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3 unusual facts about Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik


Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik

On September 7, 1919, Emil Molt established the first Waldorf school in cooperation with Rudolf Steiner.

The Waldorf-Astoria tobacco brand, with the portrait of John Jacob Astor, was taken over by a different company and is currently produced by Reemtsma.

The Waldorf-Astoria-Zigarettenfabrik (English:Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Factory) was a German tobacco company, established by Emil Molt and several other partners on January 1, 1906.


147397 Bobhazel

Bob Sealy founded the Seaside Amateur Astronomers Club and taught astronomy at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon.

Alex Corbisiero

Born 30 August 1988, Alexander Corbisiero is the great grandson of Riccardo Corbisiero, who emigrated from Naples to the United States in 1923 and established Riccardo's – a restaurant well known for its continental cuisine – in Astoria, Queens in the early 1950s.

Alexander G. Barry

Alexander Barry was born on August 23, 1892, in Astoria, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Anavryti, Laconia

The first paved road to Anavryti was built in the 1980s with donations sent by the Anavryti Hometown society in Astoria, Queens, New York.

Astoria–Megler Bridge

The bridge itself is featured prominently in the movies Short Circuit, Kindergarten Cop, and The Goonies.

It stands in for the doomed fictional Madison Bridge in Irwin Allen's 1979 made-for-TV disaster movie The Night the Bridge Fell Down.

Bettringen

Bettringen has a high level high school the so called Scheffold Gymnasium after the former major of Schwaebisch Gmuend; a Realschule the Adalbert-Stifter Realschule, which is named after Adalbert Stifter; a elementary and Hauptschule the so called Uhlandschule after Ludwig Uhland and the Freie Waldorf Schule (Free Waldorf School).

Blockhouse, Nova Scotia

An independent school, it is based on theoretical foundations laid down by Rudolf Steiner and adheres to the principle that any child desiring a Steiner education (referred to as Waldorf education in North America) should receive one.

Bodega Bay, California

The Goonies (1985) Some scenes filmed along the Sonoma Coast, Bodega Bay (and Astoria OR, and Cannon Beach OR).

Cafe Astoria

During this time, the Astoria hosted many important guests from abroad, including Jane Fonda.

Charles Allom

And when the Empress of Britain was launched the same year as the "new" Waldorf-Astoria, among its modern Art Deco decors, the "Mayfair Lounge" by White, Allom was the one space in Edwardian Renaissance manner.

Charles Warren Currier

Bishop Currier died on September 23, 1918, on a train traveling from Waldorf, Maryland, to Baltimore to assist in the funeral of Cardinal John Murphy Farley, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York.

Columbia River Maritime Museum

Visitors may experience what it is like to pilot a tugboat, participate in a Coast Guard rescue on the Columbia River Bar, and live in Astoria during the height of salmon fishing.

CrunchBang Linux

The first letter of the code name also corresponds to the first letter of the upstream Debian release (previously Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler and currently Debian Wheezy and CrunchBang Waldorf).

David Stuart

David Stuart (fur trader), fur trader with the North West Company and Pacific Fur Company, and one of the founders of Fort Astoria

Ed Gardner

Born in Astoria, New York, Gardner was a representative for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency before going into show business.

Eugene Earle Amick

Amick shipped out on the USS Astoria a week later as she prepared to participate in the first Allied thrust in the Pacific, the invasion of the Solomon Islands at Guadalcanal.

Gloria Guinness

The Guinnesses had an apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, an 18th-century farmhouse called Villa Zanroc in Epalinges near Lausanne (with a bowling alley in the basement), a 350-ton yacht that plied the Mediterranean in the summer, a seven-story house on Avenue Matignon in Paris, decorated by Georges Geffroy (1903–1971), a stud farm in Normandy, Haras de Piencourt near Guy de Rothschild, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Florida.

Green Meadow Waldorf School

Green Meadow Waldorf School (GMWS) is an independent Waldorf school located in Chestnut Ridge, Rockland County, New York.

