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23 unusual facts about Pomona


Andy Willsheer

Willsheer achieved worldwide acclaim while photographing an NHRA Funny Car drag race featuring Steve Gasparelli at Pomona raceway on 14 December 2009.

Apple bobbing

The current game dates back to when the Romans conquered Britain, bringing with them the apple tree, a representation of the goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

C Lanzbom

Lanzbom is the founder of Sherwood Ridge Studio, located in Pomona, New York.

Cal Poly

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, or Cal Poly Pomona, a public university in Pomona, California

Chris Karamesines

In 2009, he became the first driver in NHRA history to compete and become the fastest driver at over 78 years old at the final event of the 2009 season at Pomona driving in the Top Fuel category.

Fardad Fateri

In 1995 Fateri served as the Dean of Student Affairs for DeVry Institute of Technology in Pomona & Long Beach.

For You, and Your Denial

The song was the first to debut live from the new album, as the band debuted the song on their show at the Glass House in Pomona, California on November 13, 2010, the band's first live show since reforming after the 2008–2010 hiatus.

Freddie Rodriguez

Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a Pomona city councilmember.

History of rail transport in Namibia

As the diamond mining was always moving further south, the northern part of the line as far as Pomona was abandoned in 1931, and some of its materials were used for the extension of the railway towards Oranjemund.

J. Jon Bruno

From 1983 to 1986, he was associate at St. Paul's Church in Pomona, California.

Kawai Musical Instruments

-- Conducted by whom? --> at California Polytechnic University (Pomona) in 1998, Kawai's ABS action parts were shown to be stronger than comparable wooden parts and far less susceptible to shrinking and swelling due to humidity.

Larry Wilmore

Wilmore studied theatre at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, but dropped out to pursue acting and stand-up comedy.

Lawrence B. Harkless

Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM, FACFAS, MAPWCA, is Founding Dean and Professor of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at the College of Podiatric Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, USA.

Louis Phillips

He moved to Spadra (now part of Pomona) in 1862 and began engaging in sheep herding and cattle raising.

Louise Shropshire

Soon afterwards, using her own financial resources, she planted a sister church in Pomona, California, to the GNLBC in Cincinnati.

Nell Soto

Soto represented the 61st Assembly district (including parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties and the cities of Ontario, Pomona, Chino and Montclair) from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2006 to 2008.

Palisades Sill

It is at this point that the sill makes a turn to the west, where it disappears near Pomona.

Pomona University

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (also known as Cal Poly Pomona), a public polytechnic university in Pomona, California and part of the California State University

Pomona, New York

Pomona was named after the goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, for the area's many apple orchards.

Pomona, Río Negro

It was formally founded in 1933 and named after the goddess Pomona because of its gardens.

Pomone

Prix de Pomone, a French horserace named after Pomona (French name Pomone), the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.

Stanley Dashew

He spent most of his childhood on a sixty-five-acre agricultural property his parents owned in Pomona, New York, with his two sisters.

Triage tag

The example Triage Tag shown in this article is the All Risk(R) Triage Tag manufactured by Disaster Management Systems (DMS) located in Pomona, California.


2010 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament

The tournament was won by the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) men's basketball team, which defeated Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 65–53, in the title game.

Ballarat Botanical Gardens

The 12 statues were figures from classical mythology: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Hercules, Pomona, Bacchante, Hebe, Flora Farnese, Leda, Mercury and Flora.

Brontomerus

Doctor Mathew Wedel, assistant professor of anatomy at the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, has stated that since it has been commonly been assumed that sauropods tend to prefer drier, upload areas, perhaps Brontomerus may have used its powerful leg muscles for traversing rough, hilly terrain.

Cal Poly College of Engineering

Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering, a college of engineering in the city of Pomona, California

Cal Poly College of Environmental Design

Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design, an environmental design college in the city of Pomona, California.

Clarence Glacken

His second wife was Mildred Mosher (b. 1913 in Pomona, CA died around 1982) with whom he had 2 children - the novelist Karen Kijewski, and a son Michael.

