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2 unusual facts about Norman D'Amours


D'Amours

Norman D'Amours (born 1937), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire

Norman D'Amours

Instead of running for a 6th term in the House of Representatives, he ran for the United States Senate in 1984 against Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey and lost with 41%.


Adieu mes amours

Although "Adieu mes amours" was originally a secular chanson, it was used in a number of mass settings such as, Missa "Adieu mes amours" which uses both parody and cantus firmus compositional techniques by Francesco de Layolle, and another Missa "Adieu mes amours" by Jacob Obrecht.

Egyptian National Library and Archives

The Library also has a large collection of medieval Arabic coins from as early as AD 696, which were published by Stanley Lane-Poole, Bernhardt Moritz and recently by Norman D. Nicol, Jere L. Bacharach and Rifa'at al-Nabarawy (1982).

Great Sooty Satyr

Lionel G. Higgins and Norman D. Riley (1988) Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London

History of American comics

In fact, in 1842, the publication Les amours de M. Vieux-bois by Rodolphe Töpffer was published under the title The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck.

Janie Marèse

Her first full-length feature was Amours viennoises in 1930, followed by the Marc Allégret-directed adaptation of Mam'zelle Nitouche.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai

Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, he became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation illustrated by etchings by Louis Monzies in 1898); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas.

Nicolas des Escuteaux

Like his contemporaries Antoine de Nervèze or François du Souhait, Des Escuteaux is one of the authors most often associated with the so-called "sentimental novel" (or "amours") published during the reign of Henry IV of France.

Norman D. Newell

During his tenure at Columbia he trained a number of students who later became prominent paleontologists, including Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge, Steven M. Stanley, Alan Cheetham, Alfred Fischer, and Don Boyd.

Norman Vaughan

Norman D. Vaughan (1905–2005), American dogsled driver and explorer

Phạm Xuân Ẩn

He told his friend Stanley Karnow, in Karnow's book Vietnam: A History, that his love for America and Vietnam was like the French song "J ai Deux Amours", but Ẩn felt obliged, like many other Vietnamese, to had to see Vietnam free.

Pierre de Molins

The music of Chanter me fet was used in two different readings of Pour la pucele en chantant me deport by Gautier de Coincy and the lyrics were a model for the anonymous Destroiz d'amours et pensis sans deport.

Richard Gwinnett

Their letters were subsequently published in two volumes entitled 'Pylades and Corinna; or memoirs of the lives, amours, and writings of R. G. and Mrs. E. Thomas, jun.… containing the letters and other miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, which passed between them during a Courtship of above sixteen years … Published from their original manuscripts (by Philalethes) … To which is prefixed the life of Corinna, written by herself.'

Sled dog racing at the 1932 Winter Olympics

Norman D. Vaughan qualified for the event thorough a race held by the New England Sled Dog Club in Wonalancet, New Hampshire in the winter of 1932.

Vielart de Corbie

He was active in the Île-de-France in the first decades of the thirteenth century at the latest, since his song De chanter me semont Amours was used as the basis for a contrafactum, Quant ces floretes florir voi, by Gautier de Coincy (died 1236).


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