X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Pratt


Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.

On 30 June 1889, Powell married Mattie Shaffer (née Mattie Buster) of Pratt, West Virginia.

Disabled Sports USA

Disabled Sports USA Officers include Robert Meserve, Robert Harney, MD, Steven D. Goodwin and Todd Sajauskas, and Board Members Anjali Forber-Pratt, Carol Harnett, Gregg Baumgarten, Jeff Underwood, Joel Berman, John B. Lincoln and Ralph Green.

Pratt, West Virginia

It was renamed Pratt after the owner of the Charles Pratt Coal Company, Charles Pratt.

Pratt's

It was established in 1857, with premises in a multi-storey town house in Park Place, off St James' Street.

Pratt's Bottom

Pratt's Bottom was declared to be the 'sister city' of Wellington, New Zealand in 2009 by then-Mayor, Kerry Prendergast.


A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific

A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific is a 1987 book by Harold Douglas Pratt, Jr., Phillip L. Bruner and Delwyn G. Berrett (with illustrations by Pratt).

Addison Pratt

Pratt was present at the discovery of gold in California, working on Sutter's Mill at the time of discovery.

Albert F. Pratt

Pratt served with the 14th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry as a first lieutenant in the Spanish–American War and was a major in the Minnesota National Guard, 3rd Infantry for 28 years.

Anita Lobel

While taking part in a school play at Pratt, she met her future husband, Arnold Lobel, who was the play's director.

Barbara Nessim

Like her contemporary, Jacqui Morgan, she briefly worked in textile design after graduating from Pratt, then decided to turn her efforts towards illustration work.

Benjamin Skinner

His great-great-grandfather, Robert Pratt, served with the 1st Connecticut Artillery at the Siege of Petersburg, which led to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.

Bob Pratt

The initial attack on the inhabitants of Adowa by Benito Mussolini's invading army upon Emperor Haile Selassie, is no greater shock than that received by SMFC officials when they learned on Thursday afternoon, through the press, that Bob Pratt had been involved in a collision with a motor truck.

Boeing Model 40

Boeing's bid of $3 per lb was much less than any of the competing bids, and Boeing was awarded the San Francisco to Chicago contract in January 1927, building 24 Model 40As for the route (with a further aircraft being used as a testbed by Pratt & Whitney).

Bryan Ryley

His work is found in numerous private and public collections, such as, The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa; Kelowna Public Art Gallery, Kelowna; Vernon Public Art Gallery; The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Petro Canada Collection; Shell Collection in Calgary, Alberta.

Charles E. Pratt

As a musician and orchestra leader, Pratt worked with artists including Emma Abbott (serving as her manager for a time), Emma Thursby, Anna Bishop, Robert Heller, Alice Dunning Lingard, Ema Pukšec (Ilma de Murska), and Clara Louise Kellogg.

Charles Millard Pratt

Pratt had a winter home (also known as Charles Millard Pratt House) designed by architects Greene and Greene in Nordhoff (Ojai), California from 1908–11.

William Tubby designed the Charles Millard Pratt House at 241 Clinton Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in 1893.

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

The League of American Wheelmen was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on May 30, 1880 by Kirk Munroe and Charles Pratt.

David R. Barker

He has also been featured on radio programs such as Marketplace, As It Happens, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Santita Jackson Show, Pratt on Texas, Iowa Public Radio and many others.

David S. Lewis

He was influential in having the F-16 design team choose the Pratt & Whitney F100 turbofan engine following his experience with the engine in the McDonnell Douglas F-15 fighter.

Don Pratt

Don Forrester Pratt (July 12, 1892 - June 6, 1944) was a United States Army general in World War II.

Eldon Quick

Quick's best-remembered television character is the bureaucratic Captain Sloan from two early episodes of M*A*S*H ("Payday" and "The Incubator"), which he reprised as Captain Pratt in "The Late Captain Pierce".

George C. Pratt

After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.

Granville Brothers Aircraft

Gee Bee Q.E.D. — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered (one built, crashed June 7, 1939, Francisco Sarabia killed, aircraft rebuilt and retired to a museum in Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico)

Graphicstudio

With the support of then president Cecil Mackey, Saff modelled Graphicstudio after the Pratt Graphics Center, Tamarind Press, and Gemini G.E.L. The first artist to participate at Graphicstudio was Philip Pearlstein.

Haraden Pratt

During World War II, Pratt served as Division Chief in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and was Chairman of the Radio Technical Planning Board 1945-1949, and in 1946 was an official observer of the Bikini atomic bomb tests.

