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11 unusual facts about Walden


Anne LaBastille

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Labastille purchased land on the edge of a mountain lake in the Adirondacks, and built a log cabin in 1965.

In her second book, Beyond Black Bear Lake (1987), she described how she built her smaller second cabin, Thoreau II, at a more remote area of her property in order to obtain a more Walden-like experience.

Bussum

From 1898 until 1907, Bussum housed the first Dutch socialist colony after the example of Thoreau's Walden, set up by the writer and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden.

Henry Hikes to Fitchburg

The first Henry book was published in February 2000 and was inspired by a passage from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.

Inauguration of Herbert Hoover

Helen Terwilliger, a 13-year old eighth-grade student in Walden, New York, caught the error and wrote to the Chief Justice to tell him.

Mary Frances Schervier

They are still engaged in operating a hospital and a home for the aged in Walden, New York, but have transferred the ownership of many of their institutions to other organizations.

Northwest Panay Peninsula Natural Park

The site is home to a wide range of flora and fauna of the Western Visayas, as the Visayan Leopard Cat, the Visayan warty pig, the Visayan spotted deer, the Negros Bleeding-heart dove, the Blue-naped Parrot, the Visayan Hornbill, Walden's Hornbill, and the Panay monitor.

Phacelia formosula

This plant was first collected on August 6, 1918, near Walden, Colorado.

The Girl from Monday

At the high school, Cecile reads Thoreau's book Walden and is inspired to join the counter-revolution.

Walden's Hornbill

It is closely related to the Writhed Hornbill, but can be recognized by the yellow throat and ocular skin in the male, and the blue throat and ocular skin in the female (both throat and ocular skin are deep orange or red in both sexes of the Writhed Hornbill).

Xu Bing

In this work, a net of cast aluminum letters forming a passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden stretches across the museum's atrium and pours down into an illegible pile of letters on the floor below.


Brian Walden

In 2005, Walden presented 10-minute programmes, A Point of View, on BBC Radio 4, in a spot formerly occupied by Alistair Cooke's Letter From America.

Charles Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden

Lord Howard de Walden married Lady Lucy Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck (c. 1813 – 29 July 1899), daughter of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, at All Souls' Church in Marylebone on 8 November 1828.

Chris Walden Big Band

Vocalists who have appeared frequently with the Chris Walden Big Band are Tierney Sutton, Carol Welsman, and Courtney Fortune.

Divine Emotions

After producing acts like Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston in the mid-1980s, Walden released Divine Emotions, which reached number on one the dance charts.

Emma Bell Miles

Later, she and her family moved to Walden's Ridge (now Signal Mountain), Tennessee.

Fanny Walden

Frederick Ingram "Fanny" Walden (1 March 1888 – 3 May 1949) was an English professional footballer who played on the right-wing for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 1910s and 1920s.

Frantic Romantic

# "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" (Walden/Glass; Gratitude Sky Music/Warner-Tamerlane Music/Warner-Chappell Music-BMI/ASCAP) - 4:54

G. E. M. Membership Department Stores

In the Buffalo, New York area, the SuperFlea fleamarket on Walden Avenue is housed in a former GEX building.

Good News in Hard Times

The magazine praised the Walker's version of "He's Right on Time" for presence of "the glorious spirit of Mahalia Jackson", Peniston's sassy soul strut on "How I Got Over" and, especially, "the touching, tear-jerking way of maternal love" provided by Walden on the song "No Charge".

Helen Herz Cohen

Camp Walden was founded in 1916, shortly after the first Girl Scout camp and Camp Fire Girls camps began, at the very end of the Progressive Era in the United States.

Jess Weixler

She graduated in 1999 from Atherton High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also attended the Walden Theatre Conservatory Program and was in The River City Players acting group and in the Chamber Singers choral group.

Jordan Walden

When the Angels traded Brian Fuentes to the Minnesota Twins, on August 27, 2010, Walden was promoted to the 8th inning setup role.

Juuso Walden

Walden immediately began a major expansion of the new United Paper Mills (now UPM) because he expected strong growth in the global paper demand.

