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5 unusual facts about Paxton


Paxton, Nebraska

Water was either taken from the North Platte River or the aquifer, which allowed the production of corn, winter wheat and other assorted vegetable crops in addition to raising livestock for consumption and sale.

Paxton's Tower

Built by Sir William Paxton (1745-1824), a Scottish-born but London-raised merchant and banker, whose forefathers were from Auchencrow by Paxton Berwickshire.

Paxton may have been inspired to build the tower by Nelson's death at Trafalgar.

River Effra

After the Paxton Pub opposite the end of Gipsy Hill it captures water from Hamilton Road, forms the back garden line of Croxted road and joins the other branch at the South Circular where it now forms the sewers of Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Dalberg Road, Effra Road, Electric Lane, Brixton Road, Harleyford street/road separated by the Kennington Oval.

U.S. Route 331

It moves through a few small communities before passing through the town of Paxton and crossing into Covington County, Alabama.


Alfred Paxton Backhouse

His middle name, Paxton, was selected to honour the creator of The Great Exhibition's Crystal PalaceJoseph Paxton – as it was on show during the year of his birth.

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

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Flaybrick Hill Cemetery

A competition was held for the design which was won by Edward Kemp, a pupil of Paxton's and Curator of Birkenhead Park.

Grand Entrance to Birkenhead Park

It was designed by Joseph Paxton and its construction was supervised by Edward Kemp.

James Sikking

His mother, Sue Sikking (née Paxton), was a founder of Santa Monica's Unity-by-the-Sea Church.

Jerry Chamberlain

Marty Dieckmeyer was soon brought in as a replacement for the departing Paxton.

John Paxton

Paxton was an uncle of comic book writer Ed Brubaker as well as retired army intelligence officer, Col. David O. Paxton.

Keith Paskett

Paskett was born Keith Paxton Paskett on December 7, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Living with the Future

"Paxton House", North London - family house built in spare space between mews houses - the most technologically advanced of the series (architects: Richard Paxton and Heidi Locher)

Lovestruck: The Musical

"Everlasting Love": Performed by Adrienne Bailon, Sara Paxton, Alexander DiPersia and Cast

Matt Paxton

Paxton has spent some hearty time on the road touring and playing with the likes of Evan Dando, Jason Collett (Broken Social Scene), Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Chad VanGaalen and many more.

Paxton Automotive

A short run of Shelby Mustangs were fitted with Paxton superchargers, and Ford dealers offered Paxton superchargers as a dealer-fitted Ford Mustang option from 1965 to 1972.

Paxton Mills

Paxton was heard with Rod Roddy who was also a KLIF broadcaster at the time discussing the Paul Is Dead urban legend about Beatle Paul McCartney.

Paxton Phoenix

Engine options that were considered included an alternative fuel steam engine, based on earlier designs by Abner Doble, or a two-cycle gasoline engine with a McCulloch/Paxton supercharger.

Princes Park, Liverpool

With its serpentine lake and a circular carriage drive, the park set a style which was to be widely emulated in Victorian urban development, most notably by Paxton himself on a larger scale at Birkenhead Park.

Ramblin' Boy

Ramblin' Boy is referred to as Paxton's debut album, since it was his first album released on a major record label (Elektra Records), although he had previously released a live album recorded at the The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village entitled, I'm the Man That Built the Bridges (which was released on the small Gaslight label in 1962).

Robert Paxton

As an expert on the Vichy era, Paxton co-wrote Claude Chabrol's 1993 documentary The Eye of Vichy and in 1997 testified at the trial of Vichy bureacrat Maurice Papon.

Upon its publication in French translation in 1973, he became the subject of intense vitriol from French historians and commentators; during a televised debate with Paxton in 1976, the Vichy naval leader Gabriel Auphan called him a liar.

Roof

The stone arch or vault, with or without ribs, dominated the roof structures of major architectural works for about 2,000 years, only giving way to iron beams with the Industrial Revolution and the designing of such buildings as Paxton's Crystal Palace, completed 1851.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Don parachutes onto the lot but Stu and Paxton inform him the "bandit car" (an expensive prop that was used in the Smokey and the Bandit films) is not sold and the dealership is theirs.

Tonea Stewart

Walker, Texas Ranger "The Trial of LaRue" (1997) as Judge Loretta Paxton

Ulysses Paxton

In the following novel, A Fighting Man of Mars, Paxton relays Tan Hadron of Hastor's adventure to Burroughs on Earth via the Gridley Wave (named after Jason Gridley, a character in Burroughs' Pellucidar series).

William A. Paxton

Working first as foreman of a crew hired to supply railroad ties, and then as manager of a large railroad construction gang, Paxton contracted with the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad in 1869 to build lines north out of Omaha to Oakland, Nebraska.

William F. Paxton

Before his tenure as the Mayor of Paducah, Paxton served a portion of an elected term from 1998 as a City Commissioner.

William McGregor Paxton

Like many of his Boston colleagues, Paxton found inspiration in the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.


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