Bolesław Józef Habowski (September 13, 1914 in Kraków - May 21, 1979 in Wendover, England) was a Polish football player from interwar period, representing Wisła Kraków and Polish national football team.
The Deep Creek Railroad is a defunct railroad company that constructed and operated a line between Wendover and Gold Hill, Utah, a distance of about 45 miles.
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The new line began at the small town of Wendover, on the Utah/Nevada border, where a connection was made with the Western Pacific.
The Halton House in Wendover, Buckinghamshire served as the backdrop for scenes taking place at the Hôtel Ritz Paris.
The astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who first postulated that the universe was made up primarily of lighter elements such as hydrogen, was born in Wendover in 1900.
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The eminent physician Sir Thomas Barlow, who attended Queen Victoria on her deathbed, owned Boswells (a large country house to the South of Wendover) until his death in 1945 and the actor John Junkin lived in Wendover until his death in 2006.
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The Aylesbury constituency of which Wendover forms a part has elected a Conservative MP (currently David Lidington) since 1924.
Movements to unite Wendover with West Wendover, which is located across the border in Nevada and allows gambling operations, have taken place but require the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Nevada and Utah legislators.
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Today it serves as a frontage road between Wendover and Knolls just to the south of the Interstate.
West Wendover is located on the eastern border of Nevada and the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert and is contiguous with Wendover, Utah, with which it is sometimes confused.
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In addition, occasional charter flights (known as "casino or gamblers flights") to Laughlin or Wendover, Nevada are offered.
Other locations of the CLUI include the Desert Research Station near Hinkley, California in the Mojave desert, the exhibit halls and artists residency program at Wendover, Utah near the Bonneville Salt Flats, and in Troy, New York along the Hudson river.
In 1899 Payne married Emma Leonora Helena Pertz, the elder daughter of Major Pertz of Holt, Norfolk, and of Koblenz, Prussia, and they set up home at Holywell Lodge, Wendover, Buckinghamshire.
He descended, almost directly, from Colonel John Hampden, the patriot; his forebear Sir John Trevor III (1624-72) of Plas Teg, son of Sir John Trevor II of Plas Teg and Trevalun, by Anne daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden of Wendover, had married John Hampden's daughter Ruth, who was his first cousin.
Wendover was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821).
Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney (1714–1791), his son, English MP for Wendover 1753–1761, Carmarthen and for Buckinghamshire
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Ralph Verney, 1st Earl Verney (1683–1752), English MP for Amersham and for Wendover 1741–1753
Wendover never married and he died on March 16, 1889, in Stuyvesant, New York, of Bright's disease.
In addition to a post-war military base backdrop for the 1996 film Mulholland Falls, Wendover Field also stood in for the exteriors of Area 51 in the 1996 film Independence Day.
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Tibbets chose the remote Wendover Army Air Field over Great Bend, Kansas, and Mountain Home, Idaho, as the location for the Silverplate training program.
Wendover railway station serves the town of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, England, and villages including Ellesborough and Wendover Dean.