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6 unusual facts about Stowe


Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle

They received a good deal of hospitality from the family of Lord Buckingham, who lived nearby at Stowe.

Jake Burton Carpenter

Carpenter currently resides in Stowe, Vermont, where he lives with his wife, Donna and his son, Timi.

Johannes von Trapp

He returned to Stowe, Vermont to help with the family inn's finances, and then became the manager of the resort.

Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Because of its picturesque surroundings Stowe has been the setting for many films, including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Bollywood film Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Proof of Life, Stardust (2007), and The World Is Not Enough in the James Bond series.

Stowe, Vermont

William "Billy" Kidd, first American man to earn an Olympic medal in alpine skiing

Thomas Temple

Sir Thomas Temple, 1st Baronet (January 1613/14 at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England – 27 March 1674 at Ealing, Middlesex) was a British proprietor, governor of Acadia/ Nova Scotia (1657–70).


Beeckestijn

He was commissioned by the owner Jacob Boreel who had visited England and wished for a garden in the style of Stowe, Kewe Gardens and Wimpole.

Bernard Drake

Sir Bernard Drake was an 11th-generation descendant of Edward I through his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Grenville, of Stowe, High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.

Chuck Knipp

He's also said that "many people thought that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was and still is perceived as racist, despite being the probable artistic genesis of emotional support against slavery in the 19th century."

Domestic realism

The genre is mainly reflected in the novel though short-stories and non-fiction works such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Our Country Neighbors" and The New Housekeeper's Manual written by Stowe and her sister-in-law Catherine Beecher are works of domestic realism.

Dorothy Stowe

In 2005, when Irish rock band U2 played a concert in Vancouver, they invited Stowe, and Bono dedicated the song "Original of the Species" to her.

Dred

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, the second novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe

Freddie Sauer

Sauer had his breakthrough year in 1982, when he was a quarter-finalist at Caracas, Cologne, Dortmund and Stowe.

Graham Mink

Undrafted, Mink originally played high school hockey with Stowe High School, winning the Division III state championship in his sophomore year and Division II state championship in his senior year.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in Mandarin, Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine is where Stowe lived when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her husband was teaching theology at nearby Bowdoin College, and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication.

At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching.

Harris–Stowe State University

In 1929, its name was changed to Stowe Teachers College, after author Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin had promoted the abolitionist cause in the antebellum United States.

Irving Stowe

Born Jewish, he and his wife both became ardent pacifist and changed their religion to Quaker and their surname to Stowe, emulating Quaker author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Jeannie Peterson

Her work was exhibited at the Island Arts Gallery of the Merchant's Bank on the Champlain Islands, the North Hero Town Hall in the Champlain Islands, the Brian Memorial Gallery in Stowe, Vermont, at the Forchgott and Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne, Vermont, and at the Champlain Valley exposition in Vermont.

Kate Felus

From 1996 to 2001 Kate was Garden Historian at Stowe, the 18th-century landscape garden, where the National Trust is undertaking a massive restoration programme begun in 1990.

Leland Stowe

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Stowe also received the Légion d'honneur, the Military Cross of Greece, and honorary degrees from Harvard University, Wesleyan, and Hobart College, amongst other honors.

Love You Forever

The book was read by Madeleine Stowe to Tori Barban in the movie The Christmas Hope, the third movie in the The Christmas Shoes trilogy.

Mistress Masham's Repose

Blenheim Palace and Stowe House are in turn linked in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable officer serving under the Duke of Marlborough.

National Ski Patrol

The National Ski Patrol was founded in 1938 in Stowe, Vermont when the then president of the National Ski Association, Roger Langley convinced the founder and leader of the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol, Charles Minot Dole, to form a national ski patrol.

Richard Drake

Drake was the third son of John Drake (d.1558), of Ashe in Musbury, Devonshire, and Amy Grenville, daughter of Sir Roger Grenville of Stowe, Cornwall.

Robert Drayson

After the War he returned to Cambridge, graduated, and taught at St. Lawrence College and Felsted, then was head master of Reed's School and Stowe before becoming lay chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich.

Robin Kinahan

Born in Belfast to Henry Kinahan and Blanche Grierson Kinahan, daughter of the Bishop of Connor and Bishop of Down and Dromore, Robin Kinahan was educated at Stowe.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

Ward, having met Mrs. Stowe at the house of Rev. James Sherman next door to his Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road, in May 1853, was invited to stay at the 'Surrey Chapel Parsonage' along with Mrs Stowe's husband, the Rev. Dr. Stowe, and brother Rev. C. Beecher, for three weeks.

Semi-Colon Club

Stowe's experiences in Cincinnati and her time in the club were major factors in her work Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Stowe Missal

Also known as the Lorrha Missal, it is known as the "Stowe" Missal as it once belonged to the Stowe manuscripts collection formed by George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham at Stowe House.

Strong Medicine

Nick Biancavilla (Brennan Elliott), an ER doctor at Rittenhouse who had a brief relationship with Dr. Stowe.

West Duluth

West Duluth students attend Stowe Elementary School, Laura MacArthur Elementary School, Lincoln Park Middle School, and Duluth Denfeld High School.

Wimmera Regional Library Corporation

A committee chose Stowe Computing on 1 December 1988, and the first AS400 computer was installed on 2 February 1989.


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