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9 unusual facts about Ralston


Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston

After spending about twelve years in Danville, Virginia, where Alexander spent much of her young life, the family returned to North Carolina, this time the bustling metropolis of Greensboro.

Judge Alexander was unable to run for election to the North Carolina Supreme Court after losing the Republican Primary in 1974 to a man without any legal background; however, her loss prompted a later-adopted constitutional amendment requiring judges be attorneys licensed in North Carolina.

Due to the limited access to law schools in North Carolina for black women and to her husband’s instance, Alexander applied and was the first black woman admitted to Columbia Law School in 1943 at the age of twenty-four.

Penilee

The district's southern boundary forms Glasgow's border with the Renfrewshire settlement of Ralston.

Ralston, Renfrewshire

It then continues across the Renfrewshire-Glasgow border through Crookston, Cardonald and Ibrox to Paisley Road Toll, where it meets the A8 once again.

To the east, Ralston's painted stone cottages and their proudly-maintained front gardens define the Glasgow Road all the way to the Renfrewshire border and beyond, merging unobtrusively with the cottages of neighbouring Crookston.

Golfer Alastair Forsyth, who has won Golf Tour competitions as well competing in several Open championships, played much of his golf at Ralston Golf Club and grew up in the area.

William R. Johnson

He worked at Ralston, Frito-Lay and Anderson-Clayton Foods before joining Heinz in 1982 as general manager of new business.

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

He devised a novel form of public entertainment, telling stories to large audiences in lecture-halls, making several successful appearances at St. George's and St James's Halls.


Blue John Canyon

Ralston's entrapment was described in his autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place and was depicted in the 2010 film 127 Hours.

Energizer Holdings

In 2000, Ralston spun off Eveready, and it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange as Energizer Holdings, Inc.

Gilbert Ralston

Ralston helped create the television series The Wild Wild West and scripted the pilot episode, "The Night of the Inferno".

James Ralston

Despite not being from Prince Edward Island, Ralston continued his support to that province as political minister by authorizing the establishment of RCAF Station Mount Pleasant, RCAF Station Summerside (both in his riding) and RCAF Station Charlottetown, as well as a radar station in Tignish (also in his riding).

JCI Ralston

=== The Values of JCI Ralston are summed up by the Jaycee Creed ===

John de Ralston

He appears to have died before 28 April 1452 when Ralston's successor Thomas Lauder is provided to a now vacant bishopric of Dunkeld.

Ken Ralston

Ralston has won five Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, including a Special Achievement Oscar for the visual effects in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, and regular awards for his work on Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Cocoon.

Kenny Hughes

Kenneth Hughes has worked with a wide range of recognized names such as Madonna, Meryl Streep, Michael Bay, Christopher Columbus, Tracey Ullman, Julie Taymor, Jim Carrey, the Bee Gees, Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Ralston, Coen Brothers, the ISO dance company, the Diavalo Dance Theater, the Rogue Go-Go Dance Company, Zubin Mehta, Mika Kaurismäki, Amy Brenneman, Val Kilmer and others.

Les Ralston

Known as "Lightning" Les, Ralston began his professional career in 2002, and lost to Sergio Mora in 2004 before Mora's appearance on The Contender.

Purina Mills

At one point, Ralston Purina owned an interest in the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League team; during this period, the arena they then used was referred to as the “Checkerdome”.

Later, in 1902, he merged with university professor Webster Edgerly, founder of Ralstonism, who was at the time producing breakfast cereals, to form the “Ralston-Purina Company”.

Ralston Purina

In 1977, Ralston Purina acquired Missouri Arena Corporation and the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League franchise.

During the company's ownership of the team, they changed the name of the St. Louis Arena to the Checkerdome, reflecting the Ralston Purina logo.

Ralstonism

In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company (now Nestlé Purina PetCare).

Robert O. Peterson

He renamed his company Foodmaker in 1960 and sold it in 1967 to Ralston-Purina.

Susan Ralston

On July 29, 2005, Ralston testified before federal grand jury prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald, investigating whether government officials illegally disclosed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Wilson.

The Skull Beneath the Skin

Cordelia Gray is engaged by Sir George Ralston, a baronet and World War II hero, to accompany his wife, the acclaimed actress Clarissa Lisle, for a weekend at Courcy Castle on the island of the same name on the Dorset coast.

Twinkle Brothers

The Twinkle Brothers were formed in 1962 by brothers Norman (vocals, drums) and Ralston Grant (vocals, rhythm guitar) from Falmouth, Jamaica.

William Herbert Wallace

P.D. James's 1982 crime novel The Skull Beneath the Skin parallels the fictional murder of Lady Ralston with the real-life Wallace case.


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