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2 unusual facts about First National


Lewis Stone

He showed up in First National's 1920 Nomads of the North (a wonderfully preserved silent film) to good effect playing a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman.

Westmore family

In 1923, Perc established a blazing career at First National-Warner Bros. and, over twenty-seven years, initiated beauty trends and disguises including, in 1939, the faces of Charles Laughton's grotesque Hunchback of Notre Dame (for RKO) and Bette Davis's eyebrowless, almost bald, whitefaced look in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.


Sinpo

Near Sinpo in 1987 the building of first national nuclear plant was started by the USSR but construction was cancelled in 1991 due to lack of funding and in 1993 finally according to political reasons.


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2012 in Singapore

9 August – Singapore celebrates its 47th (XLVII) national day with her NDP 2012 held at the Float at Marina Bay and it was the very first National Day Parade for Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam as President of the Republic Of Singapore.

AmSouth Bancorporation

AmSouth was previously known as First National Bank of Birmingham, which was first organized by Charles Linn in 1872.

Andrew H. Burke

He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

Annette Pehnt

After her masters degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature.

Axtel

Then President Ernesto Zedillo made the first "national" call in the company's network, inaugurating service nationwide.

Bert E. Salisbury

Salisbury was director of the First National Bank of Syracuse and Morris Plan Bank, Syracuse.

Bo Levi Mitchell

He helped lead EWU to the NCAA Division I FCS National Championship with a 20-19 come-from-behind victory over the University of Delaware, the school's first national championship in football.

Bride of the Regiment

The story is a remake of a 1927 First National silent film, The Lady in Ermine, that starred Corinne Griffith.

Charles B. Benedict

He commenced practice in Attica, New York, and was the Justice of the Peace from 1854 to 1860.He organized and was president of the Attica National Bank, also Bank of Attica and the First National bank of Moorhead, Minnesota.

Committee for a Revolutionary Socialist Party

A First National Conference attended by 100 members and fraternal representatives of these groups met in Union, Washington Oct. 6-9, 1978.

Emerson da Conceição

Emerson became first-choice from his third season onwards, and contributed with 20 league matches in 2010–11, as Les Dogues won their first national championship in 57 years.

Finance Bank Zambia Limited

In October 2011, following the election of a new President in the country and his selection of a new cabinet of ministers, President Michael Sata reversed the sale of Finance Bank Zambia (FBZ) to First National Bank (FNB) and ordered that the bank be returned to the original owners.

First National of Nebraska

On December 15, 2000, First State Bank merged with First National Bank Southwest and moved their headquarters from Silverton, Texas to Frisco, Texas.

FNB Corporation

FNB Corporation is a financial services corporation based in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, which operates banks under the name First National Bank in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Frederick W. V. Blees

He was responsible for the construction of several of the town's commercial buildings and the town's first sewage system; founded the local horseless carriage factory, the first theater, and the First National Bank of Macon; and financed the paving of the town's streets on a 50-50 basis with the city.

Gösta Schwarck

In the early 1950s and throughout the decade he organised Denmarks first national beauty pageants and became the official national representation of the Miss Denmark, Miss World and Miss Europe.

Graham Macky

He won his first national title in the men's marathon in 1983, clocking 2:21:22 in Mosgiel, and won the Rotorua Marathon in 1991.

Harry F. Ward

Ward is best remembered as the first national chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), leading the group from its creation in 1920 until his resignation in protest of the organization's decision to bar Communists in 1940.

Hindustan Magazine

Hindustan Bol Raha hai is the title of the first national magazine published from "Dev Bhoomi" Uttarakhand's capital Dehradun.

Hot Springs National Park

Twelve years later, in 1832, the 22nd United States Congress formed the national reservation, granting federal protection of the thermal waters and giving Hot Springs the honor of being the first “national park” to be designated for such government protection.

Jack R. Janney

Janney performed more than 60 scale-model studies from 1958 to 1969 on many important structures, including Chicago’s First National Bank, the Kodak Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair, and the hyperbolic paraboloid roof for TWA’s maintenance hangar in Kansas City, Missouri.

James H. Billington

Billington created the Library’s first national private-sector advisory group, the James Madison Council, whose members have supported the NDL Program, many other Library outreach programs, and acquisitions for the Library’s collections.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Jared Gertner

With Gad's departure, Gertner took over the role on Broadway, then co-starred with Gavin Creel in the production's first national tour, debuting in August 2012 in Denver.

