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  William L. Bankhead
William L. Bankhead was reared to manhood in Jefferson county and largely acquired his education in the district schools of Lockridge township.
Bankhead was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Graber, a daughter of Christian and Fanny (Weise) Graber, both of whom were natives of France.
Bankhead is a stanch republican in politics and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have called him to several positions of public trust.
iagenweb.org /boards/jefferson/biographies/index.cgi?review=15897   (616 words)

  
 Defense of Fort Bankhead
Bankhead's Battery was ordered to prepare to move by river to New Madrid with the 2nd.
There was some concern about a protracted engagement because Bankhead's Battery was stretched to man 10 guns and their were no relay's of men to serve the pieces.
Bankhead was called "a reliable man and a well-instructed soldier." McCown had even considered sending him to Island No. 10 where good artillerymen were needed but that was not possible now.
www.angelfire.com /tn3/tenncompanyb/defense_of_fort_bankhead.htm   (1002 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- Mary McDonald Bankhead, 95; Escondido history group 'anchor'
Bankhead launched through the Escondido Garden Club, involved planting trees in Oak Hill Memorial Park, where a graveside service was held for her yesterday.
Bankhead was born in Ramsey, Idaho, and grew up in Montana, where she studied fine arts at the University of Montana in Missoula.
Bankhead married Melvin Bankhead, a retired naval officer and widower, in 1971.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20040825-9999-1m25bankhead.html   (670 words)

  
 Freshwater Fishing in Alabama's Reservoirs - Bankhead Reservoir
Bankhead Lake is best known for catches of largemouth bass and spotted bass.
The headwaters of Bankhead Reservoir are the Smith Lake tailwaters.
In addition to hybrid striped bass, the Bankhead Reservoir headwaters (Smith Lake tailwaters) are excellent fisheries for rainbow trout, catfish, various sunfish, largemouth bass and spotted bass.
www.outdooralabama.com /fishing/freshwater/where/reservoirs/bankhead   (883 words)

  
 Bankhead - Alberta, Canada Ghost Town
From 1904 to 1922, Bankhead - supplying coal for the locomotives of the Canadian Pacific Railway - survived and at one point boasted a population of 1,500, including 300 underground coal mine workers.
His tales of the pioneer life in Bankhead and the region remind folks of the town's great influence to the future social development of the national park, and the Bow Valley's once lucrative coal mining industry.
There is a story that the last resident of Bankhead was a Danish caretaker whose job it was to see that no one stole anything from the last four remaining houses.
www.ghosttowns.com /canada/alberta/bankhead.html   (690 words)

  
 Tallulah Bankhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to speaker of the United States House of Representatives William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugenia Sledge.
Bankhead circulated widely in the celebrity crowd of her day, and was a party favorite for outlandish stunts like performing underwearless cartwheels in a skirt or entering a soirée stark naked.
Tallulah Bankhead died in New York City of double pneumonia arising from influenza, complicated by emphysema, at the age of 66 on December 12, 1968, and is buried in Saint Paul's Churchyard, Chestertown, Maryland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead   (2053 words)

  
 Bankhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bankhead, Alberta, was a coal mining village in Banff National Park.
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead, actress; the daughter of William Brockman Bankhead.
Harrison N. Bankhead IV, TVonDVD fanatic, son of Harrison N. Bankhead III.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bankhead   (176 words)

  
 Bankhead
The Bankhead National Forest is one of four national forests within Alabama and covers 180,581 acres in northwest Alabama.
The Bankhead is managed for multiple uses, including recreation, timber, wildlife and fish, water and soil, wilderness and range.
The management of the Bankhead National Forest generates a great deal of interest from a large number of individuals and organizations, including the inholders or residents of private property within the Bankhead.
www.ces.ncsu.edu /depts/agecon/nrli/bankhead.html   (1657 words)

