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unusual facts about Irving A. Leonard


Irving Leonard

Irving A. Leonard (1896–1962), historian specialising in Hispanic history and art


After Office Hours

After Office Hours is a 1935 film starring Clark Gable and Constance Bennett and directed by Robert Z. Leonard.

Cedric Wright

Among that social circle were Richard M. Leonard and his wife Doris, Francis P. Farquhar and his wife Marjorie, David Brower and his wife Anne, Edgar Wayburn and his wife Peggy, and Wright's best friends, Ansel Adams and his wife Virginia.

Drayton St. Leonard

In 1859 the building was drastically restored under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street.

Edmund D. Ellis

Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis (March 1890 - 1995) was a member of the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1915 (the class the stars fell on) which included Henry Aurand, Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John W. Leonard, Henry Sayler, James Van Fleet, and a number of other famous generals.

Jack E. Leonard

Leonard narrated the theatrical release The World of Abbott and Costello which was not a documentary, but a compilation film consisting entirely of clips from Abbott and Costello movies.

James A. Leonard

In 1861, Leonard visited Philadelphia, where he played a match against William Dwight, who later became a general in the Union Army.

Nineteenth-century chess journalists and Jeremy Gaige's book Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography state that Leonard was born in New York City.

John B. Leonard

Chili Bar Bridge, spanning South Fork of American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado, California, 1922

John E. Leonard

Leonard attended the public schools and was later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire in 1863 and then earned a law degree from Harvard University in 1867.

He studied law in Germany before he returned to the United States and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1870 and commenced practice at Monroe, Louisiana.

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Havana, Cuba, while vacationing with several other Washington leaders on March 15, 1878.

John W. Leonard

For his bravery in the battlefield near the village of Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Major Leonard was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart French Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Palm and French Fourragère.

Leo Baeck

Baker, Leonard (1978) Days of sorrow and pain : Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews.

Meteoritical Society

The Leonard Medal, awarded since 1966 in honor of the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard, is given for outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields.

Moses G. Leonard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress.

Nevada State Route 430

Designed by John B. Leonard, the structure includes etchings to resemble masonry.

Playboy's Penthouse

It was first broadcast on October 24, 1959 and ran in syndication for slightly more than one year with a second season starting on September 9, 1961 with Jack E. Leonard, Anita O'Day, Buddy Greco, and George Wein.

Racial integration

Steinhorn, Leonard and Diggs-Brown, Barbara, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race.

Republican Party of Texas

In 1961, James A. Leonard, was the "first Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas to emphasize the Party's new intention to become a force in state government." "In the dead of night," he moved the Party Headquarters from Houston to Austin" and "mobilized the Party's meager resources to support the candidacy of a 36-year-old Associate Professor of Government, John Tower, to fill Lyndon Johnson's vacant US Senate Seat.

Ribblehead

The ecclesiastical parish is St Leonard, Ingleton and there is a small church dedicated to St. Leonard at Chapel-le-Dale.

Richard Assheton of Middleton

Richard continued the rebuilding the parish church of St. Leonard's at Middleton.

Richard M. Leonard

Richard Manning Leonard (October 22, 1908 – July 31, 1993) was an American rock climber, environmentalist and attorney.

Richard Massingham

He was the son of Emma Jane née Snowdon, the daughter of Henry Snowdon of St. Leonard's Priory, Norwich.

Robert A. Leonard

He was Apple’s linguist in its civil trademark cases against both Microsoft and Amazon.

Leonard was recruited by the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI to train its agents in forensic linguistic analysis at Quantico, and he has trained British law enforcement units in London.

Stephen B. Leonard

He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.

The Five O'Clock Girl

In 1928, Marion Davies and Joel McCrea starred in a screen adaptation directed by Robert Z. Leonard for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but it never was released, possibly because William Randolph Hearst objected to his mistress Davies portraying a common shopgirl in her first sound film.

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart is a 1946 film directed by Robert Z. Leonard, and starring Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon and June Allyson.

Turney W. Leonard

Commissioned in 1942 via the ROTC program at Texas A&M, Leonard was serving as a platoon leader in Company C, 893rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, which was attached in October 1944 to support the 112th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division during that unit's assault on the Siegfried Line through the Hürtgen Forest area along the German-Belgian border.

William N. Leonard

Two of his brothers also became high-ranking officers: Army Major General Charles F. Leonard, Jr. and Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel John Wallis Leonard, who was killed in action in World War II.

Wollaton Antiphonal

The manuscript was in use at St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton from the 1460s, until Catholic Latin service books were banned in the Reformation in the 1540s.

Wren's Cathedral

Wren's Cathedral was originally founded as the Monastery of St. Leonard at Wroxall, Warwickshire in 1141 for nuns, by Sir Hugh-Hatton eldest son of the Earl of Warwick.


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