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3 unusual facts about Lenoir


János Csonka

He studied the Lenoir motor in Paris in 1874 and there he recognized the prospects of the internal combustion engine.

Lenoir, North Carolina

Mark Schwartz, Former Professional Soccer player, and college coach

Tony Crocker

He spent the majority of his prep school career battling an ankle injury, but finished the season averaging 15.2 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game for The Patterson School in Lenoir, North Carolina.


Aaron Wheeler

Wheeler attended Patapsco High School in Dundalk, Maryland, who he led to the 2005 Baltimore County championship title, and played three years of college soccer at Lenoir-Rhyne University before transferring to Towson University prior to his senior year.

Amy H. Sturgis

Sturgis lives in Granite Falls, North Carolina with her husband, Larry M. Hall, who is Provost at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

Delamare-Deboutteville

In addition, earlier experiments were made with IC-engined vehicles in Switzerland (de Rivaz), France (Lenoir), and Austria (Marcus).

Denis Lenoir

Denis Lenoir (born Paris, 1949) is a French cinematographer, whose credits include Uprising, The Clearing, and Thursday.

J. B. Lenoir

The 2003 documentary film The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the second instalment of Martin Scorsese's series The Blues, explored Lenoir's career, together with those of Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson.

Lenoir Cotton Mill

The Lenoir Cotton Mill site is located near the corner of Depot Street and South Hill Street, just off U.S. Route 11 in downtown Lenoir City.

Loudon County, Tennessee

The Lenoir City Company, established by Knoxville financiers Charles McClung McGhee and Edward J. Sanford, platted modern Lenoir City in the 1890s.

Noëlle Lenoir

She left her position at the GEE in 2001 to travel to the USA where she was a law teacher for several months at the Law university of Columbia, New York before joining the Paris Bar in June 2001, Noelle Lenoir is named in 2002 Minister of European Affairs by Prime Minister Raffarin.

Stephen A. LaRoque

He represented the state's 10th House district, including constituents in Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties.

Tommy Laurendine

Tommy Laurendine (born c. 1968) is the head coach of the Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee) college football team in Sewanee, Tennessee, and previously served as an offensive coordinator at Washington & Lee, West Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Lenoir–Rhyne and The Citadel.

Vesuvio Cafe

The bar was founded in 1948 by Henri Lenoir, and was frequented by a number of Beat Generation celebrities including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Neal Cassady, as well as other notable cultural figures such as Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan and Francis Ford Coppola.


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