The 1942 epic Look to the Mountain, by LeGrand Cannon, Jr., takes place in Tamworth as 19-year-old Whit Livingston and his new wife, 16-year-old Melissa Butler, become the first white pioneer family to settle the area.

Franconia is home to the Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, which rises to the 4, 100-foot summit of Cannon Mountain.

From the time of its construction in 1938 to its retirement in 1980, the original tramway carried 6, 581, 338 passengers to the summit of Cannon Mountain.

On a solo hike to Bridal Veil Falls at the western foot of Cannon Mountain, she got lost in the woods.

The area of Franconia Notch is well known for its natural features, including Profile and Echo lakes, the Basin, Mount Lafayette, Mount Lincoln, and Cannon Mountain.

Image: DowAcademy. jpg | Cannon Mountain rising over Franconia village in 2007

On 1 August 1992, a fifth operational F-111 squadron was added to the 27th FW in conjunction with the realignment of all EF-111A Raven Electronic Warfare aircraft from Mountain Home AFB to Cannon.

In the spring of 1968, Koop's son David was killed in a rock climbing accident on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire during his junior year at Dartmouth College.

* Taft Slalom, the first racing trail in North America, is cut on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire

At one point, the object passed above a restaurant and signal tower on top of Cannon Mountain.

* Jim Macdonald, a resident of the area in which the Hills claimed to have been abducted, has produced a detailed analysis of their journey which concludes that the episode was in fact provoked by their misperceiving an aircraft warning beacon on Cannon Mountain as a UFO.

Macdonald's article focuses primarily on the Hill's observations of the light in the sky and the timing of the journey, discounting the Hill's accounts of close encounters south of Cannon Mountain as recovered memories.

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The East Fork is the longest, at ; it rises in Cannon County on Short Mountain, an outlier of the Cumberland Plateau, and flows through Woodbury, the county seat.

The area to the west of Franconia Notch ( a narrow north-south valley primarily within a state park ) consists of the regions surrounding Cannon Mountain, Kinsman Mountain, and Mount Moosilauke ( though the majority of Moosilauke is privately owned ).

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In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

Cannon declined to run in the 1922 Congressional election, and retired at the end of his last term in 1923 ; he was featured on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine on the last day of his last term in office.

* The first building of offices for congressmen outside of the United States Capitol building was named after Cannon.

Image: Time Magazine-first cover. jpg | Cannon on Time Magazine's first cover on March 3, 1923

The first five bills, proposed in the years 1901, 1902, and 1908, met with defeat because of opposition from Speaker Joe Cannon.

Center Squares in the first season included Mac Miller, JB Smoove and Nick Cannon.

Cannon in Roy Grove, Hampton marking the Hampton end of the first baseline of the triangulation of Great Britain

In 1837 Andrew Watson brought his family to Cannon and built the first farm in the township.

Units from Cannon deployed the first F-100 squadron to Thailand in 1962-1963, and South Vietnam in 1964.

The Efird Manufacturing Co. ( later American and Efird Mills ) opened its first mill in Albemarle in 1896, and was followed soon thereafter by the Wiscasset Mill Company, the Cannon Mill Company, the Lillian Knitting Mill and others.

The first recorded journey by a European to what is now Cannon Beach was made by William Clark, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in early 1806.

* Bishop James Cannon, Jr., first President of Blackstone College, achieved fame as the leading prohibition advocate in the nation.

In the " Year of the Farce " episodes, a special version of the Chicken Cannon has the top five targets of the year, with the first four being fired upon by a rubber chicken while the top target being fired as before.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

Kauff was also helping Cannon Films to move into the music business, and arranged for Chas Chandler ( bass player for The Animals and producer / manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience ) to produce their first album.

On October 28, 2010 Carey confirmed that she and Cannon were expecting their first child.

Cannon were fired, for instance, to mark the laying of the first stone at Creuau in 1832, the railway's opening in 1836, and the opening of the Moelwyn Tunnel in 1842.

In addition, she became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One ( 1976 ), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited.

His first Hollywood job was as a personal secretary to Cary Grant, whose ex-wife, actress Dyan Cannon, Theiss cited as having considerable influence on his career.

In the 41st Canadian Parliament, neither Cannon nor Prentice is still sitting as a Member of Parliament ; the current order-in-council names Marjory LeBreton, the current Leader of the Government in the Senate, as the first person authorized to act for the prime minister.

The Greenleaf Trail begins at the parking lot for the Cannon Mountain tramway and ascends to the Appalachian Mountain Club's Greenleaf Hut, then continues to the summit.

Notable bishops in United Methodist history include Coke, Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Philip William Otterbein, Martin Boehm, Jacob Albright, John Seybert, Matthew Simpson, John S. Stamm, William Ragsdale Cannon, Marjorie Matthews, Leontine T. Kelly, William B. Oden, Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Joseph Sprague, William Henry Willimon, and Thomas Bickerton.

Joseph Gurney Cannon ( May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926 ) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.

Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such control over the House that he could often control debate.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | Speaker Cannon presides over the United States House of Representatives | House of Representatives during the 59th United States Congress | 59th Congress, 1906.

* FAA and IATA airport code for United States Air Force base Cannon Air Force Base

Prominent temperance leaders in the United States included Bishop James Cannon, Jr., James Black, Ernest Cherrington, Neal S. Dow, Mary Hunt, William E. Johnson ( known as " Pussyfoot " Johnson ), Carrie Nation, Howard Hyde Russell, John St. John, Billy Sunday, Father Mathew, Andrew Volstead and Wayne Wheeler.

With this new line-up, Fontanelle was recorded in Cannon Falls, Minnesota and released in 1992, selling around 200, 000 copies in the United States alone.

* Joseph Gurney Cannon ; powerful United States Congressman who served as the 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911.

Cannon Falls is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.

Cannon Falls Township is a township in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.

Cannon Township is a township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.

Cannon City Township is a township in Rice County, Minnesota, United States.

* Elsberry was the boyhood home of United States Congressman Clarence Cannon.

Cannon Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base, located approximately southwest of Clovis, New Mexico.

Cannon Ball ( Arikara: načiiʾuuháwi, sananaapíkat ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Sioux County, North Dakota in the United States and on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Cannon Beach is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States.

Auburntown is a town in Cannon County, Tennessee, United States.

Woodbury is a town in Cannon County, Tennessee, United States.

Island Records signed the trio amid a major label bidding war in mid-1992 and in December 1992, the trio travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota in the United States to record the follow-up to Dry with producer Steve Albini.