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16 unusual facts about butler


Butler-Henderson

Eric Butler-Henderson (1884–1953), British soldier and company director

GCR Class 11F locomotive no. 506, named Butler–Henderson after the above

Vicki Butler-Henderson (born 1972), British racing driver and television presenter

Butler, Alabama

Donald C. Simmons, Jr., American educator, writer, poet and documentary film producer.

Phillip Lolley, former assistant coach and current administrator for the football team at Auburn University

Butler, Missouri

God, Guns & Automobiles, a reality television show that airs on History network features Butler resident Mark Muller and his automotive sales business, Max Motors.

Butler's Corella

The corellas feed extensively on the seeds of cereal crops, the seeds of weeds such as Cape Weed and Double Gee, as well as the corms of Onion Grass and insect larvae.

Butler's garter snake

The specific name, butleri, is in honor of "Mr. A.W. Butler" of Brookville, Indiana.

Butler's Hill

The nearby Broomhill park was the former site of Sherwood Zoo, which went bankrupt in 1976

Butler's Rangers

This regiment exists today as The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, a primary reserve regiment of the Canadian Forces based out of St. Catharines, Ontario.

Although the building that houses The Lincoln and Welland Regiment Museum in that community is traditionally known as "Butler's Barracks", it is not the original barracks and never housed Butler's Rangers.

Ced Landrum

Cedric Bernard Landrum (born September 3, 1963 in Butler, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

M-497 Black Beetle

The construct was then successfully sent on test runs over the existing tracks between Butler, Indiana and Stryker, Ohio (the line was chosen for its arrow-straight layout and good condition, but otherwise unmodified track).

New Kingman-Butler, Arizona

New Kingman-Butler was named for Leroy Butler (not to be confused with LeRoy Butler, the NFL player), who was the original land developer of this unincorporated community.

Silver Spring Networks

Silver Spring Networks was founded in July 2002 as Real Time Techomm in Butler, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.

Strathfoyle

This high interest has led to the construction of new additions to the Strathfoyle area, including 'The New Fort' and 'Butler's Wharf', the latter of which is named after a local farmer, not after the famous Butler's Wharf area in London.


Aireborough Grammar School

When the Butler Education Act 1944 came into force in 1945, the school became a county maintained secondary grammar school, and only admitted pupils who had passed the Eleven plus exam.

Altimont Butler

In 2007, Butler was named the head soccer coach at Oratory Preparatory School in Summit, New Jersey.

American Legion Memorial Stadium

The stadium continues to play a large role in Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school football to this day as it hosts big ticket match-ups such as Butler v. Independence and Charlotte Latin v. Charlotte Country Day.

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Auldbrass Plantation

It was purchased in 1986 by film producer Joel Silver after Donna Butler, a FLW real estate appraiser, convinced him to restore it.

Blaine Hogan

While at Butler, he adapted Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" as the short play "The Door", which was performed on two snowy evenings in an alleyway in Broad Ripple.

Bonnie Blue Flag

In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler nicknames his newborn daughter "Bonnie Blue Butler" when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are "as blue as the Bonnie Blue

Brian Forster

Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series (1966–1968), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

Burnt Lips

Although Kottke did not release an album in 1977, he produced and played on The Wylie Butler by Cal Hand (Takoma TAK C-1056), a Minneapolis pedal steel and dobro player who had played on numerous Capitol releases for Leo.

Butterworth Stavely

Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck.

Cesare Ripa

Cesare Ripa (c. 1560 – c. 1645) was an Italian iconographer who worked for Cardinal Anton Maria Salviati as a cook and butler.

Charaxes chanleri

This species comes nearer to C. kirkii, Butler, than any other, but maybe distinguished from that species by the fact that the secondaries hindwings have no red inclosed spots or curved dashes in the first four divisions of the marginal markings, as described by Dr. Butler; the submarginal series of lunulate spots are not white edged, as in Kirkii, and there is no discal lunulate green line as in Dr. Butler's species.

Chester Pierce Butler

Butler was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses and served until his death in Philadelphia in 1850.

Clifford Marle

His leading parts at the theatre were many and varied, including the title role in August Strindberg's play The Father and as the butler in The Admirable Crichton.

Curtom Records

Curtom Records was a record label started by Curtis Mayfield of The Impressions along with Impressions associate Eddie Thomas (the band's manager and Jerry Butler's former driver) in 1968 although the name was used as early as 1963.

Edward Atienza

Edward Atienza made his professional stage debut in the role of the Butler in a 1949 production of Up in Mabel's Room.

F. Maurice Speed

As time went on, Speed gathered together more and more outside contributors, among them Peter Noble, William K. Everson, Oswell Blakeston, Peter Cowie, Anthony Slide, Ivan Butler and Gordon Gow, as well as soliciting special articles by such film industry figures as James Mason, Michael Balcon, Cecil B. De Mille and Alfred Hitchcock.

