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4 unusual facts about Ridgeway


John Aasen

When Aasen was ten years old, he and his mother moved from Ridgeway, Iowa (where his uncle Sam/Sevre lived with his wife Cornelia) to Sheyenne, North Dakota with his two younger siblings.

Ridgeway, Ontario

According to the 2001 census, the population was 28,143, broken down as follows: 92.8% White, 3.2% Aboriginal, 1.4% Chinese, 0.9% Black, and a very small percentage of Asian, Arab, and Hispanic populations.

It is notable for being the location of the 1866 Battle of Ridgeway, resulting from a raid by the Irish-American Fenian Brotherhood near the intersection of Ridge and Garrison Roads on June 2, 1866.

Ridgeway, Virginia

Approximately three miles south of Ridgeway in Henry County on U.S. Route 220 is a Virginia State historic marker noting the passing of the surveying party of William Byrd II, who moved through the area in 1728 on his expedition to survey the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina.


1975 Sugar Bowl

After Penn State's Chris Bahr missed a 62-yard field goal, Alabama scored on a 25-yard Danny Ridgeway field goal to take a 3–0 lead.

Brixton Artists Collective

Well known names who exhibited often very early in their careers include Mona Hartoum, Zarina Bhimji, Sutapa Biswas, Hamad Butt, Sokari Douglas Camp, Cathy de Monchaux, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sunil Gupta, Ulle Holm, Ridgeway Bennett, Jamie Reid, Tina Keane, Sandra Lahire, Peter Kennard, Silvia Ziranek, Rasheed Araeen, Gavin Jantjes, Mary Kelly, Peter Kalkhof and David Medalla.

Cadia-Ridgeway Mine

The Ridgeway Deeps mine site contains a large number of autonomous systems including Sandvik Automine for automating the underground loaders and Transmin Rocklogic for automating the rockbreakers.

Church of St. Mary, Fetcham

It is set off the residential road of its address, The Ridgeway, behind a small park, in the suburban part of the largely 20th century railway settlement adjoining the M25 London Orbital Motorway which has retained farmed rural outskirts.

Cuffley

This incident is commemorated by a memorial on East Ridgeway to Lieutenant W. Leefe Robinson, the pilot who shot the airship down; he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Disc barrow

The Upwey disc barrow at map reference SY 663866 located on the Ridgeway above the district of Upwey, Weymouth, Dorset; is a very fine and large example of this type of barrow.

Isle of Man Courier

The paper dropped the "Ramsey" part of its title and moved to Ridgeway Street, Douglas, in the 1970s.

James Ridgeway

Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him (Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair).

Host Amy Goodman interviews current and former staff James Ridgeway, Nat Hentoff, Tom Robbins, Sydney Schanberg and two reporters Mark Jacobson and Tim Redmond.

Lindsay Ridgeway

Ridgeway was the singing voice of "Darla Dimple", the villain in the 1997 animated film Cats Don't Dance.

Luann Ridgeway

Ridgeway attended William Woods University and Westminster College, Missouri where she received a BA degree with Magna Cum Laude honors with a double major in political science and history.

Ridgeway Benefice

The Ridgeway Benefice consists of the Wiltshire parishes of Holy Cross Chiseldon with Draycot Foliat, Ogbourne St Andrew, which also serves the hamlets of Ogbourne Maizey and Rockley, Ogbourne St George.

Ridgeway Clocks

A Ridgeway Grandfather Clock is presented to the winners of NASCAR Sprint Cup races at the Martinsville Speedway.

Ridgeway Site

In that year, the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad began constructing a rail line between Mount Victory and Ridgeway.

Sarn, Powys

The historic parish church is Holy Trinity, part of the Ridgeway Benefice, in the Clun Forest deanery of the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford.

Segsbury Camp

Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

Temsula Ao

She matriculated from Ridgeway Girls' High School, Golaghat, Assam.


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