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5 unusual facts about Woodrow


2012 Colorado wildfires

Starting Monday, June 25, 2012, this grassland fire, in and near the small towns of Last Chance and Woodrow in Washington County, burned over 45,000 acres, making it the second largest wildfire by acreage in Colorado in the year 2012 to date, after the High Park fire.

Largent, West Virginia

A bridge over the Cacapon River is part of Cacapon Road and leads to the town of Woodrow.

Woodrow, Staten Island

Known today as the Woodrow United Methodist Church, its original congregants included some of the island's earliest well-known families.

Woodrow, West Virginia

Woodrow, Hampshire and Morgan Counties, West Virginia, an unincorporated community along the border of Hampshire and Morgan Counties

Woodrow, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County


A Thousand Clowns

Barry Gordon as Nick Burns / Wilbur Malcome Burns / Theodore Burns / Raphael Sabatini / Dr. Morris Fishbein / Woodrow Burns / Chevrolet Burns / Big Sam Burns / Lefty Burns

Arthur Woodrow

Arthur F. Woodrow (born December 12, 1922 in Toronto, Canada) is an author, retired entrepreneur, and inventor.

Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles

Prior to the American entry into the war, Woodrow Wilson called for a "peace of reconciliation with Germany", what he called a "peace without victory".

Ashis Nandy

Nandy has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Hull, and a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Bill Woodrow

Woodrow was one of a number of British sculptors to emerge in the late 1970s onto the international contemporary art scene, others include: Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg.

Charles Woodbridge

Woodbridge was born in Chinkiang, China on January 24, 1902, to Presbyterian missionaries Samuel I Woodbridge and Jeanie Wilson Woodrow.

ECSP

Environmental Change and Security Program, a program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Edward Gary Carr

Dr. Carr secured his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and graduate degrees from the University of California at San Diego where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, worked briefly at the University of California Los Angeles, and was Medical Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Henrietta Leaver

Two months after her victory, Leaver found herself in a battle with Pittsburgh sculptor Frank Vittor - a sculptor famous for his bronze statues of Calvin Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln - when she discovered that the life-size clay statue she had posed for in a bathing suit depicted her fully nude.

International English

In Europe, English received a more central role particularly since 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was composed not only in French, the common language of diplomacy at the time, but, under special request from American president Woodrow Wilson, also in English - a major milestone in the globalisation of English.

Jeffrey S. Lehman

After serving as a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., Lehman became the chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, located on the university's Shenzhen campus.

Johansen Expressway

Named the Geist Road Extension for most of its planning period, the highway was named in 1988 in honor of Hendryx Woodrow "Woody" Johansen (1913–1991).

John H. Herz

While at Howard, Herz wrote Political Realism and Political Idealism, a book which the American Political Science Association awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize in 1951.

John Mehler

Mehler graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1969 and soon thereafter moved to Salt Lake City with two musician friends, Chuck Fraher and Jay Truax, to form Spirit of Creation.

Joseph Petro

Petro is a graduate of Temple University and was a Fellow at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Kavita Ramdas

Ramdas is a former member of the Global Development Program Advisory Panel to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and serves on the Board of Trustees at Princeton University, on the Council of Advisors on Gender Equity to the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and on the Advisory Council to the Asian University for Women and the African Women Millennium Initiative on Poverty and Human Rights.

Kennan Institute

Ambassador Kennan, together with Wilson Center Director James Billington and historian S. Frederick Starr, initiated the establishment of the institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Lonesome Dove

Four other actors (Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Mark Woodrow

Woodrow started his senior career in the 2002-2003 season at Newbury R.F.C. and Dings Crusaders before earning a semi professional contract at Birmingham and Solihull under Phil Maynard.

Woodrow rejoined Birmingham and Solihull for the 2008-2009 season, staying until 2010 when he left for Italian side Rugby Viadana.

Robert W. Levering

Robert Woodrow Levering (October 3, 1914 – August 11, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son-in-law of Usher L. Burdick and brother-in-law of Quentin N. Burdick.

Standardbred

Some of the major pacing races in North America include the Woodrow Wilson and Metro Stake for two-year-olds, and the Little Brown Jug, Meadowlands Pace, North America Cup and the Adios Pace for three-year-olds.

Taft, Texas

Schools that serve the city include Woodrow Petty Elementary (PK-2), East Elementary (3-5), Taft Junior High School (6-8), and Taft High School (9-12).

Texas State Highway Loop 493

In Woodrow, the route passes Lubbock-Cooper High School at Woodrow Road.

Wilson College, Princeton University

Wilcox Hall provided a permanent facility for the Woodrow Wilson Society with a dining room, library, billiards area, lounges for reading and recreation, and rooms for various social activities.

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century is a 2002 documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt, that was aired in the United States as a two-part limited television series starting on January 6, 2020.


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