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5 unusual facts about Somers


Connecticut's 59th assembly district

Before 2002, the district also contained part of the town of Somers.

Ninja Force

His real name is Joseph R. Rainone, and he was born in Somers, New York.

Somers School Camp

The Somers School Camp is a Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development school camp in Somers, Victoria, Australia.

Somers, New York

At the first known town meeting of European settlers held on March 7, 1788, at an inn owned by Benjamin Green, the town named Stephentown was established.

University of Wisconsin System

By 1971, the University of Wisconsin system consisted of campuses at Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and Kenosha/Somers, along with 10 freshman-sophomore centers and the statewide UW-Extension.


Alan Hamel

Somers recently made the news by declaring on The View that she and Hamel have sex several times a day.

Alexander Slidell Mackenzie

Mackenzie was captain of the USS Somers when it became the only U.S. Navy ship to undergo a mutiny which led to executions, including Philip Spencer, the nineteen-year-old son of the Secretary of War John C. Spencer.

Alfred Dampier

For the Term of His Natural Life (1886) - with Thomas Somers, adapted from the novel - later filmed as The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911)

BlackSite: Area 51

An X-Men reference is in the name of Echo Squad member Lieutenant Logan Somers: Logan is Wolverine's name, while Somers is a play on Cyclops' last name (i.e. Scott Summers).

Carry Somers

In 2010 Somers started working with local schools and St Oswald's Church, Ashbourne to raise money to buy glasses for Pachacuti's producers.

Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers

Lord Somers married Virginia, daughter of James Pattle, in 1850; she was the sister of Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle), a well-known Victorian era photographer.

Druid Heights

Somers, influenced by Japanese architecture and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, built many of the structures with unique furniture designed by Ed Stiles.

Edward Somers

Somers was born in Christchurch in 1928, and was educated at Christ's College and the University of Canterbury, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws.

George Somers

Somers and Sir Thomas Gates oversaw the construction of two small ships, the Deliverance and the Patience. They were built from local timber (Bermuda Cedar) and the salvaged spars and rigging of the wrecked Sea Venture.

Harry Somers

Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was one of the most influential and innovative contemporary Canadian composers of the past century.

How to Live Forever

Somers is an actress, author, and businesswoman, best known for her role as Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company.

J. Millard Tawes Historical Museum

Tawes Historical Museum is located on the Somers Cove Marina, Crisfield, Maryland, United States.

John Slidell

John Slidell was a brother of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, a naval officer who commanded the USS Somers on which a unique event occurred in 1842 off the coast of Africa during the Blockade of Africa.

John W. Crisfield

He was instrumental in building the Eastern Shore Railroad and served as president, connecting it to the fishing town of Somers Cove which was growing rapidly due to the seafood industry there.

Joyce DeWitt

DeWitt appeared on Suzanne Somers' talk show, Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through, during which she and Somers reminisced about their time on Three's Company together, Somers apologized for the conflict that arose between them, and they exchanged anecdotes about the last time they each spoke to John Ritter.

Lilyan Chauvin

Some of Chauvin's acting students were Raquel Welch, Suzanne Somers, Margie Haber, Carly Schroeder, Kin and Wil Shriner, and Kevin Nealon.

Philip Spencer

Philip Spencer and the USS Somers affair were almost certainly the model for much of the story Billy Budd, by Herman Melville, who was the first cousin of Lieutenant Guert Gansevoort, an officer aboard the ship.

Ron Somers

With the support of U.S. Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, this specialized knowledge of India enabled Somers to brief U.S. Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary and Commerce Secretary Ron Brown (U.S. politician) when these U.S. Cabinet officials made their historic, maiden visits to India.

ShopHQ

Suzanne Somers was introduced to ShopHQ in late 2009, promoting her new fashion line; Somers hosts one weekend a month.

Smith's Parish

Like all of parishes of Bermuda, Smith's was named after one of the nine chief investors of the Somers Isles (Bermuda) Company.

Somers Point, New Jersey

The 1983 movie Eddie and the Cruisers was largely filmed in Somers Point, using the defunct Tony Mart's nightclub as a setting.

Vaughan Somers

Somers is now a father to two sons and has worked as the General Manager of the Melbourne Golf Academy (MGA), located on the Melbourne Sandbelt.

Walter Somers

By the last decade of the 19th century, it was delivering forgings to Admiralty specifications - a customer relationship that continued throughout World War I. Somers' company also produced parts of the anchors used on the RMS Titanic.

Whitchurch Canonicorum

Sir George Somers (1554–1610) was the Mayor of Lyme Regis and later Governor of The Somers Isles (Bermuda) he died "of a surfeit in eating of a pig", on November 9, 1610 in Bermuda.


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