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Raves

Raves, Vosges, a commune in the Vosges département in France


Arnaud Guillaume de Barbazan

Arnaud Guillaume (also Arnault Guilhem), Seigneur de Barbazan, (1360 in Barbazan-Dessus, Hautes-Pyrénées, France – 1431, Vaudoncourt, Vosges, France) was a counsellor and butler to Charles VII of France and later a general during the Hundred Years' War who earned for himself the name of the Irreproachable Knight.

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau, Vosges, an arrondissement in the Vosges department in France

Castles of Dahn

A similar arrangement of two or three castles clustered closely together may be found in several places in the south part of neighbouring Alsatian Vosges: the Dreistein at Odilienberg near Obernai, the three castles on the Schlossberg near Reinhardsmunster, the Drei Exen near Eguisheim and the castle group of Haut-Kœnigsbourg/Oedenburg.

Clément Serveau

From 1907 to 1909 he served as a soldier in the 15th Battalion in the Vosges at Remiremont.

Congregation of Divine Providence

The French-speaking Sisters were headquartered in Portieux, serving the Department of Vosges.

De Buyer

De Buyer (pronounced Dee Bou yeh) is a French cookware manufacturer, founded in 1830, from the village Le Val-d'Ajol in the Vosges department.

Depoe Bay, Oregon

In 2008, restaurant scenes from The Burning Plain were filmed in Depoe Bay, at the Tidal Raves restaurant.

Electric Love Muffin

While the band's original songs won raves from critics, imaginative covers of The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and the '60s chestnut "Venus" (then best known for Bananarama's version) were highlights of the live set.

Erckmann-Chatrian

They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode, applying to the Vosges mountain range and the Alsace-Lorraine region techniques inspired by story-tellers from the Black Forest.

Fanny Truchelut

Yvette "Fanny" Truchelut is part owner of a bed-and-breakfast type of hostel in the department of Vosges, France.

Fish Karma

Byron Coley of The Village Voice said "Fish is a great entertainer. Live, he strums along at whatever tempo he wants & rants & raves the funniest observations this side of George Carlin."

François-Louis Français

François Louis Français (November 17, 1814–1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller.

Friedrich Paulus

When World War I began, Paulus's regiment was part of the thrust into France, and he saw action in the Vosges and around Arras in the autumn of 1914.

Genesis '88

Genesis'88 was a party promotion crew who threw some of the first acid house parties also known as raves in the United Kingdom from 1988 to 1992.

Gio-Goi

The Donnellys started out selling clothes and memorabillia at clubs and raves in Manchester, notably at The Haçienda.

Grand Wintersberg

At its summit, which is made of Bunter Sandstone, stands a 25 metre high observation tower, which offer hikers an outstanding panoramic view over the North Vosges, the Palatine Forest and the Upper Rhine Plain across to the Black Forest.

Henri Joly

Born at Viomenil, Vosges in 1866, he was gymnastics instructor at the school of Joinville, where Marey and Demenÿ came to make films.

Hubert Curien

Born in Cornimont, Vosges in Lorraine, Curien enlisted in the French resistance during World War II.

Jacques Delille

He purchased his personal safety by professing his adherence to revolutionary doctrine, but eventually quit Paris, and retired to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, where he completed his translation of the Aeneid.

Józef Hauke-Bosak

He died in the post of commander of brigade in the French army at Vosges, during the Franco-Prussian war in 1871.

Leuci

Hillforts in the region of the Leuci include some small ones in the Vosges, and Boviolles in the Ornain valley in the west of the territory.

Martin Waldseemüller

On 25 April 1507, as a member of the Gymnasium Vosagense at Saint Diey (German: Sankt Didel) in the duchy of Lorraine (today Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France), he produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map using the information from Columbus and Vespucci's travels (Universalis Cosmographia), both bearing the first use of the name "America".

Michele Pawk

In 2002, Pawk earned critical raves for her performance in Hollywood Arms, the Carrie HamiltonCarol Burnett play adapted from Burnett's memoir, One More Time.

Miel d'Alsace

Chestnut honey must be gathered in the hills south of the Vosges, in the forests of Brumath and Haguenau.

Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain

Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain is a museum in Épinal, Vosges, France.

Nicolas Liez

Born in Neufchâteau in the French department Vosges on 14 October 1809, Liez was the son of Marie Weber, a Luxembourger, and Jean-Joseph Liez, a cobbler.

Nicolas Oudinot

His gallant defense of the little fort of Bitsch in the Vosges in 1792 drew attention to him; he was transferred to the regular army in November 1793, and after serving in numerous actions on the Belgian frontier he was promoted general of brigade, in June 1794 for his conduct at the Battle of Kaiserslautern.

Nompatelize

The commune occupies an ancient volcanic plateau which has been coated at the edges with Permian sandstone deposits which become thicker to the south and east in the Permian basin of Saint-Dié.

Philippe Tailliez

On 20 January 1955 he was designated Commander of the Northern Rhine Flotilla and of the building base "the Vosges" at Koblenz-Bingen in Germany and took its command with the centre of the Maritime Forces of the Rhine on April 24.

Raon-sur-Plaine

Under Napoleon I the administrative map of France was extensively reworked and in 1805 Raon was incorporated into the commune of Schirmeck, which at this stage was still part of the Vosges département.

Ricciotti Garibaldi

In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca (1866) and the Battle of Mentana (1867); in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War, he fought in the Vosges, where he occupied Châtillon and, at Pouilly, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.

Rudy Omankowski, Jr.

Among his most notable performances is his 1.25 km skywalk between two mountain tops in Gérardmer, les Vosges, France.

Santo Amaro da Imperatriz

Raves and pagodes are thrown on particular farms to attract young people.

Snivilisation

The band released the album at the time of the launch of the Criminal Justice Act, the legislation that gave British Police greater legal powers to break up unlicensed raves that gave Orbital its name.

Sorbus mougeotii

Sorbus mougeotii (Vosges Whitebeam or Mougeot's Whitebeam) is a species of whitebeam native to the mountains of central and western Europe from the Pyrenees east through the Alps to Austria, and north to the Vosges Mountains.

Tendon, Vosges

Educated at the collège de Saint-Claude, in Toul, he studied philosophy and theology in the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Catholic seminary, then was sent to the Sorbonne by his bishop, where he received the grade of doctor.

The Gravel Pit

They played hundreds of dates, opened for acts as diverse as Graham Parker, Cheap Trick, Gang of Four and Morphine, and released three more records on Q,: 1997's full-length No One Here Gets In For Free -- Rare and Unreleased 1989 - 1997;the 1998 hit single "Favorite," produced by Denneen; and 1999's full-length Silver Gorilla, also with Denneen, which amassed critical raves across the country, from Raygun to Entertainment Weekly.

The Sabres of Paradise

Andrew Weatherall formed the group with engineers Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns and became responsible for the Sabresonic warehouse raves.

Transports Publics Fribourgeois

Bulle is the centre of operations with depot, workshops and connection to the standard gauge railway to Romont, on the SBB line between Bern and Lausanne.

Victor Noir

Son of a Jewish cobbler who had converted to Catholicism, born Yvan Salmon at Attigny, Vosges, he adopted "Victor Noir" as his pen name after his mother's maiden name.

Vosges

While the west part of the Vosges is flat sedimentary land (well suited for mineral waters), the east is dominated by the Vosges Mountain range (including the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Reserve) of which the Grand Ballon at 1424m is the highest peak.

Weak Become Heroes

Skinner also makes reference to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, an act which was seen as curtailing the rights of people to host raves.


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