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45 unusual facts about VAL


1973 Paris Air Show crash

The 1973 Paris Air Show crash was the crash of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew and a further eight people on the ground.

1993–94 QMJHL season

The league expands northward, granting an expansion franchise in Val-d'Or, Quebec.

Abitibi gold belt

The abitibi gold belt is a region of Canada that extends from Wawa, Ontario to Val-d'Or, Quebec.

Adam Curle

His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the town where he was born, L'Isle-Adam, north of Paris.

Alan Gerber

He subsequently moved to Canada and currently lives in Val-David, Quebec.

Alphonse Royer

Royer and Gautier and their mistresses were also frequent visitors to Heine's summer house in Montmorency.

Andrea Bertolacci

Bertolacci started his international experience in Val-de-Marne under-16 international tournament.

Arcanis

Val were created during the God War as the elite warriors of the Gods and thereafter, as the caretakers of Mankind.

Arise the Republic

The party also claims 3 general councillors, and Mayors in four communes: Yerres, Cambrai, Saint-Prix and Ancinnes.

Bal Bullier

It was located at 39 Avenue Georges Bernanos in the district of Val-de-Grace in the 5th arrondissement, at the location of Bullier Centre CROUS.

Benjamin Raspail

Benjamin Raspail (16 August 1823, Paris – 24 September 1899, Cachan, Seine, now Val-de-Marne), was a painter-engraver and politician of the French Third Republic.

Berwinne

From there the Berwinne river flows, generally spoken, in northwestern direction, through places like Val-Dieu Abbey, Dalhem and Moelingen, before joining the Meuse between Visé and the Dutch border.

Boniface, Duke of Alsace

Boniface founded the a hunting lodge on the site of the future village of Wihr-au-Val around 660.

Camille Silvy

Camille Silvy (born Nogent-le-Rotrou, France, 1834; died Saint-Maurice, France, 1910) was a French photographer, primarily active in London.

Ceresole Reale

Ceresole Reale borders the following municipalities: Bonneval-sur-Arc (France), Groscavallo, Noasca, Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, Val-d'Isère (France), and Valsavarenche.

Charenton

Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, a neighboring commune that was called Charenton-Saint-Maurice until 1842

Duke of Montmorency

The title of Duke of Montmorency was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris.

François Devienne

Devienne died in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris on September 5, 1803.

François Louis, Prince of Conti

He was buried alongside his mother at his property in L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, near Paris.

French Cathedral, Berlin

The French Church was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot temple in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Gare de Franconville – Le Plessis-Bouchard

Franconville - Le Plessis-Bouchard is a station in Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France.

Gare de Saint-Gratien

The Gare de Saint-Gratien (Saint-Gratien station) is a railway station in the commune of Saint-Gratien, Val-d’Oise department, France.

Gendarmenmarkt

The cathedral was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France.

Georges Leredu

George Leredu (1860, Metz - 1943), lawyer, was mayor of Franconville-la-Garenne from 1908 to 1919, deputy (representative of parliament) from 1914 to 1927 then senator until 1936.

Georges Poujouly

Georges Poujouly (20 January 1940, Garches, Hauts-de-Seine – 28 October 2000, Villejuif, Val-de-Marne) was a French actor who gained international acclaim as a child for his performance in the award-winning film Forbidden Games.

House of Villehardouin

The House of Villehardouin was a noble dynasty originating in Villehardouin, a former commune of the Aube department, now part of Val-d'Auzon, France.

Józef Unrug

He died on 28 February 1973 in a Polish Veterans Hospital in Lailly-en-Val near Beaugency, at the age of 88.

Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

-- This article is not titled in English because the creator of the article couldn't find authoritative use of this or any other English name --> is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau.

Marie-Anne Horthemels

Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe Horthemels was one of three daughters of the Dutch bookseller Daniel Horthemels (c. 1650-1691) and his wife Marie Cellier (b. 1656), from Saint-Maurice, to the southeast of Paris.

Mattia Destro

Destro made his debut for the Italy under-16 team in theinternational Val-de-Marne tournament.

Montmorency, Victoria

Montmorency was named after a local farm, Montmorency Estate, which in turn was named for the town of Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, where the French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived briefly.

Orbigny

Orbigny-au-Val, a commune in the Haute-Marne department in France

Pierre Le Gros the Younger

In order to have an operation done and also to settle his inheritance, in 1715 the travelled to Paris, where he stayed with his friend, the patron and collector Pierre Crozat, whose cabinet in his Parisian house and chapel in his country retreat at Montmorency Le Gros decorated (both destroyed).

