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Lawn, Texas

Sunshine Parker - actor born 10 June 1927 - Died 17 February 1999 (Burbank California) Roles include Emmitt in Road House 1989, as well many Character roles in movie and Television.


1877 Wimbledon Championship

On 2 June 1877 at the suggestion of founding member and club secretary, John H. Walsh, the club committee decided to organize a lawn tennis championship which they hoped would generate enough funds to repair the broken pony roller that was needed for the maintenance of the lawns.

43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

While living in New York, Hans Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy and 8x8: A Chess Sonata in collaboration with Max Ernst, Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Aberfoyle Park, South Australia

The Happy Valley sports park, which is located near Aberfoyle Park High School, contains the Happy Valley Football Club who are known as the Vikings, the Happy Valley Cricket Club, the Happy Valley tennis club, a lawn bowls club and a BMX track.

Ann May

She practiced dancing with modern dance pioneer and choreographer, Ruth St. Denis, on the front lawn of May's Hollywood home.

Athens Lawn Tennis Club

The Athens Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis club founded in Athens, Greece in 1895.

Blueshirts

It was to proceed to Glasnevin Cemetery, stopping briefly on Leinster lawn in front of the Irish parliament, where speeches were to be held.

Buena Vista Park

At the peak of the park is a small lawn offering views to the east, north, and west, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin Headlands.

Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club

Although many are performed at the 228-seater ADC Theatre, where the Club is the resident performing company, recent venues have also included the Corpus Christi Playroom, The Octagon at St Chad’s, King's College Lawn and the Round Church.

Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis

In 1999, a 14-foot high, welded stainless steel sculpture by Wiktor Szostalo was installed on the side lawn of the church.

Chapel Lawn

Chapel Lawn is a small village in southwest Shropshire, England, located within the Redlake Valley, some three miles south of the small, historic town of Clun.

Chicago Lawn, Chicago

In 1941, the National Biscuit Company announced plans to build a huge bakery in Chicago Lawn.

Clay dogs

They only occur in a few places in the world; until recently, Croton Point along the Hudson River produced them, but the clay slope that produced the dogs was subsequently demolished to extend a park lawn.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra

In the summer the orchestra performs a series of outdoor pops programs, "Picnic with the Pops", on the lawn of Chemical Abstracts Service.

Donovan's Reef

The home of the French island governor, the white beach house with coconut palms and surrounding grass lawn, is the Allerton Estate home and former summer residence of Hawaiian Queen Emma near Poipu Beach, now a part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (without the scenes of boats and canoes on the Wailua River, which were edited and merged with scenes filmed at the Allerton Estate).

Fair Lawn High School

Hubie Brown (born 1933), former NBA basketball coach, who coached the Fair Lawn High School basketball team in the 1960s.

Garden City, Georgia

a statue of baseball icon Babe Ruth, which stands on the front lawn of Babe's Barbeque Shack, 525 U.S. Highway 80 West;

Gravely

Gravely Tractor, a manufacturer of outdoor power lawn and garden implements

Harry Gem

Frustrated at the complex and expensive facilities required for rackets, however, the two developed a simpler game that could be played on Perera's croquet lawn at 8 Ampton Road in Edgbaston, incorporating elements of rackets alongside features of the Basque game of pelota.

Harry W. Musselwhite

He died in San Lorenzo, California and is interred on the other side of the state in Cypress Lawn Cemetery of Coloma.

History of tennis

Between 1859 and 1865, in Birmingham, England, Major Harry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Augurio Perera, a Spanish merchant, combined elements of the game of rackets and the Spanish ball game Pelota and played it on a croquet lawn in Edgbaston.

Hybrid Heaven

Johnny's personal motive to help him stay focused is that he must make it back in time to meet his girlfriend under the Christmas tree on the White House lawn.

Jack Everly

From the Capitol Building lawn, Everly has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra in the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth since 2010, in concerts televised nationwide on PBS, an honor previously held by the late Erich Kunzel.

Largo, Sofia

The lawn and the flags in the centre are to be substituted by a glass lid on the floor, so that the ruins of the ancient Thracian and Roman city of Serdica can be exposed in an impressive way, thus becoming a tourist attraction.

Lawrence Dundas

Lawrence Dundas, 3rd Marquess of Zetland (1908–1989), lawn tennis player known before 1971 as the Earl of Ronaldshay

Mary Ewing Outerbridge

The modern game of lawn tennis was commercialized in 1874 in England by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of the British Army.