Greg Waldorf

Given his expertise, Waldorf has been cited on matters relating to investing and technology in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Jose Mercury News, and BusinessWeek among other publications and he has made numerous broadcast appearances on CNBC.

Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

Subsequently, Hardenbergh received commissions to build the Waldorf (1893) and the adjoining Astoria (1897) hotels for William Waldorf Astor and Mrs. Astor, respectively.

History of Waldorf schools

In July 2008, the Hereford Waldorf School in Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire, U.K. secured funding to become a state-funded academy specializing in the natural environment, to be known as The Steiner Academy Hereford.

Jennifer L. Holm

The events of the play (and book) were set just north of Astoria in Naselle, Washington.

Jess Roden

The Butts Band played a short US tour (including multiple dates at New York's Max's Kansas City), a handful of British dates (including opening for The Kinks at London's Finsbury Park Astoria, later The Rainbow Theatre) as well as recording one session for BBC TV's The Old Grey Whistle Test after which Roden, Chenn and Davies left the group.

Joe Loss

Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club.

John Andrew Buchanan

John Andrew Buchanan (1863 — 1935) was a judge and politician in Astoria in the U.S. state of Oregon, and an amateur poet who wrote the lyrics to the Oregon state song.

John McLoughlin

Upon his arrival, he determined that the headquarters of the company at Fort Astoria (now Astoria, Oregon) at the mouth of the Columbia River was unfit.

KOAC

KOAC-FM, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to Astoria, Oregon, United States

Luke Halpin

Halpin was born in Astoria, Queens, New York City to parents, Helen and Eugene Halpin, and grew up with his family in Long Island City.

Lynne Serpe

She was the Green Party candidate in the 2009 New York City Council race for New York’s 22nd District, which includes Astoria, Long Island City and parts of Jackson Heights, and finished second in that race.

Marshall Barer

Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.

Michael Gianaris

He represents New York's 12th State Senate district, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and parts of Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood and Woodhaven.

Minnesota State Highway 83

State Highway 83 serves as a north–south route in south-central Minnesota between Waldorf, Pemberton, St. Clair, and Mankato.

Minnesota State Highway 83 is a highway in south-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with State Highway 30 near Waldorf and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 22 in Mankato.

Mount Barker Waldorf School

Mount Barker Waldorf School is a private school located in the Adelaide Hills, roughly 40 km East of Adelaide, South Australia.

Paul Jata

His older brothers persuaded him to become a right-handed batter, and he was a .400 hitter at William Cullen Bryant High School in Astoria, New York.

Quebec Route 366

In 2011, Google Maps mislabeled Quebec Route 366 as running concurrent with the entire length of U.S. Route 30 from Astoria, Oregon to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Rákóczi út

It starts at the Astoria, the intersection with Little Boulevard in the Downtown and runs to east between VII. and VIII. districts, crossing the Grand Boulevard until gets the Keleti Railway Station (the central inter-city and international railway terminal of Budapest).

Seaside Municipal Airport

Other operations include training flights from Astoria and the Willamette Valley, charter flights, US Coast Guard, and Air National Guard operations.

Socialist Party of Oregon

While some worked in the area's not insubstantial timber industry, most of the Finns in Astoria caught steelhead and salmon on the Columbia, working independently as small proprietors on their own boats.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

The fictional Madison Bridge is represented by the Astoria-Megler Bridge on the Columbia River, the longest continuous truss bridge in North America.

The Observer

These disagreements ultimately led Northcliffe to sell the paper to William Waldorf Astor in 1911, who transferred ownership to his son Waldorf four years later.

The Son of No One

Filming took place from February 2010 to April in Astoria, Queens, NY, with several scenes shot in the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City.

Waldorf, Maryland

In 1880 the General Assembly of Maryland by an act changed the name to "Waldorf" in honor of William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor (1763–1848), who was born in Walldorf, Palatinate, Germany.

WPRS

WPRS-FM, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Waldorf, Maryland, United States


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