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3 unusual facts about Wainwright


History of bison conservation in Canada

Buffalo National Park, established in 1909 in Wainwright, Alberta, received its first shipment of 325 bison on June 16, 1909 after being transferred from Elk Island National Park.

Kathleen Bryson

Bryson spent the first two years of her life in the Arctic village of Wainwright and, when she was three, her family moved to Kenai, where she lived until she was 18, whereupon she moved to Stockholm to study archaeology.

Wood bison

These captive herds are particularly important for conservation and recovery purposes, because the larger free-ranging herds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park were infected with bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis after 7,000 plains bison (Bison bison bison) were trans-shipped by barge from Buffalo National Park near Wainwright, Alberta in the 1920s.


40 Odd Years

Regarding filmmaker Judd Apatow's involvement in 40 Odd Years, Wainwright noted, "I would see him and he would say, "You gotta have a box!"

Abertay Historical Society

The founders were the Principal of University College, Major-General Douglas Wimberley, and the College's history lecturer, Dr Frederick T Wainwright.

Adam Wainwright

Three days later, the Cardinals announced that Wainwright would miss the entire 2011 season––and possibly the first three months of the next season––after finding ulnar collateral ligament damage necessitated Tommy John surgery (TJS).

Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty

Sir Joshua Wainwright, a crusader for the Knights Templar in the year 1222, battles the evil Vandal Savage, who steals a shipment of gold and tries to bring a mysterious meteor crashing to Earth.

Cale Gale

At Birmingham International Raceway, Cale added another track qualifying record to his resume, breaking the old mark held by Jeff Wainwright.

Carroll Livingston Wainwright I

Wainwright's eldest child with Edith Gould was Stuyvesant Wainwright II, who represented New York's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to 1961.

Chris Jesty

Some time later the guides were transferred to Frances Lincoln Publishers and the decision was made to produce new editions, not only of the Pictorial Guide but also of several of Wainwright's other walking guides.

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Apart from being the opening and closing track on Poses, a live performance of "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" from Central Park SummerStage appeared on Wainwright's 2005 music DVD, All I Want.

DePaul Blue Demons

During the 2009-10 season, head coach Jerry Wainwright was fired and replaced by Oliver Purnell of Clemson University after the season ended.

Doug Griffiths

Griffiths was first elected in a by-election for the Wainwright constituency on April 8, 2002, after former incumbent Robert Fischer resigned amidst a conflict-of-interest investigation by the Ethics Commissioner.

Durrington Walls

Geoff Wainwright and Timothy Darvill have contested Parker Pearson’s theories, however; they suggest that Stonehenge was a monument to healing and that connections between the two monuments were unlikely.

Elaine Devry

Devry made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the title role of defendant Janice Wainwright in the 1962 episode, "The Case of the Shapely Shadow."

Ellis Wainwright

In 1904, his name appeared in The Shame of the Cities, a muckraking exposé by Lincoln Steffens which gave details of Wainwright's shady dealings and other public corruption within the United States.

Fatherfucker

For Fatherfucker, Peaches was nominated in the "Outstanding Music Artist" category for the 15th GLAAD Media Awards along with Rufus Wainwright, Meshell Ndegeocello, Junior Senior, and Bitch and Animal, but lost to Rufus Wainwright.

Finsthwaite Heights

Wainwright's walk starts from Newby Bridge, climbs through woodland passing a tower which has a 1799 inscription commemorating the Royal Navy, passes through the village, and climbs to the man-made tarns of Low Dam and High Dam.

Flat Fell

The Summit of Flat Fell is marked by a cairn (not present at the time of Wainwright's visit) and provides extensive views over West Cumbria and the fells of Dent, Grike, Blakeley Raise and Lank Rigg

Foyle's War

Later in the seventh series, Sam has a new love interest, Adam Wainwright, played by Max Brown, a former Bletchley Park codebreaker who proposes to her in that series' final episode.

Here Come the Choppers

Perhaps the most remarkable track though, is Hank and Fred, a real life account of Wainwright driving to the grave of Hank Williams when he heard the news, on the car radio, of the death of children's TV host Fred Rogers.

Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright's father was the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright, and her brother, Martin, is the Northern Editor of The Guardian, to which she occasionally contributes.

J. Mayhew Wainwright

Wainwright was elected as a Republican to the 68th, 69th, 70th and 71st United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1931.

Jerry Wainwright

Over the past two seasons, in 2010 and 2011, Wainwright has served as an in-studio analyst for Sirius XM's Mad Dog Radio's NCAA Tournament coverage with Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.

Julie O'Neill

In November 2013 O'Neill walked Wainwright's 182 mile Coast to Coast trail between St Bees in Cumbria and Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire, naked apart from a pair of walking boots and a rucksack, in order to raise awareness of how rising heating costs were affecting the elderly.

Louie L. Wainwright

Wainwright was appointed as Secretary of the Florida Division of Corrections by Cecil Farris Bryant (Florida Governor at that time) in 1962, replacing H. G. Cochran and remained in the position until 1987, when Richard L. Dugger assumed the role.

Martha Wainwright

In May 2007 Martha Wainwright, her mother, Kate McGarrigle, and cousin Lily Lanken performed "Golden Hair" and "See Emily Play" at the Syd Barrett memorial concert at the Barbican Centre in London.

More Love Songs

Wainwright also enjoyed a period of popularity as a regular on The Jasper Carrott Show in the UK, and many of the songs from his following album were written during this time as well as some (still) unreleased ones.

Nebula Maker

Stapledon first announced his intention to write a history of the universe in his 1935 work Odd John, in which the main character, John Wainwright, has already produced such a thing (Stapledon would often mention his next literary project in the book he was currently working on - the story of "Odd John" is itself mentioned in passing in 1932's Last Men in London).

Persian Gulf campaign of 1809

Understanding that a protracted land campaign would be impossible with the forces available, Wainwright determined to make a series of small raids against the principle pirate bases in the area of the Straits of Hormuz, beginning with Ras al-Khaimah, to the north of the Strait on the Arabian coast.

Rebekah Johnson

The featured musicians were: Butch on drums and percussion (from The Eels, Rufus Wainwright, Tracy Chapman), John Ballinger on guitar and clarinet (from Rufus Wainwright) and Jessica Catron on cello.

Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den

Also featured are songs written by Wainwright's parents: "One Man Guy" (Loudon Wainwright III) originally appeared on I'm Alright (1985) and was recorded for Wainwright's second studio album, Poses (2001); "On My Way to Town" (Kate McGarrigle) is from Kate and Anna McGarrigle's album Love Over and Over (1982).

Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record

Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, à Paris: Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record is a live album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright featuring Thomas Bartlett, Doug Wieselman, and Brad Albetta, and is a tribute to legendary French singer Édith Piaf.

Thomas Nelstrop

In 2007, Nelstrop was chosen to play Ben Wainwright in the critically acclaimed Doctor Who episode Blink, alongside Carey Mulligan and Lucy Gaskell.

William Crossing

The hand drawn sketches of views and rough maps of walks together with the descriptive nature of the walks are like those of the Wainwright guides to the Lake District (see Lakeland Guides).

William Wainwright

William Orbit (William Mark Wainwright, born 1956), English musician and record producer


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