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12 unusual facts about Potter


Brown-Potter

Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887), United States lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War

Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter (1857–1936), one of the first American society women to take to the stage

Chipman L. Flowers, Jr.

In the Democratic primary, Flowers faced Velda Jones-Potter, the incumbent who had been appointed in 2009 by newly elected Gov. Jack Markell to complete the remainder of Markell’s term as treasurer.

Luscombe Searelle

In 1892 Searelle brought the partnership of Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter and the romantic lead Kyrle Bellew out from Australia.

Lynda Lee-Potter

It dispensed advice, such as what to take your hostess at country house weekends: "Under no circumstances take a poinsettia, which is the plant equivalent of a bottle of Blue Nun."

After leaving the Guildhall School, and using the stage name Lynda Berrison, she won a part in one of Brian Rix's farces at the Whitehall Theatre.

Potter's House Christian Fellowship

Wayman Mitchell originally began his churches under the affiliation of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and continued this affiliation until a disagreement with church leaders on ordination requirements for new ministers.

The Potter's House Christian Fellowship is a Christian Pentecostal church organization founded by Pastor Wayman Mitchell in Prescott, Arizona in 1970.

Pottery of ancient Greece

The clay is then kneaded by the potter and placed on a wheel.

Shag Harbour UFO incident

"Harry" Potter claimed photographs were taken by the divers and some foam-like debris brought up.

Velda Jones-Potter

She was appointed by Governor Jack Markell to finish out his term as treasurer when he was elected to the Governorship in the 2008 election.

She worked for DuPont for 17 years and as an executive vice-president for MBNA.


Afshan Azad

She has also told the press that her best friends on set of Harry Potter were Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), Katie Leung (Cho Chang), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), and Scarlett Byrne (Pansy Parkinson).

Bantam Rooster

Bantam Rooster disbanded in 2003 as Potter formed the funk rock band Detroit City Council.

Bertha Palmer

Upon her death at her winter residence, The Oaks in Osprey, Florida, her body was returned to Chicago to lie in state at the Castle, the sumptuous mansion Potter Palmer had built on Chicago's Gold Coast.

Beths Grammar School

Rob Knox - Actor - Notably was featured in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Bhakta Kumbara

Rajkumar was awarded a State Award for his portrayal of the potter-turned-saint Gora Kumbhar.

Carnelli

There is no strict one-to-one relationship between titles and works — What a Girl Wants is, unrelatedly, a Christina Aguilera song and an Amanda Bynes movie, while the first Harry Potter book is known both as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Donal Hord

1917 found Hord enrolling in art night classes at San Diego High School, under the tutelage of Anna Valentine, a sculptor and potter who had at one point studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin.

Father Stephen T. Badin High School

The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the Brothers of St. Mary, archdiocesan priests, other religious orders and committed lay persons laid the foundation of Badin High school at its current location near Potter's golf course on New London Road.

Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival

The Bilge Olgaç Honorary Award was given to Jeyan Ayral Tözüm (film and stage actress) and Sevin Okyay (film critic, journalist, TV presenter, author and the Turkish translator of Harry Potter).

Geoffrey Sumner

A sample of "Train Sequence" ("This is a journey into sound") from the LP A Journey Into Stereo Sound (1958) was used by different artists like Coldcut in their remix of Eric B. & Rakim (Paid in Full), Bomb the Bass (Beat Dis), Public Enemy (Welcome to the Terrordome) and Anthrax (Potter's Field).

Grant Potter

Potter was the Gold medalist of the 2010 Worlds Masters Stage Race, 2009 U.S. Masters National Champion, 2010 UCI Worlds top 5 finisher, 2010 Deutschlandsberg Worlds TT winner among many other titles.

Gudo Hoegel

More recently, Hoegel dubbed over Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter series.

Harrison Potter

Potter's recording of Charles Tomlinson Griffes' Piano Sonata is referenced in the 1943 first edition of Edward Maisel's biography of Griffes, though due to its unavailability at the time of the second edition, other recordings were referenced instead.

Hideaki Miyamura

Hideaki Miyamura (1955 - ) is a Japanese-born American potter working in Kensington, New Hampshire.

HP1

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first novel in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

Ian Potter

The Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square (part of the National Gallery of Victoria), the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne and the Ian Potter Children's Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens are but a few of his legacies in Melbourne today.

James C. Potter

James C. Potter (1 May 1855 – 30 October 1925) was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and civic leader in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Justin McDonald

McDonald's first major film saw him appearing alongside Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter as the young William Heelis, who encouraged the young Beatrix Potter to write and illustrate her stories.

Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School

Pupils are allotted to one of six houses within the school, named after famous female writers and poets: Austen, Brontë, Browning, Eliot, Potter, and Rossetti.

Lego Creator: Harry Potter

LEGO Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a game in the Harry Potter Lego Creator series specifically focusing on the second book and movie.

Luis Palau

Palau got in touch with fellow evangelicals, and cooperated with Portland Commissioner Erik Sten, Potter, Beaverton Mayor Rob Drake, and Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis in 2008 in planning his August 22–23 festival, which will focus on volunteerism in support of the homeless.

Made in Cleveland

The film stars an ensemble cast, among them Busy Philipps, Gillian Jacobs, George Roth, Jeffrey Grover, Robin Swoboda, Leon Bibb, Brendan Potter, Derek Koger, Linda Ryan, Robbie Barnes, Charlie Martini and others.

Mary Potter

In 1877, Venerable Mary Potter (1847–1913) was the foundress of the Roman Catholic religious institute "Little Company of Mary Sisters" .

Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

Cases are devoted to Pueblo pottery, ranging from thousand year-old Anasazi bowls to contemporary works, including several pieces by the famed San Ildefonso potter Maria Martinez, and the silver and turquoise jewelry of Zuni, Navajo, Hopi and Santo Domingo artists.

Nathan Goff, Jr.

Goff was born at the Waldomore in Clarksburg, West Virginia on February 9, 1843, the son of Waldo Potter Goff and the former Harriet Louise Moore.

New Pudsey railway station

The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda.

Nic Potter

In 1977, after Hugh Banton and David Jackson had left Van der Graaf Generator, Potter was asked to re-join.

Potter Stewart United States Courthouse

The Potter Stewart United States Courthouse is a courthouse and federal building of the United States government located in Cincinnati, Ohio, and housing the headquarters of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Reportedly haunted locations in Alabama

The Boyington Oak in Mobile, a Southern live oak that reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard.

Rio de Janeiro school shooting

As none of his relatives reclaimed Oliveira's body, it was buried in a potter's field at the Caju Cemetery two weeks after his death.

Robineau

Adelaïde Alsop Robineau (1865–1929), American painter, potter and ceramist

Rubeus

Rubeus Hagrid; a half-wizard, half-giant serving as a Hogwarts teacher in the Harry Potter novels and films

Snowmasters

The company's products have been used in music videos such as "Back to December" by Taylor Swift and "Mistletoe" by Justin Bieber, film productions such as Hairy Potter and Lucky, television shows such as Fear Factor, and at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

Sound Charades

Occasionally, truly masterful clues are given: for example the film Dirty Harry was clued with the single line "Potter! ... Don't do that.", delivered in an impression of Alan Rickman's portrayal of Severus Snape.

South Mountain Road

Members of the group included Maxwell Anderson, the playwright (in later years, actor Barry Bostwick lived in Anderson's house, selling it in 2005); composer Kurt Weill and his wife, singer/actress Lotte Lenya; actor/director/producer John Houseman, and architect/potter/painter Henry Varnum Poor.

Stuart Bailey

In Alphabetical Order: File Under: Graphic Design, Schools, or Werkplaats Typografie, by Paul Elliman, Anthony Froshaug, Melle Hammer, Robin Kinross, Norman Potter and Stuart Bailey (editor), 2003, NAi Publishers.

The Linking Ring

'"Potter's Bar'", a series of columns by Jack Potter (d.1978), giving bibliographic references to periodical and book descriptions of magical effects.

The Long Hello

In 1981 Nic Potter and Guy Evans released a sort of follow-up to this album, The Long Hello Volume Two.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

All the tales were in part inspired by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, which Potter illustrated as early as 1893 in an attempt to find a career direction.

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

One commentator has likened Squirrel Nutkin's impertinent behaviour to that of the rebellious working-class of Potter's own day, and another commentator has noted the tale's similarities to pourquoi tales and folk tales in its explanations of Squirrel Nutkin's short tail and characteristics of squirrel behaviour.

Upper Wolfsnare

The lane to the house at 2040 Potter's Road is lined by many trees, including crepe myrtles.

Valentine Treadwell

Valentine Treadwell (c. 1813 – September 1, 1888 Potter's Hollow, Albany County, New York) was an American farmer and politician from New York.

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

The Center was headed by Dr. Leslie A. Geddes and located in Purdue's A.A. Potter Engineering Center.