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7 unusual facts about Ramona


Beau Genius

Overall, he has sired thirty-two stakes race winners and since 1999 has been standing at Donald and Karen Cohn's Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, California.

Best Pal

Best Pal (February 12, 1988 in Ramona, California – November 24, 1998 in Ramona, California) was an American Hall of Fame champion racehorse, who to this day holds the record for purses of any California-bred racehorse, earning his owners, the Golden Eagle Farm, US$5.6 million over his lifetime.

Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles

Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles is a bicycle manufacturer based in Ramona, California with manufacturing facilities in Vancouver, Washington.

John C. Mabee

His involvement led to him and wife, Betty establishing a breeding farm Golden Eagle Farm in Ramona, California that the NTRA says became one of the most important in that state's history.

Quercus engelmannii

The largest remaining stands of Engelmann Oaks are on the Santa Rosa Plateau, near Murrieta in Riverside County, and on Black Mountain near Ramona in San Diego County.

San Diego Free Press

The staff lived communally in a 3-story brick house in Hillcrest, and also had a dilapidated rural retreat in Ramona, where marijuana was sometimes grown.

Sun Valley Charter High School

Sun Valley Charter High School was a small charter high school in Ramona, California, chartered by the Ramona Unified School District.


Beezus and Ramona

Beezus and Ramona were introduced in that book as friends of Henry who also lived on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon.

Beezus Quimby

However, in Ramona and her Father, Beezus adopts a grouchier attitude because of her father's unemployment, albeit toward the ending of the book her mood is enlightened a bit as a result of her selection to portray the Blessed Virgin Mary in the upcoming Nativity play.

Buddy Buddy

Hitman Trabucco has been hired to eliminate Rudy "Disco" Gambola before he testifies against fellow members of the Mob, but completing the contract becomes problematic once he encounters suicidal Victor Clooney, an emotionally disturbed television censor staying in the room adjacent to his in the Ramona Hotel in Riverside, California.

Casa de Estudillo

He began strongly marketing the property: Tchotchkes of all sorts were labeled with "Ramona's Marriage Place", and more postcards were printed for the adobe than any other Ramona attraction.

Earl and Edgar McGraw

During the Grindhouse segment Planet Terror, Earl McGraw is forced to kill his wife Ramona after she turns into a zombie, while Dakota takes refuge in his house.

ER Ejercito

Born Emilio Ramon Pelayo Ejército on October 5, 1963 in Pagsanjan, Laguna to action star Jorge Marcelo Ejercito, who went by the screen name George Estregan, of Pagsanjan, Laguna and Ramona Pelayo Ejercito in Ibajay, Aklan.

George Estregan

He was married to Ramona Pelayo-Ejercito of Ibajay, Aklan, with whom he had four children: actor Emilio Ramon Ejercito ("George Estregan, Jr."), Maria Georgina Ejercito, Kurt Joseph Ejercito, and George Gerald Ejercito.

Hispanic National Bar Association

Previous Past National Presidents have included Peter M. Reyes Jr., Benny Agosto Jr., Diane Sen of New York, New York, Jimmie V. Reyna of Washington, D.C., Roman Hernandez, Mari Carmen Aponte of Washington, D.C., and Ramona Emilia Romero of Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Jason Spevack

He can also be seen in Sunshine Cleaning as Oscar Lorkowski, a little boy that gets expelled from school, Dino Dan as Dan Henderson, the main character that likes dinosaurs, and Ramona and Beezus as Howie Kemp, Ramona's best friend.

Magic satchel

In the Scott Pilgrim series, Ramona Flowers has a round purse (referred to as a Subspace Suitcase) that is larger on the inside.

Michelson Museum of Art

The Ramona and Jay Ward Collection of African Masks is another permanent collection and includes masks of the Yoruba, Senufo, and other West African peoples.

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

They have two granddaughters, Ramona (b. 2006) and Gloria (b. 2012), born to Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard.

Ramona Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Ramona Airport is assigned RNM by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA.

Romana Acosta Bañuelos

Later that year, Mayor Sam Yorty presented her with a commendation from the County Board of Supervisors, and Acosta established a college scholarship fund, the Ramona Mexican Food Products Scholarship, for poor Mexican-American students.

Serafín María de Sotto, 3rd Count of Clonard

Elder son of Raimundo de Sotto, 2nd Count of Clonard and Ramona Abbach, 4th Marquise of la Granada, he was of Irish patrilineal descent, a descendant of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley.

Sinéad Lohan

"No Mermaid", the title track of the aforementioned album, was also used in the movie Message in a Bottle and performed by Joan Baez on her 1997 release Gone from Danger, the 2009 reissue of which features a bonus disc containing live performances from 1997 of Baez and Lohan duets on Lohan's "No Mermaid" and "Who Do You Think I Am", and on Bob Dylan's "To Ramona."

The Matt and Ramona Show

Aside from The Matt and Ramona Show, Ramona also hosts "The Satisfied Life" along with Pam Stone and Sharon Decker.

The Mission Play

In 1902, reflecting an interest in Spanish California brought upon by the success of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona combined with population influx from new railroads connecting Southern California to the rest of the United States, Frank Augustus Miller changed the name of his father's 1876 hotel from the "Glenwood Hotel" to the "Mission Inn."

To Ramona

In 1992 the Texas Tornados in their album Hangin' on by Thread made a version of "To Ramona" with lyrics partially translated and adapted into Spanish.

Victoria Mallory

In December 2009, her daughter Ramona Mallory starred on Broadway recreating the role of Anne Egerman in a revival of A Little Night Music that her mother had originated 25 years ago.


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