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unusual facts about Salisbury, Connecticut


Chris Welles

A resident of Brooklyn, Welles died at age 72 on June 19, 2010, due to complications of Alzheimer's disease, while at a nursing home in Salisbury, Connecticut.


192nd

192nd Military Police Battalion, a National Guard battalion assigned to the Connecticut Army National Guard

2009 Connecticut Huskies football team

Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season.

3rd Connecticut Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Connecticut Infantry was organized at New Haven, Connecticut and mustered in for three-months service on May 14, 1861 under the command of Colonel John L. Chatfield.

Cape Cod Expressway

Coming out of New York City, the route would have followed Interstate 95 along the modern New England Thruway until the Connecticut border, where it would meet up with what later became the Connecticut Turnpike.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Connecticut Turnpike

The turnpike was renamed after former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge on December 31, 1985, two months after the tolls were removed.

Connecticut's 4th congressional district election, 2008

Shays grew up in Darien, Connecticut, attended Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and received an MBA and MPA from New York University.

Coulibistrie

Coulibistrie is part of the Salisbury constituency in the Dominica House of Assembly, in which it is represented by Hector John (UWP) as of the 2009 general election.

Cross product

Oliver Heaviside in England and Josiah Willard Gibbs, a professor at Yale University in Connecticut, also felt that quaternion methods were too cumbersome, often requiring the scalar or vector part of a result to be extracted.

D. Putnam Brinley

In 1914 the Brinleys built a home, Datchet House, in Silvermine (New Canaan) Connecticut, designed by their friend Austin W. Lord, and spent part of each year there for the remainder of their lives.

Daniel Patrick Reilly

On June 5, 1975, Reilly was named the third Bishop of Norwich, Connecticut, by Pope Paul VI.

Dwarf wedgemussel

The Ashuelot River in New Hampshire, the Farmington River in Connecticut, and the Neversink River in New York harbor large populations, but these number in the thousands only.

Edward Swann

On May 21, 1921, Swann married in Salisbury, Chariton County, Missouri, Margaret W. Geisinger, a great-niece of Commodore David Geisinger.

Elsie Ferguson

Following her final marriage at age 51, she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.

Fenella Woolgar

Her early years were spent in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA before the family returned to the UK in 1976.

General Tom Thumb

He also owned a specially adapted home on one of Connecticut's Thimble Islands.

Hartford City, West Virginia

Salt extraction began in 1856, by capitalists from Connecticut named Morgan Buckley and William Healey, who named the town for Hartford.

Hartford Wanderers RFC

The Hartford Wanderers are sponsored by Ten Penny Ale which is made by Burnside Brewery, Red Rock Tavern, Connecticut Army National Guard, Crispin Hard Cider Company, ProEx Physical Therapy, and BSA Landscaping.

Heckington

The £2.5 million 2.8 mile-long village bypass, built by Reed & Mallik Ltd of Salisbury, was opened by Lynda Chalker on 14 December 1982, and the former route of the A17 is now the B1394, which also leads to Billingborough via Great Hale across a level crossing over the partially single-track railway near the railway station.

Herbert A. Shepard

In management consulting, Herb's clients included Bell-Northern Research, Syncrude, Esso, TRW, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Union Carbide, USAID and most of the departments of the federal governments of the U.S.A. and Canada.

Hosmer

Titus Hosmer (1736-1780), a Continental Congressman from Connecticut and father of Stephen Hosmer

Hwata dynasty

Hwata Shayachimwe established his capital at Barapata Hill on the modern Mufakose suburb in Salisbury now called Harare, capital city of Zimbabwe.

Isaiah Williams

His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.

James E. English

Sadly, in Steven Spielberg's 2012 epic Lincoln movie, both English and Augustus Brandegee, his abolitionist Republican colleague from Connecticut, are given two fictional names and are both shown, erroneously, to have voted against the amendment.

John O. Reed

(with Clive Wake) A bibliography of modern creative writing in French from Madagascar, Salisbury, 1963

Land of College Prophets

The Land of College Prophets is a 2005 independent comedy film produced by the Hale Manor Collective, a trio of Connecticut filmmakers consisting of Mike Aransky, Phil Guerrette and Thomas Edward Seymour.

Media Storm

The company is headquartered at 99 Washington Street, in the South Norwalk section of Norwalk, Connecticut and also has an office at 170 Varick Street in New York, NY.

Metacomet Trail

The northern copperhead snake, while considered rare, does inhabit portions of the Metacomet Ridge in Connecticut.

New England National Scenic Trail

Co-sponsors were the Democratic representatives Richard Neal (D-MA), John B. Larson (D-CT), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT); a companion bill was introduced by Senator John Kerry.

Noether

Gottfried E. Noether (1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut

Old Lyme, Connecticut

John McCurdy (b.1724), whose home was the resting place for George Washington on April 10, 1776 while traveling to New York City to take on the British Army and Navy (source: Papers of George Washington, Connecticut State Library); grandfather of Connecticut Supreme Court judge Charles McCurdy

Oliverian Brook

The brook passes through a flood control reservoir known as Oliverian Pond before entering the town of Haverhill, where it passes through the villages of East Haverhill and Pike before reaching the Connecticut River near Haverhill village.

Ralph Ingersoll

Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1789–1872), United States Representative from Connecticut

Roger Wolfson

Roger S. Wolfson is an American TV writer and screenwriter from New Haven, Connecticut, and is most notable for writing for the TV series Fairly Legal, Saving Grace, The Closer, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Century City.

Rosa Tavarez

Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Russian Village

Russian Village Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

Sarah Tullamore

In 2009 the English version of the show premiered at the Mill Studio, Guildford, UK with additional performances in November 2009 at the Playhouse in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Seal of Connecticut

The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Stancliffe

David Stancliffe (born 1942), Anglican bishop of Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia is a 2013 psychological horror film that serves as a brother film to The Haunting in Connecticut by Gold Circle Films.

The Pist

The Pist was an American hardcore punk band that was formed in Connecticut in the winter of 1992 by Al Ouimet on vocals and bass, Bill Chamberlain on guitar, and Greg Bennick on drums.

Thomas Ball

Thomas R. Ball (1896–1943), U.S. Representative from Connecticut

Too Young to Marry

In Connecticut, Max and Jessica are a high school couple and very much in love after meeting as freshmen.

University of Connecticut School of Engineering

University of Connecticut School of Engineering is a school of engineering located at the UConn's main campus in Storrs, Connecticut.

WDCO

WDCO-LP, a television station (channel 6) licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, which simulcasts WDCN-LP Washington, D.C.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.

William Brenton Hall

His uncle, Jonathan Law (Harvard 1695), served as Governor (1741–1750) and Chief Justice of Connecticut (1724–1741).

Wyvern College

Wyvern College, Wiltshire, a secondary school near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Zimbabwe national rugby union team

In 1924 a British side would play another match against Rhodesia, on 24 July in Salisbury, the British won 16 to 3.


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Samuel C. Damon

Before studying for the ministry, he was for a year principal of the academy at Salisbury, Connecticut, and while in the divinity school was tutor in a private family in Burlington, New Jersey.