X-Nico

unusual facts about Redwood


Redwood Railway Station

Redwood Railway Station on the suburban rail network of Wellington, New Zealand is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT).


1971 Redwood Bank Pacific Coast Open

The 1971 Redwood Bank Pacific Coast Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Berkeley Tennis Club in Berkeley, California in the United States.

Abhayagiri

Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, a Theravadin Buddhist monastery in Redwood Valley, California.

Allan V. Cox

Cox died in a bicycle accident, colliding with a large redwood tree after falling off a cliff on Tunitas Creek road, in the mountains Northwest of Stanford University.

Bluebell Arboretum

The arboretum includes a 2007 planting of 75 Sequoiadendron giganteum, the well-known giant redwood from the mountains of Southern California, and this area of the arboretum is intended to become a redwood grove in the future.

Bryan Garaventa

While contemplating a switch in career goals, Bryan was hired by Napster in Redwood City as a QA Engineer specializing in accessibility support, where he continued to work from February 2001 until the company's demise in June 2002.

Camp Tousey

Camp Tousey was a YMCA summer camp located about two miles (3 km) from the village of Redwood in Jefferson County, New York in the United States, and about eight miles (13 km) from Alexandria Bay, New York, a small resort town on the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands area.

Cisco PIX

PIX was originally conceived in early 1994 by John Mayes of Redwood City, California and designed and coded by Brantley Coile of Athens, Georgia.

Compton Acres

Many of the streets are named after areas in Dorset, such as Blanford Gardens - named after the famous gardens in Dorset - or after trees, such as Redwood and Acorn Bank.

Eddie's House

Wright gave the plans to trained engineer and College of Marin professor Robert Berger to build the house on his own on Redwood Road in San Anselmo, California.

Ferdinand Gottlieb

He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".

Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company

As their timberlands were being exhausted in Mississippi, the Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company planned to keep their Mississippi mills as re-manufacturing and finishing plants and feed them with California redwood.

Grace Hudson

Returning to California, Grace and John Hudson lived the rest of their days leading a modest bohemian lifestyle of collecting, traveling, field work, reading, entertaining, photography and painting based in The Sun House in Ukiah, a Craftsman-style California bungalow they designed and had built of redwood in 1911.

Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway

The first was built three miles from Immingham by Siemens Brothers whose contract included the construction of the overhead line and the installation of 184 Baltic Redwood fir poles which would run alongside the line.

Hall Place

Specimen trees in the grounds include an Indian Bean Tree (Catalpa bignonioides), a Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), and a Black Poplar (Populus nigra) - planted to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 by the local Mayor and the Deputy Lieutenant Of Bexley.

Isaac Clarke

During development for Dead Space, EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) gave Isaac a portmanteau of two science fiction writers, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.

J. Mora Moss House

Honduras mahogany was used for built-in interior cabinetry, Port Orford Cedar trimmed the lower floor walls with the balance of wall woodwork being clear redwood.

John Harmon Charles Bonté

He left Redwood City to accept the appointment to be Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of California at Berkeley in August 1881, having left the pulpit because of the failure of his voice.

Kingsbrook

The boundaries of Kingsbrook are approximately the River Great Ouse and Priory Country Park to the north, Cambridge Road and the A421 to the south and east, with Redwood Grove and Willow Road to the west.

La Alameda Park, Quito

The park keeps inside trees that have stood the time, we can find palm trees, acacias, redwoods, toct, cedar and ash.

Lisa Victoria

Lisa Victoria Redwood (born 24 February 1973 in Treherbert) is a Welsh television actor best known for playing the character of Sheryl Hughes in the long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm on S4C.

Log flume

Together with a constant water supply from a nearby reservoir, the flume enabled the efficient transportation of boards of lumber over deep gorges and cliffs and thereby opened up the area now known as Sequoia National Forest for clearcutting of the giant Redwood forests.

Nevile Wilkinson

To celebrate their births, two redwood trees were planted opposite the entrance to the Church of St Therese.

Orton, Peterborough

There is still a village green and close by is a half-mile long plantation of giant redwood wellingtonia trees known as the 'Long Walk'.

Paternal mtDNA transmission

Some Conifers also show paternal inheritance of mitochondria, such as the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.

PeakStream

PeakStream was a parallel processing software company located in Redwood Shores, California founded by Matthew Papakipos and Asher Waldfogel in April 2005 and backed by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.

Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory

Aside from the city's design, arguably Walter Burley Griffin's longest-living legacy in Canberra is the forest of Redwood trees (both Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum) that was planted in 1918 by Walter Burley Griffin and arborist Thomas Charles Weston on Pialligo Avenue.

Redwood City Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Redwood City Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

Redwood Curtain

In her search for her biological father, an Amerasian piano prodigy comes to California's redwood forests to an area populated by Vietnam veterans unable to reintegrate into society.

Redwood Valley, California

One of the more dubious distinctions awarded Redwood Valley is it being the home of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult for a short time.

S. giganteum

Sequoiadendron giganteum, the giant sequoia, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia, a massive tree species

Salt Lake Community College

Anime Banzai and Anime Salt Lake, which are two different anime conventions, were both initially held at the Taylorsville Redwood campus.

Scotia, California

Eighteen-million board feet of redwood logs and 23-million board feet of lumber were washed out of the Scotia sawmill and scattered along the lower river and Pacific coast to the mouth of the Columbia River.

On July 8, 2008, the court issued its judgment and order confirming the Plan of Reorganization submitted by secured creditor Marathon Structured Finance Fund (Marathon), joined by Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC).

The Redwoods

It was produced for the Sierra Club as part of their campaign for a national park to protect the redwood forest.

Totem pole

McKinleyville, California — 160 ft (48.77 m), carved from a single redwood tree by Ernest Pierson and John Nelson

Trochetiopsis erythroxylon

Saint Helena redwood is completely unrelated to the redwood tree of California and other trees called redwood.

U.S. Route 61

The Mississippi Department of Transportation is now upgrading the highway between Vicksburg and Leland to four lanes, beginning with replacement of the Yazoo River bridge at Redwood in Warren County.

WVBG

WVBG-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Redwood, Mississippi, United States


see also