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3 unusual facts about Albert L. Vreeland


Albert L. Vreeland

He attended the public schools and was employed as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in 1918 and 1919.

He was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the 78th United States Congress.

After leaving Congress, he reentered the Army on January 4, 1943, and served two years in Australia and New Guinea.


3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

It is a spin-off to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series as main characters Polly, Jo and Ama are about to attend South Bethesda High School, the school the original sisterhood (Bridget "Bee" Vreeland, Lena Kaligaris, Carmen Lowell and Tibby Rollins) attended.

Albert L. Hopkins

worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C.

The system was designed in two forms, one for the command module and one for the lunar module.

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Albert L. Myer

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.

Major Myer was appointed by the first military governor of Puerto Rico, Major General Nelson A. Miles.

A year earlier the United States had invaded the island and installed a military central government based in San Juan.

Albert Osborn

Albert L. Osborn (1858–1940), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly

Charles E. Vreeland

On February 11, 1903 he was succeeded by Bradley A. Fiske as Aide for Operations, and Vreeland finished out his naval career as member of both the General and Joint Boards.

He was then assigned briefly (from July to September 1889) with the Office of Naval Intelligence and reported to the Coast Survey late in October, a posting he took until the spring of 1893, when Vreeland was assigned a series of tours as naval attaché — first in Rome, Vienna and finally in Berlin.

He was then assigned to the Nautical Almanac Office of the US Naval Observatory in November 1881 after a brief period ashore awaiting orders.

French demonstration of 15 May 1848

The crowd then marched to the City Hall of Paris, where it proclaimed an "insurrectionary government" with Blanqui, Ledru-Rollin, Albert L'Ouvrier, Louis Blanc, Aloysius Huber, Thoré, Pierre Leroux, and Raspail to serve as ministers.

History of Piedmont, California

He loaned the city enough to buy the park, and encouraged the Bay Area architect Albert L. Farr to create the Civic Center Plan.

James P. Vreeland

Together with their son, James P. Vreeland, III, the Vreelands operated a farm in Towaco, New Jersey near U.S. Route 202, where visitors could pick their own strawberries, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, peppers and eggplants depending on the season.

The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Bridget "Bee" Vreeland used to be a spunky and full of life soccer star who was described as "single-minded to the point of recklessness."


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