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I live in Cleveland the mistake by the lake!!!


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gregbluesjr. wrote:
I live in Cleveland the mistake by the lake!!!


Cleveland: 2 musos my old band worked with.

Steven Adler from Guns N' Roses
Gilby Clarke from Candy, Kills For Thrills, Guns N' Roses, MC5(touring), Michael Jackson, Supernova, Slash's Snakepit and Hallow'een Jack.

Not that much of a mistake and both very nice guys!

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Ok but if you lived here you would know what i am talking about!


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gregbluesjr. wrote:
Ok but if you lived here you would know what i am talking about!


lol, fair do's bro.

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Laurel, Maryland has, or had, as I think its since been shutdown, a well-known horse racing track. And politician George Wallace was shot there too...

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Laurel, Maryland has, or had, as I think its since been shutdown, a well-known horse racing track. And politician George Wallace was shot there too...

Laurel Park is not shut down bowfresh post time 12:35 :wink: Dirt and turf racing.

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My hometown is Freeport, Illinois. Hmmm. Well there was an Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas debate held there in 1858. Oh, and Freeport was the birthplace of Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield. Throw in long, nasty, cold winters and I'm glad I moved west. :)

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My hometown is Hafnarfjörður and our claim to fame is:

Jóhanna Guðrún, The 2009 Eurovision Song Contest runner up.
Some of the guys that were in the 2008 national handball team that won silver in the Olympics in Beijing
Stefán Karl, the guy that plays the villian in Lazy Town.


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Oh and I forgot...

Árni Mathiessen former minister of finincial. His bad english got Iceland on British Terrorist watch list :shock: :lol: He is also from Hafnarfjörður.


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MUSICIANS
Louis Applebaum (1918-2000) - composer, writer
Robbie Robertson (b. 1943) - musician, writer, singer, producer
Neil Young (b. 1945) - singer, song writer
Geddy Lee (b. 1953) - member of Rush
Dan Hill (b. 1954) - singer, song writer
Alannah Myles (b. 1968) - singer, songwriter
Jeff Healey (1966-2008) - blind jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist
Tyler Stewart (b. 1967) - member of Barenaked Ladies
SNOW (Darrin O'Brien) (b. 1969) - rapper, song writer
Jim Creeggan (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
Steven Page (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
Ed Robertson (b. 1970) - member of Barenaked Ladies
k-os (Kevin Brereton) (b. 1972) - MC, hip-hop
Amanda Marshall (b. 1972) - singer, song writer
Deborah Cox (b. 1974) - R&B singer, song writer
Fefe Dobson (b. 1985) - singer, song writer


BANDS
Irish Rovers - formed in 1963
Rush - formed in 1968
Rough Trade - formed in 1975
The Nylons - formed in late 1970s
Sharon, Lois & Bram - formed in late 1970s
Platinum Blonde - formed in 1980
Parachute Club - formed in 1983
Cowboy Junkies - formed in 1985
Jeff Healey Band - formed in 1986
Barenaked Ladies - formed in 1988
Broken Social Scene - formed in 1999

ENTERTAINERS

Sidney Olcott (1873-1949) - director
Walter Huston (1884-1950) - actor (also father of John Huston, grandfather of Anjelica Huston)
Mary Pickford (1893-1979) - actress, film studio founder. Known in the Jazz Age as "America's Sweetheart"
Raymond Massey (1896-1983) - actor
Lou Jacobi (b. 1913) - actor
Frank Shuster (1916-2002) - comedian, comedy writer
Johnny Wayne (1918-1990) - comedian, comedy writer
William Hutt (1920-2007) - actor
Ann Rutherford (b. 1920) - actress
George Dunning (1920-1979) - animator, director
Norman Jewison (b. 1926) director, producer, actor
Christopher Plummer (b. 1929) - actor
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) - novelist, playwright
Morley Safer (b. 1931) - jounalist, reporter
Al Waxman (1935-2001) - actor
Peter Jennings (b. 1938-2005) - journalist, TV anchor
David Cronenberg (b. 1943) - filmmaker, director, screenwriter
Lorne Michaels (b. 1944) - producer, writer and comedian
Michael Ironside (b. 1950) - actor
John Candy (1950-1994) - actor and comedian
Colin Brunton (b. 1955) - actor, producer, director, writer
Evelyn Hart (b. 1956) - ballerina
Catherine O'Hara (b. 1954) - actress, comedian, writer
Rick Moranis (b. 1953) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
Howie Mandel (b. 1955) - actor, comedian, writer, producer
David James Elliott (b.1960) - actor
Mike Myers (b. 1963) - actor, comedian, screenwriter
Eric McCormack (b. 1963) - actor
Don McKellar (b. 1963) - actor, writer, and filmmaker
Gloria Reuben (b. 1964) - actress
James Allodi (b. 1967) - actor, director, writer
Kevin Brauch (b. 1968) - actor, writer, producer
Megan Follows (b. 1968) - actress
Will Arnett (b. 1970) - actor
Monika Schnarre (b. 1971) - model, actress
Sarah Polley (b. 1979) - actress


