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unusual facts about Laurie L. Patton


Laurie L. Patton

Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita in the Penguin Classics Series follows a free verse style constrained by eight line stanzas.


1943 in organized crime

As General Patton's Third Division moved onward the signs of its dependence on Mafia support were obvious to the local population.

1997 Benton, Arkansas tornado outbreak

Then-governor Paul E. Patton had initially declared 120 counties a state of emergency and deployed about 1100 National Guard Troops to the flood stricken-regions.

Adam Clarke Snydor

In 1882 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of West Virginia to complete the term of Justice James F. Patton, who died in office.

Bastogne

Bastogne is also where ends the Liberty Road (France) which marks the victorious route of the Allied forces and of George S. Patton's Third Army.

Battle of Opequon

His grandson and namesake would become the famous U.S. general of World War II, George S. Patton, Jr.

Battle of Saint-Mihiel

As a result, by September 1918, Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions - 144 French-built Renault FT light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th battalions of the United States Tank Corps - at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient.

Battle of Scary Creek

Captain George S. Patton, the grandfather of the famous George S. Patton of World War II, commanded the Confederate line behind Scary Creek, several miles from the main Confederate camp.

Chester A. Dolan, Jr.

On November 8, Dolan and his outfit participated in the first Allied invasion of Casablanca along with General George S. Patton's Western Tank Force.

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945

Several American officers received the award, such as George S. Patton, and the decoration was also bestowed to national heroes, such as the men who had assassinated Reinhard Heydrich.

François Zourabichvili

A year after Zourabichvili's death both Collège international de philosophie and École normale supérieure organized a colloquium upon Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili ("The physics of the thinking according to François Zourabichvili") led by Bruno Clément and Frédéric Worms, and counted with the participation of Pierre Macherey, Pierre-François Moreau, Pierre Zaoui, Paola Marrati, Paul R. Patton, Paolo Godani and Marie-France Badie.

Hamm, Luxembourg

It is the home of the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, the final resting place of 5,076 American servicemen, including General Patton.

Hans Cramer

During his repatriation journey, he was allowed to see Montgomery's 21st Army Group preparing for the invasion of Europe, but was told he was in Kent, where Patton's mythical 1st U.S. Army Group was preparing for its invasion.

Harbor City, Los Angeles

George S. Patton Continuation School, LAUSD, 24514 South Western Avenue

Harold W. Rood

Rood was an infantryman in George S. Patton's Third Army in World War II and took part in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns.

Honey Craven

Before and during his horse-show jobs, he worked in Boston, Massachusetts for the London Harness Shop, selling saddles to Gen. George S. Patton and playing coachman for the Vanderbilts and other society families.

Israel Tal

Israel Tal's picture appears in the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with compatriot Moshe Peled, Americans George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

James Garrard

Because of term limits imposed by the state constitution adopted in 1799, he was the last Kentucky governor elected to two consecutive terms until the restriction was eased by a 1992 amendment, allowing Paul E. Patton's re-election in 1999.

James Wendell

A teammate of his on the 1912 Olympic Team, General George S. Patton, later sent his son to The Hill while Wendell was headmaster.

John K. Waters

Waters, who had married General George S. Patton's daughter Beatrice in 1934, was one of many officers interned at Hammelburg.

Joseph Bast

He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Paul E. Patton in 1996, elected a member of the Philadelphia Society in 2002, and elected to the board of directors of the American Conservative Union in 2007.

Lee Sexton

In 1999 Kentucky governor Paul Patton presented Lee with the Governor's Award in the Arts.

Loren L. Ryder

During World War II, General George S. Patton called upon Ryder's audio expertise to help disguise the sounds of American tanks at the Battle of the Bulge.

Luke Patten

An Illawarra junior, Patten acquired the nickname General because of his surname's similarity to that of General Patton.

M47 Patton

The M47 Patton is an American tank, the second tank to be named after General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army during World War II and one of the earliest American advocates of tanks in battle.

Order of the White Lion

Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton are two Americans who received the Order of the White Lion after the close of World War II.

Otto von Knobelsdorff

During the war, he was defeated by American forces under General George S. Patton at the Battle of Metz.

Paul Patton

Paul E. Patton (born 1937), governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky, 1995–2003

Paul R. Patton (born 1950), professor of philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Paul R. Patton

Patton received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Sydney, and, in 1979, received a Doctorat D'Universite from Paris VIII (Vincennes).

Peover Hall

During the Second World War the house was requisitioned and used by General George Patton and his staff.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Oflag IX-C was freed by the Americans of the Third Army (General George S. Patton).

Ralph W. Beiting

Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn recognized Father Beiting as an outstanding Kentuckian in 1969, and he was honored in 1996 by Governor Paul Patton for his work in economic development.

Remington Model 51

General George S. Patton owned a Remington 51 and was thought to favor the weapon.

Robert M. Patton

Patton worked closely with the assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, General Wager Swayne.

Rodney Jenkins

Jenkins rode for such owners as General George S. Patton’s niece and sarsaparilla heiress, Theodora Ayer Randolph (Mrs. A.C. Randolph) of Middleburg, Va.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, by General George S. Patton, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration.

Scy-Chazelles

On November 21, 1944, Scy-Chazelles was liberated by General George S. Patton's Third Army.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

Wager Swayne

Robert M. Patton remained the nominal governor during this period but as the local army commander, Swayne controlled the State government.

War Leaders: Clash of Nations

In Kill the General mode, a General (George S. Patton for the US, Bernard Law Montgomery for the UK, Erwin Rommel for Germany, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque for France, Georgi Zhukov for the USSR, Tomoyuki Yamashita for Japan, and Giovanni Messe for Italy) is pre-set, while other units are chosen by the player.


see also

Rethinking Religion in India

Contributors are S.N. Balagangadhara, Sarah Claerhout, Jakob De Roover, Timothy Fitzgerald, Richard King, David N. Lorenzen, Geoffrey A. Oddie, Laurie L. Patton, Sharada Sugirtharajah, and John Zavos.