  
 James BANKHEAD and Mary HATFIELD's descendants
Matt Bankhead of Edinburgh, who was born in Northern Ireland, has developed a theory through his research that this JAMES BANKHEAD may have been the son of HUGH BANKHEAD of Ireland, both of whom left wills in 1718, thus suggesting to him the possibility of a hazardous trip or some such that year.
Now I know that James Bankhead #1's father was the man I call "HUGH 1" for he, his son James (1742-1798), and James' father-in-law Robert Black, all paid their annual stipend to the Presbyterian Minister in Hartford County, MD in December 1769.
Bankheads have always been civil, respectful, generous with information, kind to me, etc. I was told that Bankhead is a Sept of the Clan Stewart, which must have benefited from the Bankheads ingratiating spiritual, and extraordinary intellectual and other qualities.
www.geocities.com /bankheads   (1942 words)

  
 Bankhead National Forest Campgrounds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Bankhead National Forest is more developed than many of the National Forests in America but it does have an oasis of undeveloped wilderness called the Sipsey Wilderness.
Although a record of the CCC contributions to the Bankhead National Forest is not well documented with interpretive signs and such, there are hints all around.
The handiwork of CCC enrollees is suggested in the acres of orderly trees, marching in neat, straight rows with military precision, the many flood and erosion control projects still working effectively in the forest, and beautiful stonework found in several campgrounds.
www.forestcamping.com /dow/southern/bankinfo.htm   (1000 words)

  
 GORP - William B. Bankhead National Forest - Alabama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bankhead is part of the Warrior Mountains, the western terminus of the Appalachian Mountains; before Europeans arrived, the forests here had been hunted for some 12,000 years by the Choctaw and Cherokee peoples.
Bankhead's jewel is the Sipsey Wilderness, sometimes called the "Land of a Thousand Waterfalls." A maze of upland ridges and deep, lushly grown canyons, the Sipsey's irregular topography is the result of a meeting between the limestone geology of the Cumberland Plateau and flowing, falling water — a lot of it.
Bankhead is also home to the Sipsey Fork, Alabama's only National Wild and Scenic River and a fine canoeing stream.
gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_forest/al_bankh.htm   (278 words)

  
 Tallulah Bankhead | Biography (1902-1968) / Gallery
Tallulah Bankhead was the Joan Collins of her day only with talent and screen presence.
Her father, William Brockman Bankhead, was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from June 4, 1936 to Sept. 16, 1940.
Her movie career was sporadic and included several box office disasters, perhaps because her extravagant, larger-than-life personality was not done justice on the screen; her more memorable appearances include a celebrated performance in Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944), for which she was cited by New York Film Critics.
www.leninimports.com /tallulah_bankhead.html   (275 words)

  
 Full Biography for Don Bankhead
Following high school, Mayor Bankhead enlisted in the Navy, and was assigned to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Bataan, which saw action in the Korean War.
A Fullerton resident since 1957, Mayor Bankhead was elected to his first four-year City Council term in 1988, and re-elected in 1992.
Immediately upon his election to office Mayor Bankhead became involved in a variety of committees and commissions, and has served countless hours in behalf of the City of Fullerton.
www.smartvoter.org /1998nov/ca/or/vote/bankhead_d/bio.html   (388 words)

  
 Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
Her grandfather was a United States Senator, and her father, William B. Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Marie Bankhead Owen, her aunt became Director of the Alabama State Archives, the first woman to head a department of Alabama state government.
In her autobiography, Miss Bankhead said, "a flair for the dramatic was a Bankhead family trait." It took little to convince her father and grandfather to allow her to play a part in the stage production of "The Squab Farm." Her stay in New York lasted about two years.
www.awhf.org /bankhead.html   (534 words)

  
 Dan Bankhead | BaseballLibrary.com
Bankhead was the major leagues' first fl pitcher, but enjoyed little success at that level.
The Pirates rock Bankhead for 10 hits and eight runs in three 1/3 relief innings, but Bankhead joins a small list of players who homer in their first ML at bat.
Bankhead's home run, off Fritz Ostermueller, is the only one he'll hit in the majors.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/B/Bankhead_Dan.stm   (134 words)

