Cycling at the 1900 Summer Olympics - 25 km 3 Points Race Sprint Pos Athlete 1 Georges Taillandier (FRA) 2 Fernand Sanz (FRA) 3 John Henry Lake (FRA) 25 km Pos Athlete 1 Louis Bastien (FRA) 2 Louis Hildebrand (FRA) 3 Daumain (FRA) Points Race Pos Athlete 1 Ernesto Mario Brusoni (ITA) 2 Karl Duill (GER) 3 Louis Trousselier (FRA).
Olympic medalists in athletics (men) - other sports. 100 m Men Year Gold Silver Bronze 1896 Tom Burke (USA) Fritz Hoffmann (GER) Alajos Szokolyi (HUN) Francis Lane (USA) 1900 Frank Jarvis (USA) Walter Tewskbury (USA) Stanley Rowley (AUS) 1904 Archie Hahn (USA) Nate Cartmell (USA) William Hogenson (USA) 1906 Archie Hahn (USA) Fay Moulton (USA) Nigel Barker (AUS) 1908 Reggie Walker (RSA) James Rector (USA) Robert Kerr (CAN) 1912 Ralph Craig (USA) Alvah Meyer (USA) Don Lippincott (USA) 1920 Charlie Paddock (USA) Morris Kirksey (USA) Harry Edward (GBR) 1924 Harold Abrahams (GBR) Jackson Scholz (USA) Arthur Porritt (NZL) 1928 Percy Williams (CAN) Jack London (GBR) Georg Lammers (GER) 1932 Eddie Tolan (USA) Ralph Metcalfe (USA) Arthur Jonath (GER) 1936 Jesse Owens (USA) Ralph Metcalfe (USA) Tinus Osendarp (NED) 1948 Harrison Dillard (USA) Norwood Ewell.
Fernand Léger - Fernand Léger Fernand Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1945), Artist. Born Joseph Fernand Henri Léger in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie Region of France, at age 19 Léger moved to the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris and supported himself as an architectural draftsman. His earliest known drawings were primarily influenced by Impressionism. - Fernand Léger - In 1911 he joined with several other artists to form the Puteaux Group, an offshoot of the Cubist movement. From then until 1914, Léger’s work became increasingly abstract, and he started to limit his color to the primaries and black and white. Léger served in the military during World War I where he almost died after being the victim of a Mustard gas attack by the Germans. Following the war.
Fernand Braudel - Fernand Braudel Fernand Braudel (August 24 1902 - November 27 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history. He was born in the département of the Meuse. In 1923 he went to Algeria, then a French colony, to teach history. Returning to France in 1932, he worked as a high school teacher and met Lucien Febvre, who was to have a great influence on his work. In 1939, he joined the army but was captured in 1940 and became a prisoner of war in Germany, in a camp near Lübeck, where, working from memory, he put together his great work La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen a l'époque de Philippe.
Fernand Oury - Fernand Oury Fernand Oury (1920 - 1997) was a pedagogue and creator of the Ecole Modern, recommending (and putting into practice) a "school of the people", where the children are no longer the passive ones "taught", but the people with a whole share in managing their trainings and the everyday life of their classes. Oury intended this to occur by means of pupil's councils, school funds, and individualized trainings. He was the brother of the French psychoanalyst and founder of the La Borde Clinic, Jean Oury..
Asger Jorn - Asgar Jorn. He was a brother to Jørgen Nash. In 1936 he went to Paris to join Fernand Léger's Académie Contemporaine. During the Nazi occupation of Denmark Jorn was an active communist in the resistance. He participated in the art group Høst. After the occupation was over, room for critical thinking was curtailed by more centralised political control. Jorn found this unacceptable and broke with the Danish Communist Party whilst remaining a lifelong communist. He was a founder member of Cobra and was a prime mover of their subsequent merger with the Lettriste Internationale and London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International (S.I.). Here he applied his scientific and mathematical knowledge drawn from Henri Poincaré and Niels Bohr to develop his situlogical technique. In 1961 he left the S.I. to.
