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unusual facts about Ici, d'ailleurs...


OuMuPo 2

It was released on October 19, 2004, by the French record label Ici, d'ailleurs... Records.


9th Canadian Folk Music Awards

Njacko Backo & Kalimba Kalimba - Ici bas, rien n'est impossible (Here Below, Nothing is Impossible)

Ammonia Avenue

The title of the album was inspired by Eric Woolfson's visit to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Billingham, England, where the first thing he saw was a street with miles of pipes, no people, no trees and a sign that said 'Ammonia Avenue'.

Artistic-Athévains

Recent productions have included lesser-known works by Carlo Goldoni, Leo Tolstoi, Eugène Labiche, Robert de Flers and Gaston de Caillavet, as well as modern works by Michel Vinaver (Les travaux et les jours) and Robert Pinget (Ici ou ailleurs) — also Molière's major classic George Dandin.

Bank Foot Metro station

For the first few years of the Metro, it shared the line with occasional British Rail freight trains running to the ICI depot at Callerton, where explosives were transferred from rail to road for onward transport to quarries in Northumberland; this traffic ceased in 1989.

Botany, New South Wales

Botany also has a large chemical production facility owned by several companies including Huntsman and Orica (previously ICI).

Céline sur les Plaines

"L'amour existe encore" performed by Dion and Éric Lapointe during the Quebec's concert appeared on Lapointe's album Ailleurs Volume 1, released on April 28, 2009.

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside

Hinton then worked for Brunner Mond,later part of ICI, where he became Chief Engineer at the age of 29.

Christopher John Lamb

From 1975 to 1982 he worked at the University of Oxford, first as an ICI Research Fellow in the School of Botany, then as a Browne Research Fellow at The Queen's College.

Crimplene

Britain's defunct ICI Fibres Laboratory developed the fibre in the early 1950s and named it after the Crimple Valley in which the company was situated.

Dalibor Matanić

Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (Blagajnica hoće ići na more, 2000) - writer and director

Du soleil au cœur

Du soleil au cœur included an extended version of "Ne me plaignez pas" and one new song, called "À quatre pas d'ici" (French adaptation of Bucks Fizz's UK number 1 hit "The Land of Make Believe").

Explosive ROF

A number of UK World War II explosives factories were built and owned by ICI.

Fusarium venenatum

The strain Fusarium venenatum A3/5 (IMI 145425, ATCC PTA-2684) was developed commercially by an ICI and Rank Hovis McDougall joint venture to derive a mycoprotein used as a food.

Gomia

Gomia took shape around the year 1956, when the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI as its popularly known as), set up commercial explosives (IEL) factory here.

ICI Laboratory

Britain's defunct ICI Laboratory developed the fibre in the early 1950s and named it after the Crimple Valley in which the company was situated.

ICI Paris XL

The name ICI Paris XL means 'This is Paris' and was derived from the train trips that were undertaken by the founders on the their way to buy perfume from the French capital Paris.

Ici RDI

Ici RDI provides news, business, weather and sports information on Air Canada's inflight entertainment as well as being seen in five major Canadian airports as RDI express.

Institute of Cultural Inquiry

Bataille's Eye & ICI Field Notes 4 (1995): an examination of philosopher Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, focusing on the publication and translation history of Bataille's text.

Jeremy Coller

Coller's early career was spent as Head of Research at Fidelity International and as a sector fund manager at ICI Pension Plan, where he was an early investor in Dayton Carr's Venture Capital Fund of America, an early secondaries firm.

Josette Day

Her films include Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932), The Merry Monarch (based on Les Aventures du roi Pausole) (1933), Lucrèce Borgia (1935), L'homme du jour (1937), Accord final (1938), La Belle et la Bête (1946) and Les Parents terribles (1948).

June Laverick

June followed an acting career in theatre, film and television and after retiring from acting in her 30s June moved back to Redcar, marrying an ICI process worker and briefly taking over the licence of The Royal Hotel before returning south alone.

Katy Schimert

She was recently included in the group exhibitions: …drawling, stretching and fainting in coils…, Fest-Spiele+ 2007, Pinakothek der Moderne and Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany (2007); Sculptors Drawing, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (2007); and Space Is the Place, organized by Independent Curators International and traveling to six venues throughout the United States from 2006 to 2008.

Les corons

In 2010, the Quebec singer Jean-Philippe Bergeron recorded a version of the song in his album Elle est d'ailleurs, produced by Guy St-Onge and consecrated to 12 of Bachelet's best known hits.

Les Retrouvailles

Released in 2005 through Ici, d'ailleurs... record label, it features a number of high-profile guest vocalists, both French and Anglophone alike: Christophe Miossec, Dominique A, Elizabeth Fraser (of the Cocteau Twins), Jane Birkin, and Stuart Staples (of the Tindersticks).

Lisa Jarnot

John Ashbery, Thomas Evans; (Independent Curators International, 2007) ISBN 0-916365-75-1

Maurice Ward

He invented the material after ICI requested a material for Citroën bonnets.

Roberto Dipiazza

The goal to reduce the “ICI” (a local tax on Real estate) was Di Piazza’s priority which implied a strict intervention on public expenses without touching the running of the municipality’s administrative structure and services, and it was a matter of debate in the city whether the services were really not touched.

Robin Batterham

He received a scholarship from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to undertake postgraduate studies at the central research laboratories of ICI in the United Kingdom.

Rodney Trotter

In The Long Legs of the Law Del remarks that ICI have dropped a point, to which Rodney replies that "Chelsea dropped 3 on Saturday!"

Russell Brown

In 1974 he began work as a plant operative at ICI and remained with the company until his election to Westminster.

Sami Essid

"The Islamic Cultural Institute was known as the ICI. This mosque was shut down by Italian authorities for housing the Sami Essid Ben Khemais network, which is the core for the Tunisian Combat Group (TCG) in Italy."

Science fiction libraries and museums

An important museum of the genre is Maison d’Ailleurs ("House of Elsewhere") in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, housing a large collection of literature relating to science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys.

Maison d’Ailleurs ("House of Elsewhere"), Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland (founded 1976 and holding more than 40,000 books and other items)

Severnside

The term is also sometimes used more specifically to refer to the partly undeveloped area north west of Bristol, between Chittening and Severn Beach, where Imperial Chemical Industries built a large chemical plant in the 1960s, known as ICI Severnside.

Synthonia

ICI produced this product at one of its many plants in Billingham in the 20th century.

Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway

In the 1970s the northern section of the line was revived after ICI developed Boulby potash mine next to the former route, north of the village of Boulby in Redcar and Cleveland.


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