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10 unusual facts about Winnie


BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun

It was emplaced near Dover in 1940, and the combination was named "Pooh", after Winnie-the-Pooh.

David Nimmer

Along the way, other litigated cases have ranged from the status of Winnie-the-Pooh to the collected choreography of Martha Graham to the Google Books settlement in New York City (still pending, for which he represents the interests of Amazon.com).

Martin Mill railway station

Along this track ran two track-mounted 14 inch guns/cannons nicknamed Winnie (after Winston Churchill) and Pooh (after the fictional bear).

Owen Seaman

It was during his tenure there that A. A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, worked as his assistant; it is thought that Seaman's dour disposition may have been the inspiration behind the gloomy character of Eeyore.

Piggy French

French was born in Norfolk, and gained her nickname early on when visited by her sisters in hospital who noted a resemblance to Piglet from the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Ralph A. Lewin

He translated Winnie-the-Pooh into Esperanto with Ivy Kellerman Reed and was the author of Merde: excursions in scientific, cultural and socio-historical coprology.

Ryszard Nawrocki

As a voice actor he dubbed many characters from animated films, including Rabbit from Winnie-the-Pooh, Porky Pig and Asterix.

The Tao of Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh himself, for example, personifies the principles of wei wu wei, the Taoist concept of "effortless doing," and pu, the concept of being open to but unburdened by experience.

Hoff presents Winnie-the-Pooh and related others from A. A. Milne's stories as characters that interact with him while he writes The Tao of Pooh, but also quotes excerpts of their tales from Milne's actual books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, in order to exemplify his points.

It allegorically employs the fictional characters of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories to explain the basic principles of philosophical Taoism.


Aideen O'Kelly

She appeared off-Broadway on several occasions, most notably in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days as "Winnie".

Aldenham Country Park

The park offers community activities such as walking, playgrounds, fishing, sailing, and features a Disney-backed Winnie-the-Pooh theme area.

Carl Fallberg

He wrote the Sears Winnie the Pooh Coloring Book in 1975, contributed to The Wonderful World of Disney (1969–70) Gulf Oil giveaway magazine and provided the text for two of Whitman's Big Little Books: Donald Duck and the Luck of the Ducks and Donald Duck and the Fabulous Diamond Fountain.

Cheryl Kennedy

Other West End theatre credits included 'Victoria' in Half a Sixpence where she starred alongside Tommy Steele at the Cambridge Theatre, 'Winnie' in The Matchgirls, 'Belinda' in Jorrocks at the New Theatre and Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Garrick Theatre.

Dennis Mendiola

In late 2004 as twin killer typhoons Yoyong and Winnie ravaged southern Luzon in the main Philippine Island, “Donate-a-Load” was launched whereby millions of Filipinos where encouraged to donate their call credits by simply texting variable amounts to a Red Cross short code.

Disney Live

Opened on June 16, 2004 in Christchurch, New Zealand, this story features the characters from Winnie the Pooh, planning a surprise birthday party for their 'bestest buddy bear', Winnie the Pooh.

Edna Skinner

Her character was replaced months after her onscreen husband (Larry Keating) died; according to Alan Young in his Archive of American Television interview, the writers tried to make her a widow on the show, but finally decided to replace her with another married couple, Gordon and Winnie Kirkwood, played by Leon Ames and Florence MacMichael.

Erasure.Club

Due to copyright clearance issues, Fortran 5's remix "Who Needs Love (Like That) - Winnie Cooper Mix" from ERAS2 isn't included on the EP.

Flatliners

David is third to flatline, and he sees a vision of a black girl, Winnie Hicks (Kimberly Scott), that he bullied in grade school.

Harry Colebourn

Colebourn named her "Winnie," after his adopted hometown, and took her across the Atlantic with him to Salisbury Plain, where she became an unofficial mascot of The Fort Garry Horse, a Militia cavalry regiment.

Homer Brown

In the episodes in which John Fiedler voiced Homer, listen closely and you'll hear the very close identity of Homer's voice and that of Piglet from Winnie-the-Pooh, as Fiedler did both of them with the same high pitched, airy, nervous, and squeaky voice.

