X-Nico

unusual facts about SOS Children's Villages – USA


SOS Children's Villages – USA

SOS Children's Villages – USA offers free E-cards that anyone may use as a way of introducing the work of SOS, or as a way of sending a birthday card, thank you card, all occasion card or special holiday card such as Mother's Day or Diwali.


Acinonyx kurteni

The fossil skull was discovered in 2008 and described in 2009 by Per Christiansen, from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, and Ji H. Mazák, of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.

Adrian McPherson

McPherson was represented at trial by Grady C. Irvin, who earned fame representing former National Baptist Convention President Henry Lyons on embezzlement charges in the late 1990s, and Charles "Chuck" Hobbs, who later garnered national attention while representing several Florida A&M University students in the "Kappa Hazing" trial televised on CourtTV in 2006.

Age of Steam Roundhouse

It was one of three of this type of locomotive that was operational at Steamtown, USA when it was in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

American Cinema Editors Awards 2006

The 56th ACE Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors were given on 18 February 2007 in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Brooks-Scanlon Corporation 1

It was moved to Walpole, New Hampshire and then, across the Connecticut River, to Bellows Falls, Vermont and displayed at Steamtown, USA, where it stayed until the Blount collection was relocated to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Bryan Sterling

He scripted and co-produced "Will Rogers' USA," a one-man Broadway play about Rogers starring actor James Whitmore, created a daily syndicated newspaper column that featured timely quotations from Rogers' writings, and authored several definitive biographies of Rogers' life including a detailed examination of his death in the Point Barrow, Alaska, crash of an airplane piloted by famed aviator Wiley Post.

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246 was one of three 1200-series Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives in the Steamtown, USA collection.

Casae Calanae

The see's current bishop is Richard Higgins, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Craig Forrest

Forrest is now the Canadian FIFA Ambassador for SOS Children's Villages, joining over 80 international stars who are official ambassadors.

DC Comics Super Hero Adventures

DC Comics Super Hero Adventures is a themed area found at Six Flags New Orleans, in the Eastern New Orleans area of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen

Parts of the proceeds of the film's merchandising are earmarked for SOS Children's Villages.

Dhodial

Dr. Mohammad Irfan took the custody of the hospital as medical superintendent and consultant psychiatrist and other government plans which included the SOS Children's Villages and National Pheasantry.

Don Lennon

The subject matter dealt primarily with stand-up comedy and the construction of a comedian's routine, but also focused on Monster.com, John Ritter and trust funds.

Elaterite

Strawberry, Utah, USA: Flows from the ground in a soft elastic form, also exists in the brittle form from various veins in the canyon walls.

Erick Erickson

On March 16, 2010, CNN announced the hiring of Erickson as a political contributor to John King, USA.

Florence Reece

Reece appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, Harlan County, USA, singing her anthem to rally the striking miners.

Harlan County

Harlan County, USA, a documentary film about mineworkers in the Kentucky county and their fight to organize a trade union

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

Hazel Dickens

She appeared in the documentary Harlan County, USA and also contributed four songs to the soundtrack of the same film.

Henry Archacki

The three largest collections are within the Polish American Museum located in Port Washington, New York, USA at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and also at the University of Minnesota in the Immigration History Research Center.

Jai Prakash Menon

Jai Menon started his career at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Labs, USA and became an IBM executive Director in IBM’s Software Group, heading worldwide research-to-market business for rich media.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

Kateřina Neumannová

On July 31, 1996 she became the first Czech female athlete to compete on both Winter and Summer Olympics when starting in the mountain bike race at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, USA.

Kenneth Yablonski

Kenneth Yablonski appears in documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple's film, Harlan County, USA, which won the 1976 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Louis Winslow Austin

As a child, he lived with his parents at Manchester, Bennington Co., Vermont, USA 1868-1872 and Meriden, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire, USA 1872-1880.

Martina Moravcová

She is one of Slovakia's greatest female athletes, although she has lived in Dallas, TX, USA since she started attending Southern Methodist University in the mid-1990s.

Mass line

The largest self-proclaimed Maoist party in the USA, Revolutionary Communist Party has adopted the concept of "mass line" during the 1970s.

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

In a controversial statement, he spoke in favor of the boxer Mike Tyson, who had been convicted of rape.

Paropeas achatinaceum

Although it has not been reported from anywhere else in the Neotropics, it was recently (December 2002) intercepted during preclearance of a shipment of Eryngium from Puerto Rico to Georgia, USA.

Paul Buchanan

After a nearly year-and-a-half layoff, he is scheduled to box in The Contender Challenge: UK vs. USA, facing Jerson Ravelo.

Peter Beighton

In 1966 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London and held a Fulbright research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr. Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.

Prison Town, USA

Prison Town, USA is a 2007 documentary film about Susanville, California, a small, rural town that tries to resuscitate its economy by building a prison.

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Historically, one of the group's most notable actions was raising the Red Flag over the Alamo Mission in San Antonio on March 20, 1980.

Notable was Avakian's organizing work at a Chevron plant in the Bay Area as an organizing model to link the insurgent student movements with working people in struggle.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Social Democrats, USA

SDUSA members stated concerns about an exaggerated role of "middle-class" peace activists in the Democratic Party, particularly associated with the "New Politics" of Senator George McGovern, whose Presidential candidacy was viewed as an ongoing disaster for the Democratic Party and for the USA.

SOS Hermann Gmeiner College

SOS Hermann Gmeiner College Dhaka is an education project of SOS Children's Villages, which is active in 132 countries and territories worldwide.

The Farm: Angola, USA

It was produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus and directed by Stack, Garbus, and Wilbert Rideau.

Thermophile

The 2011 edition was held in Big Sky, Montana, USA, and hosted by Bozeman Campus, Montana State University.

Timothy Broglio

Pope Benedict XVI later named Broglio head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA on November 19, 2007.

Toward Soviet America

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z. Foster, in 1932.

Transnational Law and Business University

Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU) is a post-graduate university located in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (20 km from Seoul), with a branch in Orry-la-Ville near Paris and a branch in construction in Maryland, USA.

United World College of Costa Rica

Given its historic connection with SOS Children's Villages, UWC Costa Rica aims to ensure that students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds are admitted to the school each year.

Vincent's theorem

Thesis "Vincent's Theorem in Algebraic Manipulation", North Carolina State University, USA, 1978.

Wisconsin International Raceway

The Wisconsin International Raceway (WIR) is a stockcar racing oval and dragstrip in the Town of Buchanan, in Outagamie County, just outside Kaukauna, Wisconsin, USA.

Workers Party, USA

Workers Party of America, 1921–1929 (known as "Workers (Communist) Party of America" from mid-1925)


see also