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10 unusual facts about Parent


Above Horizons

"Above Horizons" is a 2009 song by CeCe Peniston, and the official PTA anthem as a tribute to the families, teachers and communities who help children reach their dreams through the PTA, which resulted from the singer's role being named a National Ambassador of the US largest volunteer child advocacy organization.

Appalachian Volunteers

A “Books for Appalachia” campaign, which collected over a million volumes, was begun in cooperation with the National Parent-Teacher Association.

Germantown School District

Each school in the district has a building leadership team and a Parent-Teacher Association to promote learning.

Jim Meffert

He was formerly the Executive Director of the Minnesota Optometric Association and president of the Minnesota Parent-Teacher Association.

Joe DeRita

(Moe and Larry's advanced ages - Moe was 62 and Larry 57 at the time of the first Curly Joe film - plus pressure from the PTA and other children's advocates, led to the toning-down of the trio's trademark violent slapstick.)

Liability and Student Records

Parents and legal guardians in the United States have the right to inspect their child's records.

Paternity

Parent, a caretaker of a species offspring, in humans, a parent is the mother or the father

Pill, Somerset

The school has one of North Somerset's first children's centres, officially opened on 1 July 2006, as well as a small, indoor, heated swimming pool and an active PTA.

Wescott School

The two schools work closely together and have a joint Parent Teachers' Association.

Westende Junior School

The majority of children at Westende come from the nearby Wescott Infant School, and the two schools share a joint Parent Teachers' Association.


3103 Eger

4 Vesta is the parent body for Howardite, Eucrite, and Diogenite meteorites, while 3103 Eger is the parent body for Aubrite meteorites.

Adrenalin eSystems

Polaris Financial Technology Limited (formerly Polaris Software Lab Limited) is the parent company.

American Bell

Bell Telephone Company, at one time known as American Bell Telephone Company, original parent of American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Arkansas Highway 95

It is a short city street leading from the parent route to the Bosch (formerly Telex Communications) factory.

Asplenium × gravesii

It is only found where its parent species are both present; in practice, this proves to be a few scattered sites in the Appalachian Mountains, Shawnee Hills, and Ozarks, reaching perhaps its greatest local abundance around Natural Bridge State Resort Park.

ATK motorcycles

As of 5/20/2011 ATK has associated itself with S&T Motors, parent company of the Changwon, South Korea based Hyosung.

Aurangabad, Bihar

From parent District Gaya Sri K.A.H.Subramanyam was the first District Magistrate and Sri Surjit Kumar Saha was the then Sub-Divisional officer.

Boysenberry

The exact origins of the boysenberry are unclear but the most definite records trace the plant as it's known today back to grower Rudolph Boysen, who may have gotten the dewberry/loganberry parent from the farm of a man by the name of John Lubben (who called it a "lubbenberry"), who in turn may have gotten it from Luther Burbank.

Brentano's

In 1985, Kmart's Waldenbooks subsidiary acquired Brentano's and nine years later, in 1994, Brentano's and its parent company Waldenbooks were merged into Kmart's other book subsidiary, Borders.

Chen Peisi

In 2000, Chen and his partner Zhu Shimao sued the China International Television Corporation over royalties from broadcasts which they won, but they were then taken off air by the parent company, China Central Television.

Chill of the Night!

At the present day, The Spectre and The Phantom Stranger are debating about whether or not Batman would kill his parent's murderer, Joe Chill, eventually deciding to wager on it: if Batman does not kill Chill, he is free to live his life the way he always has.

Claude Parent

Claude Parent, born on 23 February 1923 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French architect known for his buildings featuring sloped floors, an aesthetic initially inspired by Parent's discovery, with philosopher Paul Virilio, of World War II bunkers constructed along the Atlantic Wall that had accidentally slipped down sand dunes because of severe winter weather.

Death by Chocolate

The trademark in the United States was owned by S&A Restaurant Group, the parent company of Bennigan's restaurants, but with the subsequent bankruptcy of the company the current legal status is unclear.

Deutsche Telekom

In 2010, Orange parent France Télécom and T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom merged their UK operations to create the largest mobile network in Britain now known as EE.

E. S. S. Raman

After the demise of Moopanar, his natural, legal and political heir G. K. Vasan, the present Union Minister of Shipping, merged Tamil Maanila Congress with its parent organization 'Indian National Congress' under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi in 2002.

Edith Weston Priory

The French parent house of Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville was founded by Ralf de Tanquerville, chamberlain to William the Conqueror, about the year 1050.

EHC Wolfsburg

The professional team is named after the title character of The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, while the parent club is known as EHC Wolfsburg.

Generation ship

Rob Grant's Colony, published in 2000, is a science fiction comedy farce which deals with a generation ship in which breeding is strictly controlled and a crew member's offspring automatically inherit their parent's role on the ship.

Giesche

Thus they made some attempts to take over full stock capital of Silesian-American (Spolka’s parent company), although unsuccessful – compare Silesian-American Corporation.

