In 1885, rancher Patrick W. Thomson formed the Eagle Pass Irrigation Company to construct a huge gravity-flow irrigation system to draw water from the Rio Grande.

During the 2005 season, the Patriots were forced to rely more on Brady's passing, due to injuries suffered by running backs Corey Dillon, Patrick Pass, and Kevin Faulk.

* Patrick Pass ( born 1977 ), American football player

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: Between its junction with N11 at Church Lane in the county borough of Dublin and its junction with N80 at Closh Cross in the county of Carlow via Dame Street, Cork Hill, Lord Edward Street, Christchurch Place, Nicholas Street, Patrick Street, New Street South, Clanbrassil Street Lower, Clanbrassil Street Upper, Harold's Cross Road, Terenure Road North, Terenure Place and Templeogue Road in the county borough of Dublin: Templeogue Road, Tallaght Road, Tymon North, Tallaght By Pass, Blessington Road, Jobstown, Corbally, Crooksling and Brittas in the county of South Dublin: Moanaspick, Tinode ; Main Street at Blessington ; and Burgage More in the county of Wicklow: Glebe East in the county of Kildare: Burgage Moyle and Russborough in the county of Wicklow ; Bishopslane and Horsepasstown in the county of Kildare: Poulaphoca Bridge at the boundary between the county of Kildare and the county of Wicklow: Hollywood Lower, Hollywood Cross, Whitestown, Castleruddery ; Mill Street and Edward Street at Baltinglass ; and Holdenstown in the county of Wicklow: Bough, Rathvilly, Kilmagavaoge ; Dublin Road, Church Street, Market Square, Bridge Street and Abbey Street at Tullow ; and Castlegrace in the county of Carlow.

* Former New England Patriot Player Patrick Pass

Busey played the role of " Backfire " in Patrick Durham's movie Cross which was released directly to DVD and download in May 2011, and stars in the upcoming independent film Don't Pass Me By.

Anne's father, Patrick Brontë ( 1777 – 1861 ), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland.

In 1815, Patrick was appointed curate of the chapel in Thornton, near Bradford ; a second daughter, Elizabeth ( 1815 – 1825 ), was born shortly after.

Charlotte was born in Thornton, Yorkshire in 1816, the third of six children, to Maria ( née Branwell ) and her husband Patrick Brontë ( formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty ), an Irish Anglican clergyman.

Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë.

* 1975 – 9th Wonder ( born Patrick Douthit ), American producer

Stuart was born at Laurel Hill Farm, a plantation in Patrick County, Virginia, near the border with North Carolina.

Patrick Macnee ( born 6 February 1922 ) is an English

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

They have four children: Nora, Patrick, Elizabeth and Kevin, all born at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago.

Her second marriage was to Ryan O ' Neal's son, Patrick O ' Neal, from 1995 to 2002 ; the union produced two daughters: Sophia ( born 1997 ) and Veronica ( b. 2001 ).

Moore was married and divorced four times: to actresses Suzy Kendall, Tuesday Weld ( by whom he had a son, Patrick, in 1976 ), Brogan Lane and Nicole Rothschild ( one son, Nicholas, born in 1995 ).

* Patrick Hamill ( 1817 – 1895 ), born in Allegany County, United States Congressman from Maryland.

* Patrick Poivre d ' Arvor ( born 1947 ), television journalist and writer

* Patrick Juvet – ( born 1950 ), Swiss singer-songwriter

Calhoun was born in 1782, the fourth child of Patrick Calhoun and his wife Martha Caldwell in Abbeville District, SC.

Louis Henry Sullivan was born to an Irish-born father, Patrick Sullivan, and a Swiss-born mother, née Andrienne List, both of whom had immigrated to the United States in the late 1840s.

Connelly was born to actor and hotelier Patrick Joseph Connelly and actress Mabel Louise Cook in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

Kevin Patrick Smith ( born August 2, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian / raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob.

Anna Edwards's father died before she was born, and her mother married an Irish soldier, Corporal Patrick Donohoe of the Engineers, who was later awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Bombay during the Indian Mutiny.

O ' Toole and his girlfriend, model Karen Brown, had a son, Lorcan Patrick O ' Toole ( born 14 March 1983, when O ' Toole was fifty years old ).

* Patrick Roscoe ( born 1962 ), Canadian writer

* Ben Patrick Johnson ( born 1969 ), American voice-over actor, author, and commentator / activist

Patrick Henry was once thought to have been of humble origins, but he was born into the middle ranks of the Virginia landed gentry.

Mansfield was born in the Brooklyn section of New York City to Patrick J. Mansfield and Josephine ( née O ' Brien ) Mansfield, who were both Irish Catholic immigrants.

A more recent example is Bret Easton Ellis's ( born 1964 ) seminal novel American Psycho ( 1991 ) about the double life of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer in the New York of the 1980s.

Though from vastly different backgrounds, within three months Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell were married on 29 December 1812.

In December 1934 he married Lyn Lloyd Irvine, a writer, with Patrick Blackett as best man.

On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme.

* December 28 – Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player

* December 19 – Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor

* December 29 – Patrick Bissell, American dancer ( b. 1957 )

* December 9 – Patrick MacDowell, Northern Irish sculptor ( b. 1799 )

Patrick and Vanecko got a $ 13, 114 " tax distribution " in December 2004.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

In December 2009, the BBC broadcast a new version of the story, written by " ER " and " Law & Order " writer Patrick Harbinson.

Patrick had been GM since December 1989.

The Blackhawks re-signed Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews to contract extensions worth $ 31. 5 million over 5 years, and Duncan Keith to a 13 year extension worth $ 72 million on December 1, 2009.

The county was organized December 13, 1835 as Rives County but was renamed in 1841 for Revolutionary War patriot Patrick Henry.

Patrick O ' Brian, CBE ( 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000 ), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish – Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

, the Mayor of the Borough of Bogota is Patrick McHale ( D, term ends December 31, 2015 ).

* 1964-In separate incidents, rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson, Phyllis Rine and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor Helen Roseveare ; Carlson is featured on December 4 Time magazine cover ; Hans von Staden of the Dorothea Mission proposes to Patrick Johnstone that he write the book now titled Operation World

Stephen Valentine Patrick William " Steve " Allen ( December 26, 1921-October 30, 2000 ) was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer.

In December 2003, panelists included Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and John Christy.

In 1954, Patrick McGoohan played Parnell in " The Fall of Parnell ( December 6, 1890 )", an episode of the historical television series You Are There.

After investigations for fraudulent representations and practicing medicine without a license, plus the death of co-owner William Penn Patrick and the resignation of President Robert White, the company ceased operating in December 1973.

and also in 2008, he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival performing " Dr Marigold " and " Mr Chops " by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Patrick Garland ; repeating them from December 2009 to January 2010 at the Riverside Studios and on tour in 2011.

She was baptised at the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, by the Bishop of Norwich, on 23 December 1990, she was the first royal baby to have a public christening, and her godparents were James Ogilvy ( her father's second cousin ), Captain Alastair Ross ( who was unable to attend ), Mrs Ronald Ferguson ( her maternal grandfather's 2nd wife ), Mrs Patrick Dodd-Noble, and Miss Louise Blacker.