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Bais

Bais, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune of the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in France


Bais

Bais, Mayenne, a commune of the Mayenne département, in France

Bais Hatalmud

:There are two yeshivas with the name Bais Hatalmud For the article that deals with Bais Hatalmud in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, see Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College.

Bais, Negros Oriental

The two storey wooden houses are greatly influenced by old Spanish design and architecture.

Battle of Blain

Erispoe's troops had arrived at Messac and were in the process of crossing the Vilaine when Renaud launched his surprise attack.

Breton Social-National Workers' Movement

Having adopted for a flag a standard (designed by Olier Mordrel several years before) closely resembling a Nazi flag — black ermine at the center of a white circle on a red field representing "the blood of the worker" — Théophile Jeusset recruited several followers in the workshops and factories of Ille-et-Vilaine and organized about twenty meetings in the back rooms of restaurants in Rennes.

Brion Island

Passing by the island in 1534, Jacques Cartier erected his second cross and named the island ille de Bryon after his principal expeditionary patron Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur de Brion and Admiral of France.

Erispoe

Ambushed by Count Renaud, Erispoe was badly defeated at the initial engagement at Messac.

Gautam Rajputs

She was rescued by two Bais adventurers.They were given 1,440 villages as dowry by the Gautam Raja.

Ille Gebeshuber

Ille Christine Gebeshuber (born 10 April 1969 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria) is an Austrian physicist who is specialized in nanophysics and biomimetics.

Ille-sur-Têt

Louis Amade (1915–1992) born in Ille-sur-Têt, writer, songwriter for Gilbert Bécaud, Édith Piaf

Island of Montreal

The first French name for the island was "l'ille de Vilmenon", noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.

Kofi Yamgnane

He became well known in France in 1989 after being elected mayor of a village of Brittany, Saint-Coulitz (less than 400 inhabitants), and at this time, one out of only two black mayors in Metropolitan France (and the only black man in his city), the other was Auguste Senghor, mayor of Le May-sur-Èvre, a town (3,891 inhabitants) in the Maine-et-Loire département, from 1989 to 2008, when he became mayor of another town, Saint-Briac (Ille-et-Vilaine).

Kristian Hamon

He later returned to his studies, studying his master's (at L'Ouest-Éclair) on the German Occupation of France, receiving permission to study the department archives of Ille-et-Vilaine and focusing on the activities of the Parti national breton penduring the Second World War.

Langon

Langon, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, France

Le Puy Mine

At the close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Le Puy Mine was together with Poullaouen and Huelgoat in Finistère, Vialas in Lozère, Pontgibaud in Puy-de-Dôme and Pontpéan in Ille-et-Vilaine one of the most important lead mines in France.

Maydown

The DuPont site at Maydown is now the lead partner in the University of Ulster's Biodiversity Action on Industrial Site (BAIS) project that aims to enhance biodiversity on land close to industrial activity.

Melaine

He is mentioned as follows: 'At Rhedónibus (Rennes) in Brittany, bishop, who passed to God in the place called Plácium on the River Vicenóniam (Vilaine), where with his own hands he built a church and gathered a congregation of monks and servants of God'.

Traditions recounted by Baring-Gould state that on the death of Amand, he was compelled by the local population to become the next Bishop, accepting the role with great reluctance; that he performed many miracles and put an end to heathen practices; and that following his death at La Vilaine, his body was placed on a boat which then returned to Rennes against the current without the assistance of rowers or sails.

Nalagarh

Various other rajputs then inhabited this place including Tomara, Rathore, Parmar, Pawar, Panwar, Chauhan, Bais.

Natural Snow Buildings

Then, they self-released a double CD, The Winter Ray, in a limited edition, and, after moving from Paris to Vitré, Brittany in 2004, recorded The Dance of the Moon and the Sun (released in 2006).

Paul Blanc

Paul Blanc (Ille-sur-Têt, 29 January 1937) is a member of the Senate of France since 1992, and re-elected in 2001, representing the Pyrénées-Orientales department.

Prosper Mérimée

La Vénus d'Ille (1837) - a fantastic horror tale of a bronze statue that seemingly comes to life.

Renac

Renac, Ille-et-Vilaine, a commune of the Ille-et-Vilaine département, in France

Rennes–Redon railway

The railway from Rennes to Redon is a regional railway line between Rennes and Redon in Ille-et-Vilaine, western France.

Rennes–Saint-Malo railway

The railway from Rennes to Saint-Malo is a regional railway line between Rennes and Saint-Malo in Ille-et-Vilaine, western France.

Tiata Fahodzi

Most famous recent productions include The Gods Are Not To Blame by Ola Rotimi (2005) at the Arcola Theatre, The Estate (2008) and Iya Ille - The First Wife (2009) - both co-productions with the Soho Theatre in London and both written by Oladipo Agboluaje.

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

The screenplay was written by George Toles and inspired by the novel Pan (1894) by Knut Hamsen, with an additional literary touchstones being the short story "La Vénus d'Ille" (1837) by Prosper Mérimée.

Veuze

The veuze is a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes, the Guérande peninsula, and Basse-Vilaine.

Virginie Klès

Toxicological veterinarian by profession, Virginia Klès was elected mayor of Châteaubourg (Ille-et-Vilaine) following the municipal elections of 2001 in a three-way race against the exiting mayor and a socialist candidate.


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