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9 unusual facts about Williston


David G. Anderson

The DOE fellowship gave Anderson an office in the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site facility near Williston, South Carolina, the rural community where his family currently resides.

Dixie-Narco

Dixie-Narco is a major manufacturer of soda vending machines located in Williston, South Carolina.

I-94 derecho

Williston and Minot reported winds up to 70 mph (110 km/h).

John M. Budd

From November, 1945, to May, 1947, Budd was assistant general manager for Lines East of Williston, North Dakota, on the Great Northern.

Peter Orlovsky

In May 2010, friends reported that Orlovsky, who had had lung cancer for several months, was moved from his home in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to the Vermont Respite House in Williston.

The Cheshire Unicorn

Her children’s play, Wanda T. Grimsby, Detective Extraordinaire won the 2006 Summer Shorts Festival Playwriting Competition in Williston, North Dakota.

Wendell Garrett

In the last month of his life Garrett moved from his Manhattan apartment to a hospice in Williston, Vermont, due to declining health.

Williston, South Carolina

Rafael Bush - American football safety - New Orleans Saints - born in Williston, SC

Williston, Vermont

Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born historian and leading scholar on the Holocaust


Calvin Wiggett

Though he was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Wiggett has lived all over the world, from Bienfait, Saskatchewan to Williston, North Dakota to Calgary, Alberta to Tehran, Iran.

Fort Henry

Fort Henry on the Missouri River, an 1822 fort southwest of present-day Williston, North Dakota

John Bird

Bud Bird (John Williston Bird, born 1932), Canadian politician

KNDX

Prior to K38HA's inception, cable television subscribers in the Williston area received Denver's KDVR on cable for Fox programming.

Leptecodon

Leptecodon (meaning "small tooth") is a genus of prehistoric mackerel-like fish which was described by Williston in 1899 and was possibly preyed on by other sea creatures.

Ornithostoma

He therefore renamed Pteranodon species: Ornithostoma ingens (Marsh 1872) Williston 1893 = Pteranodon ingens (= P. longiceps) and Ornithostoma harpyia (Cope 1872) = P. longiceps.

Ray Gillis Williston

He was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of Herbert Haines Williston and Islay McCalman, and was educated at the University of British Columbia and the provincial normal school in Victoria.

Todd Glickman

He attended Sands Point Academy through sixth grade, then public school in the East Williston School District, graduating from The Wheatley School in 1973.

Williston Lake

Williston Lake was created in 1968 by the building of the W. A. C. Bennett Dam on the Peace River, which flooded the aboriginal-territorial home of the Tsay Keh Dene band.


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