Harcourt J. Pratt

Pratt was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-March 3, 1933).

Henry Otis Pratt

In 1872, Pratt was elected as a Republican to represent Iowa's 4th congressional district in the 43rd United States Congress.

Joseph Marmaduke Pratt

Pratt was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James P. McGranery.

Luther Standing Bear

Standing Bear interpreted and recruited students for Pratt at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, led the Carlisle Indian Band across the Brooklyn Bridge upon its opening ceremony on May 24, 1883, and served as a student intern for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Marjorie Pratt, Countess of Brecknock

She married John Pratt, Earl of Brecknock, eldest son of John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden and Lady Joan Marion Nevill, on 19 October 1920 in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London.

Marla Mason

The Marla Mason series is a series of seven books and several short stories written by American author Tim Pratt under the pseudonym of T.A. Pratt.

Marquess Camden

The Pratt family descends from Sir John Pratt, Lord Chief Justice from 1718 to 1725.

Camden Town in London is named for Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, and the elephant from the arms of Marquess Camden is therefor present in the crest in the coat of arms of the London Borough of Camden.

Orson Pratt

While in Illinois, Pratt acted as an instructor at the University of Nauvoo.

Patricia Brown

She formed a working group that included former AAGPBL players Wilma Briggs and Marie Mansfield, as well as the aforementioned Maddy English, Mary Pratt and herself, of course.

Paul Turner Sargent

Among his students was Ralph Wickiser, a teacher and administrator at Pratt Institute, and Alice Baber, a noted Color Field painter of the 1970s.

Peter Hudson

In 2010, Hudson became the eleventh player to feature in a Toyota Memorable Moments advertisement with Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson, comically re-enacting his unsuccessful attempt to break Bob Pratt's goal-kicking record in the 1971 VFL Grand Final.

Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba candidates, 1969 Manitoba provincial election

Kenneth Pratt focused his campaign around opposition to the Schreyer government's plan to amalgamate the City of Winnipeg with surrounding municipalities, including St. Vital.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

Strongly influenced by John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incident of Travel in Central America, Parley Pratt set various Book of Mormon lands (including, apparently, the narrow neck) farther north and west of Panama.

Quatuor Coronati Lodge

Nine masons (Charles Warren, William Harry Rylands, Robert Freke Gould, The Revd Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, Walter Besant, John Paul Rylands, Major Sisson Cooper Pratt, William James Hughan, and George William Speth), dissatisfied with the way the history of Freemasonry had been expounded in the past, founded the lodge, obtaining a warrant in 1884.

Rachel Covey

In 2005, Covey appeared in the film Duane Hopwood as the daughter of David Schwimmer's character, leading Variety magazine to select Covey and her costar Ramya Pratt for particular praise.

Renée Gill Pratt

Amid astonishment over the appropriateness and timing of the appointment—in that all Louisiana public universities were facing steep budget cuts and suggestions were circulating that SUNO should be merged with the neighboring University of New Orleans—Gill Pratt, with the urging of SUNO chancellor Victor Ukpolo, went on a leave of absence without pay.

Sam Jones III

Sam Jones III, also known as Samuel Jones, is an American actor, best known for playing Pete Ross on the first three seasons of the Superman television series Smallville, Willie Worsley in the 2006 film Glory Road , Craig Shilo on Blue Mountain State, Chaz Pratt on ER and Billy Marsh in the 2006 film Home of the Brave.

Samuel Hawkes

His mother descended from immigrant Richard Pratt from Maldon, County of Essex, England; His father from immigrant Adam Hawkes.

Sir Harold and the Gnome King

Another issue addressed was a long-standing plot complication introduced by L. Ron Hubbard's "borrowing" of Shea for use in his novella The Case of the Friendly Corpse (1941), previously ignored by de Camp and Pratt.

Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet

When about ten years old he was taken to Surrey by his uncle, Joseph Pratt, main owner of a distillery at Vauxhall.

Snoqualmie River

On August 8, 2007, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert (WA-08), King County Executive Ron Sims, and others announced a proposal to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to include the valley of the Pratt River, a tributary of the Middle Fork, near the town of North Bend.

Terry Tiffee

After his time at Pratt, Tiffee signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Louisiana State University, but chose instead to sign with the Minnesota Twins (scout Gregg Miller) when he was acquired in the 26th round of the June 1999 free agent draft.

The Well of the Unicorn

He too compared it to the works of Cabell and Eddison, as well as Lord Dunsany, "to whom, indeed, it is somewhat indebted" (an allusion to Pratt's acknowledged adoption of the setting of Dunsany's play King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior).


see also