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unusual facts about cob



3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division

During the 2006–2008 tour MND-N was commanded by the 25th Infantry Division and based out of COB Speicher in Tikrit.

Aberllefenni

The quarry reservoir, Llyn Cob, was once known as Llyn Owain Lawgoch, after the last male survivor of the princely house of the Kingdom of Gwynedd.

Armory Show

The show will focus on the effects of the Armory Show on the Cos Cob Art Colony, and highlight the involvement of artists such as Elmer Livingston MacRae and Henry Fitch Taylor in producing the show.

Barrington, Somerset

The village is located on the southern edge of the Somerset Levels and many of the houses are built from cob and thatched with local reeds.

Bush-Holley House

MacRae succeeded John Henry Twachtman as head of the Cos Cob Art Colony, and for two decades Elmer and Emma continued to run the boardinghouse, which also served as a studio and showcase for MacRae’s works.

In the summer of 1896, Elmer Livingston MacRae visited Cos Cob for a class in outdoor painting.

COB Speicher

COB Speicher had a large Post Exchange (PX), as well as several American fast food restaurants, including Subway, Burger King, and Pizza Hut; although these were all closed by mid October 2011.

Cob Stenham

Anthony William Paul Stenham, born 28 January 1932, and named "Cob" after Richard Cobden, was a director of Unilever for sixteen years, the chairman of Ajro Wiggins Appleton from 1991 and on the board and latterly chairman of Telewest, for twelve years from 1994 to 2006.

Cos Cob Art Colony

Among the artists who first visited Cos Cob as summer students were Elmer Livingston MacRae, Ernest Lawson, Allen Tucker, Charles Ebert, Mary Roberts Ebert, Alice Judson, and Genjiro Yeto.

Destini Beard

The Dead Matter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, which Beard worked on with Midnight Syndicate, won an award for Best B-Movie Soundtrack at the 2011 Golden Cob Awards.

Glen Parva

Here there is a Newsagent, Off Licence, Post Office, Chemist, Barbers, Cob Shop and Accountant.

Jaime Solares

Jaime Solares is a Bolivian labor leader, and a major figure in the Bolivian Workers' Center (in Spanish, Central Obrera Boliviana or COB), Bolivia's largest union confederation.

Karrier

In 1930, this was developed into the "Cob" tractor to haul road trailers for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Polly Stenham

The daughter of Anthony 'Cob' Stenham, a City businessman, she had little contact with her mother after her parents' divorce, and she and her younger sister, Daisy, lived with their father.

Thomas Hardy's Cottage

Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy.


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