  
 Denny Jackson's Tallulah Bankhead Page
Tallulah Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama on January 31, 1902.
Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party, even serving a stint as Speaker of the House for the US House of Representatives.
Unfortunately, for the young Miss Bankhead, she didn't make any headway on the stages of New York, so she pulled up stakes and moved to London, in 1923, to try her luck there.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/bankhead.html   (703 words)

  
 BANKHEAD
Part of the clues on their family lineage that I amworking with is that Tallulah BANKHEAD's father, William Brockman BANKHEAD, was a 1st cousin of Eugene BANKHEAD, from whom Carol BANKHEAD (MYRICK) descends.
I show that William Brockman BANKHEAD was the son of John Hollis BANKHEAD which would then mean that John Hollis BANKHEAD was the brother, most likely, of the Thomas BANKHEAD that is the father of Eugene BANKHEAD.
His father was Thomas BANKHEAD, born: July 1850 in Mississippi, and his father was Jane ?/June M. ?, born: Aug 1852 in ?, and they married in 1902 in Coryell, Texas.
www.clanboyd.info /septs/bankhead   (590 words)

  
 Extravagant Crowd | Tallulah Bankhead
She is now known mainly for her wild antics: she was said to have smoked over one hundred cigarettes and consumed two bottles of bourbon a day, and had over five hundred love affairs.
From 1943 to 1956, Bankhead lived on her sixteen-acre estate, named Windows, with her numerous pets, including several dogs, a mynah bird, and a pet lion named Winston Churchill.
Bankhead died in 1968, but she did not disappear.
beinecke.library.yale.edu /cvvpw/gallery/bankhead1.html   (623 words)

  
 Bankhead Middle School - Cordova, Alabama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bankhead includes fifth through the eighth grades with seventeen of the best teachers in the county.
Other than sports, Bankhead also has a lot of special activities and clubs including Beta Club, Drama Club, Glee Club, Science Club, Student Council, First Priority, Quiz Bowl and Band.
Students at Bankhead are introduced to Shurley English in the fifth and sixth grades.
www.walkercountyschools.com /bankhead   (140 words)

  
 Tallulah Bankhead at Reel Classics
An Alabama native and the daughter of a United States Congressman and one-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tallulah Bankhead rebelled against a strict religious upbringing to become one of the most famously tempestuous actresses of the early 20th Century.
She made only 18 movies over the course of her extensive acting career and was most famous for her performances on the stage, on radio and later on television, many of which were recreated on film by other actresses.
Nevertheless, Tallulah Bankhead and her raspy voice left an impressive mark on Hollywood, as demonstrated by the films she left behind.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Tallulah/tallulah.htm   (437 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Die Die My Darling: Video: Tallulah Bankhead,Stefanie Powers,Peter Vaughan,Maurice Kaufmann,Yootha ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trefoile (Bankhead), if she ever made it to the British Isle, very much against Alan's wishes, but it is something Patricia feels she must do in order for her to move on with her life.
Bankhead didn't make very many films, especially in her later years, but she did this one basically for the money and because other distinguished actresses (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland, etc.) were making horror films.
Bankhead tries to get rid of the gorgeous girl's rescuer, we see a great overhead of Powers, her ankles now tied as well, wiggling across the floor, calves popping, sixties short skirt climbing..boy can SHE wiggle.
www.amazon.com /Die-My-Darling-Tallulah-Bankhead/dp/6303451578   (2437 words)

  
 Bankhead Lake, Alabama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bankhead Lake is the most northern project on the Black Warrior-Tombigbee river system.
The lake's clear waters stretch for 65 miles and encompass 9,100 surface acres.
There are several marinas and fish camps along the lake that provide boat docking and storage, fueling facilities, boat repairs, launching ramps, food, and supplies.
www.sam.usace.army.mil /op/rec/war-tom/bankhead   (138 words)

