In athetics, Ralston participates in Nebraska's second largest class, and has had the most success in Girl's Softball, where they've won three state titles (' 97 -' 99 ) and two runner ups (' 03, ' 06 ) and lead the Class B teams with 12 appearances in the state tournament which began in 1993.

From the mid-1940s Republic films often featured Vera Hruba Ralston, a former ice-skater from Czechoslovakia who had won the heart of studio boss Yates, becoming the second Mrs. Yates in 1949.

Golfer Alastair Forsyth, who has won Golf Tour competitions as well competing in several Open championships, played much of his golf at Ralston Golf Club and grew up in the area.

Sensenbrenner was unseated temporarily from 1960 to 1963 by Republican W. Ralston Westlake, but won back his seat.

With the Lions, Ralston won the bronze medal in the European Championships in Helsinki, Finland in 1991.

Ralston was a member of the Handsome Eight, and won 27 national doubles and singles titles, including five grand-slam doubles crowns.

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

* " Bipolar Nickel Metal Hydride Battery " by Martin G. Klein, Michael Eskra, Robert Plivelich and Paula Ralston

Their unit passes through the port of Mobile, Alabama, where John Breen, played by John Wayne, meets the pretty Fleurette De Marchand, played by Vera Ralston, from Demopolis.

Major portions were purchased by the Brittan Family, the Hull Family, the Ralston family and Timothy Guy Phelps.

In a time when Indianapolis streets were often the narrow orange brick thoroughfares laid by Alexander Ralston in the 1920s and 1930s, the town had homes with garages for cars.

Ralston is geographically surrounded by Omaha, Nebraska but is a separate city.

In 1987 a history of Ralston was published by the Ralston Historical Society.

Early history of Ralston, Nebraska, 1865-1950 by Alice Shooter ( 58 pages, including photographs ) chronicles the founding and development of the town.

This stage is used once a year in the summer by the Ralston Community Theatre and it is used all throughout the school year by the Ralston Drama students.

La Vista is bordered by the cities of Omaha and Ralston on the north, Papillion on the south, Bellevue on the east and Interstate 80 on the west, where the city recently annexed large new areas devoted to commercial and retail developments.

Theologian and writer Walter Ralston Martin believed that Christian Scientists were trained to ignore " obnoxious literature " about the natural world and to disconnect by not looking at evidence which may convince them that the world is not illusory.

Known as Richmond prior to 1916, the area was originally owned by the New Mexico Mining Company, and was the location of a stamp mill for the silver ore mined in nearby Ralston.

The first scene of the movie sets up the danger of the " Sumatran Rat-Monkey ", a hybrid creature that, " according to legend ", resulted from the rape of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague rats: Stewart ( Bill Ralston ), an explorer returning from the depths of the island with his guide and team, is carrying a rat-monkey in a cage and is stopped by fierce warrior natives that demand the return of the monkey.

Most products, such as Cookie Crisp and Chex cereals ( when they were produced by Ralston ), would often alternate weekly or monthly.

To the Last Man was almost a model of its kind, an exceptionally strong story of feuding families in the post-Civil War era, with a cast worthy of an " A " feature, excellent direction by Henry Hathaway, and an unusual climactic fight between the villain ( Jack LaRue ) and the heroine ( Esther Ralston, in an exceptionally appealing performance ).

* Krilof and his Fables, a memoir and prose translations by W. R. S. Ralston, originally published London 1869 ; 4th augmented edition 1883

The Transformers Chocolate Flavored Cereal was a chocolate-flavored concoction, not unlike Cocoa Puffs, manufactured by the Ralston Corporation.

John Ralston Saul expressed the view in The Unconscious Civilization that in contemporary developed nations many people have acquiesced in turning over their sense of right and wrong, their critical conscience, to technical experts ; willingly restricting their moral freedom of choice to limited consumer actions ruled by the ideology of the free market, while citizen participation in public affairs is limited to the isolated act of voting and private-interest lobbying turns even elected representatives against the public interest.

He was portrayed in the 1969 stage play and the 1972 film 1776 by Ralston Hill.

In their influential book The Kingdom of the Cults ( first published in 1965 ), Walter Ralston Martin and Ravi K. Zacharias disagreed with the Divine Principle on the issues of the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth of Jesus, the Unification Church's belief that Jesus should have married, the necessity of the crucifixion of Jesus, and a literal resurrection of Jesus as well as a literal second coming of Jesus.

The model of the starship USS Enterprise was destroyed in the previous film partly because visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston wanted to build a " more state-of-the-art ship for the next film ", but the filmmakers made the less costly decision to have the crew return to serve on the duplicate USS Enterprise A, and six weeks were spent repairing the old model.

* To the Last Man ( film ) is a 1933 Henry Hathaway film based on the Zane Grey novel starring Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery, Shirley Temple, and Eugenie Besserer.

* Crocker Middle School, a public middle school, located on Ralston Avenue, named after William H. Crocker.

Ralston High School opened in 1954, it was first placed on Lakeview Drive, but then relocated to its current address on 8969 Park Drive.

Ralston marketed many cereals based on cartoons in the 80s and 90s.

At the U. S. Open on slippery grass courts, Laver defeated Dennis Ralston, Emerson, Ashe, and Roche.

Additionally, Lord was commissioned by producer Patrick Gamble for Central Television to write the soundtrack for their 1984 TV series, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, based on the book by Edith Holden, with an orchestra conducted by Alfred Ralston and with a distinctly gentle, pastoral series of themes composed by Lord.

Although the move was publicly characterized as a purely administrative move necessitated by Clark's approaching retirement and the lack of an open four-star slot for the highly respected Ralston reality which would have compelled him to either accept a temporary demotion to two-star rank or retire from the service, Clark's relief has been often seen as a slap at the general on the part of a Pentagon leadership that had been very much at odds with him during the Kosovo war the previous spring.

In 1997, Ralston sued Warner Bros. over the upcoming motion picture based on the series.

In the early 1960s, Goulart wrote the text for Chex Press, a newspaper parody published on Ralston Purina cereal boxes ( Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, Corn Chex ).

Despite losing the general election, Ralston was appointed to the cabinet by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and became the Minister of National Defence on October 8.

Ralston was appointed the Canadian delegate to the Third London Naval Conference that December, and he later sat on several Royal Commissions.

Ralston re-entered active public service and he was subsequently appointed as Minister of Finance on September 6, 1939, replacing Charles Dunning who was in ill-health.

Canada declared war on Nazi Germany on September 10 and Ralston participated in the King government's revamping of Canada's 2-decade-long neglected military.

The death of Alfred Edgar MacLean, MP for Prince on October 28 opened up the opportunity for Prime Minister King to declare a by-election in a Liberal-friendly riding that Ralston could run in.

Ralston was subsequently elected by acclamation on January 2, 1940 and entered the 18th Parliament.