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70 unusual facts about Beaumont


Albert Klapstein

Klapstein did not run for reelection at the dissolution of the assembly in 2004 after losing the nomination race for the new riding of Leduc-Beaumont-Devon to George Rogers.

Alex Nelson

Nelson was born in Beaumont, Texas and began taking piano lessons at an early age.

Alexander von Bournonville

Alexander von Bournonville, Alexander de Bournonville, Alexander II Hyppolite, Prince of Bournonville and third Count of Hénin-Liétard (Brussels, January 5 1616 – Pamplona, August 20 1690) was a Flemish military man.

Alvin Maxson

Alvin Earl Maxson (born November 12, 1951 in Beaumont, Texas) is a former American football running back in the National Football League.

Army of Châlons

Leaving the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, Moltke took the Prussian Third Army, led by the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the newly formed Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony northward where they caught up with the French at Beaumont-en-Argonne on 30 August 1870.

Aubrey de Coucy

Aubrey de Coucy was a Norman from Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, Aisne which was the inheritance of his wife, Ada, daughter of Letétard de Marle (himself a son of Count Ivo de Beaumont-sur-Oise).

Baldwin of Lannoy

Baldwin van Lannoy (Hénin-Beaumont, 1388 - Huppaye, 1474), was a Flemish statesman, and ambassador for Philip the Good at the court of Henry V of England.

Beaumont Botanical Gardens

The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, are botanical gardens and a conservatory located in Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

Beaumont Glacier

It was resighted in 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, who named it for the city of Beaumont, Texas, in recognition of the public support given to his expedition by this city and by the Tejas Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, at Beaumont.

Beaumont-le-Roger

Roger de Beaumont, a powerful 11th century lord and adviser to William the Conqueror, derived his family name from Beaumont, of which his family were lords.

Beaumont-Wilshire, Portland, Oregon

"Beaumont Village", located on NE Fremont Street, from NE 33rd Ave. to NE 50th Ave., is the main commercial district in the neighborhood, but the neighborhood also lies within walking distance of the Hollywood District, a major commercial and shopping area to the south.

Beaumont, Cumbria

The village lies four miles north-west of Carlisle on the banks of the River Eden.

Beaumont, Kansas

The community is featured in the storyline of the 1998 film "The Long Way Home" starring Jack Lemmon.

Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway

It passed through small southeast Texas communities such as Hull, Kenefick, and Huffman.

Yoakum's plan envisioned using the Rock Island and Frisco, together with several railroads to be built in Texas and Louisiana and now known as the Gulf Coast Lines, to form a continuous line of railroad extending from Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis to Baton Rouge, Houston, Brownsville, Tampico and Mexico City.

Beaumont, South Australia

Edward Burton Gleeson, the founder of the Mid North town of Clare originally owned a farm within the boundaries of Beaumont in the early 1840s, which he named Gleeville.

Blame It on Texas

The narrator tells that from his humble beginnings in Beaumont, Texas (Mark's birthplace) he has traveled all around the country.

Bubba Harris

Fractured his arm at the ABA Lonestar Nationals in Beaumont, Texas on March 5, 2000 after going two years without an injury.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Charlotte Beers

Charlotte Beers (born July 26, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American businesswoman and former Under Secretary of State.

Coosje van Bruggen

Van Bruggen and Oldenburg were based in New York for many years, but they also lived and worked for extensive periods in Los Angeles and, since 1992, at Château de la Borde in Beaumont-sur-Dême, in the Loire Valley of France.

DeBusk Scarp

It was resighted by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Finn Ronne, who named it after Clarence DeBusk, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Beaumont, Texas, who was of assistance to the RARE in the preparation for the voyage south.

Duc de Beaumont

The title, referring to Beaumont-du-Gâtinais in the Île-de-France, was created for Monseigneur Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, son of Christian-Louis, prince de Tingry (third son of François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg) and his wife Louise-Madeleine de Harlay, comtesse de Beaumont.

Edson Hotel

The Edson Hotel in Beaumont, Texas was built in 1929 at a cost of $1.5 Million, and was designed by F.W. and D.E. Steinman of Beaumont.

Egon Mayer

He was buried at the cemetery of Beaumont-le-Roger, France and later re-interred at the German War Cemetery, St. Desiré de Lisieux.

Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois

Eleanor was Countess of Vermandois in her own right and was Countess of Ostervant, Nevers, Auxerre, Boulogne and Beaumont by her various marriages.

