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unusual facts about Braddock: Missing in Action III



Aaron Norris

His credits include Braddock: Missing in Action III, Platoon Leader, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, The Hitman, Hellbound, Top Dog, Sidekicks and was the executive producer of 168 television episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger.

Applefest

The festival donates $5,000 per year on average to groups such as Ambulance Corps, local libraries, village parks, the Food Shelf, Camp Good Days and Special Times, the Historical Society, Braddock Bay Raptor Research, and other community center projects.

Braddock Bay

Braddock Bay is renowned for being an excellent bird-watching location, as raptors and other birds congregate when migrating north in Spring.

Braddock Expedition

Braddock had received important assistance from Benjamin Franklin, who helped procure wagons and supplies for the expedition.

Braddock Hills, Pennsylvania

Braddock Hills was the home of Leonard A. Funk, a Medal of Honor recipient.

Cătălin Moroșanu

As kickboxer, he has competed in the Local Kombat, Superkombat and K-1 promotions and holds notable victories over Gary Goodridge, Freddy Kemayo, Stefan Leko, Mighty Mo, Anderson "Braddock" Silva and Paul Slowinski.

Elsa Bloodstone

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Elsa Bloodstone is shown as one of the teachers at the Braddock Academy (the British equivalent of the Avengers Academy), where she takes her brother Cullen Bloodstone.

Forbes Road

In contrast to the Forbes Road's successors, the National Road, now US 40, largely followed Braddock's Road across the Appalachian Mountains from Cumberland into Pennsylvania.

Gilbert Lawford Dalton

Clive James wrote that he enjoyed the stories of Matt Braddock and Alf Tupper as a boy, without realising at the time that they were intended as fantasy figures for working-class readers.

Grantsville, Maryland

Grantsville, half a mile west of the Casselman River, began as a small Amish and Mennonite settlement, called Tomlinson's or Little Crossing, along Braddock Road, which wound westward from Cumberland over Negro Mountain.

Jacques Marcus Prevost

Augustine was then commissioned as a major, Jacques as a colonel and Jacques Marcus as a captain in the new Royal American Regiment, formed of German and Swiss settlers in the colonies by Great Britain after General Braddock's defeat in western Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars in 1755 and with the threat of war with France looming.

Janet Oleszek

In 2011, Oleszek ran for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, seeking to represent the county's Braddock District.

Jeremy Schaap

A native and resident of New York City, Schaap is the author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-55117-4), a New York Times best-seller, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics.

Maryland Route 49

Braddock Road is the modern descendant of the original military trail cleared by the forces of Edward Braddock in 1755 as part of his unsuccessful campaign to capture Fort Duquesne.

North Braddock, Pennsylvania

In April 2012, a film titled Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, and Zoe Saldana, was filmed in North Braddock, Braddock, and Rankin.

Out of This Furnace

The novel is set in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a steel town just east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania along the Monongahela River.

Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

In the era when animal power dominated transportation there was no safe way to cross east-west in the middle of the range; crossing was only possible nearer its extremes except for a few rough passages opened mid-range during the colonial era such as Braddock's Road and Forbes Road, later improved into America's first National Roads (respectively Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway or designated U.S. 40 and U.S. 30 in later years).

Ridgeley, West Virginia

In spring 1755, Washington returned to the area to prepare for General Edward Braddock's attack on Fort Duquesne (commonly referred to as Braddock's March).

Rosemarie DeWitt

DeWitt was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, the daughter of Rosemarie Braddock and Kenny DeWitt.

Strick

Joseph Strick (1923, Braddock, Pennsylvania - 2010), an American director, producer and screenwriter

Whitacre, Virginia

Whitacre lies on the old Braddock Road on the eastern flanks of Timber Ridge between Good and Cross Junction.


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