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3 unusual facts about Sedgwick


Allen B. Kanavel

Allen B. Kanavel (1874, Sedgwick, Kansas – 1938 Pasadena, California) was an American surgeon remembered for describing Kanavel's sign.

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Stan Waterman, Emmy-winning cinematographer and underwater-film producer

Doris Grumbach, novelist, biographer, literary critic and essayist


1520 Sedgwick Avenue

On August 11, 1973, Clive Campbell DJed for his sister Cindy's back-to-school party in the recreation center at 1520 Sedgwick.

Bram van der Stok

In the 1963 film The Great Escape, elements of his part in the affair were written into the role of 'Sedgwick', played by the actor James Coburn.

Charles B. Sedgwick

Sedgwick was elected as a Republican to the 36th and 37th United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1863.

Chris Sedgwick

Towards the beginning of the 2006–07 season, Sedgwick was asked to play in central midfield, a new position for the winger, forming a partnership with Paul McKenna.

Ebenezer Emmons

Nevertheless, the Taconic fauna of Emmons proved to include only the lower part of Sedgwick's Cambrian.

Edmund Falconer

Meanwhile, he contributed two comedies to the Haymarket Theatre too, Family Wills, and Does He Love Me?, both starring Amy Sedgwick.

Édouard de Verneuil

He next investigated the Devonian rocks and fossils of the Bas-Boulonnais; and in 1839 accompanied Sedgwick and Murchison in a study of the older Palaeozoic rocks of the Rhenish provinces and Belgium, the palaeontological results being communicated to the Geological Society of London in conjunction with the Vicomte d'Archiac.

Genesis flood narrative

His views were supported by other English clergymen and naturalists at the time, including the influential Adam Sedgwick, but by 1830 Sedgwick considered that the evidence only showed local floods.

Greensleeves Records

The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain.

Harmanus Bleecker

For many years he practiced law with Theodore Sedgwick (1780-1839), the son of Federalist legislator and judge Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), and he was once engaged to Judge Sedgwick's daughter Catharine Sedgwick.

John Sedgwick

In the 1990 film Dances with Wolves, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) stays at a fictional Fort Sedgwick, presumably named after General Sedgwick.

Lock Davidson

He was born in Sedgwick, Kansas on February 28, 1884, the son of Charles Lock Davidson and May Louise Throckmorton Davidson.

Mark Sedgwick

Mark Sedgwick (born London, England, July 20, 1960) is a British/Irish historian specializing in traditionalism, Islam, Sufi mysticism, and terrorism.

Michael S. Bernick

Following the recall of California Governor Gray Davis, Bernick returned to law at the Sedgwick firm in San Francisco, and joined the Milken Institute as a fellow in employment policy.

New York State Route 9X

On the opposite side of the river in the Bronx community of University Heights, NY 9X became Fordham Road and continued on an easterly track to a junction with Sedgwick Avenue.

Philip Nozuka

Philip Nozuka was born in Queens, New York City, to a Japanese father, Hiromitsu, and an American mother, Holly Sedgwick.

Ray Di Carlo

The studio's advertising agency clients including DDB Worldwide(Chicago, NY, LA, and Tribal British Columbia), FCB, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Santo (Bueno Aires/London), Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sedgwick Rd., Campbell Ewald, Pedone, Euro RSCG, The Buntin Group, Borders Perrin and Norrander, and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as networks clients NBC, TBS, Cartoon Network, The Learning Channel, and PBS.

Romney Sedgwick

Eveline Cruickshanks wrote a book on the Tories and the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and said: "My greatest debt is to the late Romney Sedgwick, a staunch Whig, whose wit and erudition I greatly admired, for a series of discussions, heated at times, but, as I well know, much enjoyed on both sides".

Sedgwick Theater

The Sedgwick Theater, located at 7137 Germantown Ave in Philadelphia, is designed in the 1920s style of an Art Deco Movie Palace.

Theodore Sedgwick

Theodore Sedgwick is the fourth great grandfather of actress Kyra Sedgwick.

Thomas H. Neill

Neill had his horse shot from under him in the fight for Scott's Ford, Sedgwick's means of escaping across the Rappahannock River from converging Confederate attacks.

William McConnel

The McConnel family were owners of Sedgwick Mill, a large cotton spinning mill in Ancoats in the city of Manchester.

Wingohocking Creek

The southerly branch, Wingohocking Creek proper, followed the path taken today by SEPTA's Chestnut Hill East rail line (built by the Philadelphia, Germantown & Norristown Railroad in 1833 and extended by the successor Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the 1850s) between Sedgwick and Wister stations.


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