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8 unusual facts about Savage


Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge

The Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge at Savage, Maryland is the sole surviving example of a revolutionary design in the history of American bridge engineering.

Capital Subdivision

Notable structural features on the original line include the Thomas Viaduct, the first multi-span masonry railroad bridge in the United States, and the largest bridge in the country when it was completed in 1835; and the earliest example of an iron truss bridge designed by Wendel Bollman and installed at Savage.

Dorsey, Maryland

Dorsey, Maryland, is a unincorporated community in eastern Howard County, Maryland, south of Elkridge, north of Savage, and close to the Anne Arundel County border and Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI).

Kings Contrivance, Columbia, Maryland

There are many scenic and recreational parks in and around Kings Contrivance, including Gorman Park, Huntington Neighborhood Park, and Savage Park, all of which are maintained by Howard County Recreation and Parks and the Columbia Association.

Laurel Mill

In 1834 Horace Capron, a businessman who had operated several mills, including Savage Mill in Savage, Maryland, married Nicholas Snowden's daughter Louisa Snowden.

Savage, Maryland

Singer/songwriter Benny Mardones — who holds an unusual place in United States recording history as a "one-hit wonder" who actually hit the Top 20 twice, in 1980 and 1989, with the same recording of the same song, "Into the Night" — was raised in Savage but was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Stephen Warfield Gambrill

Born near Savage, Maryland, to Stephen Gambrill and Kate (Gorman) Gambrill, he attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park.

Wendel Bollman

Only one of his patented "Bollman truss" bridges survives, the Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge in Savage, Maryland.


A. N. Sattampillai

He cited the works of John Parker, William Howitt, Robert Southey, and Abbe Dubois that spoke of the savage nature of Saxons, their extravagant indulgence, drunken behaviour, polygamous marriage practices, and the rampant prostitution in western capitals.

AC Comics

AC Comics was founded as Paragon Publications in 1969, though its first recorded titles — Paragon Presents and White Savage — weren't released until 1970.

Baladine Klossowska

During this time, Rilke had written in what he called "a savage creative storm" his two most important collections of poetry, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, both published in 1923.

Bas Savage

On 9 July 2008 Savage, along with ex-Brighton teammate George O'Callaghan, joined Tranmere Rovers on a two-year contract.

Ben Savage

Savage's stage debut was in The Laughter Epidemic at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Bhowani Junction

It starred Ava Gardner as Victoria Jones, an Anglo-Indian who has been serving with the British armed forces, and Stewart Granger as Colonel Rodney Savage, a (British) Indian Army officer.

Bradysaurus

Barry Cox, R.J.G.Savage, Brian Gardiner, Dougal Dixon, 1988 Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals

Bram van Velde

In 1973, he painted at La Chapelle-sur-Carouge several large gouaches which are seen as the last "savage" appearance of colour in his work.

Bully Hayes

The adventures of "Bully" were the subject of the 1983 pirate adventure film Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands, which starred Tommy Lee Jones as Hayes.

Chickahominy River

At Savage's Station, east of Fair Oaks, they had a large hospital and many military stores.

Complete Savages

Vincent Ventresca as Jimmy Savage – Nick's brother who works as a firefighter along with Nick.

Danko Jones discography

Ritual of the Savage 10" (split with Gluecifer & Peter Pan Speedrock) (2003) (Drunken Maria / Suburban)

Edwin Sidney Savage

Savage was rector of Hexham Abbey from 1898 to 1919, during which time he rebuilt much of the abbey.

Ezra P. Savage

Savage was born in Connersville, Indiana, but his parents moved to Iowa shortly after his birth.

Fiona Kelleghan

Her critical anthology The Savage Humanists (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008) begins with a 17,000-word essay by her describing the movement and its practitioners, and collects stories by Gregory Frost, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Jonathan Lethem, James Morrow, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Tim Sullivan, and Connie Willis, with introductions to each by Kelleghan.

George Augustus Robinson

Robert Drewes' 'Savage Crows' also incorporates the work of Robinson into the plot.

Gerardo Sandoval

Sandoval introduced a resolution "condemning the defamatory language used by talk radio host Michael Savage" after Savage criticized illegal alien protesters who were fasting in support of the controversial DREAM Act, which would give qualifying illegal aliens a path to US citizenship as well as enable them to receive tax payer funded in-state college tuition.

Graham Perkin

Away from his desk, he supported the Melbourne Football Club, and belonged to the Savage, Victoria Golf and Melbourne Cricket clubs.

