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unusual facts about The American


James Creese

After the war ended he became the Secretary General of The American-Scandinavian Foundation and traveled extensively in Sweden.


Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

He is known primarily for his scholarly work on Beowulf and his translation of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda for The American-Scandinavian Foundation, but also as a writer of pulp fiction and for his left-wing politics.

Castel del Monte, Abruzzo

Castel del Monte is the principal location of The American, a suspense film, released September 1, 2010, directed by Anton Corbijn.

Robert Bruce Lindsay

Before receiving his Ph.D. for atomic models of alkali metals from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924, he spent the 1922-23 academic year as a Fellow of The American-Scandinavian Foundation at the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr and Hans Kramers.

Thomas Penn

Penn inherited the position of Proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania for the Crown of England in 1718 along with his brothers John and Richard on the death of their father William Penn, until 1746 when John died.


see also

104th Regiment

104th Ohio Infantry, a unit of the United States Army during the American Civil War

15 equal temperament

The American musician Wendy Carlos used 15-ET as one of two scales in the track Afterlife from the album Tales of Heaven and Hell.

342d Fighter Day Group

The enemy was on the defensive, and the American defensive outposts in the Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Bermuda) were shifting to secondary roles.

A-dec

The company has affiliations with the American Association of Women Dentists, American Dental Association, American Student Dental Association, Dental Trade Alliance, National Dental Association, British Dental Health Foundation, and Australian Dental Industry Association among others.

Also

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), a program developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

American Canoe Association

The site of Neide and Kendall's launch and the formation of the American Canoe Association is located on the grounds of the Wiawaka Holiday House.

American Eagle Aircraft Corporation

Victor Roos, a co-founder of the 1921 Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company in Omaha, Nebraska, had left a management position with the Swallow Aircraft Company in 1928, and was tapped to head the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft Corporation.

Andrew Rock

In the 2004 Olympic Games, Rock ran for the American 4x400m relay team in the qualifying heats, securing the team a place in the final.

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Austral Wheel Race

Corruption tinged the event in 1901 when the American, "Plugger" Bill Martin, won from scratch, to allegations of fixing by John Wren.

Bathycrinicola tumidula

Bathycrinicola tumidula is also notable for inhabiting McMurdo Sound, near McMurdo Station, Ross Island here, scientists who inhabit the American station throughout the Summer months can observe this species carefully.

Bremerhaven Army Airfield

The US needed a support point with an harbour, to allow the unhindered support of US forces in the American Occupation Zone in Southern Germany.

Brooke Mikey Anderson

Brooke played the character Claire on the Australian series E Street, and has appeared in two episodes ("?" and "Live Together, Die Alone") of the American series Lost.

Catherine Murphy

Catherine Murphy (singer), soprano singer who appeared in the American 1950s Opera Susannah

Celestino Piatti

In 1971 Piatti was commissioned by the American Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to design a 39" x 45" poster to promote the closed circuit viewing at the State Armoury in Harlem of the March 8 Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight at Madison Square Garden.

Charles Valentine Riley

He was among the first to notice that the American grapes, Vitis labrusca were resistant to grape Phylloxera.

Craig Montoya

Craig Aloysius Montoya (born September 14, 1970) is the American bassist of Castella and Tri-Polar and former bassist of Everclear.

Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija

It was in 1901 during the American Civil Commission that Rosales, together with Balungao, Umingan, San Quintin, were segregated from Nueva Ecija and became parts of Pangasinan.

David Holsinger

It is his largest selling work and has been used in several televised memorial performances in recent years, including commemorative services for the Challenger astronauts, Ronald Reagan, and the fallen heroes of the American armed forces.

Deirdre Cartwright

As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.

Dorothy Stewart

In the winter of 1955, with a grave medical condition, Stewart was accompanied by her dear friend Maria Chabot to Oaxaca, Mexico where Dorothy was quoted as saying, “If I have to be sick, I would rather be sick here where I hear the street sounds of Mexico.” As Dorothy's condition worsened, Chabot moved her to the American British Cowdry Hospital in Mexico City, where Stewart died of a brain hemorrhage on December 24, 1955.

