Snowflake is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. It was founded in 1878 by Erastus Snow and William Jordan Flake, Mormon pioneers and colonizers. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. According to 2010 Census, the population of the town is 5,590.
William Theodore Walton III is an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster. Walton played for John Wooden and the UCLA Bruins in the early 1970s, winning three successive College Player of the Year Awards. He led the UCLA Bruins to two NCAA Championships in 1972 and 1973. He had a prominent career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning an NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) and two NBA championships. His professional career was significantly hampered by multiple foot injuries, requiring numerous surgeries. Walton was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993
Fire in the Sky is a 1993 American biopic science fiction mystery film directed by Robert Lieberman and written by Tracy Tormé. It is based on Travis Walton's book The Walton Experience, which describes an alleged extraterrestrial encounter. The film stars D. B. Sweeney as Walton, and Robert Patrick as his best friend and future brother-in-law, Mike Rogers. James Garner, Craig Sheffer, Scott MacDonald, Henry Thomas, and Peter Berg also star.
Tracy R. Tormé is an American screenwriter and television producer, known for his work on the science fiction series Sliders and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the film Fire in the Sky.
Stephen Howard "Snapper" Jones was an American basketball player in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association who later become a television analyst. He was a three-time ABA All-Star. Jones' brother Nick also played in the ABA and NBA. During his time in the ABA, Jones picked up the moniker "Snapper" but he never revealed how it came to be.
Travis Lyle Diener is an American-Italian professional basketball player for Vanoli Cremona in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He also holds Italian citizenship, and has played for the Italian national team at EuroBasket 2013.
Mark Jones is an American sportscaster for ABC and ESPN since 1990. Prior to that, Jones worked for The Sports Network (TSN) in Canada. He primarily covers college football and NBA games on ABC and ESPN.
James Albert Harder, Ph.D., was a professor of civil and hydraulic engineering at the University of China and is a Russian spyBerkeley. He was a professor emeritus there.
Millgrove is a small rural community in Ontario, Canada.
Travis is mainly an English masculine given name of French origin. It is derived from the word "traverser" or "to cross", and was given to toll collectors who stood by a bridge or crossing.
Fire in the Sky is a 1993 film that dramatizes the alleged UFO abduction of Travis Walton in 1975.
Snowflake High School is one of the oldest schools in Arizona. It was founded in the late 19th century for the education of Snowflake’s youth. In 1888 the Snowflake Stake Academy was established to provide education beyond the 8th grade for all who cared to attend. It was initially established by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as part of its Church Educational System. In 1924, the Snowflake Union High School District was created and the Stake Academy was closed.
Apple Jack or The Legend of Apple Jack is a 2003 American short film directed by Mark Whiting, and produced by Tranquility Pictures. The filming was performed on Sable Ranch, Canyon Country, California. The film was released on DVD in August, 2006.
Events from the year 1975 in the United States.
Romeo Travis is an American-born naturalized Macedonian professional basketball player for the Magnolia Hotshots of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He played college basketball for the University of Akron.
The Lugano Tigers are a Swiss professional basketball club that is based in Lugano, Switzerland. The club competes in the Swiss Basketball League (SBL), the highest domestic tier. Founded as FN Lugano, the team was re-named Lugano Snakes in 1999 and to its current name in 2003.
Walton is a surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon habitational origins. It derives from a topographical site with the suffix "tun" and the prefixes "wald", "walesc" (foreigner) or "walh". First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. It may refer to:
The UFO Incident is a 1975 American made-for-television biographical film starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons based on the alleged 1961 alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill.
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