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72 unusual facts about Nice


1959–60 in Turkish football

They were knocked out by OGC Nice in the first round after losing out in the play-off match.

2006 Paris–Nice

By winning the peloton sprint in Saint-Amand-Montrond ahead of Allan Davis, Tom Boonen (who finished fifth in the prologue stage five seconds down on Bobby Julich) took over the yellow/white jersey due to the time bonus awarded to stage winners.

Antonio Giovanni Lanzirotti

He sends to Paris, a statue La pensieroso, another La schiava, the first found in London, and the second sold to the museum of Nice.

Aouzou Strip

France's other motivations in concluding this agreement with Italy were to settle the status of the Italian Tunisian community in its protectorate of the country, to remove irredentist Italian claims to Nice, and to prevent Italy from growing closer to Nazi Germany by keeping it closely aligned with France and the United Kingdom (the Stresa Front).

Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond

In 1927, he married Emmeline Mary Low at the Consular Office in Nice, France and they subsequently had two children, Mary and John.

Astra C

On 22 March 1913, using at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion, French operator Compagnie Générale Transaérienne started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating from Cannes to Nice.

Balázs Kiss

His season's best throw was 81.76 metres, achieved in July in Nice.

Bellotti's goby

Gobius ater, Bellotti's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands and the Gulf of Lion to Nice and Sardinia.

Bruce Heard

Heard was born in Nice, France on March 9, 1957 to his French mother and U. S. Navy officer father.

Cadillac Brougham

Originally used for a single horse drawn enclosed carriage for 2-4 people, the “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").

Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham

Originally an enclosed carriage, drawn by a single horse, for 2–4 persons, “Brougham” owes its name to a British statesman, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, whose second claim to fame is having given to the sea-front drive, in Nice, in the South of France, the nickname of Promenade des Anglais (the "promenade where the English stroll").

Christian Azzi

In February 1948, with encouragement from Hugues Panassié, the orchestra played at the first jazz festival in Nice, with immediate success.

Christine Alix de Massy

Christine Alix de Massy (Noghès) (Monaco, 8 July 1951 – Nice, 15 February 1989) was born to Princess Antoinette of Monaco and her then lover Alexandre-Athenase Noghès.

Colman Andrews

In 1992, Andrews published his second book, Everything on the Table: Plain Talk About Food and Wine, a collection of new and revised short pieces, and shortly thereafter he began work on a book about the cuisines of Genoa and Nice, Flavors of the Riviera: Discovering Real Mediterranean Cuisine, published in 1996.

Darmont

In 1921 Darmonts took the first three places in a road race from Paris to Nice.

Dewoitine D.338

Nine aircraft that survived the war were operated on the Paris-Nice service for several months.

Era Square

KTB, the country’s largest private bus operator with a fleet of 1,500 vehicles, runs the Transnasional, Nice, Plusliner and Cityliner companies.

Errico Malatesta

Returning to Europe in 1889, he published a newspaper called L'Associazione in Nice until he was forced to flee to London.

European College of Sport Science

The European College of Sport Science (ECSS) is a sport scientific society founded in 1995 in Nice, France, dedicated to the collection, generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge.

European Masters Games

The European Masters Games are held once every four year, with the next games being held in 2015 in Nice, France.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy

While Duke of savoy he also held the subsidiary titles of Marquess of Saluzzo, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nice, and claimant King of Jerusalem.

Frédéric Etherlinck

They then lived in Nice, France for three years before returning to Brussels.

Geoffrey Paillet

Paillet moved to the Lyon Hockey Club in 2007 where he was part of the vice-champion squad that lost to Nice in the final game of the playoff series.

Georges Rousse

While attending medical school in Nice, he decided to study professional photography and printing techniques, then opened his own studio dedicated to architectural photography.

Grinda Brothers

Both brothers worked as organ-builders mainly in the County of Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Honoré Grinda (30 September 1754 in Nice – 15 June 1843 in Prats-de-Mollo) first learned carpentry with his grandfather, then became an apprentice under Jean-Esprit Isnard, a Dominican from Tarascon near Avignon, himself a noted organ-builder.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Halsbury's Laws of England

Bond tracked down the former Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Halsbury on holiday in Nice to invite him to be the Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of England.

Hans Winderstein

From 1880 to 1884, he led Baron von Derwies' private orchestra at Nice after which he was violin teacher at the Winterthur Conservatoire in Switzerland until 1887.

