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3 unusual facts about Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor


Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor

At his laboratory near Paris, Niépce de Saint-Victor worked on the fixation of natural photographic colour as well as the perfection of his cousin's heliographic process for photomechanical printing.

In 1804 the German chemist Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen (1775-1815) had noticed that when a solution of uranium chloride in ether was exposed to sunlight, it quickly changed color (from bright yellow to green) and precipitated.

Henri Becquerel

As often happens in science, radioactivity came close to being discovered nearly four decades earlier in 1857, when Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor, who was investigating photography under Michel Eugène Chevreul, observed that uranium salts emitted radiation that could darken photographic emulsions.


Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies

Tracks that were to appear on Act I include another track sung by Daniel Victor entitled "Head Down", "Throwing Chairs" featuring Jonathan Foreman of Switchfoot, "John Dies at 56" featuring Mogwai, "Shipbuilding", an Elvis Costello cover featuring Andy Yorke, and "This Is My Fate", another track featuring Dallas Green.

Adriano Moraes

Moraes and his wife Flávia, married since 1989, have four children (Victor, Jeremias, Antonio, Pedro) and currently have homes in Tyler, Texas and Cachoeira Paulista.

Bolesław II, Duke of Cieszyn

#Sophia (b. ca. 1450/52 - d. 1479), married in 1474 to Victor of Poděbrady, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia

The list of keynote/invited/panel speakers from previous CEE-SECR’s includes: Thomas Erl, Bjarne Stroustrup, Erich Gamma, Richard Soley, Igor Agamirzian, Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Alexander L. Wolf, Yuri Gurevich, Victor Ivannikov, Stephen Mellor, Larry Constantine, Ivar Jacobson, Rick Kazman, Michael Cusumano and other leading figures in the software field.

Central Coast Wine Services

These types of facilities are an American twist on various wine cooperatives such as KWV and Saint-Victor-la-Coste.

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Dennis B. Funa

One complaint which would be the core of the criminal charges against Estrada and which would ripen to Criminal Case No. 26558 was docketed as OMB-0-00-1756 (Romeo T. Capulong, Leonard de Vera and Dennis Funa vs. Joseph Ejercito Estrada, Dr. Luisa “Loi” Ejercito, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Charlie “Atong” Ang, Delia Rajas, Eleuterio Tan, and Alma Alfaro; see Victor Jose Tan Uy v. Office of the Ombudsman et al., G.R. No. 156399-400, June 27, 2008).

Dru Masters

Artist: Amici Forever Title: Jupiter (album track) Year: 2004 Label: RCA Victor BMG

Eduardo Parraguez

Víctor Eduardo Parraguez Galarce (born 21 October 1935) was the 32nd Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between 1975 and 1979, after being appointed by the government junta presided by General Augusto Pinochet.

Eijaz Khan

He did Suncrest, Asli Atta, Visa Electron, Pride, Pure Ghee, Breeze, Chloromint, TVS Victor, Big Bazaar, Wrigley's, Tata Indicom, BSNL advertisements also.

George Foreman vs. Shannon Briggs

Unofficial HBO scorer Harold Lederman had Foreman clearly winning the fight at 116–112 (eight rounds to four), but none of the three official scorers had Foreman the victor.

Governmental theory of atonement

The satisfaction view argues that Christ made satisfaction to the Father for the sins of humanity by His sacrifice on the Cross, penal substitution theory argues that Jesus received the full and actual punishment due to men and women, while the Christus Victor view emphasises the liberation of humanity from the bondage of sin, death, and the Devil.

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Former co-star Bill McKinney from Deliverance played the role of Victor Burnett.

Hope Wilson

Both Victor and Vic (Michael Muhney) were with her when she announced her dying wish: she wanted Vic to be reunited with his biological father.

Igor Savitsky

Thereafter, Savitsky began collecting the works of Central Asian artists, including Alexander Volkov, Ural Tansykbayev and Victor Ufimtsev of the Uzbek school, and later those of the Russian avant-garde – including Kliment Red'ko, Lyubov Popova, Mukhina, Ivan Koudriachov and Robert Falk – whose paintings, although already recognized in Western Europe (especially in France), had been banned in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin’s rule and through the 1960s.

International Meteorological Organization

Adolphe Quetelet, director of the Royal Observatory of Belgium and general secretary of the Academie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts with Victor Lahure, navy captain and general director of the Navy, represented Belgium.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Josephine Foster

This Coming Gladness, was released in 2008 and featured the contributions of Victor Herrero on electric guitar and percussion by Alex Neilson.

Katherine Victor

Katherine Victor, born Katena Ktenavea (August 18, 1923–October 22, 2004), was an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in the Jerry Warren films Mesa of Lost Women, The Wild Wild World of Batwoman and Teenage Zombies.

Leonora O'Reilly

O'Reilly accompanied her mother to meetings at Cooper Union and her father's friend, Victor Drury, helped instill in her an appreciation for the Italian nationalist Mazzini.

Letters to Juliet

She goes on her pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor, (Gael García Bernal) to Verona, Italy.

