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unusual facts about Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques


Pierre de Marca

Pierre de Marca (January 24, 1594 – June 29, 1662) was a French bishop and historian, born at Gan in Béarn of a family distinguished in the magistracy.


1984 Pau Grand Prix

This race was held around the streets of the city of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, south-western France, on 11 June.

Agnotherium

The first specimen was located in strata zone MN 4 in Alsace, France Other locations were: En Pejouan, Midi-Pyrenees Region; Pontigne.

Ainhoa, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

In 1794, at the height of the Terror and after the desertion of forty seven young people from Itxassou, the Committee of Public Safety (Decree of 13 Ventôse Year II - 3 March 1794) arrested and deported some of the inhabitants (men, women and children) of Ainhoa, Ascain, Espelette, Itxassou, Sare, and Souraïde and decreed that these communes like the other communes of the Spanish border were "infamous communes".

Anhai

The 19th-century researchers writing for the Hakluyt Society thought Anhai (Gan-hai) was the port of "Tansuso" visited by Martín de Rada, but later research identified Tansuso as

Antin, Hautes-Pyrénées

The former Barony then Marquisate, was elevated to a duchy by Louis XIV (former lover of Mme de Montespan) in 1711 for Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin and was passed down his family till its extinction in 1757 at the death of Louis Antoine's great grandson Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1727–1757) who died in Breme during the Seven Years' War.

Arros

Larceveau-Arros-Cibits, a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Axlor

Axlor has a sequence of Middle Paleolithic levels, representing the later stages of the Mousterian in the Pyrenees region.

Bombus monticola

Bombus monticola is found in most mountainous areas of Europe, as northern Scandinavia (mostly Norway and northern Sweden; the distribution in Finland is rather patchy, and confined to the area along the Norwegian border), the Alps, the Cantabrian Mountains, the Pyrenees, the Apennines and in the Balkans.

Camon

Camon, Ariège, a commune in the Midi-Pyrénées region of southern France

Chistorra

In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are two different sorts of txistorra; one of them made only of pork meat and another made of lungs, boned pig head and the pancreas, called berika.

Common bream

The common bream's home range is Europe north of the Alps and Pyrenees, as well as the Balkans.

Escaladieu Abbey

Escaladieu Abbey (French: l'Abbaye de l'Escaladieu) was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

Fernando Latapi

His grandfather was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the south of France, and his mother’s family came form Tlacotalpan, Veracruz.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941

At the 1946 meeting in Pau, France, the FIS declared this a non-event because of the limited number of competitors.

Gert Heinrich Wollheim

He was arrested in 1939 and held in a series of labor camps in France (Vierzon, Ruchard, Gurs and Septfonds) until his escape in 1942, after which he and his wife hid in the Pyrénées with the help of a peasant woman.

Guiche

Guiche, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Guiche, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

The anime/manga Rose of Versailles references Guiche as a dukedom when the "Duke de Guiche" (Duke of Guiche) plays a role in the story where the Duchess of Polignac engages both of her daughters to be married to him against their will (one of which, Rosalie Lamorlière, plays a central role in the story).

Henry John Clements

# Catharine, born 3 February 1822 at Ashford Lodge, died 18 September 1830 at Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

Hillel Noah Maggid

Among these may be noted his biography of David Oppenheim, rabbi of Prague (in "Gan Peraḥim," 1882), and his notes on the history of the Jewish community of Lemberg (in "Anshe Shem," 1895).

Jacques de la Palice

La Palice was sent again to the Pyrenees, and then to the successful attempt to rescue Marseille from Duke of Bourbon's siege.

Jacques Marinelli

Marinelli rode above himself and exploited the rivalry between Coppi and Bartali to keep the lead for another five days, as far as the Pyrenees.

Jean-Pierre Serre

Born in Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, to pharmacist parents, Serre was educated at the Lycée de Nîmes and then from 1945 to 1948 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Labatut

Labatut, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

Madani Bouhouche

He moved to the French Pyrenees, living isolated in the small city of Fougax-et-Barrineuf, being responsible for a rental accommodation of an old friend, Alain Weykamp.

