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unusual facts about Oswald


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.


Arthur Robertson Cushny

Aroused by interests of physiological drug interaction, he traveled to the European continent and spent a year of associated study under Oswald Schmiedeberg at Strassburg, Austria and six months in Berne under Hugo Kronecker, from whom he learned elements of physiological technique.

Beach Combers

Minutes later, Oswald also came to the beach, along with his dog Elmer the Great Dane.

Brett Harrelson

Brett Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane Lou (née Oswald) and Charles Voyde Harrelson, who divorced in 1964; he has two brothers, Jordan and the screen actor Woodrow "Woody" Harrelson.

Carlos and Elisabeth

Oswald modelled the film's visuals on a staging of the play by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.

Carlos Bringuier

To garner information on the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Bringuier said that he sent his colleague Carlos Quiroga (who posed as a Castro sympathizer) to question Oswald.

Charles Wreford-Brown

His younger brother, Oswald (who died during the first World War in 1916) and son Anthony would, like him, also play for first-class cricket but none were stand-outs with the willow.

Coldingham Priory

635 King Oswald introduced Columban monks to the island of Lindisfarne, opposite his fortress of Bebbanburg, in order to Christianise his mainly pagan peoples.

Courtney Browne

Courtney Oswald Browne (born 7 December 1970 in Lambeth, England) is a Barbadian cricketer.

David Atlee Phillips

According to House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) investigator Gaeton Fonzi, Phillips became Mexico City's Chief of Cuban Operations in September 1963, just before Oswald visited the city.

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

So Gus, the leader of the Gremlins, and Ortensia, Oswald's girlfriend/wife, contact Mickey Mouse and bring him into the world.

Fayga Ostrower

Ostrower began work as a secretary while studying art at the Fine Arts Association, and in 1946 attended design classes at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation’s Brazilian Society of Fine and Graphic Arts, where she studied metal and wood engraving, and art history, with tutors Axel Leskoschek, Tomás Santa Rosa, Carlos Oswald and Anna Levy.

Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Her father was Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891).

Gerd Oswald

Oswald's film credits include A Kiss Before Dying (1956), Brainwashed (1960), and Bunny O'Hare (1971).

Glehn

Alfred de Glehn (1848–1936), French railroad engineer; brother of Louise Creighton, uncle of Oswald von Glehn and Wilfred de Glehn

Great Guns!

Great Guns! has been released on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD series in the DVD set The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

History of Williamston, Michigan

In 1839, the Putnams sold their land to Oswald B., James M., and Horace B. Williams, three brothers who came from Batavia, New York.

Howard Lew Lewis

His father Oswald Tenby-Lewis was awarded membership of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) by Queen Elizabeth II for his personal services to the royal family.

Invasion of the Sea

Parts of the novel, under the title Captain Hardizan, were serialized in The American Weekly (the Sunday Supplement to the Boston newspaper) on August 6 and August 13, 1905 by Oswald Mathew.

Isle of Missing Men

Oswald was an exiled Austrian director who had fled Germany when the Nazis came to power going to France, Britain and finally to Hollywood where he made a handful of films.

James Dennistoun

Dennistoun, eldest son of James Dennistoun (died 1 June 1834) by Mary Ramsay, daughter of George Oswald of Auchencruive, was born in Dumbartonshire in 1803, and after receiving his education at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, became a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1824.

John Clyde Oswald

John Clyde Oswald (1872 - June 22, 1938) was an author, president of the National Arts Club, and the editor of American Printer magazine.

John Whitten

Whitten's preliminary finding (that Oswald acted alone) was being delivered by Helms to President Lyndon Johnson as Oswald was being shot by Jack Ruby.

Karl Joseph Schulte

Karl Joseph Schulte was born in Haus Valbert (part of Lennestadt), to Oswald and Antonetta (née Schlünder) Schulte.

