* Mel Gibson lived in the hamlet of Mount Vision and attended Laurens Central School before moving to Australia when he was a child.

* March 11, 1908: Boston, Massachusetts Elizabeth Bailey Hardee was shot to death by Sarah Chamberlain Weed at the Laurens School, a finishing school in Boston.

The Laurens County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of four elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools.

* East Laurens Elementary School

* East Laurens Primary School

* East Laurens High School

* West Laurens High School

Northwest Laurens Elementary School is located in Dudley.

Born in Laurens District, South Carolina, in 1823, he was educated at South Carolina College ( later the University of South Carolina ), completing his studies in 1843, and spent one term at Harvard Law School.

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company.

1440 ), or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem.

He is said to have printed several books including Speculum Humanae Salvationis with several assistants including the letter cutter Johann Fust, and it was this letter cutter Fust ( often spelled Faust ) who, when Laurens was nearing death, broke his promise of secrecy and stole his presses and type and took them to Mainz where he started his own printing company.

Tadema is an old Frisian patronymic ( meaning ' Adam-son ', the suffix ma being ' son of '), while the names Laurens and Alma came from his godfather.

* 1781-Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Thomas Jefferson named to assist Adams in peace negotiations ; the Congress of the Confederation insists on independence ; all else is negotiable

On the left the statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster can be seen, on the right is the Vleeshal.

Laurens County is a county located in the U. S. state of South Carolina.

Its county seat is Laurens.

Laurens County District 55 covers what is generally the northeastern half of the county while District 56 covers the southwestern half.

Laurens County is a county located in the U. S. state of Georgia, and was founded on December 10, 1807.

Laurens County is part of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The county is part of the Dublin Judicial Circuit along with Twiggs County, Treutlen County, and Laurens County.

Cadwell is a town in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

Dexter is a town in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

Dublin is a city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

The city is the county seat of Laurens County.

Dublin is the principal city of the Dublin Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Johnson and Laurens counties and had a combined population of 53, 434 at the 2000 census.

* Dublin and Laurens County's America's Junior Miss Pageant is a scholarship competition held yearly for high school juniors.

The town, along with a reference to the Oconee river and Laurens County, is mentioned in the opening paragraph of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: " nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselves to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time.

Dudley is a city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

Located off of highway 338, Northwood Trail is just minutes away from the elementary school, making it one of the more desirable locations in Laurens county for families with young children.

East Dublin is a city in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

Montrose is a town in Laurens County, Georgia, United States.

He studied under renowned artists such as Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.

They lived in Laurens, South Carolina for two years, where Andrew found work as a tailor.

About 30 years later American engineer and inventor Laurens Hammond filed U. S. Patent 1, 956, 350 for a new type of " electrical musical instrument " that could recreate a pipe organ-type sound.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

Laurens would later adopt the more English Lawrence for his forename, and incorporate Alma into his surname so that he appeared at the beginning of exhibition catalogues, under " A " rather than under " T ".

But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts.

In this he was assisted by a Dutch captain, Laurens Heemskerck, who had fled to England after having been condemned to death for cowardice shown during the Battle of Lowestoft.

Paul Revere was descended from Huguenot refugees, as was Henry Laurens, who signed the Declaration of Independence for South Carolina ; Jack Jouett, who made the ride from Cuckoo Tavern to warn Thomas Jefferson and others that Tarleton and his men were on their way to arrest him for crimes against the king ; Francis Marion, and a number of other leaders of the American Revolution and later statesmen.

The county was named for Colonel John Laurens, a soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.

Laurens was the town chosen for a makeover in the second season of Town Haul.

Another notable employer in the town is Laurens Patisseries, part of the food group Bakkavör since May 2006 when bought for £ 130m, claims to be the largest cream cake manufacturer in Europe employing over 1000 people.

The raiding party responsible for the Cherry Valley Massacre also pillaged part of Laurens and burned some property.

As the British stepped up operations in the South, Laurens promoted the idea of arming slaves and granting them freedom in return for their service.

Laurens was reported to have told the French that without aid for the Revolution, the Americans might be forced by the British to fight against France.

Young Laurens was the principal spokesman for negotiating General Cornwallis's surrender.

When exchanged for General Cornwallis in late 1781, the senior Laurens proceeded to the Netherlands to continue loan negotiations.

The credit for obtaining the critical loans in 1781 and 1782, and first " organizing " the Bank of North America for approval by Congress in December 1781 should certainly include Henry or John Laurens and Thomas Paine.

Other genera with the same name have been rejected for nomenclatural purposes ; these were published by Laurens Theodorus Gronovius ( 1764 ) and Friedrich Christian Meuschen ( 1778 and 1781 ).