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Alcide D'Orbignyl
Alcide is the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for Heracles. Alcide may also refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Alcide'' (Bortniansky), a 1778 opera by Dmitry Bortniansky * ''Alcide'' (Marais), a 1693 opera by Marin Marais and Louis Lully * Alcide Herveaux, a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris * Alcide, a fictional policeman in the French TV series '' The Returned'' * Alcide Nikopol, the main character of the Nikopol Trilogy novels by French cartoonist Enki Bilal * Alcide Jolivet, a fictional journalist in the novel '' Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar'' by Jules Verne Ships * French ship ''Alcide'' (1743) * French ship ''Alcide'' (1782) * HMS ''Alcide'', a list of ships with this name Other uses * Alcide (horse) (1955–1973), a British Thoroughbred racehorse * 8549 Alcide, a main belt asteroid * Cyclone Alcide In meteorology, a cyclone () is a large air mass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heracles
Heracles ( ; grc-gre, Ἡρακλῆς, , glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive descent through Amphitryon, Heracles receives the epithet Alcides, as "of the line of Alcaeus", father of Amphitryon. Amphitryon's own, mortal son was Iphicles. He was a great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus, and similarly a half-brother of Dionysus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (), and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcide (Bortniansky)
''Alcide'' or ''Alkides'' is a 1778 opera by Dmitry Bortniansky, first staged in Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ... in 1778.Encyclopedia of Ukraine 1442651172 Volodymyr Kubijovyc - 1984 "From 1769 to 1779 Bortniansky studied in Italy, where he composed several operas to Italian librettos: Creonte (1776) and Alcides (1778), staged in Venice, and Quinto Fabio (1779), staged in Modena." Recording ''Alcide'' - Bortniansky; Pasichnyk, Datsko, Zagorulko, Lviv Chamber Choir and Orchestra, conductor: Jean-Pierre Loré. EROL ER 98001(2 CDs), (1998). References Operas Operas by Dmitry Bortniansky Operas based on classical mythology 1778 operas {{Opera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcide (Marais)
''Alcides, ou Le triomphe d'Hercule'' (''Alcides, or The Triumph of Hercules'') is an opera by the French composers Louis Lully and Marin Marais, first performed on at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 3 February 1693. It takes the form of a ''tragédie en musique Tragédie en musique (, ''musical tragedy''), also known as tragédie lyrique (, ''lyric tragedy''), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century. Operas in ...'' in five acts and a prologue. The libretto is by Jean Galbert de Campistron. Sources *Libretto at "Livres baroques"Félix Clément and Pierre Larousse ''Dictionnaire des Opéras'', Paris, 1881 page 18. French-language operas Tragédies en musique Operas by Marin Marais 1693 operas Operas Opera world premieres at the Paris Opera {{french-opera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcide Herveaux
Alcide Herveaux is a fictional character from the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries''/Sookie Stackhouse novels by author Charlaine Harris. He is a Were (a full blooded werewolf) who owns a construction company in Jackson, Mississippi with his father. He is depicted as a tall man with green eyes, olive skin, and thick, tousled black hair. Book series biography The author introduces this character in the third novel, '' Club Dead'', when Eric sends Alcide to help Sookie find Bill Compton who has been kidnapped by his "maker" Lorena. Alcide and Sookie seem to have a chemistry from the beginning, but he is emotionally tied to his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Debbie Pelt (who shifts into a lynx). Sookie "liked him very much." In the fourth book, ''Dead to the World'', it is revealed that his ex, Debbie, had participated in vampire Bill Compton’s torture. Alcide then abjures (banishes) her from the Shreveport pack. At the end of this book, Sookie kills Debbie in self-defense. Alcide n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Revenants (TV Series)
''The Returned'' (french: Les Revenants) is a French supernatural drama television series created by Fabrice Gobert, based on the 2004 French film '' They Came Back'' (''Les Revenants''), directed by Robin Campillo. The series debuted on 26 November 2012 on Canal+ and completed its first season, consisting of eight episodes, on 17 December. In 2013, the first season won an International Emmy for Best Drama Series. The second season, also comprising eight episodes, premiered on 28 September 2015 on Canal+. It premiered in the UK on 16 October 2015 on More4, and in the US on 31 October 2015 on SundanceTV. Premise In a small French mountain town many dead people reappear apparently alive and normal, including teenage school bus crash victim Camille, suicidal bridegroom Simon, a small boy called "Victor" who was murdered by burglars, and serial killer Serge. While they try to resume their lives, strange phenomena take place: recurring power outages; a mysterious lowering of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikopol Trilogy
''The Nikopol Trilogy'' is a series of three science fiction graphic novels written in French by Yugoslavian-born Enki Bilal, published between 1980 and 1992. The original French titles of the series are ''La Foire aux immortels'' (1980), '' La Femme piège'' (1986), and '' Froid Équateur'' (1992), which in 1995 were collected together in a single volume entitled . The individual stories were translated into English and published by Humanoids Publishing under the titles ''Gods in Chaos'', ''The Woman Trap'', and ''Cold Equator''. In 1999, the trilogy was also published in English as a single volume, ''The Nikopol Trilogy''. The series is regarded as one of the most original science fiction comics which have revolutionised the conventions of comic art. The central plot of the trilogy, set in 2023 Paris, follows Alcide Nikopol who returns from a 30-year sentence spent orbiting the Earth under cryopreservation to find France under fascist rule following two nuclear wars. The books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Courier Of The Czar
