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unusual facts about United, Pennsylvania



1995–96 FA Premier League

Manchester United and Newcastle United emerged as the primary title contenders for the 1995–96 season.

Alex Dawson

Dawson was the last player to score a hat trick in an FA Cup semi-final, back in 1958 when Manchester United beat Fulham 5–3 in a replay at Highbury.

Attic Records

ATIC Records, Manchester, United Kingdom electronic / Hip Hop label, founded by Aim in 2005

Beacon of Hope

A Beacon of Hope, a 1963 United States report on cultural exchange programs

Ben O'Donoghue

In 1996 O'Donoghue travelled to the United Kingdom where he worked at The River Café before moving to become Head Chef at the Monte's Club in Knightsbridge with Jamie Oliver.

Charles Graham

Charles K. Graham (1824–1889), sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and brigadier

Charles Treat

Treat served in Artillery assignments in the United States, including postings to the western states during the American Indian Wars and duty as aide-de-camp to Oliver O. Howard.

Cleome platycarpa

It is native to the western United States from northeastern California to Idaho, including the Modoc Plateau, where it grows on clay and volcanic soils in the sagebrush.

Committee of Five

On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Cougar Helicopters Flight 91

As the state of manufacture, the United States was represented by eight investigators, from the National Transportation Safety Board, assisted by the FAA and Sikorsky.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).

Edward S. Walker, Jr.

Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Eric Patrick

Originally from Port Arthur, Texas, he played in a band throughout the southern United States before he studied art and film at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Errett

Russell Errett (1817–1891), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

Evangelical and Reformed Church

United States President Theodore Roosevelt attended Washington D.C.'s Grace Reformed Church, an Evangelical and Reformed congregation.

George K. Brady

He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.

Gray squirrel

The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), from the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; introduced into Britain, Ireland, western North America, Italy, and South Africa

Hanis

Mark Hanis, Co-Founder, Board member, & Founding President of United to End Genocide

Henry Auchey

Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.

Ishwar Das Varshnei

Later he established the first flat glass factory in Bahjoi by the name of United Provinces Glass Works, incorporated as a limited liability company in 1916.

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.

Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō

One reason for the discrepancy in numbers was (in sharp contrast to the United States) the Imperial Japanese Navy's lack of insistence that its carrier planes have the smallest possible folded wingspan (many designs' folded only near the tips, while the wings of the Yokosuka D4Y Suisei dive-bomber did not fold at all).

Jean Gottmann

He found refuge in the United States, where he received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to attend the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

John Doebley

John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

Liberty County Airport

Liberty Municipal Airport in Liberty County, Texas, United States (FAA: T78)

Monroe, North Carolina

The former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States.

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

NBFA

National Black Farmers Association, for African American farmers in the United States

Paila marina

In episode 11, "Abiquiu", of the third season of US TV series Breaking Bad, the character Gus Fring, a prominent Chilean methamphetamine distributor in the south of the United States, prepares a Paila Marina for Walter White while explaining the origin of this typical Chilean dish.

Phoenix Academy

Phoenix Hebrew Academy, a Jewish day school in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Preferential voting

Bucklin voting, which was sometimes known as "preferential voting" when used in the United States

Robert C. Smith

In January 1999, at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro, Smith announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States (at the time the front-runner was Texas Governor George W. Bush).

Robert Michael Dow Jr.

On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.

Robins Air Force Base

When the U.S. Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots.

Roderick Stephens

He received the Medal of Freedom, the United States's highest civilian award, for his contributions during World War II in his design and engineering of the DUKW ("duck") military amphibious vehicle.

Ronald G. Beckett

Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

SeaPerch

Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber

In 2011, Al Jaber was selected to serve on the United Nations Secretary General’s high level group on sustainable energy for all.

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.

Wanda Landowska

She settled in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1949, and re-established herself as a performer and teacher in the United States, touring extensively.

WBGR

WBGR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 33) licensed to Bangor/Dedham, Maine, United States

WFSU

WFSU-TV, a television station (channel 11 analog/32 digital) licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship

During the Kashubian diaspora, many families from Wiele emigrated to the area of Winona, Minnesota in the United States, beginning in the late 1850s.

WRSN

WKSL, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Cary, North Carolina, United States, which held the call sign WRSN from 1996 to 2006

WUFR

WUFR-LP, a low-power radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to Umatilla, Florida, United States

WUIN

WLTT, a radio station (1180 AM) licensed to Carolina Beach, North Carolina, United States, briefly known as WUIN in January 2011


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