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8 unusual facts about ham


Alexander Marshal

He is recorded living at Ham in 1650, London in 1651, and Islington in 1654, staying there with the son of an Alderman Dewes.

Finglesham

It is also known for the presence of a famous road sign (actually at nearby Finglesham Estuary), pointing to the nearby places of both Ham and Sandwich (and thus reading "ham sandwich" as if referring to the common item of food).

Georges Lachmann

On 15 July 1916, Lachmann scored his first aerial victory, using a Nieuport to destroy an enemy observation balloon over Ham.

Hanxleden

Elisabeth von Hanxleden, daughter from Georg Rombert's marriage to Walburga auf der Ham, married 1599 in Mülheim an der Möhne the Rentmeister of Bilstein, Ludwig von Stockhausen.

Harold Hodges

On the night of 22 March 1918, he entered a small factory on a road between Ham and Eppeville, hoping to make contact with a British battalion.

History of veganism

In 1838, James Pierrepont Greaves opened Alcott House in Ham, London as a boarding school with pupils required to follow a vegetarian diet, understood as a vegan diet today.

Man-Bull

In the Spider-Ham universe, Man-Bull's counterpart in this reality is a frog named Bull-Frog.

Mathilde Bonaparte

She was originally engaged to her first cousin, the future Napoleon III of France, but the engangement was later broken following his imprisonment at Ham.


1974–75 West Ham United F.C. season

West Ham won the FA Cup Final for the second time, recording a 2-0 result against a Fulham side captained by former Upton Park legend Bobby Moore.

1979–80 West Ham United F.C. season

Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.

Ade Coker

In 2008, Coker alongside his West Ham teammates, Clive Charles and Clyde Best, were the subjects of the book 'East End Heroes, Stateside Kings'.

Alan Devonshire

He made the final pass for many of the goals scored by team mates, Tony Cottee and Frank McAvennie in the 1985-86 season as West Ham finished third in the First Division.

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Arbellara

Blessing of the houses on Holy Saturday: they offer the priest eggs, ham, and sheep cheeses.

Balham, Gateway to the South

It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden for a 1950s BBC radio series called Third Division and featured actor Robert Beatty narrating highly exaggerated, dramatic claims regarding the putative attractions of 'Bal-ham'.

Berthold-Bezelin

Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate of Prüm and documented with the Vianden cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.

Brutus of Troy

A variant version of the Historia Britonum makes Brutus the son of Ascanius's son Silvius, and traces his genealogy back to Ham, son of Noah.

David Hassell

In 2013, 15Five received $1 million in seed funding from venture capital firm Richmond Global, 500 Startups, and investments from individuals, including Yammer founder David O. Sacks, Ustream founder John Ham, former editor of Mashable Ben Parr, Ben Ling of Google and Xobni founder Matt Brezina.

Denver sandwich

A Denver sandwich, also known as a Western sandwich, consists of a Denver omelette (consisting of at least ham, onion, green pepper, and scrambled eggs), sandwiched between two pieces of bread.

Derby Theatre

Roderick Ham, who had already designed the Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead, was commissioned to design the theatre, and the Derby City Council offered the site as part of the new shopping development, the Eagle Centre.

Eggs Benedict

Eggs Atlantic, Eggs Hemingway, or Eggs Copenhagen (also known as Eggs Royale and Eggs Montreal in New Zealand) substitutes salmon (or smoked salmon) for the ham.

Frau Farbissina

In Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Doctor Evil Story, a half-hour long preview special of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Dr. Evil states that he met Farbissina "at gymnasia in Baden-Baden at a street corner next to the McDonald's."

Ham and cheese sandwich

Richard E. Byrd took ham and cheese sandwiches on his 1926 polar flight as did 1927 transatlantic fliers Chamberlin and Levine.

Ham hock

Fläsklägg med rotmos is a Swedish dish which includes often salt-cured ham hocks, mashed rutabaga, and sweet Scanian mustard.

Hurlingham, Buenos Aires

The word "ham" in Old English meant "house" may have been related to the name referring to "The House of Hurling", an ancient Irish sport.

Independence, Pitkin County, Colorado

They humorously billed their escape as the "Hunter Pass Tenderfoot Snowshoe Club Race", with an entry fee of one ham sandwich each.

James Fulton

Sir (James) Forrest Fulton (1845–1925), British judge and Member of Parliament (MP) for West Ham North 1886–1892

Janko Polić Kamov

Headstrong and temperamental, he called himself Kamov, after Ham (or Kam) from the Old Testament, who saw his father Noah naked but unlike his siblings Shem and Japhet did not cover his nakedness, thus issuing a curse.

