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6 unusual facts about Laurens


Laurens, Iowa

Laurens, France, became a sister city to Laurens, Iowa during the preparations for the 2007 quasquicentennial (125th anniversary).

Laurens, South Carolina

Laurens is home to Gary Davis and Pink Anderson, acoustic blues musicians who were born in the city, as well as Redtop Davis, lightweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.

Located in the Upstate region of South Carolina, the city of Laurens is named after Henry Laurens of Revolutionary War fame.

Although many of the textile plants and the glass production facilities have closed over the last 30 years, a variety of industries exist within the county, including corporations like CeramTec, International Paper, Milliken & Co. and others.

Otego Creek

Otego Creek rises in the town of Otsego and flows south through Hartwick and Laurens, joining the Susquehanna in the western part of the city of Oneonta in the southernmost part of Otsego County.

William Dunlap Simpson

He practiced law in Laurens with his partner (and father-in-law) Henry Clinton Young.


Clark Voorhees

In 1897, Voorhees traveled to Europe, studying with Benjamin Constant and J. P. Laurens at the Académie Julianin Paris and spending time in the French village of Barbizon as well as in Holland.

Daniel Henry Chamberlain

After a bitterly fought 1876 campaign, his second term hinged on disputed votes from Laurens and Edgefield counties, where the counts greatly exceeded the population, and overwhelmingly favored his opponent, ex-Confederate Wade Hampton III.

Education in Jersey

In the 1590s, Laurens Baudains - a wealthy farmer from St. Martin, lobbied the monarch and the States of Jersey to support a scheme for the establishment of a college.

Flimbo's Quest

The game itself was developed by Laurens van der Donk in the Netherlands who was involved in the Demoscene being in both Boys Without Brains (BWB) and Hotline.

Godbald

This was shown by his involvement in the founding of the St. Laurens abbey near Oostbroek at De Bilt, which was the first monastery in the diocese to join the Cluniac movement.

Henry Laurens

General Lachlan McIntosh, who worked for Laurens as a clerk and became close friends with him, named Fort Laurens, in Ohio, after him.

During his imprisonment, Laurens was assisted by Richard Oswald, his former business partner and the principal owner of Bunce Island.

La morte d'Orfeo

La morte d'Orfeo Cyril Auvity, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse, van Elsacker, Guillon, Bucher, Akadêmia, conducted by Françoise Lasserre (Zig Zag Territoires, 2007)

Laurens Bake

Laurens studied in Utrecht from 1647, and later liked to be called lord of Wulverhorst, an estate near Utrecht his father had bought in 1671.

Laurens Bakker

Recently (late 2007), Laurens and the original members of Picture, with Ronald van Prooijen, teamed up for a reunion rehearsal.

As of mid-2008, a permanent lineup was established with Laurens, Rinus Vreugdenhil, Jan Bechtum, Rob vanEnkhuizen, and Pete Lovell.

Parenthetical referencing

According to an 1896 paper by Charles Sedgwick Minot of the Harvard Medical School, the origin of the author-date style is attributed to a paper by Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey professor of anatomy and director of the zoological laboratory at Harvard University, who may have copied it from the cataloguing system used then and now by the library of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Regency novel

Well-known authors include: Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Nancy Butler, Marion Chesney, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Stephanie Laurens, Sorcha MacMurrough, Amanda McCabe Barbara Metzger, Julia Quinn, and Joan Smith.

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Prior to this, the editor-in-chief was Laurens Molenkamp (University of Würzburg).

T-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding

t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) is a machine learning algorithm for dimensionality reduction developed by Laurens van der Maaten and Geoffrey Hinton.

UK Channel Boredom

"UK Channel Boredom" is a song by the rock band Manic Street Preachers that appeared as the second song on a 7" flexi-disc given away free with the March 1990 editions of two fanzines, Hopelessly Devoted and Goldmining. The first song on the disc was "I Wonder What the Trouble Is" by Burnley indie band The Laurens (Craig Latham, Tim Nixon, Jon Clarkson, Dan Connolly and Paul Deakin).

University of South Carolina System

USC Beaufort has a branch in Bluffton, USC Union has a branch in Laurens and USC Salkehatchie has its main campus in Allendale with a branch in Walterboro.


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