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Leighton Asia, a construction contractor headquartered in Hong Kong Leighton Marshalling Yard , former railway yard in Perth, Australia Leighton Middle School , a middle school in Leighton Buzzard, England
Leighton is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Leighton Baines (born 1984), English footballer; Leighton Clarkson (born 2001), English footballer;
Officers in the French Armed Forces also receive the accolade, but a different version. When they graduate, during the ceremony a senior officer hovers their sword on the kneeling graduate's shoulders as if he were knighting the young officer. This part is called the "adoubement", which has a different meaning than accolade.
Leighton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Leighton (1587–1644), Scottish physician and pamphleteer; Alexander H. Leighton (1908–2007), sociologist and psychiatrist; Amanda Leighton (born 1993), American actress; Baron Leighton of St Mellons, UK peerage title; Bernardo Leighton, Chilean Christian Democrat
According to Alexander H. Leighton, "morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose". [2] With good morale, a force will be less likely to give up or surrender. Morale is usually assessed at a collective, rather than an individual level.
God Speed by English artist Edmund Leighton, 1900: depicting an armored knight departing for war and leaving behind his wife or sweetheart. Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship.
Edmund Blair Leighton ROI (21 September 1852 – 1 September 1922) was an English painter of historical genre scenes, specialising in Regency and medieval subjects. His art is associated with the pre-Raphaelite movement of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
"Duty" by Edmund Leighton. A duty (from "due" meaning "that which is owing"; Old French: deu, did, past participle of devoir; Latin: debere, debitum, whence "debt") is a commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise.