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9 unusual facts about Bures


Bures, England

The parishes lie on opposite sides of the River Stour, which is the county boundary between Essex and Suffolk.

Elinard de Bures

Elinard de Bures was a member of the family which traditionally held title over Bures-sur-Yvette in France, however this particular branch of that noble family had come to the holy land as in service to the King of Jerusalem.

Jürg Fröhlich

From 1978 until 1982 he was a professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette in Paris, and since 1982 he has been a professor for theoretical physics at ETH, where he founded the Center for Theoretical Studies.

Léon Motchane

Léon Motchane (1900–1990) was a French industrialist and mathematician and the founder of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette.

It moved to its present location in Bois-Marie in Bures-sur-Yvette on 1962.

Norman Packard

In 1982, Packard left Santa Cruz for France to take a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.

Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie

(The name came from the small wood on the estate in Bures-sur-Yvette where the IHÉS was located from 1962.)

St Osyth Mahala Wood

After their marriage, the new Mrs St Osyth Wood moved into Parsonage Hall, Bures and became a great benefactor to her local community.

William I of Bures

William of Bures (died 1142) was a French crusader from Bures-sur-Yvette, Ile-de-France.


Doris Bures

Bures started her political career as a district councillor in Wien-Liesing between 1987 and 1990.

Grand Prix de Triathlon

Vesoul Triathlon: Alexandre Maire, Jonathan Lardier, Vincent Stragapede, Danylo Sapunov, Yegor Martynenko, Aaron Harris, Andrea Secchiero, Peter Bajai, Ben Allen, Davide Bargellini, Petr Bures, Cyril Pochon.

Ivan Buresh

Ivan Buresh was born in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria, to the family of Czech zincographer and photographer Josef Bureš who had settled in Bulgaria after the Liberation in 1878.


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