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4 unusual facts about Lysander


Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery

He translated Plutarch's life of Lysander, and published an edition of the epistles of Phalaris, which engaged him in the famous controversy with Bentley.

Erskine Leigh Capreol

While on loan from Noorduyn, he also tested the first Lysander aircraft built at National Steel Car, Malton, Ontario and was involved with the first flight of the North American Yale trainer.

Lee Hongki

Hongki later played the role of Lysander in a Korean musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream where he showed and excelled in his hidden skills in singing, acting and dancing.

Matt Barber

He is best known for his roles as Freddie Eynsford-Hill in Peter Hall's Pygmalion at the Old Vic and internationally and Lysander in Jonathan Kent's The Fairy-Queen at Glyndebourne.


Alypus

His age may be fixed from his having executed bronze statues of some Spartans who shared in the victory of Lysander at Aegospotami around 405 BC.

Battle of Aegospotami

One of Lysander's advantages as a commander was his close relationship with the Persian prince Cyrus.

Jean Savy

On the 19/20 July 1943 Savy and Antelme, both now hunted, were expatriated from France by Lysander operation near Tour (Tours?).

Lise de Baissac

Once her leg healed, she returned to France (dropped by Lysander near Villers-les-Ormes on the night of 9/10 April 1944) to work for the PIMENTO network, headed by Anthony Brooks, under the new codename Marguerite.

New York State Route 631

The route heads northeastward through a residential section of town of Lysander, paralleling the Baldwinsville village line to an intersection with NY 31 across from an Anheuser-Busch brewery.

RAF Firbeck

A short time after this on 19 July 1941 No. 2 Squadron RAF moved in from RAF Sawbridgeworth flying the Lysander II for four days before moving back to Sawbridgeworth.


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