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Dana Point Concours d'Elegance

The Dana Point Concours d'Elegance is an automotive charitable event held each year on the Monarch Beach Golf Links at the St. Regis Resort in Dana Point, California.


Akathist

Quercius (P.G., XCII, 1333 sqq.) assigns it to George Pisida, deacon, archivist, and sacristan of Hagia Sophia whose poems find an echo both in style and in theme in the Akathist; the elegance, antithetic and balanced style, the vividness of the narrative, the flowers of poetic imagery being all very suggestive of his work.

Alfa Romeo Museum

The museum cars are also displayed on different car related happenings, like Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Goodwood Festival of Speed and Mille Miglia.

Allied sovereigns' visit to England

Bryant, Arthur; (1950) The Age of Elegance: 1812-1822, London: Collins

Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance

The proceeds of the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance have helped support Community Hospice of Northeast Florida with total contributions of over $1.5 million through 2008.

Businessman and car collector Bill Warner, a photographer and writer for Road & Track magazine since 1971, founded the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance in 1996 at the urging of other northeast Florida auto enthusiasts who wanted a classic car show in Florida like the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in California.

Warner selected Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, which had provided service to his parents as well as his wife, as the beneficiary of the event.

Automodello

Automodello released their inaugural model, the 1964 Griffith Series 200 in 2010 at the prestigious Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance where it was designated the Official Model for this event and was signed by Andrew "Jack" Griffith, founder of Griffith Motorcar.

Bietigheim Horse Market

Besides the traditional horse market on Monday, a riding and horse-jumping tournament held from Friday until Sunday, other riding demonstrations and a procession and subsequent concours d'elegance on the Monday, there are also an entertainment park with marquees, a large market and fireworks after nightfall on the Sunday.

Chrysler Chronos

The Chrysler Chronos has a similarity in design to the 1953 Chrysler D'Elegance concept car as well as a similarity to the production model Chrysler 300C.

Claudio Prieto

Música, belleza y comunicación, (Music elegance and connection) published by the academic press Editorial Complutense of Madrid in 1994 (186 pages. ISBN 84-8048-104-8 )

Concours

Concours d'Elegance, a competition among car owners on the appearance of their cars

Dana Wynter

Wynter, once referred to as Hollywood's "oasis of elegance," divided her time between her homes in California and Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Diamond Jim Brady

Brady was mentioned in the Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly!, in the song "Elegance."

DIN 31635

Its acceptance relies less on its official status than on its elegance (one sign for each Arabic letter) and the Geschichte der arabischen Literatur manuscript catalogue of Carl Brockelmann and the dictionary of Hans Wehr.

Figures in a Landscape

:: "Barry England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding. His vocabulary is wide, and used with arresting precision. The speed of the narrative is impeccably controlled - long slogs over country, moments of blind panic, passages of demoralizing inactivity, hair-raising evasions, all building up to a central set-piece in a burning field. On all levels, Figures in a Landscape is a brilliant achievement." -- Roger Baker in the Times, June 08, 1968

Four Seasons Resort Carmelo, Uruguay

While exuding a minimalist elegance of Balinese and Japanese resorts, the designers (San Francisco-based Babey Moulton Jue & Booth) incorporated influences from China, Thailand, Europe and South America to fuse together a contemplative, yet familiar feel.

Graber

Two years later a Graber bodied Panhard & Levassor 20 CV won the Concours d´Elegance at St. Moritz as a result of which the “Carrosserie Graber“ business became known across Europe.

Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra

Several features bear witness to its history: the gateway built in the middle of the 18th century, which used to serve as the main entrance to the hospital and the great staircase built soon afterwards, remarkable not only for the elegance of its lines but also for the tiles that make up the side panel containing a variety of scenes set in a Rococo moulding.

Jakob Wimpfeling

The Elegantiarum medulla (1493) is an extract from Valla's books on the elegance of the Latin language.

James Dietz

Peter Helck Award, Automotive Fine Artists of America show at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, 1999, 2000

Kogarah railway station

The Australian critic and television presenter Clive James has sarcastically described it as a symphony in reinforced concrete outstripping even a Todt Organization WWII flak emplacement for brutalist elegance.

