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2 unusual facts about Stoner


Here Come the Waterworks

Here Come the Waterworks is the second album by Stoner/Sludge metal band Big Business.

Invisible Glass

Invisible Glass is a glass cleaning product from Stoner Inc. used by auto detailers, collectors, and enthusiasts.


AR-7

The prototype of what would become the AR-7 was designed by Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite Inc., a division of Fairchild Aircraft.

ArmaLite

Based on Stoner's fourth prototype, two hand-built production AR-10s were tested by the Springfield Armory in late 1956 and again in 1957 as a possible replacement to the venerable yet outdated M1 Garand.

Bowmansdale, Pennsylvania

The Bowmansdale Stoner covered bridge, built in 1867, was relocated to the campus of nearby Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania in 1972

Brother Lucifer

Brother Lucifer is the fourth album by the American stoner/doom metal band Serpent Throne.

Ciudad de Brahman

Ciudad de Brahman (in English Brahman's City) is the second studio album by stoner rock band Los Natas.

Dusty in Memphis

Samples from "Son of a Preacher Man" were used on Cypress Hill's cult-classic stoner-culture song "Hits from the Bong" on their album Black Sunday in 1993 and on Adil Omar's "Known to Kick It" in 2008.

Edmund Clifton Stoner

Stoner was born in Esher, Surrey, the son of cricketer Arthur Hallett Stoner.

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

It is also referenced in John Edward Williams' novel Stoner in which it is mistaken by an incompetent graduate student as John Keats' work.

Glory to Gloriana

Glory to Gloriana is striking in its similarity to the 90's stoner megahit Half Baked.

Keeley Halswelle

Halswelle lived in his later years at Stoner House, Steep, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where he was a ruling councillor of the Primrose League.

Lydia Bilbrook

Lydia followed Felicity back to the UK in 1948 and lived most of her subsequent life in Suffolk, near her sister Norma Stoner of Walberswick.

Phil Koperberg

Following the 2011 state election that was won by the O'Farrell-Stoner Liberal/National coalition, Koperberg was appointed as chairman of the State Emergency Management Committee.

R. G. Armstrong

In the story line, the recently widowed Doreen Bradley (Patricia Barry) exposes Stoner as the murderer of her husband.

Reece Thompson

In 2010, Thompson played a small-town stoner in Daydream Nation, starring opposite Kat Dennings.

SR50

Knight's Armament Company (KAC) SR-50, a .50 caliber semi-automatic sniper rifle designed by Eugene Stoner

ST Kinetics

The Ultimax 100 was designed by L. James Sullivan, who previously had redesigned Eugene Stoner's 7.62 mm AR10 assault rifle into a smaller 5.56 mm version, the M16.

Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.

By age three, the younger Stoner could read and write capably; by six, she could use a typewriter and had had an illustrated book of her poems published; by eight, she spoke at least five languages and had translated Mother Goose into Esperanto ("Patrino Anserino").

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.


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