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unusual facts about Pau-Orthez



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.

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.

Amendeuix-Oneix

Amendeuix-Oneix is located some 50 km east by south-east of Bayonne and 40 km south-west of Orthez in the Mixe country in the former Basque province of Lower Navarre.

Arthur Lee Dixon

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

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.

Diocese in Europe

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

Dyer baronets

The ninth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and served in the Peninsular War, where he was present at Badajoz, Vitoria, San Sebastian, the Pyrenees, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse.

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.

Garrotxa

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

Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn

During his rule, the borders of Béarn were established more definitively; he defeated the viscount of Dax, and took control of Orthez, Mixe, and Ostabaret by 1105.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jenny Dufau

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

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.

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).

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.

Moira Lister

In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.

Monbar Hotel attack

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

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.

Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos

He was successively editor of the Gaceta and Mercurio, and was condemned to death for having published an article against Napoleon; on the petition of his friends, he was spared and deported to France; he died at Orthez early in the following year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tarbelli

Their capital city was Aquae Tarbellicae, present-day Dax, with Orthez being also an important Tarbelli city.

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.


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Omar Thomas

During the summer of 2008 signed an important agreement with the French club Pau-Orthez, but was cut after three games, then he go back in Italy and then agreeing with Napoli, which debuted in Serie A at the end of the season he recording an average of 11.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.