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unusual facts about Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy


Anna Rudolf

Rudolf attracted attention during the Vandoeuvre Open in December 2007, where she defeated the top seed Christian Bauer, finished ninth and scored WGM and IM norms.


5th Tony Awards

Performers: Barbara Ashley, Arthur Blake, Eugene Conley, Nancy Donovan, Joan Edwards, Dorothy Greener, Juanita Hall, Celeste Holm, Lois Hunt, Anne Jeffreys, Lucy Monroe, Herb Shriner.

AAC Middle Wallop

After D-Day, both the 67th RG moved to its Advanced Landing Ground at Le Molay-Littry (ALG A-9) and IX FC Headquarters moved to Les Obeaux, France in late June 1944 ending the USAAF presence at Middle Wallop.

Adam Albert von Neipperg

In August 1814, he was instructed to escort Napoleon's wife, the Empress Marie Louise, to Aix-les-Bains to take the waters.

Armand Jammot

He produced a number of shows, most notably Les Dossiers de l'Écran, and in 1965, he created Des chiffres et des lettres.

Bernard Bosquier

Bernard Bosquier (born 19 June 1942 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie) is a former French international footballer who played as a defender.

Carol Hanks Aucamp

In doubles, she won the U.S. Indoor Doubles title (with Mary-Ann Eisel) in 1963, '64 and '65, and in 1958 with Nancy O'Connell, and won the title in Cincinnati in 1960 with Justina Bricka.

Chango Family

They also have played countless benefit concerts for causes varying from Le Club Compassion to Porto Alegre as well as Bordeaux Prison for a concert with Les Souverains Anonymes.

Dissacus

The fossil record of this species is fragmentary; remains in Cernay, France, include a mandible, a complete radius, and fragments of a humerus.

Earl of Enniskillen

He and his American second wife Nancy (a former junior diplomat with the United States Foreign Service) lived at Florence Court (newly restored by the National Trust) in south-west County Fermanagh from 1963 until 1972, when they moved over to Kinloch House in Kinloch in Perthshire, Scotland.

Eddie Cano

He found an appreciative audience for a series of albums under his own name released in the '50s and '60s by labels such as Atco, Reprise, and RCA, his following similar to that of vibraphonist Cal Tjader and bandleader Les Baxter.

Fabienne Égal

She became an announcer on TF1 in the 1970s, then hosted Les pieds au mur with Nicolas Hulot in 1980 and La Une chez vous (1985-1987).

Françoise Lebrun

She also worked for, amongst others, Paul Vecchiali, Marguerite Duras and Lucas Belvaux, and is the subject of the documentary Françoise Lebrun, les voies singulières (2008).

Grand Orchestra of Paris

The orchestra appeared on two Ed Sullivan programs with the Les Djinns Singers in the early 1960s.

Harry Hoijer

Maquet, Jacques, Daniels, Nancy (eds.) (1984), articles by Sidney Mintz, Maurice Godelier, Bruce Trigger: On Marxian Perspectives in Anthropology. Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer, 1981, Undena (for the UCLA Dept. of Anthr.), Malibu, CA.

Henri de Boulainvilliers

In 1683 Boulainvilliers wrote " l'Idée d'un Système Géneral de la Nature" based on his reading of Jan Baptist van Helmont and Robert Boyle, followed by "Archidoxes de Paracelsus, avec une préface sur les principes de l'art chimique".

Jared Goff

Goff was born to Jerry Goff, a former Major League Baseball player, and Nancy Goff.

Jean Ragnotti

Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born 29 August 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines, Vaucluse), is a French former rally driver for Renault in the World Rally Championship.

Jeffrey Gorton

Jeffrey Wayne Gorton (born November 1, 1962) is an American murderer and rapist, who was convicted in 2002 of the rape and murder of flight attendant Nancy Ludwig on February 17, 1991 at the Hilton hotel in Romulus, Michigan.

John Trobaugh

In Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Trobaugh's work was shown alongside Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.

Joué-lès-Tours

It corresponds to a toponymic type frequently found in Christian Gaule, that gave different variants depending on the region: Joué (west of France), Jouy (center and north), Jouey (east), Gouy (Normandy/Picardy), Gaugeac, Jaujac (south).

Les Claypool's Fancy Band

Les Claypool's Fancy Band was a lineup of musicians on tour with Les Claypool from 2005 to 2007.

Les Cousins Branchaud

2007 was a big year for Les Cousins Branchaud, as they produced their fourth album, Passer du bon temps, and were invited for the first time to play at the World Folk Festival in Drummondville.

Les Deux Plateaux

Les Deux Plateaux, more commonly known as the Colonnes de Buren, is a highly controversial art installation created by the French artist Daniel Buren in 1985–1986.

