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78 unusual facts about Nice


1959–60 in Turkish football

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

1979 Nice events

Four events occurred in Nice on October 16, 1979: a landslide at the Nice airport, an aseismic submarine landslide, and two tsunamis that struck the coast.

2000 Spanish Grand Prix

In the week leading up to the race, Coulthard was leasing the Learjet of friend David Murray when the aeroplane developed engine trouble en route to Côte d'Azur International Airport in Nice, and crashed while attempting an emergency landing at Lyon-Satolas Airport, France.

2001 Internationaux de Tennis Feminin Nice

The 2001 Internationaux de Tennis Feminin Nice was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Nice in France and was part of Tier II of the 2001 WTA Tour.

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.

Alfred A. Tomatis

Tomatis' approach began as an effort to help professional singers in his native Nice based on his idea that errant hearing is the root cause of a variety of ailments.

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).

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.

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.

Benjamin Kipkurui

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

Bolzano/Bozen railway station

Since 2010, the station has been a stop for a weekly train between Moscow and Nice.

Boscolo Hotels

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

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").

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Masters Games

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

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.

Geeta Vadhera

35 exhibitions have been held by Geeta in diverse locations such as Paris, Tours, Bonn, Nice, Canberra, Singapore, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi.

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.

Gérard Philipe

When he was 19 years old, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice; and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, Caligula, brought an invitation to work with the Théâtre national populaire (T.N.P.) in Paris and Avignon, whose festival, founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, is France's oldest and most famous.

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.

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.

Harry von Arnim

His request had just been granted when he died at Nice.

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.

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.

Ivan Lebedeff

His closest relation was given as his sister Nathalie Lebedeff, of Nice, in the south of France.

Ivo Vojnović

After World War I ended, in 1919 he moved to France, where he mostly lived in Nice until 1922 when he moved back to Dubrovnik.

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.

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 Emlyn-Jones

They had boarded the Air France flight bound for Paris from Nice on the morning of 3 March 1952 but the plane got into trouble soon after take-off and tried to return to the airfield.

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.

Les mousquetaires au couvent

The latest major production seems to have been in Nice in 2001.

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.

Maison Parisienne

In 1898 the company engineer, a M. Serex, designed a flat-twin car which ran in the Marseille-Nice Race of that year; this, too, was built along the lines of a Benz.

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).

Mihály Zichy

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

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).

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).

Nicola Perscheid

Subsequently, Perscheid earned his living as an itinerant photographer; he worked, amongst other places, in Saarbrücken, Trier, and Colmar, but also in Nice, Vienna, or Budapest.

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.

Peter Lee Lawrence

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

Peter Tomka

In addition, he has also undertaken studies at the Faculty of International Law and International Relations in Kiev, Ukraine, at the Institut du droit de la paix et du developpement in Nice, France, at the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands.

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.

Pyotr Chikhachyov

Chikhachyov's independent scientific activity began in 1841, when he published geological descriptions of Monte Gargano in South Italy and the environs of city of Nice.

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.

Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence

He resumed the war with Genoa, but died trying to take Nice in the spring of 1166.

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

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

Sisko Hanhijoki

Hanhijoki's personal best time in the 60 metres (indoor) was 7.20 seconds, achieved in February 1990 in Nice.

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.

Vahan Malezian

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

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.

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.

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.

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.


A Nicer Shade of Red

It was recorded at the same sessions that produced Nice, making it a companion piece to that album, and was released directly by Rollins' 2.13.61 label.

Balázs Kiss

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

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.

Christian Azzi

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

Cosimo Sarli

After spells outside Italy with Southampton (England), Eendracht Aalst (Belgium) and Nice (France), he returned to his home country, spending most of his career in the lower divisions.

Dwight Christmas

He dresses up as the traditional winter Christmas gift-bringer figure Belsnickel, cooks German food, and plays a game similar to "Naughty or Nice".

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.

Fadagh

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

Félix Fourdrain

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

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.

Frucade

Frucade became also quite famous when, in the 1995 ORF Nette Leit Show (Nice People Show), it was offered by host Hermes Phettberg to guests as an alternative to eggnog.

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).

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.

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).

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.

Hooghly district

Chandannagar is an important and nice town of Hooghly and famous for Jagaddhatri puja and awesome lighting.

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.

Katteni-Shiyagare

They also performed a cover of Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" with fellow Sony Music Japan artist Mika Nakashima, which was released on the Katteni-Shiyagare tribute album and also included with her single Eien no Uta.

Levens

At the end of the 14th century, the destiny of Levens was linked to the whole County of Nice, which parted with Provence to form an alliance with Savoy on the initiative of the powerful John All Saints' Day, baron of Beuil, whose eldest son later became lord of Levens.

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

Michael Stean

In the first of his five Chess Olympiads at Nice in 1974, he won the prize for best game of the Olympiad, for his effort against Walter Browne.

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.

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.

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".

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).

Nice Observatory

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

Peter Windsor

Shortly before the start of the 1986 season, Windsor was in an automobile accident when the car he was riding in with Frank Williams crashed on the way from the Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France to the Nice airport, causing Windsor minor injuries but leaving Williams, who was driving, paralysed.

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!"

Sadok Chaabane

Moreover, he taught in many universities, namely in Syracuse (Italy), Nice, Aix en Provence and Strasbourg (France), Ben Aknoune (Algeria), and others.

Saint-Martin-Vésubie

The sympathy of the Italian authorities was mainly due to the work of the Italian Jewish banker Angelo Donati, who was living in Nice and convinced them to protect the Jews from French and German persecution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).