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39 unusual facts about Pau


1984 Pau Grand Prix

This race was held around the streets of the city of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, south-western France, on 11 June.

1986 Pau Grand Prix

This race was held around the streets of the city of Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, south-western France, on 19 May.

2017 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships

The event is scheduled to take place from September 13 to 17, 2017 in Pau, France under the auspices of International Canoe Federation (ICF).

Adolfo Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Alcudia

Don Camilo Ignacio (Camillo Ignacio) Ruspoli y Álvarez de Toledo, de Godoy (di Bassano) y Silva-Bazán, dei Principi Ruspoli (Pau, January 31, 1865 – Madrid, April 15, 1930), married dona María del Pilar Navacerrada y ..., ... y ...

Alfred de Vigny

Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride, Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825.

Arthur Lee Dixon

Catherine found the atmosphere in Oxford difficult for her health, and spent a lot of time in Pau to recover.

Basque pelota at the 2011 Pan American Games

The top five nations in each event (top ten for the Paleta Leather Pairs 30m Fronton) at the 2010 World Championships in Pau, France qualified for the Pan American Games.

Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn

Constructions Aéronautiques du Béarn or CAB was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Max Laporte and Yves Gardan in Pau in 1948.

Diocese in Europe

The current (2008) archdeacon is the Venerable Ian Naylor who is based in Pau and has served since 2013.

Double R Racing

In just their second season, Räikkönen Robertson were champions, winning a massive fourteen races from the twenty-two that took place, and Championship Class wins for fifteen (Conway came behind the Invitation Class Signature-Plus cars at Pau, while Watts was, of course, in the same category).

Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay

Lord Colonsay died at Pau, France, on 31 January 1874, aged 80, when the title became extinct.

Felipe Poey

He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid.

Fernando Latapi

His grandfather was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the south of France, and his mother’s family came form Tlacotalpan, Veracruz.

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1941

At the 1946 meeting in Pau, France, the FIS declared this a non-event because of the limited number of competitors.

George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris

Harris was beset will ill-health and remained bed-ridden for some time in the city of Pau in France where he worked for a time for the Church of England.

Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing

After an initial career as a naval officer and helicopter pilot, Guillaume Giscard d'Estaing entered Turbomeca (Snecma group) based in Pau in 1994 as Sales Manager and, later, Marketing Director.

Ignatius Hieronymus Berry

The second son of Alexandre Ignatius Appollinaire Berry, a winemaker from Pau, France, and María Charlotte Denise Vourvachis-Grajales, a school teacher of Greek and Mexican ancestry.

Jagdgeschwader 101

Formed at Werneuchen from Jagdfliegerschule 1, JG 101 was created in December 1942 and were stationed from 27 January 1943 at Pau, southern France.

Jean-Marc Souverbie

Jean-Marc Souverbie (born 13 March 1981 in Pau, France) is a French rugby union footballer, currently playing for US Morlaàs in the Fédérale 1.

Jedediah Vincent Huntington

The last few years of his life were spent at Pau, in the south of France, where he died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his forty-eighth year.

Jenny Dufau

Dufau returned to Europe following the end of World War I and died on 29 August 1924 in Pau, France.

Joe Lloyd

He was the first golf professional in France, being hired in 1883 at the Pau Golf Club in Pau, France, by Englishmen spending their winters there.

Lycée Louis-Barthou

Lycée Louis-Barthou is a secondary school in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.

Mariam Baouardy

At that point, Mother Veronica had just received permission to transfer to the Discalced Carmelite monastery at Pau to prepare for her forming a new congregation of Religious Sisters serving in India, the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel.

Méryl Marchetti

Since 1999, Méryl Marchetti founds in Pau the group “La Travarde” where he criticizes the form collection and invents other modes of organization of the corpora of poems such as the play-of-tanks, circles polypoetic (or game piece).

Miriam Coles Harris

After the death of her husband in 1892, she spent most of her time in Europe, dying in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France in 1925.

Miriam Coles Harris (born July 7, 1834 in Dosoris, Long Island, died January 23, 1925 in Pau, France) was an American novelist.

Monbar Hotel attack

The trial of Pierre Frugoli and Lucien Mattei opened on 30 November 1987 in Pau, France.

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe

Dunford suggests he was probably from the Pau area in southernmost France and a Protestant, that his first name was "Jean" and that he had two daughters named Brigide and Françoise.

Montgreenan

Mrs. Rachel Glasgow was an artist and an author with great literary taste and she died at Pau, in the Pyrenees, on 19 July 1828.

Muhammad VII al-Munsif

After his deposition, Muhammad was exiled firstly to Laghouat in southern Algeria, then to Ténès, before finally moving in 1945 to Pau in France, where he died in 1948.

Nicolas de la Grotte

Nothing is known about his early life; the first record of La Grotte's life is from 1557, when he was employed as a keyboard player (organ and spinet) to the King of Navarre, Antoine de Bourbon, at Pau in southwestern France.

Patrick Delcroix

Patrick Delcroix, born February 8, 1963, in Pau/France, dancer and choreographer, was educated at the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes and the Ecole de danse Colette Soriano in Orthez, France.

Sai Gwa-Pau

Sai Gwa-pau was well known for his comic roles and in particular his role (牙擦苏) in the film series based on the exploits of Wong Fei-hung.

