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unusual facts about Will Rogers' USA


Bryan Sterling

He scripted and co-produced "Will Rogers' USA," a one-man Broadway play about Rogers starring actor James Whitmore, created a daily syndicated newspaper column that featured timely quotations from Rogers' writings, and authored several definitive biographies of Rogers' life including a detailed examination of his death in the Point Barrow, Alaska, crash of an airplane piloted by famed aviator Wiley Post.


1935 in country music

August 15 - Will Rogers, 55, beloved humorist who had appeal with both country and popular music audiences (plane crash).

Age of Steam Roundhouse

It was one of three of this type of locomotive that was operational at Steamtown, USA when it was in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

American Cinema Editors Awards 2006

The 56th ACE Eddie Awards of the American Cinema Editors were given on 18 February 2007 in the International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Brooks-Scanlon Corporation 1

It was moved to Walpole, New Hampshire and then, across the Connecticut River, to Bellows Falls, Vermont and displayed at Steamtown, USA, where it stayed until the Blount collection was relocated to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246

Canadian Pacific Railway No. 1246 was one of three 1200-series Canadian Pacific Railway locomotives in the Steamtown, USA collection.

Carl G. Fisher

Will Rogers remembered Fisher as a Florida pioneer with these words: Fisher was the first man to discover that there was sand under the water...sand that could hold up a real estate sign.

Casae Calanae

The see's current bishop is Richard Higgins, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

Collin Street Bakery

Celebrities such as Enrico Caruso and Will Rogers were sighted at the bakery, and in 1914 the Ringling Brothers Circus passed through town and ordered dozens of fruitcakes as Christmas gifts to be mailed to friends and family across the globe.

DC Comics Super Hero Adventures

DC Comics Super Hero Adventures is a themed area found at Six Flags New Orleans, in the Eastern New Orleans area of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Death Valley Days

Alternate hosts and titles included Frontier Adventure (Dale Robertson), The Pioneers (Will Rogers, Jr.), Trails West (Ray Milland), Western Star Theatre (Rory Calhoun) and Call of the West (John Payne).

Don Lennon

The subject matter dealt primarily with stand-up comedy and the construction of a comedian's routine, but also focused on Monster.com, John Ritter and trust funds.

Erick Erickson

On March 16, 2010, CNN announced the hiring of Erickson as a political contributor to John King, USA.

Florence Reece

Reece appeared in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, Harlan County, USA, singing her anthem to rally the striking miners.

Harlan County

Harlan County, USA, a documentary film about mineworkers in the Kentucky county and their fight to organize a trade union

Harry G. Leslie

Leslie enjoyed humor and among his close friends were George Ade and Will Rogers.

Havre-Saint-Pierre, Quebec

In 1857, a group of Acadian families from the Magdalen Islands, who had previously been deported from Savannah (Georgia, USA), settled on Eskimo Point (Pointe aux Esquimaux).

Hazel Dickens

She appeared in the documentary Harlan County, USA and also contributed four songs to the soundtrack of the same film.

Henry Archacki

The three largest collections are within the Polish American Museum located in Port Washington, New York, USA at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and also at the University of Minnesota in the Immigration History Research Center.

History of the United States Senate

Robinson passed bills in the Hundred Days so quickly that Will Rogers joked “Congress doesn’t pass legislation any more, they just wave at the bills as they go by.” (Master of the Senate, 354–5)

Jai Prakash Menon

Jai Menon started his career at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Labs, USA and became an IBM executive Director in IBM’s Software Group, heading worldwide research-to-market business for rich media.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

Kateřina Neumannová

On July 31, 1996 she became the first Czech female athlete to compete on both Winter and Summer Olympics when starting in the mountain bike race at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, USA.

Louis Winslow Austin

As a child, he lived with his parents at Manchester, Bennington Co., Vermont, USA 1868-1872 and Meriden, Sullivan Co., New Hampshire, USA 1872-1880.

Martina Moravcová

She is one of Slovakia's greatest female athletes, although she has lived in Dallas, TX, USA since she started attending Southern Methodist University in the mid-1990s.

