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2 unusual facts about Renaud Garcia-Fons


Renaud Garcia-Fons

He got formal musical training at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with François Rabbath who taught him his special technique of playing arco.

Garcia-Fons was deeply influenced by the bassist François Rabbath, and with the flamenco in his backbones, the intersection of music from the Middle East appeared to carry multiple of fruits.


Alphonse Leweck

Alphonse "Fons" Leweck (born 16 December 1981) is a Luxembourgian footballer, currently playing for Etzella Ettelbruck and the Luxembourg national team.

De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria

De Norsemen Kclub of Nigeria is a Nigerian confraternity, founded at University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria by students with the nicknames of "Risenangel De Chamelus" "Fons et Origo", "Captain Trupence Njamena" and "Eric the Red".

Kostanjevica na Krki

In the early 13th century, the Carinthian duke Bernhard von Spanheim established the Fons Sanctae Mariae Cistercian Abbey on the southern frontier of the March of Carniola, which he claimed against the resistance of the Patriarchs of Aquileia and the Dukes of Merania.

PostPanic

Guest speakers have included Shynola, Pleix, Vincent Fournier, Radical Friend, Bif, Si Scott, Dvein, Niels Shoe Meulman, Alex Turvey, Fons Schiedon, UVA (United Visual Artists), Lucy McRae, HECQ and Motionographer.

Puteal

Fontus (Fons) — the ancient Roman god of fountains and wellheads

Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl

In his care for preservation of the ancient customs of the Sultanate and the values of the nation, Ampun Sultan Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram in 2011 used his right of a fons honorum to create an Order, thus developing the traditional honours of the Royal court in a form accepted internationally.

Sept-Fons Abbey

Sept-Fons Abbey, Notre-Dame de Sept-Fons or Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu Sept-Fons is a Trappist monastery at Diou in Bourbonnais in the diocese of Moulins in France.

More recently the community at Sept-Fons has settled a daughter house at Nový Dvůr in the Czech Republic, the first monastic foundation since the fall of the Communist government, and in 2001 commissioned the English minimalist architect John Pawson to undertake the building conversion.


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