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5 unusual facts about Wheeler


Ingalls House

Wheeler-Ingalls House, Rehoboth, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Ingalls-Wheeler-Horton Homstead Site, Rehoboth, MA, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Round Barns in Illinois Thematic Resources

The Wheeler-Magnus Round Barn is the only round barn listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in Cook County.

Wheeler-Schebler Carburetor Company

To this day, the trophy awarded annually to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 is known as the Borg-Warner Trophy.

Wheeler's October 1863 Raid

Wheeler escaped across the Tennessee River on October 9 at Rogersville, Alabama, but not before another 95 of his horsemen were overwhelmed near Pulaski, Tennessee.


Absolute time and space


—Ernst Mach; as quoted by Ciufolini and Wheeler: Gravitation and Inertia, p. 387

Aftermath Media

Both Landeros and Wheeler had previously worked at Trilobyte, makers of the bestselling CD-ROM computer game The 7th Guest.

Anne Annette Minna Chapman

Anne Annette Minna Cochrane, DCVO, DStJ (born 1855 – died 6 January 1943), the daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and his wife, Rosetta (née Wheeler-Cuffe), was a British noblewoman.

Ariyankuppam

According to Wheeler, Arikamedu was a Tamil fishing village which was formerly a major port dedicated to bead making and trading with Roman traders.

Arthur Oliver Wheeler

His grandfather was William Oliver Wheeler, who fought with the 12th Royal Lancers against Napoleon in Portugal and Spain, and later became mayor of Kilkenny.

Bert Kramer

Prior to his role of Alex Wheeler, he played blue collar patriarch, Mike Fitzpatrick on the 1977 short-lived drama series, The Fitzpatricks, which also starred Clark Brandon, Jimmy McNichol and Helen Hunt.

California Review

Milton Friedman, George Will, Jack Kemp, Arthur Laffer, Alexander Haig, Jack Wheeler, Pete Wilson, and George Gilder all agreed to give the California Review exclusive interviews.

Caulfield Sisters

While Pee Shy had released two albums on Mercury Records, Wheeler has since referred to her experience with the major label as "Mercury poisoning," and the Sisters have recorded and released their music independently.

Charlotte Motor Speedway

H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler and the speedway then sponsored the funding for the traveling sculpture exhibition to be featured by Belk College of Business on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where a self-guided tour of the campus-wide display was extended to the end of July.

Dan Wheeler

On July 28, 2007, Wheeler was traded back to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in exchange for third baseman Ty Wigginton.

David Wheeler

David Thewlis (David Wheeler, born 1963), English actor and writer

Don Gililland

:: Gary Slavo, Tom Wirtel, Bob Clull, Chris Witherspoon (trumpets), Don Jacoby (trumpet, leader), Dee Barton, William Barton, Loren Binford, Dave Wheeler (trombones), Al Beutler, John Giordano (alto sax), Jerry Keys (alto & bari sax), Bob Pierson, Don Melka (tenor sax), Keith Jarrett (piano), Don Gililland (guitar), Toby Guynn (bass), John Von Ohlen (drums)

Donald Michie

Active in the research community into his eighties, he devoted the last decade of his life to the UK charity The Human Computer Learning Foundation, and worked with Stephen Muggleton, Claude Sammut, Richard Wheeler, and others on natural language systems and theories of intelligence.

Edmund Dick Taylor

On 5 February 1857, the Chicago Merchants' Exchange company was incorporated by: Edmund D. Taylor, Thomas Hall, George Armour, James Peck, John P. Chapin, Walter S. Gurnee, Edward Kendall Rogers, Thomas Richmond, Julian Sidney Rumsey, Samuel B. Pomeroy, Elisha Wadsworth, Walter Loomis Newberry, Hiram Wheeler and George Steele.

Francis Ayer

Ayer was born to Nathaniel Wheeler Ayer and Joanna B. Wheeler in Lee, Massachusetts, though he was raised in western New York.

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Bonnie Wheeler is the Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.

Given Campbell

Campbell entered the Confederate Army under General Sterling Price, and served through the war as a cavalryman under Generals Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler.

Gives You Hell

"Gives You Hell" was written by Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter in Vancouver, Canada on a secluded writing trip for the band's third studio album, and recorded at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch studios in California.

Jack Wheeler

John Neville Wheeler, John Neville "Jack" Wheeler (1886–1973), American newspaperman, publishing executive, magazine editor, and author

Jillian Wheeler

Jillian Lee Wheeler (born May 25, 1991 in St. Charles, Illinois) is an American singer-songwriter and actress currently residing in Somerville, Massachusetts.

