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unusual facts about Métropole


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More recent work, starting with that of John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson in the 1950s, has questioned the traditional definition, positing instead that the two were mutually constituitive and maintaining that despite the apparent temporal inconsistencies inherent in their separate existences, each formed simultaneously in relation to the other.


2010 redistricting of French legislative constituencies

A total of 41 départments (both in the Métropole and overseas) were affected by "major imbalances" between districts.

Colony of Niger

While commanded by officers of the French Troupes de marine, its budget and administration was dependent on the Lieutenant Governor at Kayes (latter Bamako), and military decision making—as well as contact with authorities in the Metropole or other colonies was through the Governor General in Dakar.

Corinthia Hotel London

In the James Bond comic strip in the Daily Express the artist Yaroslav Horak quite often depicted the Metropole Building as MI6 HQ.

Heritage hotels in Vietnam

In Hanoi, the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi opened in 1901 as le Metropole and endures today as the country's foremost address in hospitality.

Ladies in Love

Tyrone Power and Loretta Young made such an impact in this movie that they were quickly paired by the studio in several more films, including Love Is News (1937), Cafe Metropole (1937), Second Honeymoon (1937), and Suez (1938).

Maurício Waldman

His thesis, Água e Metrópole: Limites e Expectativas do Tempo (Water and Metropolis, Limits and Expectations of the Time), is today the more complex and bigger academical work (5 v.) about Brazilian water resources and Water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (see External Links).

Metropole Internment Camp

Cabaret performances were produced by internees in the dining room of Metropole Hotel, which was also used for indoor sports outside of mealtimes.

Pete St. John

His songs often express regret for the loss of old certainties (the former song regrets the loss of Nelson's Pillar and the Metropole Ballroom, two symbols of old Dublin, as progress makes a "city of my town").

Sidney Harry Fox

The case was dramatised as "Murder at The Metropole" in 1976 as part of the "Killers" television series; Fox was played by Christopher Timothy.

Slobodan Trkulja

On April 17, in Hilversum, Netherlands, Balkanopolis and Metropole Orchestra started their collaboration by recording the program for the interval act of Eurovision.

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole (commonly known as UJA Alfortville or simply Alfortville) is a French association football club based in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris.


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