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65 unusual facts about Salem


102nd Field Artillery Regiment

The 102nd Field Artillery Regiment was organized in July 1786 in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia at Salem, Massachusetts as the Cadet Company and re-designated as the Second Corps of Cadets.

2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl

It was later revealed that Whitaker had been admitted to an alcohol treatment center in Salem, Virginia.

Adam Flores

In April 2000, Flores took out the undefeated Gregory Dial by first-round K.O. The bout was held in Salem, Oregon.

Alpheus Michael Bowman

A member of the Southern Lutheran Church, he was an elder in the College Church in Salem, Virginia.

Arlington P. Van Dyke

He died on February 28, 1990, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, en route to New York, following a vacation in Florida with his wife.

Art Brut

The album was recorded in Salem, Oregon, and is the second to be produced by Frank Black.

Asa Fitch

Dr. Asa Fitch (February 24, 1809 – April 8, 1879) was a natural historian and entomologist from Salem, New York.

Bethel, Oregon

Bethel Elementary School, in the Salem-Keizer School District, named after the Bethel Church, built in that locale by the Dunkard Brethren

Bubba Blackwell

Bubba planned to attempt to beat the XR-750 record again on June 12, 2010 by jumping 22 Ford Focus cars at the Rockingham Park in Salem, New Hampshire.

Centre Wellington, Ontario

The township also contains the smaller communities of Aboyne, Alma, Belwood, Dracon, Ennotville, Inverhaugh, Living Springs, Oustic, Pentland Corners, Salem, Shiloh, Simpson Corners, Speedside and Spier, and the ghost town of Ponsonby.

Charles Lenox Remond

Remond was born in Salem, Massachusetts to John Remond, a free man of color from the island of Curaçao, who was a hairdresser, and Nancy Lenox, daughter of a prominent Bostonian, a hairdresser and caterer.

Charles Owsley

The majority of Owsley's work was in the Mahoning Valley area of Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, and several of his significant buildings remain in Youngstown, Ohio, Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Salem, Ohio.

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes.

An investigation revealed that his father had not been a Blackfoot chief, but a school janitor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Children's Museum of Winston-Salem

Build It An exhibit which features foam Lincoln Logs, Magnetic tiles, Lego, and a build your own parachuter, which involves making a parachuter (by attaching a parachute to a wooden man) and using a pulley to pull it up and when it reaches the top it will fall off and float down.

Krispy Kreme Doughnut Factory is an exhibit on the second floor which allows kids to pretend to work at a doughnut factory with plastic doughnuts.

Coimbatore-Salem MEMU

The Coimbatore-Salem MEMU is a train which from Coimbatore to Salem in Tamil Nadu state in India.

Darren Schwartz

After seven seasons in the ECHL, Schwartz returned to the Winston-Salem area, joining the Winston-Salem IceHawks of the United Hockey League.

Double-arch Sandstone Bridge

It was used to handle traffic between Methuen and Salem, New Hampshire.

Ephraim Porter Felt

Ephraim Porter Felt (7 January 1868 Salem - 14 December 1943) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera

Étienne-Louis Charbonnaux

This was something he had already begun in 1859, at conferences of Salem.

Fighting McCooks

Robert Latimer McCook (1827–1862), Brigadier General, killed by one of John Hunt Morgan's cavalrymen near Salem, Alabama, as he laid in an ambulance after a previous injury.

Franklin Harris Farmstead

The Franklin Harris Farmstead is located near Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio.

George Papageorgiou

Before taking the head coach position at Bethel he was an assistant for the Willamette Bearcats in Salem, Oregon.

Gideon Barstow

He studied medicine, was admitted to practice and settled in Salem, Massachusetts.

Greg Habeeb

Habeeb, a conservative Republican, is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 8th District, which includes the City of Salem, Craig County, and parts of Roanoke and Montgomery Counties.

Gustavo Envela-Makongo, Sr.

With escalating political unrest Envela, Sr. and his family fled into exile in the United States and settled in Salem, Oregon.

Harry Hartz

Hartz was badly burned and injured in a crash in 1927 at the Rockingham Speedway in Salem, New Hampshire, requiring him to spend the next two years in hospitals.

House of Fears

In Salem, Oregon, America a security guard, Hamadi (Kelvin Clayton) arrives at 'The House of Fears' with his guard dog.

James William Greig

Greig married Jeannie Taylor, daughter of Captain Edward Brown from Salem, Massachusetts.

Jasper Alston Atkins

Jasper Alston Atkins was born August 8, 1898, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Dr. Simon Green Atkins and Mrs. Oleona Pegram Atkins.

Joseph F. Quinn

He lived in Salem and was the son of an immigrant from the days of the potato famine.

Joseph K. Gill

A native of England, he came to the United States with his parents and settled in Oregon where he managed a bookstore in Salem.

Josiah Forster

In 1842-3 a schism developed in the Society of Friends in Salem in Iowa.

Kelley Wirth

Wirth, a Democrat, was one of two Oregon lawmakers to resign during the 73rd Oregon Legislative Assembly due to a personal scandal, with the other being Dan Doyle (RSalem).

