Armour was the single most influential factor in the development of firearms that revolutionised warfare.

Armour, motorised and aerial support was also naturally dependent on weather.

Armour of this type was introduced into India under the Mughals.

Mail Armour was introduced to the Middle East and Asia through the Romans and was adopted by the Sassanid Persians starting in the 3rd century CE, where it was supplemental to the scale and lamellar armours already used.

Mies settled in Chicago, Illinois where he was appointed head of the architecture school at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology ( later renamed Illinois Institute of Technology – IIT ).

In 2003, he was part of an advertising campaign for Armour hot dogs with MLB players Ken Griffey, Jr., Derek Jeter, and Sammy Sosa.

IIT was formed in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute of Technology ( founded in 1890 ) and Lewis Institute ( founded in 1895 ).

The Armour Institute of Technology was founded in 1890 with one million dollars from Philip Danforth Armour, Sr., a prominent Chicago meat packer and grain merchant.

After the sermon, Armour approached Gunsaulus and asked if he was serious about his claim.

In the late 1930s, the Board of Trustees at Armour was greatly expanded, with many Chicago industrialists and businessmen joining the board to increase funding and support the institute.

However, it was a proposal from Lewis's chairman Alex Bailey to Armour President Henry Townley Heald and Board Chair James Cunningham that would lead to the birth of IIT.

He was an early member of the Chicago Board of Trade, being associated with Armour, Dole & Co. in Chicago.

For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri.

Stockbridge was the birthplace of meatpacking industrialist Philip Danforth Armour and brother Herman Ossian Armour

In the early to mid twenty century, Armour Fertilizer was built in 1919, followed by Royster Fertilizer in 1927 and finally Smith-Douglas Fertilizer in 1946.

Armour was founded in 1885.

The city was named for Philip D. Armour, who was founder of Armour and Company, a meat packing company.

Contrary to popular belief, Armour was never home to a meat packing plant ; the town was so named because Mr. Armour was also the chairman of the railroad that went through Armour and donated a bell to the local congregational church.

* Peirson M. Hall, federal judge born in Armour

* Richard Armour, poet and author who wrote over sixty books, was born in San Pedro on July 25, 1906.

Armour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at Fettes College and the University of Edinburgh.

Reber was born and raised in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and graduated from Armour Institute of Technology ( now Illinois Institute of Technology ) in 1933 with a degree in electrical engineering.

She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago ( later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology ), and the University of Michigan.

* January 6 – Philip Armour, founder of Armour and Company meatpackers and subsidiary Armour Refrigerator Line refrigerator car operators ( born 1832 ).

He was born on November 11, 1863 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. and Malvina Ogden.

The year he was born, his father became a partner in the meatpacking firm of Plakington & Armour.

Armour was born in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.

In his book It All Started With Columbus, satirical writer Richard Armour stated that Lincoln had been born in three states and also " in two cabins-the original, and the reconstructed.

Emigrants did succeed, however, in spreading the concepts of the Bauhaus to other countries, including the “ New Bauhaus ” of Chicago: Mies decided to emigrate to the United States for the directorship of the School of Architecture at the Armour Institute ( now IIT ) in Chicago and to seek building commissions.

London / New York: Arms and Armour.

New York's financiers J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor, among others, pledged $ 15 million to finance the fair if Congress awarded it to New York, while Chicagoans Charles T. Yerkes, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Cyrus McCormick, offered to finance a Chicago fair.

Armour died in Larchmont, New York, and was cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, but is not interred there.

At the age of 19, Armour left New York with about 30 other people for California, joining the great California gold rush.

Nevertheless, the New York Times managed to emphasize in its reporting how greatly Armour “ cares for his labor ” without any sense of irony.

Armour and His Times, New York: D. Appelton-Century Company.

* “ Under Armour Applies Its Muscle to Shoes ” – The New York Times – 8 / 8 / 2011

* “ Under Armour Wants to Dress Athletic Young Women ” – The New York Times – 8 / 31 / 2010

* Oakeshott, R. Ewart ( 1996 ) The Archaeology of Weapons, Arms and Armour from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry ( New York: Dover Publications Inc .) ISBN 978-0-486-29288-5

He is listed as a contributor to the first edition of The New American Cyclopedia by way of writing articles on Archery, Armour, Austerlitz, Balaklava, St. Bartholomew Massacre, Carthage, Charles I & II of England, Charles XII of Sweden etc.

In 1967, after a two-year stint in the Army, Canemaker, with funds from acting assignments in TV commercials ( he appeared in over 35 advertisements for major products, most famously leading a line of " fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks " through Central Park for Armour hotdogs )— and appearing as a cast member of the 1972 WCBS-TV show Patchwork Family, in which he drew on a large sketching pad — he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Marymount Manhattan College in 1974 and Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University in 1976.

The Armour School at CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick, sustains and conducts armour advance qualifications, advanced armour leadership qualifications, basic armour officer requirements, and specialized qualifications on behalf of the Army.

Paepcke hired Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer and brought him to Aspen to promote the project through poster design and other design work ; Paepcke was also the patron of fellow Bauhaus figure László Moholy-Nagy by financing the re-birth of the American New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1939. The New Bauhaus also had links to the Armour Institute of Technology.