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28 unusual facts about knight


Alfred Schneidereit

In November 1943 Schneidereit's Division was returned to the Eastern Front for the Battle of Kursk where he was wounded twice more and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st class and the Knight's Cross from Adolf Hitler.

Baron Hungerford

It was created on 7 January 1426 for Walter Hungerford, who was summoned to parliament, had been Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House and invested as Knight of the Order of the Garter before and was made Lord High Treasurer one year before he became a peer.

Camp Papago Park

In December 1944, twenty-five POWs escaped from Camp Papago Park into the surrounding desert, among them Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient Kapitänleutnant Hans-Werner Kraus.

Don Flora

Flora became the head coach on January 7, 2011, replacing Trish Kissiar-Knight.

Eduard von Grützner

In 1880, he was awarded the Order of Merit of St. Michael (Knight's Cross) first class.

Ella Leffland

The fascination with personal and social evil that Leffland explores in Rumors of Peace emerges powerfully in her ambitious historical novel based on the life of Hermann Göring, Knight, Death and the Devil, published in 1990.

Ernst König

He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.

Ernst Krag

He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves, awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.

Eva Coo

There, Eva allegedly hit him with a mallet and Martha ran over him with a car, a Willys-Knight.

François le Roux

He has been awarded the grade of "Chevalier" in the French National Order of Les Arts et Lettres in 1996, and chosen as "Musical Personality of the year 1997" by the French Critics Union.

Fritz Biermeier

Fritz Biermeier (19 May 1913 — 11 October 1944) was a Sturmbannführer (Storm Unit Leader/Major) in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves during World War II.

Fritz Vogt

Fritz Vogt (17 March 1918 – 3 April 1945) was a Sturmbannführer (Major) in the Waffen-SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves.

George Koltanowski

Koltanowski's most sensational chess entertainment was the ancient exercise known as the Knight's tour, in which a lone knight traverses an otherwise empty board visiting each square once only.

Gyorshadtest

1 March 1940 to 1 February 1942 - Major General Béla Miklós was the first commander of the "Rapid Corps." Miklós was awarded a German Knight's Cross on 4 December 1941.

Hugo Eichhorn

He was awarded the Knight's Cross in January 1943, while in command of a portion of the Pionier Battalion he held off an attack by a Soviet Regiment.

Knight's Cross

Knight's Cross (German language Ritterkreuz) refers to a distinguishing grade or level of various orders that denotes bravery and leadership on the battlefield.

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Consequently the last Knight's Cross awarded to Oberleutnant zur See of the Reserves Georg-Wolfgang Feller on 17 June 1945 must therefore be considered a de facto but not de jure award.

The Swords to the Knight's Cross were awarded 160 times according to the AKCR, among them the posthumous presentation to the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 13 of which cannot be supported by the German National Archives.

The deteriorating situation and the end of the war prevented its presentation to Dr. Karl Mauss, the 26th recipient and Dietrich von Saucken, the 27th and final recipient.

Knight's Spider Web Farm

He claims the original idea was based on ideas from the Girl Scout Manual.

Madge Kennedy

She owned a Willys-Knight Great Six which she drove avidly at the time she was touring in 1929 in the play, Lulu.

Otto Paetsch

Otto Paetsch (3 August 1909 – 16 March 1945) was a Standartenführer (Colonel) in the Waffen SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves during World War II.

Otto Ritter von Dandl

Ritter, as in the name Otto Ritter von Dandl, is not a name but a noble title, considered roughly equal to the title Knight or Baronet.

Otto Weddigen

He became one of only six non-Bavarians to receive the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, Bavaria's highest military honor.

Paul-Albert Kausch

Paul Albert Kausch (1911 – 2001) was an Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

SR50

Knight's Armament Company (KAC) SR-50, a .50 caliber semi-automatic sniper rifle designed by Eugene Stoner

Walter Bestmann

He participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa), in 1941 where he was awarded the Knight's Cross in September 1941 while in command of the 3rd SS Reconnaissance Battalion, SS Totenkopf.

Willys-Knight

Seven Willys-Knight vehicles including two large trucks and a touring car were used on the Martin and Osa Johnson photographic safari in the remotest areas of Africa.


1984–85 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team

Prior to the start of the season, Bobby Knight was the head coach of the US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

A Knight in London

A Knight in London (German: Eine Nacht in London) is a 1929 British-German silent drama film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Lilian Harvey, Ivy Duke and Robin Irvine.

Alexander Philadelpheus

He received numerous honors including, being named Knight of the Royal Order of the Saviour and Knight Commander of the Royal Order of George I, Knight Commander of the Bulgarian order of Saint Alexander, Knight Commander of the Order of the Rumanian Crown, Officer of the French Order of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau and Knight of the Spanish Order of Fealty.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Austin M. Knight

Born in Ware, Massachusetts to future American Civil War veteran Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter Knight, Austin Melvin Knight was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from Florida on June 30, 1869, graduating in 1873.

Bartholomew de Burghersh

Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh (died 1369), son of the above, English nobleman and soldier and Knight of the Garter

Battle of Płowce

On 27 September 1331, one-third of the Teutonic Order's force of knights under Dietrich von Altenburg left the blockaded peasant town of Płowce.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Drip Drop

The shooting personnel included the video director Rupert Wainwright, choreographer JaQuel Knight and stylist Tanya Gill.

Edmond de Burgh

Sir Edmund de Burgh, Irish knight and ancestor of the Burke family of Clanwilliam, 1298–1338.

Eyvind Hellstrøm

In 2007 Hellstrøm was awarded the Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Fewston

The poet Edward Fairfax lived at nearby New Hall, now submerged under the waters of Fewston Reservoir, as did the knight Ferdinando Fairfax.

