Two companies now had headquarters with Clark J. Wait, who by then had his own drugstore at Factory Point -- the `` Northern Union Telegraph Company '' and the `` Western Union ''.

He made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 film Factory Girl.

Disco hit the television airwaves with Soul Train in 1971 hosted by Don Cornelius, then Marty Angelo's Disco Step-by-Step Television Show in 1975, Steve Marcus ' Disco Magic / Disco 77, Eddie Rivera's Soap Factory and Merv Griffin's Dance Fever, hosted by Deney Terrio, who is credited with teaching actor John Travolta to dance for his upcoming role in the hit movie Saturday Night Fever.

In 2000, HK was contracted to refurbish the SA80 rifle ( AR-18 based also used in the G36 ) for the British Army, since at the time HK was a subsidiary of BAE Systems who had acquired Royal Ordnance Factory.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

Mike Doughty ( who billed himself at the time as " M. Doughty ") was a folk singer ( he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together ), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot.

The band had moved away from the feel of John Henry, and Factory Showroom includes the more diverse sounds of their earlier albums, despite the inclusion of two guitarists, the second being Eric Schermerhorn who provided several guitar solos.

Two years later, learning that Geoffrey de Havilland, who was then at the Royal Aircraft Factory in Farnborough, might be available, Holt Thomas invited de Havilland to join Airco as chief designer.

Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced Jared Leto in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains awake but paralyzed during heart surgery, and in Factory Girl, opposite Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce.

* In 1911, during the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, numerous fatalities were people who leapt or fell out of windows to their death.

The estate then passed to Henry Archibald Tufnell ( d 1898 ) who died with no children, and then to Lt Col Edward Tufnell ( d 1909 ) HM Inspector of Schools, Factory Commissioner, Director Greenwich Hospital m. 1846 Honoria Mary Macadam ( daughter of Col. Macadam Knight of Hanover, d. 1877 )

* Actor and professional Cockney Danny Dyer, who has appeared in films including Human Traffic and The Football Factory

In September 2009, the Chattooga County Camp 507, Sons of Confederate Veterans in conjunction with the Missionary Ridge Camp 63 Sons of Union Veterans, and several local groups erected a memorial monument to remember the " First Battle of Trion Factory " and the soldiers who are buried in unmarked graves at Trion.

Many of the 146 who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 were Italian American women.

In 1888, Herschell attracted expatriate Belgian Eugene de Kleist to North Tonawanda, who started the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory to produce band organs.

In May 1941, British colleagues helped establish the Naval Mine Disposal School at the Naval Gun Factory, Washington, D. C. Not to be outdone, the U. S. Navy, under the command of Lt. Draper L. Kauffman ( who would go on to found the Underwater Demolition Teams better known as UDTs or the U. S. Navy Frogmen ), created the Naval Bomb Disposal School at University Campus, Washington, D. C. U. S. Ordnance and British Royal Engineers would forge a partnership that worked quite effectively in war a friendship persisting to this day.

Early examples of punk rock in Japan include SS, The Star Club, The Stalin, Inu, Gaseneta, Bomb Factory, Lizard ( who were produced by the Stranglers ) and Friction ( whose guitarist Reck had previously played with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks before returning to Tokyo ) and The Blue Hearts.

The level's bosses are Army Dillo ( a heavily-armoured armadillo who is the boss of Jungle Japes and Crystal Caves ), Dogadon ( a giant dragonfly who is the boss of Angry Aztec and Fungi Forest ), Mad Jack ( a gigantic jack-in-the-box who is the boss of Frantic Factory ), Pufftoss ( a large Blowfish who is the boss of Gloomy Galleon ), King Kut-Out ( a cardboard cut-out of K. Rool who is operated by two Kritters and is the boss of Creepy Castle ), and the final boss, King K. Rool ( in a boxing match where each Kong must fight ).

Another well-known example is R. Kelly, who recorded two different versions of " Ignition " for his 2003 album Chocolate Factory.

Colin Sharp, singer of The Durutti Column during 1978 who took part of the A Factory Sample EP, died on 7 September 2009, after suffering a brain haemorrhage.

In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Gropius's design for the Dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilion or the Völkisch Sommerfeld House.

The next year he was transferred to nearby York Factory, and over the next few years spent time as a clerk at Cumberland House and South Branch House before arriving at Manchester House in 1787.

Both the SPAD A. 2 and the Royal Aircraft Factory B. E. 9 added a second crewman ahead of the engine in a pod but this was both hazardous to the second crewman and limited performance.

The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in 1941 and it never reopened.

This was followed by the closure of the gunpowder section at the Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Chorley, the section was closed and demolished at the end of World War II ; and ICI Nobel's Roslin gunpowder factory which closed in 1954.

There was also a boxed set called variously The Factory Set and One With Everything which contained one of each card from the main set of the limited edition, multiples of the Illuminati cards, and a few cards previously only available in magazines.

In 1833 and 1844, the first general laws against child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in England: Children younger than nine were not allowed to work, children were not permitted to work at night, and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve hours.

The 1802 Factory Act was the first labour law in the UK.

Following the agreement with UNDP, the Pyongyang Fiber Optic Cable Factory was

The Haçienda, Factory Records ' own nightclub ( largely funded by New Order ) opened in May 1982 in Manchester and was even issued a Factory catalogue number: FAC51.

Republic, released around the world in 1993, was the band's first album release since parting company with the now-defunct Factory Records.

* The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was produced by Wolper Productions.

In 1995, Seychelles saw the privatization of the Seychelles Tuna Canning Factory, 60 % of which was purchased by the American food company Heinz.

Their next album, Factory Showroom, was released in 1996 to little fanfare.

In 1893, RN torpedo production was transferred to the Royal Gun Factory.

London Records were interested in taking over Factory, but the deal fell through when it emerged that due to Factory's early practice of eschewing contracts, New Order's back catalogue was owned by the band rather than the label.

Warhol's ' Factory ’ played host to most of his superstars and as his experiments in film continued he became more interested in the bohemian eccentrics attracted to the studio.