Lenoir
Americannoun
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Jean Joseph Étienne 1822–1900, French inventor.
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a town in W North Carolina.
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Lenoir used Salesian as a key path to playing college football at Oregon and then the NFL.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
The bank is privately owned by an investment group led by Scot Lenoir, Evolve’s website shows.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
“This rebuild is going to require another generation of craftspeople,” said Dixon Mitchell, who runs Fairfield Chair Co. out of Lenoir, N.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
As I walked through them, I immediately went to those representing Lenoir County and Jones County, North Carolina, where most of my family was born and raised.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
E. Lenoir, whose patent is dated 1860, was the inventor of the first gas engine that was brought into general use.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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