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84 unusual facts about Nice


1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

The Napier Daily Telegraph had recently celebrated its diamond jubilee with an article describing Napier as "the Nice of the Pacific".

1959–60 in Turkish football

The club progressed to the first round, where they met French club OGC Nice.

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

Andrew Vicari

Vicari currently lives and works at his studio outside Nice, France, although he also owns apartments in Riyadh and Monte Carlo.

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.

Azykhantrop

Exhibits from Azykh Cave were exhibited in France (Nice University), in 1981-1982, where they were in focus of attention of the academic community of the world.

Balázs Kiss

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

Benjamin Kipkurui

He holds the world junior record in 1000 metres with 2:15.00 minutes, achieved on 17 July 1999 in Nice.

Boscolo Hotels

The Golf Club of the Montecchia and the Pap Group with three hotels in Nice and one in Lyon are bought.

C'est si bon

Betti was walking on the Avenue Jean Médecin in Nice in July 1947 when the first nine notes of the tune occurred to him.

Carl Timoleon von Neff

As mentioned, he contributed to the artistic decoration of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow, and Helsinki Cathedral, in present-day Finland, as well as churches outside the Russian empire - e.g. in Nice, France and Wiesbaden, present-day Germany.

Christian Azzi

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

Class 1 World Powerboat Championship

The sport of powerboat racing has undergone unprecedented change since early records of a race in 1887 in Nice, France, organized by the Paris Sailing Club.

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.

Dewoitine D.338

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

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.

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.

Ernest Gambart

Avenue Gambart in Nice (a small cul-de-sac boulevard de Cambrai) was named for him.

European Masters Games

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

Félix Fourdrain

Born in Nice, Fourdrain had his earliest musical training at the Ecole de Musique Classique et Religieuse (L'École Niedermeyer) in Paris.

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.

Fondation Maeght

Fondation Maeght is a museum of modern art situated in Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France about 25 km from Nice.

Francesco Matraire

Little is known of his life; his family is believed to have been from Nice originally, and his correspondence is mostly written in French.

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.

Fredericton Society of St. Andrew Pipe Band

Most recently, a few members of the band performed at the Mardi Gras celebrations in Nice in February 2006.

Gabriel Josipovici

He was born in Nice, France in 1940, of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine Jewish parents.

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.

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).

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.

Henry Lehmann

In 1937, Henry, his parents, and his elder brother René fled the Nazi regime by moving first to Nice, France, where they lived for 18 months, and then to São Paulo, Brazil.

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).

Intemelio dialect

This Brigasc dialect has reduced its area in the last centuries, but was present in the hinterland of Nice from La Turbie up to Escragnolles during the late Middle Ages.

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.

Jean de Reszke

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

Jeanne Hébuterne

In the fall of 1918, the couple moved to the warmer climate of Nice on the French Riviera where Modigliani's agent hoped he might raise his profile by selling some of his works to the wealthy art connoisseurs who wintered there.

Jérémy Bigot

He played only one season in Caen before leaving for Nice where his two seasons saw the team rise from FFHG Division 2 to Division 1.

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.

Julia Kavanagh

Julia and her mother were again living in Paris from the early 1860s, but moved to Rouen and then to Nice on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Kenneth Lee Spencer

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

Maccabi Haifa F.C.

In the middle of the season, Haifa's excellent striker Alon Mizrahi left for French club Nice resulting in a defeat in the CWC quarter final and a slump in the club's league performance.

Mahen Theatre

In March 1881, a fire in the Théâter Royal in Nice killed almost 200 people.

Mara Darmousli

She entered the contest and won first place in the Greek Elite Model Look final.She then advanced to the Nice International final, held in September in the French Riviera, where she came in third overall in the Pantene contest.

Marcel Pérès

He grew up in Nice, where he was organist at the Anglican cathedral, and trained in organ and composition at the conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals.

Marcos de Niza

He was born in Nice (de Niza means of Nice in Spanish)), which was at that time under the control of the Italian House of Savoy.

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.

Masumi Okada

Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen.

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.

Neil Lawson Baker

His artistic passion was helped by meeting Adrien Maeght, the famous French art gallery and museum owner, who happened to be competing alongside Neil in the Paris – Nice vintage car rally in 1970 (Neil was a keen competitions driver in vintage cars).

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).

Nikolay Yazykov

The Genoese Riviera, Nice, Gastein, and other German spas are the frequent background of his later verse.

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.

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).

Paul Mansouroff

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

Peter Lee Lawrence

He lived in Nice for several years with his mother and then in Rome (Italy) with his wife and son.

Phillip Ramey

He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago.

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.

Pursuit of the Deadly Diamonds

That got Richard and his nephew Stephen Lane to fly to Nice, booked into a Hotel Parc and saw from binoculars that Michelle was on board a yacht named Au Revoir.

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.

Russian frigate General Admiral

While in the Mediterranean she made port visits at Beirut, Piraeus and Nice.

Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco

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

Samson François

Having studied in the Conservatoire in Nice from 1932 to 1935, where he again won first prize, François came to the attention of Alfred Cortot, who encouraged him to move to Paris and study with Yvonne Lefébure at the École Normale de Musique.

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.

Shahnawaz Bhutto

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

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.

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.

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).

Ugo Bellagamba

An associate professor at the Law school of the University of Nice, he teaches the history of law.

Urago

Urago was a famous "handmade" bicycle maker in the French bicycle industry located in the city of Nice, in the French Riviera on the Boulevard du Riquier.

Vahan Malezian

Vahan Malezian (Armenian Վահան Մալեզեան) (Born Sulina, Romania 1871 - died Nice, France 1966) was an Armenian writer, translator, poet, and social activist.

Waldemar Stoud Platou

After her death he married French citizen Alexandra Henriette Maud de Ciccolini in April 1926 in Nice.

Wassily de Basil

He directed Ballets Russes companies, which performed under a variety of different names, until his death in Nice in 1951.

Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis

Shortly before World War II erupted, he was again imprisoned in Nice for a duration of 30 days—it was then that he authored his second novel, Mon espace vital.

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.

Yvonne Thomas

Yvonne Thomas (1913 Nice - August 7, 2009 Aspen, Colorado) was an American abstract artist.


2011 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy

The 2011 FIM Nice Italian Speedway Grand Prix was the sixth race of the 2011 Speedway Grand Prix season.

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)

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.

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.

Breil-sur-Roya

Breil-sur-Roya is one of the towns on the route of Train de merveilles which runs between Nice and Cuneo in Italy.

Claude Grahame-White

After this he lost his interest in aviation, eventually moving to Nice in his old age, where he died in 1959 having made a fortune in property development in the UK and US.

Craig Huffer

In October 2011 turned professional joining the Very Nice Track Club to train under Ron Warhurst in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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.

Fadagh

Balangestan is a place with nice weather at 5 km north of Fedagh.

Freda Betti

She participated in several opera festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Bayreuth, Nantes, Nice, Nîmes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

Freygolo

Active members of the rising generation of groups, these musicians from Nice (South-East France) have earned a reputation for being a strong live group, speaking with groups such as: Burning Heads, Uncommonmenfrommars, Satanic Surfers, Mad Caddies, Less Than Jake, Big D and The Kids Table, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mustard Plug, Authority Zero, and Hot Water Music.

Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne

It also partly funded circles which revolved around itself, such as the Pareto circle at Sciences-Po, the Galilei circle in Dijon, the Jean Médecin circle in Nice, the Henry de Montherlant circle in Bordeaux, CLOSOR (Comité de liaison des officiers et sous-officiers de réserve, a military circle), GENE (Groupe d'études pour une nouvelle éducation, Study Group For a New Education), etc.

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.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

ICRANet

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

IDBUS

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

Lina Bruna Rasa

In the years between 1926 and 1933 Bruna Rasa sang throughout Italy as well as in Montecarlo, Nice, Lausanne and Barcelona where she sang Aida at the city's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Lisa Grimaldi

In a 2007 interview with the Archive of American Television, Fulton explained that the chararacter was originally written to be a "nice girl", which she did not find compelling as an actress, and that, while she read Phillips' lines exactly as they appeared on the script, she said them with a "scheming tone" in her voice.

Los Beltrán

Unlike the families of Archie Bunker and Alf Garnett, however, the Beltráns in the first episode are moving up from their working-class digs to a nice, middle-class duplex in Burbank, which they've bought thanks to some lottery winnings.

Louise-Victorine Ackermann

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

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.

Michel Kitabdjian

Michel Kitabdjian (born 7 May 1930 in Nice) was the French referee who officiated the infamous 1975 European Cup Final between Leeds United and Bayern Munich in which he had disallowed a goal by Leeds United's Peter Lorimer for offside and denied Leeds two penalty appeals as Franz Beckenbauer first handled the ball in the box and then brought down Allan Clarke in a tackle.

New Year's resolution

A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day.

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.

Qatar Airways

The airline has launched 22 new destinations since 2010, with nine more destinations announced: Ankara, Aleppo, Bangalore, Barcelona, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Montreal, Nice, Phuket, São Paulo, Shiraz, Kolkata, Medina, Oslo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Venice and Tokyo.

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.

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.

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.

Stinking badges

In the TV show The Monkees episode 33 "A Nice Place To Visit" (1967), Micky Dolenz misquoted the line as "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges".

Tende

Tende has a railway station on the Nice/Ventimiglia-Breil-Cuneo line run by the SNCF, with connecting service from Ventimiglia/Nice in the southwest to Turin to the north.

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.

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).

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.

Zeus B. Held

After writing and producing the groundbreaking album by Gina X Performance “Nice Mover”, (followed by three more Gina X albums), his first UK production credits were with Fashion and Dead or Alive, he produced Pete Wylie's "Sinful" album and an LP by Men Without Hats for Polygram US which yielded a number one in many European countries and a US Top 20 hit with "Pop Goes The World".