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unusual facts about Félix Morisseau-Leroy


Félix Morisseau-Leroy

In 1991 Morisseau-Leroy was invited by Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti to be a guest speaker at his inauguration.


Age 7 in America

LeRoy lives in an apartment building (part of the Robert Taylor housing project) in the South Side of Chicago.

Albert Ehlman

On December 26, 1901, Ehlman married Ruby D. Bell of Concord, Wisconsin; as of 1922, they had two children, Neal LeRoy and Beatrice Lucille.

Algis Kizys

Firmament served as a soundscape to the JT Leroy story, "Natoma Street", performed by Callie Thorne.

Amélie Claire Leroy

Leroy wrote seven dozen novels, many of them aimed at young women, in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Angus G. Wynne

Two years later, the company went on to purchase a New Jersey park developed by the Hardwicke Companies and designed by Warner LeRoy (son of Wizard of Oz director, Mervyn LeRoy), called Great Adventure.

Arby's

Arby's was founded in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964 by Forrest and Leroy Raffel, owners of a restaurant equipment business who believed there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a food other than hamburgers.

Baby LeRoy

Born Ronald Le Roy Overacker in Los Angeles, California, Baby LeRoy's career began when he was less than a year old, co-starring with Maurice Chevalier in A Bedtime Story, and ended with a cameo role as himself in Cinema Circus (1937).

Charlie's Death Wish

Charlie's Death Wish (2005) is an action thriller film directed by Jeff Leroy and starring Ron Jeremy and Phoebe Dollar.

Clarence Chesterfield Howerton

At age six, Howerton was living in McCleary, Washington, with his parents and five brothers, Albert, Ernest, Forrest, LeRoy, and Charles.

Clarke Central High School

The current head football coach, Leroy Ryals, is a former LSU Tigers (under Nick Saban) and South Florida Bulls assistant coach.

Erk Russell

After Erk received Vince Dooley's okay, Russell called Roger Dancz, the director of Georgia's Redcoat Marching Band, and suggested that if the Bulldogs ever did something good on the field, how about cranking up a few bars of Jim Croce's "Bad, bad Leroy Brown."

George Tirebiter

The protagonist of the Firesign Theatre album Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was named George Leroy Tirebiter, after the dog, and that album's movie-within-a-play, "High School Madness," featured a boy named Porgy Tirebiter.

Gloria Dawn

She began her career in January 1962, and modeled for photographers Peter Gowland, Ron Vogel, Donald G. Klumpp, Sam Wu, Elmer Batters, and Michael LeRoy among others.

Got It on My Mind

It was released on March 27, 2001 for Rap-A-Lot Records and Noo Trybe Records and featured production from Leroy "Precise" Edwards, Mr. Lee and J. Prince.

Greg Kessler

Kessler's work was most recently displayed at the LeRoy Neiman Center at Columbia University.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

Hold It Now, Hit It

The song contains samples from "The Return of Leroy" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch, "Drop the Bomb" and "Let's Get Small" by Trouble Funk, "Funky Stuff" by Kool & The Gang, "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" by Bob James, "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow and "La Di Da Di" by Doug E. Fresh.

Jack L. Cooper

Jack Leroy Cooper (September 18, 1888 in Memphis, Tennessee - January 12, 1970) was the first African American radio disc jockey.

Jim LeRoy

Around 2:15PM EST at the Vectren Dayton Air Show at the Dayton International Airport, LeRoy crashed his S2S Bulldog II, while in performance with the X-Team Codename: Mary's Lamb aerobatics team.

John Skoberg

John Leroy Skoberg (born February 2, 1926 in Lougheed, Alberta) is a former Canadian politician.

Katsura Hoshino

Leroy Douresseaux of Coolstreak Cartoons called Hoshino a "wonderful visualist" and commented that her "highly stylish" art resembled the works of Joe Madureira, Kelley Jones, and Chris Bachalo.

Kelvin Bryant

Kelvin LeRoy Bryant (born September 26, 1960 in Tarboro, North Carolina) is a former American football running back in the National Football League and the United States Football League.

Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks, New Orleans

During World War II the area included important war effort facilities such as Higgins Industries shipyards, Camp Leroy Johnson, and a Naval Air Base, NAS New Orleans.

