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3 unusual facts about Dole, Jura


Dorothy Bussy

He was five years younger, and the son of a shoemaker from the Jura town of Dole.

Ferry Carondelet

Ferry Carondelet was born in Mechelen, Flanders, to a rich, bourgeois and influential family originally from Dole.

Odette de Champdivers

Odette's family took their name after a fief that belonged to them, located near Dole and Saint-Jean-de-Losne in Burgundy.


1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Over less than a week, the new constitution was drafted by a group of lawyers including Thurston, Dole, William Ansel Kinney, William Owen Smith, George Norton Wilcox, and Edward Griffin Hitchcock.

Agiez

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Agiez became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Agriculture in Costa Rica

Costa Rican farmers and multinational corporations within Costa Rica practice two primary methods of farming: Plantation agriculture which includes practices by global companies such as Dole, Chiquita, Del Monte, etc. and sustainable/permaculture.

Aromas

Aromas, Jura, one of the 545 communes of the Jura département, in France

Barnhill

Barnhill, Jura, Scotland, a farmhouse on Jura, Scotland, used by George Orwell

BNS Karatoa

The Island Class offshore patrol vessels, built by Hall, Russell & Company in Aberdeen, were modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

BNS Sangu

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

C.D.S. Vida

The training was carried out in a small field located that was property of the Standard Fruit Company (DOLE).

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

This congregation was founded at Saint-Claude, in the Department of Jura, by Adrien Gréa, then a secular priest and the young Vicar General of the Diocese of St.-Claude, a position he had accepted in 1863 at the bishop's urging, despite his feeling called to life in a religious community.

Chemins de fer du Jura

The Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the railways of the Jura canton in northern Switzerland, came about as the result of an amalgamation, in 1944, of four independent companies connecting Porrentruy to Bonfol, Saignelégier to La Chaux-de-Fonds, Glovelier to Saignelégier and Tavannes to Tramelan and Le Noirmont.

Clan MacInnes

Clan MacInnes' ancestors were among the early inhabitants of Islay, Jura and the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland, generally part of the region known as Argyll.

Col de la Faucille

Col de la Faucille is a high mountain pass in the department of Ain in the French Jura.

Crans

Crans, JuraJura département

Dole Air Race

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Eduard von Fransecky

Under Manteuffel's command Fransecky took part in the operations in the Côte-d'Or and Jura against Bourbaki's Armée de l'Est.

Emanon Records

Artists who have recorded on the label include John Corabi, Jenna Drey, JParis, Leanne Harte, Jura, Cardinal Trait, Fanzine, Lorenzo, and Brandon Cooper.

Eugster/Frismag

Eugster/Frismag manufactures around 95% of all Nespresso machines as well as other machines for brands such as Jura, Koenig, Melitta, Moulinex, or Turmix.

Florimont

The settlement was established between 1747 and 1780 by Mennonite families coming from the Swiss Jura to the south and a few Amish families coming from the Montbéliard area to the southwest.

François Jules Pictet de la Rive

He now directed his attention to the fossils of his native country, more especially to those of the Cretaceous and Jurassic strata, and in 1854 he commenced the publication of his great work, Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes..., a series of quarto memoirs, of which six were published (1854-1873).

Franconian Keuper-Lias Plains

As the name betrays, the term embraces both the keuper landscapes (including the well-known parts of the Keuper Upland Haßberge, Steigerwald and Frankenhöhe) and lias landscapes (Schwarzer Jura) in Franconia.

French nobility

High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.

Georges de Regibus

In that city, he worked as a locksmith at the Jura–Simplon Railway carriage repair works while his mother earned money by selling chestnuts.

Giroud

Fort de Pré-Giroud, twentieth-century Swiss fortification located in the Jura Mountains

Groupe Bel

The company “Établissements Jules Bel” was founded in 1865 in Orgelet in the Department of the Jura.

Imerius of Immertal

Imerius (Himerius, Imier, Immer) of Immertal (d. ca. 620 AD) was a monk, hermit, and missionary in the Swiss Jura.