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Don Knotts went to high school here for a short time
Amelia Earheart has relatives in the Quad Cities
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA

Sumter was the first city in the United States to adopt the council-manager form of government, now accepted as the nation's standard and used by more than 2,500 municipalities throughout the country.

The Iris Festival, held every May at Swan Lake Iris Gardens, is a multiple winner of the "Top 20 Events in the Southeast" Award and is South Carolina's oldest continuing festival.

Swan Lake Iris Gardens is the only public park in the United States with all eight known species of swans and 250 varieties of Japanese Iris.

Sumter is named for General Thomas Sumter, the "Fighting Gamecock" of the American Revolution and one of the models for Mel Gibson's character in the 2000 film, The Patriot.

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross (Statesburg) is the burial site of Joel Roberts Poinsett, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, botanist and namesake of the poinsettia.

Dalzell, in Sumter County, is the home of Garnay Industries, the world's largest gingko biloba farm.

Citadel Cadet George Edward "Tuck" Haynsworth, who fired the first shot of the Civil War, was born and raised in Sumter and is buried here.

Potter's Raid, passing through Sumter and Clarendon Counties, was the last major campaign of the Civil War.

Shaw Air Force Base, 10 miles from Sumter, is home to the 9th Air Force and headquarters for the 20th Fighter Wing of the USAF.

William "April" Ellison, a freed slave from Statesburg, perfected the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney.

Angelica Singleton Van Buren, White House hostess during the Van Buren administration, was a Sumter native.

Dalzell native Bill Pinkney of the original Drifters was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 alongside the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, and the Supremes.

Philip Rembert, Sumter's first African-American City Councilman, served in World War II as one of the "Tuskegee Airmen," the fighter pilots whose story was dramatized in the 1995 HBO original movie starring Laurence Fishburne. Three of the Airmen were born or grew up in Sumter County.

Sumter is the hometown of numerous famous athletes including Baseball Hall of Famer Bobby Richardson and Superbowl veteran Freddie Solomon.

Sumter High School graduate Shawn Weatherly was Miss Universe 1980.

The Palmetto Pigeon Farm is the source for squab served at Buckingham Palace.

Renowned artists Jasper Johns and Granger McKoy both have roots in Sumter.

The electric refrigerator was invented by a Sumter native, Charles T. Mason, Jr.

The educator Mary McLeod Bethune, 19th-century prima donna Clara Louise Kellogg and Confederate General Richard Heron Anderson were some other notable Sumter natives.

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Post subject: Re: Your home town's claim to fame
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:28 am
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Celtic Cyclonus wrote:
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What's your hometown's claim to fame, should be interesting to hear some of them.

Personally i'm from belfast and we are the best crowd in the world.



Where abouts in Belfast are you from man?

What do you mean best crowd in the world? Everyone knows thats Glasgow.

You got Gary Moore, Stiff Little Fingers, Energy Orchard, Therapy?, a recent civil war, the most bombed hotel in the world, Kenneth Brannagh, C.S. Lewis, and the Titanic to name a few

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Oh yes we're so proud of the titanic, the boat that didnt make it :D

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gregbluesjr. wrote:
I live in Cleveland the mistake by the lake!!!


C'mon Greg we have the R&R HOF, and as of this past weekend we can claim one of the top serial killers of modern time!

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