Vger - crew finally makes contact with VGer, through the assimilation of Lt. Ilia, they find out what VGer really needs: To bond with the "Creator", Humans. Captain Willard Decker accepts the offer, and disappears with VGer to places unknown. It has been speculated that there may be a connection between V'ger and The Borg, the Federation's biggest foe..
H. R. Giger - R. Giger Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien. Giger's Alien design earned him an Oscar. He is also well known for artwork on a number of popular records, including Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery and Debbie Harry's KooKoo. His artwork for the Dead Kennedys' album Frankenchrist was at the center of an obscenity lawsuit against Jello Biafra. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominately in airbrush, creating strange monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish landscapes. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of biomechanics, a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship. His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery and are considered disturbing by some. Some of.
Ger - Ger (Note: The word ger in Hebrew means a convert to Judaism. It is NOT related to the name of the town called Ger in Poland. Thus Ger Hasidim are not "converts", rather they are followers of Hasidic rabbis from that town. Similarly, giur means the "process of conversion" and is not connected to "Gerrer". The word Ger is also another term for Yurt) Ger, Gerrer, or Gur, (Gora Kalwaria), is the name of a small town in Poland from which a large Orthodox Hasidic Judaism dynasty originated. They are now based in Jerusalem where their Rebbe lives. The rabbis who lead them have come from a family by the name of Alter. The founder of this group was Rabbi Yitzchok Meir (Rothenberg) Alter (1799-1866), known.
Germersheim (district) - GER Homepage: http://www.kreis-germersheim.de Map Germersheim is a district (Kreis) in the south-east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from west clockwise) Südliche Weinstraße, Ludwighafen, the district Karlsruhe as well as the district-free city Karlsruhe, and the French departement Bas-Rhin. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Geography 3 Coat of arms 4 Towns and municipalities 5.
German New Guinea - New Guinea German New Guinea (Ger Deutsch-Neuguinea) was a German protectorate from 1884 to 1914, consisting of the northeastern part of New Guinea and several nearby island groups. The main part of German New Guinea was formed by Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the northeastern part of New Guinea, at present part of Papua New Guinea. The islands in the Bismarck Archipelago situated west of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and nowadays also belonging to Papua New Guinea, were also part of the protectorate. In addition most other German lands in the Pacific were part of German New Guinea: the German Solomon Islands (Buka, Bougainville and several smaller islands), the Carolines, Palau, the Marianas (except for Guam), the Marshall Islands and Nauru. History Although the western half of New Guinea had been administered by the Netherlands for some time,.
Fernandel - Fernandel - Fernandel - Fernand Joseph Désiré Contand (May 8, 1903 - February 26, 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor. He was born in Marseille, France. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. In 1930, he appeared in his first motion picture and for more than forty years he would be France's top comedic actor. He was perhaps best-loved for his portrayal of the irascible Italian village priest at war with the town's communist mayor in the Don Camillo series of motion pictures. He also appeared in Italian and American films. His first Hollywood motion picture was in 1956 in Around the World in Eighty Days in which he played David Niven's coachman. His popular performace.
Fernand Bouisson - Fernand Bouisson Fernand Bouisson (1874-1959) was a French politician of the Third Republic, who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1935. this is a stub. Preceded by: Pierre-Etienne Flandin 1934-1935 Prime Ministers of France 1935 Followed by: Pierre Laval 1935-1936.
Jacques Villon - the Fauvist movement, Cubism, and abstraction. By 1906, Montmartre was a bustling community and Jacques Villon moved to Puteaux in the quiet outskirts of Paris. There, he began to devote more of his time to working in drypoint -- a technique that created dark, velvety lines that stood out against the white of the paper. However, his isolation from the vibrant art community in Montmartre, together with his modest nature, ensured that he and his artwork remained relatively obscure for a number of years. At his home, in 1911, he and his brothers Raymond and Marcel organized a regular discussion group with artists and critics such as Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger and others that soon was dubbed the Puteaux Group. In 1913, Villon created his Cubist masterpieces: seven large.