Jura Mountains

Part of the A40 autoroute crosses through a spectacular portion of the southern Jura between Bourg-en-Bresse and Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, which is known as the "Highway of the Titans."

Jurassic separatism

In particular, the municipality of Vellerat found itself in the canton of Berne, but it could only be reached via roads from the canton of Jura.

Juravenator

In the summer of 1998, the Jura-Museum Eichstätt at Eichstätt organised a paleontological expedition to the nearby chalk quarry of Schamhaupten.

Jurix

There is no indication if the name was in any way related to the nearby Dutch law and IT organisation JURIX or rather just a portmanteau between "Jura" and "Unix"/"Linux".

Les Clées

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Les Clées became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Los Angeles Film Festival

Dole urged festival officials to "immediately cease and desist" their sponsorship of the documentary Bananas!*, directed by Fredrik Gertten.

Mang Pandoy

Jaime Aristotle Alip,CEO and founder of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) which one 2008's Ramon Magsaysay award for public service, took note of the icon's death at a forum after receiving the award, noting the need for long term solutions to poverty in the Philippines rather than the dole-out approach that Mang Pandoy's story typified.

Marcel Jacobo Laniado de Wind

of a farm called "Los Alamos" located in Guayas Province, Churute Region, between the Gulf of Guayaquil and a town called Puerto Inca, a farm originally owned by Standard Fruit Company (later known as Dole), the largest independent producer of bananas in the world.

Mazapan School

Owned and operated by Standard Fruit de Honduras (Dole), Mazapan School is located in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Merian family

The founding father of all the Merians of Basel is one Theobald Merian (c.1415 – c.1505), a Basel episcopal bailiff or steward in Lüttelsdorf (now Courroux) in the Swiss canton of Jura.

Mika Todd

Project concerts, appeared on television shows, hosted their own radio show Kiss the Coconuts and even promoted Dole pineapples.

Mönthal

The municipality is located in the Brugg district, in a Jura valley between Brugg and Laufenburg.

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert

Having completed his education at the college of Dole, he devoted himself for a time to a half-scholastic, half-literary life at Nancy, but in 1774 he found his way to the capital.

No More Fish, No Fishermen

"Coal Not Dole" was made popular by Coope Boyes and Simpson on their Funny Old World album, and is in turn based on the Victorian Christmas carol, "See, Amid The Winter's Snow".

Poolside Chats

With one angry caller, Hamburger claimed that Bob Dole had censored the show, to which the caller replied 'Yeah, fuck Bob Dole!'.

Robert Denys

Anne Denys, who married Sir Henry Rolle (d.1616) of Stevenstone in Devon, an ancestor of John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (d.1842) and Barons Clinton, the latter of whom restored Livery Dole after the WWII bomb damage.

Romainmôtier-Envy

The municipality was part of the Orbe District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Romainmôtier-Envy became part of the new district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.

Sculpture at Schoenthal

A number of well-known Swiss and international artists have integrated works of sculpture into the surrounding Jura countryside, including Tony Cragg, Nigel Hall, Richard Long and David Nash.

Swiss Army knife

Elsener, through his company Victorinox, managed to control the market until 1893, when the second industrial cutler of Switzerland, Paul Boéchat & Cie, headquartered in Delémont in the French-speaking region of Jura, started selling a similar product.

Tête de Moine

Tête de Moine is currently produced by fewer than 10 cheese dairies of the Jura Mountains area of Porrentruy, District of Franches-Montagnes, both situated in the Canton of Jura, as well as in Moutier and Courtelary, in the Bernese Jura.

Tourism TriRhena

The natural highlights have their presence with the astonishing landscapes of the Black Forest, Alsace, and the region of Jura in Baselland.

United States presidential election in North Dakota, 1996

All major counties in North Dakota turned out for Dole, including the (relativity) highly populated center of Cass County, which contains the city of Fargo.


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