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Adélaïde Dufrénoy

The daughter of Jacques Billet, a jeweller for the Crown of Poland, she had a lavish education and learnt Latin to a proficient enough level that she was able to translate the works of Horace and Virgil.

Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

The first Marine to hold the billet as "Assistant to the Commandant" was Eli K. Cole (Allen H. Turnage being the last), while Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. was the first to hold it as the "Assistant Commandant".

Major General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. was the first to hold the billet and went on to become Commandant, as well as five others: Randolph M. Pate, Leonard F. Chapman, Jr., Robert H. Barrow, Paul X. Kelley and James F. Amos.

Battle of Graveney Marsh

When the London Irish Rifles arrived at the scene from their billet at the Sportsman Inn in nearby Seasalter, the four German crew members had unexpectedly armed themselves with machine guns from the aircraft and a submachine gun.

Billet reading

Hereward Carrington revealed the tricks of billet reading (with diagrams) that fraudulent mediums would use in his book The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism (1907).

Merrybent

There were 56 glasshouses owned by the Co-operative Society; the girls grew tomatoes, controlled the rats, and were billeted in Darlington.

Roger Goldammer

Roger Goldammer and his company Goldammer Cycle Works was most known for building futuristic custom bikes, for customers as well as billet frontends.

TS Empire State VI

In the fall of 2012, after Hurricane Sandy struck the New York - New Jersey area, the college offered the vessel to billet AmeriCorps - FEMA Corps and FEMA workers, from outside the region.

William B. Ault

On 5 August 1939, less than a month before the start of World War II in Poland, Ault assumed command of the Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Kansas City, Kansas, a billet in which he served into 1941.


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