In 1850 – 1851, he attended the Quaker-run Milton Boarding School for Boys located in Sparks, Maryland, and later St. Timothy's Hall, an Episcopal military academy in Catonsville, Maryland, beginning when he was 13 years old.

John Denver sang a disparaging song about visiting Toledo titled " Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio " which was composed by Randy Sparks.

It was written in 1967 when Sparks and his group arrived in Toledo at 10 p. m. on a Saturday night, and found everything closed.

Zhou played an important role in establishing the Young Soldiers Association, a youth group which was dominated by the Communists, and Sparks, a short-lived Communist front group.

The top contender was the league's marquee team, the Los Angeles Sparks.

On December 28, 2004, head coach Jeff Bzdelik was fired from the organization and replaced by interim coach, former Los Angeles Laker player and Los Angeles Sparks head coach Michael Cooper.

The first such event was arranged by Shawn Sparks in 1994, and had only six participants.

Another Claiborne Parish educator, John Sparks Patton, once ran against Harris for education superintendent and himself served on the Louisiana Public Service Commission until he was unseated in 1942 by Jimmie Davis.

File: Gov Chauncy Sparks House Eufaula Alabama. JPG | The Sparks-Irby House was the home of the 44th Alabama Governor, Chauncey Sparks and his sister, Mrs. Louise Sparks Flewellen.

One of Shore Lodge's first summer employees was a University of Idaho student, who worked as a bellhop learning the business from the bottom up and was to go on to found the Nugget hotel, convention center and casino in Sparks, Nevada, one of the largest and most successful in the Reno area.

Lisbon was the birthplace of another Louisiana educator, John Sparks Patton, who once lost a race for state superintendent to T. H. Harris and is remembered as the first advocate of taxpayer-funded school textbooks.

* Jordin Sparks ( born 1989 ), American Idol winner, lived here as a child while her father was playing with the Giants.

The town was named in honor of George T. Sparks, an FS & W director.

The first school, known as Ball School, was built southeast of Sparks in the late 1890s.

Sparks was nearest the epicenter of the largest earthquake in Oklahoma's history on November 5, 2011 with a 5. 6 magnitude reported.

In 1998, the Sparks album Plagiarism was released featuring two collaborations with Faith No More (" This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us " and " Something for the Girl with Everything ").

Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks was the first to score a dunk, on July 30, 2002 against the Miami Sol.

On September 12, 1916, Kingsport residents demanded the death of circus elephant Mary ( an Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows Circus ) for her killing of city hotel worker Walter Eldridge, who was hired the day before as an assistant elephant trainer by the circus.

The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the situation was to hold a public execution.

On April 26, 1941 an article was published in The Saturday Evening Post by journalist Boyden Sparks, attacking the authenticity of the stones, pointing to improbabilities in their story and producing evidence that those who had claimed to discover them were in fact hoaxers.

Sparks theorized that the fakery was inspired by the 1937 publicity in North Carolina surrounding the 350th anniversary of the Lost Colony.

L7 was formed by René Lucas on bass guitar, Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner on shared electric guitar and shared vocals in 1985.

After calling an eyewitness of the Sparks hit who identified Gotti associate John Carneglia as one of the men who shot Bilotti they then brought Gravano to testify on March 2.

At the turn of the 21st century the town, with 137 residents, had a post office, a few churches, a rural water district, a volunteer fire department, and two community centers, one in the Old Sparks School Building, which served as a senior citizens ' center and town library.

More than one woman shared the rent for an apartment in Reno or Sparks.

Like the Tulsa Shock, the Sparks are one of the two WNBA franchises whose city also has an NBA D-League team, the D-Fenders.

The 2000 season was a record one, as the Sparks tore up the WNBA with a 28 – 4 record, the best in league history, and second only to the 1998 Houston Comets for best all-time.

The rough road to the finals and the tough play of the Shock wore down the Sparks, which lost the series, two games to one, and failed to three-peat.

They were one of the more successful WNBA franchises on the court, though they often trailed behind perennial Western Conference champions the Houston Comets and the Los Angeles Sparks.

In Game 2, the Silver Stars blew a fourteen point lead in the final quarter, as the Sparks took a one point lead with 1. 3 seconds left.

As a result of the American Army investigation court-martial, charges were drawn up against Sparks and several other men under his command but, as General George S. Patton ( the then recently appointed military governor of Bavaria ) chose to dismiss the charges, the witnesses to the massacre were never cross-examined in court and no one was found guilty.

Sparks was one of five celebrities to appear in the first episode of VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project.

In 2011, Sparks was cast as Donald Davenport, one of the lead characters of a new Disney pilot Lab Rats.

Girl Genius presents an alternate history " where the Industrial Revolution has escalated into an all-out war " due to the battles between " Sparks " – highly charismatic mad scientists with supernormal abilities in one or more sciences.

It's noted on at least one occasion that many Sparks meet their doom because " they're smart enough to build death-rays and dumb enough to turn them on armies all by themselves ".

The peace was apparently cemented when Lucrezia Mongfish, daughter of one of the more villainous Sparks, consented to marry Bill Heterodyne ; the concurrent disappearance of her other suitor, Klaus Wulfenbach, appears to have passed without comment.

Baron Klaus Wulfenbach is one of the greatest Sparks of his generation with a particular interest in the workings, origins and nature of the Spark.

* Game one of the WNBA Conference Finals between Phoenix Mercury and Los Angeles Sparks, September 23, 2009.

Gossard is the parent of one child, Vivian Sparks, who was born in 2007.

Enemies include " Snapjaws ," which resemble bear traps with eyes, bird-like creatures called " Nitpickers " that Mario releases to thwart DK Jr., and " Sparks " that roam across the wiring in one of Mario's hideouts.

In her last game with the Comets, exactly one year before her death, she scored ten points against the Los Angeles Sparks.

Jenny Sparks joined the group since they considered her the " clean one " from the 1960s group.

Jenny Sparks is one of the Century Babies, a being produced by the multiverse for a specific task.

Steve Sparks, who claims to be one of the original mods, agrees that before mod became commercialised, it was essentially an extension of the beatnik culture: " It comes from ‘ modernist ’, it was to do with modern jazz and to do with Sartre " and existentialism.

Located one block south of Wellington Street ( the home of the Parliament of Canada ), Sparks Street is one of Ottawa's more historic streets with a number of heritage buildings.