Harry Bolton Seed

He investigated many major disasters, such as the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake, the 1971 San Fernando earthquake in California, the 1976 failure of the Teton dam, the 1979 slide at the port of Nice in France, and the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.

Helen Fospero

One of Fospero's best roles for Daybreak was in 2012 when she interviewed Elton John at his home in Nice, France, this was Fospero's one and only outside interview that she has done for Daybreak, this interview was broadcast on 20 July 2012.

Henri Christiné

He married a cafe singer whose troupe was passing through Geneva, and went with her to Nice where they were married.

History of Molde

The Kaiser referred to the city as "The Nice of the North", which gave a tremendous boost to the city's desirability as a tourist destination.

Hymne Monégasque

In 1896 Charles Albrecht composed a new arrangement for piano, published by Tihebaux in Paris and called Air National de Monaco; in 1897 Decourcelle of Nice, printed an edition called 429 Hymne National de Monaco for piano.

ICRANet

The second is in Rome University "Sapienza" and the third and fourth ones are being established in Nice and Rio de Janeiro.

Igor Klipii

He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (Romania) and the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice (France).

International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

The 10th last edition (CIBB 2013) was organized in Nice, France, in June 2013 by Enrico Formenti from the French National Centre for Scientific Research.

James Charles Harris

Sir James Charles Harris, KCVO, was British Consul at Nice from 1884 until 1901.

John Stenhouse

He left England to convalesce with his mother in Nice (then still part of Italy) until her death in February 1860.

José Hernández Delgadillo

From 1963 to 1965 he lived in the country, exhibiting his work in Nice, Lyon, Marseille, Le Havre and Bordeaux as well as in the Reflets Gallery in Brussels and the Biosca Gallery in Madrid.

Kenneth Lee Spencer

In 1949 Spencer's life changed after performing in Europe for the first time at the International Music Festival in Nice.

Lionel Bringuier

Lionel Bringuier (born 24 September 1986, Nice, France) is a French conductor, cellist and pianist.

Lucien Callamand

Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand (April 1, 1888 in Marseille - December 3, 1968 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career transcended 6 decades of French cinema.

Marian Farquharson

However, as a result of her health, she never signed the Society's roll for admission dying in Nice on 20 April 1912.

Masamichi Takesaki

In 1970, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice; his talk was about one parameter automorphism groups and states of operator algebras.

Mercantour National Park

Many of them are perched villages,such as Belvédère at the entrance to the spectacular Gordolasque valley, concealing great architectural riches (numerous churches decorated with murals and altar pieces by primitive Niçois painters).

Mercedes Simplex

When Jellinek received his first Simplex on 1 March 1902 at Nice, he rushed to incorporate it into his Mercedes race team, competing in the Nice-La Turbie hillclimbing race.

Mihály Zichy

He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nice, Vienna and his native Zala.

Miķelis Valters

Miķelis Valters (formerly, and as an author in German, Walters) (May 7, 1874 in Liepāja - – March 27, 1968 in Nice) was a prominent Latvian politician, diplomat, writer, and editor.

Neagu Djuvara

He attended lycée in Nice, France, and graduated in Letters (1937) and Law (1940) from the University of Paris (his Law thesis dealt with the antisemitic legislation passed by the governments of King Carol II in Romania).

New Apostolic Church

The District Apostles' meeting from 22–24 September 2004 in Nice emphasised again that the Holy Scripture is recognised and regarded as the doctrinal basis of the NAC.

Niçard dialect

Italian Giulio Vignoli wrote in his book about the "Nizzardo Italian" minority that, after Garibaldi's failed attempt, 11,000 of his supporters (nearly 1/3 of the population of Nice in the 1860s) were forced to move to Italy from Nice and were substituted by the French government with people from nearby Occitan areas; this changed the characteristic of Nissart, which started to have many loanwords from Occitan (a language that is now predominant in the Nissart dialect).

Oleg Serebrian

He studied law and history at the "Ion Creangă" State University in Chişinău and international relations at the European Institute of High International Studies in Nice, France.

Panait Istrati

Living in misery, ill and depressed, he attempted suicide in 1921 on his way to Nice, but his life was rescued in time.

Paul Mansouroff

From the 1950s, he starts making frequent trips to Nice and Saint-Paul de Vence.

Paul Reichard

After his return to Europe, Reichard lived in Nice for a while, then moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg, where he died on 19 September 1938 and was buried in the Southwest Stahnsdorf churchyard.

