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unusual facts about William Winter-Irving


William Winter

William Winter-Irving (1840–1901), born William Irving Winter, Australian politician


Aston Hall

Irving's The Sketch Book stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, that had largely been abandoned.

Black Mill, Whitstable

The mill last worked circa 1905 and in 1928 was converted into a studio by the artist Laurence Irving, the grandson of Sir Henry Irving.

Bruce Adler

Born in New York City, Adler's parents, Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, and his two maternal uncles, Irving and Hymie Jacobson were well-established popular stars of the Yiddish theatre, at the time in its heyday on New York's Lower East Side.

Buckingham, Richardson, Texas

In the early 1980s, real estate speculators bought most of the land, intending to create a planned development similar to the Las Colinas planned development in north Irving.

Celia Winter-Irving

Her own specialism was abstract art and she had one solo show at Sandros Gallery in Harare.

Celia Winter-Irving (1941 – 26 July 2009), was an Australian-born, Zimbabwean-based artist and art critic who wrote extensively on Zimbabwean art, especially Shona sculpture, when she lived in Harare from 1987–2008 .

Charles Francis Coghlan

Buckstone passed on the play, but instead gave him the chance to play Monsieur Mafoi, a small role in “The Pilgrim of Love” a play adapted by Lord Byron from Irving’s “Legends of the Alhambra” that opened at the Haymarket on, April 9, 1860.

Clyde Kennard

They contacted Charles Pickering, a former Federal judge, and William Winter, a former Mississippi governor, who fashioned precedent-setting legal strategy.

Dangerous Seas

Dangerous Seas is a 1931 British crime film directed by Edward Dryhurst and starring Julie Suedo, Sandy Irving and Charles Garry.

Elsa Benham

Elsa Benham (November 20, 1908 – April 20, 1995, Irving, Texas) was a dancer and silent movie performer from St. Louis, Missouri.

Frederick Irving

After graduating from Brown, Irving served in the United States Army Air Corps for the remainder of World War II.

Ian Maitland, 15th Earl of Lauderdale

Lord Lauderdale married Ethel Mary Ivy (d. 1971 or 1972), eldest daughter of James Jardine Bell-Irving of Makerstoun, Roxburghshire, on 11 November 1912.

Ian Michael Smith

This time, his audition tape won over the director and the novice was hired to essay the title role of Simon Birch (1998), suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Ichabod Crane Central School District

Washington Irving lived in the Village of Kinderhook in 1809 and wrote the Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow short stories which take place regionally and is the reason why the high school in Valatie is named "Ichabod Crane".

Irving Azoff

Irving co-produced the movies Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Inkwell and has been named "Manager of the Year" by two touring industry's trade publications.

Irving Berry

Irving Berry (born 11 January 1986 in Panama City, Panama) is a featherweight boxer from Panama and is the second ranked featherweight for the WBA championship.

Irving Langmuir House

The Irving Langmuir House was the home of physicist-chemist Irving Langmuir, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize during his research career with General Electric.

Irving Pincus

Irving Pincus joined the series star, Walter Brennan, in the formation of Brennan-Westgate Productions, with filming of the series at Desilu Studios.

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

John Irving Bentley

Joe Nickell, in his book Secrets of the Supernatural, gives an account of this event he got from Larry E. Arnold's article "The Flaming Fate of Dr. John Irving Bentley," printed in the Pursuit of Fall 1976.

Judith Kazantzis

She took a Modern History degree and on 22 February 1998, married lawyer and writer Irving Weinman; Harry Mathews wrote an Epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman.

Julian Beck

Beck was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City, the son of Mabel Lucille (née Blum), a teacher, and Irving Beck, a businessman.

K. C. Irving

His father did not oppose his second attempt to enlist and Irving entered the Royal Flying Corps as a fighter pilot, although he never saw action as the war ended shortly thereafter.

KDTX-TV

KDTX's studios are located in TBN's International Production Center in Irving, and its transmitter is located in Cedar Hill.