Jean-Pierre Abbat - Jean-Pierre Abbat Jean-Pierre Fernand Noël Abbat was born on June 17, 1928 in Le Trait, Normandy to a shipbuilder. He met Marina Lardé at the Sorbonne and they were married. He migrated to the United States in 1953 and, with Dr. Fritz Hartmann, was the first to make polyurethane in the USA. In 1962 Abbat proposed to Norman McCulloch to make a ballistically equivalent bowling pin out of polyurethane foam. Bowling pins were then made out of wood, with two cylindrical voids, and covered with a thin coating. The polyurethane pin would last much longer than the wooden pin. The American Bowling Congress nixed the idea because it would put Brunswick and AMF, the biggest bowling pin makers, out of business. Abbat kept a collection of bowling pins, split bowling pins,.
Jeanne Calment - been thoroughly documented by scientific study. She married her second cousin Fernand Calment in 1896, and survived her only child and only grandchild. She died at the age of 122 years 164 days in Arles, France; the same town she was born in. She said that in her younger years, she met Vincent van Gogh, later describing him as "dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable." At the age of 114, she appeared briefly in the film Vincent and Me as herself. In 1996, she released a CD Time's Mistress. It featured her reminiscing, set to rap and other tunes. Following her death, Marie-Louise Meilleur of Canada became the oldest person in the world. Quotes I've been forgotten by a good God I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally.
Juan Gris - time he contributed drawings to local periodicals. From 1904 to 1905 he studied painting with the academic artist José Maria Carbonero. In 1906 he moved to Paris and would become friend of Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and in 1915 was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In Paris, Gris would follow the lead of another friend and fellow countryman, Pablo Picasso. His portrait of Picasso from 1912 is one of the most important early cubist paintings by a painter other than Picasso or Georges Braque. Although he submitted humorous illustrations to journals such as ''Lassiette au beurre, Le Charivari, and Le Cri de Paris'', Gris began to paint seriously in 1910. By 1912 he had developed a personal Cubist style. He entered his greatest period in the years between.
Italian city-states - the Alps (feudal Europe). The Peninsula was a melange of political and cultural elements rather than a unified state. Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel argue that geography determined the history of the region. Because an attack across the Alps was very difficult, German overlords could not exert continuing control over their Italian vassal states and Italy was thus substantially freed of German political interference. No strong monarchies emerged as they did in the rest of Europe; instead there emerged the independent city-state. Within the peninsula there was great physical diversity. Italy was cut into numerous small regions by mountains and communication between them could be very difficult. The Po plain was an exception; it was the only large contiguous area, and most city states which fell to invasion were on the.
Henry Kahnweiler - the time. "Kahnweiler" by Picasso Kahnweiler gave the first exhibition of the work of Georges Braque, and soon he expanded his presentations by bringing together artists, writers and poets to produce their works as a joint project in more than 40 books. He published Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Masson and others. Henry Kahnweiler was the first to recognize the radical greatness of Pablo Picasso, and promoted the new Cubist movement of Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger and Picasso. In July 1914 Kahnweiler and his family were holidaying in Bavaria. On seeing the German reservists being mobilised he realised that war was now inevitable. He decamped to Italy and then chose exile in neutral Switzerland. There with the help of his friend Hermann Rupf he set up home in Berne. When.
Henri Laurens - artistic creativity happening in Montparnasse, and from 1911 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger. - Henri Laurens - Multi-talented, Laurens worked with poster paint, and collage, was an engraver and creasted theatre design and decoration. In 1915 Henri Laurens illustrated a book for his friend, the author Pierre Reverdy. In 1938 he shared an exhibition with Braque and Picasso that traveled to major Scandanavian cities. Later, in 1947, he made prints for book illustrations and in 1948 he showed his art at the important Venice Biennale That same year, he exhibited at the Galerie d'Art Moderne in Basel, Switzerland. A great many of his sculptures are massive objects such as the monumental piece done in 1952 for the.
