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2 unusual facts about French presidential election, 1981


Hélie de Noailles

The 1981 general election returned him to the Quay d'Orsay, where de Noailles became the second adviser of the French Embassy to the United States (1982–1986).

René Bousquet

After Mitterrand's election in the presidential election in 1981, Bousquet occasionally met him at the Élysée to "talk about politics".


1981 protests in Kosovo

In March and April 1981, a student protest in Priština, the capital of the Yugoslav and Serbian province of Kosovo, led to widespread protests by the Kosovo Albanians demanding more autonomy within the Yugoslav federation.

Ainārs

Ainārs Kovals (born 1981), a Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic medalist.

Arnold Lobel

Lobel won the 1981 Caldecott Medal from the American Library Association, recognizing Fables as the year's best-illustrated U.S. children's picture book.

Arundel Priory

M.T. Elvins, Arundel Priory 1380-1980: The College of the Holy Trinity, 1981

Celso Torrelio

Celso Torrelio Villa (June 3, 1933, Chuquisaca, Bolivia - April 23, 1999, La Paz) was a military general, a member of the Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces (1981), and de facto President of Bolivia between September 1981 and August 1982.

Ciudadela, Buenos Aires

The subject of ongoing controversy, its colloquial name stems from Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 movie about a crime-ridden part of New York City.

Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam

The main theme used is "The Raiders March", composed by John Williams, from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Eminent domain

In Stephen King's novel Roadwork, published in 1981, the protagonist's house is purchased to make way for a road extension.

Emmett Ripley Cox

He was in the U.S. Air National Guard from 1958 to 1964, and was in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama from 1959 to 1964, and in Mobile, Alabama from 1964 to 1981.

Field-sequential color system

Early Space Shuttle flights (from 1981 to 1995) used cameras with interchangeable lenses.

Gasnier

Mark Gasnier (born 1981), Australian rugby league player, and nephew of Reg

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Hussein Dokmak

Hussein Dokmak (born on December 13, 1981 in Lebanon - died on June 13, 2007 in Beirut, Lebanon) was an association football player who died from the results of a car bomb outside the Al Manara Stadium in which Lebanese politician Walid Eido was killed.

International Atomic Energy Agency

Cole served only one term, after which the IAEA was headed by two Swedes for nearly four decades: the scientist Sigvard Eklund held the job from 1961 to 1981, followed by former Swedish Foreign Minister Hans Blix, who served from 1981 to 1997.

Jean Willrich

That year they failed to qualify for the playoffs but the next year (1981-82, they swept to the championship.

Jean-Jacques Pierre

Jean-Jacques Pierre (born 23 January 1981 in Léogâne) is a Haitian footballer currently plays for French club SM Caen.

Jimmy Wang

James Yun (born 1981), wrestler who uses the ring name Jimmy Wang Yang

Just Pickin'

It includes different previously unreleased demos spanning from 1967 to 1981, featuring Brendan Croker, Mark Knopfler and Sholto Lenaghan.

Justin Kaplan

Walt Whitman won the 1981 award for hardcover "Autobiography/Biography".

KTXH

The group signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXA in Fort Worth, in January 1981.

Lyudmila Narusova

Lyudmila Narusova is the widow of Anatoly Sobchak (1937—2000), who was a prominent Russian politician, mentor and teacher of both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, and the mother of Kseniya Sobchak (born 1981), who is a celebrity widely known in Russia as a presenter on the reality show Dom-2 and other TV-shows.

Makara Jyothi

# Makara Jyothikku Purakil (The secret of Makara Jyothi) - Unni Kakkanad (Yukthivadi, February 1981)

Manuel Candamo

One of them, Teresa De La Cruz, founded the convent Canonesas de La Cruz, and was given the title of Servant of God in 1981 by the Catholic Church, which means her life is being studied in order to eventually grant her the title of Saint.

Mark Carlisle

Thatcher writes in her memoirs that Carlisle "had not proved a particularly effective Education Secretary" and to this effect he was dismissed in the September 1981 Cabinet reshuffle.

Matheus Facho Inocêncio

Matheus Facho Inocêncio (first name also written Mateus; born 17 May 1981 in Patrocínio Paulista) is a Brazilian athlete who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles.