Princes of Wagram

After Louis Alexandre Berthier, the inheritors of the dual title (duc de Valengin) are most often referred to as "Prince de Wagram." Each of them lived at Château de Grosbois, a large estate in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, southeast of Paris.

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Legend recounts that angels then descended from Heaven to collect the pieces and place them in a boat which, miraculously, floated downstream into the Garonne and on to where the Tarn flows into it; then up the Tarn to its confluence with the Aveyron and up through the Vallis Nobilis of the Aveyron Gorges to the confluence of the little Bonnette river at a point where the ancient lands and bishroprics of Rouergue, the Albigeois, and Quercy meet.

The old town hall (even as controversially restored by Viollet-le-Duc) is also of very high quality - as shown by this exquisite carving of Adam, Eve, the Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge.

The town was used as a location for the 2001 movie Charlotte Gray, starring Cate Blanchett.

Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise

The Société de Transport Interurbains du Val d'Oise, or STIVO, is the bus company operating urban buses in Cergy-Pontoise in the département of Val-d'Oise, France.

Un début dans la vie

On one such trip from Paris, Comte Hugret de Sérizy, a senator and wealthy aristocrat, is travelling incognito in order to investigate reports that Monsieur Moreau, the steward of his country estate at Presles, is being less than honest in his dealings on the count's behalf with a neighbouring landowner Margueron, a piece of whose land the count wishes to buy.

Balzac wrote Un début dans la vie during one of his many visits to the commune of L'Isle-Adam in Val-d'Oise, a few kilometres north of Paris.

VAL

Variable Assembly Language, a computer-based control system and language designed specifically for use with Unimation Inc. industrial robots

Vatican lira, the currency of the Vatican City between 1929 and 2002

Véhicule Automatique Léger, a type of automatic rubber-tired people mover technology

Val-Kill Industries

Eleanor Roosevelt established Val-Kill Industries in 1927 with Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, and Caroline O'Day, three friends she met through her activities in the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Party.

Zygmunt Kaczkowski

After his death, on his tombstone at the Champeaux cemetery in Montmorency there were inscribed, in Polish and in French, the words: "A combattu toute sa vie par la plume pour la cause de sa Patrie" (All his life fought with his pen for his Fatherland).


524th Bombardment Squadron

Specific targets included a chemical plant in Ludwigshafen, an aircraft assembly plant in Brunswick, ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt and Leipzig, synthetic oil refineries at Merseburg and Gelsenkirchen, marshalling yards at Hamm and Reims and airfields in Mesnil au Val and Berlin.

Altdorf, Switzerland

There are several paintings here by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947) whose family came from Hospental, including portraits of Pope Pius X, Pope Pius XI, Cardinal Merry del Val, the artist's father Alois Muller, his uncle Domherr Josef Muller, and a large allegorical work Alpenrose und Edelweiss.

Automated guideway transit

The VAL (Véhicule Automatique Léger) system in Lille, France, opened in 1983, is often cited as the first AGT installed to serve an existing urban area.

Borgo Val di Taro

James Gandolfini Sr., father of Italian-American actor James Gandolfini Jr., was born in Borgo Val di Taro.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

Capital Disney

The final line up of presenters at closure was Adam Morris, known on air as The General, James Beckingham, Matt James, Val Mellon, Leigh Purves, Nigel Mitchell, Andrew Rendle, known as Radio Rendle, Adam O'Neill, Saffron Oddy and Sophie Bruce.

Cathy Dingman

Unfortunately for BB, Val was tossed twice in the contest, and Triple H was there to make sure that she disrobed as he blocked the crowd's view of BB, making it so that he was the only person to see her topless.

Charenton

Charenton-le-Pont, in the Val-de-Marne département, a commune which has a common border with Paris

Château Val Joanis

The AOC wines of Château de Val Joanis are made with Grenache and Syrah grapes for the red wines and rosés and Grenache blanc, Roussanne, and Ugni blanc for the whites.

Claude Duval

Du Val was born in Domfront, Orne, Normandy in 1643 to a noble family stripped of title and land.

Courchapoix

The municipalities of Corban, Courchapoix, Courroux, Mervelier, Montsevelier, Vermes and Vicques are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality of Val Terbi.

Del Dingle

Settling into life in Emmerdale, Del – a talented seamstress – helped Val and Eric start their soft furnishings business and became an integral part of the company.

Enguerrand Quarton

The painting remains in the monastery Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, for which it was commissioned by a local clergyman, Jean de Montagny.