Rachel Khedoori

She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel and the Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2001, and at Villa Arson in Nice, France in 2004.

Raymond Pellegrin

Born in Nice, Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature Naïs.

Robert Borwick, 1st Baron Borwick

Latterly the family resided almost continually in Nice and Paris.

Rocca dei Tre Vescovi

The name, meaning "Rock of the Three Bishops", derives from the fact that the mount is on the intersection point of three Catholic dioceses, those of Cuneo, Nice and Digne.

Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco

Their first house outside of Italy was opened in 1877 in Nice, France.

Savivanh Savang

She went into exile in the city of Nice, France, where continued to politically pressure the communist government to provide human rights for women in Laos.

Princess Savivanh Savang Manivong (1933 – 4 January 2007, Nice) was the daughter of King Savang Vatthana and Queen Khamphoui.

Shahnawaz Bhutto

On July 18, 1985, the 26 year old Shahnawaz was found dead in Nice, France.

Stanton Davis Kirkham

He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S. Davis (Commander, 8th Calvalry, Troop A, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, 1867) and Julia Edith Kirkham Davis, daughter of Gen. Ralph Wilson Kirkham, Union Army general, who adopted Kirkham and brought him to the United States.

Stefano Rossetto

Stefano Rossetto (also Rossetti) (fl. 1560–1580) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, born in Nice, who worked mainly in Florence for the powerful Medici family, and in Munich.

Stephanos of Tallinn

He was appointed in 1972 as protosyngellos (i.e., episcopal vicar) for the southern region of France, with his base in Nice.

Suzanne Adams

She remained at the Paris Opera for three years and then went to Nice.

The Marriage of Phaedra

Later, he visits Lady Mary Percy, whom he had met in Nice four years back.

Tosio Kato

In 1970, he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Nice (scattering theory and perturbation of continuous spectra).

William Mitford

He was encouraged by French scholars whom he met in Paris, Avignon and Nice to give himself systematically to the study of Greek history.


Anatoly Pavlovich Demidov, 4th Prince of San Donato

Princess and Countess Evgenia Anatolyevna Demidova (Saint Petersburg, 25 September OS: 12 September 1902 - Cazouls-lès-Béziers, 25 April 1955), married in Nice on 29 September 1927 Jean Gerber (Sevastopol, 2 February 1905 - Geneva, 9 September 1981)

Balksbury

It was a large hillfort first occupied in the Late Bronze Age, and probably had rather a nice view over the confluence of Pillhill brook and the River Anton, below and to the southeast.

Don the Beachcomber

He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star while setting up rest camps for combat-weary airmen of the 12th and 15th Air Forces in Capri, Nice, Cannes, the French Riviera, Venice, the Lido and Sorrento at the order of his friend, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle.

Drugs Are Nice

Drugs Are Nice is the memoir of Lisa Crystal Carver published by Soft Skull Press in the US in 2005 and by Snowbooks in the UK in 2006, detailing her early childhood and later romantic relationships with Costes, Boyd Rice and Smog's Bill Callahan.

EasyCruise

The service began by operating night-time departures calling between ports in St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Monaco, Imperia, Genoa and Portofino in the summer.

Edmond Clément

Edmond Clément (28 March 1867, Paris - 24 February 1928, Nice) was a French lyric tenor who earned an international reputation due to the polished artistry of his singing.

Ferrari 166 S

The song, "Red Barchetta", a futuristic story of man against an oppressive society, was inspired by Richard S Foster's "A Nice Morning Drive", a short story published in November, 1973 issue of the magazine Road and Track.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

The first pressing of the Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga CD release included the bonus EP Get Nice!, which contains alternative versions of "I Summon You" (from the previous album Gimme Fiction) and "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb".

Gare du Sud

After World War II, the line to Meyrargues remained closed, leaving the Nice-Digne service.

Golf Punk

Golf Punk magazine was launched by Tim Southwell and John Dean through their Keep Yourself Nice Ltd company in 2004, after securing investment from initially Premier League footballers Michael Gray, Thomas Sørensen, Phil Babb, Jason McAteer and Steven Wright, and then Genesis Investments (part of Chris Ingram's investment portfolio).

