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unusual facts about Skinner's Sense of Snow


The Halloween That Almost Wasn't

In The Simpsons episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow", Seymour Skinner shows a film called The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, But Was.


Away All Boats

A record with some of Frank Skinner’s music from the movie was released by Decca Records in May 1956.

Beatrice Foods

Federal judge Walter Jay Skinner ruled that Beatrice was not responsible for the contamination, although according to the book and film, based on new evidence brought forward by the EPA later found, Judge Skinner reversed his verdict and found both companies responsible.

Behavioral activation

Behavioral activation owes its basis to Charles Ferster's Functional Analysis of Depression (1973) which developed B.F. Skinner's idea of depression, within his analysis of motivation, as a lack of reinforcement.

Carey Loftin

He had a supporting role as Skinner in the Keenan Wynn and Bob Mathias series The Troubleshooters, which aired on NBC in the 1959–1960 season.

Castle Camps

The castle remained in the de Vere family until 1584 when it was sold by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, to Thomas Skinner (d.1596), Lord Mayor of London.

Charles R. Skinner

Skinner was elected as a Republican to the 47th United States Congress, to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Warner Miller to the U.S. Senate; and was re-elected to the 48th United States Congress, holding office from November 8, 1881, to March 3, 1885.

Counterfeit for Murder

Other members of the cast of La casa degli attori include Giusi Raspani Dandolo (Hattie Annis), Agla Marsili (Tammy Baxter), Ruggero De Daninos (Albert Leach), Giorgio Piazza (Raymond Dell), Daniela Surina (Martha Kirk), Paolo Graziosi (Noel Ferris), Giovanni Di Benedetto (Avvocato Parker) and Enrico D'Amato (Procuratore Skinner).

Economy of Cornwall

There are many types of beer brewed in Cornwall, including Sharp's Brewery, Skinner's Brewery and St Austell Brewery.

Edwin Ray Guthrie

Guthrie’s theories went against those of Watson’s classical conditioning and Skinner’s operant conditioning due mainly to Guthrie’s insistence that their “desire for results of immediate practical applications” led to their theories being wrong.

Emile Gruppe

Gruppe's paintings are often seen in major auction galleries, such as Sotheby's, Christies, and Skinners.

Emily Skinner

Skinner's role as one half of a pair of Siamese twins in Side Show earned her critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination shared with co-star Alice Ripley.

Former Cathedral Church of Christ the King

The cathedral organ was a 49-rank Aeolian/Skinner, the second to last organ built by the Skinner Company.

Frank Skinner

From March 2009, Skinner started to present the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio with his co-hosts Emily Dean and Gareth Richards (who was replaced by Alun Cochrane in June 2011).

Gretchen Franklin

Clutching a Yorkshire Terrier dog in one hand and a glass of Guinness in the other, she was the life and soul of the party; Julia saw that there was much comic mileage to be gained from such a character, and as a result Ethel Mae Skinner was born.

Hans Moleman

As pointed out on The Simpsons Archive episode capsule for Sweets and Sour Marge, "When the people-ball is rolling toward Hans Moleman and Agnes Skinner, you can see another Moleman in the ball if you watch in slow motion.

Harry Skinner

Skinner was elected as a Populist to the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1899), but in 1898 was unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

Born near Hertford, North Carolina, Skinner attended Hertford Academy and was graduated from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington.

Hollywood High Organ Opus 481

The Hollywood High School E. M. Skinner Organ Opus 481-A is a pipe organ in Hollywood High School, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

Izetta Jewel

The following season she played opposite Skinner in Charles Frohman’s production of Sire at the Criterion Theatre and in 1912 with James K. Hackett in The Grain of Dust also staged at the Criterion.

Jack Michael

Jack Michael is also the past editor of The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB), which publishes theoretical and experimental work related to extensions of Skinner's analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Jeffrey Skinner

In 2002 Skinner served as Poet-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.

Jim Skinner

Skinner began his career with McDonald's in 1971 as a restaurant manager trainee in Carpentersville, Illinois.

John Skinner Wilson

J. S. Wilson (1888–1969), Colonel John Skinner "Belge" Wilson, Scottish Scouting luminary and friend of General Baden-Powell

John W. Skinner

John William Skinner (26 November 1890 – 1 April 1955) was a distinguished Headmaster of Culford School between 1924 and 1951.