Martial Singher

Martial Singher (August 14, 1904 - March 9, 1990) was a French baritone opera singer born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Menorah

Knesset Menorah, a bronze monument located at the edge of Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) in front of the Knesset.

Monbar Hotel attack

The trial of Pierre Frugoli and Lucien Mattei opened on 30 November 1987 in Pau, France.

Navicular syndrome

Gallium nitrate (GaN) has been hypothesized as a possible treatment for navicular disease, but its benefits have not been confirmed by formal clinical studies.

Nicole Peyrafitte

Nicole Peyrafitte (born June 18, 1960) is a Pyrenean-born performance artist who considers herself a "Gascorican" (an American from Gascony).

Norath

About 1000 BC, it seems that the Celts, coming from the east, crossed the Rhine and settled the lands between that river on the one side and the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees on the other.

Octave Lapize

The following year he went head-to-head with Alcyon teammate Faber who led comfortably until colliding with a dog at the foot of the Pyrenees.

Potentilla alchemilloides

Potentilla alchemilloides, the Alchemilla-leaved Cinquefoil, is a species of cinquefoil (genus Potentilla) native to the Pyrenees.

Pyrénées-Orientales

Pyrénées-Orientales consists of three river valleys in the Pyrenees mountain range –from north to south, those of the Agly, Têt and Tech– and the eastern Plain of Roussillon into which they converge.

Qi of Xia

Qi led his army to fight the rebellious prince of Hu County at the Battle of Gan (background of the "Speech at Gan" chapter in the Shang shu).

Rancho El Escorpión

Miguel Leonis (1824–1889) was born in Basque Cambo-les-Bains-in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a traditional French département in the southwest of France.

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base

Since then helicopters from Rheine saw action in as different places as Italy, Greece and the Pyrenees mainly by offering help and logistic support after natural disasters.

Richard Spruce

This early interest in botany led to his being sent on a collecting trip in the Pyrenees in 1845-6.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayonne

Until 1566, the Diocese of Bayonne included much Spanish territory, i.e. the four Archpresbyteries of Baztan, Lerin, Bortziria in Navarre, and Hondarribia in Guipuzcoa, a remnant of Charlemagne's conquests beyond the Pyrenees.

Saint-Juéry XIII

Saint-Juéry XIII, nicknamed the Scorpions, are a French Rugby League club based in Saint-Juéry, Tarn in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Salix herbacea

herbacea is adapted to survive in harsh environments, and has a wide distribution on both sides of the North Atlantic, in arctic northwest Asia, northern Europe, Greenland, and eastern Canada, and further south on high mountains, south to the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Rila in Europe, and the northern Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.

SeisQuaRe

Seisquare has worked over different countries from offices in Paris, Pau, Stavanger and Rio.

Tarbes Cathedral

Tarbes Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-la-Sède de Tarbes) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France located in the town of Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées.

Tirso de Molina

That his reputation extended beyond the Pyrenees in his own lifetime may be gathered from the fact that James Shirley's Opportunity is derived from El Castigo del penséque; but he was neglected in Spain itself during the long period of Calderón's supremacy, and his name was almost forgotten till the end of the 18th century, when some of his pieces were timidly recast by Dionisio Solis and later by Juan Carretero.

Vía de la Plata

After its establishment, the Via Delapidata crossed Hispania from Cádiz, through the Pyrenees, towards Gallia Narbonensis (southern France) and Rome in the Italian Peninsula.

VPC Andorra XV

Despite some early hard beginning, VPC Andorra XV has been rising steadily and currently live sporting level, a period which is fairly positive having won two promotions and two Honneur Midi-Pyrénées Championship finals, competing in Fédérale 3.

Ward McAllister

He used the earnings from his legal prowess to journey throughout Europe's great cities and spas—Bath, Pau, Bad Nauheim, and the like-—where he observed the mannerisms of the titled nobility.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (달마가 동쪽으로 간 까닭은? - Dalmaga dongjjok-euro gan ggadakeun?) (1989) is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul.

William Craven, 5th Earl of Craven

He died on 15 September 1932 of peritonitis at Pau, France, at the age of 35, and was succeeded by his son, William Robert Bradley Craven, 6th Earl of Craven.


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