The central argument of this study is that Rudolf and Juuso Walden created a paternalist hold on the Valkeakoski industrial community, even if other industrial plants had already abandoned this idea.

Since his early years, Juuso Walden worked at the mills of United Paper Mills founded by his father, general Rudolf Walden.

Juuso Walden (1907 - 1972) was a Finnish industrial leader and entrepreneur, long term CEO of Yhtyneet Paperitehtaat the predecessor of United Paper Mills.

Los Horcones

Experimentalism and continuous improvement are two of the most important doctrines of a Walden Two community.

Mondo and Other Stories

In "Lullaby" a young girl leaves the busy town for the sea, and a meditative experience (compared to passages in Thoreau's Walden and Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker) lets her realize a transformed way of respiration after which a journey ensues along rocks with mysterious inscriptions, a bunker, a white villa, a Greek temple, and other places of self-discovery.

Patrick Walden

The band's line-up underwent several changes before stabilizing during the late summer of 2004 with Doherty on vocals, Patrick Walden on guitar, Gemma Clarke on drums and Drew McConnell on bass.

Other Doherty/Walden compositions include Top-10 single "Fuck Forever" and "Loyalty Song," "352 Days," "In Love With a Feeling," "Up the Morning," "Pipe Down," "32nd of December," and "8 Dead Boys."

Perfect Combination

Vicki Randle, Jim Gilstrap, Bonnie Boyer, Myrna Matthews, Carla Vaughn, Linda Imperial, Kevin Walden, Ben E. Epps, Dennis Saunders, Frank Loverde, Yolanda Glass, Leslie Ann Jones, John Lehman - Backing vocals

Philander Smith

Her gift that year to the Methodists’ Walden Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas resulted in its immediate renaming as Philander Smith College.

Sadie Jemmett

In 2003, Sadie co-wrote with Robin Walden (aka Deepcutt) the score for a musical theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Good Woman Of Szechuan at Théâtre Vidy, Lucerne & Théâtre de Chaillot, starring Irina Brook and Romane Bohringer.

Schnecken

At Camp Walden (93 Walden Dr., Denmark, Maine 04022), schnecken are served every Sunday morning at breakfast.

SolarEdge

The company is venture capital backed and investors include GE Energy Financial Services, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ORR Partners, Genesis Partners, Walden International, Vertex Venture Capital, JP Asia Capital and Opus Capital Ventures.

Tennessee State Route 116

This section of the highway parallels Walden Ridge to the immediate southeast, and a former spur of the Norfolk Southern Railway (now closed), and passes through Briceville, Fraterville which was the site of a 1902 mine explosion, "The Wye" near the former mining camp of Beech Grove, and finally through a gap in Walden Ridge to enter Lake City.

The Smile

Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), settling into his new role as a Congressman for Virginia's 2nd congressional district, is approached by Vice President Walden (Jamey Sheridan) who wants to float Brody's name as a potential running mate for his presidential run.

Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden

In 1542 he endowed and re-established Buckingham College, Cambridge, under the new name of the College of St Mary Magdalene (commonly Magdalene College), and ordained in the statutes that his heirs, "the possessors of the late monastery of Walden" should be Visitors of Magdalene College in perpetuum.

Walden Abbey

After the dissolution of Walden during the reign of Henry VIII, the abbey property was purchased by Sir Thomas Audley, who built his house Audley End there.

Walden Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Saffron Walden, Essex, England founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex between 1136 and 1143.

Walden Pond

In his journal, Thoreau philosophized upon the wintry sight of Tudor's ice harvesters: "The sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well ... The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Waldenbooks

In 1994, Kmart merged Waldenbooks and Borders, another chain it had acquired, forming the Borders-Walden Group.

Waldenbooks (often referred to as Waldens), operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders Group.

Who's Zoomin' Who?

# "Who's Zoomin' Who" (Aretha Franklin, Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden) - 4:44

William Walden Rubey

William Walden Rubey (December 19, 1898–April 12, 1974) was an American geologist.

Z. Z. Hill

He moved labels several times, including signing with Phil Walden's Macon, Georgia based Capricorn label, but Hill refused to record for Walden, and his recording contract was bought by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams' Mankind label, where Hill finally fulfilled his end of the deal.