Filadelfo Simi

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

French Grand Prix

Paul Ricard also had a driving school, the École de Pilotage Winfield, run by the Knight brothers and Simon Delatour, that honed the talents of people such as Alain Prost, Didier Pironi and Jacques Laffite.

Gene Kingsale

Was decorated with an Order of Orange-Nassau, in the grade Knight, in 2004 along with other major league players Calvin Maduro and Sidney Ponson in a ceremony in Oranjestad, Aruba.

Geoffroi de Charny

Geoffroi was a knight in the service of King Jean II of France and a founding member of the Order of the Star, an order of chivalry founded on 6 November 1351 by Jean II of France similar to the Order of the Garter (1347) by Edward III of England.

George Nayler

A year later, Nayler succeeded Heard as Garter and went on foreign missions to award the Garter to Frederick VI of Denmark in 1822, John VI of Portugal (who created Nayler a Knight Commander of the Order of the Tower and Sword) in 1823, Charles X of France in 1825 and Nicholas I of Russia in 1827.

GRES União da Ilha do Governador

In 2010, as the Task Force, came up with the story "Don Quixote the knight of impossible dreams," the carnival Rosa Magalhães, was overshadowed by just a few problems on the floats in front of the battery came queen battery Bruna Bruno, which is the front of the battery for years, along with Luciana Picorelli (current sponsor of the battery).

Hamstead Marshall

William Marshall who became Earl of Pembroke, was a loyal knight to three kings: Henry II, Richard I, and King John, and this is when the Marshall suffix was added to the village.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Hans Siegel

He was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery and leadership in Normandy, in the Caen sector at Le Mesnil-Patry and Cheux, when on 27 June his company destroyed 37 Allied tanks, 11 of which Siegel destroyed himself.

Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946 in Bergen, Norway) is an Norwegian actor, appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.

Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Henry was canon of the cathedral in Halberstadt, Knight of the Prussian Royal Order of the Black Eagle and a member of the Order of Saint John.

Henry Wikoff

He was friendly with the Bonaparte royal family in France, and was awarded the honor of Knight Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, by the King of Spain in 1871, which gave him the title of "Chevalier".

John Swift

John E. Swift, American judge and the ninth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus

Juan Francisco Pimentel, 7th Duke of Benavente

He is wearing the collar of a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, awarded 1648, number 421, hence, it was painted by Diego Velázquez before his second trip to purchase paints for King Philip IV in Italy.

Khawaja Nazimuddin

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1926, and was knighted in 1934 by the King-Emperor, George V, when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE).

Knucker

Legend says that after marrying the princess, the knight settled in Lyminster and his gravestone, the Slayer's Slab, can be seen in Lyminster church.

Lueger

Erazem Lueger, Slovenian knight of Predjama Castle in the 15th century

Marquess of Downshire

Sir Moyses Hill, knight (died February 1630) came to Ireland as a soldier under the Earl of Essex.

MOTS

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith, an expansion pack for the first-person shooter Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Nick Knight

Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.

Norm Ellenberger

Ellenberger can be seen briefly in the 1994 movie, Blue Chips, squatting in a timeout huddle next to Bobby Knight.

Paolo da San Leocadio

His other works include a Virgin of the Grace in the church of San Miguel at Enguera (province of Valencia), a St. Michael in the Diocesan Museum of Valencia, the Virgin of the Knight of Montesa in the Museo del Prado of Madrid and the Holy Conversation in the National Gallery, London.

Pierre Kaan

On 12 May 1948, the official journal of the French Government announced that Kaan had been posthumously decorated with Knight of the Legion of Honour, Medal of the Resistance with Rosette, War Cross with silver palm.

Pike and shot

By the end of the fifteenth century, those late-medieval troop types that had proven most successful in the Hundred Years' War and Burgundian Wars dominated warfare, especially the heavily armoured gendarme (a professional version of the medieval knight), the Swiss and Landsknecht mercenary pikeman, and the emerging artillery corps of heavy cannons, which were rapidly improving in technological sophistication.

Reginald Stourton

Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (born 1434) was an English knight.

Robert Lorimer

He received a knighthood for his efforts and went on to gain the commission for the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle in 1919, subsequently opened by the Prince of Wales in 1927.

Rudolf Saalbach

Saalbach was awarded the Knight's Cross for his bravery and leadership between 12 and 19 March 1944, in Hungerburg and also promoted to Sturmbannführer.

Ryan's Fancy

Ryan's Fancy Live (Compact Disc Reissue of "An Irish Night at the Black Knight Lounge" and "15 Drink-a-Long Songs") (1995)

Soulanges Canal

The Soulanges Canal was named after the Soulanges Seigneury which was granted in 1702 by Governor Louis-Hector de Callière to Pierre-Jacques de Joybert, Knight and Lord of Soulanges.

St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street

He lists a number of important Londoners who had been buried in the church, including Sir William Cantilo, knight and Mercer (died 1462) and several Lord Mayors of London: John Olney (Mayor in 1446, died 1475), Sir John Browne (mayor in 1480; d. 1497), Sir William Browne (Mayor in 1513, died during his term of office), Sir Thomas Exmewe (Mayor in 1517, d. 1528), and Thomas Skinner (Mayor in 1596).

The Blue Knight

Greg Valentine or "The Blue Knight", American professional wrestler

University of Florida Division of Continuing Education

The former dean of the Division of Continuing Education, Dr. James W. Knight, retired in 2008, and the former associate dean, Dr. Eileen I. Oliver, is now the current interim dean.

Xak III: The Eternal Recurrence

Yaksha Knight, a mysterious leader of a group known as the Storm Mercenaries.