Emcor

In August 2007, EMCOR purchased Ohmstede Limited headquartered in Beaumont, Texas, a shell and tube heat exchanger manufacturer that employs over 500 people, for $455 million.

Eric Hardgrave

Hardgrave was drafted by the San Diego Padres with the 142nd pick of the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft, and played for the team's minor league affiliates in Spokane, Reno, and Beaumont.

Erich Hohagen

On D-Day Hohagen was in combat over the front and at 17.25 hours claimed an RAF fighter shot down around Beaumont-le-Roger; probably a Mustang I (Serial No. AG465) of No. 430 Squadron RCAF flown by F/O J. S. Cox, who was killed.

FCF Hénin-Beaumont

Football Club Féminin Hénin-Beaumont is a French football club based in Hénin-Beaumont.

Francis Phoebus of Navarre

His succession was approved by the Agramont party, while the Beaumont party fell behind Ferdinand the Catholic who started to build up political and military pressure on the Kingdom of Navarre in the run-up to the fully-fledged invasion of 1512.

Gare de Persan-Beaumont

Since it is the last station before Picardie, STIF fare structures no longer apply beyond it (except on trains linking Pontoise and Creil).

Grand Ole Opry's New Star

The first three songs written for the album, "Play It Cool", "Hold Everything", and "Boat of Life" were recorded between January and August 1954 at Jack Starnes Studio in Beaumont, Texas; the remainder of the songs were recorded in Houston at Gold Star Studio between March 1955 and August 1956.

Henry Beaumont

Henry Frederick Beaumont (1833–1913), British MP for Yorkshire South and for Colne Valley

Henry de Beaumont

, (d. after 1 September 1297) who was in right of his wife Agnés de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont in Maine and Seigneur of Beaumont-le-Vicomte (alias Beaumont-sur-Sarthe), Sainte-Suzanne, la Fleche, Fresnay, le Lude, etc.

Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick

He was given by his father the modest lordship of Le Neubourg, in central Normandy, 12 km NE of his father's caput of Beaumont-le-Roger on the River Risle.

House of Beaumont

Roger de Beaumont, Lord (seigneur) of Pont-Audemer, of Beaumont-le-Roger, of Brionne and of Vatteville, was too old to fight at the Hastings and stayed in Normandy to govern and protect it while William was away on the invasion.

Hypalon

DuPont Performance Elastomers announced on May 7, 2009 that it intended to close its manufacturing plant in Beaumont, Texas by June 30, 2009.

Ingeborg Psalter

It is unknown who commissioned the Psalter for Ingeborg, but it may have been commissioned by either Stephen of Tournai or Eleanor of Vernandois, Countess of Beaumont-sur-Oise.

Jeff Phelps

He then had a five year stint as a sportscaster on KJAC in Beaumont, Texas.

Joan II of Navarre

Louis, Count of Beaumont-le-Roger (1341–1372), married 1358 Maria de Lizarazu, married 1366 Joanna of Durazzo (1344–1387)

Later on she exchanged Angoulême for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

John Hopley

He survived the war and received a DSO "for conspicuous gallantry in action" at Beaumont-Hamel in 1916.

John II, Count of Soissons

Matilda was the widow of Richard II, the viscount of Beaumont-sur-Sarthe.

Joyce Castle

Joyce Castle (born Lillian Joyce Malicky, on January 17, 1944, in Beaumont, Texas)is an American mezzo-soprano who has had an active opera career for the last four decades.

Kelly Asbury

Asbury was born in Beaumont, Texas and attended Lamar University for two years before transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts in 1980, where he studied animation and film making.

KITU-TV

KITU-TV is a religious television station in Beaumont, Texas, broadcasting locally on RF channel 33 as an affiliate of TBN.

Louis Aston Knight

His favorite subjects were the cottages and gardens in the towns surrounding his home in Beaumont-le-Roger.

Mount Combs

It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–48) under Finn Ronne, who named it for Representative J.M. Combs of Beaumont, Texas, who did much to gain support for the expedition.

Navarrese Company

In 1366, after peace was made, the mercenaries were organised into a coherent company of soldiers under Louis, Count of Beaumont-le-Roger in his own right and Duke of Durazzo in right of his wife, Joanna.

Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine

OUWBSM is named for OU which was named for Oakland County and William Beaumont Hospital (WBH) which was named for US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion started at Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Orleans Building

The Orleans Building in Beaumont, Texas was built in 1925 for the American National Bank.

Ringo Deathstarr

The band were originally started by Frazier in his hometown, Beaumont, but soon he moved to the more musically active town of Austin, where he stabilized a lineup consisting of guitarist Renan McFarland, bassist Alex Gehring, and drummer Dustin Gaudet.

Robert Dirk

Following his release from the Wildcatters in 2005, Dirk remained in Beaumont, Texas to take a job as the director of the Montagne Center, the home venue of the athletic squads for Lamar University.

Robert III of Artois

Robert III of Artois (1287–1342) was Lord of Conches-en-Ouche, of Domfront, and of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, and in 1310 he received as appanage the county of Beaumont-le-Roger in restitution for the county of Artois which he claimed.

Roderick Riley

He was born on March 11, 1981 and he attended Beaumont Central High School in Beaumont, Texas.

Roger de Beaumont

Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger, feudal lord (Seigneur) of Beaumont-le-Roger and of Pont-Audemer (c. 1015 – 29 November 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman and close advisor to William the Conqueror.

He was overshadowed by his elder brother, but was granted by his father one of his lesser lordships in Normandy, the lordship of Le Neubourg, about 12 km NE of Beaumont-le-Roger, from which his own family adopted the surname Anglicised to "de Newburgh".

His Norman feudal lordship had its caput and castle at Beaumont-le-Roger, a settlement situated on the upper reaches of the River Risle, in Normandy, about 46 km SW of Rouen, the capital of the Duchy.

Sandra Bookman

Sandra Bookman (born November 28, 1959 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American television news reporter and weekend anchor.

Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks

In the team's inaugural ABA season in Beaumont the Mustangs proved to be a force to be reckoned with.

Slade Ham

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

Spindletop Hall

On November 14, 1925, Frank Yount struck oil at the Spindletop field in Beaumont, Texas.

Starday Records

The label began in 1952 in Beaumont, Texas when local businessmen Jack Starnes (Lefty Frizzell's manager) and Houston record distributor Harold W. Daily (better known as "Pappy") decided to form a record label.

Thomas G. Carmody

Carmody is a son of Thomas Gaughan Carmody, Sr., and the former Katherine Elizabeth Phelan of Shreveport; Mrs Carmody, originally from Beaumont, Texas.

Tim Beckman

Beckman attended high school at Forest Park High School in Beaumont, Texas, for two years before completing his secondary education at Berea High School in Berea, Ohio.

Tracey Perkins

Perkins attended Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he lettered as a member of the football team during the 1985-1988 seasons.

Un début dans la vie

Put on half-pay, Oscar obtains the post of collector for Beaumont-sur-Oise.

Wanda Tinasky

He married Kathleen Marie Gallaner and worked for Boeing in the early fifties, then in Beaumont, Texas in television, for station KFDM, and advertising.

William VII the Young of Auvergne

The young count was able to maintain his status in part of his county, especially Beaumont, Chamalières, and Montferrand.


Alameda, Portland, Oregon

Alameda is located between the business districts of Beaumont Village and the Hollywood District.

Baron Bardolf

The (historical) barony of Lovel had been forfeit since the attainder of Francis Lovel, 1st Viscount Lovel, son of Joan Lady Lovel abovementioned, in 1485, and any right to it was vested in the same co-heirs as the baronies of Beaumont and Bardolf, descendants of Lovel's sisters.

Bob Beaumont

Robert Gerald Beaumont (April 1, 1932 – October 24, 2011) was the founder of Sebring-Vanguard a Florida based company that produced the Citicar, an electric automobile manufacturer from 1974 to 1977.

Bridge City, Texas

It is part of the BeaumontPort Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Charles Jundt

In 1932, Adeita de Beaumont Fisher, the estranged wife of cartoonist Bud Fisher, was awarded $5,000 damages after Jundt burned Fisher's ear while styling her hair.

Daisy Beaumont

Beaumont's other television work includes a variety of shows, among others The Border, EastEnders, Hotel Babylon, A Touch of Cloth, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Mumbai Calling and The Bill as well as a small movie role in Shanghai Nights, which also starred Jackie Chan.

Dela Smith

Beaumont Hill in Darlington, County Durham caters for children aged five to 19 with a range of special needs.