Damian Rolls

In 2011 The Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New York in the County of Rockland and member of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball hired Rolls to serve as the club’s hitting coach for the 2011 season.

Edward Tessier

Beyond Pomona, 2007 saw the reopening of Claremont's Padua Hills Theater, the development of lofts in Ontario, and the debut of the Packinghouse venue in the new Claremont Village West area which turned a building once used for packing lemons and oranges in the early 1900s into a commercial venue that includes restaurants, retail, lofts, and the Hip Kitty Jazz and Fondue venue.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Frederick Sontag

In a 2004 interview with Pomona College Magazine, singer, actor, songwriter, and former Pomona College student Kris Kristofferson mentioned Sontag as an important influence in his life.

Gabriel Georgiades

From 1985 onward Georgiades has been an active full time professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona teaching courses in structures and Finite element method.

Gershom Craft House

Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

Joe Keough

Joseph William Keough (born January 7, 1946 in Pomona, California) is a former right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1968 through 1973 for the Oakland Athletics (1968), Kansas City Royals (1969–72) and Chicago White Sox (1973).

John Eldredge

John received his undergraduate degree in theater from California Polytechnic University (Pomona) and his MA in biblical counseling from Colorado Christian University under the direction of Dr. Larry Crabb and Dr. Dan Allender.

John Lyle

John T. Lyle, professor of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona

Kurt Johnson

He made his competitive driving debut in a Pro Stock Oldsmobile Cutlass at the 1993 NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, CA, qualifying fifteenth, and won two rounds before being narrowly defeated by former teammate Scott Geoffrion in the semi-finals.

Martin Milmore

By his 20th birthday Milmore received a commission for three giant figures ("Ceres", "Flora" and "Pomona") for the front of the Horticultural Hall in Boston; the restored versions are now on display at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.

Myron Hunt

They were soon designing large houses in communities throughout Southern California including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg at the present day campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).

Omoa

They were accompanied by Pomona, the Racehorse, a schooner and other small craft, and were hoping to intercept some treasure ships in the bay of Dulce.

Oxtoby

David W. Oxtoby, the ninth and current president of Pomona College

Pomona University

Pomona College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California (originally founded in Pomona) and part of the Claremont Colleges consortium

Redstreak

Thomas Knight's Pomona Herefordiensis (1811), noted that "trees of the Red-streak can now no longer be propagated; and the fruit, like the trees, is affected by the debilitated old age of the variety, and has in a very considerable degree, survived those qualities to which it was owing its former fame".

Richard Brookshaw

The last record of him are some plates in the "Pomona Britannica" (a botanical work illustrated by George Brookshaw, Richard's brother, and published in 1804).

Richard C. Miller

In 1929 Miller was introduced to Leica and Graflex, cameras and began to study cinematography while attending Stanford University and Pomona College.

Sisco, Florida

During the 1920s, there was a steamboat stop along Dunn's Creek that provided wood and water to the ships loaded with citrus and it was used also as a post office for the towns of Pomona and Cisco.

Tewantin, Queensland

Tewantin replaced Pomona on 1 December 1985 as the location of the Noosa Shire Council until 15 March 2008 when the Council was amalgamated with Maroochy Shire and the City of Caloundra to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.

U.S. Route 60

US 60 passed through Pomona and Riverside, meeting US 70 and US 99 near Beaumont, east of which it coincided with US 70 and US 99 as far to the east as Indio.

Victor J. Glover

Glover is a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy who hails from Pomona, California and Prosper, Texas.

W. K. Kellogg Airport

This airport should not be confused with the W.K. Kellogg Airport in Pomona, California, which operated from 1928 to 1932 and was then the largest privately owned airport in the country.

West Puente Valley, California

West Puente Valley is an unincorporated community located in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley, between Downtown Los Angeles and Pomona.

WRCR

In 2011, The Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New York in the County of Rockland and member of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, also known as the Can-Am League, announced that WRCR 1300 AM will be the club’s official flagship station for all Boulders’ broadcasts 2011 season.