Katarína Filová

She is also one of two Slovak athletes, alongside hammer thrower Marcel Lomnický, who train for the Virginia Tech Hokies under head coach Ned Skinner.

Lauren Kennedy

Kennedy appeared in the original cast of the short-lived Side Show as the standby for Emily Skinner, for whom she stepped in many times due to Skinner's frequent absences.

Moran State Park

The mansion's music room is home to a 1913 34-rank Aeolian pipe organ and 1900 Steinway grand piano, both of which are still played for visitors today by the musician, Christopher Peacock.

Norton Clapp

In 1961 he joined Bagley Wright, contractor Howard S. Wright, architect John Graham, and financier Ned Skinner as investors in the Pentagram Corporation which was to build and own the Space Needle for the 1962 World's Fair.

Original Pirate Material

Skinner has stated that his main early influences were from the United States, in particular Wu-Tang Clan MCs such as Raekwon and RZA, as well as east coast rapper Nas's album Illmatic.

The recording of Original Pirate Material lasted over a year, with Skinner recording the bulk of the album in houses in Barnet and Brixton onto an IBM ThinkPad.

Quentin Skinner

Skinner has delivered many prestigious lecture-series, including the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton (1980), the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford (1980), the Messenger Lectures at Cornell (1983), the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Harvard (1984), the T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures at Kent (1995), the Ford Lectures at Oxford (2003), the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford (2011) and the Clark Lectures at Cambridge (2012).

Rossville points

They were named by archaeologist Alanson Skinner after the Rossville section of Staten Island, New York where they were found in the vicinity of the old U.S. Post Office building.

Roy Moss

He toured with Skinner and also worked with country musicians such as Pee Wee King, Cowboy Copas, and Ray Price.

Sinclair Skinner

Skinner has worked for numerous engineering companies including Ohmeda, Inc., Honeywell, Pillsbury, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and The Architect of the Capitol where he performed testing and development for the space shuttle’s main engine controllers, manufacturing for a flour mill company and designed roadways in Macon County, Alabama where he was an apprentice to Curtis Pierce, the first African American county engineer in Macon County, Alabama.

The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles

The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (Macrolepidoptera) by Bernard Skinner is a single volume identification guide to the macro-moths of Britain and Ireland published by Viking Books, often referred by moth recorders simply as "Skinner".

The Freedom of the City

Lily, a 43-year-old mother of eleven, Michael, a 22-year-old man (unemployed), and 'Skinner', 21 and unemployed (signs himself as Freeman of the City in the Visitor's Book), are the antiheroes, who perish as British soldiers shoot them in cold blood when they surrender.

The Great Money Caper

At this point Homer finally confesses that he got conned but Marge and the townspeople themselves tell Homer and Bart that they set up the trial and the carjacking to teach them a lesson on conning people, revealing that Skinner was not really shot (it was a fake blood pack) and the con man who stole their car was an actor called Devon Bradley.

Thomas Gregory Skinner

Skinner was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress on November 20, 1883, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Walter F. Pool.

Skinner was again elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891) but in 1890 declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Fifty-second Congress, and resumed the practice of law in Hertford.

Todmorden Mills

In order to supply construction material, Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe granted land on the Don River to Aaron and Isaiah Skinner for the purpose of building a mill to supply lumber.

Tony Siscone

1975-76 Siscone drove the famous #65 car, owned by John Lyons and powered by a Tom Skinner/Lyons chevy racing engine which Tony drove to 12 victories and his 2nd championship.

Uncle Dog

Most of the songs were penned by Dave Skinner, although there are a few covers, including Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" (from John Wesley Harding) and Sam Phillips/Herman Parker's "Mystery Train".

Walter Jay Skinner

Skinner is noted for his role in the groundwater contamination case out of Woburn, Massachusetts, which became the basis for the book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonFiction, and the subsequent film of the same name starring John Travolta (in which Skinner was portrayed by John Lithgow).

Weak Become Heroes

Skinner also makes reference to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, an act which was seen as curtailing the rights of people to host raves.

William I. Skinner

William I. Skinner (October 24, 1812 - February 13, 1891) was an American politician from New York.


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