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unusual facts about S. D. Holden


Steve Holden

S. D. Holden (Stephen Dewar Holden, 1870–1918), British engineer


Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland

Alice in Verse: The Lost Rhymes of Wonderland (2010) is a reimagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland written by British-American author J.T. Holden.

Frankie J. Holden

During the 1970s Holden was the frontman for the Australian retro-rock band Ol' 55, which also included Wilbur Wilde and Jimmy Manzie.

In 2010, Frankie and Michelle, with two other couples, purchased the Tathra Beach Family Park, a seaside holiday park in Tathra, NSW.

George W. Holden

On July 26, 1971 when fighting Bob Benoit in Boston, Massachusetts, Benoit picked up a lop-sided decision over Holden heading the live portion of the closed circuit Muhammad Ali-Jimmy Ellis fight at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

George fought his first professional boxing match against Tony Lampton on August 24, 1967 in Portland, Maine and his last match on April 13, 1972 against Jimmy McDermott, also in Portland, Maine.

John Manning, Jr.

He was elected over Joseph W. Holden on November 26, 1870 as a Democrat (then called "Conservative" in North Carolina) to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John T. Deweese.

Pat Screen

Mansour was considered to have been so successful in alleviating fiscal problems in the second Screen administration that he was brought back to the CAO position two decades later in 2005 by newly elected Democratic Mayor Melvin "Kip" Holden, for whom Monsour had not even voted.

Solar eclipse of April 16, 1893

According to Edward S. Holden, John Martin Schaeberle discovered a comet like object on the plates of the eclipse from Chili.


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