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10 unusual facts about Norton


Albert Baisy

Albert Baisy (September 6, 1917 in Norton, West Virginia – April 16, 2005) is a former offensive lineman in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, and Philadelphia Eagles.

Jimtown, Randolph County, West Virginia

On September 22, 2007, the school house bell from the old Norton Grade School in Norton,WV was placed in the steeple at Phillips Chapel.

Kennebecasis River

Southwest of Sussex, the river becomes increasingly larger as it passes the communities of Norton and Hampton, before it empties into a delta-like area informally called the Hampton Marsh.

Lamplough Wallgate

Wallgate was born in Norton-on-Derwent, Malton, Yorkshire, England, and scored nine first-class runs, and took one wicket for seventeen with his round arm, right-handed, bowling.

Martyn Moore

He was born in 1961 at Norton-on-Derwent and started work as a professional photographer in 1982.

Mettingham Castle

The castle remained in Sir John's family until 1394, when it was given to a college of secular canons from nearby Norton, who established themselves on the small moated court within the castle.

Norton, Buckland and Stone

Stone, or Stone-next-Faversham, found close to Ospringe in the east has just a cottage, a farm and its Anglo-Saxon chapel, a scheduled ancient monument and English Heritage's Maison Dieu, a museum housing archaeological finds from that chapel and form the Roman cemetery of the town of Durolevum, the westerly predecessor to Faversham.

Norton, Hertfordshire

A nearby secondary school, Norton School, founded in 1906, served the village and the area around it but was closed in 2002 with the school and its playing fields being developed for housing.

Norton, New Brunswick

Country music singer Chris Cummings and rock musician, Ian Sherwood, of "Down With The Butterfly" and "Acres and Acres" are both natives of Norton.

Sam Mtukudzi

In the early hours of Monday, March 15, 2010, Sam and his sound engineer, Owen Chimhare, died in a car crash while traveling back to Norton near Harare.


1988 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

Internacional: Taffarel; Luiz Carlos Winck, Aguirregaray, Norton and Casemiro; Norberto, Luis Fernando and Luís Carlos Martins; Maurício (Hélder), Nílson and Edu.

A Simple Matter of Conviction

#"My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton, W. E. Watson) - 5:16

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry, a play by English journalist Richard Norton-Taylor

Bob McFarlane

For those achievements, he was voted the Lou Marsh Trophy winner as Canada's top athlete of 1950 and the winner of the Norton Crowe Memorial Medal as Canada's top amateur athlete.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr.

(March 4, 1906 – February 10, 2007) was born in Chicago, Illinois to Charles Rudolph Walgreen, the founder of the Walgreen drug store, and Myrtle Norton Walgreen.

Chu-Chin-Chow

Chu Chin Chow, a 1916 play by Frederick Norton and Oscar Asche

Church of St Andrew, Chew Magna

In the church are several memorials to the Stracheys of Sutton Court together with a wooden effigy of a Knight cross-legged and leaning on one elbow, in 15th century armour, thought to be of Sir John de Hauteville or a descendant, and possibly transferred from a church at Norton Hautville before it was demolished.

Church of St Philip and St James, Norton St Philip

In 1345 the fair which had been granted to Hinton Priory was transferred to Norton St Philip which provided much of the income for the church.

Doug Hele

Moore encouraged him to go to the Norton factory, where he helped Polish engineer Leo Kusmicki design and develop the Featherbed framed Manx Norton single-cylinder racing models that won world championships in the early 1950s.

Easter Road, Edinburgh

Most of the area comprises tenement housing built for the artisan class in the second half of the 19th century on mainly nursery ground feued on the eastern side by Baron Norton's Estate, (formerly belonging to the Logans of Restalrig) and on the western side by George Heriot's Trust and several other landowners.

Fred C. Norton

Norton resigned from the House in June 1987, accepting an appointment to the Minnesota Court of Appeals by Governor Rudy Perpich.

Garrison Norton

Norton first joined the government in 1934, when he became deputy general manager of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.

In 1947, President of the United States Harry S. Truman nominated Norton as an Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for international transportation and communications.

Geoffrey Horne

His screen credits include The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bonjour Tristesse, The Strange One, Two People, The Twilight Zone episode "The Gift" in 1962, and as Wade Norton in "The Guests" episode of The Outer Limits.

Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Martin Gardner, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Chapter 14 of The Colossal Book of Mathematics, W. W.Norton & Company, 2001, ISBN 0-393-02023-1

Go West, Young Man

She immediately set her eyes on the young mechanic, fixing her car, Bud Norton, played by Randolph Scott.

