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unusual facts about Apt, Vaucluse


Almucs de Castelnau

Almodis was the second wife of Guiraut I de Simiane, who also ruled Apt and Gordes.


American Public Television

APT began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network (EEN); EEN was one of the first distributors of shows such as The French Chef (with Julia Child), Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and Washington Week in Review on a national basis.

APT has also distributed special pledge shows to public television, including programs such as Liza's at the Palace...!, Anne of Green Gables, Carreras Domingo Pavarotti, Celine Dion: A New Day, Mike Douglas – Moments & Memories, Broadway: The Golden Age and Tony Bennett Duets: The Making of an American Classic.

Americans for Peace and Tolerance

In October 2013, APT took out newspaper ads in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Newton TAB, Boston Metro, and Jewish Advocate alleging the presence of anti-Israeli materials being incorporated into the Newton Public Schools curriculum.

Ancient Diocese of Apt

The former French Catholic diocese of Apt, in southeast France, existed from the fourth century until the French Revolution.

Ancient Diocese of Cavaillon

Its see at Cavaillon, in southern France, is in the modern department of Vaucluse.

Apple Worm

Because the Apple Worm performs dynamic self-relocation within the one main memory of one computer, it does not constitute a computer virus, an apt if somewhat inaccurate description.

Australian Pacific Touring

APT, in conjunction with The Rotary Club of Atherton, Queensland, funded the building of a school in an impoverished area near Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Automated Patrol Telescope

The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field CCD imaging telescope, which is operated by the University of New South Wales at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.

Barry Switzer

Johnson had clashed with owner Jerry Jones (leading to his departure) and many felt that Switzer was more apt to go along with Jones' ideas.

Boumedienne Allam

After his young years at Apt (1994–1996) and Cavaillon (1996–1997), he become famous as a RC Toulon player (1997–2000), where he won the Cup of France Frantz Reichel, in 1998.

Carpentras

Carpentras (Provençal Occitan: Carpentràs in classical norm or Carpentras in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Cavaillon Cathedral

Cavaillon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Véran de Cavaillon) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Cavaillon, Vaucluse.

Chapel of Notre Dame des Anges

The site, between Apt and Sisteron on the Roman road Via Domitia, was once that of the Roman settlement of Alaunium, named after the local god Alaunius, which later became Aulun, and gave its name to the chapel that was built there, Sainte-Marie d'Aulun.

Château d'Autet

Château d'Autet is a château located in the Luberon hills of the commune of Viens in the Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Chhaya

According to Wendy Doniger, the substitution of the dark shadow was apt by Saranyu for the dark Surya.

Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment

Both CBT and GET passed common criteria for cost-effectiveness, and also had a higher probability of being the most cost-effective when compared to the APT and SMC groups.

Donzère-Mondragon Dam

This hydroelectric dam is located in the French commune of Bollène in the Vaucluse department of southeastern France.

Esprit Fléchier

Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in the département of Vaucluse, in the Comtat Venaissin, and brought up at Tarascon by his uncle, Hercule Audiffret, superior of the Congrégation des Doctrinaires.

EV8 The Mediterranean Route

In doing so, it will pass through the cities of Argelès-sur-Mer, Port Barcarès, Port Leucate, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète, La Grande-Motte, Cavaillon, Apt, Forcalquier, and Nice.

Félicien David

Félicien David was born in Cadenet (Vaucluse), France, and began to study music at five under his father, whose early death however left him an impoverished orphan.

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse ("spring of Vaucluse") is built around a spring in a valley at the foot of the Vaucluse Mountains, between Saumane and Lagnes, not far from L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

General Santander National Police Academy

The General Santander Academy holds strategic alliances primarily with the United States agencies Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to the recent War on Drugs and the implementation of the Plan Colombia which has become part of the War on terror and because of its experience on these it has become as one of the most apt educational centers for law enforcement in Latin America.

GetDeb

Debian packages (in combination with APT) package software such that it can easily be installed in a user-friendly point-and-click manner on Debian (and subsequently, several other Linux distributions), removing hurdles for less-technical users.

