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In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.
After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.
The band failed to distinguish itself from the many others of the era, and broke up after playing its last show at the Ritz Ballroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 2, 1938.
The game of baseball was first played in Bridgeport, Connecticut soon after the Civil War ended.
Kyle Clifton, formerly of the NFL New York Jets, graduated from Bridgeport High School in 1980 after having been born in Olney, Texas.
Ida Tarbell died of pneumonia at Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 6, 1944, after being in the hospital since December 1943.
The league was originally divided into the American Division — Boston, Bridgeport ( moved to Philadelphia in 2004 ) and Long Island — and the National Division — Baltimore ( moved to Washington after the 2006 season and to Annapolis after the 2008 season ), New Jersey, and Rochester — from 2001 until 2005.
Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Bridgeport, after the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The Bridgeport Herald article was published 18 August 1901, four days after the event it described.
In 1912, he founded the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which built 24 submarines for the United States Navy during and after World War I.
A Muslim student, Balayla Ahmad, is suing the University of Bridgeport, alleging that the school failed to investigate her claims that a fellow student sexually harassed her and instead dismissed her from the University after reporting to the FBI a false claim that she was a terrorist.
Trains outbound from Vancouver to Vancouver International Airport split from the main line after Bridgeport Station, stopping at:
* November 13 – The longest missing-aircraft search in New Hampshires history ends after almost three years when the wreckage of an Aircraft Charter Group, Inc., Learjet 35A that had disappeared in fog and rain near Dorchester, New Hampshire, on December 24, 1996, finally is found near Smarts Mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire, about 20 miles ( 32 km ) from where it took off at Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
In 1904, after moving to Bridgeport, Crosby transferred her church membership from Cornell Memorial Methodist Church in Manhattan to the First Methodist Church of Bridgeport.
The nondenominational home was established in the former Hunter house at 1008 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and opened on November 1, 1925, after a national drive by the Federation of Churches to raise $ 100, 000 to operate it.
Berroa joined the Jackals in 2012 after spending the previous season split between the Reno Aces of the Pacific Coast League and the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League.
A Convair CV-240-O operated by American Airlines with eight passengers destined for Bridgeport Airport crashed on the runway after the landing gear was retracted before the aircraft had lifted off.
Blown off course, they landed down-wind in the dark at Bridgeport, Connecticut after flying for 39 hours over a distance of 3, 300 miles at an average speed of 85 mph, overshot, and were both seriously injured in the crash.
The number 18, which they both wore, hangs above the school's home rink at the Wonderland of Ice in Bridgeport in the old rink ( currently known as the Stadium Rink after the renovations that added another rink ), as well as in the lobby outside the locker room complex at Fairfield Prep itself.
In 2008, Pickering signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League, but was released on July 13 after batting only. 265.

Bridgeport and Barnum
* The Barnum Festival has been held in the Spring in Bridgeport since 1949 to raise money for charity.
A street named " Barnum Ave ." now runs though the area that was once his land, and one of Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry boats is named the " P. T.
* P. T. Barnum ( 1887 ), circus showman, in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Barnum was instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first president.
Barnum died in his sleep at home on April 7, 1891 and was buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a cemetery he designed.
In the early 1850s, Barnum began investing to develop East Bridgeport, Connecticut.
In 1875, Barnum was mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut for a year and worked to improve the water supply, bring gaslighting to streets, and enforce liquor and prostitution laws.
Barnum was instrumental in starting Bridgeport Hospital, founded in 1878, and was its first president.
Barnum built four mansions in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Iranistan, Lindencroft, Waldemere and Marina.
He also took up cartooning and illustrated a biography of fellow Bridgeport native P. T. Barnum.
The city of Bridgeport was also home to Phineas T. Barnum and his world famous circus.
At the time of the park's creation, Barnum exercised his animals through the streets of Bridgeport, and people gathered in Beardsley Park to see zebras and camels walking by.
In 1907 the brothers purchased the Barnum & Bailey Circus and ran the two circuses separately until they merged them into one unit in 1919, when they also moved the winter quarters to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
*" Black and White "-- Charity, Choir, Blues Singer, Barnum and Citizens of Bridgeport
P. T. Barnum purchased a life-sized statue of Tom Thumb and placed it as a grave stone at Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Bridgeport and circus
Bridgeport speaks in circus posters, Sarcophagus MacAbre speaks in condolence cards, " Mr. Pig " ( a take on Nikita Khrushchev ) speaks in faux Cyrillic, etc.

Bridgeport and operator
When all of the children were old enough to attend school, Ann found employment as a linotype operator for the Bridgeport Post.

Bridgeport and with
At the Bridgeport, California Mountain Warfare Training Center in March 1997, a test HMMWV drives through the snow, equipped with Mattracks treads.
In 1998, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball played its inaugural season, with teams in Somerset, Newark, and Atlantic City ( NJ ), Nashua ( NH ), Newburgh ( NY ), and Bridgeport ( CT ).
The land under The Ballpark at Harbor Yard was purchased by the city of Bridgeport from Donald Trump for $ 1 and with the forgiveness of back taxes owed on the property.
The away jersey is grey with navy blue piping, and the " Bridgeport " wordmark centered across the front in navy blue with white outline.
He was replaced with Steve Stirling, who had previously been coaching the team's top minor league affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.
Several spurs of Route 44 had existed or were planned prior to 1953, including Route S44, which ran concurrent with US 322 to the ferry between Bridgeport and Chester, Pennsylvania ; Route S44A, a never-built bypass of Camden ; and Route 44T, which was to run from a tunnel under the Delaware River in Paulsboro east to Route 42.
Route S44 was designated in 1939 as a connection from Route 44 in Bridgeport to the ferry across the Delaware River to Chester, Pennsylvania, and was concurrent with US 322.
Bridgeport is also the name of a post office with ZIP code 48722.
In the 1856-57 session of the Michigan Legislature, a road was authorized construction of a road from Bridgeport in Saginaw County northeast to Forestville in Sanilac County, with a route that would pass through what is now Caro.
Swedesboro, along with Bridgeport, was one of only two settlements established in New Jersey as a part of the New Sweden colony.
Bridgeport has a city manager form of government with a mayor and a nine-member borough council.
Bridgeport experiences a semi-arid climate ( Köppen BSk ) with cold, relatively snowy winters and hot, dry summers.
* Route 25 runs north to south, merging with Route 8 at the Bridgeport line and continues overlapped with Route 8 ( commonly known as the Route 8 / 25 connector ) into Bridgeport ending at Interstate 95.
The ferry service was run with two boats, Chester, a large boat with a capacity of 60 motor vehicles, and Bridgeport, a smaller boat with a capacity of 48.
US 26 intersects with U. S. Highway 385 in Bridgeport and then continues to its eastern terminus in Ogallala, Nebraska at Interstate 80.
The Bridgeport era Broadway's were excellently pressed and recorded, but starting with the NYRL ( Paramount ) era, the pressing quality and audio fidelity was somewhat below average for the era.
On his return his invested part of the fortune he had made in overlooking Cold Spring Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, where in 1852-55, in competition with P. T. Barnum's palace " Iranistan " in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he proceeded to design and have built a baronial residence from its eastern shore, which, it was given out, was intended to resemble Windsor Castle ; he named the place Glenada, the glen of his daughter Ada, but the locals called it " Banvard's Folly ".

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