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10 unusual facts about Stapleton


Committee for a Nuclear Free Island

However, with a former Staten Island Borough President, Robert Connor, lobbying within the Defense Department, and support from the local daily newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, as well as most elected officials, a site on Staten Island's north shore in the community of Stapleton was selected.

Hannah More

Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, a schoolmaster originally from Harleston, Norfolk.

Ronell Wilson

Prosecutors alleged Wilson was the leader of a violent drug gang called the Stapleton Crew (witnesses at the trial denied using that label) that originated in the Stapleton housing projects of Staten Island.

Stapleton Colony

The Stapleton Colony, based in Stapleton, North Yorkshire is a Christian pacifist and anarchist community, and the only remaining colony of the Brotherhood Church.

Stapleton, Herefordshire

The parish borders on several other parishes, including Willey, Kinsham and Presteigne.

Stapleton, Leicestershire

The village is centred around St. Martins church (built in about 1300 according to Pevsner) which is to be found on Church Lane in the southern end of the village and was most probably established as a connection point for travellers journeying between Ashby-de-la-Zouch Castle and the areas around Coventry, Warwick and Kenilworth.

Stapleton is built on part of a long ridge that begins in Barwell to the south, and is followed by the A447 road north, gaining height until it reaches Osbaston, where it descends into a tributary of the River Sence.

Stapleton, Shropshire

The church organ is among the top six hundred in the country and there is a small tapestry piece in the nave said to have been worked by Mary, Queen of Scots.

The Staple

For a time after 1353, staple ports were established in England, under the Statute of the Staple: thus various English localities named "Stapleton" or "Stapleford."

Won Mississippi

They have also supported the American indie band, Death Cab for Cutie and Scottish indie supremos Stapleton.


Andy Cutting

Blowzabella - New Tunes for Dancing (by Andy Cutting, Nigel Eaton, Jo Freya, Paul James, Ian Luff, Cliff Stapleton, David Shepherd, Jon Swayne), Blowzabella, Glastonbury (2004) ISBN 0-9549013-0-4

Baron Bardolf

His co-heirs were his two great-nephews, descended from his only sister Joan (died 5 August 1466) by her first husband John Lovel, 8th Baron Lovel: Sir Brian Stapleton (died 2 April 1550), son of Sir Brian Stapleton by his wife Joan, elder daughter of Joan Lady Lovel; and Sir John Norreys (died 1564), son of Sir Edward Norreys by his wife Frideswide, younger daughter of Joan Lady Lovel.

Bob Stapleton

After the Operación Puerto scandal touched big names of the men's team such as Jan Ullrich and Óscar Sevilla, and following disputes among riders and managing staff, there were major changes in both the team's roster and management, and Stapleton was appointed team manager.

Stapleton began his relationship with T-Mobile when his communications company VoiceStream Wireless was bought in 2000 by Deutsche Telekom for $50 billion.

Camblesforth

Subsequently, Sibil de Beaulieu (d.1301) daughter of Laderina de Brus, Lady of Camblesforth and granddaughter of Peter de Brus, Lord of Skelton married Sir Miles Stapleton (d.1314).

Chris Stapleton

As a member of The SteelDrivers, Stapleton earned three Grammy Award nominations including "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" for the song "Where Rainbows Never Die" and "Best Bluegrass Album," and won an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for "Emerging Artist of the Year." He has won six ASCAP Awards and has contributed to the soundtracks of several feature films including "Cars 2" and "Valentine’s Day."

Clay Stapleton

On September 9, 2006 Stapleton was inducted into the Iowa State Athletics Hall of Fame with fellow alumni Beth Bader, Jon Brown, John Crawford, Barry Hill, Russ Hoffman, Jerry McNertney, Hugo Otopalik, Keith Sims, and Winnifred Tilden.

Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen Park

Edgewater Village Hall is a historic former village hall situated within Tappen Park, a public park located in Stapleton, Staten Island, New York.

Édouard Corbière

He was a prisoner on parole at Tiverton, Devon, until November 1811 when he was sent to Stapleton Prison near Bristol.

