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13 unusual facts about est


Alla fiera dell'est

The melody of "Sotto il tiglio" ("Under the Linden Tree") is based on a German lied entitled "Unter den Linden", written by Walther von der Vogelweide.

"Il vecchio e la farfalla" is inspired by an oriental proverb mentioned in The Travels of Marco Polo.

Armée de l'Est

The task of the army should be the relief of the besieged fortress of Belfort and the interruption of the German supply lines.

The retreat of the South went chaotically and slowly, the army was surrounded in the area of Pontarlier, close to the Swiss border.

Canton of Saint-Laurent-du-Var-Cagnes-sur-Mer-Est

The canton was created in 1982 adding part of Cagnes-sur-Mer to the pre-existent Canton of Saint-Laurent-du-Var.

Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est

The board employs approximately 2,000 teachers and professionals and it covers an area of 35,615 km², including the City of Ottawa.

Étienne Moreau-Nélaton

Moreau-Nélaton's father, who was also named Adolphe Moreau (1827–1882), was a high government official and led the railroad company Chemins de fer de l'Est.

L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est...

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.

Milvignes

When portions of the Armée de l'Est were interred in Colombier in 1871, the Catholic Mass began to be read once again in the church.

Québec-Est

Quebec East, a former federal electoral district in the area of Quebec City

Rivière de l'Est

It flows northeast from the southeast of the island, reaching the sea between the towns of Sainte-Anne and Sainte-Rose.

SNCF TGV Sud-Est

Currently there are 107 passenger sets operating, of which nine are tri-current (25 kV 50-60 Hz AC - French lignes à grande vitesse, 1500 V DC - French lignes classiques, 15 kV 16⅔ Hz AC - Switzerland) and the rest bi-current (25 kV 50–60 Hz AC, 1500 V DC).

The Brave Express Might Gaine

Guard Diver is a super robot, and the Rescue Express is a combined super bullet train (SNCF TGV Sud-Est).


9th Canadian Folk Music Awards

Njacko Backo & Kalimba Kalimba - Ici bas, rien n'est impossible (Here Below, Nothing is Impossible)

A4060 road

After about 3 miles there is another roundabout which has links to Mountain Hare and Dowlais Ind Est and the A4102.

Between Past and Future

The first sentence of the preface is a citation of French poet and résistant René Char: "Notre héritage n'est précédé d'aucun testament," translated by Arendt herself as "our inheritance was left to us by no testament."

Corynne Charby

This song was also briefly parodied in a sketch by the comedian Gad Elmaleh, part of which went: "Qui c'est qu'a mangé un bout du flipper? C'est pas cool!".

Economic Times

Hong Kong Economic Times (est. 1988), a Chinese-language financial newspaper

Europe This Week

Europe This Week is a business news show aired on CNBC Europe and on CNBC World in the US, co-presented by Guy Johnson and Louisa Bojesen, from 6pm to 6:30pm CET (12pm to 12:30pm EST) on Fridays.

Fauxbourdon

The earliest definitely datable example of fauxbourdon is in a motet by Dufay, Supremum est mortalibus, which was written for the treaty reconciling the differences between Pope Eugene IV and Sigismund, after which Sigismund was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor, which happened on May 31, 1433.

Fortified Sector of the Dauphiné

Ouvrage Gondran (Gondran E, Godran Est), petit ouvrage of five blocks (CORF)

French name

Actresses are usually always styled mademoiselle, especially in film or theatre credits, regardless of their age or personal situation; one would thus read mademoiselle Deneuve est habillée par Soandso.

Garden city movement

The garden city model was also applied to many colonial hill stations, such as Da Lat in Vietnam (est. 1907) and Ifrane in Morocco (est. 1929).

Gare des Brotteaux

The same year, the station was sold by the SNCF and currently hosts the auction house of Jean-Claude Anaf, the Brasserie de l'Est by Paul Bocuse, the architectural workshop Arche, among others things.

Germaine Cernay

Massenet: Sapho: Air le la Lampe ; Werther: (Charlotte, highlights) Prière, Air des lettres, Oui, c'est moi (with Charles Friant, tenor), Albert est de retour, Mort de Werther, Air je dit vrai, Va, ma laisse couler mes larmes, Ah!

Gino Vannelli

In 1993, French-speaking Quebecer singer Martine St. Clair recorded "Wheels of Life" as a duet with Vannelli as well as a French-language version called "L'Amour Est Loi".

Gruen Playhouse

Sponsored by the Gruen Watch Company, the series aired on ABC on Thursdays at 9:30pm EST, and on DuMont on Thursdays at 9pm EST.

Happiness Is in the Field

Happiness Is in the Field (French: Le bonheur est dans le pré) is a French comedy directed by Étienne Chatiliez in 1995.

Haverhill Gazette

The Haverhill Gazette (est.1821) is a weekly newspaper in Massachusetts, owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Montgomery, Alabama.

Heinrich Schenker

Based on conversation with an unnamed Latin scholar, William Helmcke added that it could also be based on a passage from Irenaeus's Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies): sine initio et sine fine, vere et semper idem et eodem modo se habens solus est Deus ("Without beginning and without end, only God continues truly and always the same and in the same way").

