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unusual facts about Petersburg, Madison County, North Carolina



Ali Baba's Tahini

The following year, the original lineup of the band (Engelmann/Cinninger/Krojniewski) reunited in the North Carolina mountains to record the album Rockstars and Lawnmowers.

Anthony Foriest

In March 2012, Foriest filed to run in the newly redrawn North Carolina's 6th congressional district, held by Republican U.S. Congressman Howard Coble.

Big port Saint Petersburg

-Petersburg includes moorings of sea trading, wood, fish and river ports, the oil terminal, shipbuilding, ship-repair and other factories, sea passenger station, river passenger port, and also moorings of Kronstadt, Lomonosov, Gorskaya, Bronka.

Carolina heelsplitter

Historically the Carolina heelsplitter was known to be found in the Catawba River and Pee Dee River systems in North Carolina, and the Pee Dee and Savannah River systems of South Carolina.

Christian Johansson

Christian Johansson's daughter, the ballerina Anna Christianovna Johansson (1860-1917), was a celebrated soloist of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet and created roles in nearly every important premiere throughout the late 1880s, until burn injuries forced her to retire in 1895.

Crawford County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

Elena Glurjidze

She started training at the School of Choreography in Tbilisi, Georgia, and later trained in St. Petersburg at the Vaganova Ballet Academy.

Erick Baker

He ended the year performing at the official Belk Bowl FanFest in Charlotte, North Carolina, along with McCain and the rock band Daughtry, as well as at a New Year's Eve show for the U.S. troops stationed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Folk Art Center

She founded Allanstand Cottage Industries in 1897 in Madison County, North Carolina.

Franklin County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.

Gail McDonald

McDonald and her husband moved to North Carolina in 2004, and she took a position with the state Ports Authority.

Harry Deal and the Galaxies

Harry Deal and the Galaxies is a rock and roll band formed in Taylorsville, North Carolina, United States, in 1959.

Herzen University

The foundling house was based in a unique architectural complex: the palaces of the earl Kirill Razumovsky and Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky on the Moyka in present-day Saint Petersburg.

Ivan Betskoy

The Saint Petersburg Foundling House was a precursor of the modern Herzen University.

Jane P. Gray

Jane P. Gray is a North Carolina judge and candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 2010 election.

Jennifer Loven

A Matthews, North Carolina native, Loven graduated from East Mecklinburg High School and then attended University of Virginia and Northwestern University, where she was graduated from the Medill School of Journalism.

John B. Haberlen

Haberlen has participated as a jury member and auditor in major choral festivals worldwide, including the St. Petersburg Choral Festival, the World Choir in Cardiff, Wales; Marktoberdorf, Germany; Riva del Garda, Italy; Budapest, Hungary; Denmark and Sydney, Australia.

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Komarovo

Komarovo, Saint Petersburg, a municipal settlement under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg, Russia

L'Enjoleur

Pensioned, L'Enjoleur died at the age of 28 in 2000 at Highland Meadows Farm near Petersburg, Ohio.

Lasker versus Bauer, Amsterdam, 1889

The same sacrificial pattern was echoed in a number of later games, notably NimzowitschTarrasch, St Petersburg 1914; MilesBrowne, Lucerne 1982; and PolgarKarpov, Seventh Essent 2003.

Luzhsky District

Another one, lying to the west, connects the Baltiysky railway station of Saint Petersburg and Pskov, passing through Luga.

Mabel Hampton

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 2, 1902, Hampton was only two months old when her mother died.

Madison County, Georgia

Ralph Hudgens - Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Republican

Miles Plumlee

Plumlee attended high school at Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, where he led the school to a 63–6 record as a junior and senior.

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Mount Raimer

Originally known as Petersburg Pass Ski Area, the base lodge and parking lots were located adjacent to the height of land on New York State Route 2.

Myrick Davies

He served as the 13th Governor of Georgia from 1780 to 1781, after Stephen Heard moved to North Carolina.

Newport River

The Newport River is a small river in North Carolina that runs approximately twenty kilometers southeast through the town of Newport with its mouth opening into Bogue Sound, between Morehead City and Beaufort.