Kurt Hahn

Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn (5 June 1886, Berlin – 14 December 1974, Salem) was a German educator whose philosophies are considered internationally influential.

Lady Antebellum

Kelley moved to Nashville in mid-2005 from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he had been working construction with his brother John.

Lori Lewis

Lori Lewis is an American opera singer currently residing in Salem, Oregon graduate in the University of Kansas, she is a vocalist and official member of the band Therion.

Louann Donovan

As of 2007, Donovan works as a skating director at the Icenter in Salem, New Hampshire.

Lyndon Lawless

In the early spring of 2007, Lawless took on a temporary position teaching at Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon.

Mabel Hampton

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 2, 1902, Hampton was only two months old when her mother died.

Madras State Legislative Assembly election, 1962

It won three city elections of the five largest cities, Madras, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli, Salem and Coimbatore in Madras state in alliance with the Communist Party of India in 1959 capitalising on its powerful urban base.

MAMADOU

They are based in Salem, Massachusetts, and the accompanying musicians are mostly American artists.

Marshall's Iora

Walter Koelz collected two adult specimens of the species at Salem and the distribution range of the species is believed to overlap significantly with that of A. tiphia.

Meltheru and Keeltheru Mosques

The Meltheru and Keeltheru Mosques are located in Kottai (Fort), a famous locality in Salem, India which was ruled by Hyderali and Tipu sultans in earlier centuries.

Mercedes Rose

Mercedes Rose is an American actress who was born in Salem, Oregon on March 22, 1972.

Mitchell F. Jayne

Jayne also hosted a radio show in Salem, Missouri at KMOS that attracted national attention for its satire, including the Snake and Tick Market Report, a regular feature that reported market prices for Hoo-Boy White Dot Crushproof Dry Valley Wonder Ticks and black, copperhead, coachwhip, garter and rattle snakes.

Orville C. Pratt

He wrote the lone dissenting opinion in the controversy over the Oregon Territory’s capital between Oregon City and Salem.

Paul Joseph Stankard

He graduated from Salem Vocational Technical Institute (now Salem Community College) in Salem, New Jersey with a degree in Scientific Glassblowing.

Ponvayal

Kalki wrote a serial in his own weekly magazine Kalki, titled Poimaan Karadu about a vast stretch of dry land in Salem District where a hillock resembled a deer at rest, and hence the name of the place.

R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium

The Auditorium is now operated jointly by the Administration of the Richard J. Reynolds High School and the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.

SALEM-Immanuel Lutheran College

The cross at the top represents the school's Christianity background; the grid (fish net) and the pearl at the centre symbolizes Tai Po at its early stages; the source of book, with pages printed Greek alphabets Alpha and Omega, can be derived from an Biblical scripture: "I (the God) am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end." (Upper part of Revelation of John, 21:6), and also indicated the thought of Christian education.

Salem-Keizer School District

Currently, the district has just over 17% of its students receiving English Language Learner services, 13% receiving Special Education, 10% in the Talented and Gifted Program, and 52% in the Free and Reduced Meal Program - meaning a high percentage of students are living in poverty.

Salem, Adams County, Indiana

Salem is an unincorporated hamlet in Adams County, Indiana, approximately 4 miles west-southwest of Willshire, Ohio, on Salem Rd. approximately 3 miles west of the Indiana-Ohio state line, at latitude 40.717 and longitude -84.853.

Salem, Baden-Württemberg

Currently the grounds are home to the middle school campus of the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem, founded in 1920 by Kurt Hahn and Prince Max of Baden.

Salem, Connecticut

Hiram Bingham III, from Salem, was an adventurer, U.S. senator, and explorer who rediscovered Machu Picchu in Peru in 1911.

Salem's Seven

The next Halloween, Wanda attempted to commune with Agatha Harkness's spirit, but was drawn through into the land of the dead, where she was confronted with spirits of the Seven (except Gazelle) who had aligned themselves with a being that called itself Samhain.

Subramanian Arun Prasad

Subramanian Arun Prasad (born 21 April 1988 in Salem) is an Indian Chess Grandmaster.

Tea production in the United States

Minto Island Growers near Salem, Oregon has begun to market small quantities of their own tea.

They Only Come Out at Night

Writer Stephen King mentioned the name of this album on his novel 'Salem's Lot.

University Unitarian Church

Unitarianism was brought to United States by the pilgrims and the puritans, with its origins found in the individualism and rational temper of those who settled Boston, Salem, and Plymouth.

W29CI-D

W29CI-D is a low-power religious television station in Salem, Illinois, broadcasting locally on channel 29 as an affiliate of 3ABN.

William Smaldone

William "Bill" Smaldone (born 1958) is a Professor of European history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.

Witch School

Witch School is a Wiccan school offering both online courses as well as on their two campus in Chicago, Illinois and Salem, Massachusetts.

Xcon

XCON first went into use in 1980 in DEC's plant in Salem, New Hampshire.