John London

Years after the Monkees and the First National Band, London served as key grip on several different productions, including 48 Hrs., Who Will Love My Children?, The Karate Kid, Long Time Gone, and Hudson Hawk.

Junior Olympic Gold

There were 538 bowlers in the inaugural championships, with Rory Kalanquin of Davison, Michigan, and Melissa Bellinder of Fullerton, California as the first national champions.

Kilkenny–Tipperary hurling rivalry

Kilkenny later defeated New York to secure their first National League triumph since 1932-33.

Mabel Hampton

In addition to her financial contributions to gay and lesbian organizations, Hampton marched in the first National Gay and Lesbian March on Washington, and she appeared in the films Silent Pioneers and Before Stonewall.

Marangal na Dalit ng Katagalugan

The Marangál na Dalit ng̃ Katagalugan (English title: Noble Hymn of the Tagalogs) was the historic national anthem of the Tagalog Republic and is considered the first national anthem of the Philippines.

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

The first national tallgrass prairie ever designated in the U.S. and the largest conservation site in the Chicago Wilderness region, it is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant between the towns Elwood, Manhattan and Wilmington in northeastern Illinois.

Mountain Stage

Among the luminaries who appeared on Mountain Stage before they were famous or whose first national-exposure in the US on Mountain Stage are Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Nickel Creek, Cassandra Wilson, Counting Crows, Phish and R.E.M., which is the band that gave Mountain Stage its first national exposure.

National Association of College Broadcasters

Thanks in part to keynote addresses by legendary television journalist Walter Cronkite at its first national conference in November, 1988; media magnate Ted Turner the following year; and Quincy Jones at 1990's event, NACB put itself on the map quickly, reaching a peak of over 600 member stations in the US and a few internationally by 1992.

National Book Award

The first National Book Awards were presented in May 1936 at the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association, one month after The New York Times reported institution of the "new annual award".

National Commission for Scheduled Castes

The first National Commission for Scheduled Castes was constituted on 2004 with Suraj Bhan as the Chairperson.

National Medal of Science

The first National Medal of Science was awarded on February 18, 1963, for the year 1962 by President John F. Kennedy to Theodore von Kármán for his work at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

National Policy Institute

In September 2011, NPI hosted its first national conference, entitled "Towards a New Nationalism." Speakers included Richard B. Spencer, Keith Preston, Byron Roth, Alex Kurtagic, Tomislav Sunic, Jared Taylor and his associate Sam Dickson.

Ottawa and District Labour Council

It took part in the formation of the first national central labour body, the Canadian Labour Union hosting its second convention in 1874.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Request TV

One of the major highlights of Request TV was that it was the first national television outlet to run Extreme Championship Wrestling programming, as documented by Paul Heyman in the DVD The Rise and Fall of ECW.

Saint Paul Capisterre

Saint Paul's is home to the current prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Denzil Douglas, and was also home to former premier, Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, who is the first national hero of Saint Kitts.

Seeta Indrani

She was then invited on the first national tour in 40 years of Britain's oldest opera company, Carl Rosa Opera, playing Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus.

Sergey Kalchugin

At his first national championships 2007 he lost to Evgenyi Romanov.

Sirsy

In January 2008, Sirsy made their first national television broadcast on Fearless Music.

The Lady in Ermine

The story was remade as an early talkie musical in Technicolor, Bride of the Regiment (1930), also released by First National and also considered a lost film.

Tibetan literature

The first literary journal of such writers was Jangzhon (1990–97), which was succeeded by several different independent periodicals; and the First National Conference of Tibetan Writers, organised by the Amnye Machen Institute, was held from 15–17 March 1995 at Dharamsala, India.

Tibetan National Anthem

Tibet's first national anthem was, according to Tashi Tsering, written by a famous Tibetan scholar, during the epoch of the seventh Dalai Lama and under the reign of the Pholanas in between 1745-1746.

Tippa Irie

He achieved his first national exposure on night time BBC Radio 1 in the mid-1980s, with the singles "It's Good To Have The Feeling You're The Best" and "Complain Neighbour" (on Greensleeves Records), before achieving a UK Top 40 hit in 1986 with "Hello Darling".

Valerie Waugaman

Soon after, she competed in her first national fitness event in the National Physique Committee (NPC) "Figure" competition.

William Kaye Lamb

From 1948 to 1968 he was the Dominion Archivist of Canada, and from 1953 to 1968 he was the first National Librarian of Canada.