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8 unusual facts about Spalding


Buddleja davidii 'Three in One'

'Three in One' is produced by the Van Meuwen nursery at Spalding, Lincolnshire, UK.

Ferdinand, Idaho

The second subdivision of the Camas Prairie Railroad arrived in Ferdinand in 1909, branching off the main line at Spalding and ending at Grangeville.

Holbeach Technology Park

It is situated close to Spalding, which is the site of many food processing companies that make ready meals, such as Premier Foods.

Spalding, South Australia

Spalding is presumed to be named after the market town of Spalding, Lincolnshire in the UK.

Terrington St Clement

The village is linked to King's Lynn and Spalding, Lincolnshire, by a half-hourly bus service, and to Wisbech by a less frequent bus service that skirts the south of the village.

Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance

During the 19th century, Brothers from the surviving communities in Ireland were invited to teach in the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Pennsylvania, and Spalding, Nebraska.

Tim Lees-Spalding

After leaving the Royal Navy in 1974, Lees-Spalding was appointed Administrator of the London International Film School.

As the Commander (Executive Officer) of the Royal Naval Engineering College, by now located at Manadon near Plymouth, Lees-Spalding was the first non-Gunnery Officer to preside over the Queen's Birthday Parade on Plymouth Hoe in 1959.


1871 Boston Red Stockings season

From this team, Harry Wright, Al Spalding, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1872 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1873 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, first baseman Jim O'Rourke, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1874 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, first baseman Jim O'Rourke, catcher Deacon White, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1875 Boston Red Stockings season

Harry Wright, Al Spalding, Jim O'Rourke, and shortstop George Wright have all been elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1983–84 NBA season

Spalding replaced Wilson as manufacturer of the official NBA game ball, a relationship that continues today.

Abraham G. Mills

In 1888, Spalding accompanied a group of star players on a world tour to promote the game of baseball, playing an exhibition game in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

Alec Spalding

Spalding was also known for his enthusiastic rendition of songs like Three Blind Mice, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Ging Gang Goolie, Green Grow the Rushes, O, and The Wild Rover at camp fires.

American Academy of Periodontology

Gillette Hayden and Grace Rogers Spalding, the AAP currently has 8,400 members including periodontists and general dentists from all 50 states and around the world.

Archbishop Spalding High School

In 2007 at the national Musicfest in Orlando, Florida, Archbishop Spalding was awarded "Grand Band Champion", and thus the overall national winner for that week's competition.

Barbara Freyberg, Baroness Freyberg

On 20 July 1911, she married Hon. Francis Walter Stafford McLaren, the-then Liberal MP for Spalding and the second son of the 1st Baron Aberconway.

Basil William Spalding

Basil Spalding was born on December 11, 1846 to John Spalding, a slave-holding tobacco plantation owner and his second wife, Mary Carroll, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Carroll, a Founding Father of the United States.

Benjamin Joseph Webb

Webb accepted the assignment and worked along with Bishops Spalding, David, and Benedict Joseph Flaget.

Brooke Langton

Her maternal grandfather, Stephen Cummings, was a World War II bomber pilot and her aunt Sally Spalding is a script supervisor.

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

David Lagourie Gosling

He is a Life Member and former Spalding Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge.

Donercius

Innes, Cosmo, Registrum episcopatus Aberdonensis : ecclesie Cathedralis Aberdonensis regesta que extant in unum collecta, 2 Vols, (Spalding and Maitland Clubs, 1845), Vol.

Duncan Curry

In 1905, Al Spalding wrote in his Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide that "the original Knickerbocker Club should be honored and remembered as the founders of our national game." In particular, he cited 11 original Knickerbockers as deserving of the honor, including Curry, Doc Adams, Alexander Cartwright, E. R. Dupignac, William Wheaton and William H. Tucker.

Fanzz

Fanzz has vendor relationships with companies like Reebok, Nike, Adidas, Spalding, Majestic, New Era, Top of the World, Zephyr, and over 60 others, selling licensed team and player gear from teams in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NCAA, and NHL sports leagues.

Football Conference

Known initially as the Bob Lord Trophy and then the Spalding Cup from 1995–96 until 2000–01, the League cup competition was reinstated in 2007–08 as the Conference League Cup, sponsored by Setanta Sports.

Franklin Spencer Spalding

Notably, on August 11, 1898, Franklin Spalding was the lead climber in a party of four to first summit Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range in Grand Teton National Park.

Georg Ludwig Spalding

Georg Ludwig Spalding (April 8, 1762 – June 7, 1811) was a German philologist born in Barth, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Gerard de Camville

In 1205 he was employed in measuring the marsh between Spalding and Tid in Lincolnshire.

Johann Joachim Spalding

Johann Joachim Spalding (1 November 1714 – 25 May 1804) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher of Scottish ancestry who was a native of Tribsees, Swedish Pomerania.

John Grundy, Sr.

In 1733, he worked for the Commissioners of Sewers, surveying the parish of Moulton, near Spalding, and suggesting ways in which its drainage could be improved.

John P. Yates

After attending school in Spalding, Georgia, he attended Georgia State University where he graduated with a BPA.

Liberty Station, San Diego

The NTC Landing section is home to the historic Sail Ho Golf Course which was built in the 1920s by Albert Spalding of Spalding Sports.

Linda Spalding

Spalding has worked as a professor of English and writing at the University of Hawaii, York University, the University of Guelph, Brown University (where she was writer-in-residence in 1991), the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.

Linda Spalding is currently married to Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje; Linda, Esta and Michael are also on the editorial board of the national literary magazine, Brick.

Louisville Youth Orchestra

Over the years the LYO has also called many places home: the old Academy on York Street, the Shrine Temple, the Columbia (now Spalding) Auditorium, the old Armory (now Louisville Gardens), the Louisville Convention Center, Atherton High School, and most recently, the superb facilities of the Youth Performing Arts School.

OKS Recordings of North America

The artists on the label include The Painful Leg Injuries, The Harmful Free Radicals, El Plan De Aguavodka, Marco Oppedisano, David Lee Myers (aka Arcane Device), BIOS, Barry Seroff, Alex Spalding, and the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface.

Rufus P. Spalding

Spalding won the election and was sworn in as a member of the Thirty-Eight Congress.

Scouting in West Midlands

Since then it has had 34 Royal performances, appearing in events and venues such as Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, St Paul's Cathedral, the Royal Tournament, Wembley Stadium, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, London's Guild Hall, The Lord Mayor's Show, Horse Guards Parade, Coventry Cathedral, the Spalding Flower Parade, London's Easter Parade, and the Jersey Battle of Flowers.

Spalding High School

Spalding Institute, later Academy of Our Lady-Spalding Institute, now consolidated as Peoria Notre Dame High School in Peoria, Illinois

Spalding–Rigdon theory of Book of Mormon authorship

In 1884, a Spalding manuscript known as Manuscript Story was discovered and published, and the manuscript now resides at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Stephen Latchford

Latchford married Marie Leola Spalding, the daughter of Basil William Spalding, a Confederate Civil War hero from southern Maryland.

Sweet Pain

Members are: David Riordan (rhythm guitar, vocals), J.C. Phillips (marimba, vocals), Frank Demme (bass, vocals), Carl Johnson (guitar), Bob Spalding (guitar) and Marty Foltz (drums, percussion)

Tipton, Missouri

The company was purchased by Spalding Company and the plant closed when Spalding sold it to Ebonite Billiard in 1976 which was a subsidiary of Fuqua Companies.


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