Henry Roth

Steven G. Kellman, Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (W.W. Norton, 2005).

Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership

The Hook Norton Ironstone Partnership was the first company to quarry ironstone at Hook Norton on a large scale.

Hoop Conjecture

Thorne, Kip, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, January 1, 1995.

John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer, and was educated at Harrow School and the University of Dresden.

Ken Norton, Jr.

Attending the player evaluations of the by-invitation-only 2009 NFL Scouting Combine were all four of Norton's Trojan senior class linebacker protégés: Brian Cushing, Kaluka Maiava, Clay Matthews III, and Rey Maualuga.

Kings Norton railway station

Kings Norton Station could see refurbishment of the island platform for passenger use, should the proposal to reopen the Camp Hill Line progress.

La Ferté-Macé

Among others, the American poet E. E. Cummings and his friend William Slater Brown, then volunteers in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps in France, were held there between September 21, 1917 and December 19 of the same year, on charges of "espionage" which in fact consisted of having expressed anti war opinions.

Nantgaredig

The winner of the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Norton's Coin, was trained by Sirrel Griffiths at his farm at Nantgaredig.

Newington West by-election, 1916

Norton had already indicated his intention to stand down from the Commons at the next general election, and the City of London merchant J. D. Gilbert had already been selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate.

Norton ConnectSafe

Norton ConnectSafe is a free public DNS service offered by Symantec Corporation that claims to offer a faster and more reliable web browsing experience while blocking undesirable websites.

Norton Dominator

Norton abandoned the Domiracer project a year later when the Bracebridge Street race shop closed and the Domiracer and factory spares were sold to Paul Dunstall, who continued with development and began producing Norton performance parts, eventually selling complete Norton Dunstall bikes to customers including Steve McQueen.

Norton Ferris Hundred

The Hundred of Norton Ferris consisted of the ancient parishes of: Bratton Seymour, Charlton Musgrove, Cucklington, Kilmington, Penselwood, Shepton Montague, Stoke Trister, Wincanton, and parts of Maiden Bradley and Stourton.

Norton Guides

Norton Guides were a product family sold by Peter Norton Computing.

Norton le Moors

The closest railway station to Norton le Moors is Longport railway station which is approximately 2.5miles west from the centre of Norton le Moors.

Norton Records

Norton's Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse and mail order operation was heavily water damaged by Hurricane Sandy (October 29, 2012).

Oxapampa

In March 1857 a group of 300 Tyrolean and Prussian settlers, consisting mainly of poor peasant families and couples who weren't allowed to marry in their home countries, boarded the “Norton” to go to Peru.

Parachute Training School

No. 1 Parachute Training School RAF, in England, initially based at RAF Ringway (which is now Manchester Airport) and currently based at RAF Brize Norton

Richard D. Cotter

In 1866 Richard Cotter and J.T. Dyer made a very hazardous and successful exploration of the country between Norton Bay and the mouth of the Koyukuk River on the Yukon.

Robert Moses' Kin

2004 Cause, collaboration with Youth Speaks; premiered at Youth Speaks Living Word Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Jonathan Norton, composer; Marc Bamuthi Joseph, dramaturg

Robert Norton

Bob Norton (Robert Cecil York Norton 1922-1992), Australian dentist

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Rowland George

Sylvia Beatrice Norton, daughter of Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan and Marguerite Cecil Huntington, at St Mary's Henley on 22 April 1933 and had three sons and a daughter.

Simon P. Norton

Norton is the subject of the biography The Genius In My Basement, written by his Cambridge tenant, Alexander Masters.

Sir Baldwin Leighton, 7th Baronet

Leighton died at Norton Hall, near Daventry, Northamptonshire on 26 January 1871 aged 65, and was buried in Loton Park's parish churchyard of St Michael, Alberbury.

Software developer

Some of the notable software people include Peter Norton (developer of Norton Utilities), Richard Garriott (Ultima-series creator), and Philippe Kahn (Borland key founder), all of whom started as entrepreneurial individual or small-team software developers.

Stratford-upon-Avon Canal

Josiah Clowes was employed as the engineer, and construction began in November 1793, starting at the Kings Norton end.

Sweaty Betty

Sweaty Betty was founded in 1998 by Tamara and Simon Hill-Norton with one boutique in London's Notting Hill.

Trillium series

Black Trillium (1990, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, and Andre Norton)

WNVA

WNVA-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Norton, Virginia, United States

Yari Film Group

YFG's first major financial success as a distributor was with The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel, which pulled in roughly $40 million at the U.S box office, gaining the upstart notoriety for successfully launching the film through a platform release rollout.