The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

" The photo was taken near the town of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny National Forest.

Dr. Kingsley Ridgway offered himself as a Melbourne based " field representative " for a possible Australian branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, after meeting an American serviceman who was a member of that denomination.

The development of the area was spurred by the discovery of large silver deposits near Rico in 1879, and the Rio Grande Southern Railroad was constructed through the County to connect Durango, Telluride, and Ridgway in 1890-92 The RGS served the eastern end of Dolores County until 1952 when it was abandoned.

During its Illinoian stage ( 300, 000 — 130, 000 years ago ), Ridgway was covered by the Laurentide ice sheet.

One of the first recorded ships of the township was a sloop belonging to Thomas Ridgway Sr. John Mathis Sr. also had a ship which his son, Daniel, sailed the West Indian routes.

Ridgway was founded by Philadelphian shipping merchant Jacob Ridgway and James Gillis.

Born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, she was raised in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

The University of Evansville began using the property in 1971 as its British campus, but it was owned by William Ridgway, a trustee of the university, until 1986.

In July 1964, Marples Ridgway and partners were awarded a £ 4. 1 million contract for the ' Hendon Urban Motorway ' extension of the M1, in the same year that the company was taken over by the Bath and Portland Group.

The initial creative team was writer Jamie Delano and artist John Ridgway, with Dave McKean supplying distinctive painted and collage covers.

A version of the 2003 sequel, with instrumental background accompaniment added, was included on the 2005 Stan Ridgway / Drywall album Barbeque Babylon.

Major General Matthew B. Ridgway commanded the corps, which then consisted of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division and was part of the First Allied Airborne Army.

The initial plan dictated that the American 82nd Airborne Division commanded by Major General Matthew B Ridgway was held as a tactical reserve in Tunisia.

Ridgway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway.

Ridgway's homelife was somewhat troubled ; relatives have described his mother as domineering and have said that young Ridgway witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents.

As a young child, Ridgway was tested with an I. Q.

It has been speculated that Ridgway was torn between his uncontrollable lusts and his staunch religious beliefs.

Ridgway was arrested in 1982 and 2001 on charges related to prostitution.

Author Pennie Morehead interviewed Ridgway in prison and she said while he was in the relationship with Mawson his kill rate went down, and that he truly loved her.

On November 30, 2001, Ridgway was at the Kenworth Truck factory, where he worked as a spray painter, when police arrived to arrest him.

Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway dissuaded the President from intervening by presenting a comprehensive estimate of the massive military deployment that would be necessary.

The source of this color is the 1912 book Color Standards and Color Nomenclature by Robert Ridgway.

The gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado.

In eastern Asia, a number of additional or alternative forms have been proposed, including saturata by Robert Ridgway in 1883, kamtschatica by Benedykt Dybowski in 1883, ambigua by Erwin Stresemann and mandschurica by Wilhelm Meise in 1934.

* Thomas Mayo Brewer, ( 1814 – 80 ), an American ornithologist, wrote most of the biographical sketches in the History of North American Birds, by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway ( 1874 – 84 ).

Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists including Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, Delaney Bramlett, Vic Chesnutt, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Beau Brummels, The Manhattan Transfer, Medicine, Keith Moon, Sixpence None the Richer, Carly Simon, Little Feat, T-Bone Burnett, Stan Ridgway, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Victoria Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Silverchair, The Thrills, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs / Matthew Sweet's covers collection.

Jones Township is bordered by McKean County to the north, Cameron County to the east, the city of St. Marys and Ridgway Township to the south and Highland Township to the west.

Ridgway is east by south of Erie on the Clarion River.

* Falco peregrinus pealei, described by Ridgway in 1873, is also known as Peale's Falcon, and includes rudolfi.

* " The Cheese Companion " by Judy Ridgway, Apple Press, ISBN 1-84092-339-3

Ridgway began each murder by picking up a woman, usually a prostitute.

Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of murdering four women nearly 20 years after first being identified as a potential suspect, when DNA evidence conclusively linked semen left in the victims to the saliva swab taken by the police.

* Facts Relating to the Punishment of Death in the Metropolis by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, James Ridgway, 1831.

MacArthur was succeeded as SCAP by General Matthew Ridgway when MacArthur was relieved by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War in April 1951.

* July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, United States Army General ( b. 1895 )

By 1944, the British divisions were grouped into the 1st Airborne Corps under General Frederick Browning, while US divisions in the European Theatre ( the 17th, 82nd, and 101st ) were organized into the XVIII Airborne Corps under US Major General Matthew Ridgway.

Following the establishment of defenses south of the capital city, General Matthew B. Ridgway ordered I, IX, and X Corps to conduct a general counteroffensive against the Chinese forces, Operation Thunderbolt.

Taylor's rise to the highest echelons of U. S. government began under the tutelage of General Matthew B. Ridgway in the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division when Ridgway commanded the division in the early part of World War II.

During the Korean War, he took over as commander of the United Nations Command on May 12, 1952, succeeding General Matthew Ridgway.

Matthew Bunker Ridgway ( March 3, 1895 – July 26, 1993 ) was a United States Army General.

General George Marshall assigned Ridgway to the War Plans Division shortly after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939.

Major General Matthew Ridgway and staff outside of Ribera, Agrigento | Ribera, Sicily on July 25, 1943.

At war's end, Ridgway was on a plane headed for a new assignment in the Pacific theater, under General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, with whom he had served while a captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

When General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command by President Harry Truman in April, Ridgway was promoted to full general, assuming command of all United Nations forces in Korea.

In May 1952, Ridgway replaced General Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe ( SACEUR ) for the fledgling North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

In a 1952 review, General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported to President Harry Truman that " Ridgway had brought NATO to ' its realistic phase ' and a ' generally encouraging picture of how the heterogeneous defense force is being gradually shaped.

On August 17, 1953, Ridgway replaced General Collins as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.

Ridgway died at his suburban Pittsburgh home at age 98 in July 1993 of cardiac arrest, holding permanent rank of General in the United States Army.

Brigadier-General James M. Gavin recalled that when he travelled to England in November 1943, Ridgway " cautioned me against the machinations and scheming of General F. M. Browning, who was the senior British airborne officer, and well he should have.

General Walker was killed in a jeep accident and replaced by Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway.

General Ridgway forcefully restored Eighth Army to combat effectiveness over several months.

When General Ridgway replaced General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as the overall U. N. commander, Lieutenant General James Van Fleet assumed command of Eighth Army.