Les Percussions de Guinée

In 2002, World Music Productions Inc. arranged for Les Percussions de Guinée to appear in the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.

Louis Auguste Blanqui

Blanqui's political activism and his book L'Eternité par les astres were commented on by Walter Benjamin in his Arcades Project and are referenced in the novel The Secret Knowledge by Andrew Crumey.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Louis-Philippe Dalembert

Since leaving Haiti, this polyglot vagabond (he juggles seven languages) has lived in Nancy, Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, Brazzaville, Kinshasa, Florence, and has traveled wherever his steps have taken him ... in the renewed echo of his native land.

Mark Marissen

Dion appointed Marissen, Nancy Girard and Senator David Smith as national campaign co-chairs for the Liberal campaign in the federal election which took place October 14, 2008.

Married to the Kellys

Married to the Kellys also starred Josh Braaten (That '80s Show), Nancy Lenehan (Grace Under Fire), Emily Rutherfurd (The Ellen Show, Van Wilder), Sam Anderson (Angel) and newcomer Derek Waters.

Mystery By Moonlight

In November 2002 Her Interactive released the 7th computer game in the Nancy Drew Series, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, based loosely on this book and a short story in the Nancy Drew Ghost Stories.

Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge

Nancy Drew - Nancy is an eighteen-year old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States.

Nancy Goes to Rio

Nancy Goes to Rio is a remake of the 1940 film It's a Date, also based on the story by Block, Kohner, and Hall, starring Deanna Durbin.

Nancy Hazel

Nancy Hazel was a Research Fellow with the School of Social Work at the University of Kent.

Paris sous les bombes

Paris Sous Les Bombes (Paris Under The Bombs) is the third album by French hip hop group Suprême NTM.

Pegaso Z-102

A Pegaso Z-102 coupé by Saoutchick, owned by Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, was in this respect the epitome of coachwork sophistication, as it had seats upholstered with leopard skin and controls in gold, and in such a finish it won the 1953 Enghien-les-Bains (France) Grand Prix d'Elegance.

Ronny Coutteure

He was the proprietor of the "pub-theatre" La ferme des hirondelles (Swallow Farm) in Fretin in northern France and he wrote and directed an opera, Les Contes d'un buveur de bière (Tales of a beer drinker) as well as teaching "biérologie" ("beer-ology").

Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

Consequently, there were a number of small salt works, such as those at Salins-les-Bains and Montmorot, that extracted salt by boiling water over wood fires.

Serge Brussolo

In 2009, a film adaptation of his best-seller French-language novel Les Emmurés was adapted into a film, entitled Walled In.

SNCF Class Y 9000

Socofer will refurbish 22 full locomotives at its Tours plant, and will deliver 178 kits to SNCF's Sotteville-Quatre-Mares workshops.

Sport in Jersey

For horse racing, Les Landes Race Course can be found at Les Landes in St Ouen next to the ruins of Grosnez Castle.

Syd Butler

In November 2012, it was announced that he, Les Savy Fav bandmate Seth, and Amy Carlson had formed Office Romance and their EP, I Love The Holidays, would be out on December 11, 2012, via Frenchkiss.

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

Sturges directed only one more film in his life, the 1955 French comedy Les carnets du Major Thompson (released in the U.S. as The French, They Are a Funny Race).

The Fatal Dowry

The play is set in Dijon in Burgundy in the later part of the fifteenth century, in the aftermath of the battles of Grandson, Morat (both 1476) and Nancy (1477), all mentioned in Act I, scene ii.

The Friend of God from the Oberland

Jundt Les Amis de Dieu (1879) This book shared Preger's view that the Friend was a great unknown who lived in or near Chur (Coire) in Switzerland.

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer says that the main setting of the story is in the vicinity of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

Treasure of Pouan

The grave was accidentally uncovered in 1842 by a labourer at Pouan-les-Vallées (Aube), a French village in the canton of Arcis-sur-Aube on the south bank of the Aube River.

Treatise of the Three Impostors

According to historian Silvia Berti, the book was originally published as La Vie et L'Esprit de Spinosa (The Life and Spirit of Spinoza),containing both a biography of Benedict Spinoza and the anti-religious essay, and was later republished under the title Traité sur les trois imposteurs.

Violette Verdy

She went on to dance with Les Ballets de Paris (1950; 1953–1954), the London Festival Ballet (1954–1955), La Scala, Milan (1955–1956), and the American Ballet Theatre (1956–1957).

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI

Xtra AM

During Xtra AM's nine years on air, these included Les Ross (as mentioned above), Annie Othen, Ted Elliott, Tony Butler, Adrian Stewart, Dave Hickman, Mick Wright, Guy Jogoo and Noddy Holder (who hosted a popular Sunday afternoon show playing music from the 1970s).


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