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2 unusual facts about Grandfontaine, Bas-Rhin


Nicolas Freeling

Freeling was born in London, but travelled widely, and ended his life at his long-standing home at Grandfontaine to the west of Strasbourg.

Raon-sur-Plaine

Most of the woodland which before 1871 belonged to Raon-sur-Plaine in Lorraine therefore remains, since that date, controlled from Grandfontaine in Alsace.


Alfred Gatley

In 1844 he received the silver medal for the best model from the life, and exhibited marble busts of "Cupid" and "Psyche", and in 1846 he exhibited a bust of Marshal Espartero, and a model in bas-relief of "The Hours leading out the Horses of the Sun", which went to the library of Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire.

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Armagnac-Ténarèze

This area lies between Bas-Armagnac and Haut-Armagnac, covering the northwestern part of the department of Gers and the southern part of Lot-et-Garonne.

Attacking Cavalryman Statue

Each of the pedestal's four sides had bronze bas-reliefs with images from the battles fought by the 2nd cavalry division at Prunaru, Măgheruș, the Dniester and Tisza-Budapest.

Bas-Congo

At the time of the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the province was part of the greater province of Leopoldville, along with the city of Kinshasa and the districts of Kwango, Kwilu and Mai-Ndombe.

The remainder of the province is divided into the districts of Bas-Fleuve, Cataractes and Lukaya.

Bas-Uele District

Bas-Uele District is a district located in Orientale Province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Basarab I of Wallachia

The linguist Sorin Paliga suggests that - despite many opposite hypotheses - his name may be one of the Thracian anthroponomical relics in Romanian, since the root bas-, bes- is well attested in Thracian (cf. Albanian besë ‘creed, faith’).

Bischheim Musée du bain rituel juif

The Bischheim Musée du bain rituel juif (Jewish ritual bath museum of Bischheim) is a museum in Bischheim, France, in which Jewish bathing rituals were practiced, now recognized as a historical monument in France.

Borghese Vase

On a reduced scale, the vases made admirable wine coolers in silver, or in silver-gilt, as Paul Storr delivered them to the Prince Regent in 1808 (Haskell and Penny 1981:315.) John Flaxman based a bas-relief on the frieze of the Borghese Vase.

Buhl, Haut-Rhin

Buhl is situated in the valley of the Lauch, at the foot of the Vosges Mountains and the Grand Ballon (1424 m) and surrounded by forests whose hills reach altitudes ranging from 395 to 860 metres.

Château de Hohenfels

The Château de Hohenfels is a castle situated in the commune of Dambach, in the Bas-Rhin département of France.

Church of the Nativity

The Bas-relief of the Tree of Jesse is a large work by well-known religious sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj which was recently incorporated into the Church of St. Catherine as a gift of Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to the Holy Land in 2009.

Crossair Europe

Crossair Europe (European Continental Airways) was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland.

Dobryninskaya

The side ones feature images of two Parades on the Red Square, the left one of Soviet athletes and the right of the Soviet Military, which featured a portrait of Stalin being carried, and like the bas-relief in the Central Hall, this was removed in 1961 and then carefully replaced with an image of Yuri Gagarin.

Edoardo Alfieri

Some of his works are abstract, for instance the Mele grave at Staglieno, or the bas-relief "Furor Mathematicus".

Eleanor Mannikka

In her best-known work, Angkor Wat: Time, Space and Kingship, she argues that the dimensions, alignment and bas-reliefs of Angkor Wat encode a message that Suryavarman II was the divinely appointed king.

Ferdinand Faivre

These included decorative groups for the Zurich Bank, for the Cairo Museum, the facade of the Royal Automobile Club in London and many buildings in Paris; among the latter was a figure of Abundance for the Ritz and the 1906 bas reliefs of the seasons for Madame Hériot's town-house.

Florimont

The site of Florimont has been occupied since the Roman period, probably by a lookout tower charged with supervising the movement of troops on their way connecting Mandeure in Doubs to Augst and Kembs in Haut-Rhin.

Fontaine de Léda

The fountain was condemned by the critic Amaury Duval in 1812 because of the subject of the bas-relief, Jupiter transforming himself into a swan to seduce Leda.

Free-range eggs

Many retailers in the Netherlands, including Albert Heijn and Schuitema (subsidiaries of Ahold), Laurus (including Edah, Konmar and Super de Boer), Dirk van den Broek (including Bas van der Heijden and Digros), Aldi and Lidl sell only free-range shell eggs.

Gascoigne baronets

The most prominent artefact removed to Lotherton Hall was the Thomas Banks bas-relief marble of the classic scene Alcyone and Ceyx.

