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5 unusual facts about Walnut


Chiles en nogada

The walnut used to prepare nogada is a variety called Nogal de Castilla or Castillan Walnut, also known as the English Walnut.

Dick Drescher

Drescher set his personal best in the discus throw event (63.90 metres) at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut on April 24, 1976.

Earl Caddock

He ran a Ford agency selling cars, tractors and heavy machinery to farmers in Walnut, Iowa.

Julianna Tudja

Her personal best is 67.52 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Walnut, California.

Walnut

However, an investigation of a fatal Boeing CH-47 Chinook crash which occurred on September 11, 1982 in Mannheim, Germany, revealed that the accident was caused by an oil port clogged with walnut grit, leading to the discontinuation of walnut shells as a cleaning agent.


4 × 200 metres relay

The men's world record is 1:18.68, currently held by the Santa Monica Track Club of Michael Marsh, Leroy Burrell, Floyd Heard and Carl Lewis set April 17, 1994 at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, California.

Alabama State Route 58

SR-58 begins at an intersection with US-82/SR-6/SR-25/SR-219 in Centreville, heading east on two-lane undivided Walnut Street.

Arslanbob

By the time of Alexander the Great, the walnut forest was locally known for hunting.

Atherton Tableland

Although tin was a major part in the Tablelands, timber is what Atherton owes its existence to with large areas of redcedar, kauri, maple, black bean, walnut, white beech and red tulip oak being milled for buildings.

Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

Tradition has it that the site was haunted by Nero's ghost or demons in the form of black crows; therefore the pope chopped down the walnut tree sheltering the crows and built a chapel in its place.

Bushnell-Prairie City High School

Bushnell-Prairie City High School (BPCHS) is a public four-year high school located at 845 North Walnut Street in Bushnell, Illinois, a small city in McDonough County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States.

Caprese

Torta caprese, a traditional Italian chocolate and almond or walnut cake

Charles H. Tenney

The Tenney Memorial Chapel, designed by architect Grosvenor Atterbury, and located within the Walnut Grove Cemetery was dedicated (1927) by Daniel Gleason Tenney in memory of his parents.

Criticism of Yahoo!

The frequency of advertising pop-ups for spyware, generated from a partnership with advertising distributor Walnut Ventures, who had a direct partnership with Direct Revenue, could be increased or decreased based on Yahoo!’s immediate revenue needs, according to some former employees in Yahoo!’s sales department.

East Liverpool, Ohio

Downtown is considered to lie between Ohio State Routes 7/11/39/U.S. Route 30 in the west, College and Walnut Streets in the east, West 2nd Street in the South and Moore and Grant Streets in the North.

Gagra

According to the Georgian scholars, Gagra is derived from Gakra meaning walnut in the Svan language.

Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union

A few years later, the union moved into the historic Witherspoon Building at 1319-1323 Walnut Street in Philadelphia.

J. californica

Juglans californica, the California black walnut, California walnut or the Southern California black walnut, a large shrub or small tree species endemic to California

Jinnah House

Designed by architect Claude Batley in the European-style architecture, the sea facing palatial bungalow was constructed using exquisite Italian marble and walnut woodwork.

John Yates Beall

He was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, now West Virginia, on his father's farm, Walnut Grove.

Joseph R. Grundy

Grundy had a summer home on the Neshaminy Creek called Walnut Grove and one in the city of Bristol.

Juglans mandshurica

Juglans mandshurica, the Manchurian walnut, is a deciduous tree of the genus Juglans (section Cardiocaryon), native to the Eastern Asiatic Region (China, Russian Far East, North Korea and South Korea).

KRLW

KIYS, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, which held the call sign KRLW-FM from 1989 to 2010

Lake Highlands Junior High School

Lake Highlands Junior High Junior High School is a public junior high school, part of the Richardson Independent School District, located at 10301 Walnut Hill Lane Dallas, TX 75238 in an area of northeast Dallas known as Lake Highlands.

Manali Sanctuary

A path from Manali log huts and Dhungri temple passes through dense Deodar, Kail, Horse chestnut, Walnut and Maple forests.

