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10 unusual facts about Waltham


Boston Crusaders Senior Drum and Bugle Corps

The first home for the “Saders” (now officially renamed the Crusaders Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of Boston) was at the City Hall in Waltham, Massachusetts, though, over the years, the corps has had numerous practice facilities in the greater Boston area.

Charles Henry Bromedge Caldwell

Charles Henry Bromedge Caldwell (1823, Hingham, Massachusetts – 1877, Waltham, Massachusetts) was a United States Navy officer during the American Civil War.

Evelyn Sears

Evelyn Georgianna Sears (March 9, 1875, Waltham, Massachusetts - November 10, 1966, Waltham) was an American tennis player at the beginning of the 20th century.

I Sebastiani

The troupe frequently performs to packed crowds at the Charles River Museum of Industry in Waltham, MA.

Ida Annah Ryan

She was born on November 4, 1873 at Waltham, MA, one of five children of Albert Morse Ryan and Carrie S. Jameson.

Kevin Clifton

Kevin Clifton (born 13 October 1982) is an English professional dancer born in Waltham, Lincolnshire.

Massachusetts Route 117

In Weston the route bends southeastward through the Silver Hill, Hastings and Kendall Green sections of town before entering Waltham.

New England Compounding Center meningitis outbreak

Inspectors went to the Waltham, Massachusetts location of the Rhode Island-based Infusion Resource company and found, "significant issues with the environment in which drugs were being mixed".

Waltham, Quebec

The name Waltham, mentioned on the Gale and Duberger map of 1795, comes from a place on the River Lea in Essex, England, named Waltham Abbey.

Waltham, Vermont

The children of Waltham in grades K-6 are sent to Vergennes Elementary School in Vergennes, and the children in grades 7-12 are sent to Vergennes Union High School.


A1010 road

At Waltham Cross the old route is the pedestrianised High Street, which the designated A1010 by-passes, terminating at the A121.

Acrydite

The idea of acrylamide modified DNA was developed by T. Christian Boles, while working at Mosaic Technologies, a now-defunct biotechnology company located in Waltham, MA.

Alan M. Davis

He has held industry positions at GTE (a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in Phoenix, Arizona; and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts), BTG (Vice President in Vienna, Virginia), and Omni-Vista (President in Colorado Springs, Colorado).

Allen Morgan

His interest in ornithology began in 1934 when an English and Latin teacher at Mount Prospect, David Lloyd Garrison, came to class all excited about an Orange-crowned Warbler that he had seen at Totten's Pond in back of the school, a very rare sighting for Waltham.

Austin Warren

He attended public grammar school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts and briefly attended Waltham High School, where he received instruction in Latin and studied Esperanto independently.

BBC East Midlands

Peterborough and north Northamptonshire, although mostly covered by Waltham, have their radio stations both tied to the BBC East region in distant Norwich.

Beaver Brook

Beaver Brook Reservation, Massachusetts; a state park in Belmont and Waltham

Connection Machine

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts (it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

Glossary of mill machinery

Most windmills had four sails, although some had five (Boston), six (Waltham, Lincs) or eight sails Heckington, Lincs and there is one recorded twelve sailed windmill (Cottenham, Cambs).

J.W. Childs Associates

The company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts and was founded in 1995 by longtime buyout investor John W. Childs, who had previously been the number two partner at large-cap Boston-based private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners.

Kevin Clifton

Clifton grew up in the small North East Lincolnshire town of Waltham attending the East Ravendale Primary school where he was notable for his Michael Jackson impressions.

Middlesex County Courthouse

Eastern Middlesex County Second District Court, Waltham, Massachusetts, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)

Morgan W. Phillips

The Consulting Services Group became the SPNEA Conservation Center, moved to the Lyman Estate in the Boston suburb of Waltham.

Nelson Figueroa

Figueroa attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts where he pitched for three years and earned a bachelors degree in American Studies.

New Jew

Gann Academy: The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, in Waltham, Massachusetts

Norumbega

In the late 19th century, Eben Norton Horsford linked the name and legend of Norumbega to sites in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, and built the Norumbega Tower at the confluence of Stony Brook and the Charles River in Weston, Massachusetts, where he believed Fort Norumbega was located (see the Horsford article for more on his claims).

OpenPages

OpenPages was a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company providing Governance, Risk, and Compliance software and services to enterprise customers primarily in the financial services industry.

Sitt

Gann Academy, coeducational Jewish high school located in Waltham, Massachusetts

St James Street

St James Street railway station, a railway station in Waltham Forest, London, England

The Daily News Transcript

By 1980, the Transcript -- then called the Daily Transcript -- was the flagship of a five-paper chain, Transcript Newspapers Inc., that included the News-Tribune of Waltham and three weekly newspapers in West Roxbury-Roslindale (neighborhoods of Boston), Newton and Needham (suburbs west of Boston).

Waltham Abbey Church

A legend, recorded in the 12th century De Inventione Sanctœ Crucis Nostrœ ("The Discovery of our Holy Cross") or "Waltham Chronicle", relates that, in about 1016, the blacksmith at another estate belonging to Tovi, at Montacute near Glastonbury, found a large black flint (or marble) crucifix buried at the top of a hill, after a dream.

Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation

The Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation's history originates 1854 on the banks of the Charles River, in Waltham, Massachusetts, with the Waltham Watch Company.

Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition

The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition is a research organisation owned by Mars, Incorporated located at Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom.

Waltham Cross railway station

Waltham Cross railway station, opened in 1840, is a railway station that serves Waltham Cross in Hertfordshire, England.

In the 2012 Summer Olympics, Waltham Cross station (along with Cheshunt, the next northbound station) was the main access point for the Broxbourne whitewater canoe and kayak slalom.

Waltham Symphony Orchestra

The orchestra had its inaugural concert on May 10, 2008, at the Kennedy Middle School Auditorium in Waltham, with a program featuring works by Mozart ("Così fan tutte Overture"), Daniel-Lesur ("Nocturne for Oboe and orchestra"), D'Indy ("Fantaisie on French popular Themes"), Ravel ("Mother Goose Suite") and Brahms ("Symphony No 3 in F Major, Op. 90").

Waltham Watch Company

Astronaut David Scott, commander of the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, wore a Waltham watch on his third lunar EVA when his standard Omega Speedmaster Professional chronograph became damaged.

Whipps

Whipps Cross University Hospital, NHS-run University Hospital in Whipps Cross, Waltham Forest, London, England

Whipps Cross, area of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in London, England

Willibald

Miraculously, Willibald survived and at the age of five was received into a Benedictine monastery called Waldheim (now Bishop's Waltham) in Hampshire, England.

WKLB

WKLB-FM, a radio station (102.5 FM) licensed to Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Yatri

It was invented by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th century and recreated for Yatri by the late Gerhard Finkenbeiner, a master glass blower in Waltham Massachusetts from Franklin’s original sketches.