Matis

In 1981, over 50 Matis people died of disease, so the survivors moved to the Ituí River.

MF Global

MF Global's former parent, then known as ED&F Man, diversified from pure cash commodities into commodity futures in the late 1970s, and established the Anderson Man futures brokerage in 1981.

Michael DiMercurio

DiMercurio was a 1980 honors graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a B.S. in mechanical engineering, a 1981 National Science Foundation Scholarship fellow at MIT with a masters degree in mechanical engineering, and an officer in the U.S. Navy’s attack submarine force.

Neo-Gramscianism

The beginning of the Neo-Gramscian perspective can be traced to York University professor emeritus, Robert W. Cox's article "Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory", in Millennium 10 (1981) 2, and "Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method", published in Millennium 12 (1983) 2.

Øyvin Thon

He is also five times Relay champion, as a member of the Norwegian winning teams in 1981 (Thun, Switzerland), 1983 (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary), 1985 (Bendigo, Australia), 1987 (Gérardmer, France) and 1989 (Skaraborg, Sweden).

Pascal Bary

He has been training since 1981, having previously worked as an assistant to François Boutin.

Pontiac

The Firebird continued to fly high on the success of the 'Smokey and the Bandit' film, still offering Formula and Trans Am packages, plus a Pontiac first- a turbocharged V-8, for the 1980 and 1981 model years.

Raymond L. Brett

He held a number of Visiting Professorships: University of Rochester, USA, 1958–1959; Kiel University, University of Osnabrück, 1977; University of Baroda, Jadavpur University, 1978; University of Ottawa, 1981.

Reality distortion field

Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.

Robin J. Cauthron

Ralph Gordon Thompson, of the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1981.

Ronald Lee Martin

In 1981 he left ABC to work for Merv Griffin's post-production studio, Trans American Video (TAV), where he worked with film and the telecine systems that transfer optical images to video.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

Sadomania

Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.

Shyamlal Yadav

He attended 68th (1981) & 69th (1982) conferences held in Havana & Rome respectively.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

He served as a law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and from 1981 to 1987 was on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School.

Thiago Cruz Reggiani

Thiago Cruz Reggiani, known as Thiago Cruz (born 15 July 1981 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a football manager and a former striker.

Thomas McManus

Tam McManus (Thomas Kelly McManus, born 1981), Scottish footballer

Thomas Puskailer

Thomas Puskailer was born in Lichtenvoorde on March 2, 1981 to mother Gabriela Katarina Puskailer and dentist and Slovak photographer Bohumil Jan Puskailer.

Typhoon Saturday

Formed in 1981 from the ashes of Worksop band Veiled Threat, singer Elaine McLeod, Bassist Derek Taylor and drummer Nigel Fitzpatrick recruited Nick Robinson on guitar to form Red Zoo.

Ugandan Bush War

The Ugandan Bush War (also known as the Luwero War, the Ugandan civil war or the Resistance War) refers to the guerrilla war waged between 1981 and 1986 in Uganda by the National Resistance Army (NRA) against the government of Milton Obote, and later that of Tito Okello.

West Town, Peterborough

Also transferred were Thorpe Hall (maternity 1943–1970), The Gables (maternity 1947–1970), the Smallpox Hospital (1884–1970), Isolation Hospital (1901–1981), and St. John's Close (mentally ill c.1930–1971).

William Bemister

A 58-minute version of the film was later telecast on PBS in the United States for which Bemister won the 1981 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism on U.S. Network Television and the 1982 CINE Golden Eagle Award.

William C. Conner

In a 1981 decision later reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case brought by Harpo Marx's widow Susan Fleming, Conner ruled that the producers of A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine had improperly used the Marx Brothers characters in their Broadway theatre production and that the publicity rights of the comedians, even after their deaths, overrode the First Amendment claims of the show's creators.

William Richert

Richert claimed Sorkin's screenplay was a thinly-veiled plagiarism of Richert's 1981 'The President Elopes', and that the television series The West Wing was derived from part of the same screenplay.

Yeram S. Touloukian

"In Memoriam: Professor Yeram S. Touloukian, 1920-1981." International Journal of Thermophysics Vol.


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