Joe Cockroft

Signed after a months trial from Gainsborough by Charlie Paynter, Cockroft made his West Ham debut on April 14, 1933, having made just four reserve appearances for the club.

Karapiro Power Station

From Karapiro, electricity is transmitted by a twin-circuit 110 kV line (HAM-KPO-A) to Hamilton, via Cambridge, where Karapiro's electricity is distributed to Hamilton, northern Waikato, and Auckland.

Kingston Regatta

The Regatta moved from Raven’s Ait in 1937 to Canbury Gardens after the Club moved to Turk’s Boat House in Lower Ham Road.

Kosher restaurant

One such instance was a Dunkin' Donuts in Rockville, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.), which made the decision to be non-kosher in 2007 in order to offer menu items sold at non-kosher Dunkin' Donuts locations (such as ham).

Maidenhead Locator System

Perl supports conversion between geographical coordinates and Maidenhead locators in module Ham::Locator by Andy Smith, available on CPAN.

Mary Katharine Ham

Ham appears regularly on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News program, The O'Reilly Factor, usually with Juan Williams, and she has been a guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.

Metalzoic

Jool agrees, and quotes from Pythagoras, however this does not go down with the other surviving robots as well, and they leave in disdain - all apart from Ham who is strapped to her back.

Opera Las Vegas

OLV's performance venue for the 2014 season is Artemus W. Ham Hall on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Pål Jacobsen

Jacobsen currently works as an assistant coach for Ham-Kam, and as a freelance sports journalist in the local newspaper Hamar Arbeiderblad.

Pauline Baynes

In 1948 Tolkien was visiting his publishers, George Allen & Unwin, to discuss some disappointing artwork that they had commissioned for his novella Farmer Giles of Ham, when he spotted, lying on a desk, some witty reinterpretations of medieval marginalia from the Luttrell Psalter that greatly appealed to him.

Pran Kumar Sharma

In 1983, the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi released Pran's comics "Raman - Ham Ek Hain" which promoted national integration.

Ron Greenwood

The Town Council of Loughton, where Greenwood lived during his time as West Ham manager, erected a blue plaque to his memory on one of his former houses in the town, 22 Brooklyn Avenue: this was unveiled by Sir Trevor Brooking and the Town Mayor, Chris Pond on 28 October 2008.

Rudolf Brunnenmeier

"Hammers" keeper Jim Standen made fine saves from 1860 captain Brunnenmeier and eventually two goals by Alan Sealey twenty minutes before time saw West Ham captain Bobby Moore lifting his first of altogether three trophies within one year in Wembley.

Sahand Quazi

In 2008 Quazi released his first solo song entitled ham hameh, despite being banned by several television stations for showing the modern day Flag of Iran the song was well received with honors on YouTube and has since been collectively viewed a quarter million times.

Sanjurge

Sanjurge, and its surrounding areas are known for their crops and hard work but the two things that they are really known for is Presunto, a smoked ham and their Folar, a type of bread with different kinds of meat in it.

Slade Ham

Slade Ham (born May 27, 1976 in Beaumont, Texas) is a comedian and radio personality from Beaumont, Texas.

Smithfield Packing Company

In 1962, with Smithfield already on its way to becoming the "Ham Capital of the World", Joseph W. Luter III became the company's leader.

Sqoon

Aliens who rule the planet Neptune realize that they have run out of their primary source of nutrition, "man-ham livestock," and decide to invade Earth to feed off the humans.

St John's Church, Bath

John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church is located on the South Parade in the south-east section of Bath City Centre – the old Ham District where John Wood the Elder, the Georgian architect, had originally planned his gigantic "Forum".

Syd King

Part of the reason that this consistency was possible, was due to Syd King signing players that went on to become West Ham legends and record holders, as well as England internationals, including Jimmy Ruffell, Ted Hufton & Vic Watson.

The Moose's Tooth

1975 Ham and Eggs, couloir on the south face: Jon Krakauer, Tom Davies and Nate Zinsser to main summit, July 16-18th.

West Ham

The street names of housing developed on the site of the former stadium pay homage to the speedway greats associated with West Ham, including Bluey Wilkinson and Jack Young.

William Lansdowne

William Lansdowne, Sr., better known as Bill Lansdowne, English former professional footballer who played for West Ham United

William Lansdowne, Jr., better known as Billy Lansdowne, English former professional footballer who played for West Ham United, Charlton Athletic, Gillingham and Kalmar

Woodkirk Academy

This show celebrated the works of Dr. Seuss, famous for his creation of the "Grinch" and "Green Eggs and Ham".


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