Gimme a Break!

Nell also served as a parent to the Chief's three daughters, Katie (Kari Michaelsen), Julie (Lauri Hendler), and Samantha (Lara Jill Miller).

Grand China Air

Grand China Air is managed under a parent company called Grand China Airlines Holding Company (GCAHC) which is held jointly by Hainan province government (48.6%), George Soros (18.6%), and the HNA group (32.8%).

Greenville Braves

After the 2004 season, the parent club in Atlanta transferred the G-Braves to Pearl, Mississippi, where the team is now known as the Mississippi Braves.

Hang Lung

Hang Lung Group: a Hong Kong listed company in property development, car park management, property management and dry-cleaning businesses, and the parent company of Hang Lung Properties.

Hypo Alpe Adria in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank a.d. Banja Luka and Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank d.d. Mostar (HAA) are member banks of Hypo Alpe Adria, one of the leading international financial groups on the territory of Alps-Adriatic region, of which parent bank was founded in 1896 in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Isle of Man Bank

It was acquired by National Provincial Bank in 1961, becoming part of the National Westminster Bank upon the merger of its parent with Westminster Bank in 1968 and joined The Royal Bank of Scotland Group in 2000 when the National Westminster was purchased by the Scottish bank.

Jerry Perenchio

The company sold to Coca-Cola in 1985 (who at the time was the parent of Columbia Pictures, now owned by Sony) for $485 million in Coke shares which later doubled.

Kathy Rapp

She volunteered for the Parent Education Network in York, Pennsylvania.

KEYC-DT2

KEYC-DT2's parent station has studios on Lookout Drive in North Mankato.

Lionel Pickering

In October 2003, Derby County's parent company, Derby County Limited, briefly went into liquidation and Pickering, the majority shareholder, gave way to a new board of John Sleightholme, Jeremy Keith and Steve Harding, who bought the club for £3.

Lotus Europa S

The car was originally planned to be manufactured at parent company Proton's factory in Malaysia, allowing for a lower sale price, but ultimately the company chose the Lotus Hethel factory for its production.

Lotus Racing

The umbrella name for Lotus Cars parent company Group Lotus plc's racing division, formerly Lotus Motorsport

Madonna Decena

While she was finishing her degree in communications arts at Miriam College, she worked part-time to augment her parent's income.

MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1

MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 is a compilation of video games developed by CodeJunkies and published by parent company Datel for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

MF Global

MF Global's former parent, then known as ED&F Man, diversified from pure cash commodities into commodity futures in the late 1970s, and established the Anderson Man futures brokerage in 1981.

Michiel Veenstra

When parent company Veronica restarts Radio Veronica in 2002, Veenstra decides to transfer to this new station.

MLS on TSN

Games that are not covered under national broadcast contracts with MLS or other competition organizers are divided evenly between the two broadcasters, pursuant to agreements between their parent companies (Bell Canada and Rogers Communications respectively) in connection to their joint 2011 purchase of MLSE.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

Despite the fact that the film is still copyrighted (by Republic successor Melange Pictures, managed by parent company Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures), public domain companies have released the film on VHS and DVD.

NASCAR Racing 2003 Season

The game was the last to be released by the company before EA Sports bought the NASCAR license exclusively from 2004-09 (parent company Sierra's successor company, Activision Blizzard, reacquired NASCAR rights in 2011, with NASCAR The Game: 2011).

Notable Dagombas

This is a list of prominent people who were born in Dagbon, lived for a significant period in Dagbon or were born to a Dagomba parent or parents.

Peter Tabuns

In 1996, he supported a boycott of Harvey's restaurants because its parent company Cara Operations had donated money to the Progressive Conservative Party for the past three years.

Port Kembla, New South Wales

Patrick Corporation holds a contract for integrated port services in the harbour and transports goods by road or rail through its parent company Pacific National.

Poughkeepsie Day School

The theater is named for school parent James Earl Jones, who funded construction and whose children attended the school.

St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad

: For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School

Sydney Airports Corporation

Southern Cross Airports Corporation Holdings Limited (SCACH) is the ultimate parent company of SACL, which is controlled by a number of entities including Sydney Airport Holdings.

U.S. Virgin Islands Highway 38

It heads east from its parent, Highway 38, and dead-ends at Coki Beach and Coral World Ocean Park less than one mile later.

Universal Investment

The company's two parent companies are Berenberg Bank and Bankhaus Lampe, which own 50% of the company each, after having bought out Hauck & Aufhäuser and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

W16AL

It was previously a repeater that broadcasts programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, via satellite; in recent years, due to TBN's financial problems, many of its repeaters were sold to other parties, including W16AL, which was sold to Luken Communications, the parent company of Retro Television Network, under the licensee name "Digital Networks - Northeast".

WBNG-DT2

WBNG-DT2's parent station has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City.

WGXA-DT2

Known on-air as ABC 16 after WGXA's physical digital channel location, its parent station has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.