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19 unusual facts about Roland


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Brandenburg an der Havel

In front of it stands a 5.35m high statue of the knight Roland.

CirKus

Lolita plays Roland V-Synth (with its D-Beam system that allows her to control some parameters with her hand) and Akai MPC

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

A brief discussion of Joan's sword, obtained from the church of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois and its relation to other famous swords with mystic powers such as those of King Arthur (Excaliber), Roland (Durendal), El Cid (Tizona and Colada), Charlemagne (Joyeuse), and others.

Guy of Nantes

Guy or Guido (died before 819) was appointed to replace the late Roland as Warden of the Breton March after his death at the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778.

Haldensleben

An old equestrian statue of Roland symbolized the rights of a medieval settlement to be accepted as a "town".

Johnny Rabb

As a product specialist for Roland V-DRUMS, Rabb has performed around 70 international clinic dates per year.

Khan Manuel

Ibanez guitars are the main guitars that Manuel uses with minimal foot pedals consisting only of a distortion pedal and Boss digital delay with a Roland Jazz Chorus amplifier.

Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers

In 1728, he transferred to the Navy and, by 1756, had become a captain, commanding one of the ships sent to Minorca under the direction of La Galissonière.

LuLu and the TomCat

LuLu and the TomCat (LuLu et le Matou) is a children's musical group formed in Roland, Manitoba, Canada in 2001.

Lupo II of Gascony

Lupo has nevertheless been implicated by some historians in the ambush of Roland.

Maxmillian Mare-Montembault

He scored his first victory on 15 September, when he burned a Roland observation plane at South Bapaume.

Palacio de los Reyes de Navarra, Estella

The main façade, which faces the entrance to San Pedro de la Rúa, includes two early columns with narrative capitals: the left one tells the story of Roland and Ferragut, the right one is a scene from hell of four demons leading some misers to their punishment.

Roland the Mighty

Orlando e i Paladini di Francia / Orlando and the Knights of France (aka Roland the Mighty) is a 1956 film about the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, where Roland, a knight in the service of Charlemagne was killed while defending the rear-guard of the Frankish army as it retreated across the Pyrenees.

Roncesvalles

Roncesvalles is famous in history and legend for the defeat of Charlemagne and the death of Roland in 778, during the battle of Roncevaux Pass, when Charlemagne's rear guard was destroyed by Basque tribes.

Saint Roland

Sometimes St. Roland is also said to be patron saint of Riga, Latvia, while statue of other Roland in full armor stands in a square in the old city.

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra

All ten compositions performed on a custom Fender Stratocaster and utilizing such technical elements as Roland guitar synthesizers, Korg guitar processors, and Roland delays (to name a handful of production components) could be categorized as "difficult listening music" (to use a term created by performance artist and Belew-contemporary Laurie Anderson).

The Sons of Heaven

Strangely, William Randolph Hearst is a necessary part of this plan, even if Hearst would like to be the hero Roland.


Animal Serenade

Fernando Saunders: electric & acoustic bass, Roland drums, guitar, vocals on "Tell It to Your Heart" & "Reviens Cherie", scat on "Sunday Morning"

Antje Nikola Mönning

She confirmed living together with Roland Reber, his wife and the actress Marina Anna Eich.

Aymeri de Narbonne

The Venise manuscript of The Song of Roland contains, after the end of that poem, a version of the tale of Aymeri taking Narbonne.

Bud Wolfe

Roland 'Bud' Wolfe January 12, 1918 - January 28, 1994, was an American pilot who parachuted from an RAF Spitfire plane into a peat bog on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland, on November 30, 1941.

Buddy Sheffield

In 2007, Sheffield sued Disney for breach of implied contract over a musical sitcom called "Rock and Roland" that he pitched to the Disney Channel in late 2001.

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-Limite

It is composed of the part of the 14th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated north-west of avenue du Marché-National, rue Jean-Queillau, chemin de Saint-Joseph à Sainte-Marthe, cité Saint-Joseph, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, cité Les Micocouliers, boulevard Roland-Dorgelès, chemin du Petit-Fontainieu and traverse des Arcades.

Celia Thaxter

She had a son, Roland, born August 28, 1858, who would later become a prominent plant pathologist.

Culture of Saint Martin

Among the island's leading cultural artists are Isidore "Mighty Dow" York, kaisonian, panman; Roland Richardson, Impressionist painter; Nicole de Weever, dancer, broadway star; Lasana M. Sekou, poet, author, independence advocate; Clara Reyes, choreographer; King Timo, kaisonian; Tanny and The Boys, string band music group.

David Roland

Roland also worked as Legislative Assistant to New Jersey State Senator, Byron Baer, dealing with constituent problems.

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

Dominique Gauzin-Müller

She studied architecture at the École d'architecture Paris-Tolbiac, under Roland Schweizer, the French specialist in wooden buildings, and Marion Tournon-Branly.

Floyd Roland

Roland was returned by acclamation in the 2003 Northwest Territories general election and acclaimed for a second time in the 2007 Northwest Territories general election, following which the members of the Legislature elected him Premier of the Northwest Territories on October 17, 2007.

Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther

He nurtured the careers of a number of distinguished journalists and writers, including Roland Bird, Donald Tyerman, Barbara Ward, Isaac Deutscher, John Midgely, Norman Macrae, Margaret Cruikshank, Helen Hill Miller, Marjorie Deane, Nancy Balfour, Donald McLachlan, Keith Kyle, Andrew Boyd and George Steiner.