Great Plague of Marseille

During a two-year period, 50,000 of Marseille's total population of 90,000 died, and an additional 50,000 people succumbed as the plague spread north, eventually reaching Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Apt and Toulon.

Henry Browne Hayes

In 1803 he purchased a property near the city and called it Vaucluse.

Ivo Michiels

In 1979, he established himself as a full-time writer in the Vaucluse (France).

Jacques Bernard d'Anselme

Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme (22 July 1740, Apt - 17 September 1814, Paris) was a French general, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var.

Jean Ragnotti

Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born 29 August 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse), is a French former rally driver for Renault in the World Rally Championship.

Keith Floyd

Floyd sold the restaurants and the rights to the name "Floyd's Restaurant" and moved to the south of France, where again he opened a restaurant in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse.

La Louve

La Louve is a private French contemporary garden, open to the public, in the town of Bonnieux in the Vaucluse Department of France.

Léon de Berluc-Pérussis

Léon de Berluc-Pérussis (Apt, Vaucluse, 14 June 1835 - Aix-en-Provence, 2 December 1902) was a French poet and historian in French and Provençal.

Mark Visser

Visser's past achievements include: 5th in the 2006/2007 APT tow-in tour event in Chile, 7th in the Nelscott Reef Big Wave Paddle In event USA, and runner up in the 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 Oakley ASL Big Wave Awards.

Maurice Trintignant

Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant (30 October 1917, Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes, Vaucluse – 13 February 2005, Nîmes) was a motor racing driver and vintner from France.

Mitoy Yonting

Pak! Pak! My Dr. Kwak! (OctoArts Films, M-Zet Films, APT Entertainment, and Star Cinema; 2011)

Mount Hart Station

The APT company Kimberley Wilderness Adventures was selected by the state government to operate the wilderness lodge in late 2011.

NC Graphics

NC Graphics focused on developing a surface modelling software product that used polynomial mathematics and was driven by human-readable input commands based on the APT language.

Neil Mackerras

Mackerras was born at Vaucluse to electrical engineer Alan Patrick Mackerras and Catherine Brearcliffe, née MacLaurin; his brothers included the psephologist Malcolm Mackerras and Sir Charles Mackerras, the conductor.

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

Before dieselization the PRSL was more apt to lease its motive power from either of its parent railroads as it completely lacked any heavy passenger locomotives (like 4-6-2 Pacifics).

Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant

The Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant is a collection of sites run by Areva and EDF located in 4 different communes Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Pierrelatte in Drôme, Bollène and Lapalud in Vaucluse, and four departments (Drome (26), Vaucluse (84), Gard (30) and Ardeche (07)) on right bank of the Channel of Donzère-Mondragon (diversion canal of the Rhône River) between Valence (70 km upstream) and Avignon (65 km downstream).

Vaucluse College

Students of Vaucluse were also able to participate in a range of additional activities including three choirs (Vaucluse College Choir, Senior College Choir & Madrigal Group), Vaucluse Debating Team, Wind Orchestra, Tennis and Taekwondo.

Vaucluse, New South Wales

Sir Henry Browne Hayes, an avid admirer of the 14th-century poet Petrarch, named the house after Petrarch's poem about the famous Fontaine de Vaucluse near the town L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in what is today the Department of Vaucluse in southern France.

Vaucluse, South Carolina

Gregg observed 'the most indifferent overseer's house in Lowell, Massachusetts, at least such as I saw, cost more than the whole village of Vaucluse, containing upwards of 200 inhabitants including a comfortable dwelling recently built as a residence for one of its owners'.

Warrenville, South Carolina

In 2008, there were talks about incorporating the villages of Warrenville, Graniteville, and Vaucluse; as a result, the towns approved a referendum to vote on whether or not to incorporate.

White Swan Hotel, Alnwick

The analogy was an apt one, as the room was decorated in the Louis XV style based on interiors at the Palace of Versailles.


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