McQueen, Edmonton

Located within Coronation Park is the Telus World of Science (formerly called the Edmonton Space and Sciences Centre), the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre, Coronation Arena (an ice arena), a small football stadium and a lawn bowling facility.

National Book Festival

Tents were set up on the East Lawn of the United States Capitol, with both adults' and children's authors reading excerpts from their works throughout the day.

North Shore Connector

Other businesses and attractions served include the Del Monte corporate headquarters (600 employees), Equitable Resources (450 employees), the SpringHill Suites Marriott Hotel and other nearby hotels, Stage AE North Shore Amphitheater (Indoor rock club plus outdoor amphitheater with lawn for 5,500 visitors opening December 2010), the Andy Warhol Museum (90,000 visitors), and many other night spots and restaurants.

Parque Rodó

Apart from the main park area which is delimited by Sarmiento Avenue to the south, Parque Rodó includes an amusement park, the Estadio Luis Franzini, belonging to Defensor Sporting, the front lawn of the Faculty of Engineering, and a stripe West of the Club de Golf Punta Carretas which includes the Canteras del Parque Rodó (the quarry of), the Teatro de Verano and the Lago del Parque Rodó (the lake of).

Percy Colquhoun

In 1909 Colquhoun was president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, and refereed Sydney's first Davis Cup challenge round final.

Pork Tornado

Pork Tornado is a band co- founded in 1997 by Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Dan Archer record producer/engineer including Phishs "Lawn Boy" (guitar, vocals), Joe Moore (saxophone, vocals), Aaron Hersey (bass, vocals), and Phil Abair (keyboards, vocals).

Rick Polizzi

Frustrated by the lack of family friendly Halloween attractions in the Los Angeles area, Polizzi began to construct a display of his own in the front lawn of his Sherman Oaks, California home.

Robb Austin

Atwater introduced Austin to Reagan and included him in White House social functions and high level events, including the October 8, 1981, South Lawn departure ceremony of former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter who were leading the nation's delegation to the State funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Rooftop Films

The screenings all take place on rooftops or in other scenic outdoor locations throughout New York City, including the roof of the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus, Open Road Rooftop in the Lower East Side, the lawn at Automotive High School in Williamsburg, the roof of El Museo del Barrio, the roof of Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, and more.

Salcey Forest railway station

One theory is that it was provided on the request of the Duke of Grafton whose lived at nearby Salcey Lawn.

Segway Fest

SegwayFesT 2008 also included the playing of the 2008 Woz Challenge Cup of Segway Polo on the lawn of the Indiana State Museum.

Sir Walter Buffalo Turf

Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf is a variety of Australian-bred soft-leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) first developed in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Smoked Hams

Wally Walrus tries to get some sleep in the day, while Woody Woodpecker continually keeps Wally awake by mowing the lawn and burning leaves which produces a plume of smoke.

Spodoptera cilium

Spodoptera cilium, known variously as Dark Mottled Willow, Lawn Caterpillar and Grasslawn Armyworm, is a noctuid moth found throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa and western, southern and south-east Asia and several countries in southern and eastern Europe.

SRM University

The campus is spread over a green lawn environment(at Modinagar on Delhi-Meerut highway.

Steep Canyon Rangers

Martin appeared with the Steep Canyon Rangers at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival and at the July 4, 2011 A Capitol Fourth celebration on the West Lawn of the US Capitol Building.

Sumant Misra

He won the last All India Tennis Championships in 1944–45 and then went on to win the first newly christened National Lawn Tennis Championships of India that was held at Calcutta South Club in Woodburn Park Road, in 1946–47 beating Man Mohan Lal.

Swepsonville, North Carolina

The Honda Motor Company manufactures general purpose engines, walk-behind lawn mowers, snow blowers, string trimmers, water pumps, and tillers in Swepsonville.

Teacher-Student Centre, University of Dhaka

Across the green lawn to the east of the TSC, a small Greek Mausoleum stands distinctively.

Toupie Lowther

The brothers Reginald and Hugh Laurence Doherty invited her to write a chapter entitled "Ladies' Play" for their book "Lawn Tennis" published 1903 and George Whiteside Hillyard 1864–1943, the All England Tennis Club Secretary for many years and husband to Blanche Hillyard in his book "Forty Years of First Class Tennis" (1924) was glowing in his appreciation.


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