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2 unusual facts about Pilgrim's Corp


Pilgrim's Corp

On April 16, 2008, after a yearlong investigation US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided plants in Batesville, Arkansas, Live Oak, Florida, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mount Pleasant, Texas, and Moorefield, West Virginia.

Pilgrim's traces its origins to a feed store opened in 1946 in Pittsburg, Texas by Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim and his older brother, Aubrey.


Albin Polasek

Notable among those are The Pilgrim and The Mother (1927), both located in the Bohemian National Cemetery in Chicago, and the Pilgrim at the Eternal Gate in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.

Baba Keenaram

He was the first Founder/Peethadheswar of Baba Keenaram Sthal(headquarter / Pilgrim of Aghors sect., across world) and lived for 170 years.

Baba Siddharth Gautam Ram

Baba Siddharth Gautam Ram is the Peethadheeshwar / Mahant (Abbot), since 1978, of Baba Keenaram Sthal Krim-Kund (regarded as Headquarter and World fame Pilgrim of Aghora,across world, at Varanasi ).

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

It describes events set in the Najd plateau along the pilgrim route between Mecca and Medina during one day in 1844-1845, when a mysterious saddlebag passes from hand to hand, and influences the lives of each person who comes across it.

Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré

Many pilgrims came to the shrine hoping to receive a miracle while others like Anne of Austria supported the shrine from their homes.

Boston Guildhall

In 1607, it is believed to have been the place where William Brewster, William Bradford and their followers (the Separatists, later to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers) were taken following their arrest after trying to flee England.

Charles Francis Coghlan

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

Coloman of Stockerau

Originally known as Colmán (variously rendered Koloman, Kálmán, Colman, and Colomannus), he was an Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land "was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance, tortured, and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 16 July 1012. Later tradition has it that he was a son of Máel-Sechnaill (d. 1022), high king of Ireland." (Breen, 2009)

David Blandy

After gaining an artist’s residency with Grizedale Arts in 2004, Blandy has continued this investigation in his recent Barefoot Lone Pilgrim video/performance pieces in which he integrates real life and virtual adventures.

Doris Betts

An adaptation of "The Ugliest Pilgrim", the most widely printed of her stories, won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards as a short film titled "Violet", and in 1998 was the basis of a musical that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Economy of South Africa

Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all.

Ed McIntyre

A graduate of Morehouse College, McIntyre worked for the Pilgrim Health Life Insurance Company before entering politics.

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The title of the album is a reference to Billy Pilgrim's epitaph in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Genesius, Bishop of Clermont

After serving as bishop for five years, fearing for his own soul, he left Clermont secretly and went to Rome in the garb of a pilgrim.

Hans-Thorald Michaelis

On the basis of these researches he could prove that all descendants in direct line of his grand-grandmother Mary Barbara Rennie (1836−1920) from the Rennie-Clan of Kilsyth, are also direct descendants from the pilgrims father William Bradford (1590−1657).

Henry Ainsworth

His publication of Psalms, The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations (Amsterdam, 1612), which includes thirty-nine separate monophonic psalm tunes, constituted the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought to New England in 1620 by the Pilgrim settlers.

Henry Mellus

Henry sailed "around the horn" with Richard Henry Dana, Jr. on the ship named the Pilgrim, and arrived in California in 1835.

I Am Pilgrim

I Am Pilgrim is the debut novel by former journalist and screen-writer, Terry Hayes.

Joseph Jackson Fuller

He headed mission stations, teaching, preaching, brick-making, and translating books such as John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress into Duala.

Just a Pilgrim

Just a Pilgrim is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Garth Ennis, with art by Carlos Ezquerra, and published by Black Bull, the short-lived comics publishing division of Wizard Entertainment, in 2001.

King Kung Fu

Police Captain J.W. Duke (who resembles a certain Western Movie star) and his patriotic-helmeted little assistant Officer Pilgrim get involved in the city-wide chase along with the phony-looking ape's love interest Rae Fey (a beautiful blond Pizza Hut waitress/model), Rae Fey is the only one who understands that Fu just wants to see the sights like any other tourist.

Kitty Pilgrim

Kathryn Pilgrim is the great niece of Olympic Gold medalsist Paul Henry Pilgrim, who won three gold medals at the 1904 and 1906 Summer Olympics.

In 2010 Pilgrim signed a two-book deal with New York publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.

Pilgrim also served as a correspondent for CNN's Southeast Bureau and was the lead correspondent in CNN's coverage of the Birmingham, Alabama anti-abortion violence in 1998 and the subsequent hunt for suspect Eric Rudolph.

