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12 unusual facts about Smithfield


Bulmer family

Both Bulmer and Lady Bulmer were convicted of High Treason and were executed on 25 May 1537, he by hanging at Tyburn and she by burning at the stake at Smithfield, London.

Doomstown

Set in the Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown neighbourhood of Toronto, the film explores the issue of gang violence.

John Talbot of Grafton

It was when passing through Smithfield, London, in July 1580, with Mr. and Mrs. Talbot, that Robert Johnson, the Catholic martyr, was recognized by Sledd, the informer.

Joseph M. Finotti

His last literary effort, which he did not live to see published, entitled "The Mystery of the Wizard Clip" (Baltimore, 1879), is a story of preternatural occurrences at Smithfield, West Virginia, involving Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

Leader Dynamics Series T2 MK5

The Leader T2 MK5 Series weapons were chambered for the 5.56x45mm NATO cartridge and manufactured by Leader Dynamics of Smithfield, NSW, Australia (1978-1982/1983).

Newgate Prison, Dublin

It was relocated to 'Little Green', present-day St. Michan's Park near Smithfield, and officially retained the old name.

Sal Alosi

Alosi worked as the head strength and conditioning coach at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island for the 2011-2012 season.

Scottish trade in the early modern era

From there some were driven to Norfolk to be fattened before being slaughtered in Smithfield for the London population.

Smithfield, Hong Kong

The British novelist Martin Booth wrote in his 2004 autobiographical Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood: "the bellow of a cow in the Kennedy Town abattoir might lift up to me - to be abruptly cut short".

Though situated in England, Smithfield, London, has been a symbol of Scottish patriotism after William Wallace was executed there in 1305.

Smithfield, Rhode Island

The area comprising modern-day Smithfield was first settled in 1636 by several British colonists, including John Steere as a farming community and named after Smithfield, London.

Smithfield, Virginia

Currently, Smithfield Foods, a Fortune 500 Company that owns Smithfield Packing Company and others, is the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.


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March 2William Sawtrey, a Lollard, is the first person to be burned at the stake at Smithfield.

Giltspur Street

Giltspur Street is a street in Smithfield in the City of London, running north-south from the junction of Newgate Street, Holborn Viaduct and Old Bailey, up to West Smithfield, and it is bounded to the east by St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Hampton Roads Transportation Authority

Hence, Isle of Wight County includes the only two incorporated towns in the area, known as the Town of Smithfield and the Town of Windsor; the Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisor's vote on formation and representative membership are the applicable ones for those town residents.

Henry Bryant

Henry Beadman Bryant (1824–1892), author and co-founder and namesake of Bryant & Stratton College and Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island

Hogan Lovells

The firm traced its history in the UK back to 1899, when John Lovell set up on his own account at Octavia Hill, between St Paul's and Smithfield.

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

In 1962 the Society established its own Chapel in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London; in 2005 this Chapel was moved to the Crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Light Up Night

Macy's department store, in the old Kaufmann's building, continues the tradition of its former tenant by revealing its Christmas display in the windows along Smithfield Street.

Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

The Cold Spring Farm Springhouse, John Michael Farm, Schoonover Mountain House, Capt. Jacob Shoemaker House, John Turn Farm, Zion Lutheran Church are located in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Middle Smithfield Township and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Moses Farnum House

Quakers from Smithfield, Rhode Island, abolitionists, with ties to Moses Brown whose family had founded Brown University, and some of whom were among the first in America to free slaves, settled here.

Nicholas Horner

Nicholas Horner (born at Grantley, Yorkshire, England, date of birth unknown; executed at Smithfield, 4 March 1590) was an English Roman Catholic

Peleg Arnold Tavern

The Peleg Arnold Tavern off Great Road in Union Village in North Smithfield, Rhode Island was built around 1690 and is one the oldest homes in North Smithfield.

Pentium D

Intel first launched Smithfield on April 16, 2005 in the form of the 3.2 GHz Hyper-threading enabled Pentium Extreme Edition 840.

The processor was based on the dual-core Pentium D branded Smithfield, but with Hyper-threading enabled, thus any operating system saw four logical processors (two physical and two virtual).

Pet Star

One contestant from Pet Star, Smithfield the painting pig appeared on America's Got Talent.

Phyllis Wallbank

Phyllis was married to the Rev. Newell Eddius Wallbank, long time Rector of the Church of St Bartholomew at Smithfield, and musician of some renown.

Pig Business

Controversy also surrounds the half-owned Smithfield Foods pig sheds near the village of La Gloria, Mexico, where as many as 1,800 villagers living near the plant had already complained of respiratory problems and 400 had been treated before the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Rhode Island Route 146A

Eddie Dowling Highway, Smithfield Road, Great Road, Victory Highway, North Main Street and Quaker Highway

Smithfield Foods

Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, it runs facilities in 26 U.S. states, including the largest slaughterhouse and meat-processing plant in the world, located in Tar Heel, North Carolina.

A grandson, Joseph W. Luter III, joined the company the same year, and in 1966 became chairman and CEO until Smithfield was taken over by Liberty Equities in 1969.

A Smithfield manager testified in 1998, during an unfair labor practices trial, that at the Tar Heel plant in North Carolina it takes between five and ten minutes to slaughter and complete the process of "disassembly" of an animal, including draining, cleaning, and cleaving.

Smithfield Packing Company

In 1962, with Smithfield already on its way to becoming the "Ham Capital of the World", Joseph W. Luter III became the company's leader.

Sullivan Ballou

Ballou was born the son of Hiram and Emeline (Bowen) Ballou, a distinguished Huguenot family in Smithfield, Rhode Island.

Yeomen Warders

The ravens are fed raw meat which is bought at Smithfield Meat Market by the Ravenmaster.