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unusual facts about Sandwich, New Hampshire


Andrew McFarland

He practised at Sandwich and Laconia, New Hampshire, and was appointed superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane in August 1845.


1852 in sports

3 August — The first Harvard-Yale Regatta is a 2-length win for Harvard in a single eight-oar, two-mile race on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

493d Bombardment Group

Aircrews left McCook in early May and flew the northern transport route to the U.K.; via New Hampshire, Labrador, thence to Debach by way of Iceland and Wales, or by way of Northern Ireland.

Calvin Warburton

Entering politics at the age of 66, Warburton ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in 1976.

Captain Stone House

A native of New Hampshire who served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, Stone moved to Cincinnati after the war and became a leading businessman.

Charlie Carver

He attended High School at St. Paul’s Boarding School in Concord, New Hampshire, but left to attend Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan, in his sophomore year.

Commodore Nutt

: Not to be confused with United States Representative from New Hampshire, George W. Morrison (October 16, 1809 – December 21, 1888)

Congresbury

In 2013, in the village precinct on Brinsea Street there is a Costcutter general store, baker and sandwich shop, butcher, post office, fish and chip shop, farmers' general store and nearby, two small, car dealerships.

Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon

On 10 January 1972, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created additionally a life peer with the title Baron Salmon, of Sandwich in the County of Kent.

Dagwood sandwich

In May 1999, a counter-service restaurant named Blondie's opened at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure, serving a traditional Dagwood-style sandwich.

Daniel Innis

Innis is a Republican candidate in the 2014 election for the United States House of Representatives in New Hampshire for the 1st congressional district.

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

East Kent College

East Kent College has close links with local companies such as Kent International Airport, Pfizer in Sandwich, P&O Ferries and Thorley Taverns (pubs, hotels and hospitality).

Exeter incident

The Exeter incident was a highly publicized UFO sighting that occurred on September 3, 1965 approximately 5 miles from Exeter, New Hampshire, in the neighboring community of Kensington.

Fraser Papers

Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

George Warrender

Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet (1782–1849), Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs, Truro, Sandwich, Westbury and Honiton

Guaranteed Kill

Guaranteed Kill is the first album from the New Hampshire group Scissorfight.

James M. Warner

He graduated from Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire in 1854, and attended Middlebury College for two years, until he was accepted as a cadet in the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1855.

Jerry's

Jerry's Subs & Pizza, a fast casual sandwich and pizza restaurant chain in the Washington, D.C. area

Jim Forsythe

Jim Forsythe (born October 1, 1968) is a former Republican member of the New Hampshire Senate, having represented the 4th District from 2010 to 2012.

John Paul Jackson

In the summer of 2001, Jackson moved his headquarters to the Lake Sunapee region of New Hampshire.

John William Gregg

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute

The institute conducts projects and partnerships with the National Weather Center, the University of New Hampshire, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mount Washington Observatory, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and many other agencies.

Kelly Sweet

Remixes for Sweet's song We Are One were done by Dave Audé, Radioactive Sandwich, Matt Piso, and Electronathon.

Little Ten Conference

Founded in 1919, it was originally comprised the following small high schools in northern Illinois: Earlville, Hinckley, Leland, Paw Paw, Plano, Rollo, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk, and Waterman.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Metrication in Chile

In the film Pulp Fiction it is true that because of the metric system in France, this sandwich was called Royale with cheese.

Michael Slive

Early in his life, he practiced law in New Hampshire, serving as judge of the Hanover District Court from 1972 to 1977, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm.

Montagu Bacon

He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1704-5, but seems to have taken no degree until the year 1734, when he proceeded M.A. per literas regias, in which he is styled 'Edvardi primi comitis de Sandwich ex filiâ nepos.'

New England Interstate Route 10

New England Route 10 was a multi-state north–south state highway in the New England region of the United States, running through Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars

O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars, also known as O'Briens, is an Irish franchise sandwich bar chain founded in Ireland in 1988 by Brody Sweeney.

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Penacook, New Hampshire

Most of Penacook is located in the Merrimack Valley School District, though part is in the Concord School District.

PhyloXML

A shortcoming of current formats for describing phylogenetic trees (such as Nexus and Newick/New Hampshire) is a lack of a standardized means to annotate tree nodes and branches with distinct data fields (which in the case of a basic species tree might be: species names, branch lengths, and possibly multiple support values).

Port Perry

Port Perry has attracted many film crews over the years, both for feature film and television; it doubled as the Maine town of Mooseport in the 2004 film Welcome to Mooseport and was used briefly as a small town in New Hampshire during the sixth season of The West Wing.

Ramón Barros Luco

His name has become famous, not for his time as president, but rather due to the fact that he used to eat a particular sandwich often, which became known as a Barros Luco.

Rashad McCants

McCants began his high school career at Erwin High School in Asheville, but finished at New Hampton School in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Robert Dampier

The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu to the Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both died from measles during a visit to England.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Stacey Bentley

In her high school days she was a diver and later continued her education at Franconia College in New Hampshire.

Thomas Gustave Plant

Plant used his fortune to build Lucknow, an estate on a mountain overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee in Moultonborough, New Hampshire, where he lived with his second wife.

Thomas Wiggin

This document, which some historians have claimed is a forgery, purports to transfer land along the seacoast of present-day New Hampshire from the local Indians to a group of English colonists led by Reverend John Wheelwright.

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, New Hampshire

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase was sold by Commissioner Willey to Samuel W. Thompson of Conway and George P. Meserve of Jackson, New Hampshire in 1855 for $500 USD.

Tony Bellinger

Tony Bellinger is the head coach for the Bishop Guertin High School (New Hampshire) boys varsity team, a position he has held for over 15 seasons.

U.S. Army Birthdays

Delegate John Sullivan of New Hampshire, a 35-yearold lawyer, became the seventh brigadier general instead of Nathaniel Folsom.

United States Customs District of Salem and Beverly

He was a governor of the Arkansas Territory before being elected to Congress in 1824 for New Hampshire.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

Webster County, Georgia

The County is named for Daniel Webster, U.S. representative of New Hampshire and U.S. representative and U.S. senator of Massachusetts.

Willem Baudartius

Born to Protestant parents in Flanders and a fervent counter-remonstrant, Baudartius left the Netherlands on the arrival of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo and landed in England at Sandwich.

Wulfnoth Cild

In 1008, King Æthelred the Unready ordered the construction of a fleet, and the following year 300 ships assembled at Sandwich in Kent to meet a threatened Viking invasion.


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