Maraguda

In the light of the reference of the Chinese pilgrim, Maraguda valley has been identified as the capital city of Kosal country.

Marshfield, Massachusetts

The current board of selectmen includes a direct descendant of Pilgrim Richard Warren.

Notow

More odd items found is a musical instrument known as a "Pilgrim's horn", made in the German town of Aachen in the 15th century where such horns are known to have been used at coronation ceremonies or religious holidays, and a mortar made of Rhine basalt.

Oliver La Farge

He was a descendant of Gov. Thomas Prence (1599 - March 29, 1673) a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth (1634, 1638, and 1657–1673); and Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 - April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Oriyur

It is a Christian pilgrim center, as it is home to the martyrdom of St. John de Britto, a Portuguese Jesuit better known as ‘Arulanandar’ in Tamil.

Paul Alan Levi

Performers of his music include conductors Pierre Boulez, Jesús López-Cobos, Robert DeCormier, Clara Longstreth, Gustav Meier, and Gerard Schwarz; pianist Justin Kolb; and singers Margaret Ahrens, David Bender, Adam Klein, Antonia Lavanne, Douglas Perry, Neva Pilgrim, Lucy Shelton, Sheila Schonbrun, and James Archie Worley, as well as Cantors Richard Botton and Mark Lipson.

Pettigo railway station

The station's main purpose was to offer easy access for the considerable pilgrim traffic to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg.

Pilgrim II

Pilgrim von Puchheim (died 1396), archbishop of Salzburg as Pilgrim II

Pilgrim Memorial State Park

Massasoit and his generosity towards the Pilgrims helped to ensure their success, and so the next fall, after the plentiful harvest, Wampanoag and Pilgrim alike gathered at the Plymouth settlement for a three-day feast known today as the first Thanksgiving.

Ranipokhari

The pond was constructed during the reign of King Pratap Malla in 1727 B.S, in memory of his son Chackrawotendra, using water from various pilgrim places like Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gosaikunda, Muktinath, and Kaligandaki and so much other places.

Riah Abu El-Assal

His grandfather started the first modern pilgrim service in 1893 and opened branches in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Tiberias.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry

Notre-Dame de Myans (antedating the twelfth century), where St. Francis de Sales officiated, and Notre-Dame de l'Aumone at Romilly (thirteenth century), whither Francis I of France went as a pilgrim, are still places of pilgrimage.

Rufus Choate

A precocious child, at six he is said to have been able to repeat large parts of the Bible and of Pilgrim's Progress from memory.

Saint Eustace

The novels "The Herb of Grace" (US title: Pilgrim's Inn) (1948) by British author Elizabeth Goudge, and Riddley Walker (1980) by American author Russell Hoban, incorporate the legend into their plot.

Sergius IV of Naples

By this he acquired a reputation for weakness in the eyes of Prince Pandulf IV of Capua, the Wolf of the Abruzzi, who had been defeated by Pilgrim.

Sounds of the Seventies

Variations included Alan Black's regular closing theme, which was the piano and voice coda from Pilgrim's Progress by Procol Harum.

Stourbridge fair

John Bunyan used the event as the inspiration for the Vanity Fair in Pilgrim's Progress, which in turn was used by William Makepeace Thackeray for his most celebrated novel.

T. Maheswaran

He was shot dead by unknown gunman while attending the New Year prayers at Kotahena, Sivan Kovil around 10:35 local time (05:05 GMT) and later succumbed to his injuries at the Colombo General Hospital along with one Hindu pilgrim who was too attending to the prayers.

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are considered authentically Shakespearean.

The Way of a Pilgrim

Therefore, it was "between those two dates," 1853 and 1861, that the Pilgrim arrived at Irkutsk and found a spiritual father, two of the major events in the Pilgrim's narrative.

Ulrich I, Duke of Carinthia

His youngest sons entered the church: Godfrey (Gottfried) became a monk, but predeceased his father, and Pilgrim became the Patriarch of Aquileia.

William Camden Edwards

Early in the nineteenth century he went to Bungay, Suffolk, to engrave portraits and illustrations for the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and similar works published by the Bungay printer Charles Brightly.

Wyck Rissington

Different points of the maze represented different Pilgrim Stations.

Yankton, South Dakota

Due to the urging of The Reverend Joseph Ward of Yankton, the General Association of Congregational Churches in Dakota Territory voted in May 1881 to establish “Pilgrim College” in Yankton, which was to be the first private institution of higher learning in Dakota.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Sadamoto also worked as an artist for the cover of Eric Clapton's album Pilgrim.


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