John Gunther Dean

The evacuation of Phnom Penh scene was filmed near Bangkok in 1983 and Wheeler met Dean, who was then the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand.

Kalām cosmological argument

In addition work undertaken by John Wheeler and Richard Feynman in the Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory suggested that causes need not result in events in a chronological and linear fashion and this idea has been confirmed by the delayed choice quantum eraser without coincidence counting.

Legend of the Motorcycle

West Coast Choppers unveiled their Airstream Bike at the Legend show, which cost over $300,000 and was made for Airstream CEO, Bob Wheeler.

McEntire

Rhea-McEntire House, historic antebellum mansion on the shoreline of the Tennessee River's Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Alabama

Minnesota State Highway 72

The section of present day Minnesota 172 between State Highway 11 (at Baudette) and Wheeler's Point (at Lake of the Woods) was originally designated Minnesota 72 as well between 1934 and 1963.

Monsters of Grace

When he realized the enormous costs and effort that would be involved in performing such a project (which included such tableaux as a gigantic hand pulling a sword from the ocean and a helicopter flying over the Great Wall of China), Wilson and producer Jed Wheeler began looking into creating the entire visual end of the production with 3D computer graphics.

Nik Wheeler

Nik Wheeler (1939- ) is a British-born photographer, known for taking what for years was the only known photograph of Carlos the Jackal.

Nola Falacci

When Wheeler rejoins the team in the episode "Contract", Logan stated to her that Falacci now is training at the FBI Academy in Quantico.

Norma Winstone

4 in Perspective (with Fred Hersch, piano, Kenny Wheeler, trumpet & flugelhorn, Paul Clarvis, percussion; recorded 1999; Village Life 00909VL)

O. silvestrii

Odontomachus silvestrii, W.M. Wheeler, 1927, a carnivorous ant species in the genus Odontomachus

Padaei

Wheeler cited scholars who connected the name "Padaei" variously with a town in Little Tibet (Ladakh), a river in Kutch and the Ganges.

Pete Schmitt

He was re-signed again on August 4 after the team released Stuart Schweigert and Danny Verdun-Wheeler.

Resource Management Act 1991

The group consisted of: Tony Randerson, a lawyer, as chair; Prue Crosson (now Prue Kapua), a lawyer; environmentalist Guy Salmon; planner Ken Tremaine; and Brent Wheeler, an economist.

Ronald Horan

With John Wheeler, Horan co-authored “Senior French” in two volumes, first published in 1961, later to become the well respected “A New French Course”, in five volumes, that is still a standard in school education and the University of the Third Age.

Rosalind Knight

In Carry On Nurse, she played Nurse Nightingale and in Carry On Teacher she played Felicity Wheeler, a prim school inspector whose amorous hopes toward Kenneth Connor's wimpy science master are continually thwarted.

Rouen Cathedral

Willa Cather sets a key scene in the development of the protagonist Claude Wheeler of One of Ours in the cathedral.

Stephanie Wheeler

Stephanie Wheeler (born in Norlina, North Carolina on January 16, 1981) is an American wheelchair basketball player who was on two gold-medal winning Paralympic teams.

Strike Anywhere

They have also contributed tracks to political benefit albums, such as a live version of "Sunset on 32nd" for 1157 Wheeler Avenue: A Memorial for Amadou Diallo and "To the World" for the Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 album.

Ted Ferrioli

He represents Senate District 30, which encompasses Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Malheur, Sherman, Wasco, Wheeler, and portions of Clackamas, Deschutes, and Marion counties.

Wheeler Antabanez

In September 2010, Wheeler co-hosted a live broadcast from the last working boat yard on the Passaic for Billy Jam's Put the Needle on the Record show on WFMU.

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on New Year's Day, 1833 to Rufus Wheeler Peckham and Isabella Adoline; his mother died when he was 15.

Wheeler School

In 1887, Wheeler took a group of young women to Giverny, France for a summer of painting, art history and French.

William Morton Wheeler

As a taxonomist, Wheeler was responsible for the descriptions of innumerable species, Pogonomyrmex maricopa, the most venomous insect in the world, being among them.

William V. Wheeler

William V. Wheeler was born in 1845 to Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth Stubbs Wheeler in West Elkton, Ohio.

William W. Smith

W. Wheeler Smith (William Wheeler Smith) (c. 1838-c. 1908), American architect and real estate developer

Winnetka School District 36

Of note is Crow Island School opened in 1940 and designed by Chicago architects Perkins, Wheeler and Will in collaboration with the father and son team of Eero Saarinen and Eliel Saarinen.


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