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unusual facts about Sainte-Foy-la-Grande


Paul Broca

Pierre Paul Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Bordeaux, France, the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleon’s service.


Al-Shibani Church

In 1937, the Terre-Sainte College of Al-Shibani complex was moved to a new neighborhood located at the south-western suburbs of Aleppo (currently known as Al-Furqan district) and functioned until 1967 when it was turned into the "Partisans Enrollment Institute" of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

Aluizio Coelho

Em seguida, provou o carro F-3000 em Donington Park e se preparou para o grande dia de sua vida: em 12 de Novembro de 1998, no circuito de Silverstone, Aluizio teve a oportunidade de testar o carro da Williams, então atual campeã mundial.

Ans

This association contains six municipalities and all with the descendants of Ans: Badefols-d'Ans, La Boissière-d'Ans, Chourgnac d’Ans, Granges-d'Ans, Sainte-Eulalie-d'Ans and Saint-Pantaly-d'Ans.

Anton Cooper

:1st – Junior Cross-country World Cup Round 5 Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada

Arroio Grande

Arroio Grande is linked with the national BR-116, one of the roads linked with Mercosul and state roads includes the RS-602 and the RS-473.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Back Porch Video

It premiered on January 28, 1984 as the brainchild of Russ Gibb, former owner of the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.

Batán Grande Reserved Zone

Batán Grande is a national park 40 km north east of Chiclayo, in Pitipo District, Ferreñafe Province, of Lambayeque Region of Peru.

Battle of Palo Alto

Taylor established camps for those heeding his call for volunteers at Point Isabel, the north end of Brazos Island, and along the Rio Grande between Barita and Fort Brown, at a place known as Camp Belknap.

BR-101

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened (with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened).

Canton of Marseille – Saint-Marcel

The canton also comprises an area of the 12th arrondissement situated wouth east of a line defined by the following roads: avenue Saint-Jean-du-Désert (excluded), allée de la Grande-Bastide-Cazaux (excluded), La Bastide-Neuve (excluded), avenue des Caillols (excluded), boulevard des Libérateurs and traverse de La Martine.

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite

Canton of Marseille – Sainte-Marguerite is a canton of France, located within the commune of Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Carlos Trillo

In 1999, his work La grande arnaque (The Big Hoax) won the Prize for Scenario at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Carola Oman

She was married on 26 April 1922 to Gerald Foy Ray Lenanton (1896–1952), son of a timber agent, with Hensley Henson officiating, as he had at her christening.

Church of the Virgin of the Pharos

In order to house these relics, he built a dedicated palace church, characteristically named Sainte-Chapelle in direct imitation of the Virgin of the Pharos.

Collège de la Sainte Famille

The Collège de la Sainte Famille (CSF) (English: School of the Holy Family), (Arabic) مدرسة العائلة المقدسة often referred to as "Jésuites", is a private Jesuit French school for boys in the Faggala (preparatory and secondary section), Daher (primary section), and Heliopolis (primary section) districts of Cairo, Egypt.

Daria-i-Noor

In 1965, a Canadian team conducting research on the Iranian Crown Jewels concluded that the Darya-ye Noor may well have been part of a large pink diamond that had been studded in the throne of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and had been described in the journal of the French jeweller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in 1642, who called it the Great Table diamond ("Diamanta Grande Table").

Embudo, New Mexico

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauging station at Embudo, to measure the flow of the Rio Grande, was the first (USGS) stream gauging station and was established by John Wesley Powell in 1888.

Francis Dennis Ramsay

His formal training included reading Architecture at University College London and three years’ study in Florence (1953–1955) as a pupil of Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), the internationally renowned grande maestro portrait painter of the 20th century (Annigoni subsequently became a godfather to Ramsay’s younger son, Justin).

Galisteo Basin

Various peoples, known and unknown, inhabited the area, including the Tano (Arizona Tewa), East Rio Grande Keresan, Pecos, and Tewa.

Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Castaño traveled north from Almaden, crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Del Rio, Texas, and reached the Pecos River near what is now Sheffield, Texas.

