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unusual facts about Union, Kentucky



Alexander Keith Marshall

Marshall was a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.

Alexander S. Webb

The brigade repulsed the assault of Brig. Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade of Georgians as it topped the ridge late in the afternoon, chasing the Confederates back as far as the Emmitsburg Road, where they captured about 300 men and reclaimed a Union battery.

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.

Andon, Alpes-Maritimes

The cities of the Union of Aix (1382-1387) supported Charles of Duras against Louis I of Anjou.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

Union dead from the battle were buried in common graves on the battlefield, but were later reinterred in the Memphis National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Connecticut Route 198

Route 198 was commissioned in 1932, running along the current route of Route 171 from former Route 15 (now I-84) in Union to former Route 91 (now Route 171) in Woodstock.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Daniel Yergin

His next book was Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World, written with Thane Gustafson, which provided scenarios for the development of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo

Here, with the position of resident ambassador in the court of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, leader of the Holy League, he pursued the union of the pro-Habsburg forces with the German Emperor Ferdinand II and with Catholic powers.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

East New Market, Maryland

Thus the continued use of the older burial ground of their former location at "Union Chapel" was no longer needed; it coincides with a more general trend known the rise of the cemetery movement (for a general discussion of the topic of the cemetery movement see the book Lincoln at Gettysburg by historian Garry Wills)

Electoral integrity

These standards have been endorsed in a series of authoritative conventions, treaties, protocols, and guidelines by agencies of the international community, notably by the decisions of the UN General Assembly, by regional bodies such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the African Union (AU), and by member states in the United Nations.

Elna

Elna, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, USA

Friedrich von Hermann

Warmly supporting the customs union (Zollverein), he acted in 1851 as one of its commissioners at the great industrial exhibition at London, and published an elaborate report on the woollen goods.

Griffith College Students' Union

The Students' Union organizes a number of different events throughout the year from Freshers Week, Halloween Ball, Thanksgiving, Diwali, Eid, Christmas Ball, SHAG Week and RAG Week and the formal Griffith Ball which takes place towards the end of the year.

Helene Raynsford

Raynsford was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with Paralympic swimmer Graham Edmunds, football player Clarke Carlisle and former England rugby union captain, Martin Corry.

Henry Crocker

Henry H. Crocker (1839–1913), Union Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Humphreys Peak

Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

JNR dismissal lawsuit

On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.

Josef Špaček

Following World War II, liberated Czechoslovakia became increasingly subject to political pressure from the Soviet Union.

Kenny Rogers Roasters

It was founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and John Y. Brown, Jr., who was former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

King Kolax

Kolax had a position in the Chicago Federation of Musicians, and union rules prevented him from being able to gig and hold office at the same time.

Knob Lick

Knob Lick, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Levi Todd

Two of his daughters married politicians, Jane Briggs marrying congressman Daniel Breck and Elizabeth Todd marrying Charles Carr, the son of Kentucky statesman Walter Carr.

Mohammed al Janahi

The film, which stars Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, tells the story of a Texas congressman (Hanks) who works to help the Mujahideen defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan using an unlikely alliance of lawmakers, Israelis, Pakistanis, arms dealers and Egyptians.

NBC Bearings

The company was awarded the prestigious Deming Application Prize by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE).

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.

Norway in 1814

He learned that Prussia and Austria were waning in their support of Sweden's claims to Norway, that Tsar Alexander I of Russia (a distant cousin of Christian Frederik's) favored a Swedish-Norwegian union but not with Bernadotte as the king, and that the United Kingdom was looking for a solution to the problem that would keep Norway out of Russia's influence.

NTEU

National Treasury Employees Union, a trade union representing employees of the U.S. federal government

Olympian Publishing

The Union of Hope and Sadness: The Art of Gail Potocki (2006) (with introduction by Jim Rose of The Jim Rose Circus)

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Rippon, West Virginia

In one of these, on November 9, 1862, Union General John W. Geary undertook a reconnaissance mission from Harpers Ferry.

Sex in the American Civil War

Popular legend has it that they were so common around the Army of the Potomac when Union general Joseph Hooker was in command that the term "hooker" was coined to describe them; however, the term had been in use since 1845.

Shalva Maglakelidze

He did not give up his efforts for Georgian émigré mobilization for which purpose he founded, in January 1954, the Munich-based Union of Georgian Soldiers Abroad.

Siege of Suffolk

Maj. Gen. George Pickett's Confederate division probed Foster's and Dodge's fronts driving in the Union picket lines.

Singapore Labour Foundation

Its aims are to improve the welfare of union members and to further the development of trade unions in Singapore.

Sylvia Pankhurst

After the post-war liberation of Ethiopia, she became a strong supporter of union between Ethiopia and the former Italian Somaliland, and MI5's file continued to follow her activities.

Thanks to My Mother

Two days after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Suzanne was eight years old, Germans occupied Vilnius and Suzanne’s father, Isak Weksler was arrested as a Jew and was eventually sent to his death at Paneriai - Ponary.

Third Ministry of Machine-Building of the PRC

At the close cooperation with the Soviet Union ministry was responsible for launching the production supplied by Soviet fighters F-2 (MiG-15), J-4 (MiG-17), JS (MiG-17PF) and J-6 (MiG-19) and bombers, H-5 (Il-28) and H-6 (Tu-16).

Thomas Preston Carpenter

At the breaking out of the American Civil War, he joined the Union League of Philadelphia, and gave his entire sympathies to the Union cause.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Vanora Bennett

She also studied Russian at Voronezh State University in the former Soviet Union and at Le Centre d'Études Russes du Potager du Dauphin, a centre established by White Russian emigres outside Paris, at Meudon.

Vicente González

Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union

Waterfront Development Corporation

An agreement to provide equal funding between the governments of Louisville, Jefferson County, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky led to the creation of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

WBLN

WQQR, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to Clinton, Kentucky, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from March 1997 to March 1998

WHUN

WHUN-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to serve Mount Union, Pennsylvania

William Sewell

William Joyce Sewell (1835–1901), Union Army officer and Senator from New Jersey

YNK

Yeketî Niştîmanî Kurdistan, (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) a Kurdish political party


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