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2 unusual facts about Sumner


Don Calhoun

Donald Clevester Calhoun (born April 29, 1952 in Sumner, Oklahoma) is a former professional American football running back who played for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills, the New England Patriots.

William W. Reed

He was first elected to the Assembly from the third Jefferson County district (the Towns of Hebron, Jefferson, Sumner, Koshkonong, and Cold Spring) as a member of the Republican Party.


Adio

Team members as of 2004 included Shaun White, Jeremy Wray, Tony Hawk, Ed Selego, Danny Montoya, Bam Margera, Brian Sumner, Kenny Anderson, Alex Chalmers and Steve Nesser.

Andrew Butler

Sumner likened Butler to Don Quixote and said Butler: "has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. I mean the harlot, Slavery."

Baeotherates

It was collected within the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry of Richard's Spur in Comanche County, Oklahoma and found in the Garber Formation of the Sumner Group, which dates to the middle Sakmarian stage of the Early Permian, about 289 ± 0.68 million years ago.

Brushy Bill Roberts

In 2003 Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan, Capitan, New Mexico Mayor Steve Sederwall, and De Baca County, New Mexico Sheriff Gary Graves began a campaign to exhume the remains of Billy the Kid and his mother, Catherine Antrim, to prove it was in fact Billy the Kid buried in Fort Sumner through DNA.

Charles Sumner Tainter

Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.

Chillicothe–Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority

It ran from Chillicothe, Missouri southeastward through the communities of Sumner and Triplett on its way to Brunswick, Missouri.

Chris Sumner

Christopher John "Chris" Sumner AM (born 17 April 1943) is a former Australian politician.

Christian Hosoi

Christian joined forces with Jay Haizlip, Brian Sumner, and others to create The Uprising, a skate based ministry.

Civil Rights Act of 1875

The bill was proposed by Senator Sumner and co-sponsored by Representative Benjamin F. Butler, both Republicans from Massachusetts, in the 43rd Congress of the United States in 1870.

Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt

In the years following their marriage, Jonathan and Ruth, along with Ruth’s family moved to Fort Steilacoom when Sumner was threatened by Indians.

Desk Set

Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy), the inventor of EMERAC (used as a homoiophone metonym for ENIAC) and an efficiency expert, is brought in to see how the library functions, to figure out how to ease the transition.

East Clandon

From 1768 the Sumner family owned the Hatchlands estate until it went to auction in 1888 and was bought by Lord Rendel.

Edwin Vose Sumner

The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being one of the best in the Eastern Theater.

At the Battle of Seven Pines, however, Sumner's initiative in sending reinforcing troops across the dangerously rain-swollen Chickahominy River prevented a Union disaster.

Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.

In 1890 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Major Job Sumner.

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Fort Sumner, New Mexico

In the 1920s the Transcontinental Air Transport airline built an airfield in Fort Sumner as part of its coast-to-coast air passenger network, but the site was abandoned when the airline's ambitious plans collapsed in the Great Depression.

Frank Melrose

He was born in Sumner, Illinois, the younger brother of Walter and Lester Melrose who set up the Melrose Brothers Music Company in Chicago in 1918, and went on to become leading figures in the Chicago blues and jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930s.

Grantism

Sumner accused Grant of hindering African American national sovereignty rights in the Caribbean with the annexation proposal of Santo Domingo, although it is now believed Grant wanted to annex Santo Domingo as a safe haven for African Americans from the violence of the Ku Klux Klan and overturn slavery in Cuba and Brazil.

Hatchlands Park

In 1888, the Sumner family sold the estate to Stuart, later Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel.

Increase Sumner

In 1752 Sumner enrolled in the grammar school in Roxbury, now Roxbury Latin School, where the headmaster was William Cushing, future justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

James B. Sumner

Sumner graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1910 where he was acquainted with prominent chemists Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore, James Bryant Conant and Charles Loring Jackson.

Jessie Sumner

Sumner was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1947).

Jethro Sumner

At least seven Continental officers under Sumner's command were wounded, and future United States President Andrew Jackson's brother Hugh was among ten North Carolinians killed.

John Chisum

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.

Kelly Sumner

Kelly Sumner was the managing director of Commodore UK, the UK subsidiary of Commodore International, during the early 1990s.

L. W. Sumner

Sumner received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1965, with a thesis supervised by Stuart Hampshire and Joel Feinberg.

Mary Sumner

The family moved to Colwall near Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1832, where Sumner's mother held mothers' meetings.

National Amusements

National Amusements is now owned by Michael Redstone's son, Sumner Redstone, who holds 80% of the company, and Sumner's daughter, Shari Redstone, who owns the remaining 20%.

New Zealand Sign Language

Van Asch Deaf Education Centre (former Sumner School for the Deaf), opened 1880 (Christchurch)

Richie Sumner

Sumner attended Simon Fraser University where he was a 1995 First Team NAIA All American soccer player.

Scraping Tokyo '95

#"Isolation" (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris) – 3:02 originally by Joy Division

Slices of Life

"Sexual parasites, disembowelment, zombies, serial killers, demon children, violent vixens, rabid office workers, aliens, mummies, skeleton warriors, vampires, werewolves, dragons, medusa, beasts, giants, robots, cyclops' and angry mmbryos all spring to life from the flesh covered sketch books featured in Anthony G. Sumner’s (Gallery of Fear) Slices of Life.

Sophie Sumner

Sumner made it all the way to the final 2, but was beaten by Mecia Simson.

Thomas Langlois Lefroy

In 1838, Thomas Langlois Lefroy received American politician Charles Sumner during Sumner's visit to Ireland.

TS Mercury

In June 1898 Beatrice Holme-Sumner married C. B. Fry, the great England cricketer and all-round sportsman, and in 1908, after the death of Hoare, Fry became the Mercury's Captain-Superintendent.

William Graham Sumner

Robert C. Bannister, the Swarthmore historian, . . . describes the situation: "Sumner's 'social Darwinism,'" he writes, "although rooted in controversies during his lifetime, received its most influential expression in Richard Hofstadter 's Social Darwinism in American Thought," which was first published in 1944.


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