Mass line

The largest self-proclaimed Maoist party in the USA, Revolutionary Communist Party has adopted the concept of "mass line" during the 1970s.

Nana Smith

Nana married James Rogers, great-grandson of actor and comedian Will Rogers, at the Will Rogers State Park in 2007.

Norman Weissman

His theatrical credits include writing and editing Scuba with Lloyd Bridges, an Avco-Embassy-CineFilm release; writing and production managing Pepi Columbus with Joseph Meinrad, produced by Ernest Heusermann of the Stadt Theater, Vienna; and writing and directing film segments for the CBS Will Rogers, Jr. TV morning show.

Oologah, Oklahoma

Will Rogers – Preeminent philanthropist, actor, humorist, philosopher, and political satirist of the early 1900s; born at Dog Iron Ranch just outside of Oologah.

Paropeas achatinaceum

Although it has not been reported from anywhere else in the Neotropics, it was recently (December 2002) intercepted during preclearance of a shipment of Eryngium from Puerto Rico to Georgia, USA.

Peter Beighton

In 1966 Beighton began training in internal medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London and held a Fulbright research fellowship in clinical genetics in 1968-69 with Dr. Victor McKusick at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA.

Point Barrow

It is close to Rogers-Post Site, the scene of the airplane crash on August 15, 1935 that killed aviator Wiley Post and his passenger, the entertainer Will Rogers.

Revolutionary Communist Party, USA

Historically, one of the group's most notable actions was raising the Red Flag over the Alamo Mission in San Antonio on March 20, 1980.

Robert A. Hefner

He enjoyed becoming friends with Presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, serving his community, building a collection of walking canes and cow bells (his favorite a rusty cow bell given to him by Will Rogers and a bell connected to a baseball signed by all the New York Yankees given to him by their pitcher Allie Reynolds), and helping those with meager means, like he was as a child, continue on in their education.

Robert Quillen

In 1934 Hollywood screen writer Lamar Trotti and producer George Marshall visited Quillen to use him as a prototype for a Will Rogers film, Life Begins at Forty, in which Rogers played a small-town newspaper editor.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Runyon Canyon Park

The McCormacks made many friends in Hollywood, among them Will Rogers, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, C. E. Toberman and the Dohenys.

Scarritt College

Scarritt Collegiate Institute was attended by cowboy philosopher and humorist Will Rogers for a single semester in the late 1890s before his transfer to Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri.

Scouting in Oklahoma

The Will Rogers Scout Reservation, named for Will Rogers, one of Oklahoma's favorite sons, is the premier camping facility of the Cimarron Council.

Social Democrats, USA

SDUSA members stated concerns about an exaggerated role of "middle-class" peace activists in the Democratic Party, particularly associated with the "New Politics" of Senator George McGovern, whose Presidential candidacy was viewed as an ongoing disaster for the Democratic Party and for the USA.

SOS Children's Villages – USA

SOS Children's Villages – USA offers free E-cards that anyone may use as a way of introducing the work of SOS, or as a way of sending a birthday card, thank you card, all occasion card or special holiday card such as Mother's Day or Diwali.

The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air

With Al Goodman leading the orchestra, the line-up of guests included Fanny Brice, Helen Morgan, Jack Pearl, Will Rogers, and Ziegfeld himself.

Thermophile

The 2011 edition was held in Big Sky, Montana, USA, and hosted by Bozeman Campus, Montana State University.

Timothy Broglio

Pope Benedict XVI later named Broglio head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA on November 19, 2007.

Toward Soviet America

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z. Foster, in 1932.

Transnational Law and Business University

Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU) is a post-graduate university located in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (20 km from Seoul), with a branch in Orry-la-Ville near Paris and a branch in construction in Maryland, USA.

Vincent's theorem

Thesis "Vincent's Theorem in Algebraic Manipulation", North Carolina State University, USA, 1978.

Wisconsin International Raceway

The Wisconsin International Raceway (WIR) is a stockcar racing oval and dragstrip in the Town of Buchanan, in Outagamie County, just outside Kaukauna, Wisconsin, USA.


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