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4 unusual facts about Osborne


Aquila, Inc.

Aquila has its roots in the Solomon Valley Milling Company founded in 1902 by Lemuel K. Green in Osborne, Kansas.

Mostek

The Z80 eventually became the most popular microcomputer family as it was used in millions of embedded devices as well as in many home computers and computers using the de facto standard CP/M operating system, such as the Osborne, Kaypro, and TRS-80 models.

Osborne, South Australia

In mid-2005 it was selected as the site of construction for the RAN's A$6 billion air warfare destroyer project.

Poul Reichhardt

Besides his many popular roles Reichhardt also, mostly on stage, emerged into a respected character actor (Biff and later Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Archie in Osborne's The Entertainer, several Shakespeare roles).


Ai apaec

In this form he is a member of Osborne's second version of the Dark Avengers.

Angry young men

In the song "Where Are They Now", on the 1973 album Preservation Act 1 by The Kinks, the following lines appear: "Where have all the angry young men gone?/ Barstow and Osborne, Waterhouse and Sillitoe/ Where on earth did they all go?"

Osborne was a successful entrepreneur, starting his own film company along with Tony Richardson.

Ashe County, North Carolina

Helen Keller visited an Ashe County native, Marvin Osborne, in 1944 when he was wounded in France in World War Two.

Bob Osborne

Although both were rookies, the team never missed a beat and Osborne coached Edwards to a 10th-place finish in his first career Cup start at Michigan.

Osborne's first race as crew chief came during the spring Darlington race in 2004 with veteran driver Jeff Burton.

Crown in Saskatoon

Some named for royal family titles including Duchess Street, Duke Street, Empress Avenue and Street, King Crescent and Street, Prince of Wales Avenue, Princess Street and Queen Street, while others named for royal houses include Hanover Avenue and York Avenue, and some named for royal castles include Balmoral Street, Osborne Street and Windsor Street.

D'Arcy Osborne, 12th Duke of Leeds

Osborne's wartime papers were indexed and constitute the source matter for Owen Chadwick's 1988 book, Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War.

Danny Osborne

On 1 April 2009, former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Peter Kilabuk unveiled his official portrait painted by Osborne.

District Attorney's Office v. Osborne

Following the refusal, Osborne filed a claim for due process under 42 U.S.C. §1983, challenging a State's "deprivation of any rights... secured by the Constitution" and requested the DNA evidence against him be tested at his personal expense by Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis, a method more discriminating than both RFLP and DQ Alpha, and unavailable at the time of his trial.

Donovan Osborne

Osborne attended Carson High School in Carson City, Nevada before he was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1987 Major League Baseball Draft.

Doyleston

Doyleston's main attraction now is Osborne Park, which has been the centre for junior soccer in Ellesmere for a number of years.

Essie Honiball

The high fruit, low fat and all raw diet, which Honiball promotes has been referred to in the writings of health authors including Anne Osborne, Brian R. Clement Ph.D, Dr. Douglas Graham, and Viktoras Kulvinskas.

Francis O. Belzer

It was the winter of 1910-11 that F.O. Belzer and C.C. Osborne met with a group of Irvington boys to organize Scout Troop 9, sponsored by the Irvington United Methodist Church.

Geoff Rabone

Geoffrey Osborne Rabone (born 6 November 1921 in Gore, Southland, New Zealand and died 19 January 2006 in Auckland) was a cricketer who captained New Zealand in five Test matches in 1953-54 and 1954-55.

Joan Osborne

In September 2012, Osborne was featured in a campaign called ″30 Songs / 30 Days″ to support Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s book.

KOOL-FM

At the time, no other station in the Phoenix market had an oldies format, and Osborne was given the freedom by KOOL-FM (then owned by Gene Autry) to play anything he wanted.

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse

On 1 July 1862, Louis married Princess Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Louis Winslow Austin

Laura Alma Austin née Osborne was born 10 August 1875 at McGregor, Clayton Co., Iowa.

Mama, I'm Coming Home

The song was co-written by Zakk Wylde, Osborne's longtime guitarist, frontman and lead guitarist for heavy metal group Black Label Society, and Lemmy Kilmister, frontman of the heavy metal group Motörhead.

Mehdi Hosseini

Mehdi Hosseini completed a composition course from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna in 2007 during the summer courses at Mürzzuschlag, Austria where he studied with Nigel Osborne.

