Georges Bizet

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1838 - Month/day unknown. Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (d. 1916) John S. Billings,M.D., American military and medical leader (d. 1913) ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). In the ISO 8601 calendar, 1875 is defined as the year the Convention du Mètre was originally signed, by way of a reference year. 1875 - Events. January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1838 - Events. January 6 - Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the telegraph. January 8 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code) January 12 - Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon flee Ohio for Missouri March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Sw ...

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Dante Michaelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and conductor. Ferruccio Busoni - Biography. Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father a clarinettist. They were often touring during his childhood, and he was brought up in Trieste for the most part. Busoni was a child prodigy. He made his public debut on the piano with his pare ...

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The anti-Spanish Black Legend (in Spanish, leyenda negra) is the depiction of Spain and Spaniards as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical. The term was coined by Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The Black Legend and Historical Truth). The Black Legend is distinguished from other similar discourses throughout history by its extension, influence and persistence in time. The Legend influenced historical understanding and accounts in most European countries and, through them, much of the world. Its zenith may have come in the 16th century, but ...

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The castanets are a percussion instrument (idiophone), much used in Moorish music, Roma music, Spanish music and Latin American music. The instrument consists of a pair of concave shells joined on one edge by string. These are held in the hand and used to produce clicks for rhythmic accents or a ripping or rattling sound consisting of a rapid series of clicks. They are traditionally made of hardwood, altho ...

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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Clichy (sometimes unofficially called Clichy-la-Garenne) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.4 km. (4 miles) from the center of Paris. The headquarter of the L'Oréal Group, the world's leading company in cosmetics and beauty, Bic one of the biggest pen producers in the world, Sony France, ...

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Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. For a year after its premiere, it was considered a failure; denounced by critics as 'immoral' and 'superficial'. Today, it is one of the world's most popular operas^Including:

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Bullfighting or tauromachy (Spanish toreo, corrida de toros or tauromaquia; Portuguese tourada, corrida de touros or tauromaquia) is a sport that involves, most of the time, professional performers (generally called in Spanish toreros or matadores and in Portuguese toureiros) who execute various formal moves with the goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over the bull itself; these maneuvers are performed at close range, concluding (in Spanish-style bullfighting) with the death of th ...

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Roma may refer to: Rome, the capital of Italy, in Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Norwegian and Spanish Roma people, people also known as Gypsies A.S. Roma, an Italian Football (soccer) team Roma, a Roman deity Roma, Queensland, a town in Australia Roma, Ecuador, a town in Ecuador Roma, Texas, a town in the United States Roma (1972), a film by Federico Fellini R

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Originally, there were at least five distinct regional styles of bullfighting practiced in southwestern Europe: Andalucia, Aragon-Navarre, Alentejo, Camargue, Aquitaine. Today, these styles evolved more or less into standardised national forms mentioned below. The "classic" style of bullfighting which comes to most peoples' minds, where the bull is killed, is the form practiced in Spain and many Latin American countrie ...

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Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project - Environmental:. Marine life: Though there has been a demand from various quarters for the implementation of the project, there is also opposition to it from environmentalists. They point out that the dredging of the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar could affect the ecology of the zone by changing currents, which could: cause changes in temperature, salinity, turbidity and flow of nutrients cause oilspills from ship and ot ...

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Rufus Wainwright was born in Rhinebeck, New York, USA, to folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle (they later divorced while he was a child). He began to play the piano at age six, and by age thirteen he was touring with his sister Martha, mother Kate, and aunt Anna as the "McGarrigle Sisters and Family." His song "I'm Running," which he performed in the movie Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, and in which he also played a minor character, was nominated for the 1988 Genie Award for Best Original Song and earned him a nomination for the 199 ...

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A partial list of famous people buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery: Pierre Abélard (1079-1142), medieval French scholastic philosopher, famous for affair with student, Héloïse. Marie d'Agoult (1805-1876), author Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), poet & soldier, coined term "surrealism." Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), Guatemalan author, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in literature Hubertine Auclert (1848-1914), French feminist Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911-2001), actor ...

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Père Lachaise, Père Lachaise - Origins, Père Lachaise - Famous Personalities Interred

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The Roma are popularly known in English as Gypsies or Gipsies, derived from the word Egypt, owing to the erroneous belief amongst outsiders that the Roma originated in Egypt. This ethnonym was never used by the Roma to describe themselves. The term Gypsy has long been associated with persecution, and has acquired pejorative connotations. There is no connection between the names of the Roma or their language, and the city of Rome (Roma in Latin, Italian, and Romanian), the Roman Empire, Romania, the Roman ...

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Mickey Mouse - First encounter with Black/Peg Leg Pete. The Gallopin' Gaucho was again co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, with the latter serving as the sole animator in this case. The short was intended as a parody of Douglas Fairbanks' The Gaucho, a film first released on November 21, 1927. Following the original film, the events of the short take place in the Pampas of Argentina. The gaucho of the title was Mickey himself. He is first seen riding on a Rhea, instead of a horse as would be e ...

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List of French people - A. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Arletty Antonin Artaud Fanny Ardant Jeanne Aubert Jean-Pierre Aumont Claude Autant-Lara Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour List of French people - B-C. Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Suzanne Bianchetti ...

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This list comprises the standard operatic repertory, arranged alphabetically by composer followed by city and date of first staged performance. All the operas in this list are discussed in standard guidebooks, such as The Penguin Guide to Opera, ed. Amanda Holden, 1994. Many splendid and under-appreciated masterpieces, aside from operatic curiosities, can be found in entries under the names of their individual composers. In many opera houses this international repertory is supplemented by local standards. An American list, for ...

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List of famous operas, List of famous operas - Standard operatic repertory, List of famous operas - Historically significant operas

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List of people on stamps of Austria - A. Rudolf von Alt (1932) Albrecht Altdorfer (1965) Friedrich von Amerling (1948) Peter Anich (1966) Ludwig Anzengruber (1931) Ferdinand vor Arlt (1937) Leopold Auenbregger von Auenbrugg (1937) Marco d'Aviano (1933) List of people on stamps of Austria - B. Hermann Bahr (1963) Ludwig van Beethoven (1922) Bernardo Bellotto (1964)See also:

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