''Strogoff'' (French: ''Michel Strogoff, le courier du tsar;'' Italian: ''Michele Strogoff, corriere dello zar;'' German: ''Der Kurier des Zaren'') is a European adventure film directed in 1970 by Eriprando Visconti. It was an international co-production between Italy, West Germany and France. It is based on Jules Verne's 1876 novel ''Michael Strogoff'' reinterpreted through the lens of psychological realism. Plot Michael Strogoff, captain of the army of the Tsar Alexander II, is ordered to travel from Moscow to Irkutsk, in eastern Siberia, to inform the Grand Duke Dmitry that the Tartar army is moving to conquer the city. He leaves for Siberia in civilian clothes, in the guise of a horse trader and under the false name of Nikolai Korpanov. At the same time Ivan Ogareff, a Russian ex-colonel, is freed from a prison camp by his lover Sangarre. He joins the insurgent Tartars led by Feofar-Khan and undertakes Strogoff's same journey to learn the purpose of the Tsar's courier's m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Alcide (1743)
''Alcide'' was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1742. The captain of the vessel was Toussaint Hocquart, for the re-enforcement campaign that was sent to Canada in May 1755. On 8 June 1755, ''Alcide'' was captured by HMS ''Dunkirk'' and HMS ''Torbay'' of Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen's squadron, and commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1757 as the third-rate HMS ''Alcide''. HMS ''Alcide'' was sold out of the navy in May 1772. However, it perhaps remained in service in some form because on 10 July 1772 according to the UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710–1811, Robert Mellefent was apprenticed as a carpenter to Ebenezer Holland to serve on the ship. See also * List of ships captured in the 18th century * Father Le Loutre's War Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and Indian War in Acadia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Ship Alcide (1782)
The ''Alcide'' was a 74-gun ''Pégase'' class ship of the line of the French Navy, launched in 1782. In 1782, she took part in the American war of Independence in De Grasse's fleet. She took part in the Battle of Hyères, under captain Le Blond Saint-Hilaire. She was the last ship of the French rear when she was becalmed and had to fight HMS ''Victory'', ''Culloden'', and ''Cumberland''. She managed to damage the rigging of ''Culloden'', but was quickly battered by her overwhelmingly superior opponents. She surrendered to ''Cumberland'' at 2h. The frigates ''Justice'' and ''Alceste'' attempted to take her in tow to safety, but were repelled by gunfire from ''Victory''. Soon thereafter, a fire broke out, reportedly in her tops or by her own Heated shot Heated shot or hot shot is round shot that is heated before firing from muzzle-loading cannons, for the purpose of setting fire to enemy warships, buildings, or equipment. The use of heated shot dates back centuries; it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Alcide
Three ships of the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ... have borne the name HMS ''Alcide'' * was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line, captured from the French in 1755 and sold in 1772. * was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line, launched in 1779 and broken up in 1817. * was an launched in 1945 and sold in 1974. {{DEFAULTSORT:Alcide, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcide (horse)
Alcide (1955–1973) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. It is widely believed that Alcide would have won Epsom's 1958 Derby had not probable foul play prevented him from running. A form line through Nagami, who was third in the Derby, gives credibility to the theory that a fully fit Alcide would have won the race. During this period there was an alarming amount of apparent villainy in racing and it seems likely that the broken rib that Alcide sustained in his stable after he had won the Lingfield Derby Trial was deliberate. As a two-year-old Alcide had won the Horris Hill Stakes at Newbury Racecourse and his first success in his second season was in the Chester Vase. He then romped home in the Lingfield Derby Trial and after he had recovered from his injury he won the Great Voltigeur Stakes by 12 lengths and the St. Leger Stakes, St. Leger by eight. He was held up in his preparation for the Ascot Gold Cup the following season, but even so was only just beaten by Wallaby II. Six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8549 Alcide
8549 Alcide, provisional designation , is a stony Nysa asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 March 1994, by a group of amateur astronomers at the Farra d'Isonzo Observatory, Italy, near the border to Slovenia. It was named for Alcide Bittesini, father of co-discoverer Luciano Bittesini. Orbit and classification ''Alcide'' is a member of the stony subgroup of the Nysa family, one of the smaller families in the main-belt, named after its namesake, 44 Nysa. The body orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.9 AU once every 3 years and 10 months (1,390 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.19 and an inclination of 2 ° with respect to the ecliptic. Precoveries were taken at Palomar and Steward Observatory (Kitt Peak) just weeks and days prior to the asteroid's official discovery observation at Farra d'Isonzo. Physical characteristics Lightcurves A rotational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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