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5 unusual facts about Rutherford


Ernest April

In addition to running the human anatomy program at Columbia University, April served for many years as a Republican and Conservative councilman in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Gary Seward

Seward was born in Paddington, London, and started out playing for his secondary school in Rutherford, for whom he was captain.

Paul Ulrich Villard

One of those was deflected by a magnetic field (as were the familiar "canal rays") and could be identified with Rutherford's beta rays.

In 1903, it was Ernest Rutherford who proposed to call Villard's rays gamma rays because they were far more penetrating than the alpha rays and beta rays which he himself had already differentiated and named (in 1899) on the basis of their respective penetrating powers.

Rutherford, Tennessee

Past grand marshals of the Davy Crockett Days Parade include Fess Parker who portrayed Davy Crockett in the 1954 Walt Disney television series Ballad of Davy Crockett.


Albin Vega

A 36 year old Albin Vega sailboat, christened the St. Brendan in honor of the 6th-century Irish explorer monk, was used by Matt Rutherford of Annapolis, Maryland in his successful 314 day, 27,077 mile solo circumnavigation of North and South America which was officially completed on April 18, 2012, when Rutherford crossed the start and finish line -- the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel outside of Norfolk, Virginia .

Alexander McKelway

He married Lavinia Rutherford Smith and had five children including Alexander McKelway, the writer St. Clair McKelway and the journalist Benjamin Mosby McKelway.

Bedford County, Tennessee

The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County into two.

Chaparral Cars

Rutherford won five races that season, including the Indianapolis 500, along with the Datsun Twin 200 at Ontario Motor Speedway, the Red Roof Inn 150 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course; the Norton 200 at Michigan International Speedway, and the Tony Bettenhausen 200 at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Speedway.

Damon's Law

Damon's Law (also known as The Rutherford County Line) is a 1987 American action film that follows the events and criminal cases that Sheriff Damon Huskey encounters while working for Rutherford County, North Carolina.

Dennis Strigl

Strigl holds a degree in business administration from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York (where he now sits as Chairman of the Board of Trustees) and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Fort Edmonton Park

; Rutherford House : This was the house of Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first Premier of Alberta and a major figure in the University of Alberta's inception.

Grumpy Old Women Live

  The stars of the show are Geraldine Brophy, Pinky Agnew, and Lyndee-Jane Rutherford.

Henry Rutherford

Rutherford was also a contractor involved in building a road between Digby and Sissiboo (later Weymouth).

James Rutherford

J. Todd Rutherford, James Todd Rutherford, (born 1970), American politician; state representative for South Carolina

Jimmy Rutherford

Rutherford's goals per game ratio at Queens does however compare well against other prominent forwards to have played for Queens surpassing such as Dave Halliday, Billy Houliston, Jim Patterson, Neil Martin, Andy Thomson and Stephen Dobbie.

John Butterfield

Jock Butterfield (full name John Rutherford Butterfield), New Zealand rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 60s

John Rutherford Blair

John Rutherford Blair (1843 – 25 November 1914) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1898 to 1899.

Johnny Rutherford

Rutherford, whom has been invited to The White House on behalf of Indy on multiple occasions, is considered a popular ambassador and spokesman for the sport of Indy car racing.

Karmen

KARMEN (Karlsruhe Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino experiment), accelerator neutrino experiment

Kevin Lin

The expedition was filmed and edited into a documentary, Running the Sahara, narrated by Matt Damon and released in November 2007 with the logistics support of Sam Rutherford.

Lawless Element

Soundvision featured production from Magnif, J Dilla and Madlib and guest appearances from Dilla, Melanie Rutherford, Phat Kat, Big Tone, P.Dot, SelfSays and Diverse.

Lympne

Lympne was the setting (though not the filming location) of the 1945 David Lean's film production of Noel Coward's play Blithe Spirit, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Rutherford (filming was actually done in and around Denham, Buckinghamshire).

Massachusetts Route 99

Route 99 begins at the intersection of New Rutherford Avenue and Chelsea Street, over the northbound tunnel of U.S. Route 1 created during the Big Dig.

Melody Trail

Following her leading lady role in Melody Trail, Rutherford would go on to appear in three more Gene Autry films: The Singing Vagabond (1935), Comin' Round the Mountain (1936), and Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937).