Gordon H. Mansfield

In attendance were dignitaries such as Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, CEO of Soldier On Jack Downing and Director of Homeless Programs for the Veterans Administration Peter Dougherty, who, with Mansfield’s wife Linda, unveiled a large bronze bas relief of Mansfield by sculptor Andrew DeVries that marks the entrance to the community.

Hel Fortified Area

In 1948, the battery was redone, its name was changed to 13 BAS, and Soviet-made B-13 130 mm naval guns were mounted.

Hubert Schardin

He also was the director of the German-French Research Institute (ISL) in Saint-Louis (France) and founder and director of the Fraunhofer Society for High-Speed Dynamics - Ernst-Mach-Institut (EMI) - in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Joanes Leizarraga

Having negotiated the tricky issue of translating into a language which by then had no great written tradition, common standard or spelling system, he persevered with some help from four old Catholic colleagues: Piarres Landetxeberri from Espès-Undurein, Sanz de Tartas from Charritte-de-Bas (both in Soule), Joanes Etxeberri from Saint-Jean-de-Luz and a Mr Tardets who was a minister in Ostabat.

Kenge

Kenge, Bas-Congo, a town in Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Khepri

The 'Khepri' are featured prominently as a race in China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels.

Mission of Full Gospel – Christian Open Door

In 1965, despite the pastor's opposition, he decided, with the help of his cousin, Jean Widemer, a pastor in Valentigney, to open a small meeting room in Thann, then in Mulhouse in 1966.

National emblem of Indonesia

Temples such as Mendut, Borobudur, Sajiwan, Prambanan, Penataran, Belahan, and Sukuh depict the images (bas-relief or statue) of Garuda.

Ngaliema

It stretches south towards Mont Ngaliema and along the main road linking Kinshasa and the city of Matadi in Bas-Congo.

Porrentruy

In 1800, this department was incorporated into the Département du Haut-Rhin as a sub-département.

Raised-relief map

In his 1665 paper for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, John Evelyn (1620–1706) believed that wax models imitating nature and bas relief maps were something entirely new from France.

Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey

The main portal has an architrave with bas-reliefs commissioned by abbot Guillaume and realized in 1019-1020 in white marble from Céret.

Sampot

It has been documented that people from Takéo Province have woven silk since the Funan era and records, bas-relief and Zhou Daguan's report have shown that looms were used to weave sampots since ancient times.

Sarre

Sarre-Union, a commune of the Bas-Rhin département in Alsace, France

Sather Tower

--Professor "of" Greek?-->Greek Isaac Flag, "We ring, we chime, we toll, / Lend ye the silent part / Some answer in the heart, / Some echo in the soul." The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10,500 pound "Great Bear Bell," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

Seke-Banza Territory

Seke-Banza Territory is an administrative area in the Bas-Fleuve District, Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the north of the city of Matadi.

Suren Nazaryan

Being a young sculptor, in 1964, Suren Nazaryan received permission from Catholicos of All Armenians, Vazgen I, to create the bas-reliefs of the five most important and famous cathedrals of Armenian architecture (St. Hripsime, Etchmiadzin, Zvartnots, Holy Cross Akhthamar, and Ani) for the throne hall of Catholicos’s residence.

Tangawisi

Historically, this drink was formulated by Bakongo people, in Bas-Congo province, to soothe discomfort caused by dysentery and hemorrhoid.

Thiviers-Payzac Unit

The Thiviers-Payzac Unit, sometimes still called Thiviers-Payzac Nappe or Bas-Limousin Group, was named after Thiviers and Payzac, two small towns in the northeastern Dordogne situated within the unit's outcrop area.

Valliscaulian Order

The tomb of the Dukes of Burgundy, now removed to Dijon, was originally erected at Val-des-Choux; in bas-reliefs of a blind arcading of its base are the only representations of the monks of Val-de-Choux.

Venus Anadyomene

Through the desire of Renaissance artists reading Pliny to emulate Apelles, and, if possible, to outdo him, Venus Anadyomene was taken up again in the 15th century: besides Botticelli's famous Birth of Venus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence), another early Venus Anadyomene is the bas-relief by Antonio Lombardo from Wilton House (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Viodos-Abense-de-Bas

Pete Aguereberry (1874–1945): A pioneer in the discovery of gold deposits in the Death Valley (United States).

West House

Westhouse, a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France

Wildenstein Castle

Château de Wildenstein, ruined castle in the Alsace region of France, situated in the commune of Kruth in the Haut-Rhin département

Worm-like chain

O. Kratky, G. Porod (1949), "Röntgenuntersuchung gelöster Fadenmoleküle." Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas. 68: 1106-1123.


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