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58 unusual facts about Richmond


1935 in organized crime

Tri-State Gang leaders Walter Legenza and Robert Mais had previously been convicted of murder and executed in Richmond, Virginia in February.

Aaron T. Bliss

Then he was captured on General Wilson’s raid near Richmond.

Alan Wolffe

He left NIH and moved to the biotechnology firm Sangamo BioSciences Inc. in Richmond, California in 2000, as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Office.

Albert Hoffa

Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 - 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope.

Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy

A goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and senator William Cabell Rives, who had also been American ambassador to France, she was born in Richmond, Virginia and named after her aunt Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie.

Battle of Crooked River

They relocated their families to Richmond and Liberty, the county seats of Ray and Clay, respectively, and claimed that their lives had been threatened and their property had been stolen by the Mormons.

Chapman code

They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre.

Crime 360

Crime 360 is an American reality television show based on homicide detective units in various cities across the United States, including Richmond, Virginia; Rochester, New York; Little Rock, Arkansas; Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio.

Derek Cha

Their next stores were then opened in Chesterfield, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Williamsburg, Virginia.

Drive-By Romance

Drive-By Romance is the title of a digital-only EP released by the Richmond, Virginia, based Pat McGee Band.

Driving club

It used to meet at Lord Chesterfield's house, and drive, in procession, to dinner at the Castle Hotel in Richmond.

Ebenezer Moseley

When Ebenezer, known as Eben, was five years old, the family moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia and set up a shipyard in Richmond in the north of Halifax.

Enrico Banducci

In 1988, after he lost Enrico's to one of its several closures over the years, he became a hot dog vendor in Richmond, Virginia, at the "hungry i hot dog stand," located on very expensive property in the city's most upscale restaurant district that he'd purchased for his son years earlier; he moved back to San Francisco in the late 1990s.

Exinda

The city of Richmond, California used Exinda products to filter out video traffic from sites such as YouTube.

G. Manoli Loupassi

Loupassi attended St. Christopher's School in Richmond and Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Harry Thomas, Sr.

Thomas grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and dropped out of high school before enlisting in the army during World War II.

Horacio Lugo

José Horacio Lugo is a former Argentine football player, he played for more than 15 years, and after retiring moved to Richmond, Virginia.

Hordern-Richmond

Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond with Edmund Hordern (former test pilot of Heston Aircraft Company Ltd.) originally formed the company with the intention of producing aircraft of their own design, specifically the Hordern-Richmond Autoplane, based at Denham Aerodrome.

Hordern-Richmond merged with Lang Propellers of Weybridge, and a new factory was built at Haddenham, near Thame, Buckinghamshire.

Ikey Solomon

He was sent to Richmond gaol, where in 1832 he became a "javelin man", or convict constable.

Indian Rock Park

The top of the main outcropping, Indian Rock, commands a spectacular view that encompasses sights from downtown Oakland and the University of California campus to the south; central Berkeley, San Francisco Bay, and San Francisco to the west; and Marin County and Richmond, California to the northwest and north.

Indiana Football Hall of Fame

The Indiana Football Hall of Fame is a sports museum and hall of fame in Richmond, Indiana.

James H. Baker

He became a teacher, and had charge of the Female Seminary at Richmond, Indiana.

Kathleen Maltzahn

She is a former councillor for the City of Yarra and was the Greens candidate for the state seat of Richmond in the 2010 Victorian state election.

Louis H. Marrero

On November 25, 1863, he was captured and imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois, until March 1865, when he was taken to Richmond and put on probation.

Lucretia Edwards

Lucretia W. Edwards (May 15, 1916 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 12, 2005) was an environmental activist and preservationist from Richmond, California.

She was married to Tom Edwards and had three children, the family lived in a Point Richmond, California, house for 37 years, where she also died.

Maple Falls, Washington

Among the first settlers of Maple Falls was Herbert Everant Leavitt, a native of Melbourne, Quebec, Canada.

Martin Samuel Cohen

Cohen also served as rabbi at 1986-1999 at Beth Tikvah Congregation in Richmond, British Columbia and from 1999-2002 at Congregation Eilat in Mission Viejo, California.

Maura Davis

Maura Davis was the lead singer of the American indie rock band Denali from Richmond, Virginia, United States, active from 2000 to 2004 (with brief reappearances in 2008).

Murphy Knives

A cased commemorative copy of the Murphy Combat knife, with an etched blade, was issued by John Ek Knives out of Richmond, Virginia in the early 1990s but due to the etching is distinguishable from the originals.

Nathan L. Bachman

He attended several colleges, including the former Southwestern Presbyterian University in Clarksville, Tennessee (the predecessor institution to the current Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee; the campus is the current setting of Austin Peay State University), Central University in Richmond, Kentucky (now merged with Centre College in Danville, Kentucky), and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

No-knock warrant

The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.

Non-Partisan Association

There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.

Property Virgins

Subsequent seasons of the show have included both Toronto and major metropolitan areas in the United States, such as Washington, D.C., Richmond, Cincinnati, Austin Texas, Boston and Miami.

