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unusual facts about Waite


William Henry Metcalf

Though born in the United States (Waite, Maine), Metcalf is also considered Canadian since he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1914.


A. E. Waite

Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith illustrated the cards for Waite, and the deck was first published in 1909.

Arthur Waite

A. E. Waite (Arthur Edward Waite, 1857-1942) scholarly mystic

Brecksville, Ohio

The Colson House, built around 1838 by Bolter and Harriet (Waite) Colson.

Cape Waite

Waite was investigating the high number of aircraft crashes in Antarctica when he discovered that certain radar frequencies were not reflected from the surface of the ice, they penetrated through to the land surface below giving false altimeter readings.

Charles Burlingame Waite

Charles Burlingame Waite (born in Wayne County, New York, 29 January 1824; died 1909) was a United States lawyer, jurist and author.

Eden Gray

In the 1960s, Through her books, Gray had an integral part in the creation of the contemporary interest in esoteric Tarot in general, and the Waite-Smith Tarot deck and the Fool's Journey interpretation of the Tarot trump cards in particular.

Edgar Ravenswood Waite

Waite accompanied Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum on the 1896 Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society under Professor William Sollas and Professor Edgeworth David.

Following the expedition to Funafuti in the Ellice Islands (now know as Tuvalu) Waite published an account of The mammals, reptiles, and fishes of Funafuti.

Hallow

In the modern period, some neo-pagans believe that the four suits in the Rider-Waite Tarot cards deck (swords, wands, pentacles and cups), which are also a representation of the four classical elements of air, fire, earth and water, are also hallows.

Henry Randall Waite

Henry Randall Waite (born Copenhagen, New York, 16 December 1845; died East Orange, New Jersey, 8 May 1909) was a United States editor and clergyman.

Herbert Waite

Waite joined New England Power Company in 1954 as a member of their public information department.

Housewife, 49

It also documents the lead character's changing relationships with those around her; standing up to her domineering husband (David Threlfall), developing a close but sometimes strained friendship with Mrs Waite (Stephanie Cole) the head of the Local Women's Voluntary Service, and her changing relationships with her eldest son Arthur (Ben Crompton), and her younger son Cliff (Christopher Harper) who is changed by his experiences of combat.

John Henry Warcup

He worked as a member of the Botany Department in the UK Forestry Commission until 1951, when he accepted a position as a senior microbiologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at the then Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide where he worked until his retirement in 1986.

Liam Waite

Born Liam Owen East took the last name 'Waite' from film producer and actor, Ralph Waite, his stepfather.

Louis Buvelot

He is represented in the galleries at Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Castlemaine, and his bust by Bertram Mackennal and a portrait in oils by J. C. Waite are also in the Melbourne gallery.

Mitcham, South Australia

At the state level it is in the electorate of Waite, and has been represented since 1997 by Martin Hamilton-Smith, also of the Liberal party, and from 2007 to 2009, the State Leader of the Opposition.

Nina Blackwood

Blackwood has said that the 1984 John Waite hit single ""Missing You" was written about her, and that Waite has confirmed this fact.

Pete Waite

Waite also coached one year at Bremen High School in Midlothian, Illinois.

Rebel yell

However, in the documentary film Reconvergence, head of the Museum of the Confederacy and historian Waite Rawls describes his long odyssey to recover recordings of the yell.

Reginald Waite

In 1948, whilst Waite was Head of Disbandment at the headquarters of the Allied Control Commission, he suggested that the Berlin Blockade could be broken by an airlift.

Robert G. L. Waite

To supplement his scholarship and to earn whatever spending money he could, Waite held a variety of jobs, from working in the open pit mines of the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota to guarding the supposed corpse of John Wilkes Booth in a traveling carnival.

In the fall of 1937, Waite entered Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in the midst of the Great Depression.

T. J. Tarsney

During the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894, Governor Waite, a 67-year-old Populist, dispatched 300 troops to the Cripple Creek area on March 18 under the command of Adjutant General Tarsney after the local sheriff had declared that the region was in chaos.

The Babys

During a performance in Cincinnati on 9 December 1980 (the day after John Lennon had been murdered), John Waite was pulled from the stage by an overzealous fan during an encore and seriously injured his knee.

The Crookes

The band formed in 2008, naming themselves after the suburb Crookes in Sheffield, where the guitarists Alex Saunders and Daniel Hopewell met before later recruiting George Waite on vocals and Russell Bates on drums.

Waite Phillips

Waite Phillips and his identical twin brother Wiate were born near Conway, Iowa to Civil War veteran Lewis "Lew" Franklin Phillips and Lucinda Josephine "Josie" Faucett Phillips.

West Torrens Cricket Club

Merv Waite (Australia), Jeff Crowe (New Zealand), Gladstone Small (England) and Jason Gallian (England) played Test cricket soon after leaving West Torrens.


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