Greene, Iowa

Greene is a city in Butler County, Iowa, along the Shell Rock River, and along Butler County's northern border, where Butler and Floyd counties meet.

Greer School

Among the early Presidents of the Board of Directors were famed orthopedic surgeon Russell A. Hibbs, Edward Pulling (founder of the Millbrook School), and Arthur W. Butler.

Gubb

Philo Gubb, a character created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler

Guitar battle

Near the end of the 1986 film Crossroads, Eugene Martone (played by Ralph Macchio) has a guitar battle with Jack Butler (played by Steve Vai).

Henry Brinklow

Henry Brinklow was the ninth child of Sibyl (or Isabell) Butler, and her husband, Robert Brinklow, a farmer in Kintbury, Berkshire.

Huckleberry Hound

Butler denied he based the voice on Carolinian actor Andy Griffith, and had been using it since the late 1940s.

International Business Companies Act

The Act was drafted principally by five people: Lewis Hunte, the then Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands; Neville Westwood, Michael Riegels and Richard Peters, who were partners at the law firm, Harneys; and Paul Butler, a partner from the U.S. law firm of Shearman & Sterling.

James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond

He had two younger brothers, John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, and Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, as well as two sisters, Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Butler (d. 4 January 1435), who was contracted to marry Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, although the marriage appears not to have taken place.

James Ramsay Montagu Butler

In World War II, Butler returned to military service in the Army Intelligence Corps, recruiting many former students including Bernard Willson to work on code breaking at Bletchley Park.

Ken Houghton

He was signed for Hull City A.F.C. early in the 1964–65 season by manager Cliff Britton and became the link between City's defence and the attacking force of the mid to late sixties – Ken Wagstaff, Chris Chilton and Butler.

Lee Pierce Butler

Butler worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago from 1916 to 1919, and went on to lead its John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Mapback

The second mapback edition of Gerald Butler's Kiss The Blood Off My Hands is published as The Unafraid, with a cover photograph of Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster.

Mario Butler

During that era, games were shown on Puerto Rico's national television almost daily (on weekends, twice a day) by WAPA-TV, helping Butler, Frazer, Mario Morales, Georgie Torres, Jerome Mincy and a number of other BSN players to become household names there.

Mildred Anne Butler

Mildred Anne was born in 1858 in Kilmurry, a Georgian House near Thomastown and was the youngest daughter of Captain Henry Butler, a grandson of the Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret.

Nat Glover

Glover was serving at the time of the Brenton Butler case in 2000, in which the 15-year-old Butler was falsely accused of murder.

Pendleton County, Kentucky

Other schools in the county are Sharp Middle School, named for Phillip Allen Sharp, American geneticist and molecular biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) and National Medal of Science (2004), located between Falmouth and Butler, Northern Elementary in Butler, and Southern Elementary in Falmouth.

Rangitata River

Erewhon is also the name of a novel written by Butler anonymously in 1872.

Red Hanrahan

Owen Red Hanrahan, an Irish schoolmaster/poet who figures in several poems and short stories by William Butler Yeats

Roswell King

Roswell King, Sr. had conflicts with Major Pierce Butler when he managed his island plantations in Georgia, because Butler took a more moderate approach to the treatment of slaves than King did.

Ryan Butler

Ryan Butler's most notable film, A Union in Wait, is a 2001 independent documentary film about same-sex marriage which aired on Sundance Channel and was screened at over 20 film festivals around the world.

Servants of the Light

Mr Butler served as Director of Studies until his death in 1978 when he was succeeded by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, third-generation psychic, mediator, author, lecturer and workshop facilitator.

Shaun Butler

Butler has been riding professionally since 1993, and is one of ten professionals featured in the Dave Mirra games on PlayStation and PlayStation 2.

The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

After admonishing his butler Jamison (Eric Blore) for conning money and adding a rare Cuban stamp to his coveted collection, former jewel looter and current detective Michael Lanyard (Warren William, also known as the Lone Wolf, flies back to Miami from Havana.

The Singing Butler

As a contemporary cultural icon, The Singing Butler has been compared to Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Tubal Uriah Butler

Police attempted to arrest Butler as he addressed a meeting in Fyzabad.

Vets4pets

In September 2012, following on from their win of ITV's show 'Britain's got Talent', Ashleigh and Pudsey A.K.A 17-year-old Ashleigh Butler from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and her six-year-old dog, Pudsey, joined forces with Vets4Pets to help raise awareness of the importance of preventative pet healthcare and responsible pet ownership.

Warren Thompson

Warren A. Thompson (born 1802), explorer and original citizen of Butler County, Alabama

William Sayle

On the voyage to the Bahamas, a Captain Butler, one of the settlers from England, rebelled against the Articles and caused such trouble in the new settlement that William Sayle left the original settlement in north Eleuthera for the nearby island of St. George's Cay, now known as Spanish Wells.