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2 unusual facts about joiner


Joiner, Arkansas

Joiner was the birthplace of record company executive Al Bennett, for whom the character Alvin of Alvin and the Chipmunks was named.

Matthew Banckes

His daughters' marriages are examples of the network of family ties at the top ranks of the building trades: to Charles Hopson, Master Joiner to the Office of Works, to John Churchill, master carpenter, and to Henry Wise, gardener, the partner of George London.


Burkat Shudi

He was born in Schwanden in the Canton of Glarus, and arrived in England in 1718, where he started work as a joiner.

Claude Charles Fauriel

He was born at Saint-Étienne, Loire, the son of a poor joiner, but received a good education in the Oratorian colleges of Tournon and Lyon.

Dugald Campbell Patterson

He attended the Glasgow common school, and worked as a ship joiner at Barclay Curle & Company (founded in 1818) in Whiteinch, Scotland.

George Kemp

George Meikle Kemp (1795–1844), Scottish carpenter/joiner, draughtsman, and self-taught architect

Gunston Hall

The interior of the house and its design was mostly the work of William Buckland, a carpenter/joiner and indentured servant from England.

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb

While the question of what happened to the humans and where they went to is never fully resolved during the game, David 'Talin' Joiner, one of the game's key developers, revealed in an interview that humanity was eradicated by an airborne biological weapon (a scenario that was inspired by the Alistair MacLean novel The Satan Bug).

Isaac N. Youngs

He was also a lens-grinder, stonecutter, button maker, tinsmith, printer, pipe fitter, joiner, and blacksmith.

James Burbage

He was apprenticed in London to the trade of joiner, and must have persevered through his apprenticeship and taken up his freedom, as in 1559 he was referred to as a joiner twice in the St Stephen's register.

Ryan Mania

Mania was born in 1989, in Galashiels, Scotland to joiner Kevin and mental health worker Lesley Mania, who first sat him on a Shetland pony aged three.

SplinterBike

On September 16, 2010, during the Tour of Britain, Michael Thompson (a veteran wood joiner) suggested to his friend James Tully (an amateur cyclist) that he could make a 100% wooden bicycle.

Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730

: At Cherrystone's, at John Watersons; at Nasswaddock's, at the Joiner's landing; and at Hungers, at George Harmanson's, in Northampton County, under one inspection.


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