( This is a Kearny Air Pump, or KAP, named after the inventor, Cresson Kearny )

Cresson is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburgh.

Cresson is an elevated place known for its beauty.

It is most commonly listed as part of the Johnstown Metropolitan Statistical Area, although state and local sources list it as part of the Altoona area as an Altoona suburb due to being much closer to Altoona and as a result, eastern Cambria county, including Cresson, is often more marketed to by Altoona businesses than by Johnstown businesses for services and jobs.

Cresson is located at ( 40. 462631 ,-78. 586319 ), about 10. 5 miles west-southwest of Altoona.

Cresson Township is a township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States which geographically contains Cresson Borough.

Cresson Township contains Cresson Borough and is about 9 miles WSW of Altoona, Pennsylvania and 4 miles north of Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.

So far, Édith Cresson is the only woman to have ever held the position of prime minister.

* The only women who was appointed at the head of government is Edith Cresson, Prime minister from 1991 to 1992.

Édith Cresson (; born Édith Campion ; 27 January 1934 ) is a French politician.

Cresson is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an International network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development.

Cresson is married and has two daughters.

The creation of OLAF is one result of the debates about allegations of fraud and the conduct of former European Commissioner Édith Cresson which in the end led to the collective resignation of the Santer Commission.

This is in part because the allegations centred on Édith Cresson and Manuel Marín, both from the Socialist party ( PES ).

* Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187 in what now is Israel, near Nazareth

In December 1832, the Port Cresson colony was founded in what is now Buchanan, by black Quakers of the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies ..

( This is a Kearny Air Pump, or KAP, named after the inventor Cresson Kearny.

It largely cleared most members, aside from Cresson, but concluded that there was growing reluctance of the Commissioners to acknowledge responsibility and that " It was becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who had the slightest sense of responsibility.

While the breach of the obligations arising from the office of Member of the Commission calls, in principle, for the imposition of a penalty, the Court held that, having regard to the circumstances of the case, the finding of breach constituted, of itself, an appropriate penalty and, accordingly, decided not to impose on Cresson a penalty in the form of a deprivation of her right to a pension or other benefits.

HECJF alumni include, for example, Édith Cresson, the first and to date the only woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France.

Lederman also received the National Medal of Science ( 1965 ), the Elliott Cresson Medal for Physics ( 1976 ), the Wolf Prize for Physics ( 1982 ) and the Enrico Fermi Award ( 1992 ).

The original work by Sagan and others was criticized as a " myth " and " discredited theory " in the 1987 book Nuclear War Survival Skills, a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Formerly named Cresson for a borough in Pennsylvania, it was renamed later for two Union Pacific Railroad workers named Palmer and Coe.

Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, President of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad and chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.

Jenkins was awarded the prestigious Elliott Cresson Gold Medal for scientific achievement in 1897 and the Scott Medal in 1913 by the Franklin Institute & Science Museum-Philadelphia.

The Lemon House, a tavern located alongside the railroad near Cresson that was a popular stop for railroad passengers, has been converted into a historical museum by the National Park Service.

In 1895 The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, US, awarded Lester Pelton the Elliott Cresson Medal — now renamed the Benjamin Franklin Medal — for his accomplishments of invention in technology.

Paris refused to recall Cresson, who refused to resign of her own accord, which sparked the need for a mass resignation.

Commission official Paul van Buitenen accused Cresson of having employed her friend and dentist for eight months as a special advisor on the Environment, at a cost of £ 30, 000.

For his achievements, Lowe received the coveted Elliott Cresson Medal for the Invention Held to be Most Useful to Mankind.

Marin was one in a field of four candidates for two Vice-President posts, and was elected behind Leon Brittan, defeating Édith Cresson and Martin Bangemann.

The plans for this meter were published in Appendix C of Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny from research performed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Balian and his retinue remained behind for a day at Nablus during the voyage to Tripoli ; the rest were ambushed at the Battle of Cresson on May 1.

In 1871, at the 40th Exhibition of the American Institute of the City of New York, he was awarded the institute's Great Medal of Honor for his invention ; shortly after, he was also awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal by the Franklin Institute.

His whistleblowing on 9 December 1998 indirectly led to the resignation of the Commission presided by Jacques Santer ( who has also been prime minister of Luxembourg ) and the fall of Edith Cresson.

On 15 March 1999, together with all the Santer Commission, she resigned due to the accusations of fraud and mismanagement against commissioner Edith Cresson.

The formation, however, of the British African Colonization Society by Cresson had Hodgkin's support, and he found himself isolated from natural allies who were Quakers or physicians.

Within a week Lowe was invited to Philadelphia by Prof. John C. Cresson of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Sciences, who also happened to be Chairman of the Board of the Point Breeze Gas Works.

The emigrants named the settlement in honor of Elliott Cresson, a Philadelphia merchant and Pennsylvania Colonization Society founder who funded their voyage to Liberia.

Cresson was found guilty of not reporting failures in a youth training programme from which vast sums went missing.

" Édith Cresson went before the European Court of Justice and, in July 2006, was found guilty but was not stripped of her pension.