Lives of Style

The show reports on New York, Paris, Milan, and London fashion weeks, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, Hollywood Premieres, Fashion’s Night Out, Concours d’Elegance, Napa Wine Auction and the Cannes Film Festival.

Lunch of Blood

Edward de Bono: "‘I find everything beautiful, everything,’ he says. ‘I am very much against the notion that for something to be beautiful, it has to be in a frame in an art gallery with someone reviewing it. Beauty may be the elegance of a mathematical solution, it can be a Penthouse centrefold, design, a rainy day … anything.’"

Marilyn: A Biography

Two later works co-written by Mailer presented imagined words and thoughts in Monroe's voice: the 1980 book Of Women and Their Elegance and the 1986 play Strawhead, which was produced off Broadway starring his daughter Kate Mailer.

Milton H. Greene

He would later collaborate with Norman Mailer on a fictional auto-biography of Monroe, entitled Of Women and Their Elegance.

Minor Elegance

Minor Elegance is a 1990 studio album by Joe Diorio and Robben Ford.

Misselwood Concours d'Elegance

In 2010, the award went to a 1931 Packard 840 Dietrich convertible sedan was originally built for King Gustav V of Sweden.

Pancha Rathas

The architectural elegance of the Dharmaraja Ratha is its pyramidal structure which rises in three steps.

Patrick Clifford

He and guitarist Martin Kelleher are generally credited with the production of both of Four to the Bar's full-length albums; Another Son is notable for its elegance and Craic on the Road for its energy and atmosphere.

Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

This car once belonged to Woolf Barnato, Kimberley diamond heir and three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

The Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is an automotive charitable event held each year on the Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, considered the most prestigious event of its kind.

Pegaso Z-102

A Pegaso Z-102 coupé by Saoutchick, owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, was in this respect the epitome of coachwork sophistication, as it had seats upholstered with leopard skin and controls in gold, and in such a finish it won the 1953 Enghien-les-Bains (France) Grand Prix d'Elegance.

Pherecrates

He was especially famous for his inventive imagination, and the elegance and purity of his diction are attested by the epithet Ἀττικώτατος (most Attic) applied to him by Athenaeus and the sophist Phrynichus.

Princess Pauline

Princess Pauline von Metternich (1836–1921), a famous Viennese and Parisian socialite of great charm and elegance

Robert of Selby

Likewise, in his Policraticus, VII.19, John of Salisbury calls him "an able administrator . . . feared by all because of his influence with the Prince, and respected for the elegance of his life . . ."

Rococo architecture in Portugal

Made according to the French taste for prince Dom Pedro, King José’s brother, it is characterized by good taste and elegance.

Šišmundo Gundulić

Following the footsteps of his father, he also composed diverse poetry, poetry of both father and son was distinguished by the same similar elegance, some of their works were translated in the L´Epithalame de Catulle, other great musical works in 1662 Sunčanica.

The Last Open Road

The novel meanders through several real life race tracks, including Watkins Glen, Sebring, and Elkhart Lake (touching briefly on the creation of Road America near the end of The Fabulous Trashwagon) and also some real life races such as the Concourse de'Elegance at Elkhart Lake with some of the actual participants such as the three Cunningham's.

Tired of Being Alone

The soul group Quiet Elegance, who were stablemates at Hi Records with Green and had toured with him, also released a cover of the song on their albums You've Got My Mind Messed Up (1990) and The Complete Quiet Elegance (2003).

Trio Fontenay

::Slightly prefers the Guarneri and Fontenay to the Borodin Trio in these works: "Deciding between three such intelligent and well-planned performances is not simple, nor even wholly realistic. For all my admiration of the Borodin, I think there is an ease and elegance in the performance by the Guarneri that is closer to Mendelssohn. The Fontenay are very similar in spirit to the Guarneri, with whom choice can safely rest, if choice there must be."

Viktor Oliva

"Anniversary of the life (65th birthday) of such a kind and likable artist sets our memories well back – to the end of the 1880s – when the very young artist Oliva began to help with artistic decoration of Czech books with such an elegance and charm, that he soon became one of the most famous Czech illustrators up there with Luděk Marold, for example.


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