Motosacoche

They are reputed to have supplied Triumph, Ariel, Matchless and Brough-Superior with engines at times too, first through H & A Dufaux England Ltd, and then, by 1912, Motosacoche Ltd (GB), with Osborne Louis De Lissa.

Newark-Pompton Turnpike

Charlie Barnet recorded the song Pompton Turnpike, which was written by Will Osborne and Dick Rogers, about the Meadowbrook, a swing era performance venue on Pompton Avenue in Cedar Grove, NJ.

Osborn baronets

Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695) was the daughter of Sir Peter Osborne and sister of the first Baronet.

Osborne effect

After renewed discussion of the Osborne Effect in 2005, columnist Robert X. Cringely interviewed ex-Osborne employee Mike McCarthy and clarified the story behind the "Osborne effect".

Osborne Stable Block

In 1859 Osborne Stable Block was built on the old cricket ground in the grounds of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Paul Osborne

In 2001, Osborne and Rugendyke defended their respective seats, but this time, on separate tickets.

Osborne was re-elected and Dave Rugendyke, a former police officer, was a seat in the Assembly, representing Ginninderra.

Peace Arch Park

The Twelfth Annual Exhibition will include works by Micajah Bienvenu, Ho Baron, David Eisenhour, Thomas Givens, Mark Yale Harris, Elia Mishkis, Kono Moriyuki, Leo Osborne, Chris Rench, Thor Myhre, Beverly Steigerwald and the team of Margo Westfall and Don Levett.

Poldark

George marries Morwenna off to Reverend Osborne Whitworth (Christopher Biggins), whom she despises.

Reptile House

The band included Daniel Higgs, later of Lungfish, guitarists Alex Layne, Asa Osborne and Joe Goldsborough, bass players David Rhodes and Leigh Panlilio, as well as drummers Gary Breezee and London May who went on to play in Glenn Danzig's post-Misfits band Samhain.

Robin Osborne

Osborne serves as the executive editor for World Archaeology, an academic journal published by Routledge, and is a member of the editorial boards of several other renowned journals including the Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and the American Journal of Archaeology.

Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe

In 2006, against the protests of Moscow, the Exarchate received Bishop Basil (Osborne) of Amphipolis (formerly the temporary administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate's Diocese of Sourozh), along with a number of parishes and clergy in the United Kingdom.

Sandra Osborne

Osborne served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Helen Liddell, the Secretary of State for Scotland, from June 2002 until she stepped down in March 2003 over her opposition to going to war with Iraq.

Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet

Sir Danvers Osborne, 3rd Baronet (ChicksanShefford, Sheffordds Priory, 17 November 1715 – 12 October 1753, New York City) was colonial governor of New York province briefly in 1753.

Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet

He was the son of Nicholas Osborne (d. 25 December 1714) and wife Anne Parsons and grandson of Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Baronet.

Spectral Sound

The label began in 2000 to fulfill the more dancefloor-oriented interests of founder Samuel Valenti IV, and early singles included artists like Kenneth Graham, Osborne and James T. Cotton (aka Dabrye, Tadd Mullinix).

Super Dave

Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire, an animated television series starring Osborne

Susan Osborne

A plaque in the sitting area along the Boulder Creek Path near 17th Street contains a dedication to Osborne for her years of work as a city planner.

Thomas Mott Osborne

In 1916 Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the likely suggestion of Assistant Secretary Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an ally of Osborne from his years in New York State reform politics, commissioned a report on conditions at the Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine.

Toronto Public Library

Notable special collections include The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, and The Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.

West Tilbury

Emily Mary Osborn (1828–1925), or Osborne, was an English painter of the Victorian era.

William Osborn McDowell

They had seven children: Pauline T. McDowell Akins (b. 1874), Nora McDowell Culver (d. 1944), fraternal twins Rachel Kollock McDowell (1880–1949) and Malcolm McDowell (1880–1920), William Timanus McDowell, Ezra Osborne McDowell (1886–1979) and Eulilee McDowell Cook, whom they reared in the Presbyterian Church.

Winnipeg Comedy Festival

Created by the Osborne Village Cultural Centre in collaboration with CBC Radio, performances from the festival are also broadcast as a radio series on CBC Radio One and as a television series on The Comedy Network.

Winnipeg School Division

The South District serves the part of the division that is south of the Assiniboine River, excluding River-Osborne and including South Portage.

World Olympic Gymnastics Academy

Dylan Inserra: 2008-2010 All-Around National Champion, 2009 - 2011 Senior National Team Member, 2010 World Finalist - Acrobatic Gymnastics (partner Axel Osborne)


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