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2 unusual facts about Louis Delaunay-Belleville


Delaunay-Belleville

Louis Delaunay joined the firm in 1867 and married Delaunay's daughter, changing his name to Delaunay-Belleville and succeeded Belleville in charge of the company.

Louis Delaunay-Belleville

He became a partner and finally head of the firm which produced the well-known Belleville boilers, and later the Delaunay-Belleville automobile.


Anna Caroline Oury

Anna Caroline (Charlotte) de Belleville-Oury was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany.

Asian French

The 13th arrondissement of Paris hosts Paris' Chinatown, a major community for the city's Asian population, as does the Belleville neighborhood.

Belleville Air Force Station

Belleville AFS was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network, primarily to provide air defense radar coverage for Saint Louis and Scott Air Force Base.

Belleville Airport

Belleville Airport is located three miles southwest of Belleville, Michigan in Van Buren Township.

Belleville Public Library and Information Center

The Belleville Public Library and Information Center is the free public library of Belleville, New Jersey located at 221 Washington Avenue.

Belleville washer

Belleville washers are seen on Formula One cars, as they provide extremely detailed tuning ability.

Canadian National class N-4 2-8-0

Number 2534 was preserved in Zwick Island Park, Belleville, Ontario; number 2601 in the Canadian Railway Historical Association Museum at Delson, Quebec; and number 2616 by the Kiwanis in Haliburton, Ontario.

Catholic Encyclopedia

There was controversy over the presence of the Catholic Encyclopedia in public libraries in the United States with nativist protests that this violated the separation of church and state, including a successful appeal in Belleville, New Jersey.

Chrétien Urhan

Chrétien Urhan (Baptised as Christian Urhan; 16 February 1790, Montjoie - 2 November 1845, Belleville) was a French violinist, organist, composer and player of the viola and the viola d'amore.

CJAD

CJAD broadcasts with 50,000 watts in the daytime and 10,000 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations using the 800 frequency, such as the country-formatted CJBQ in Belleville, Ontario, the moribund CHRC in Quebec City (which is approximately 250 miles 160 km away and has shut down in September 2012), and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario.

Clément Lépidis

Lépidis spent his childhood and adolescence in the Parisian neighbourhood of Belleville.

East St. Louis and Suburban Railway

This railroad moved commuters and express freight among various towns in the East St. Louis area including Belleville, Collinsville, Waterloo, Columbia, Granite City, National City, French Village, and Lebanon.

Gilbert Luis R. Centina III

Gilbert Luis R. Centina III of Belleville, New Jersey, an award-winning Catholic poet, is the author of five poetry books and two novels.

Howard Z. Plummer

After the death of Bishop Plummer on December 22, 1931 at a meeting of Church Officials held December 28, 1931 in Belleville, Elder Calvin S. Skinner consecrated Elder Howard Z. Plummer and proclaimed him as Leader of the Church of God and Saints of Christ.

Ian Gold

While attending Belleville High School in Belleville, Michigan, Gold starred in football, basketball, track & field, and symphony band.

Jack Winchester

Jack (Bill) Winchester (born 1882 in Belleville, Ontario) was a professional ice hockey player who played 93 games in various professional and amateur leagues, including the National Hockey Association and International Professional Hockey League.

James Blomfield

He was married in 1903 to Mary Augusta Diamond of Belleville, Ontario, who predeceased him in 1930.

John Macoun

By 1860 he was teaching school in Belleville, and had established correspondence with botanists such as Asa Gray, Sir William Jackson Hooker, George Lawson, and Louis-Ovide Brunet.

This allowed him in 1868 to secure a faculty position as a Professor of Botany and Geology at St. Alberts College in Belleville.

Josiah Hornblower

Josiah Hornblower (February 23, 1729 – January 21, 1809) was an English engineer and statesman in America Belleville, New Jersey.

Khaled J. Saleh

In 1966 Saleh emigrated with a number of family members to Canada, where the family eventually settled in Belleville, Ontario where Saleh completed his middle and high school education.

Lou Diamond

His parents, Herbert Caleb Diamond (1864–1932) and Mima Ellenor (1866–1921), were Canadians from Belleville, Ontario.

Marie Touchet

Marie Touchet (1549 – March 28, 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France.

Mascoutah Community High School

Mascoutah High School (also seen MCHS or MHS) serves students grades 9 to 12 from the city of Mascoutah and surrounding areas, including parts of Belleville and Scott Air Force Base.

Mathieu Amalric

He has three sons, two with his ex-wife Jeanne Balibar, and one with his girlfriend, a writer, with whom he currently lives in Belleville, Paris.

Michael Owen Jackels

Only Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence (on March 31) and Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Illinois (on March 15) were appointed after Jackels by Pope John Paul II.

Moira River

It travels from its source in the centre of the county to the county seat Belleville and is named after Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira.

Nancy Elizabeth Brown

She was then assigned to the Defense Commercial Communications Office at Scott Air Force Base in Belleville, Illinois.

Nancy McCredie

Nancy McCredie (born February 5, 1945 in Belleville, Ontario) is a retired female track and field athlete from Canada, who represented her native country in two events (discus and shot put) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Network Solutions

During January, 2006, Network Solutions acquired e-commerce solutions company MonsterCommerce co-founded by Stephanie Leffler and Ryan Noble in Belleville, Illinois.

Ritch Workman

Workman was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1973, and in 1980, his family moved from Canada to the state of Florida, despite never having been there before, due to the fact that Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada were successful in the 1980 federal election, and his father did not want to live in a socialist country.

SEA IV

It made its first flight during the first quarter of 1918, probably near Plessis-Belleville.

Shop 'n Save

Shop ’n Save was founded in 1979 as a grocery store in Belleville, Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.

SS Midland City

Assembled by the Gildersleeves (a shipbuilding family and political dynasty) and completed August 1871, Maud was originally intended to provide passenger and cargo service between Picton and Belleville, Ontario under the command of Captain W. Swales.

Stevie Cameron

Born in Belleville, Ontario, Stevie Cameron has an honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, worked for the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa in the 1960s, attended graduate school at University College London, England, for three years, and taught English literature at Trent University.

Tales of Two People

The rich young Duke of Belleville (pronounced Bevvle) visits his villa near Hampstead Heath, but late at night, he feels lonely and bored.

The Intelligencer

The Belleville Intelligencer, daily newspaper published in Belleville, Ontario

Thomas C. Brown

He attended the public schools, and a business school in Belleville, Ontario.

Uncle Tupelo discography

The discography of Uncle Tupelo, an alternative country band from Belleville, Illinois, consists of four studio albums, two compilation albums, three demo tapes, and five singles.

Waterloo, Illinois

This partnership, which goes by the portmanteau Portaloo, has since assised other communities in the area to establish Sister Cities programs of their own, including Columbia/Gedern, Belleville/Paderborn, and Millstadt/Groß-Bieberau.

William F. Holcomb

The gold rush was on, and miners founded the short-lived boom town of Belleville there.

The boomtown of Belleville grew up there and for a time was the third or fourth largest in Southern California.

Zack Werner

In August 2009, it was announced that Werner would host a weekend show on CJTN-FM (Rock 107) in Belleville, Ontario.


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