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6 unusual facts about Wingate


Bill Cobey

Cobey is a board member of the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, North Carolina and chair of the board of trustees at Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill.

Bronza Parks

Bronza M. "Bronzie" Parks (d. May 13, 1958) was an American boatbuilder from Wingate, Maryland.

Ronnie Sewell

Sewell was born at Wingate, County Durham and started off by playing for Wingate Albion, a local amateur team.

Tim Kirkman

Writer and director Tim Kirkman was born on November 2, 1966 in Monroe, North Carolina, the third child of a public school educator and a music teacher, and spent his childhood in nearby Wingate, North Carolina.

Wingate University

Wingate University is a private comprehensive university with nearly 2,700 students on three campuses in Wingate, Charlotte and Hendersonville, in North Carolina, United States.

Wingate, New Zealand

Wingate is an unofficial north-eastern suburb of Lower Hutt City situated at the bottom of the North Island of New Zealand, based around Wingate Railway Station.


Gun.Smoke

Los Pubro was made the final boss in the NES version as Wingate, a Mexican sadistic and bloodthirsty bandit with some features of an guerrillero of the Mexican Revolution, with a slash over one of his eyes, a cape and a machine gun.

Guy A.S. Wingate

Guy A.S. Wingate was until 2010 Chair of International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering's GAMP Forum who are responsible for developing Good Automated Manufacturing Practice guidance.

Harry S. Robins

Robins co-wrote the film Kamillions with director Mike B. Anderson, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.

John Garrett Underhill, Jr.

John Garrett Underhill, Jr., was born the son of John Garrett Underhill, Sr., and Louisa Man Wingate, on August 7, 1915.

Joseph F. Wingate

Wingate's uncle, Paine Wingate, was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Justice of the Supreme Court, all of New Hampshire.

Mary Hayley Bell

She subsequently played the part of "Miss Wingate" in the film The Shrike (1955), which starred José Ferrer and June Allyson.

Michael Arditti

He was a Harold Hyam Wingate Scholar in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2001 and the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud Museum in 2008.

Roger Wingate

Wingate was responsible for rebuilding and reopening the Donmar Warehouse in 1992, having appointed Sam Mendes as Artistic Director at the design stage.

Special Squad

Special Night Squads, a British-Jewish counter-insurgency unit established by Captain Orde Wingate in Palestine in 1938, during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt

Sultanate of Egypt

On November 13, 1918, thereafter celebrated in Egypt as Yawm al Jihad (Day of Struggle), Zaghlul, Fahmi, and Sharawi were granted an audience with General Sir Reginald Wingate ('Wingate Pasha'), the British High Commissioner.


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