Elders and Fyffes.

George Robert Ainslie

He made a specialty of Anglo-Norman coins, and travelled all over England, and, what was then a more uncommon thing, all over the rural districts of Normandy and Brittany, in search of coins.

Haberdasher

Since the word has no recorded use in Scandinavia, it is most likely derived from the Anglo-Norman hapertas, meaning small ware.

Lucé, Orne

The Anglo-Norman family of the same name (de Lucy, anciently de Luci) derived from this French village.

Mladen Urem

Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) and Corner (Oakland, California), in which he has also published various works by the Croatian writers Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić.

Norman, Is That You?

Norman, Is That You? is a 1970 play in two acts by American playwrights Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick about a Jewish couple coming to terms with their son's homosexuality.

The film version, which stars Redd Foxx and Pearl Bailey, substitutes an African American family for a Jewish family.

Norman's Awesome Experience

The Parisian locale of the film is about to be annexed by the Roman Empire at the time the protagonists arrive (during the reign of the Emperor Nero).

This activity is witnessed by the Roman commanding officer and makes it into a book that Umberto and Erica are forced to help manufacture on a primitive printing press operated by a group of galley slaves of which they are now a part of having been sold into slavery due to their failure to stop Norman who takes his people away to settle on a coastal area of Gaul safe from the Romans where Norman names the region as Normandy and thus seals his name in history.

Play the Red

After his strong placing performance in the Preakness Stakes he was entered into a stud career and stood at Reeve Ranch, Norman, Oklahoma beginning in 1982.

Sam Hazewinkel

Sam Hazewinkel (4 March 1983) of Norman, Oklahoma is an American wrestler who won the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and competed at the 2012 Olympics in freestyle (55 kg).

Saxo-Norman

Saxo-Norman pottery began to be made in eastern England, including the towns of Stamford and Thetford, encouraged by contact from France and Scandinavia.

The Evening Descends

The Evening Descends is the second album by Norman, Oklahoma band Evangelicals.

The Norman Anonymous

Surviving in just a single manuscript, the text is the only contribution made by the Anglo-Norman realm to the Investiture Controversy.

Thurleigh Castle

Excavations in the 1970s found few remains of the Norman castle, but finds indicated that the site had been occupied in the Iron-Age, Roman and Saxon periods.

U.S. states without major sports teams

The Hornets played 36 of 41 home games in Oklahoma City during the 2005-06 NBA season, and played 35 home games in both Oklahoma City and nearby Norman in the 2006-07 season.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2012

The Oklahoma Republican State Convention was held May 11–12, 2012 in Norman.


1184 in Ireland

It was built on an earlier Irish fortification in the territory of the O'Byrne's by the Norman Hugh de Lacy, then governor of Ireland under Henry II .

Adriana Kugler

Market Reforms, Factor Reallocation, and Productivity Growth in Latin America, (with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler), in Norman Loayza and Luis Serven, eds.

Attributed arms

The reason for the triple-crown symbol is unknown, but it was associated with other pre-Norman kings, with the seal of Magnus II of Sweden, with the relics of the Three Wise Men in Cologne (which led to the three crowns in the seal of the University of Cologne), and with the grants of Edward I of England to towns which were symbolized by three crowns in the towns' arms.

Britten-Norman Trislander

Designed by John Britten and Desmond Norman, the Trislander is a further development of Britten-Norman's better-known Islander aircraft in order to give it a larger carrying capacity.

Campus Corner

Campus Corner is a college-oriented commercial district in Norman, Oklahoma located directly north of the University of Oklahoma campus.

Castlemorris

Prior to 1175, both manors were then granted to Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan by his brother David FitzGerald, then the second Norman approved bishop of St David's, as part reward for Maurice's appointment as hereditary steward of the episcopate.

Chris Vallillo

The show ran for seven years, and featured such luminaries as Bob Gibson, John Hartford, Alison Krause and Union Station, John Gorka, Tom Russel, Tish Hinojosa, The Austin Lounge Lizards, Norman and Nancy Blake, John McKuen and Trout Fishing in America... among others.

Church of All Saints, Nunney

It was probably built on the site of an earlier Saxon or Norman church from which a Saxon cross and Norman font can still be seen.

Cliff Temple

Norman threatened that if Temple did not stop asking awkward questions about Whitbread's business with the Chafford Hundred athletics club, he would spread unfounded allegations that Temple had sexually harassed a young woman athlete whom he coached.

Coachman's Cove

The first names associated with the settlement were Downey, Bailey, Norman, Dobbin, Dow, Demfy, and Drover.

Colin Mathura-Jeffree

Other roles include a case solving scientist in Lifetime Television’s Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape (also called Stolen Life) helping Emma Norman (Odette Yustman) opposite Antonio Sabàto, Jr.

Dorothy Norman

During the 1930s and 1940s Norman was active in various liberal causes, particularly civil rights, education, and independence for India and for Israel.

Earl of Clare

The Norman family who took the name 'de Clare' became associated with the peerage as they held, at differing times, three earldoms (Gloucester, Pembroke, and Hertford).

Enguerrand de Marigny

He was born at Lyons-la-Forêt in Normandy, of an old Norman family of the smaller baronage called Le Portier, which took the name of Marigny about 1200.

