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unusual facts about Louis J. Battan


NEXRAD

Atlas, David, Radar in Meteorology: Battan Memorial and 40th Anniversary Radar Meteorology Conference, published by the American Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990, 806 pages, ISBN 0-933876-86-6, AMS Code RADMET.


George Marston

Marston ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 1913 (against Charles F. O'Neall) and again in 1917 (against Louis J. Wilde).

Indiana State Road 162

The highway was designated the William A. Koch Memorial Highway in 2002 following the death of Bill Koch, who, along with his father, Louis J. Koch, was instrumental in creating the Holiday World & Splashin' Safari and the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

Louis J. Bader House and Garden

George Otten, a landscape engineer for the Oregon State Highway Commission, designed the property's formal garden, with paths of Italian marble, a sundial, a pergola, and a circular flower bed, among other features, at the rear of the house.

Louis J. Brann

Brann ran for the United States Senate in 1936.

Brann then ran for the other Maine Senate seat in 1940, against Republican Owen Brewster, but was again unsuccessful.

Louis J. Carpellotti

Carpellotti was born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.

Louis J. Gasnier

In 1933-34 Gasnier returned to France to direct for Paramount's French division, directing Topaze (1933) under the supervision of playwright Marcel Pagnol; this film marked the screen debut of eminent French stage actor Marcel Journet.

Georges Sadoul recognized Gasnier as a member of early French filmmakers known as the 'Vincennes School' which also included Gaston Velle, Georges Hatot, Lucien Nonguet, Lépine, Andre Heuré, Georges Monca and Albert Capellani.

Louis J. Nigro, Jr.

Prior to doing so, he received a PhD in Modern European History from Vanderbilt University, was a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow in Italy, taught modern European history at Stanford University, and served as an officer in the California Army National Guard.

Louis J. Roussel, Jr.

He married the former Lucy Cocchiarra (August 21, 1909–March 16, 2002), with whom he had two children, Charmaine Roussel Morel (born 1934) and Louis "Louie" Roussel III (born 1946).

Roberts Butte

Louis J. Roberts, United States Geological Survey (USGS) surveyor with this party, proposed the name "Flattop Mountain," but to avoid duplication the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named it for Roberts who was first to survey the feature.

Wait for Me

Wait for Me (film) (aka Esperáme), a 1933 musical drama by director Louis J. Gasnier


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