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unusual facts about Owens-Corning



1979 European Formula Two season

Chevron hired experienced Formula 1 designer Tony Southgate to create the B48 ground effects car with Paul Owens, based on the 1978 B42 chassis.

Bonnie Owens

Bonnie Owens (October 1, 1929 – April 24, 2006), born Bonnie Campbell, was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.

Cerro Gordo Mines

The author Remi Nadeau, is a descendent of the family involved with the transport of ingots from Cerro Gordo across Owens Lake and by mule train to Los Angeles.

Corning, Iowa

Major donations included $75,000 from Corning native Johnny Carson, and $5,000 from well known skateboarder Tony Hawk.

Dave Albritton

Both were born in Alabama, Albritton in Danville and Owens in nearby Oakville; both attended East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio; both attended the Ohio State University; both were members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; both competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Erastus Corning

The United States Navy contracted with Corning's iron works to manufacture parts and materials for the USS Monitor, the Navy's first ironclad warship.

In 1856, shortly after finishing the St. Mary's River project, Corning was elected as a Democrat to the 35th, 37th and 38th United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1857, to March 3, 1859, and from March 4, 1861, to October 5, 1863, when he resigned.

Florida State Road 277

Later it encounters another dirt road along the east side running toward the southwest named Owens Community Road Following a curve towards the north, the road encounters a much smaller small private dirt road and dead end street named Dottie West Road, one of two such roads named for the former country musician.

Geoffrey O'Brien

His mother, Margaret O'Brien, née Owens, was a theater actress, and his father was Joseph O'Brien, one of the original WMCA Good Guys.

Gerry Owens

Having worked with such names as Danny Saber (David Bowie, U2, Black Grape), Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie (Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and Skinny Puppy), Adrian Sherwood (Ministry, Sinéad O'Connor) and Scott Humphries (Rob Zombie), Owens developed his creative and technical abilities extensively.

Owens wrote, arranged, recorded and co-produced the Skindive album and gained considerable exposure and success worldwide with the band, including rave reviews in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Boston Globe and Rock Sound and the music being featured on the Grammy Awards 2002, MTV Movie Awards 2002 and MTV Road Rules.

James Byeram Owens

James Byeram Owens (1816 – August 1, 1889) was a prominent Confederate politician.

James Leonard Corning

Corning studied chemistry at the Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute under Hermann von Fehling.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

In early July 2006, when asked if he would debate Owens, Schaefer said he "wouldn't debate her on how to bake a chocolate cake." In the primary election on September 12, 2006, Owens garnered more votes than Schaefer, but Peter Franchot received the most votes, earning the Democratic party's nomination for Comptroller.

Jessica Harris

She got the position by using Russ Owen's (Stuart Manning) social anthropology research on the class differences between the Owens and the McQueens as her article, which caused Russ and Mercedes to break up for a while.

John B. Owens

John Byron Owens (born 1971) is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Just Mobile

In March 2011, advertising agency Owens DBB issued a petition to have Just Mobile wound up due to alleged non-payment of fees, leading to concerns about the company's creditworthiness.

Léo Santa Cruz

On October 21, 2010 Santa Cruz beat the veteran James Owens at the Martin's Valley Mansion in Cockeysville, Maryland.

Luken Communications

On April 16, 2012, Luken Communications and Jim Owens Entertainment announced that the companies had teamed to relaunch The Nashville Network as a digital broadcast television network set for a late summer 2012 launch (TNN previously existed as a cable channel started by Gaylord Entertainment Company in 1983, and is now known as Spike under Viacom ownership).

Manchester College

Victoria University of Manchester, originally Owens College and for much of its history known simply as "Manchester University".

Marie Owens

Marie Owens (1853-1927) is believed to have been the first female police officer in the U.S., joining the Chicago Police Department in 1891, and retiring in 1923.

Mission to Venice

Carter (in disguise as American businessman, Robert Corning) and Princess de Verizone meet up on the Orient Express en route from Paris to Venice and spend the night together.

Napalm Brain

It showcased Owens' blues-on-acid guitar style, Burnett's melodic basslines, and Lyxzén's drumming, which bears strong resemblance to the stylings of John Bonham.