North Carolina Superior Court

The first three judges elected by the North Carolina General Assembly were Samuel Ashe of New Hanover County, Samuel Spencer of Anson County, and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Iredell of Chowan County.

North Carolina's 5th congressional district

North Carolina's 5th congressional district covers the northwestern corner of North Carolina from the Appalachian Mountains to the Piedmont Triad.

Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Elena Pavlovna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 10 June 1884 - Sesto Fiorentino, 4 April 1959), married firstly in Saint Petersburg on 29 January 1903 (divorced in 1907) Count Alexander Pavlovich Shuvalov (Vartemiagui, 7 September 1881 - London, 13 August 1935) and married secondly in Dresden in June 1907 Nikolai Alexeievich Pavlov (Tambov, 9 May 1866 - Vanves, 31 January 1934))

Peroxwhy?gen

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Petrodvorets

Peterhof Palace, the palace of Peter the Great located in Peterhof (Saint Petersburg)

Piedmont, Augusta County, Virginia

The Confederate defeat near Piedmont allowed Hunter to easily occupy Staunton the next day, and threatened the Confederacy's security in the Shenandoah Valley as well as on other fronts, since it necessitated the need to detach Early's Second Corps from the main body of the Army of Northern Virginia near Petersburg, Virginia.

Pierina Legnani

She was titled prima ballerina for La Scala in 1892, before moving to St Petersburg in 1892, where she reached fame dancing with the Tsar's Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre until 1901.

Richard N. Hackett

He was unsuccessful in a run for the U.S. Congress in 1896, but won a seat ten years later representing North Carolina's 8th congressional district in the 60th United States Congress (defeating incumbent Republican E. Spencer Blackburn).

Richard Tufts

Born in Medford, Massachusetts, he was a grandson of James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, which was long America's preeminent golf resort.

Ronald J. Rabin

Ronald Joseph Rabin (born May 16, 1932) is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina, representing the 12th district, encompassing Harnett, Johnston, Lee Counties.

Saffron Sky

"This lyrical memoir evinces the author's passion for constructing an American life with the spiritual fervor and deeply aesthetic rituals that were part of her childhood in Iran. Asayesh, who immigrated to North Carolina as a girl, writes too of her struggle to arrive at an acceptable sexuality in the face of parental panic, and tells of her frustration, during later trips to post-Shah Iran, with "the sisters," the Ayatollah's ubiquitous enforcers of female modesty."

Sasha Krivtsov

Sasha Krivtsov, born (Alexander Krivtsov) June 6, 1967 in St. Petersburg, Russia, is probably best known as the bass player for the House Band on the TV reality shows Rock Star: INXS, Rock Star: Supernova and The Voice.

Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery

By 1820, the last of the Seventh Day Baptists departed Burlington and migrated to Brookfield, New York in Madison County, never to return.

Smoke on the Mountain

The setting is in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina Baptist church in 1938 and it revolves around the Sanders family.

Still Live after All These Years

Still Live after All These Years is a live album from North Carolina music group, Nantucket, recorded November 29, 1991 with all six original band members at a night club called The Longbranch in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Su-Lin Young

Young returned to the United States in the 1950s living in Virginia, California, and North Carolina.

The Loneliest Planet

The film is adapted from McSweeney's writer Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere," published in his collection God Lives in St. Petersburg.

Vaughan Johnson

Vaughan Monroe Johnson (born March 24, 1962 in Morehead City, North Carolina) is a retired American football linebacker.

WXXE

WXXE 90.5 FM is licensed to Fenner, New York, which is a rural community in Madison County, in-between the communities of Cazenovia, Chittenango and Canastota, in the Syracuse metropolitan area.

Zakhar May

In 2002 Zahar May returned to Russia and created with Saint-Petersburg's musicians group "Shiva" in which he united a lot of famous rock-stars such as Sergey Chigrakov from Chizh & Co, Andrey Vasilyev from Raznyie Lyudi and Igor Dotsenko and Pavel Borisov both from DDT (band).


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