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unusual facts about Weis


Martin's Famous Pastry Shoppe, Inc.

Jim Martin, Lloyd’s son and the current president, began expanding to supermarket chains all across Pennsylvania such as A&P, Weis and Giant.


2012 Kansas Jayhawks football team

Following the hire of Charlie Weis, the Jayhawks received a pair of high profile quarterback transfers in the duo of Dayne Crist from Notre Dame and Jake Heaps from BYU.

Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh

Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, and Kaleen E. Beall.

Church of Saint Roch, Žižkov

The Stations of the Cross were painted by G. W. Weis in 1854 according to drawings of Führichových, while the great fresco above the entrance to the sacristy, which depicts the Litany, was created in 1766 by J. Steter.

Danny Weis

Guitarist Danny Weis (born in Huntington Park, California) is best known as a founding member of both Iron Butterfly and Rhinoceros, as well as co-writer of Rhinoceros's only charting single, "Apricot Brandy".

Darja Schabad

During a special episode on November 11, 2001, judges Soost and Christensen eventually disclosed that Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz-Kevin Mangat, Verena "Indira" Weis, and Giovanni Zarrella were chosen to become part of the multicultural group Bro'Sis.

Don Weis

Weis began directing for television in 1954 and worked on such series as M*A*S*H, Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Twilight Zone, Happy Days, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, and Hawaii Five-O among others.

Dragon ship

Dragonships-a fantasy novel series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight

The screenplay adaptation was completed by George Strayton, with creative assistance by Weis and Hickman, and Will Meugniot directed.

Dyson spheres in popular culture

Though it never refers to it by name, the novel Elven Star, volume 2 of the Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman features a Dyson Sphere featuring 4 suns in its center.

Herman Otten

2012 With District 6 incumbent Republican Representatives Brock Greenfield and Burt Tulson both redistricted to District 2, Otten ran in the four-way June 5, 2012 Republican Primary and placed second with 609 votes (26.6%); in the four-way November 6, 2012 General election, Otten took the first seat with 5,739 votes (36.28%) and fellow Republican nominee Isaac Latterall took the second seat ahead of Democratic nominees Joseph Weis and Michael Jauron.

Jakob Weis

From 4 August 1914 Weis was also pastor to a field hospital, then pastor to 12th Bavarian Infantry Division (known as "the Iron Division" for its bravery and toughness).

Joseph F. Weis, Jr.

Two years later, on March 11, 1970, Weis was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania vacated by Joseph P. Willson.

On February 13, 1973, Nixon nominated Weis for elevation to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a seat vacated by Abraham Lincoln Freedman.

Milk 'N' Cookies

During this time, Weis left the band and was replaced by Sal Maida, a bass player who'd previously played with Roxy Music.


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