Mike + The Mechanics

The band identity was revived in 2010 with a completely new set of musicians working with Rutherford, including new vocalists Andrew Roachford and Tim Howar.

Murder, She Said

MGM made three sequels, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul and Murder Ahoy!, all with Rutherford starring as Christie's famed amateur sleuth.

Nocturnal Projections

Nocturnal Projections were Peter Jefferies (vocals), his brother Graeme Jefferies (guitar), Brett Jones (bass), and Gordon Rutherford (drums).

Old Luce

Carscreugh Castle (of Earl of Stair in 1782) was the home of Janet Dalrymple, on whom Sir Walter Scott based his heroine Lucy, the Bride of Lammermoor, (who became Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti's opera of the same name.) Janet fell in love with and secretly betrothed to a penniless local man, Archibald Rutherford.

Puisi Tak Terkuburkan

Anne Rutherford, a senior lecturer on cinema studies at the University of Western Sydney, notes that Puisi Tak Terkuburkan was the first Indonesian movie to discuss the 1965–1966 communist purge.

Randy Heflin

Randolph Rutherford Heflin (September 11, 1918 – August 17, 1999) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1945 through 1946 for the Boston Red Sox.

Ruth Fowler Edwards

Fowler was the daughter of physicist Sir Ralph Fowler, FRS (1889–1944) and Eileen Mary Rutherford, herself the only daughter of the celebrated physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford, FRS (1871–1937, the 1908 Nobel laureate in Chemistry "for his investigations into the disintegration of elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances").

Rutherford County, North Carolina

In 2010, Rutherford County was selected as the location for a new $450 million data center for Facebook.

Rutherford model

The US minor league baseball Albuquerque Isotopes' logo is a Rutherford atom, with the electron orbits forming an A.

Rutherford University

In 2005 the Dutch foundation "Counselling Netherlands" in Heteren started a Bachelor of Arts in Multidisciplinary Counselling program for 10.000 euro over four years through Rutherford University.

Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex was written in response to John Maxwell's "Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas" and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism raised Rutherford to merited eminence as a philosophical thinker.

Rutherford Institute, a conservative civil-liberties organization named for Rutherford

Society of the Faith

Douglas moved the enterprise to Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire where a local printer, Henry Rutherford, began producing the stamps.

Solario

In his will, Rutherford left two pictures of Solario and the Coronation Cup he won to the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.

The Ikettes

Janice Singleton (Hughes) left the Ikettes to lead groups on A&M (The Secrets: lead vocals on A&M recording by Diane Rutherford-Swann) and Verve (The Unit Plus), then teamed with Ikette Maxine Smith (Green) on world tours with Leo Sayer, Martha Reeves, Boz Scaggs, and Joe Cocker, among others.

Thomas Le Clear

Thomas Le Clear (born in Owego, New York, 17 March 1818; died in Rutherford Park, New Jersey, 26 November 1882) was a painter from the United States.

UKC Radio

The station from 1966 was known as Radio Rutherford, and broadcast from the Student Newspaper offices on the lowest floor of Rutherford College.

United States Senate elections, 1876

The United States Senate election of 1876 was an election in which the Democratic Party gained three seats in the United States Senate, and which coincided with Rutherford B. Hayes narrow election as President.

Waimea College

Students of Waimea College are split into four houses named after four famous New Zealanders; they are Rutherford (Green), named after Ernest Rutherford; Sheppard (Blue), named after Kate Sheppard; Hillary (Yellow), named after Edmund Hillary; and Cooper (Red), named after Whina Cooper.

William Gunion Rutherford

In the year 1900, Rutherford produced an English translation of some parts of the Bible, called "Five Pauline Epistles - A New Translation." This work was a translation of the books of Romans, first and second Thessalonians, and first and second Corinthians, with a brief analysis.

William Puffer

However, he did not join Rutherford in supporting a 1913 Conservative motion of non-confidence against the government, which decried Sifton's handling of the A&GWR issue; instead, Puffer read a statement on behalf of several representatives saying that, while Rutherford's concerns were legitimate, it was premature to pass final judgment until the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had ruled on the legality of the government's plan.

Wolfe Perry

He then put his Stanford drama experience to work and landed the role of Rutherford on The White Shadow in 1980.


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