Nokia Lumia 2520

Its display is a 10.1-inch, 1080p IPS panel with Nokia's "ClearBlack" technology, coated with Corning Gorilla Glass 2.

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

In Contact (1997), Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) did her thesis work on the Owens Valley 40 meter telescope.

Peotone High School

Peotone High School or PHS, is a four-year high school located approximately 1 mile east of Interstate 57 near the intersection of Corning Ave and Rathje Rd in Peotone, Illinois, a village located 43 miles (69 km) south of Chicago, Illinois and 16 miles (25 km) north of Kankakee, Illinois, in the United States.

Proetida

These typically small trilobites resemble those of the order Ptychopariida, from which the new order Proetida was only recently separated in 1975 by Fortey and Owens.

Pyrex

In 1932, George Ellery Hale approached Corning with the challenge of fabricating the required optic for his Palomar Observatory project.

Raymond H. Burke

Raymond Burke was personnel and employment manager for The Hooven-Owens-Rentschler Company tool works, a major Hamilton, Ohio employer, from 1918 to 1923.

Reportedly haunted locations in Kentucky

The Owens House in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky, is a Queen Anne house which was built by John Allen Owens in 1894.

Rip Owens

Owens was born Ralph Owens on December 9, 1894 in Hebron, Wisconsin.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Robert M. Owens

On May 27, 2008, Owens filed a nominating petition with over 1300 signatures from 44 of Ohio's 88 counties.

Ronn Owens

Owens began his career in broadcasting in 1968 after graduating from Temple University.

Ryan Owens

During his time on World News Now, Owens was involved in controversy when the two anchors inappropriately made light of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt on-air and they were reprimanded for this by ABC News.

Ryan Wolfe

Ryan becomes smitten with the former night shift employee Samantha Owens (played by Taylor Cole) and has given her a present to congratulate her for her promotion as a detective.

Sarah Crane

2007: as Nymph in Rusalka, Richard Hickox (cond), Australian Opera Orchestra, Cheryl Barker, Rosario La Spina, Bruce Martin, Elizabeth Whitehouse, Anne-Marie Owens; Chandos Records

Sean Hanna

His eight-year tenure in the county legislature ended when then-Governor George Pataki made Hanna the Avon-based New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director for the 11 county area enveloping Rochester the Finger Lakes and Corning/Elmira.

Shirley Owens

As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee.

Stephen T. Owens

In another publicized case, Owens represented Internet Entertainment Group against Pamela Anderson's unsuccessful attempt to prevent the company from posting the so-called "honeymoon video" made by her and then-husband Tommy Lee on the internet.

The Dixie Hummingbirds

During the years, a number of talented singers starred in the group—their bass, William Bobo (known as Thunder), tenor Beachey Thompson, James Walker (who replaced Owens), and Claude Jeter, who went on to star for The Swan Silvertones.

The Way International

From then on, The Way was run by a board of Trustees headed by Wierwille as President, Ermal Owens as Vice President, and Wierwille's brother Harry Ernst Wierwille as secretary-treasurer.

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road

True Love Travels on a Gravel Road is a song written by the Frazier-Owens songwriting team and popularized by Elvis Presley.

Wayne Owens

In 1984, Owens lost the Utah gubernatorial race to Republican Norman H. Bangerter, but was re-elected to the House in 1986 and served through 1992, when he ran for the U.S. Senate again.

William Benson Mayo

He worked initially as a sign painter in Boston, but accepted a position as an office boy for a manufacturer of steam engines, Hooven-Owens-Rentschler.

WJRZ-FM

Buck Owens mentions WJRZ 970 AM and its then owner, Ed Nielson, in track seven of his 1966 recording, Carnegie Hall Concert With Buck Owens And His Buckaroos, recorded live by Capitol Records.


see also

Glass fiber

Glass wool, which is commonly known as "fiberglass" today, however, was invented in 1938 by Russell Games Slayter of Owens-Corning as a material to be used as insulation.

Owens Corning

The company was referred to several times in the Family Guy episode "The Former Life of Brian" when the Pink Panther dies from his body being one-third Owens-Corning Fiberglass Insulation.