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Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano

They ran back together to stop any bloodshed, only to find out that the Legion has already marched up on the Argo II crew, but they manage to escape safely.


Alcide Segoni

In 1874, he completed a large canvas of Death of Filippo Strozzi, afterwards he painted a Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna; Il Maresciallo d'Anere at the Court of the Regent Queen Maria; and Napoleon I awards a dragoon the Legion of Honor.

Ambiorix's revolt

To the Eburones he sent Quintus Titurius Sabinus and Lucius Aurunculeius Cotta with the command of a recently levied legion from north of the Po and a detachment of five cohorts.

Babe Ruetz

In June 1922 George traveled to Canton, Ohio and made a $100.00 payment to secure the Legion franchise in the newly formed NFL.

Battalion Wars

The Frontier Forces eventually cut a swathe through both forces, quickly find the Cenotaph (the massive structure that awoke the Legion) and destroy it.

Battle of Albarracín

The rebel forces, composed largely of units of the Legion and Moroccan Regulars, began their advance on the roads penetrating the Sierra de Albarracín Comarca.

Battle of Bir Hakeim

Erwan Bergot, La Légion au combat, Narvik, Bir-Hakeim, Dièn Bièn Phu, Presses de la Cité, 1975

Bowling on NBC

When it returned on September 19, 1960, a retooled version hit the airwaves; the series not only moved to Monday nights at 10:30, but Bayuk Cigars replaced Phillies Cigars as sponsor, the Hollywood Legion Lanes replaced Wayne, New Jersey's T-Bowl as the show's venue, and Milton Berle took over as host.

Bransty

Bransty has a Royal British Legion club which in 2006 was the first in the UK to be revamped as a New British Legion Club.

Brigade de la Légion Rey Alfonso XIII

The Legion Brigade "King Alfonso XIII" (BILREG) is a regiment of the Spanish Legion comprising 2 tercios with elements in Viator (Almeria) and Ronda (Malaga)

Charles R. Fenwick

Throughout his life, Fenwick was a member of the American Bar Association, the Freemasons, the Shriners, the Elks Club, the Moose Lodge, the American Legion, the Rotary Club and the Farm Bureau.

Christopher Egan

Egan is set to star in Dominion, the upcoming Syfy supernatural action drama pilot based on characters from the 2010 feature Legion that starred Paul Bettany.

Cladotheria

Cladotheria is a group (legion) of mammals that is defined as including the ancestor of Dryolestoidea, Peramuridae and Zatheria (living Therians plus all of its descendants).

Coat of arms of Drobeta-Turnu Severin

Lion recalls, on the one hand, the old insignia of the Roman legions, and on the other hand, that once Severin belonged to the Banat of Oltenia.

Czechoslovak Legion

Mohr, Joan McGuire, The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia from 1917 to 1922.

Daniel Defoe

In 1701 Defoe, flanked by a guard of sixteen gentlemen of quality, presented the Legion's Memorial to the Speaker of the House of Commons, later his employer, Robert Harley.

David Edward

Sir David was awarded the Distinguished Cross, first class, Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort (Spain) in 1979, Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort, Cruz Distinguida (Primera Clase), and in 2012 the Republic of France appointed him as an Officer of the Legion of Honour (Officier de la Legion d’Honneur) and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Eden Corn Festival

The festival would be held on the grounds of the Newell Faulkner Post of the American Legion on Legion Drive and Route 62, and the committees received help from the American Legion and the Eden School District, who allowed the use of the parking lots on the school grounds and use of their athletic fields.

Eleuterio Pagliano

He was made an official in the Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight of the Order of Saints Maurizio e Lazzaro, knighted by King Leopold of Belgium, and knighted with the Legion d'Onore, and as a Commendatore of the Order of the Medjidie by the Ottoman rulers of Egypt.

Franz Augsberger

Franz Augsberger served with the Austrian Legion from April 1932 to October 1933 when he left the Legion's base at Lechfeld, South of Augsburg, and transferred to a training area near Dachau, and was subsequently promoted to SS-Unterscharführer (Junior Squad Leader) on 20 April 1934, and to SS-Oberscharführer (Senior Squad Leader) on 1 June 1934.

Garth Ranzz

Lightning Lad, along with Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl, appeared in live-action for the first time in the eleventh episode of season 8 of the CW series Smallville, entitled Legion airing January 15, 2009 portrayed by actor Calum Worthy.

George G. Blackburn

George Gideon Blackburn, CM, MC (February 13, 1917 – November 15, 2006) was a decorated Canadian veteran of World War II (Military Cross; French Legion of Honour), a playwright, and award winning author.

Gloria Foy

The phrase was uttered at a Legion banquet which convened at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, in October 1923.

Ground Zero: In Your House

Legion of Doom were the first to be eliminated after being disqualified for attacking The Godwinns with their own slop bucket.

John R. Perry

He was awarded a second Legion of Merit for the development of the Leyte-Samar area into a large naval base and assisting in the planning and construction of an air station, air strips, a fleet hospital, the Navy Receiving Station at Tubabao, a Navy Supply Depot, an ammunition depot and a ship repair base at Manicani.