Grande Vingtaine

There are two Grande 'Vingtaines in Jersey

Grande-Digue, New Brunswick

Joël Bourgeois, 3000m steeplechase runner, 2-time competitor at the Olympic Games and gold medalist at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Guillaume Sayer

Beek at Ste Anne, Bout de l'Isle at the western end of the Island of Montreal.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

Jacopo I da Carrara

Jacopo or Giacomo I da Carrara, called the Great (Grande), was the founder of the Carraresi dynasty that ruled Padua from 1318 to 1405.

Jakob Walter

In 1806, Walter and his brother were conscripted into the regiment of Romig and served in the campaign of 1806-1807 in Poland, as part of King Jérôme’s contribution to the Grande Armée.

Jean-Claude Flornoy

Jean-Claude Flornoy (Paris, France, 1950 - Sainte-Suzanne, France, 24 May 2011) was a French specialist of the Tarot of Marseille, a writer and card maker working on bringing back to life historical Tarot decks.

Lombez Cathedral

Lombez Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Lombez) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Lombez.

Maha Music Festival

Headlining the "local stage" were Satchel Grande and The Mynabirds from the Saddle Creek Records label.

Mariano Abasolo

In 1810 he went with the independent army to San Miguel el Grande (today's San Miguel de Allende), Celaya, where he was named captain of the Dragones de la Reyna regiment.

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (born October 15, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec) is a Canadian glamour and cosplay model.

Martial Singher

Martial Singher (August 14, 1904 - March 9, 1990) was a French baritone opera singer born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

Mentonasc dialect

It is still spoken by a minority (approximately 10%) in the city of Menton and in the following municipalities: Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Castellar, Castillon, Gorbio, Sainte-Agnès and Sospel, near the border with Italy.

Nelson Jobim

Jobim was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, the son of Hélvio Jobim and Namy Azevedo Jobim, and the grandson of former governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Walter Só Jobim.

Oduvaldo Vianna Filho

In 1973, together with Armando Costa, he created and directed in Rede Globo de Televisão a humorous series called A Grande Família (The Big Family).

Oreco

Valdemar Rodrigues Martíns, best known as Oreco, (born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, June 13, 1932 – April 3, 1985 in Ituverava, São Paulo) was an association footballer who was on the winning team of the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Phantom shiner

The native range of the phantom shiner was the Rio Grande from Espanola downstream to Brownsville, Texas.

Placide Poulin

The introduction of acrylic as a new manufacturing material led him to establish Acrylica Inc. in Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, which specialized in acrylic bathtubs and whirlpools.

PYHU

"Put Your Hearts Up", the 2011 debut single by American actress-singer Ariana Grande

René Lepage de Sainte-Claire

Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire (April 10, 1656, Ouanne, Burgundy - August 4, 1718, Rimouski, Quebec) is the lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, province of Quebec, in Canada.

Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Quebec

Genevieve was born in 423 Nanterre (near Paris) and died in Paris January 3, 512 (or 502 according to other sources).

Sainte-Marie-de-Ré

Thalassotherapy: The thalassotherapy center on the waterfront of the south-eastern edge of Sainte-Marie was expanded in 2004.

Spanish missions in the Americas

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century - La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande (modern Princes Town), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri (modern San Fernando), Santa Ana de Savaneta (modern Savonetta), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate (probably modern Mayo).

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The crime takes place at the Chateau du Glandier, located in the forest, near the road leading to Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois and Montlhéry.

Thrakattak

Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", is also featured on the live album (2CD set) King Crimson on Broadway (1999) (disc 2, track 12), and an alternative version of the track entitled "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" is featured on the live album (2CD set) Vrooom Vrooom (2001) (disc 1, track 11).

Tous les Matins du Monde

The film revolves around the late-17th-/early-18th-century composer Marin Marais' life as a musician, his mentor Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, and Sainte-Colombe's daughters.

Virginie

The show examined the public and private lives of teachers, students, and families at the fictional Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc high school.

Willi Oueifio

Oueifio learned during 1987 and 1993 at the Ecole Grande Prairie in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne.

Yuri Drozdovskij

He won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tied for first place at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2007.


see also

Château de Gageac

On the wine trail between Bergerac (18 km) and Sainte-Foy-la-Grande (12 km), this castle is one of the most charming of South Bergerac, overlooking the Dordogne valley and surrounded by vineyards whose wine has an international reputation.