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Beachey is the family name of a notable aviation pioneer from the U.S., Lincoln Beachey and a noted academic, Raymond Beachey. In North America, the name appears most often as an anglicization of Bitsche, a placename in both Switzerland and Alsace Lorraine, France. Other anglicizations of the name are: Beachy, Beechy Beechy ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226 and Census Division No. 7. The village is located in the Coteau Hills region of the province, at the intersectio ..., and Beechey. {{surname ...
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Lincoln Beachey
Lincoln Beachey (March 3, 1887 – March 14, 1915) was a Aviation in the pioneer era, pioneer American aviator and barnstorming, barnstormer. He became famous and wealthy from flying exhibitions, staging aerial stunts, helping invent aerobatics, and setting aviation records. He was known as ''The Man Who Owns the Sky,'' and sometimes the ''Master Birdman''.Marrero, Frank. ''Lincoln Beachey: The Man Who Owned the Sky'' Scottwall Associates (1997) Beachey was acknowledged even by his competitors as "The World's Greatest Aviator". He was "known by sight to hundreds of thousands and by name to the whole world". Birth Beachey was born on March 3, 1887, in San Francisco. Following in his older brother Hillary's footsteps, he worked as a ground crewman for dirigible pilot Thomas Scott Baldwin. He helped build the dirigible ''California Arrow'' and made his first dirigible flight in 1905, at the age of 17. Later he helped design a faster, more aerodynamic dirigible known as the "Beac ...
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Raymond Beachey
Raymond Wendell Beachey (24 October 1915 – 10 July 2010) was a Canadian educator, historian and academic best known for his work at Makerere University in Uganda in the 1950s and 1960s. In this capacity he tutored many important African leaders including Benedicto Kiwanuka, Yusuf Lule and Mwai Kibaki, but was concerned that Uganda was not ready for independence at the time it was granted and saw the dictatorial regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote as the result of the haste with which the British withdrew from the country. He was also an historian of East Africa and published several important works on the subject. Life Beachey was born in the town of Trout Creek, Ontario, and worked at logging camps to pay for his education before obtaining a job in finance in Ottawa and subsequently joining the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. After the war he married Ursula Molloy and returned to Canada, taking a degree at Queen's University in Ontario followed ...
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Beachy
Beachy is a surname of Amish origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Brandon Beachy, Atlanta Braves baseball player *Israel Beachy, bassist in Christian rock band * Moses M. Beachy, the founding bishop of the Beachy Amish Mennonite churches in 1927 * Philip A. Beachy, professor of molecular biology *Robert M. Beachy, historian *Roger N. Beachy, molecular biologist *Stephen Beachy, writer See also * Lincoln Beachey, aviator *Beechy Beechy ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226 and Census Division No. 7. The village is located in the Coteau Hills region of the province, at the intersectio ...

Beechy
Beechy ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Victory No. 226 and Census Division No. 7. The village is located in the Coteau Hills region of the province, at the intersection of Highway 342 and Highway 737. As of 2006, the village's population is 243 (down from the 2001 population of 295). History The Beechy area was first settled by ranchers early in the 20th century, with Robert Cruikshank acknowledged as the first settler in the area. Starting in the 1910s, the large-scale immigration of Europeans to the Canadian prairies resulted in an increase in population for Beechy as well, attracting settlers who started ranching and farming in the area, which remains Beechy's primary activity today. In 1919 the Canadian National Railway surveyed the Beechy area and determined it to be an ideal place for a marketplace. Work on the railroad was begun; news of the future railroad stop attracted merchants. Th ...
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