Saint Bavo Cathedral

The painting was stored in a museum in Pau for the duration of the war, as French, Belgian and German military representatives signed an agreement which required the consent of all three before the masterpiece could be moved.

SeisQuaRe

Seisquare has worked over different countries from offices in Paris, Pau, Stavanger and Rio.


2007 : SeisQuaRe Pau is opened in order to focus on the SeisQuaRe spatial analysis capabilities for dense velocities and amplitude cubes.

Ward McAllister

He used the earnings from his legal prowess to journey throughout Europe's great cities and spas—Bath, Pau, Bad Nauheim, and the like-—where he observed the mannerisms of the titled nobility.

William Craven, 5th Earl of Craven

He died on 15 September 1932 of peritonitis at Pau, France, at the age of 35, and was succeeded by his son, William Robert Bradley Craven, 6th Earl of Craven.


2009 FIA WTCC Race of France

SUNRED Engineering expanded to three cars for the Pau event, Tom Coronel was joined by Tom Boardman who returned after missing the previous round and former European Touring Car Championship driver Éric Cayrolle.

2009 International Formula Master season

The season consisted of eight double-header events, beginning on May 16 at Pau and ending on September 20 at Imola.

Abbot Oliba

Oliba promoted the movement of Peace and Truce of God (Pau i treva), towards 1022 and in 1027 the agreement of this treaty with other bishops and noblemen took place in Toulouges (Roussillon) and was said that all, noblemen, knights, farmers and monks, agreed to make, days in which nobody could quarrel with anybody and in which the fugitives could take refuge in churches and places holy, sure of being protected and respected, some days every year, be days of Peace.

Ave Line

First renamed in 2005 in Europax Appia, before it was chartered in 2006 by Baleària and renamed Pau Casals to run between Valencia, Spain and Palma, Majorca.

Bigorre

Before the French Revolution, Bigorre was made part of the gouvernement (military area) of Guienne-Gascony, whereas for general matters it depended from the généralité of Auch like the rest of Gascony (although for a certain period of time it depended from the généralité of Pau, like Béarn, Nébouzan, County of Foix, and the Basque provinces).

Caesalpinia echinata

The tree is also known by other names, as ibirapitanga, Tupi for "red wood"; or pau de pernambuco, named after the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

Caesalpinia ferrea

The Stevie Ray Vaughan model Signature Fender Stratocaster comes with a pau ferro fingerboard.

Claude Bergeaud

From 2008 to 2010, he was the director general of the club Pau-Orthez.

Cornwall Coliseum

Through the 1970s and 1980s, various major acts of the era would perform at the venue, including The Clash, The Jam, The Who, Black Sabbath, Cliff Richard, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Slade, Bon Jovi, Simple Minds, Deborah Harry, T'Pau and Glen Campbell who recorded a live album there in 1981, as well as many comedy and light entertainment acts.

Garrotxa

Lava flowed down the valley, past Sallent de Santa Pau to the Gibert mill.

Guite people

A contemporary of Pau Hau and a Guite prince from Vangteh but more known as Prince of Tualphai, who is a member of seven princes of Vangteh and also a member of the Association of Nine Lords in the then Tedim region.

James Jakes

He did lie in fifth place at one point in the season, having won on the street circuit at Pau but tailed off to be thirteenth in the championship.

Juan Zanelli

In a Bugatti he won the 1929 and 1930 Bugatti GP at Le Mans, finished 8th in Alessandria in 1929 and 2nd in 1930, 2nd at the 1929 Marne GP and 3rd at the 1930 French GP at Pau.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Martin Earley

The highlight of his career was a stage win in the 1989 Tour de France when he broke clear of three riders 750m from the end of 157 km from Labastide-d'Armagnac to Pau.

Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil

He assumed the title of Baron upon the death of his father, Raymond Grant, in Navarrenx, near Pau, France in 2004.

Oskar Bider

He later bought a Blériot XI monoplane, and on January 24, 1913, pioneered in crossing the Pyrenees from Pau to Madrid.

On November 8 of that year he joined Blériot's aviation school in Pau, situated in the northern Pyrenees.

Palo Alto University

PAU maintains two prominent doctoral programs in conjunction with Stanford University, often employs its students in Stanford research laboratories, houses prominent faculty members who teach at both institutions, and employs one of Stanford's most famous emeriti professors, Philip Zimbardo.

Pau Villalonga

"Villalonga, Pau", Compositors de les Illes Balears, prologue by Antoni Pizà (Pollença: El Gall, 2000) p.

Pau–Canfranc railway

Trains still run from Canfranc and these depart to Jaca and Zaragoza.

Penarth RFC

Annually between 1910 and 1913 Penarth RFC toured France playing matches against teams from Tarbes, Bayonne pau Brive, Bordeaux and Le Havre.

Philippe Étancelin

For 1939, he put his Talbot third at Pau, following Hermann Lang and Manfred von Brauchitsch home.

School Day of Non-violence and Peace

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (or DENIP, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau), is an observance founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal Vidal in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and non-violent education of a permanent character.

Souarata Cissé

Souarata Cissé (born January 16, 1986 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French basketball player who played for French Pro A league clubs Pau-Orthez, Paris, Rouen and Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.