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4 unusual facts about Washburn


Washburn, Bayfield County, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Highway 13 serves as a main arterial route in the community.

Washburn, Maine

Dave Demsey, jazz expert, teacher, author, curator of jazz; alumni of Eastman School of Music, Juilliard, Berkley, and UMO.

Washburn, Missouri

Washburn is a city in Washburn Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

In the early years of the school district there was no bus service, so children too far from the school to make it on foot on a daily basis attended various rural schools in the area, including Trents Creek, Maple Grove, Seven Star, Rock Springs, OK, Jacket and others.


Abigail Washburn

In 2005, Washburn returned to China with a group called the Sparrow Quartet, composed of Sollee, Fleck and Grammy Award nominated fiddler Casey Driessen.

Amedisys Home Health and Hospice Care

As of Nov. 6, 2011, the members of the board of directors of Amedisys are: William F. Borne, chairman; Don Washburn, lead director; Ronald LaBorde; Jake L. Netterville, CPA; David Pitts, and Peter Ricchiuti.

Cary Williams

Williams originally attended Fordham University, but after a year of limited playing time, transferred to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.

Charles J. Martin House

He served for many years as the secretary and treasurer of the Washburn-Crosby Company, a predecessor of General Mills.

Chris Washburn

Washburn's case was one of many detailed by Peter Golenbock in his book, Personal Fouls, that effectively ended Valvano's career in 1990.

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

With help from his best friend, Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) and his estranged and strange brother, Glenn (Jon Lovitz), Mitch eventually discovers that Curly's father, Lincoln Washburn, stole a shipment of gold from the Western Pacific Railroad back in 1908, then hid it in the canyons so that one day his son could find it.

Cliff Washburn

On July 4, 2006, Washburn signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League and played in six regular season games for them during the 2006 CFL season, all of them as a starting tackle.

Dan Washburn

Prior to moving to Shanghai, Washburn was a sports writer for The Times in Gainesville, Georgia.

Daniel Christopher Washburn (born October 31, 1973, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American writer and journalist based in Shanghai, China since 2002.

Deric Washburn

As a writer, Washburn was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a WGA Award for "Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen" for The Deer Hunter, along with Quinn Redeker, Louis Garfinkle and Michael Cimino.

Frederick Rossini

In 1932, Frederick Rossini, Edward W. Washburn, and Mikkel Frandsen authored “The Calorimetric Determination of the Intrinsic Energy of Gases as a Function of the Pressure.”

Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs

Gardner–Webb has also produced many notable athletes and coaches, including: Artis Gilmore, Gerry Vaillancourt, John Drew, Woody Fish, Eddie Lee Wilkins, Jim Washburn, Blake Lalli, Jim Maxwell, Gabe Wilkins, Cara Saunders, and Brian Johnston.

Geothermal areas of Yellowstone

Walter Trumbull of the 1870 Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition described a unique event while a man was fishing adjacent to the cone: "...in swinging a trout ashore, it accidentally got off the hook and fell into the spring. For a moment it darted about with wonderful rapidity, as if seeking an outlet. Then it came to the top, dead, and literally boiled."

Harry Wild Jones

Jones died in Minneapolis, on September 25, 1935, at Elmwood, his home in Washburn Park (a neighborhood often referred to as Tangletown).

John L. Washburn

John L. Washburn is the Convener for the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) and Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court (WICC).

Kevin K. Washburn

After graduating from law school, Professor Washburn clerked for Judge William C. Canby, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Washburn is married to Elizabeth Rodke Washburn, a Senate staffer for Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and they have two children.

KSSQ

The ICAO code for Shell Lake Municipal Airport at Shell Lake, in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States

Leroy W. Stutz

While a student at Washburn, Stutz was initiated into the Kansas Beta Chapter of Phi Delta Theta.

Rick Klaw

Contributors included Timothy Truman, Lewis Shiner, Sam Glanzman, Neal Barrett, Jr., Doug Potter, Marc Erickson, Martin Thomas, Michael Washburn, Paul O. Miles, Steve Utley, Don Webb, John Lucas, John Garcia, and Joe Preston.

Road Scholars

Julio Fernandez played a Washburn MG122ES electric guitar and a Ronaldo custom electric guitar through a Fender Prososonic Amp using the following effects: Rocktron Voodoo Valve Preamp/Multi effects rack, Vox Wahwah pedal, Boss Overdrive, Digital Delay & EQ Pedals, TC Electronics Chorus Pedal and ADA MIDI Control Pedal using a Whirlwind Custom Switching Box.

Sherwood Washburn

Upon graduating Harvard, Washburn accepted a position as associate professor of anatomy in Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he remained for eight years.

There's Know Place Like Home

There's Know Place Like Home is a recording of a concert that took place on February 7, 2009 in Topeka, Kansas at Washburn University (which several members of Kansas attended) along with the Washburn University Symphony Orchestra.

Warren W. Shaw

During his time as a student at Washburn, he was captain of the 1929 and 1930 Washburn football teams under coach Ernest Bearg.

Washburn Guitars

The Washburn guitar and the blues movement that it was involved with are associated with Maxwell Street.

Washburn RR-V Tour Series

Most notable use of a Washburn RR Tour Series guitar was by Brian May of Queen, who used a white Washburn RR11V, in the music video "Princes of the Universe."

Washburn Stealth

The guitar was based on the Dean Guitars ML body shape but with sharper points.In 2008, Dean started to produce a copy of the Washburn Stealth following Dime and Washburn's designs.

Washburn University

During World War II, Washburn Municipal University was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

Washburn was a church deacon, abolitionist and industrialist who resided in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Watson Washburn

In July 1915 Washburn and Williams won the doubles title at the Eastern Tennis Championship in Brookline defeating Irving C. Wright and Wallace F. Johnson in four sets.

William de la Barre

Because of his extensive knowledge flour mills, in 1880 he was hired by Cadwallader C. Washburn (better known as C. C. Washburn), founder of the famous Washburn-Crosby Mills in Minneapolis, to be head engineer and superintendent of his mills.

Willis Bates

The game was played against the Washburn Ichabods using a set of experimental rules and was officiated by then Washburn head coach John H. Outland.


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