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild

In 2001, the American Rhododendron Society in Eugene, Oregon awarded him a citation in appreciation of his many services to the horticultural world.

Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story

The film is a biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys.

Fort Gaddis

Jordan, Terry G. The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation.

Garry Hoy

Although the name, date, and location were changed to protect his privacy, this death was featured in the American television show 1000 Ways to Die on Spike TV.

Governor Murray

John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), Scottish peer and colonial governor in the American colonies

Heidi, Girl of the Alps

The American version was produced by Claudio Guzman and Charles Ver Halen and featured a voice cast including Randi Kiger as Heidi, Billy Whitaker as Peter, Michelle Laurita as Clara, Vic Perrin as Alm-Ohi, Alan Reed as Sebastian, and legendary voice talent Janet Waldo as Aunt Dete.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

Lawrence Olson

After the end of the war, Olson worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington DC between 1948 and 1950, and he served as cultural attaché at the American embassy in Manila, Philippines from 1951 to 1952, before finishing his PhD at Harvard.

Leander Cox

Cox was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress and as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1857).

Lucienne Boyer

In 1927, Boyer sang at a concert by the great star Félix Mayol where she was seen by the American impresario Lee Shubert who immediately offered her a contract to come to Broadway.

Lybster

However, during the American Revolution, following some victories in the Ohio and Illinois territories, Patrick Sinclair felt it was necessary to move Fort Michilimackinac from its exposed location on the northernmost point of the lower peninsula of Michigan to Mackinac Island.

Maffett

Robert Clayton Maffett (1836–1865), officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

Martin Kafka

In 2008, Kafka was selected to be a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorder for the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition, due for publication in 2012.

Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio

Miami Township is home to the American offices of LexisNexis information systems, a regional office of MetLife insurance, and the world headquarters of Teradata.

Nicholas Bonanno

Bonanno was also engaged in other labor movement activities, including the American Trade Union Council for Histadrut, Atlanta’s Community Relations Committee, and the United Italian American Labor Council.

Our Lady of Victory Catholic School

The recognition came from the teachings of Deacon David Jones, whose 5th grade art class curriculum that school year was based on the works of noted artist Bob Ross, host of the American PBS television show The Joy of Painting.

Patterson Park

The American defenses were far stronger than anticipated, and U.S. defenders at Fort McHenry successfully stopped British naval forces from advancing close enough to lend artillery support, and British attempts to flank the defense were countered.

Quartier Pigalle

The recent album by the American jazz singer, Madeleine Peyroux, entitled "Bare Bones" (2009), contains a track entitled "Our Lady of Pigalle".

Ralph Capron

He also played football in the American Professional Football Association (Later renamed the National Football League in 1922) with the Chicago Tigers in 1920.

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

System of Cooperation Among the American Air Forces

In 1964, the Peruvian Air Force proposed the creation of a voluntary organization of mutual professional relations in a document titled "Bases and Procedures for a Cooperation System between the American Air Forces".

The Boldness of Style EP

"The Boldness Of Style EP" is the first single from the American rock band Thelonious Monster's second studio album, Next Saturday Afternoon.

Theresa Fairbanks Harris

Harris is the daughter of the American artist and expert of American arts and antiques, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, and the granddaughter of the American sculptor, Avard Fairbanks.

Thomas Charles Farrar

He was a member of the New York Etching Club and of the American Society of Painters in Watercolors.

UBC Media Group

In May 2008, UBC announced its Commercial Division was being bought by the American company, GTN for £15 million.

Utah Construction Company

With Frank Crowe as the chief engineer, the MK-UC partnership successfully built dams throughout the American west.

Whittier, Alaska

The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915.

William Bernbach

He was also named "Top Advertising Agency Executive" in 1969 and received the American Academy of Achievement Award in 1976 and was inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Fame in same year.

William McKay

The news of the declaration of war he carried, along with orders from Major General Isaac Brock, the Commander in Upper Canada, allowed the British detachment to take the American detachment at Fort Mackinac by surprise.