One of the show's later characters, Homer was played by Jack Kelk, and in the final season was played by John Fiedler (who would go on to a well known role as the voice of Piglet in Winnie-the-Pooh), Michael O'Day, and Jack Grimes.

Judith Hunt

From 1980–1985, Hunt co-created and wrote cartoon and comic books with her then-husband, Chuck Dixon, including Robotech Defenders, Evangeline, and Winnie-the-Pooh word books, besides being the designer and illustrator on these projects.

Karl Otto Thaning

In 2010, Thaning also acted in international films, such as Winnie, which starred Oscar actress and former American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson.

KRTX

KPTY, a radio station (105.3 FM) licensed to serve Winnie, Texas, which held the call sign KRTX from 1987 to 1996

Kubusia Puchatka Street

Ulica Kubusia Puchatka is a street in central Warsaw, Poland named after Winnie-the-Pooh.

KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

In April 2011, the orchestra played the world premiere of Bongani Ndodana-Breen's opera Winnie the Opera at the State Theatre, Pretoria, with soprano Tsakane Maswanganyi in the title role of Winnie Mandela.

Lake Arbor, Maryland

Firmly demonstrating both the sophisticated tastes and buying power of the predominantly African American market, as well as codifying architectural standards requested (but not mandated) by County Executives such as Winnie Kelly and Governor Parris Glendening, Lake Arbor established Prince George’s County as the most desirable destination for young, affluent African American families moving from Washington, DC for a suburban lifestyle.

Malt

Malt extract was given as a "strengthening medicine" by Kanga to Roo in The House at Pooh Corner.

Mary Shepard

She was the daughter of E. H. Shepard, a famous illustrator of children's literature including Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

My Wonderful Day

Laverne reminds Winnie that Tuesday is "French Day", when the two of them only speak in French – the idea being that after Laverne's second child, Jericho Alexander Samson is born, the three of them will start a new life in Martinique, birthplace of Laverne's parents.

Feigning interest in the book Winnie is reading, The Secret Garden, Winnie reads it aloud for him (one word at a time and stumbling over the hard ones), whilst Josh falls asleep.

Philip Ma

He married his wife Winnie Chin in 1995, who was 1st runner's up in the 1981 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.

Real Gone Woody

Meanwhile, Buzz calls Winnie up to ask her to the sock hop, only to find she is already going with Woody.

Santiago Ziesmer

He has supplied his voice to a number of Disney productions, including the German dub of DuckTales as Dewey and the Winnie-the-Pooh series as Piglet, and Beauty and the Beast as LeFou.

Selena Sloan Butler

Butler was born in Thomasville, Georgia to William Sloan and Winnie Williams on January 4, around 1872, just seven years after slavery was abolished.

The Fox and the Weasel

In England the story was adapted by A. A. Milne as the second chapter in his Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) 'in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place'.

Varina Anne Davis

Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis was born one year before the end of the American Civil War in the White House of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

Mary Craig Sinclair, The Romance History of Winnie Davis (unpublished)

Winfried Schäfer

Winfried "Winnie" Schäfer (born 10 January 1950 in Mayen) is a German football manager and former player, who is head coach of Jamaica national football team.

Winnie Kaburu

Winnie Kaburu Kinyua is a Kenyan running for Deputy President in the March 2013 Kenyan Presidential election on a Restore and Build Kenya party ticket.

Winnie Wangui Mwa

Winnie Wangui Mwai is the daughter of the former President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, and Othaya member of parliament Mary Wambui.

Winnipeg the Bear

Winnipeg's eventual destination was to have been the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg, but at the end of the War, Colebourn decided to allow Winnie to remain at the London Zoo, where she was much loved for her playfulness and gentleness.

Winsome Witch

Winsome W. Witch (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl whose character is also called "Winnie") is a friendly, yet somewhat inept, witch.

Zero History

Milgrim is sent to South Carolina to take photographs of a pair of Army BDUs where he gains the notice of a federal agent named Winnie Tung Whittaker employed by DCIS.