George Ohsawa

They are, in particular, Herman Aihara in California, Roland Yasuhara in Belgium (where LIMA, the well-known manufacturer of macrobiotic products was born), Tomio Kikuchi in Brazil, Clim Yoshimi in France, and Michio Kushi in Massachusetts.

Hans Roland

Whilst Roland joined the Hitler Youth his family joined an underground movement to assist Jews to leave Germany.

I Wish I Cared

The song is written by Magne Furuholmen and produced by Boogieman and Roland Spremberg and co produced by A-ha.

Ingrid Losert

Losert followed her father Joseph and brother Roland, both Olympic fencers, and started training in the age of seven.

James Louis Garvin

At the start of the war his only son Roland Gerard Garvin (known to his family as "Ged") enlisted with the South Lancashire Regiment and was shipped to France.

Joe Roland

Roland recorded occasionally as a leader; he released on Rainbow in 1949, on Savoy (1950, 1954), Seeco (1953–54), and Bethlehem (1955).

Johnny Roland

Roland also coached Payton's successor Neal Anderson, whom Roland coached into the Bears' second all-time leading rusher.

Kim Appleby

She worked with a string of different record producers such as Anders Bagge, Michael Garvin, Sheppard Solomon, and Terry Roland amongst others.

La Spagna

The work is an adaptation of the story of Charlemagne's battles in Spain and the adventures of his nephew, the paladin Orlando (Roland), including the tale of his mortal duel with Ferraguto and his ultimate death at Roncesvalles.

The story of the death of Roland is also treated in The Song of Roland.

Nicolas Wright

He appeared in the Columbia Pictures, Roland Emmerich-directed, feature film, White House Down (2013).

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox tape recorder, a borrowed Roland drum machine belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED Synclavier, belonging to producer Mike Thorne.

Pierre Roland

Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in Indonesia, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous Indonesian Dangdut singers, Dewi Persik.

Pohlig–Hellman algorithm

The algorithm was discovered by Roland Silver, but first published by Stephen Pohlig and Martin Hellman (independent of Silver).

Prison de l'Abbaye

Madame Roland, wife of the Girondin Minister of the Interior Jean-Marie Roland, was interned here on her first arrest in 1793 before being transferred to Sainte Pélagie.

Roland Bondonny

Roland Bondonny (May 1932 – February 2005) was a wealthy vintner and conservative politician who lived in France, in Égletons in Corrèze and also in Fourmies in Nord.

Roland Garros

French Open, a major (grand slam) tennis tournament also known as Roland Garros, named after the aviator

Roland Kluttig

Roland Kluttig (born 1968 in Radeberg) is a German conductor.

Roland Leather

Roland Sutcliffe Leather (17 August 1880 – 3 January 1913) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played one match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1906, against the West Indian tourists at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate.

Roland Mathias

The Roland Mathias Prize, a literary award, is administered by the Brecknock Society and Museum Friends and is named in his honour.

Roland Sands

In 2005, after the tremendous success Sands found on Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off vs. Arlen Ness, Sands founded Roland Sands Design.

Romain Descharmes

He has collaborated with such artists as Roland Daugareil, Henri Demarquette, Laurent Korcia, Sarah Nemtanu, the Court-Circuit Ensemble, the Ebène Philarmoniker Quintette.

Rowland Plumbe

Rowland Plumbe, also known as Roland Plumbe (2 February 1838, Whitechapel – 2 April 1919, Willesden), was an English architect, famous for being the author of many residential schemes across London, many being considered the first examples of the Victorian Garden City.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.

Small-eyed whiting

The species is known from only two specimens; the holotype collected by Roland McKay in 1985 from a Taipei market, both specimens of which were taken from the waters of Taiwan.

Still I Rise

Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans, a 1997 book coauthored by Roland Owen Laird Jr. and Taneshia Nash Laird

Tellement j'ai d'amour...

#"D'amour ou d'amitié" (Eddy Marnay, Jean Pierre Lang, Roland Vincent) – 4:05

The Duck Factory

Other Duck Factory employees seen regularly on the show were man-of-a-thousand-cartoon voices Wally Wooster (played by real-life cartoon voice artist Don Messick); comedy writer Marty Fenneman (played by real-life comedy writer Jay Tarses); artists Brooks Carmichael and Roland Culp, editor Andrea Lewin, and business manager Aggie Aylesworth.

The Offs

The Offs are a punk/ska band from San Francisco, started by guitarist Billy Hawk and singer Don Vinil, and later joined by former Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler and a rotation of horn players including Bob Roberts, Richard Edson and Roland Young.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland).

Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine

The audience present included such respected persons as Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Henri Sauguet, Roland-Manuel, André Jolivet, Claude Delvincourt, Lazare Lévy, Daniel-Lesur, Irène Joachim, Maurice Gendron, Jean Wiener, Georges Braque, Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Boulez, Serge Nigg, and Pierre Henry.

Walter Roland

Apart from those musicians mentioned earlier, Roland's songs have been recorded by notables such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Joe Williams, Booker T. Laury, Kim Simmonds, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Fred McDowell, and Lead Belly.

Water for Life

Jean Michel Jarre: bass guitar, cymbals, Dynacord, Eminent, Laser Harp, Midi flute, music box, Roland AX-1, Theremin