His father died when Laurens was four, leaving his mother with five children: Laurens, his sister, and three boys from his father ’ s first marriage.

* Laurens van der Post, owned a nearby farm in the 1930s, died 1996

By the time Laurens Hammond died, there were over thirty one manufacturers of electric or electronic organs.

* Laurens Jacobsz Alteras ( died 1622 ), Dutch vice admiral

Laurens died in Omura prison on 29 December 1631.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

* A Far Off Place, film, starring Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Randall, based on the books A Story Like the Wind and A Far Off Place by Laurens Van Der Post

Statue of Laurens Janszoon Coster on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, where he was born.

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.

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.

Most Patriots went into exile in France, while the Ancien Régime strengthened its grip on the government through the Orangist Grand Pensionary Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel.

* 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.

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.

* Joanna Laurens wrote a play called The Three Birds based on the story.

Pulaski County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 13, 1808 from a portion of Laurens County.

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

Laurens County was formed on December 10, 1807, from portions of Wilkinson County and Washington County.

* Kyle Dinkheller, a deputy with the Laurens County Sheriff's Office who was shot to death on January 12, 1998, during a traffic stop in Dudley

Jozef Maria Laurens Theo Cals was born in Roermond on July 18, 1914.

More importantly, much was made of a draft treaty of commerce, secretly negotiated between the Amsterdam banker Jean de Neufville and the American agent in Aix-la-Chapelle, William Lee, with the connivance of the Amsterdam pensionary Van Berckel, and found among the effects of Henry Laurens, an American diplomat who had been apprehended by the British cruiser HMS Vestal in September, 1780, on the high seas.

" ( Joyce explained in a letter: " Dublin, Laurens Co, Georgia, founded by a Dubliner, Peter Sawyer, on r. Oconee.

Clinton is also home to the Laurens County Community Access Channel, ACCESS 15, a Public, educational, and government access ( PEG ) cable tv channel which broadcasts news, sports, and shows of local interest on Charter Cable channel 15.

* Information on Town of Cross Hill from Laurens County

The Laurens City Hall is located on the town square.

Irmo was chartered on Christmas Eve in 1890 in response to the opening of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad.

Negotiations began on October 18 between Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dundas and Major Alexander Ross ( who represented the British ) and Lieutenant Colonel Laurens ( who represented the Americans ) and the Marquis de Noailles ( who represented the French ).

Dessert Company on Brunel Drive closed in March 2000 with the loss of 700 jobs when Laurens received the Tesco order which they had supplied.

< tr >< td > Deputy Prime Minister, < BR > Minister of Economic Affairs ( D66 )< td > Laurens Jan Brinkhorst ( resigned on 30 June 2006 ); Gerrit Zalm ( ad interim )

The Oneonta and Mohawk Trolley route passed through Laurens, the first car reaching Laurens from Oneonta on July 4, 1901.

John Laurens ( October 28, 1754 – August 27, 1782 ) was an American soldier and statesman from South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.

In an August 20, 1778 letter to Henry Laurens, the President of the Continental Congress, McKinly wrote:

A treaty of amity and commerce was however concluded with the Americans in October, 1782, after John Adams, who succeeded Henry Laurens, had managed to obtain diplomatic recognition of the American republic from the States-General in April, 1782.

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.

In 1782, in a letter to Henry Laurens, Franklin called Shipley " America's constant friend, the good Bishop of Asaph.

Léonce Rosenberg exhibited not only the artists stranded by Kahnweiler ’ s exile but others including Laurens, Lipchitz, Metzinger, Gleizes, Csaky, Herbin and Severini.

Bolivar is also home to Fort Laurens, the only American Revolutionary War-era fort in what is now Ohio.

The city's only print newspaper, The Laurens County Advertiser, is a weekly, published every Wednesday.

# The image is only being used in the article about Laurens van der Post for informational and educational purposes.

# The image is only being used in the article about Laurens van der Post for informational and educational purposes.

# The image is only being used in the article about Laurens van der Post for informational and educational purposes.