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6 unusual facts about Paul E. Patton


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.

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.

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.

Paul Patton

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

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.


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 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.

Betty Jane Gorin-Smith

The closing, however, was completed as Miller, after thirty-three years in office, lost reelection in 1998 to Paul E. Osborne, a Campbellsville Realtor.

Blossom Kite Festival

The festival was founded in 1967 by aviation pioneer Paul E. Garber, also founder of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM).

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

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.

Jack Frye

William John "Jack" Frye (March 18, 1904, Sweetwater, Oklahoma – February 3, 1959) was an aviation pioneer, who with Paul E. Richter and Walter A. Hamilton, built TWA into a world class airline during his tenure as president from 1934-1947.

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.

Laurie L. Patton

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

Leningrad Codex

In 1935, the Leningrad Codex was lent to the Old Testament Seminar of the University of Leipzig for two years while Paul E. Kahle supervised its transcription for the Hebrew text of the third edition of Biblia Hebraica (BHK), published in Stuttgart, 1937.

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.

Passaic Formation

It is now named for the city of Passaic, New Jersey, which is near where its type section was described by paleontologist Paul E. Olsen.

Paul E. Garber Award

The Paul E. Garber Award is given to Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Senior Members who complete Level IV of the Senior Member Professional Development Program.

Paul E. Kerry

He then received an MA in political science jointly from Bowling Green State University and the University of Salzburg in 1991.

Paul E. Marek

With slight changes to the title and content, it has been regularly attributed incorrectly as the work of a number of different authors, such as William J. Haynes, II and Emanuel Tanay.

Paul E. Stein

Following graduation, Stein remained at the Academy to begin his career as an assistant coach for the Falcons.

Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

In 2009, the boxing scenes of the 2010 film The Fighter were shot here with Mark Wahlberg portraying Micky Ward, Lowell's own boxer who won a world championship, and Christian Bale portraying his brother Dicky Eklund.

The Devils ended their stay in Lowell due to financial difficulties and the arena's new ownership and has moved to Albany, NY to compete as the Albany Devils.

Paul E. Vallely

Force feeding of non-psychotic prisoners has been banned by the World Medical Association since 1975, listing it alongside torture as a form of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".

Paul E. Watson

By 1937 Watson's team had developed a proto-type "Search Light Control Radar" (SCR-270) apparatus and successfully demonstrated it to the Secretary of War at Fort Monmouth.

Paul Patton

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

Paul Stein

Paul E. Stein (1944–2002), superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy

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).

Remington Model 51

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

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.

Sephardi Hebrew

Kahle, Paul, Masoreten des Ostens: Die Altesten Punktierten Handschriften des Alten Testaments und der Targume: 1913, repr.

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.

Thomas McInerney

Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely, Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, Regnery Publishing, February 1, 2004 ISBN 0-89526-066-2

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.


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