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Saut d'Eau

Other important species on the island include the Chestnut-collared Swift and Rufous-necked Wood-rail, both of which are rare in the country.


126th Field Artillery Regiment

:Former 1st Cavalry reconstituted in the Wisconsin National Guard and partially organized between October 1919 and March 1921 with Troops A, and B at Milwaukee; Troop E at Kenosha, Troop G at Watertown, Troop H at Fort Atkinson; and Troop L at Eau Claire.

AK4711

The name is a wordplay on the AK-47 assault rifle, 4711, a brand of Eau de Cologne, and the initials of the lead singer Anja Krabbe.

Altoona, Wisconsin

Altoona is a part of the Eau Claire media market; until early 2009, it was served by its own free weekly newspaper, the Altoona Star. Altoona is also home to the studios and offices of Maverick Media stations WAYY, WEAQ, WECL, WIAL, WAXX, and WDRK-FM.

Bernard 80 GR

They landed on 2 April with fuel still available, brought down by loss of coolant; during the last part of the flight, they pumped Champagne, eau de Vittel and coffee into the radiator.

Clearwater Lake

Clearwater Lakes, the English name of the Lac à l'Eau Claire, a pair of impact craters in northern Québec

Cleghorn, Wisconsin

The now-extinct community of Hadleyville lies approximately three miles to the west, along Eau Claire County Highway "HH".

Eau Claire High School

Eau Claire High School is the name of several high schools in the United States.

Eau Claire, Calgary

North of Eau Claire is Prince's Island Park, a large urban park on an island in the Bow River and the site of many summer festivals, including the Calgary Folk Music Festival, Carifest, Shakespeare in the Park and various busking happenings.

The name Eau Claire derives from one of Calgary's original industries - a sawmill transplanted from Eau Claire, Wisconsin and staffed by mostly Norwegian mill workers.

Eielsen Synod

In 1985, there were approximately 50 members at just three churches: Stall Norwegian Church in Jackson, Minnesota Bethania Lutheran (Lodi / Eau Claire WI) and Immanuel in French Lake, Minnesota.

Flacq District

The small village of Trou D'Eau Douce, from where visitors take boats for tours on Île aux Cerfs island.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Gregory Moore

Gregg Moore, member of the Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors and the current chairperson

Guy Béart

His biggest hit came when he wrote the soundtrack of the 1960 motion picture, L'Eau vive (Girl and the River in the USA).

Henry Cleveland Putnam

Noted for his philanthropies, he donated Putnam Park to the city of Eau Claire, and gave a large sum of money to construct the Eau Claire YMCA.

History of the Palace of Versailles

Nevertheless, on 3 January 1805, Pope Pius VII, who came to France to officiate at Napoléon's coronation, visited the palace and blessed the throng of people gathered on the parterre d'eau from the balcony of the Hall of Mirrors (Mauguin, 1940–1942).

Hydropower

The world famous Jet d'Eau was originally designed as the over-pressure relief valve for the network.

Jake Dowell

The Dowells have teamed with many Eau Claire businesses, Clear Channel Radio and WEAU-TV to host fundraisers to battle the disease.

John Houston

John Caroll Houston, IV (1842–1918), settler and three-term mayor of Eau Gallie, Florida.

KOSANBA

Their last colloquium on July 13-17, 2009 was held in Mirebalais, Haiti to coincide with the Saut-d'Eau pilgrimage.

Kristen Dexter

She has volunteered with the Girl Scouts, Meals on Wheels, the Eau Claire Municipal Band, and served on the Regional Steering Committee for Health Literacy Wisconsin.

Leslie Law

Born in Hereford, Law began in 1997 to compete on the brothers Shear H2O and Shear L'eau, a pair of Irish Sport Horse greys that made him immediately recognisable on the cross-country course.

Outwell

Also constructed across the parish was the Wisbech Canal, now disused, which followed the course of the Well Stream as far as Outwell church and then struck across in a southeasterly direction to join Popham's Eau at Nordelph.

Paris Combo

In early 2003, Paris Combo's "Terrien d'Eau Douce" won in The 2nd Annual Independent Music Awards for Best World Song.

Passenger rail projects in Minnesota

The Gateway Corridor runs 90 miles from downtown Saint Paul to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, along or parallel to Interstate 94 (I-94).

Philippe B

In 2009 Philippe B co-wrote two songs with Pierre Lapointe, Le bar des suicidés and À moi for the album Sentiments humains and also wrote two songs for Stéphanie Lapointe, each entitled Eau salée and Une fleur.

Rondeau Provincial Park

The name of the park comes from the French words "ronde eau" or "round water" which describes the shape of the harbour sheltered by the peninsula.

Songs to Remember

The cover artwork for each of the singles was a homage to the packaging of a luxury consumer item: Dunhill cigarettes for "The 'Sweetest Girl'", Dior's Eau Sauvage perfume for "Faithless", and Courvoisier cognac for "Asylums in Jerusalem"/"Jacques Derrida".

The European Association of Ukrainians

The European Association of Ukrainians (EAU) is a voluntary association of Ukrainians in the European Union with headquarters in Brussels and representatives in Paris, Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin.

Theodore Steinmetz

Mr. Steinmetz was also conductor of the Eau Claire Municipal Band, the 105th Cavalry Band and was the longest serving musician in the Wisconsin National Guard.

Tony Holiday

In 2000, Tony Holiday's single "Tanze Samba mit Mir" was prominently featured in the Teddy Award-winning François Ozon directed film Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks), an adaptation of the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German filmmaker and dramatist Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Trempealeau County, Wisconsin

At the mouth of the Trempealeau River, which flows from northeast to southwest across the county on its way to the Mississippi River, they found a bluff surrounded by water and called it "La Montagne qui trempe à l’eau," which means "mountain with its foot in the water."

Trou Caïman

Trou Caïman (literally "Caiman's Hole" in French), sometimes called Eau Gallée by locals, is a saltwater lake in Haiti known for its excellent birdwatching opportunities.

Water privatization in Morocco

At the time of the French protectorate of Morocco beginning in 1912 the water supply of Casablanca, Rabat, Salé, Tangiers and Meknes was provided by the French private company Société Marocaine de Distribution d'eau, de gaz et d'électricité (SMD), a subsidiary of Lyonnaise des Eaux, under concession contracts.

WBIZ

WBIZ-FM, a radio station (100.7 FM) licensed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

WHYS

WHYS-LP, a low-power radio station (96.3 FM) licensed to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

William C. Wantland

After retiring from the Diocese of Eau Claire in 1999, Wantland helped to form the Anglican Church in North America.

Wisconsin Highway 124

It previously extended into Eau Claire County, but the Eau Claire County section was renumbered Highway 312 as part of the U.S. 53 bypass project in 2006.

WQOW

Owned by Quincy Newspapers, WQOW has facilities on Old Town Hall Road in Eau Claire (with a WIS 93 postal address) south of I-94.


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