Keinton Mandeville

Irving House in Castle Street was the birthplace of actor Henry Irving.

Laurence Irving

Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (1871–1914), English dramatist and novelist and the son of actor Henry Irving

Lundy's Restaurant

At the turn of the 20th century, Irving Lundy started a business selling clams out of a pushcart.

Margareta Elisabeth Roos

Her daughter with Irving, Margareta Charlotta Irving, married the vicar of Bro, Nils Larsson Sundell, and Roos spent much of her old age with her daughter and son-in-law.

Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project

This change in ownership saw construction of the MCDVs modularized with sections of the vessels constructed at Irving Shipbuilding facilities in Georgetown, PEI and Shelburne, NS for later assembly in Halifax.

Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf

They were represented in the appeal by lawyers Colin Irving and Martha McCarthy.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

After the National Council moved its headquarters in 1979 from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Irving, Texas, the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico became the new home of the National Training Center.

Murphy's Romance

But because of the success of Norma Rae (1979), with the same star (Field), director, and screenplay writing team (Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch), and with Field's new production company (Fogwood Films) producing, Columbia agreed.

Music in the Air

The director was Joe May and the screenplay was by Howard Irving Young and Billy Wilder.

North Irving Transit Center

North Irving Transit Center is a bus-only station located along Northwest Highway (Spur 348) in Irving, Texas (USA).

Posterity Records

Posterity Records' first release was a recording of poet Irving Layton reading at Le Hibou Coffee House in 1963, produced by William Hawkins, with liner notes by Roy MacSkimming.

Public image of David Irving

Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin were invited to speak at a forum on free speech at the Oxford Union on 26 November 2007, along with Anne Atkins and Evan Harris.

Robert Irving III

Later, Irving extended this musical direction on projects such as his film score for the feature film Street Smart also with André Lassalle on guitar (1985), starring Morgan Freeman and Christopher Reeve -- with Miles Davis as featured instrumentalist.

Ron Brooks

A native of Irving, Texas, Brooks attended MacArthur High School, where he was a decorated dual-threat quarterback.

Samuel Youngs

He was a friend of Washington Irving and may have served as inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

Sesame Place

A second Sesame Place park also existed in Irving, Texas from 1982–1984 (a Walmart Supercenter now sits in its place), closing its doors due to poor attendance and a large number of water parks competing for its business.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

T. B. Irving

As a scholar, Irving taught and studied at a number of leading universities in the U.S. and Canada, including McGill, Princeton, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee.

Thomas Stuttaford

Married to Pamela Christine Ropner on 1 June 1957, the couple had three sons: Andrew Irving Ropner Stuttaford (born 22 March 1958), Thomas Richard Ropner Stuttaford (b. 25 January 1961) and Hugo John Ropner Stuttaford (born 12 February 1964).

Toyota Super Corollas

Hence, when you have an Andrew Fields, Bruce King, John Irving, Abe King, Ramon Fernandez and even a Bobby Jaworski collaring the rebounds, the most common (and very entertaining) spectacle was to see a baseball pass by the rebounder to a streaking player on the break for an easy twinner.

William Winter

William J. Winter (born 1930), Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Pittsburgh

Wilson Avenue Line

The route serves the Lindsay Park Houses, the Williamsburg Houses, Maria Hernandez Park, Irving Square, Cemetery of the Evergreens, Howard Housing, the Langston Hughes Apartments, Van Dyke Housing, the Tilden Houses, the Floyd Patterson Ball fields, the Breukelen Houses, and Breukelen Park.

Yale University Library

Other important libraries include the Lillian Goldman Law Library, with nearly 800,000 volumes, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library (including its noteworthy collection of historical medical works), the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, and the Divinity School Library.

York Street railway station

J.D. Irving Ltd. has been attempting to sell various parcels of the former CP Rail yard in Fredericton, such as the large parcel at the east end of the yard fronting Regent Street which now houses a Sobeys supermarket.


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