Heli Air Monaco

On 8 June 2004, a Heli Air Monaco Ecureuil on a scheduled flight from Monaco to Nice crashed into the sea 2.16 kilometres off Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, killing the pilot and four passengers.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

Hypno5ive

Nice & Nasty was member DJ of the group Double Duce, he performed with MC Mighty Rock and recorded scratching effects at Henry Stone's (of TK Records fame) studio in Miami for Amos Larkins production of School Breakdown and later on Fresh Out the Box today considered among the early titles categorized as Proto-Bass contributing to the development of Miami Bass.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

Jason and Iyare

Jason Mitchell is known in London's Hip Hop & R'n'B scene as a co-founder of the DJ team Twice Ez Nice in 1989 With DJ/Producer Ollie Twist.

Jean de Reszke

He subsequently busied himself breeding racehorses in Poland and teaching singing in Paris and at Nice on the French Riviera.

José Luccioni

After retirement, he served as Director of the Opéra de Nice.

Liz Tilberis

Beatrix Miller, then editor-in-chief, noticed how nice and enthusiastic Liz was, and was promoted to fashion assistant in 1970.

Louise-Victorine Ackermann

She was born in Nice, but spent her younger days in more rural surroundings near Montdidier, south-east of Amiens.

Meriem

Camel Meriem (born 1979), a footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Nice

Monkee Flips

The album cover showed a still of the Monkees (with Peter Tork playing a banjo), from the television episode "It's A Nice Place To Visit".

Nice Observatory

The Nice Observatory was featured in the unsuccessful 1999 film Simon Sez.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Noel Larkin

"We played exceptionally well though and held them scoreless for most of the game. I think we conceded three in the last 20 minutes or so. We just caved in a bit. I played in the middle of midfield that night and marked Gianni Rivera, he was Italy's World Cup captain and was making his Milan return that night. That's why there was so many people in the stadium. He is a Milan legend. He came up to me after the game and told me I played well. That was nice and I'll never forget it."

Pascal Lissouba

He gained his education at the Lycee Felix Faure in Nice (1948–52), the École Supérieure d'Agriculture in Tunis and the University of Paris (1958–61).

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Renato D'Aiello

Sintetico does not only contain songs by well-known artists like Charles Mingus (Ellington's Sound of Love) or Frank Loesser (If I Should Lose You), but also tracks written by Muresu (Sintetico and Spite) and D’Aiello (Never Doubt and Be Nice).

Richard Schull

He did a memorable and often-played commercial spot for United Airlines, as a constantly griping customer, whose every complaint is deftly solved by the flight attendant, and who surprisingly tells her on arrival that he had "a very nice flight!"

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard died in 1958 and was buried in the Cimiez Monastery Cemetery in Cimiez, a suburb of the city of Nice, France.

Šempas

The Slovene name is derived from šent Pas, referring to either Saint Bassus of Lucera or Saint Bassus of Nice, to whom the parish church was formerly dedicated.

Sir George Honyman, 4th Baronet

His father, Sir Ord Honyman, 3rd Baronet, born 25 March 1794, became lieutenant-colonel commanding the Grenadier Guards 27 December 1850, and died at Nice 27 January 1863, having married, 7 April 1818, Elizabeth Essex, youngest daughter of George Bowen of Coton Hall, Shropshire, an Admiral of the Red.

Sisowath Monipong

He began his studies in Cambodia, before being sent to France, in Grasse then in Nice, from 1927, under the control of the Governor of Indochina, François Marius Baudoin.

SNCF Class BB 22200

After the first test held in 1976, the BB 22200 were introduced on the MarseilleNiceVentimiglia line in southern France–northern Italy.

The Rock Pool

The novel is set in "Trou-sur-mer" (Hole on the Sea), which is said to based on Cagnes-sur-Mer between Cannes and Nice.

Théodore Année

Monsieur Année then spent the next 20 years creating many more cultivars, until retiring to Nice, in Southern France, in 1866.

Thirds

" "White Man/Black Man" is another winner." John Mendelsohn in Rolling Stone was equivocal stating "By no exertion of the imagination are James Gang the greatest rock and roll band ever to walk the face of the earth or anything... but they are capable of some nice little treats every now and again."

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things is the first studio album released by the Brighton, Massachusetts band The Luxury.

Tony DeSare

DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Trey Lorenz

He also appeared on Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.'s 1991 sophomore album The Album With No Name on the songs "It's A Love Thang (Word)", "Nice And Slow" and "Get It Together".

William Messing

In his thesis, Messing elaborated on Grothendieck's 1970 lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice on p-divisible groups (Barsotti–Tate groups) that are important in algebraic geometry in prime characteristic, which were introduced in the 1950s by Dieudonné in his study of Lie algebras over fields of finite characteristic.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.