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Paul Revere (other)
Paul Revere (1734–1818), was an American activist and artisan. Paul Revere may also refer to: * Paul Revere (musician) (1938–2014), American musician in Paul Revere & the Raiders * Paul Revere Braniff (1897–1954), airline entrepreneur * "Paul Revere" (song), a 1986 song by the Beastie Boys * "Paul Revere", a song by Johnny Cash from the 1972 album '' America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song'' * Paul Revere of Texas * Paul Revere class, a two ship class of assault transports of the United States Navy, named for the lead ship of the class, USS ''Paul Revere'' (APA-248) * Paul Joseph Revere (1832–1863), general in the Union Army during the American Civil War See also * Paul Revere's Ride "Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 186 ..., historical event and poem desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere
Paul Revere (; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.)May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot and Founding Father. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "Paul Revere's Ride". At age 41, Revere was a prosperous, established and prominent Boston silversmith. He had helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service ended after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade. He used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere (musician)
Paul Revere Dick (January 7, 1938 – October 4, 2014) was an American musician, best known for being the leader, keyboardist and (by dropping his last name to create the stage name) namesake of Paul Revere & the Raiders. The band became notable for a string of hits (they claim 23 straight) from the early 1960s to the early 1970s and thrust Revere into the position of a celebrity. Career Dick was born in Harvard, Nebraska. He was the "idea man" behind the group. Even before the group, he was convinced there was a place for a combination of music and humor after seeing Spike Jones & His City Slickers. After taking piano lessons, he emulated the style of Jerry Lee Lewis. Dick grew up on a farm near Boise, Idaho. After attending barber college, he had opened a barbershop and a drive-in restaurant in Caldwell, Idaho. While picking up hamburger buns from a local bakery he met teenaged Mark Lindsay. The two became the foundation of the band in 1959. The band originally started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere Braniff
Paul Revere Braniff (August 30, 1897 – June 1, 1954) was an airline entrepreneur. Braniff was one of the original founders of Braniff International Airways. He served as a mechanic in World War I in the United States Army and then as a pilot in World War II. Early years and family Paul Revere Braniff was born in Kansas City, Kansas. He was the younger brother of Thomas Elmer Braniff. He grew up during the early era of aviation, and, as a youngster, became fascinated with the new way of transport. His family moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1900. Marriage Braniff married Marie Agnes Maney on April 29, 1920. Marie Agnes Maney was born on May 2, 1898, in El Reno, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of James W. Maney, who was an Oklahoma Territory Pioneer. He built thousands of miles of railroads throughout the Western United States. His occupation was Civil Engineer and was President of the Clinton and Western Oklahoma Railroad and founded a chain of grain elevators in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere (song)
"Paul Revere" is a song by American hip hop music, hip hop group Beastie Boys, released as the third single from their debut album ''Licensed to Ill'' (1986). It was written by Ad-Rock, Adam Horovitz, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Rick Rubin. It was produced by Rick Rubin and the Beastie Boys. The song tells a fictional story of how the Beastie Boys met. Adam Horovitz told how the song evolved from an incident when the Beastie Boys were waiting outside a recording studio for Run-D.M.C., when Joseph Simmons ("Run") suddenly came running down the street screaming incoherently. When he reached the Beastie Boys, he said "''Here's a little story I got to tell...''". After much confusion, Simmons stated "THAT's the song". The band worked on it from there. Recording Mike D remembered how the group played around with an Roland TR-808, 808 drum machine during the Ill sessions and Adam Yauch asked what the tracks would sound like if the beats were played backwards. “Joseph Simmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A 200-Year Salute In Story And Song
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere Of Texas
Paul Revere of Texas is a sobriquet given to people during the Texas Revolution for alerting settlers about Mexican troop movements. It is a reference to Paul Revere because of the similar circumstances in 1775 when Revere and William Dawes responded to information from Joseph Warren about movement of United Kingdom, British forces. The duo made rides alerting Samuel Adams, John Hancock and colonial militia troops. People who were referred to as Paul Revere of Texas include: * Plácido Benavides (1810–1837), an early Mexican-born settler. Benavides escaped during the March 2, 1836 Battle of Agua Dulce, near San Patricio, Texas, San Patricio, and rode to Goliad, Texas, Goliad to warn James Fannin of the advancing invading forces of Mexican José de Urrea, General José de Urrea. Fannin sent Benavides home to Victoria, Texas, Victoria, while Fannin himself stayed to engage Urrea at the Goliad massacre. Throughout his journey from San Patricio to Goliad to Victoria, Benavides alerte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Paul Revere (APA-248)
USS ''Paul Revere'' (APA/LPA-248) was the lead ship of the ''Paul Revere'' class of attack transport in the United States Navy. She was named for the early patriot and Founding Father, Paul Revere (1735–1818). She later served in the Spanish Navy as ''Castilla'' (L-21). The ship was designed under project SCB 14 and laid down as Maritime Administration Hull 27 on 15 May 1952 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, and was launched on 11 April 1953 as SS ''Diamond Mariner'', sponsored by Mrs. Franklin Ewers. The ship was delivered to MARAD on 22 December 1953, and was operated by the Prudential Steamship Corporation for MARAD until placed in the Maritime Reserve Fleet on 24 July 1954. She was acquired by the US Navy on 14 September 1956, classified APA-248 and named ''Paul Revere'' on 4 June 1957, converted by Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California, and commissioned at Long Beach, California on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Joseph Revere
Paul Joseph Revere (Sept 10, 1832 – July 4, 1863) was a Brevet Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Early life He was born in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was the grandson and namesake of Revolutionary War patriot Paul Revere. He was one of the three grandsons of Paul Revere who fought for the Union, another being Joseph Warren Revere. He graduated from Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ... in 1852. Career In July 1861, he was commissioned a major (rank), major in the 20th Massachusetts Infantry. In October 1861, at the Battle of Ball's Bluff in Virginia, Revere was wounded and captured by the Confederate States Army. He was paroled in February 1862 and officially exchanged in May 1862. In September 1862, Reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Revere's Ride
"Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of ''The Atlantic Monthly''. It was later retitled "The Landlord's Tale" in Longfellow's 1863 collection ''Tales of a Wayside Inn''. Overview The poem is spoken by the landlord of the Wayside Inn and tells a partly fictionalized story of Paul Revere. In the poem, Revere tells a friend to prepare signal lanterns in the Old North Church (North End, Boston) to inform him whether the British will attack by land or sea. He would await the signal across the river in Charlestown and be ready to spread the alarm throughout Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The unnamed friend climbs up the steeple and soon sets up two signal lanterns, informing Revere that the British are coming by sea. Revere rides his horse through Medford, Lexington, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revere (other)
Revere may refer to: Brands and companies *Revere Ware, a U.S. cookware brand owned by World Kitchen * Revere Camera Company, American designer of cameras and tape recorders *Revere Copper Company * ReVere, a car company recognised by the Classic Car Club of America * LG Revere, a line of cellular flip phones People *Anne Revere, U.S. film actress of the 1940s *Ben Revere, American baseball player in the Toronto Blue Jays organization * Joseph Warren Revere (businessman), American businessman, son of Paul Revere *Joseph Warren Revere (general), Union general in the American Civil War, grandson of Paul Revere *Lawrence Revere, U.S. author and professional gambler *Paul Revere, U.S. Revolutionary War militia leader *Paul Revere Braniff, an airline entrepreneur Places Italy *Revere, Lombardy, a frazione of Borgo Mantovano in the province of Mantua United States *Revere, Massachusetts, a city in Suffolk County, just outside Boston **Revere Beach, the first public beach in the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
