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2 unusual facts about Willard


Holcombe Flowage

A small part of the reservoir also extends northward into the Town of Willard in Rusk County.

Willard, Ohio

The original name of Willard was Chicago, named for the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's line to Sandusky (the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad) and the branch west to Chicago (the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad).


1962 American Football League Championship Game

Houston, coached by Frank "Pop" Ivy featured a host of offensive talent with veteran George Blanda, Charlie Tolar, the fleet-footed but ill-fated4 Billy Cannon, Charley Hennigan, and unheralded Willard Dewveall.

Aaron Willard

The first American ancestor of Willard's family was Simon Willard who arrived in 1634, together with his wife Mary Sharpe, stemming from Horsmonden, Kent, England.

America 2-Night

In 2001, Martin Mull and Fred Willard reprised their roles in a stage appearance and retrospective at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

American Photojournalist

In the final scene in which the American Photojournalist appears, he is talking with Willard while Kurtz reads T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men".

Anne Helm

Alicia is involved with two outlaws, Cass and Willard, played by Ron Hayes and Gregory Walcott, respectively, who aim to steal a mining payroll.

Aurore Clément

Her first appearance in a U.S. movie would have been in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), but her scenes — a long sequence where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) meets French former colonists — were eventually cut from the film and only restored in 2001 in the Redux version.

Benjamin Ogle Tayloe

Tayloe's lease to Willard later generated an important case before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Bunny Gibson

Other recent films in which she's had roles include “Scout’s Honor” with Fred Willard, “The Rainbow Tribe,” “I’m Going to Kill Leonard Riley,” “Creepshow 3,” “Karla,” “Second Class Citizens” and "Tao Hung’s Dream."

Charlene Pryer

A native of Watsonville, California, Pryer was the daughter of Willard 'Maurice' Pryer, a minor league pitcher who played in the early 1940s for the Fargo-Moorhead Twins of the Northern League.

Charles Andrew Willard

On May 8, 1909, Willard was nominated by President William H. Taft to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota vacated by Milton Dwight Purdy.

Charles W. Willard

Willard was born in Lyndon, Vermont, son of Thomas Willard and Abigail (Carpenter) Willard.

Computing Tabulating Recording Company

In 1894, J. L. Willard and F. A. Frick of Rochester, New York, formed the Willard and Frick Manufacturing Company as the first card time recorder company in the world.

The first time clock was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York.

Custer Channel Wing

Willard Custer filed a United States patent in 1929 for a wing design incorporating a semi-circular channel or "half barrel" shape in which an engine was to be fitted in pusher mode.

Dallas Willard

Willard has a recommended reading page on his website listing specific titles by Thomas a Kempis, William Law, Frank Laubach, William Wilberforce, Richard Baxter, Charles Finney, Jan Johnson, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jeremy Taylor, Richard Foster, E. Stanley Jones, William Penn, Brother Lawrence, Francis de Sales, and others.

Ernest Gibson

Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. (1901–1969), Governor and U.S. Senator from Vermont, son of Ernest Willard Gibson

Kilkenny, New Hampshire

The Willard Bowl north of Mount Waumbek, drained by Garland Brook, was considered as a site for development of a ski area in 1971, when it was owned by former governor Hugh Gregg.

Latonia Race Track

The airmeet was a small affair, but included famed aviator Glenn Curtiss and others such as Charles Willard and Roy Knabenshue.

Marietta Stow

In 1892 she was again a vice-presidential candidate, nominated by the "National Woman Suffragists' Nominating Convention" on September 21 at Willard's hotel in Boonville, New York presided over by Anna M. Parker, President of the convention.

Mary Boyce Temple

She spent her later years entertaining guests at her Knoxville home, and (during winters) at the Mayflower and Willard hotels in Washington, D.C..

Mary Howe

“Heroines of Service”- includes music of Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams

Moon Mullins

Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893 in Anna, Illinois, the son of a physician, who early on determined to become a cartoonist.

Nancy Willard

Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she later received the B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and won five Hopwood Awards for creative writing.

Nedd Willard

It is a pity that Willard omits pointing to the medical works of this era (Pinel, Cabanis, etc.).

Philemon T. Herbert

In 1856, when he was refused breakfast service at Willard's Hotel in Washington because it was too late in the morning, he got into a quarrel with the Irish headwaiter, and shot and killed him.

Richeson

Clarence Richeson (1876–1912), executed for the sensationalized murder of Avis Willard Linnell

Rosalie Edge

Willard Gibbs Van Name, a zoologist with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and nephew of the mathematician Josiah Willard Gibbs, was a key mentor who wrote Emergency Conservation Committee (ECC) pamphlets, which Edge signed and distributed nationwide.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Sidney Willard

Willard was the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages at Harvard College.

Still River, Massachusetts

Noted for its spectacular views of Mount Wachusett, Still River is home to Saint Benedict Abbey, St. Benedict Center, Harvard Historical Society, Willard Farm Stand, and rolling hills, meadows, and wetlands.

Studio der frühen Musik

To these three members were added a male singer; first the tenors Nigel Rogers 1960-1964, then Willard Cobb 1964-1970, and Richard Levitt (counter-tenor) 1970-1979.

W. H. Clatworthy

Willard H. Clatworthy,(October 16, 1915 – February 15, 2010) was a professor emeritus from University at Buffalo and a World War II veteran from Williamsville, New York.

Willard Bascom

Willard Newell Bascom (November 7, 1916, New York City - September 20, 2000, San Diego, California), was an engineer, adventurer and scientist, who first proposed using Neoprene for wetsuits to fellow scientist Hugh Bradner.

Willard House and Clock Museum

The Willard House and Clock Museum, located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA, is the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron), who made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking industry.

Willard Katsande

Willard Katsande made his professional debut for Ajax Cape Town on 12 December 2010 in a 2–0 win against Mpumalanga Black Aces at Atlantic Stadium in Witbank.

Willard Katsande (born 15 January 1986 in Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer, who currently plays as a midfielder for Premier Soccer League club Kaizer Chiefs and for the Zimbabwe national team.

Willard Kent

Willard Kent (1851–1924) was an architect and engineer of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Willard Lamb Velie

A month later Willard Jr. stopped the production of automobiles and sold the company's interests to an Indianapolis firm.

Willard Marshall

Willard Warren Marshall (February 8, 1921 in Richmond, Virginia – November 5, 2000 in Norwood, New Jersey) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball.

Willard Nixon

Willard Lee Nixon (June 17, 1928 – December 10, 2000) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Boston Red Sox between 1950 and 1958.

Willard Reaves

Willard's son Ryan Reaves is a professional hockey player and right wing for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League; while other son Jordan played high school basketball in Winnipeg for the Shaftesbury High School Titans, and now plays for the Brandon Bobcats in the Canada West division in the CIS.

Willard Schmidt

Willard Raymond Schmidt (May 29, 1928 – March 22, 2007) was an American professional baseball player, a pitcher who played in Major League Baseball between 1952 and 1959.

Willard Thorp

Willard L. Thorp (1899–1992) was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs.

Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

A point of irony is that Willard W. Scott was a cadet at West Point at the same time as Winfield W. Scott, with Willard being two years senior to Winfield.


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