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9 unusual facts about Sibley


Ben Earl Looney

Looney was born in the Yellow Pine community, located south of Sibley, Louisiana, to Julian A. Looney (1871–1958) and the former Mollie McKinney (1872–1932).

Honey War

In the Treaty of Fort Clark, the Osage had ceded all land east of Fort Clark near Sibley, Missouri.

King Solomon Hill

After much speculation and controversy, he is recognized to have been Joe Holmes (1897, McComb, Mississippi – 1949, Sibley, Louisiana), a self-taught guitarist from Mississippi.

One informant lived in a section of Sibley, Louisiana known as Yellow Pine, within which there is a community formerly known as King Solomon Hill centred on an actual hill on which stood King Solomon Hill Baptist Church.

Sibley House

Sibley-Corcoran House, Washington, Massachusetts, listed on the NRHP in Berkshire County, Massachusetts

Sibley, Louisiana

The American artist Ben Earl Looney was born and reared in Yellow Pine but graduated from Minden High School before launching a career which took him to many parts of the United States.

Sibley, North Dakota

The city was incorporated after a dispute with authorities of Sibley Trail Township: although the Hagglunds wanted a liquor license, the township authorities would not grant one, so the Hagglunds incorporated the city.

Silky-flycatcher

They were formerly lumped with waxwings and Hypocolius in the family Bombycillidae, and they are listed in that family by the Sibley-Monroe checklist.

Treaty of Fort Clark

In early 1808, Meriwether Lewis led a group to the site of Fort Osage near Sibley, Missouri where they built the fort on a bluff above the Missouri River.


Alexander Faribault House

He served as a delegate to the Minnesota Territorial Legislature and remained friends with Henry Mower Rice and Henry Hastings Sibley, even though Rice and Sibley were personal and political enemies.

American Rhapsody

Copies of the work have been donated for the benefit of students at the Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library within the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections Department.

Antoinette Sibley

On 24 October 1959, Sibley was unexpectedly allowed to dance the leading role in Swan Lake partnered by the principal dancer, Michael Somes.

From 1964 to 1973 Sibley was married to the dancer Michael Somes.

Assumption, Minnesota

Assumption is located within Hancock Township in Carver County; and also located within Washington Lake Township in Sibley County.

Battle of Glorieta Pass

The 1966 Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly refers obliquely to the battle, setting one scene during the post-battle retreat of Sibley's men.

Battle of Whitestone Hill

Meanwhile, some of the Sioux Sibley had chased west across the Missouri River had returned to the east of the river to replenish their winter supplies of buffalo meat.

Benjamin Harrison Reeves

Sibley, surveyor Joseph C. Brown, and other party members continued on to New Mexico.

Black-throated Sparrow

David Allen Sibley, The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America.

Cape May Bird Observatory

Sibley wrote his classic field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, while he was living and birding in Cape May Point.

Curtis Lampson

He was married to Jane Sibley, a distant relation of the Confederate general Henry Hopkins Sibley.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey

On July 9, 2007, Palfrey released the supposed entirety of her phone records for public viewing and downloading on the Internet in TIFF format, though days prior to this, her civil attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley had dispatched 54 CD-ROM copies to researchers, activists, and journalists.

George C. Sibley

Later on, Sibley moved with his mother to Fayetteville, North Carolina where he received his education and apprenticed as a bookkeeper in the counting house of John Winslow.

Glenn Springs Raid

When General Hugh L. Scott learned of the attack he organized another punitive expedition under the joint command of Colonel Frederick W. Sibley and Major George T. Langhorne.

Hiram Sibley

Sibley funded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

John Langdon Sibley

He also compiled the initial volumes of Sibley's Harvard Graduates (covering the Classes of 1642 to 1679) and bequeathed funds to the Massachusetts Historical Society for continuation of this project.

Ludwig Milde

The Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) lists "19--?" as the date for the Opus 24 studies ("Hofmeister Studienwerke; 7381"), but "1964-1966" for the Opus 26 studies.

Mulford Q. Sibley

Garrison Keillor picked up the habit of wearing red socks from Sibley.

Pat Fish

Pat Fish (born Patrick Guy Sibley Huntrods, 1957) is an English musician best known for his work as a member of the band The Jazz Butcher.

Robotropolis

Robotropolis is a science-fiction action adventure film written and directed by Christopher Hatton starring Zoe Naylor, Graham Sibley and Edward Foy.

Samuel Hale Sibley

On December 20, 1930, President Herbert Hoover nominated Sibley for elevation to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Richard Wilde Walker.

Sibley tent

However, Sibley resigned from the US Army to join the Confederate States Army after the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet

He published a large number of declarations and discourses, mostly in Dutch, enumerated in Sibley's biography, and wrote also "A True Relation of the Progress of the Parliament's Forces in Scotland" (1651), Thomason Tracts, Brit.

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior

The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior‏ is a book by David Allen Sibley that shows readers "how birds live and what they do."

Yelkouan Shearwater

Sibley, Charles Gald & Monroe, Burt L. Jr. (1990): Distribution and taxonomy of the birds of the world.


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