Milas carpet

The yellow is obtained from leaves of peach and apricot trees, the distinctive reddish brown (which is also frequently encountered in artefacts dating from the Carians, the inhabitants of the same region in antiquity) from Erica vulgaris, the brown from walnut leaves, the very dark, brownish yellow from acorns, the green from mint, and the wool is blackened by leaving it in the ground for a week.

Milo Baughman

The "California Modern" collection created for Glenn of California in 1948, along with Greta Magnusson-Grossman, used walnut, iron and Formica, and put forth a distinctive Los Angeles style.

National Raisin Reserve

In addition to the National Raisin Reserve, during the New Deal other reserves existed for almonds, walnuts, tart cherries and other products.

Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge

The refuge, formerly known as Walnut Creek, is named after Congressman Neal Edward Smith, who championed its creation.

Neolithic Subpluvial

In the highlands of the central Sahara beyond the Libyan desert,... in the great massifs of the Tibesti and the Hoggar, the mountaintops, today bare rock, were covered at this period with forests of oak and walnut, lime, alder and elm.

Nizah Morris

3:35 a.m. - A second series of 911 calls takes place when Morris is found at 16th and Walnut streets, injured and unconscious, but breathing.

Penn Mutual

Penn Mutual's original Philadelphia headquarters building at the corner of Walnut and 6th Streets was a cast-iron structure that was replaced in 1913 by one designed by Edgar Viguers Seeler (1867-1929).

Potes

Like the rest of the Liébana region, Potes enjoys a Mediterranean microclimate that allows the cultivation of the vines, walnut and poplar.

Robert Elmore

In 1925 the family relocated once again to Wayne, Pennsylvania where Elmore was to live at 130 Walnut Avenue until his death in 1985.

Robert Ortlieb

In 1957 a nine-foot walnut statue by Ortlieb of the Crucifixion of Jesus entitled "For They Know Not What They Do" was placed in Westwood Community Methodist Church.

Southwark Park

Opposite the entrance to the art gallery is a Walnut tree (Juglans regia) and a series of three or four Silver Maples (Acer saccharinum).

Stephen Winchester Dana

He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Belvidere, New Jersey, from November, 1866, till July, 1868, when he was called to the Walnut street church in West Philadelphia, which grew steadily under his pastoral care and earnest preaching.

Tonto National Monument

Other common plants include: cholla, prickly pear, hedgehog, and barrel cactus (flowering from April to June); yucca, sotol, and agave; creosote bush and ocotillo; palo verde and mesquite trees; an amazing variety of colorful wild flowers in good years (February to March); and a lush riparian area which supports large Arizona Walnut, Arizona Sycamore, and hackberry trees.

Tony Angell

In the early 1940s the Angell family took up residency in the San Fernando Valley, which was still largely undeveloped and surrounded by vegetable farms, citrus and walnut orchards.

Town Pavilion

, 11th St. (Petticoat Lane) and 12th St. AT&T's official entrance was 1100 Walnut St and the official retail entrance was 1111 Main St. Also included in this component were two historic renovations, The Harzfeld's building on the corner of 11th and Main, and The Boley Building on the corner of 12th and Walnut.

Valley Times

The Contra Costa Times, in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., which publishes (or published) some editions as the Valley Times

Walnut Creek CDROM

Walnut Creek developed a close relationship with the FreeBSD Unix-like open source operating system project from its inception in 1993.

Walnut Hill, Philadelphia

West Philadelphia High School is located in Walnut Hill and The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College is close by, if not technically within the boundaries of the neighborhood.

Walnut Ridge Baptist Academy

Walnut Ridge Baptist Academy was founded in 1973 as a ministry of Walnut Ridge Baptist Church.

Walnut Whip

Ken Livingstone famously said the London 2012 Summer Olympics will cost Londoners the price of one Walnut Whip (38p) per week.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

William Henry Venable

His granddaughter Evelyn Venable attended Walnut Hills and went on to become a noted actress.

William K. Vanderbilt House

It featured panelling in walnut, carved in the style of Grinling Gibbons.

Wood trim

Wood trim can be made from natural materials like beechwood, maple, walnut, oak, or from synthetic materials.

WSTF

Westaff - a staffing company based primarily out of Walnut Creek, California, United States and traded publicly on the NASDAQ market, using the stock symbol WSTF


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