Kirt Niedrigh

Earth-Man gathered a group of fellow Earth-born Legion rejects, (Tusker, Radiation Roy, Eyeful Ethel, Storm Boy, Golden Boy and Spider Girl) and formed the Justice League of Earth, a group purporting to uphold Superman's ideals.

Legio IV Scythica

The legion disappears from the sources after AD219, when their commander, Gellius Maximus, rebelled against Emperor Elagabalus and proclaimed himself emperor, only to be defeated by Elagabalus.

Legio X Gemina

In 45 BC Caesar disbanded the legion, giving the veterans farmlands near Narbonne in Gaul and in Hispania.

Legio XIV Gemina

Some subunits of Fourteenth fought in the wars against the Mauri, under Antoninus Pius, and the legion participated to the Parthian campaign of Emperor Lucius Verus.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix

Legio XX Valeria Victrix lends its name to the character Valeria Matuchek in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos and its sequel Operation Luna; her mother is said to describe this legion as the last to leave Britain -- "the last that stood against Chaos."

Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century

Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century is a DC Comics comic book based on the Warner Bros. Animation-produced TV series Legion of Super-Heroes airing since fall 2006 on The CW, which in turn is based on the original DC super-team of the same name appearing in various DC titles since 1958.

Legion of the United States

The Legion of the United States was a reorganization and extension of the United States Army from 1792 to 1796 under the command of Major General Anthony Wayne.

Legion of the Unliving

The second version of the Legion is featured in an Avengers annual, in which the Elder of the Universe the Grandmaster, usurps the power of the entity Death.

Legionnaires 3

Obsessed with defeating the Legion, the Trapper observes the moment in time that gave birth to the team: the attempted assassination of billionaire R. J. Brande, which is foiled by Rokk Krinn (Cosmic Boy), Imra Ardeen (Saturn Girl) and Garth Ranzz (Lightning Lad).

Mangkunegara II

At the time of Raffles ruled Java replaced Janssens, Sultanate Yogyakarta threatened dibubarkan.Campur Mangkunegaran hands with Legion Mangkunegaran successfulto prevent the dissolution of the Sultanate with the completion of the founding of the Duchy Paku Alaman.

Mariano Montilla

In 1820, in Margarita, he took command of the Irish Legion which had newly arrived under the leadership of William Aylmer and Francis O'Connor.

Matt Urban

On July 18, 1980, he was presented the Bronze Star Medal (second oak leaf cluster), the Legion of Merit, and the Purple Heart (sixth oak leaf cluster) by the US Army and the Croix de guerre with silver-gilt star by a representative from France during a special ceremony at the Pentagon.

Orteig Prize

Stanton Hall Wooster, are killed when their Keystone Pathfinder, American Legion, fails to gain altitude during a test flight at Langley Field, Virginia, about a week before they expected to attempt the New York to Paris flight.

Ostlegionen

The battalions of the Turkistani Legion formed part of the 162nd Infantry Division and saw much action in Yugoslavia and Italy.

Phillips' Legion

The Legion fought in the Gettysburg Campaign and was mentioned in Brigadier General Wade Hampton's report to the Assistant Adjutant-General, dated August 13, 1863, as having helped repulse a July 2 Union attack between Hunterstown and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Quest for Glory III: Wages of War

It is also possible to randomly meet Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the savannah, as French Foreign Legion soldiers.

Redones

After the bloody fight on the Sambre (57 BCE) Julius Caesar sent Publius Licinius Crassus with a single legion into the country of the Veneti, Redones, and other Celtic tribes between the Seine River and the Loire, all of whom submitted.

Renegade Legion

Renegade Legions Leviathan module was used as the base for FASA's Battletech new aerospace rules known at the time as BattleSpace.

Robert Thomas Wilson

He installed half of his 1,200 Lusitanian Legion in the fortress of Almeida and arranged the rest in a thin screen.

Sims Legion Park

Such greats to call Sim Legion Park home : Andy Van Slyke (Cardinals, Pirates), Sammy Sosa (Rangers, White Sox, Cubs, Orioles), Juan González (Rangers, Tigers, Indians, Royals), Iván Rodríguez (Rangers, Marlins, Tigers), and former Major Leaguer Tug McGraw (Mets, Phillies) pitched one game for the Rangers in 1989.

Stan Stammers

During their two year existence Theatre of Hate released a number of singles and albums, most notably "Legion" the b-side to the first single "Original Sin", the Westworld album which was produced by Mick Jones of The Clash, and the "Westworld" single which went into no. 40 of the UK charts, qualifying the band for an appearance on Top of the Pops.

Virgil A. Richard

Richard was an Officer of the Association of the United States Army chapters in Alaska and Indiana, Commander of the Harker Heights, Texas American Legion Post and Assistant State Treasurer of the Texas Department of the American Legion.

War of the Spider Queen

He is the leader of the Scoured Legion, an army of Tanarukks and half-fiends stationed at Hellgate Keep.

William Galbraith

William E. Galbraith (born 1922), National Commander of the American Legion


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