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Pat Garrett Biography

Pat Garrett(Patrick Floyd Garrett)lawmanBorn: 6/5/1850Birthplace: Chambers County, Alabama Western law man famous for killing Billy “The Kid”, Pat Garrett left his family's plantation in…

Brewer's: Pit-a-pat

My heart goes pit-a-pat. Throbs, palpitates. “Pat” is a gentle blow (Welsh, ffat), and “pit” is a mere ricochet expletive. We have a vast number of such ricochot words, as “fiddle-faddle…

Pat Summitt Biography

Pat SummittBorn: June 14, 1952Basketball women’s basketball coach at Tennessee (1974–); entered 2004-05 season as all-time leader in career victories with 852; coached 1984 US women’s…

Pat Morita Biography

Pat Morita (Noriyuki Morita)actorBorn: 8/28/1932Birthplace: Berkeley, California   This Japanese-American actor, who lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, programmed computers…

Pat Conroy Biography

Pat Conroyfiction and nonfiction writerBorn: 10/26/1945Birthplace: Atlanta, GeorgiaDied: 3/4/2016Birthplace: Beaufort, SC Southern writer whose career was launched in 1972 with The Water Is…

Pat Paulsen Biography

Pat Paulsen(Layton Paulsen)comedianBorn: 7/6/1927Birthplace: South Bend, Washington During the 1960s, Paulsen was performing in folk clubs as a comic guitarist when the Smothers Brothers hired him to…

Lewis TILLMAN, Congress, TN (1816-1886)

TILLMAN Lewis , a Representative from Tennessee; born near Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., August 18, 1816; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course; served in the Seminole…

Pat Robertson, 2005 News

evangelist, sparked international outrage in August when he suggested that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. “If he thinks we're trying to assassinate…

Pat Morita 2005 Deaths

Pat MoritaAge: 73 Japanese-American actor who lived in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. He received an Oscar nomination for his role as the karate instructor in The Karate Kid…