Ralph Read

He was later to teach at "Richmond Temple's Bible College", and thereafter to minister in various AOG churches and, for a time, was editor of the AOG denominational magazine "The Evangel".

Richard R. Lee

Currently, Lee is a senior production member, on-air programmer, and webmaster for KCRT-TV, a Richmond, California TV station.

Richmond Community High School

The school began with a grant from Richmond businessman-philanthropist Andrew J. Asch, Jr., perhaps best known as the 1970s developer of downtown Richmond's Shockoe Slip area, a collection of tobacco warehouses in which are located shops, restaurants and offices.

Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal

Richmond was established in 1850 as Beaulieu-on-Illovo by British Byrne Settlers who were originally from Beaulieu, the seat of the Duke of Buccleuch in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Richmond, Maine

In the 1950s and 1960s, there was also a large influx of White Russian emigres, who earlier fled the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and eventually came to Richmond both from Europe and from major US cities like New York.

Richmond, Massachusetts

On the state level, Richmond is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Second Berkshire district, represented by Paul Mark, which covers central Berkshire County, as well as portions of Hampshire and Franklin counties.

Richmond, New South Wales

Richmond High School is the only High School in the town of Richmond, as Colo High School draws from the area west of Richmond and Windsor High School to the east.

Richmond, Oregon

Buildings in Richmond included the school, a store, a Methodist Church, an Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall, and several homes, all later abandoned.

Richmond, Texas

Named after Richmond, England, the town was among the 19 cities first incorporated by the short-lived Republic of Texas, in 1837.

Richmondshire Subscription Concerts

Richmondshire Subscription Concerts (RSC) is a music society based in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Rodney Harmon

Rodney Harmon (born August 16, 1961 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former professional tennis player the ATP.

Small hive beetle

Internationally, the Small Hive Beetle has spread to Australia being first identified at Richmond, NSW in 2002.

Springfield School

Springfield School, Richmond, a historic school building in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Sugar pie

The largest producer of these pies is Wick's Pies, whose plant is twenty-five miles north of Richmond, Indiana, in Winchester, Indiana, and makes 750,000 sugar cream pies a year.

Tarnel Abbott

Tarnel Abbott (b. 1953) is an award-winning free speech advocate, activist, and librarian from Richmond, California.

They Were Better Live

The recording was of the band's series of live shows at the Central Club Hotel in Richmond.

Tuff Monks

The collaboration only ever appeared live once, at Richmond's Tiger Lounge venue doing a cover version of "Ring of Fire".

Ulrich S. Schubert

Prof Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert also gained musical education as clarinetist in Frankfurt (Germany), Richmond and Tampa (both USA).

Valhalla Cinema, Melbourne

The cinema opened its doors on June 10, 1976 at a location on Victoria Street, Richmond.

Virginia State Route 195

The transition between the Interstate and the state-numbered highway occurs just east of the McCloy Street overpass south of the Carytown district of Richmond.

Waverley Country Club

The club was established in April 1896, with its original golf course laid out several miles northeast, in the Richmond neighborhood, near the present-day corner of Southeast César E. Chávez Boulevard and Powell Boulevard.

Westminster-Richmond

It and its sister ridings Westminster-Delta, Westminster-Dewdney and Westminster-Chilliwhack were successors to the old four-member Westminster riding, which appeared in 1890 only and was a subdivision of the older New Westminster (provincial electoral district) riding.


103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

They then marched northward, passing through the former Confederate capital city of Richmond and arriving at Washington City around May 20, 1865.

A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story

The documentary chronicles the entire 60-year history of the Richmond-based retailer, Circuit City.

Annie Lim

Lim opened her first Canadian custom-cake shop, called "Chocolate Lover Cakes", in Richmond, British Columbia.

Beth Brown

She coordinated the first paranormal investigation of Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia) and has, to date, conducted the only official study of Sherwood Forest (Charles City, Virginia), home of President John Tyler.

Candy Jim Taylor

The Great Depression took its toll on the economics of the game, and while managing the 1933 Richmond All-Stars, Taylor was forced to sell the team bus, and later had to send the players home.

Charles Edward Emery

In July, 1861, he entered the United States Navy as third assistant engineer, and served on the “Richmond” during engagements at Pensacola, Florida, the Mississippi river passes, and finally under David Farragut.

Chase Page

Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.

Cycling in San Francisco

Most of the bike lanes are located in relatively flat neighborhoods close to the center of the city, including SoMa, the Mission, Haight-Ashbury, and the Richmond.

Darren Gaspar

Gaspar continued his good form in 2001, winning the Jack Dyer Medal and helping Richmond reach the finals for the first time since the 1995 AFL season.

Denis Mackey

Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, née Reid.

Don Dubbins

Child actor Stephen Talbot delivers a compelling role as Ab Martin, Cantwell's prize pupil who at the end of the episode recites to his dying teacher part of Patrick Henry's 1775 address at St. Johns' Church.

Electoral division of Rumney

The division covers an area of 1,516 km² and includes a number of outer Hobart localities including; Lauderdale, Rokeby, Cambridge, Sorell, Richmond.

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

F. Flaxington Harker

Beginning in 1914, Harker served as Organist and Choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.