Harold Goodwin

Harold L. Goodwin (1914–1990), American author of popular science, adventure and science fiction books mostly for young people (Rip Foster series, under pen name Blake Savage, and Rick Brant series, between 1947 and 1968, as John Blaine)

Insurrection Rising

Insurrection Rising is Savage Messiah's second album and was released on Candlelight Records on 19 October 2009.

Keith Savage

Savage attended Gulf Breeze High School in Gulf Breeze, Florida, played club soccer for Pensacola Revolution, and played college soccer at the University of West Florida, where he was GSC Freshman of the Year in 2003.

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Other episodes that were later expanded into theatrical films (initially for European release) included "Once Upon a Savage Night" (released as Nightmare In Chicago) and "In Darkness, Waiting" (Strategy of Terror).

Levi Savage Jr.

Levi Savage Jr. is the principal character (played by actor Jasen Wade) in the T. C. Christensen film 17 Miracles released in June 2011 by Excel Entertainment Group.

Lucan Bridge

Designed by George Knowles, (architect of Dublin's Fr. Mathew and O'Donovan Rossa Bridges), it was built in 1814 in collaboration with James Savage to replace several previous bridges which were carried away by floods.

Michele Carey

That same year she also made Five Savage Men with Henry Silva and Keenan Wynn.

Mount Savage Locomotive Works

James Millholland, Senior was 54 years old when he and his family came to Mt. Savage from Reading, Pennsylvania.

Mount Savage, Maryland

A small blue-collar community, Mount Savage lies at the base of Big Savage Mountain in the Allegheny Mountains, between the cities of Frostburg and Cumberland.

Murder of Julia Martha Thomas

Elliott O'Donnell, writing in his introduction to the trial transcript, described Webster as "not merely savage, savage and shocking... but the grimmest of grim personalities, a character so uniquely sinister and barbaric as to be hardly human".

Never, Never, Land

The film The Prophecy (vocal sample: "Even now in heaven there were angels carrying savage weapons")

Palladas

John William Mackail concurs with Casaubon, writing that "this is true of a great part of his work, and would perhaps be true of it all but for the savage indignation which kindles his verse, not into the flame of poetry, but to a dull red heat."

Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage

Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage (subtitled "An Original Aboriginal Erratic Operatic Semi-civilized and Demi-savage Extravaganza") is a two-act musical burlesque by John Brougham.

Richard Savage

Savage went to Swansea, but he resented bitterly the conditions imposed by his patrons, and removed to Bristol, where he was imprisoned for debt.

Ritual of the Savage

Ritual of the Savage is an album by Les Baxter, released in 1951 often cited as one of the most important Exotica albums.

Robert Eyres Landor

Landor was the third son of Dr Walter Landor a physician and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor.

Russell Savage

Savage lost his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in the 2006 Victorian State election, a loss he attributed to the Nationals' high-budget campaign, Labor's failure to reopen the Mildura rail link, and a proposal to build a toxic waste dump in his electorate.

Savage Pencil

Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; "I'm A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" (released on the Albatross label in 1977) and "First & Last" / "Punk Rock Stars" / "Rat City" (released on the Fresh label in 1979).

Seán Savage

Savage who was following on behind the other two attempted to flee after he saw them being confronted and opened fire upon, only to be pursued and shot dead beneath a beech tree a short distance away in Smith Dorrien Avenue.

Sebastian Savage

Sebastian Eugene Savage (born December 12, 1969 in Carlisle, South Carolina) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

Shane Savage

Savage was nominated for the 2011 AFL Rising Star after Hawthorn's round 8 game against St Kilda.

Simca Ariane

The urgency of the project was increased in the summer of 1956 when the Simca chief learned of a dastardly plan by Paul Ramadier, the Minister for Economy and Finance, and a still influential former prime minister, to introduce in December 1956 an additional savage annual car tax for owners of cars with larger engines.

Tarzan the Terrible

He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory.

The Hour of the Dragon

In 1974, the story was adapted by Roy Thomas, Gil Kane and John Buscema in Marvel Comic's Giant-Size Conan #1-4 and Savage Sword of Conan #8, 10.

Tracie Savage

During the O. J. Simpson trial, Savage was called to the witness stand to reveal her confidential sources, and was threatened with jail time by Judge Ito.

World Gourmet Summit

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, World Gourmet Summit 2011 (held from 25 April 2011 to 8 May 2011) featured chefs such as Dietmar Sawyere, Rachel Allen, Edward Kwon, Michael Ginor, Brent Savage, Andrew Turner and Paul Wilson.


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