Ezra Charles

Hailing from Beaumont, Texas, Charles is the author of a song called "Beaumont Boys", which paid homage to many of the musicians from his hometown, including The Big Bopper, Johnny and Edgar Winter, and Harry James.

Grace Dieu Manor

His son Sir Francis Beaumont was also a judge and his grandson John Beaumont was created the first of the Beaumont baronets of Grace Dieu in 1627.

Grant Park, Portland, Oregon

The neighborhood is bordered by Alameda and Beaumont-Wilshire to the north, Rose City Park to the east, Hollywood District, Laurelhurst, and Sullivan's Gulch to the south, and Irvington to the west, and best known as the setting for Beverly Cleary's Klickitat Street series of books.

Harmaston, Texas

Harmaston, located at the southwest corner of Lake Houston, was developed along the timber shipping railroad line Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway.

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster

Eleanor of Lancaster, (about 1318-1371/72) married (1) John De Beaumont and (2) 5 Feb. 1344/5, Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and had descendants

Herman Fontenot

He was raised by his Grandmother, growing up in the Neches Homes housing projects in Beaumont, Texas.

Huntingdon Beaumont

There were several branches to the Beaumont dynasty and this was the one based at Coleorton in Leicestershire.

Jack Brooks Federal Building

In the 1978, President Jimmy Carter came to Beaumont to officiate over the renaming of the building for Congressman Jack Brooks, who lived in and represented the area for many years.

John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont

Sir Thomas Beaumont, Lord of Bacqueville in France, 3rd son, who married Philippa Marward, daughter of Thomas Marward of Quartermarshe, Leicestershire.

Joseph Finger

This sculpture, and the twenty-seven other friezes around the building, were done by Beaumont artist Herring Coe and co-designer Raoul Josset.

Kerry Beaumont

Beaumont was previously director of music (1994-2002) at Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, England and (1990-1994) at St David's Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

KUIL

KUIL-LD, a low-power television station (channel 43) licensed to serve Beaumont, Texas, United States

Le Neubourg

In the 11th century the manor of Le Neubourg was a subsidiary holding of Roger de Beaumont (d.1094), a principal adviser to William the Conqueror, and feudal lord of Beaumont-le-Roger situated 12 km to the SW.

Loughrigg Tarn

Loughrigg Tarn was a favoured place of William Wordsworth, who, in his Epistle to Sir George Howland Beaumont Bart, likened it to “Diana’s Looking-glass...round clear and bright as heaven", a reference to Lake Nemi, the mirror of Diana in Rome.

Magdalen Street

On the northern corner with Beaumont Street is the Macdonald Randolph Hotel, widely considered to be Oxford's leading hotel.

Manor of Loxhore

The earliest positively identifiable descendant of the Domesday tenant Robert de Beaumont was the 13th-century Sir Richard Beaumont, whose family had long been seated at the capital estate of Youlston within their adjacent manor of Shirwell.

McFaddin

McFaddin-Ward House, Beaux-Arts colonial style house in Beaumont, Texas

Patrick Denis O'Donnell

Patrick Denis O'Donnell died in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, after a long illness, and his remains were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, following a funeral with military honours and a pall-bearer party from the 5th Infantry Battalion, whose insignia he designed, and in the presence of the Chief of Staff, Lt. General James Sreenan, and accompanied by surviving family members, relatives and friends.

Rachel de Montmorency

The present church of St Michael and All Angels of Jarvis Brook, Sussex was built in 1905 on a site given by Lord Abergavenny and designed by John Beaumont Tansley.

Robert Menzies

Writer Gerard Henderson has rejected this theory, but history professors Judith Brett and Joan Beaumont support Day, as does Menzies' daughter, Heather Henderson, who claimed Lady Astor "even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England".

Simca 1000

Dividing his time between Fiat’s Industrial Design Centre at Turin and Simca’s Styling Centre at Poissy, Revello de Beaumont spent the two years between 1959 and 1961 working with Fiat’s Felice Mario Boano, developing the Simca 1000 to production readiness.

Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

Some paintings by his own hand have entered the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester, while the rest remain in the Beaumont family collection.

The National Gallery opened to the public in May 1824 in Angerstein's former house on Pall Mall, and Beaumont's paintings entered its collection the following year.

Beaumont was educated at Eton College, where he was taught drawing by the landscape painter Alexander Cozens.