36th parallel north

Cities and landmarks close to the parallel include Kettleman City, California; Henderson, Nevada; Hoover Dam; South Rim of the Grand Canyon; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nashville, Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; High Point, North Carolina; Greensboro, North Carolina; Durham, North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and others.

ABC45

WXLV-TV, a television station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Abu Salem

When Salem was in Lisbon fighting India's extradition attempt, the only proof that he was indeed Salem was provided by the fingerprint and photographs taken after his arrest by A A Khan.

Alvin Crowder

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Crowder served almost three years in the army in World War I, including assignments in the Philippines and 11 months with the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia.

Called to Arms

The group recorded and mastered their 3rd and most recent album Peril and the Patient with Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, Glass Casket, Beloved) at the Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Crowninshield-Bentley House

It has been suggested that this house may be the model for "the old Crowninshield house" mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft story "The Thing on the Doorstep" (his Arkham was clearly modeled on Salem).

Culture of North Carolina

There are also a number of private colleges, for example Duke University in Durham and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem

East Portland, Oregon

The value of East Portland waterfront property skyrocketed in 1869, when the East-Side Oregon Central Railroad connecting East Portland and Salem was completed.

Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh

He has participated in major exhibitions all over the world and his works are displayed in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, USA.

Illinois Route 123

New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123.

Jeffrey Rayport

In addition, he is a trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; a director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust in Nantucket, MA; and a director of From the Top (a classical music program distributed in the United States by National Public Radio) in Boston, MA.

Jennifer Ferrin

Upon her graduation from high school, Ferrin attended the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina and the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama.

Jim Ferree

Ferree was born in Pinebluff, North Carolina, and grew up in Winston-Salem, where he attended Reynolds High School.

John Youngs

The family resided in Salem until October 1640, when they crossed Long Island Sound, coming ashore at what is now Founder's Landing at Peconic Bay.

Kim Driscoll

With Kim Driscoll as Mayor, the Salem Waterfront, Salem Harbor and the entire Salem Maritime National Historic Site have seen a 180 degree turnaround from other administrations.

Lawrence Joel

In memory of Lawrence Joel and all Forsyth County veterans, the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen (now City Council) in February 1986 decided to name the city's new coliseum the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Mount Pleasant Community School District

The Mount Pleasant Community School District is the public school system serving the city of Mount Pleasant, Iowa and the surrounding area, primarily Salem, Westwood, Rome, Swedesburg, and rural students.

R. J. Reynolds Memorial Auditorium

In 1919, after the death of her husband R. J. Reynolds in 1918, Mrs. Katharine Smith Reynolds donated a large tract of land then known as "Silver Hill" to the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Rebecca Nurse

She was portrayed by actress Shirley MacLaine in the 2002 CBS miniseries "Salem Witch Trials".

Reedy Island

It is located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) east of Port Penn, Delaware and 5 mi (8 km) southwest of Salem, New Jersey.

Royal River

The river is mentioned in several of Maine-native Stephen King's novels, including The Body, when the boys cross the Royal River, only to be attacked by leeches, as well as 'Salem's Lot.

S. P. Narasimhalu Naidu

Salem Pagadala Narasimhalu Naidu (or Pagadala Narasimhalu Nayadu) (12 April 1854 - 22 January 1922) was a Tamil Congressman, social worker, publisher and the first person to have written travelogues in Tamil.

Salem al-Hazmi

On August 27, brothers Nawaf and Salem purchased flight tickets through Travelocity.

Salem College Center for Women Writers

The Salem College Center for Women Writers is a program based at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that awards annual prizes in literature.

Salem Highballers

Aside from local performances and their "Salem Highballers" sides, The McCray family's biggest claims to fame were their radio programs, performed live on Roanoke's WDBJ between 1925 and 1930.

Samuel McIntire

The chair was one of a set of eight chairs originally purchased by Elias Hasket Derby, Salem's wealthiest merchant and thought to be America's first millionaire, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield.

Sempringham

Samuel Skelton, curate of Sempringham, sailed to Massachusetts Bay in 1628 with the first group of Puritan settlers, who landed in Salem.

Shirley Wilson

Prior to coaching at Elon, he coached football at Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party

South Arcot and Salem vanniars under Padayachi's leadership formed Tamil Nadu Toilers party whereas vanniars from North Arcot and Chengalpattu under Naicker formed Commonweal Party.

The Missouri Harmony

On a visit home in 1914, poet Edgar Lee Masters heard the same tune played by a local fiddler whose father had been a close friend of Lincoln’s in his New Salem days.

The Santaroga Barrier

Wolfe, G.K. "Santaroga Barrier, The – Frank Herbert", in Magill, Frank Northern (editor) (1979) Survey of Science Fiction Literature Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp.

United States Customs District of Salem and Beverly

Nathaniel Hawthorne worked in the Custom House as surveyor for Salem from 1846–1849, and the introduction to his famous novel The Scarlet Letter is set there.

Wake Forest

Wake Forest University, a university founded in the above town and now located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex

BB&T Ballpark is also part of the complex and is located in downtown at the intersection of Business 40 and North Carolina Highway 150.