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unusual facts about White Plains, NY



Bunge Limited

Bunge Limited (formerly Bunge International, and prior to that Bunge y Born) is a Bermudan food processing corporation with its headquarters in White Plains, NY.

Combe Incorporated

Combe Incorporated, based in White Plains, New York, is a privately owned personal-care company founded in 1949 by Ivan Combe.

Henry Jacques Gaisman

Mr. Gaisman died in White Plains in 1974, at age 104, and was buried at the Gates of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, NY.

J. Anthony Lukas

J. Anthony Lukas was born to Elizabeth and Edwin Lukas in White Plains, New York, followed by a younger brother in 1935, Christopher Lukas.

James Tilton

He served with distinction and saw action at the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton.

John Todd Zimmer

John Todd Zimmer (Bridgeport, Ohio, February 28, 1889 – White Plains, New York, January 6, 1957) was a leading American ornithologist.

Norm Sebastian

After working as a meteorologist at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, Sebastian became one of the initial meteorologists at The Weather Channel when that network launched in 1982.

Perro de Presa Canario

In April 2013, a 5-year-old girl in White Plains, Maryland was attacked and critically injured by family-owned dogs at her home.

Sanger Brown

He was born in Bloomfield (Ontario), Canada, graduated in 1880 at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York City), was assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane (White Plains, N. Y.) in 1882–1885, and acting medical superintendent there in 1886.

Synagogue Council of America

The organization dissolved in 1994, facing financial difficulties and fractiousness among its members, the organization effectively collapsed after a proposal to relocate the council's offices from Manhattan to White Plains, New York, where it would have been housed in a Reform congregation, was rejected by Orthodox members of the organization.

White Plains

Battle of White Plains, a battle near White Plains, New York during the American Revolutionary War


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