Ralston may refer to:
Place names
United States
*Ralston, California
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Ralston, Iowa
Ralston is a city in Carroll County, Iowa, Carroll and Greene County, Iowa, Greene counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 81 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census.
History
Ralston was incorporated in 1900. It wa ...
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Ralston, Nebraska
Ralston is a city in Douglas County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 6,494 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Omaha, Ralston is surrounded on three sides by the city of Omaha by 84th, 72nd, and L Streets, and by Sarpy County (Harrison ...
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Ralston, Oklahoma
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Ralston, Wyoming
Ralston is a census-designated place (CDP) in Park County, Wyoming, Park County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 280 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census.
Geography
Ralston is located at (44.714544, -108.875598).
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Mount Ralston
Ralston Peak is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada mountain range to the west of Lake Tahoe within the Desolation Wilderness in El Dorado County, California. Ralston Peak is a very popular mountain to summit for the views of the wilderness area as it ...
in the Sierra Nevada of California
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Ralston Creek (Colorado)
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Ralston Hall
Ralston Hall Mansion located in Belmont, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, a founder of the Bank of California, and a financier of the Comstock Lode. It is an opulent Italianate Villa, mo ...
, Belmont, California, the country house of William Chapman Ralston
Elsewhere
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Ralston, Alberta
The Crown Village of Ralston is located to the east of Highway 884 on CFB Suffield within Cypress County in southern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately north of the Hamlet of Suffield and the Trans-Canada Highway.
History
Approval was g ...
, Canada
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Ralston, Renfrewshire
Ralston (''Baile Raghnaill'' in Scottish Gaelic) is a small, suburban settlement in Renfrewshire, Scotland, being part of the greater town of Paisley. The district straddles the A761 (formerly the A737), the main dual-carriageway between Renfre ...
, Scotland
People
Surname
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Ralston (surname)
Given name
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Ralston Bowles
Ralston Bowles is an American poet, songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ralston Bowles was born on August 31, 1952 to parents, Buel Bowles of Green Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1913–2002) and May Jean Mo ...
, American musician
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Ralston Cash
Ralston Alexander Cash (born August 20, 1991) an American professional baseball pitcher .
Cash attended Lakeview Academy in Georgia and was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2nd round of the 2010 MLB Draft. He played in 2010 for the Ogden ...
(born 1991), American baseball player
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Ralston Crawford
Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.
Early life
He was born on September 5, 1906, in St. Catharines, Ontario, and spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York. He studied art beginning in ...
, American artist
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Ralston Hill
Ralston Hill (April 24, 1927 – October 19, 1996) was an American stage actor and singer who had several roles on Broadway, most notably Congressional Secretary Charles Thomson in the musical ''1776''. His only film credit is that same role in ...
, American stage actor
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Ralston Westlake
Wallace Ralston Westlake (August 27, 1907 – December 9, 1978) was an American politician of the Republican Party from the U.S. state of Ohio. He was the 47th mayor of Columbus, Ohio and the 43rd person to serve in that office. He served one t ...
, mayor of Columbus, Ohio, USA
Businesses
*Ralston Foods, a unit of
Ralcorp
Ralcorp Holdings is a manufacturer of various food products, including breakfast cereal, cookies, crackers, chocolate, snack foods, mayonnaise, pasta, and peanut butter. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri. The majority of the items Ralco ...
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Ralston Purina
Ralston Purina Company was a St. Louis, Missouri,–based American conglomerate with substantial holdings in animal feed, food, pet food, consumer products, and entertainment. On December 12, 2001, it merged with Swiss food-giant Nestlé's Fri ...
, a part of Nestlé Purina PetCare
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Ralston Steel Car Company
The Ralston Steel Car Company operated in Columbus, Ohio, from 1905 to 1953. The company began by modifying wood freight cars to add steel underframes. Later it manufactured its own line of all-steel rail cars.
Founding
Joseph S. Ralston and ...
, early 20th-century company based in Columbus, Ohio
Educational institutions
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Ralston College Ralston College is an institution of higher education that offers in-person degree programs as well as online programs. It began its first in-person offering, an MA in the Humanities, in autumn of 2022 with the authority to grant degrees. Its first ...
, a liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia, United States
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Ralston High School
Ralston High School (RHS) is located in Ralston, a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The school, a part of Ralston Public Schools, opened in 1954, as a building for grades 7–12, located at 82nd and Lakeview Drive. It relocated to its cur ...
, Ralston, Nebraska
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Ralston Valley High School
Ralston Valley High School (RVHS or RV) is a Comprehensive high school, comprehensive, four-year public high school in Arvada, Colorado, Arvada, a northwest suburb of Denver, Colorado. Opened for the 2000 school year, its enrollment is around 1800 ...
, Arvada, Colorado
Other uses
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Ralstonism
Ralstonism was a social movement in the United States in the 19th century. It claimed about 800,000 followers. Ralstonism was the brainchild of Webster Edgerly (1852–1926). In Edgerly's words, "Ralstonism is the grandest movement that man is ca ...
, a minor 19th-century social movement in the United States
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Rebel Ralston
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Irani Rael
Irani Rael is a fictional alien in Marvel Comics. The character, created by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Wellinton Alves and Geraldo Borges, fir ...
, fictitious character in the Marvel Shared Universe
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