No escape: Real world celebrates Halloween Oct 25, 2009
Mulan, a Japanese princess, and Pocahontas were also added to the costume assortment this year. Toys R Us is seeing a similar trend. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Q&A: Cleland discusses war, politics Oct 19, 2009
It was given to me by the Disney people when they premiered the movie Pocahontas at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. When I was in the second grade my mother took me in 1947 to see the opening of the Fox Theatre to the premiere of Song of the South. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Huge Cup implications for Keeneland weekend Oct 3, 2009
Veteran trainer Mike Lauer has been around long enough to remember when a top filly named Safe won a division of the 1978 Pocahontas at Churchill and the 1979 Spinster at Keeneland, as well as other major Midwest races. But when Lauer sent out a 2-year-old filly named Safe to win a $30,000 maiden-claiming race Monday at Kentucky Downs, there was no hidden or nostalgic meaning to her name. (ESPN -- Horse Racing)
Daily entertainment guide Sep 10, 2009
Epic tale of the romance between John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas. PG-13 (2005). (Boston Globe)
Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies Sep 2, 2009
(she played Pocahontas in the 2005 movie The New World), Q'Orianka (pronounced Quor-ee-anka) is on her second hydrogen-fuel-cell car, a Honda FCX Clarity, a four-door with a 200-mile range. "I don't think I will ever buy a gas car," she says. (Time.com)
Local news briefs Jul 8, 2009
The United Auto Workers Retirees will meet at 11:15 a.m. Thursday at the Bonanza Restaurant in Pocahontas. Representatives from BC/BS will be present to address medical billing problems. (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Fourth of July Southeastern destinations Jun 20, 2009
The latter includes the father-daughter duo of Tim and Sara King, who will be singing songs from Disney animated films such as Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas. T-34 military aircraft will buzz across the sky. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
America's 'Top 100 Family Campgrounds' Announced by ReserveAmerica May 23, 2009
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Marco Polo Investments Inc. Announces Reactivation of Its Qualification Transaction Mar 28, 2009
According to available government records, some of the larger companies that owned and mined coal in McDowell County are: U.S. Steel Corp., L.T.V. Steel, Pocahontas Coal and Coke, Semmet Solvey, Allied Chemical Co. and Consolidated Coal and Coke. One of the oldest companies that mined and processed the Sewell Seam of coal from an area that is only six miles from the Westchester Coal Mine was Fordson Coal Company, owned by Henry Ford, who successfully used this high quality coal in the production... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
8 days out (5) Mar 17, 2009
Allegro School of Dance presents "Pocahontas" the timeless child hood story featuring 175 dancers ranging in age from 3 years to adults. This year's show will help benefit Shelby, a 4-year old Helena girl who in in need of heart surgery. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
Share your comments Feb 8, 2009
Having her birth in October and in Palm Beach with true native american history-the name Oceola, Isis, or Pocahontas may have been good too. Can you tell the pride I still have in my country; even with all that happened. (The Palm Beach Post)
OSU band hails to the chiefs Feb 7, 2009
But Stiers has had a lengthy career beyond M*A*S*H. He is a member of the Five-Timers Club with Disney Animation, after playing the Russian Dr. Jumba in Lilo h, Fenton Q Harcourt in Atlantis, Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Governor Ratcliffe in Pocahontas, and the archdeacon in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He has starred opposite Jim Carrey in The Majestic, and Woody Allen and Helen Hunt in Allen s The Case of the Jade Scorpion. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