Lucas Oswald

Lucas Harrison Oswald (born June 11, 1988) is an American musician, known as a multi-instrumental and vocal contributor to the bands Shearwater, The Appleseed Cast, Minus Story, Hospital Ships, and Old Canes.

Mike Thomson

Mike Thomson first ran for 4th District State Representative in 2006, defeating Democrat Richard R. Oswald for the right to succeed Brad Lager.

Moritz von Oswald

His most recent releases are with the Moritz von Oswald Trio, where he 'conducts' Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Sasu Ripatti, aka Vladislav Delay.

Mounton

The furnishings in the Sanctuary are mainly a memorial to Capt. Ian Oswald Lidell, VC, 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, killed in action in 1945.

O. S. Nock

Oswald Stevens Nock was born 21 Jan. 1905 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, UK, the son of a bank employee, Samuel James Nock, and a schoolteacher Rose Amy née Stevens.

Ossie Byrne

Oswald Russell "Ossie" Byrne (1926 - December 1983) was an Australian record producer, best known for producing the early recordings of The Bee Gees, including their first international hit, "New York Mining Disaster 1941".

Ossie Dawson

Oswald Charles Dawson MC (1 September 1919, Durban, Natal – 22 December 2008, Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal) was a South African cricketer who played in 9 Tests, all against England, in the 1947 and 1948-49 series.

Oswald Allen Harker

Oswald Allen Harker was born in Cirencester in 1886, the son of James Allen Harker, professor at the Royal Agricultural College, and his wife Lizzie Allen Harker.

Oswald of Worcester

He was offered the site of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire by Æthelwine, son of Æthelstan Half-King, and Oswald established a monastery there about 971 that attracted most of the members of the community at Westbury.

Oswald Rufeisen

The novel Daniel Stein, Translator by renowned Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was inspired by the life of Oswald Rufeisen.

Oswald Stoll

Born in Melbourne, Australia as Oswald Gray, Stoll moved to England with his mother after the death of his father.

Oswald Walters Brierly

Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817 - 14 December 1894), English marine painter, who came of an old Cheshire family, was born at Chester.

Plunderphonics 69/96

Since Oswald's name does not appear on the outside package, the box set would be filed as if Plunderphonics was the artist/group name, thus having it filed between Luciano Pavarotti and Prince.

Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth

Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

Sea foam

Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.

Sonny White

Ellerton Oswald White (November 11, 1917, Panama City, Panama - April 28, 1971, New York City), better known as Sonny White, was a jazz pianist.

St Boswells

In the 7th century Northumbria was ruled by the pagan leader Oswald who, upon converting to Christianity, established, with the help of St Aidan, a monastery at Lindisfarne, the Holy Island.

St Oswald's Church, Backford

St Oswald's Church, Backford, is located in the village of Backford, to the northwest of Chester, Cheshire, England, close to the A41 road and adjoining Backford Hall.

Surviving Japan

Executive producer was Simon Hilton; producers were Madoka Miyoshi, Kai "Oswald " Seidler, Martin Peter Murray and Chris Noland; Cinematographer was Chris Noland; editing was done by Chris Noland, MB X. McClain and Andrea Hale; sound editor and mixer Gary Mula; Soundtrack contribution of "Kurushi" by Yoko Ono.

Texas Theatre

On November 22, 1963, shortly after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy and the wounding of Texas governor John Connally (who was the jump seat passenger in the Kennedy limousine) at 12:30 p.m. and the fatal shooting of Officer Tippit at approximately 1:16 p.m., Oswald entered the Texas Theatre shortly after 1:30 p.m. without paying for a ticket, ostensibly to avoid police.

The Quail Hunt

Oswald and his dog Elmer the Great Dane are in the woods hunting for birds, especially quails.

Warton, Lancaster

Lawrence Washington, seven generations prior to George Washington and his family, arrived in Warton around 1300, and Robert Washington, Lawrence's great-grandson, is rumoured to have help build the clock tower of St Oswald's Church.


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