Fergal Stapleton

Stapleton has been an occasional lecturer on the MA Fine Art programmes at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, Birmingham City University, and the Slade School of Fine Art.

Frank Stapleton

Stapleton made his international debut under then player-manager Johnny Giles in a friendly against Turkey in Ankara in 1976 at 20 years of age.

Jesse Whatley

He continued playing non-League football in Bristol for a further two years, for Stapleton Institute and Mental Institution Club, later moving into coaching, becoming coach of Fry's Cocoa Tree Boys in 1937.

Johnnie Stewart

He was able to sign up Frank Sinatra for a fee of only fifty pounds as a guest for Cyril Stapleton's Show Band Show.

Kevin Figes

Other highlights were playing with John Critchinson, the big bands of Dave Stapleton and Andy Hague and performing a great new piece by Keith Tippett in the Colston Hall, Bristol.

Larry Hibbitt

Hibbitt has written with Dinosaur Pile-Up, Katie Sutherland, Hill Valley High, Norma Jean Martine, Sophie Madeleine, Nothing But Thieves, Cortes, RosieMay and Alex Davies, and his production/mixing credits include Million Dead, The Computers, Hundred Reasons, Marmozets, Spirits, Scholars, My Awesome Compilation, Rumble In Rhodos, Capdown, Hill Valley High, Stapleton and Max Raptor.

Miles Stapleton

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia.

Miles Stapleton of Bedale

In January 1363 Stapleton was one of a group of English knights recorded as borrowing money from local merchants at Thorn in Poland, most likely during a Prussian crusade.

Moira Anderson

Her musical directors over the years have included Peter Knight, Peter Hope, Robert Docker, Robin Stapleton, Peggy O'Keefe and Nick Ingman.

Northfield Stapleton

In November 2006, Carson Williams was found by the Northfield Stapleton shopping mall and asked to create a new show in Denver, Colorado.

Paul Stapleton

In August 2001, Stapleton succeeded Dan McCauley as chairman of Plymouth Argyle, heading a consortium of local businessmen each with an equal share in the club.

Phyllis and Flora

That version was translated under the byline of "R.S. Esquire" who, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, was most likely Richard Stapleton, a friend of Chapman.

Priscilla Morrill

Jean Stapleton stated in an interview for the Archive of American Television, Morrill was the stand-in for her in the ninth season episode of All in the Family "A Girl Like Edith" where Stapleton had a dual role.

Richard Bristow

The Douai records speak of him in the highest terms as rivalling Allen in prudence, Stapleton in acumen, Campion in eloquence, Wright in theology, and Martin in languages.

Robert Stapylton

He was the third son of Richard Stapleton of Carlton by Snaith, Yorkshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont.

Samuel Pearse

Samuel George Pearse was born on 16 July 1897 at Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales to George Stapleton Pearse and his wife Sarah Ann.

Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet

He was a keen breeder and trainer of horses and with Sir Thomas Stapleton won the St. Leger Stakes in 1778 with Hollandoise.

Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere

Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB, GCH, KSI, PC (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British military leader, diplomat and politician.

The Gingerbread Lady

Directed by Robert Moore the cast featured, in addition to Maureen Stapleton, Betsy von Furstenberg (Toby Landau) Michael Lombard, (Jimmy Perry) and Charles Siebert (Lou Tanner).

Thomas FitzWilliam, 4th Viscount FitzWilliam

Lord FitzWilliam married firstly Mary Stapleton, daughter of the leading Parliamentarian Sir Philip Stapleton, a somewhat surprising marriage given the deep division on religion and politics between the two families.

Walter King Stapleton

In 1970, Stapleton was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware by Richard Nixon.

WRKO

Since the layoff of the news department in November 2006, Metro Networks has provided traffic reports, still styled "Skyway Patrol," with reporters Malcolm Alter, Bruce Adams, Joe Stapleton, Steve Hartman, Scott Pike, Mike Riley and Lisa Jackson.