Hierarchy of genres

An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century:Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d'un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles.

Hollandsche Bank-Unie

HBU's international history ended in 2001 when ABN AMRO sold the Ecuadorian operation it had inherited from the HBU to Banco del Pichincha (est. 1906).

House of Buggin'

House of Buggin' is a short-lived Latino-themed sketch comedy television show, which aired on Sunday night at 8:30 pm est in 1995, starring John Leguizamo and Luis Guzmán.

Jamy Gourmaud

Jamy Gourmaud is a journalist well known from the educational TV show C'est Pas Sorcier that he presented with Frédéric Courant and Sabine Quindou and was produced from the channel France 3 on 1993.

John J. Considine

Influences on his life and teaching include Unity Church, est, the Landmark Forum, yoga and meditation; as well as the Anonymous fellowships and the work of Bill W.

Kids Stuff

From 11 pm EST to Midnight EST (one hour), a bock called Big Kids Stuff plays music from old television shows and artists (i.e. Schoolhouse Rock!, The Muppets, "Weird Al" Yankovic, old Hanna-Barbera shows, etc.)

Kimry

Théophile Gautier wrote in his Voyage en Russie (1867): "Kimra est célèbre pour ses bottes comme Ronda pour ses guêtres" (Kimra is famous for its shoes as Ronda for its gaiters).

La Caletta

The town (est. 1,000 inhabitants, that become more than 10,000 in Summer) is today deeply dependent on tourism and borders, at its northern side, with San Giovanni, the coastal fraction of Posada.

La Ville dont le prince est un enfant

The Fire that Consumes, a 1977 English language adaptation of the original French play La Ville dont le prince est un enfant;;

Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In 1752 Frederick the Great named a newly founded village Leopoldshagen (est. 1748) in his honour.

Lovozersky

Lovozersky District (est. 1927), a district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Ludwig Crocius

He wrote on the De Germania of Tacitus (1618) as a school work, and also the Idea viri boni hoc est octo et quadringenta Sixti sive Xisti sententiae quae vitae honestae et religiosae epitomen complectuntur (1618).

Mad scene

Le pont des soupirs ("Ah! le Doge, ah! Les plombs, le canal Orfano l'Adriatique, c'est fini je suis folle")

Mama, Papa is Wounded!

Mama, Papa is Wounded! (French: Maman, Papa est blesse!) is a 1927 surrealist painting by Yves Tanguy.

Manuel Tadros

Toward the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s Tadros turned to writing songs for other artists, including the hit tune "C'est zéro" for Julie Masse.

Marian litany

The earliest known genuine text of a Marian litany is in a 12th-century codex in the Mainz Library, with the title Letania de domina nostra Dei genitrice virgine Maria: oratio valde bona: cottidie pro quacumque tribulatione recitanda est.

Métamorphoses

Themes "Bells", "Je me souviens", "Miss Moon", "Millions of Stars", "Hey Gagarin", "Gloria, Lonely Boy", "C'est la vie", "Tout est bleu" and "Give Me A Sign" were performed live at The Twelve Dreams of the Sun concert, in December 31, 1999, along with classical hits by Jarre.

Perth Modern School

Perth Modern embraced a new motto, Savoir C’est Pouvoir (Knowledge is Power), and the Sphinx, representing knowledge and wisdom, was adopted as the school emblem.

Radio Paris

Its broadcasts were pitched directly against the BBC broadcasts of Radio Londres by Free French figures like Pierre Dac, who sang the taunting refrain, Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris ment, Radio Paris est allemand ("Radio Paris lies, Radio Paris lies, Radio Paris is German"), to the tune of La Cucaracha.

Rémi Ochlik

The published, printed poem (a variation on her reading on BBC) also references L'amour est dans le pré (the French version of Farmer Wants a Wife), Dexter (TV series), and Harry Potter.

René Lévesque Boulevard

A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name "Boulevard Dorchester", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as "Rue Dorchester."

Rudy Coby

Coby's 'four legs' act is said to have inspired the director of the French film, Delicatessen, to include a multi-legged hero in the film after reportedly seeing him on Patrick Sebastien's early show, "Sebastien, c'est Fou!".

Tout l'monde est malheureux

Tout l'monde est malheureux is an album by the Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, an early music group from Montreal, Quebec led by Gilles Plante.

Une chanson c'est une lettre

"Une chanson c'est une lettre" was composed by André Popp, who previously had written Vicky Leandros' 1967 entry "L'amour est bleu", which only finished 4th in the Contest but still went on to become a worldwide hit when covered by French band leader Paul Mauriat.

Vicious intromission

His attempt was unsuccessful, but led to an exchange with his friend Doctor Johnson in July 1772, recorded in his Life of Samuel Johnson, in which the latter wrote a paper on the legal principles involved, stating misera est servitus ubi jus est aut incognitum aut vagum ("miserable is that state of slavery in which the law is unknown or uncertain").

X-ray astronomy satellites

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Polar Satellite was a NASA science spacecraft launched at 06:23:59.997 EST on February 24, 1996 aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket from launch pad 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, California, to observe the Earth's polar magnetosphere.