Fading Trails

It is a compilation of tracks from four different recording sessions, including recordings at Electrical Audio in Chicago, engineered by Steve Albini, Sound of Music Studio in Richmond, Virginia, produced by David Lowery, and Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, engineered by James Lott.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

Garrett Epps

After graduation from Harvard, he was a cofounder of The Richmond Mercury, a short-lived alternative weekly whose alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Frank Rich and Glenn Frankel.

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence

Like the first lords of Richmond, Peter II of Savoy and Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, before him, Clarence was endowed with the Honour of Richmond, a lifetime grant, but without the peerage title of Earl of Richmond.

Herbie Nichols

1957 Love, Gloom, Cash, Love - with Dannie Richmond (drums), George Duvivier (bass)

Huguenot High School

With its property actually adjoining the border with Chesterfield County in the Bon Air area, some of the students assigned to Huguenot High School had very long school bus rides from the East End of the city.

Idle Hour, Lexington

Its boundaries are Idle Hour Country Club to the north, CSX railroad tracks to the east, New Circle Road to the south, and Richmond Road to the west.

Jared French

French entered the Mural and Easel Painting Section of the Public Works of Art Project, initiated by the Department of the Treasury in 1933, after which he produced murals for the post office in Plymouth, Pennsylvania (1937), and for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia (1939).

Jean Petitot

In Pierpont Morgan's collection there were many fine examples, including three drawings on paper, the only three which appear to have survived, and the large signed miniature of the duchess of Richmond already mentioned, the largest work Petitot ever did except one Chatsworth House.

Jesse M. Williams

Sears, Stephen W., To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.

Joe the Cameraman

Before an AFL game in Perth on May 29, 2009, Richmond footballer Ben Cousins gave the finger in the direction of a camera in the changerooms.

Lindy Cochran

Cochran is the youngest of four siblings of the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Richmond, Vermont, whose parents built and operated a ski hill in their back yard.

Marmaduke Wyvill

Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, 1st Baronet (c.1542–1617), Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond 1584–1585 and 1597–1598

Marquess of Zetland

He represented Richmond and Stirling in the House of Commons and also served as Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland.

Mason Bates

Bates was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where he attended St. Christopher's School.

Meadow Bridge

Battle of Meadow Bridge, an 1864 skirmish near Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War

Mike Wankum

Before coming to Boston, he worked as a chief meteorologist at WTVR in Richmond, Virginia from 1990-1993, and at KTIV-TV in his native Iowa from 1980-1990.

Mitch Richmond

Mitch Richmond is the cousin of NFL defensive back Lardarius Webb.

Model Tobacco Building

Located at 1100 Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1), in Richmond, Virginia, the building was designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson and is known for the 9' tall Moderne MODEL TOBACCO letters which dominate the north end of the building.

Radarsat-2

To carry out this new project, the satellite's owner MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Richmond, B.C., was awarded $25-million contract to carry out upgrades (called project Polar Epsilon) to enhance the satellites capabilities to detect surface ships.

Richard Risby

12, together with Elizabeth Barton, Edward Bocking, Hugh Rich, warden of the Observant friary at Richmond, John Dering, B.D. (Oxon.), Benedictine of Christ Church, Canterbury, Henry Gold, M.A. (St.John's College, Cambridge), parson of St. Mary Aldermanbury, London, and vicar of Hayes, Middlesex and Richard Master M.A. (King's College, Oxon)rector of Aldington, Kent, who was pardoned; but by some oversight Master's name is included and Risby's omitted in the catalogue of praetermissi.

Richmond Ballet

In his 2011 article on American productions of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, the New York Time's Alastair Macaulay singled out the Richmond Ballet production as one of the best in the country.

Richmond–San Rafael Bridge

The Richmond–San Rafael Bridge (officially, the John F. McCarthy Memorial Bridge) is the northernmost of the east–west crossings of the San Francisco Bay in California, USA, connecting Richmond on the east to San Rafael on the west end.

Richmond, Queensland

Richmond has a public library, golf course, bowling club, swimming facilities, race course, caravan park, tourist information centre and a fossil museum named Kronosaurus Korner.

Robert Warren Stewart

After graduation he studied law in London, but the spiritual crisis of his conversion occurred at Richmond, Surrey when he was just about to become a lawyer.

Saint Gertrude High School

In 1922, Saint Edith Academy, a boarding school for girls at Bristow, Virginia was closed, and the high school department was transferred to Saint Gertrude in Richmond.

The Piper Downs

In 1994, Bognar returned home for the holidays and spent time with Knutson and Yell, who were the guitarists of Richmond band The Distractions.

Too many men

The only well-documented case where a team had its entire score annulled this way occurred in an Under 19 game between Richmond and Carlton in August 1971, and resulted from a mistaken signal by a trainer whereby a substitute entered the game before the player he was to replace had left.

WFMG

However, this may change as another pending frequency move -- WKSW Urbana into the Dayton metro -- may have further impact on the station's reception to the east of Richmond if approved.

X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes

In 1999, comics artist Alex Ross drew the character Kyle Richmond aka Nighthawk to look like Ray Milland from his portrayal in the film, for the comic book mini series Earth X.