Libération

Libération was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement, Jean-Claude Vernier, Pierre Victor alias Benny Lévy and Serge July and has been published from 3 February 1973, in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont

A lifelong royalist, he fought with the counter-revolutionary Army of Condé for two years, then joined the insurrection in France from three more years before going into exile.

Mitch Traphagen

He is currently the publisher and editor of The East Iowa Herald based in Victor, Iowa.

Mosaic Select: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band

It is volume 33 of the "Mosaic Select" series and includes the complete contents of the previously released RCA / Victor recordings, Kogun (1974), Long Yellow Road (1975), Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (1976), Insights (1976), and March of the Tadpoles (1977).

Murphy's Romance

Sally Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast Garner, who was viewed at that point as primarily a television actor despite having enjoyed a flourishing film career in the 1960s (and more recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier).

One Special Night

This was Garner's and Andrews' third film pairing as romantic leads, after Paddy Chayevsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Victor/Victoria (1982).

Paul Victor Obeng

Paul Victor Obeng popularly known as P. V. Obeng is a Ghanaian Mechanical Engineer, politician and chairman of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology council.

Quartodecimanism

The rejection of Bishop Anicetus' position on the Quartodeciman by Polycarp, and later Polycrates' letter to Pope Victor I, has been used by Orthodox theologians as proof against the argument that the Churches in Asia Minor accepted the Primacy of the Bishop of Rome and or the teaching of Papal supremacy.

Saint-Victor, Quebec

A Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in World War II, he attacked a cargo ship along the Normandy coast, shot a Nazi airplane, and was credited for sinking a Nazi ship in the North Sea.

Serge Noskov

After the graduation, he returned to Syktyvkar, where he wrote the 1st String Quartet, “Psalms” for a choir a'capella on texts of a poem by Victor Savin in Komi language, and the Bible, musical “Ogorod”, numerous songs with lyrics by Komi poets of 19th century, also, a few songs for a pop-group “Aski”.

Te Hana Hudson

Te Hana arrived with her family in 2001 for a fresh start but she grew annoyed at her brother Victor's (Calvin Tuteao) attempts to break up her marriage to Joe Hudson (Rawiri Paratene).

The Magic Knight

It was performed without orchestra, within Dream City, during the 2006 Victor Herbert Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Tomás González

Víctor Tomás (Victor Tomás González, born 1985), Spanish handball player

Vera-Ellen

Her second husband, from 1954 to their 1966 divorce, was millionaire Victor Rothschild of the Rothschild family.

Víctor Álvarez

Víctor Aurelio Álvarez (born November 8, 1976) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League.

Victor Bergman

(See the article List of Space: 1999 episodes for specific episode information.) The fate of Victor Bergman is alluded to in a trimmed scene from the second series opener "The Metamorph", when Tony Verdeschi notes 'I wish Bergman were here,' and then 'One lousy spacesuit with a faulty helmet and Victor had to be in it.' Sandra Benes would then have replied 'We can't bring him back, Tony.' This scene was filmed, but cut from the final print.

Victor de Buck

What apparently gave rise to these accusations were the amicable relations established, principally through correspondence, between Victor de Buck and such men as Alexander Forbes, the learned Anglican bishop, and the celebrated Edward Pusey in England, Montalembert, and Bishop Félix Dupanloup in France and a number of others whose names were distasteful to many ardent Catholics.

Victor Estima

Victor Estima is a second degree Carlos Gracie, Jr. Black Belt who, along with his brother Braulio Estima, was coached under Ze Radiola in his native Brazil.

Victor Irineu de Souza

Victor Irineu de Souza or simply Victor (born 3 April 1989 in Belo Horizonte) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for IFK Ölme.

Víctor Montaño

Víctor Hugo Montaño Caicedo (born 1 May 1984 in Cali) is a Colombian association footballer, who plays as a striker for Ligue 1 club Montpellier.

Víctor Velásquez

Víctor Manuel Velásquez Molina (born April 12, 1976 in La Unión) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

Victor von Bruns

Victor von Bruns (August 9, 1812 – March 19, 1883) was a German surgeon born in Helmstedt.

Victor Voss

Count Victor Voss was born on the family estate at Schorssow in today Northeastern Germany to the Hungarian countess Elise Szapáry.

Victor Young Perez

Victor "Young" Perez, tells the astonishing, harrowing and poignant story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932.

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie

After the death of his father he inherited Revel Counties and de Broglie, the marquisate of Senonches and also received the Government of La Bassee, near Lille.

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

Whisky Romeo Zulu

The film is named after the NATO phonetic alphabet version of the identifier of the accident aircraft, LV-WRZ (Lima Victor – Whisky Romeo Zulu)

World Freerunning and Parkour Federation

The athletes, Daniel Ilabaca, Ryan Doyle, Tim Shieff, Oleg Vorslav, Victor Lopez, Gabriel Nunez, Paul Darnell and Richard King, and the company principals, Victor Bevine, David Thompson and production partner Francis Lyons came together with the stated purpose of bringing the sport and philosophy of Parkour to mainstream American audiences through television and other media and live formats.


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