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4 unusual facts about Landes


Charles Roach Smith

When, through the medium of his friend, the Abbé Cochet, he intervened successfully with Napoleon III for the preservation of the Roman walls of Dax, a medal was struck in France in 1858 in honour of Roach Smith to commemorate the event.

Stéphanos I Sidarouss

He was educated at houses of studies belonging to this religious institute in France, where he was ordained to the priesthood on July 22, 1939, in Dax.

Teodósio de Gouveia

Due to the German invasion, they were again moved in 1914, this time to the Lazarist seminary in Dax.

Vincent Ribeton

He has been the chaplain of the community of faithful entrusted to the Fraternity in Clermont, Landes by the bishop of Aire-et-Dax since 2004.


Alfred Piccaver

His studies led to a three-year contract with the Deutsches Landes-Theater in Prague where he made his debut on 9 September 1907 in Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Chrétien Urhan

Ulrich Schuppener, Christian Urhan. Zum 200. Geburtstag des bedeutenden Musikers aus Monschau (Christian Urhan: On the 200th Birthday of the Distinguished Musician from Monschau): (Beiträge zur Geschichte des Monschauer Landes, 2), Geschichtsverein des Monschauer Landes (Contributions to the History of the Monschau Province, no. 2: Monschau Province History Society).

Cultural history

Historians who might be grouped under this umbrella are Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, Patrice Higonnet, Lynn Hunt, Keith Baker, Joan Landes, Mona Ozouf and Sarah Maza.

Demetae

Their origin is uncertain, however, a number of place names are similar to what were Celtic regions in what is now the Bordeaux region of France as Llanmadoc and Landes du Médoc, Gwynedd and Gironde, Demetae and Devèze, suggestive of Pre-Roman Celtic Northerly travels on the portside of the North Atlantic Current.

Esclusham

... the towneshipp of Esclusham, beeing part of ye said manno', is bounden from Minera by a little purle of water running from the mountayne called Glas-bry, downe by the landes called Tir Kelin, and so to Clywedog vpon ye west by the landes of Hugh ap Robert ap Howell in ye manno' of Minera, and part of Glasbrie, and part of ye mountayne towardes y Groes Newydd ; but the certaine boundes vpon ye said mountayne they cannot sett downe.

Floc de Gascogne

The production area is spread across three regions: Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and the Landes.

Frêche

Le Frêche, a municipality in the Landes department of south-west France

Mark Terrill

Together with the poet Cralan Kelder, he co-edits the poetry journal Full Metal Poem, which has published work by Ron Padgett, John Wieners, Joanne Kyger, Cid Corman, Bob Arnold, F.A. Nettelbeck, Louise Landes Levi and others.

Michael Landes

On television, in Love Soup, a British television comedy-drama produced by BBC Television and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005, Michael Landes was the male lead as Gil Raymond in Series 1.

Randal Bays

In 1995 Bays began releasing his own albums under the Foxglove Records label, which he founded, including "Out of the Woods", "The Salmon's Leap", "House to House" with Roger Landes—voted best traditional album of 2005 by the Irish Times--"Overland" with Dáithí Sproule, and several more.

Richard Landes

Landes is also notable for views on the use of film footage related to conflicts in Israel, in particular his use of the term Pallywood (Palestinian Hollywood), which is described by Ruthie Blum, writing in the Jerusalem Post, as a term coined by Landes to refer to "productions staged by the Palestinians, in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news."

Sport in Jersey

For horse racing, Les Landes Race Course can be found at Les Landes in St Ouen next to the ruins of Grosnez Castle.

William Landes

William M. Landes (born c. 1939) is an American economist who has written widely about the economic analysis of law.


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