Frank Norman

His last published work of non-fiction was The Fake's Progress written in collaboration with its subject Tom Keating, the art forger and his wife Geraldine Norman, whom he married in 1971.

French Trotter

The French Trotter is a horse breed from Normandy, France, developed in the 19th century from Norman horses with the addition of some English Thoroughbred and Norfolk Trotter blood.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Heihe horse

By 1940, there were sixteen stallions at this stud farm, among them two Anglo-Arabians and four Anglo-Norman, and others were crosses from Anglo-Norman and Percheron.

House of de Burgh

The House of de Burgh (Latinised to de Burca or de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman family.

J. D. Chapman

He was trained at first by Ex Champ Michael Moorer than by Jeff Mayweather and now by Norman Wilson, his manager is the very powerful Scott Hirsch who recently netted his fighters Jameel McCline and Shannon Briggs Don King-arranged title fights.

John Eggar

Eggar was born in Nowshehra, India, the son of John Norman Eggar and his wife Emily Garret.

Kalamazoo Civic Players

Founders of the theatre included Dorothy Dalton, Norman Carver Sr., Howard Chenery, Ruth Noble, Paul Fuller, Louise Carver, and Jean Huston.

Le Neubourg

He gave the manor to his second son Henry de Beaumont (c.1048-1119), who was created 1st Earl of Warwick in 1088 and who adopted for himself and his descendants the surname "de Newburgh", the Anglicised adjectival form of his Norman lordship.

Llangynwyd Middle

Despite falling under early Norman rule, the area around Llangynwyd remained rooted in Welsh traditions, and became a centre of Welsh literary tradition, and is connected with Welsh medieval poets, such as Rhys Brydydd, Rhisiart ap Rhys and Gwilym Tew.

Michael Plaskow

He was an Honorary Grand Chaplain of the Freemasons, and received the 1992 Norman B. Spencer award for research into Freemasonry.

NDN Firecracker

In 1976, Nigel Desmond Norman, one of the founders of Britten-Norman, the manufacturers of the Islander, set up NDN Aircraft to build the Firecracker, a single piston engined trainer designed to replicate the handling of a jet trainer.

Neil Clephane-Cameron

In 2000 Neil Clephane-Cameron wrote The 1066 Malfosse Walk, which talks about the closing events of the Battle of Hastings in which the fleeing Saxons briefly stood against a pursuing group of Norman knights and nearly succeeded in killing Duke William.

Neuf-Marché

Bernard de Neufmarché, Norman lord active in the conquest of Wales 1088-1095.

Norm Hitzges

Norman R. "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas.

Norman Academy

The Norman Academy or L'Accademia Normanna is a non-profit association established for the promotion of the Arts and Letters, Humanities and Human rights defence throughout the world.

Norman Jones

Norman Gerry Jones (born 1932), Australian political organiser and legislator

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.

North Carolina Highway 150

Immediately after crossing the only bridge across Lake Norman, Marshall Steam Station is visible on the right.

Norwegian Media Authority

Norman successor, Heidi Grande Røys of the Socialist Left Party, stated that the moving had had an important symbolic effect on the target areas, and that she did not see the lack of advantages as a reason to not move similar agencies later.

Ottiwell

One of the earliest recorded Ottiwells (as a personal name) was the son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester - a Norman.

Piranha Brothers

Spiny Norman is possibly a subtle reference to the notorious former head of the London Drug Squad, Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher.

Ras Nas

These include Norwegian blues guitarist and singer Knut Reiersrud, Rolf Erik Nystrøm, Keppy Kiombile from Kilimanjaro Band, Norman Bikaka from Shada Band and drummer Uriel Seri from Ivory Coast.

Robert Mannyng

Handlyng Synne (1303) is a twelve thousand line devotional or penitential piece, written in Middle English rhymed couplets, deriving many of its exempla from the Anglo-Norman Manuel des Peches of William of Waddington.

Robert Walker Macbeth

His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth.

Saint-Laurent, Quebec

The Norman-McLaren district is named for Norman McLaren, a cinema pioneer at the National Film Board of Canada, whose headquarters are located in the borough district.

Spandau Ballet

Kemp and Norman were both attending Dame Alice Owen's School, Potters Bar, and were close friends, as they shared a similar interest in music and a common desire to form a band.

St Leonards-on-Sea

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.

St Medardus and St Gildardus Church, Little Bytham

The church also has several Romanesque details dating from the Norman era, including a Priest's Door ("uncommonly ornate", according to Nikolaus Pevsner) with a finely carved tympanum; the empty circular niche in the tympanum is said to have held a relic; the birds in roundels to either side are probably eagles, as one is legendarily supposed to have sheltered Medard from the rain.

The Last Millionaire

Week 2 - Berlin - Oli Norman, founder of DADA, a PR and events company and Oliver Zissman, founder of Totally Fitness and Lady Luisa

Tickencote

The church was partly rebuilt in neo-Norman style by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1792.

Wild 90

A trio of Mafia gangsters – The Prince (Norman Mailer), Cameo (Buzz Farbar) and Twenty Years (Mickey Knox)—are hiding in a warehouse.

William McWhirter

In 1882 he worked for Messrs Norman & Sons, setting up the first electrical lighting at Glasgow Central station.