  
 Bankhead, Dan - Negro League Baseball Player
Dan Bankhead, of Empire, Alabama, was one of five brothers that played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues.
Unfortunately, Bankhead was hit hard yielding 10 hits in three innnings.
Dan Bankhead appeared in three more games before the Dodgers sent him down to the minor leagues.
www.nlbpa.com /bankhead__dan.html   (226 words)

  
 William B. Bankhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Brockman Bankhead (April 12, 1874 - September 15, 1940) was an American politician from Alabama.
Senator John H. Bankhead was his father, and John H. Bankhead II was his brother.
The William B. Bankhead National Forest and sections of old US Highway 78 in northern Alabama are named in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/William_B._Bankhead   (367 words)

  
 Bankhead & Groipen - Our Office
But the actual practice is chock full of history and we love hearing the seniors tell stories of coming here in those early days when they were children.
Bankhead and Groipen bought another practice in West Roxbury from Dr. Al Peters.
Peters had known of our great reputation, so he wanted us to take over the care of his patients (all of which he had grown very fond of, over the years…).
www.bankheadandgroipen.com /office.html   (459 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Bankhead, Tallulah
Tallulah Bankhead is today remembered mostly as an irreverent wit and volcanic life force rather than as an actress.
Tallulah Bankhead's death on December 12, 1968 warranted a photograph and two-column obituary on the front page of the New York Times.
The diva has traditionally played a significant role in both gay and lesbian culture as an object of cult worship with whom those who suffer the heartaches of forbidden love and ostracism from an unaccepting society find solace and identification.
www.glbtq.com /arts/bankhead_t.html   (1025 words)

  
 Biography for Tallulah Bankhead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When their objections to Bankhead's exhibitionism reached director Alfred Hitchcock, he reportedly quipped that he didn't know if it was a matter for wardrobe or hairdressing.
It is ironic that Bette Davis played the Bankhead character, as Davis played in films two great roles originated by Bankhead on Broadway: Judith Traherne in "Dark Victory" and Regina in Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes." It's even more ironic that both Davis and Bankhead despised each other.
Marlon Brando, who co-starred with her in the play "The Eagle Has Two Heads" in the mid-1940s, said that Bankhead was primarily a personality actor--that is, someone who did not have developed acting skills but got by on the basis of their personality.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000845/bio   (1677 words)

  
 Bankhead & Groipen
Second - We found this vintage flamingo in Cape Cod which we thought might look great in our second floor window.
Bankhead and Groipen, we appreciate your selection of our office to serve your dental health needs.
The goal of this practice is to provide the very best possible dental care to our patients so that each of you achieve optimal dental health throughout your lifetime.
www.bankheadandgroipen.com   (168 words)

  
 Gardener of Bankhead of Alyth Farmhouse - Scotland
Working as the gardener at Bankhead of Alyth gives me a great deal of pleasure.
Of course, Bankhead itself is situated on the slopes of Barry Hill, which is mentioned in Thomas Mallory's "Morte D'Arthur" (The Death of Arthur), Mordred was reputed to have kidnapped (or she went willingly) Guinevere from King Arthur.
If you are going out into the countryside you will be spoiled for choice and be taken with the beauty of the land, mountains, lochs, rivers and wildlife to see.
www.bankheadofalyth.co.uk /folklore.htm   (295 words)

  
 USDA Forest Service -National Forests in Alabama
The best routes for Fall colors in the Talladega National Forest are the Talladega Scenic Drive on State Highway 281 and Forest Service Road 600-1.
In the Bankhead National Forest some of the best routes to take are Lawrence Co. Rd.
Bankhead Ranger District 1070 Highway 33 Double Springs, AL 35553 205-489-5111
www.fs.fed.us /r8/alabama   (379 words)

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