Leroy and the Old Man

LeRoy Chambers is the sole witness to a murder by a local Chicago gang called "The Wolves”.

LeRoy J. Louden

LeRoy J. Louden (born October 12, 1936) is a Nebraska state senator from Ellsworth, Nebraska, United States.

Motorized recliner incident

In October 2009, Dennis LeRoy Anderson of Proctor, Minnesota received widespread media attention for being arrested in a DWI case involving a motorized recliner.

National Threshers Association

Originally organized in 1944 on a farm in Alvordton, Ohio, in the northwest corner of the state, thresherman Leroy Blaker’s goal was to provide a weekend gathering of fun, food and fellowship with his hardworking neighbors.

Nida Blanca

In 1958, she appeared opposite her contemporary, noted singer/actress Sylvia La Torre, and Leroy Salvador, in the LVN movie Tuloy ang Ligaya.

Ralph Leroy Nafziger

Ralph Leroy Nafziger (November 17, 1887 – September 17, 1965) was the founder of the Interstate Bakeries Corporation, which eventually became Hostess Brands.

Roy Kettle

Leroy Richard Arthur "Roy" Kettle OBE (born 1949) is a retired United Kingdom civil servant who, among many other achievements, was one of the principal architects of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

Saint Benedict's College

The football playing field was to be the breeding ground of a number of national footballers and Warren Archibald, Leroy De Leon, Jan Steadman, Steve David, Dick Furlonge, Wilfred Cave, and Bobby Sookram.

San Sebastián de los Reyes

Major industrial companies have branches in San Sebastián de los Reyes, including IKEA, Leroy Merlin, PC City, Selther, Carrefour, Alternate, Media Markt, Telepizza, Antena 3, and many more.

Scottsville and LeRoy Railroad

::"After a long and general acquaintance with the western part of this state, I am convinced that a railroad from LeRoy to Rochester, along the valley of Allen's Creek (Oatka) and the Genesee River, would be a public benefit, were it to serve no other purpose than to facilitate the forwarding of materials for the building of other railroads in the western district.

Sledge, Mississippi

Leroy Brown was an actual man from the area who may have very well have been the inspiration for the Jim Croce song.

Sondra Erickson

Erickson was first elected to the House in a 1998 special election, held after Rep. LeRoy Koppendrayer resigned to accept an appointment to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission by Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson.

Southern Coffey County High School

Southern Coffey County Junior-Senior High School is a fully accredited public high school located in LeRoy, Kansas, in the LeRoy-Gridley USD 245 school district, serving students in grades 7-12.

Taimak

Taimak's leading role in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon, in which he played Leroy Green, a Bruce Lee-inspired martial artist in search of "The Glow", was his first major break in acting.

Teenie Hodges

Born in Germantown, Tennessee, Hodges began playing guitar at age 12 in his father's band, the Germantown Blue Dots, before joining his brothers Leroy and Charles in their group, the Impalas.

Tex Pruiett

Charles Leroy Pruiett (April 10, 1883 – March 6, 1953) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1907 through 1908 for the Boston Americans & Red Sox.

The Goslings

The core members of the band are Leslie Soren (vocals) and Max Soren (guitar) with a rotating roster of drummers which have included Brendan Grubb, Adel Souto, Rick Smith (also of Torche), Paul Leroy and Steve Carrera.

The Paragons

The Paragons were originally Garth "Tyrone" Evans, Bob Andy, Junior Menz, and Leroy Stamp.

There Goes the Fear

The B-side "Hit the Ground Running" is an adaptation of "Werewolves of London," written by Warren Zevon, Leroy Marinell, and Robert "Waddy" Wachtel.

Tik Tik Boom

It was written by Spears, Anthony Preston, Onique "Sparrow" Williams, T.I., Andre Lindal, Damien LeRoy and Joakim Haukaas and produced by Preston and LeRoy.

Union County, Indiana

Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith (Little Orphan Annie), Cincinnatus Hiner "Joaquin" Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.

War of Ages

In a Radio U interview with Jaddeus, Leroy revealed that the new album would feature guest vocals from Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying and Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. WOA drummer Alex Hamp revealed in an interview that their recording a new album next year.

What a Piece of Work I Am

In one sequence, Leroy's grandfather, with Ariane's help, comforts his dying wife by pretending their home is a ship making the journey to the tropical destination of Rarotonga.


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