FAVS Stradivari

The FAVS Stradivari is a bullpup carbine series manufactured by FAVS - Fabbrica d'Armi Val di Susa S.N.C. (Susa Valley Arms Factory, Ltd.) located in the town of Villar Focchiardo, and owned by the expert gunmaker Edi Guglielminotti.

Fort de Condé-sur-Aisne

It is located on the heights of the confluence of the Aisne and the Vesle near the communes of Condé-sur-Aisne and Chivres-Val.

Franz Heinzer

Heinzer won at the world's most famous downhill venues: Kitzbühel (3x), Wengen, Val Gardena (2x), Garmisch, Val-d'Isère, Aspen, Lake Louise, and St. Anton.

Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.

Lara Gut

At the 2009 World Championships at Val d'Isère, France, Gut won silver medals in the downhill and the super combined, more than two months before her 18th birthday.

Maxime Dethomas

Born in Garges-lès-Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Maxime Dethomas came from a long line of painter-printers on one side of his family and of lawyers on the other.

Melezzo Orientale

To begin with the river runs south forming the deep valley of Arvogno (a locality within the commune of Toceno); near Santa Maria Maggiore (VB) the course turns east and takes it through the gentler slopes of the high plain which forms the central section of the Val Vigezzo; at Malesco it is joined by the Loana.

Mervelier

The municipalities of Corban, Courchapoix, Courroux, Mervelier, Montsevelier, Vermes and Vicques are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality of Val Terbi.

Monte Rosa Massif

Monte Rosa itself lies near the intersection of a great north and south ridge, extending from the Balfrin through the Mischabelhörner, and the highest peaks of the mountain itself, to the Vincent Pyramide, and thence through the range that bounds the Val de Lys, nearly to Ivrea, with the transverse range lying between the Dent d'Herens and the Pizzo Bianco near Macugnaga.

Montopoli in Val d'Arno

Montopoli in Val d'Arno borders the following municipalities: Castelfranco di Sotto, Palaia, Pontedera, San Miniato, Santa Maria a Monte.

Pas de Morgins

It is located at the top of the Val de Morgins, which turns off the Val d'Illiez at Troistorrents.

Petru Popescu

1977 - The Last Wave (aka Black Rain in USA) - Ultimul val - as producer

Quebec Route 307

On June 23, 2010, part of the highway was closed between Val-des-Bois and Bowman, due to a partial bridge collapse caused by a 5.0 magnitude earthquake.

Rhuilles

Rhuilles is a frazione of the Italian comune of Cesana Torinese (province of Turin), located at 1,675 metres above sea level in the Val Thuras (upper Val di Susa).

Saint Bessus

On August 10 of every year, a festival and pilgrimage is held every year in the mountains of Gran Paradiso National Park (Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso), in the Val Soana.

Schams

They include, in addition to those mentioned above, Ferrera in the Val Ferrera, and Rongellen at the northern end of the Viamala gorge.

Special Project

Darryl discovers warehouse worker Val (Ameenah Kaplan) has knitted him a beanie.

Svaðilfari

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set "right at the beginning of the gods' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall" about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

Uijeongbu

A VAL driver-less metro system, U Line, is an elevated line, 11.067 km long, covering 15 stations.

Val Andrews

Val had previously been linked to magaging the Dublin senior football team in 2001, Tommy Lyons was chosen in the end.

Val Camonica

Almost all of the valley is included in the administrative territory of the province of Brescia, excluding Lovere, Rogno, Costa Volpino and the Val di Scalve,which are parts of the province of Bergamo.

Val Camonica witch trials

During the first months of 1518, inquisitors were stationed in the parishes of the Val Camonica; Don Bernardino de Grossis in Pisogne, Don James de Gablani in Rogno, Don Valerio de Boni in Breno, Don Donato de Savallo in Cemmo and Don Battista Capurione in Edolo, all under the bishop Inquisitor Peter Durante, who presided at the central court of the Inquisition at Cemmo.

Val Royal

Scheduled to go to Hong Kong's Sha Tin Racecourse to run in the Hong Kong Mile Val Royal developed a quarter crack that saw him sidelined him until March 2 of 2002 when he returned to Santa Anita and finished fourth in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap.

Valliscaulian Order

The tomb of the Dukes of Burgundy, now removed to Dijon, was originally erected at Val-des-Choux; in bas-reliefs of a blind arcading of its base are the only representations of the monks of Val-de-Choux.

Villarceau

Domaine of Villarceaux, a château, water garden, and park in the commune of Chaussy in the Val d'Oise Department of France