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2 unusual facts about Weldon


DeLand-Weldon High School

The school draws from an area of DeLand, and Weldon and is the seventh smallest high school, and third smallest public high school in the state of Illinois with a total enrollment of 56 students.

Weldon, Saskatchewan

Weldon is historically recognized in that the first Canadian grain ever shipped through the port of Churchill, Manitoba and sent via freighter through the Hudson Bay was grown in the Weldon area.


Alisha Sufit

She made numerous performances accompanied by such musicians as Peter Ind (bass), Pete Sabberton (piano), Chucho Merchan (bass), Nick Weldon (piano), Dave McCrae (piano).

Catherine Weldon

After the death of Sitting Bull on 15 December 1890 and the ensuing Massacre of Wounded Knee the following 29 December, for which she was blamed in the press as having agitated the Indians, Catherine Weldon returned to Brooklyn, NY where she would live the remainder of her life.

After her divorce from Schlatter and later also from Weldon, she became committed to the cause of Native Americans, especially the Lakota Indians in the Dakota Territory.

Weldon became confidante and private secretary to Sitting Bull during the time when Plains Indians had adopted the Ghost Dance movement.

The poet and playwright Derek Walcott refers to Weldon and her life in his play The Ghost Dance and in his epic poem Omeros.

Cerro Coso Community College

The Campus serves the communities of Lake Isabella, Kernville, Wofford Heights, and Weldon.

Charles Herbert Mackintosh

After the Rebellion, he bought an estate in County Wicklow, and in 1802, married, at Dublin, Alicia Weldon, who is variously described as being the daughter of Lady Weldon, and a niece of the Earl of Dysart, though which ones are meant is not specified.

Columbia, Mississippi

In the mid-1930s, two Columbia, Mississippi cowboys – Earl and Weldon Bascom – made Columbia the historic “Home of Mississippi Rodeo.”

Heyburn

Mount Heyburn, a mountain in Idaho named after Weldon B. Heyburn

Jack Nissenson

In addition to Nissenson, the group consisted of Peter Weldon, Kate McGarrigle and Anna McGarrigle.

Before the Mountain City Four, Peter Weldon and Jack Nissenson were members of a traditional folk band called Pharisees.

When Weldon and Nissenson met the McGarrigle sisters, they formed the Mountain City Four.

Jewel Records

Jewel Records, also known as "Je–Wel", a 1950s label based in Odessa, Texas, run by Weldon Rogers

Lift Every Voice

"Lift Every Voice and Sing", a 1900 song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother Rosamond Johnson

Mark Andrew Smith

In 2009 Smith released The New Brighton Archeological Society stemming from a series of short stories in Popgun with artist Matthew Weldon.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

Only the interior walls were left standing at three homes when the tornado reached its strongest point east-northeast of Weldon Spring, west-southwest of St. Charles and Harvester, and south of St. Peters.

Out Where the Buses Don't Run

When James "Sonny" Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) arrest a small-scale drug dealer, they receive a visit at the police station from a man Crockett recognises as retired Vice officer Hank Weldon (Bruce McGill).

Prince of Wales Drive, London

Frederick's father, was Thomas Weldon Atherston, who was an actor who went under the stage name of Weldon Atherston.

Psychotronic

Psychotronic Video, a magazine devoted to off-beat cinema edited by Michael J. Weldon

Psychotronic Video

The book was written by Weldon with editorial assistance from Charles Beesley, Fangorias Bob Martin, and Akira Fitton.

Responsions

Karl Pearson's obituary of Raphael Weldon (p.8) refers to Weldon "preparing (c. 1877) for Little-Go and the London Preliminary Scientific. For the classical part of the former he seems to have worked by himself."

Seaboard Air Line Railroad

The complex corporate history of SAL began on March 8, 1832, when its earliest predecessor, the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad was chartered by the legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina to build a railroad from Portsmouth, Virginia to the Roanoke River port of Weldon, North Carolina, shortcutting a long, three-sided water route.

Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad

The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad was organized in 1833 (as the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad) to extend from the area of the rapids of the Roanoke River at its fall line near Weldon, North Carolina to Portsmouth, Virginia, across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

The Bulgari Connection

The Bulgari Connection is a 2001 novel by Fay Weldon that became notorious for its commercial tie-in: in exchange for £18,000 from the jeweler Bulgari, Weldon was required to mention the name of the jeweler at least 12 times - which was more than exceeded by the author.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mississippi

This bucking exhibition sparked such interest in the town that a professional rodeo was organized a month later by Weldon Bascom and his brother Earl Bascom, assisted by other Mormon cowboys including Jake Lybbert, Waldo Ross, Ashel Evans, Horace and Lester Flake, and Don and Ferral Pearce.

The Irascibles

Weldon Kees discussed the issue of the open letter further in the June 5 edition of The Nation, calling director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Francis Henry Taylor a philistine.

The Plane Makers

Wilder's private life came more to the fore in The Power Game; he has a long-running affair with a civil servant, Susan Weldon (Rosemary Leach), but is aghast when his wife Pamela also plays the field, with engineering expert Frank Hagadan (George Sewell).

Ulysses S. Stone

Born on a farm near Weldon, DeWitt Township, Illinois, Stone was the son of David C. and Sarah J. Hollenbeck Stone.

Weldon B. Gibson

Weldon Bailey "Hoot" Gibson (April 23, 1917 - May 6, 2001) was an economist and a longtime executive at SRI International (previously the Stanford Research Institute), where he worked full-time from 1947 until 1988, and part-time as Senior Director Emeritus until his death.

Weldon Brothers

Weldon Brothers Construction Company, bridge construction company of Iowa, known as Weldon Brothers

George and Thomas Weldon, architects of Mississippi, also known as Weldon Brothers

Weldon process

The Weldon process is a process developed in 1866 by Walter Weldon for recovering manganese dioxide for re-use in chlorine manufacture.


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