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Combes (other)
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Combes may refer to: Places * Combes, Hérault, a commune in Hérault, France * Combes, Switzerland, a former municipality that merged with Le Landeron in 1875 * Combes, Texas, United States People * Charles Combes (1801–1872), French engineer * Émile Combes (1835–1921), French statesman and one of the originators of the concept of ''Separation of Church and State'' * Laura Combes (1953–1989), American bodybuilder *Françoise Combes (born 1952), French astrophysicist * Michel Combes, (born 1962), French business executive See also * 3446 Combes, a minor planet * Les Combes, a commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France * Combs (other) Combs may refer to: Places France * Combs-la-Ville, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris United Kingdom *Combs, Derbyshire, England *Combs, Suffolk, England United States *Combs, Arkansas, a community *Combs, Kentucky, a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combes, Hérault
Combes (; oc, Combas) is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Constituent settlements The following settlements all fall within the boundaries of the commune: * Les Agasses * Les Arts * La Capoulade * La Carral * Combes * Le Fraïsse * Lamalou-le-Vieux * Le Laousas * Le Logis neuf * Le Roumegas * Saint Vital * Torteillan * Le Vernet Population See also *Communes of the Hérault department The following is a list of the 342 communes of the Hérault department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Hérault {{Hérault-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Landeron
Le Landeron is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. History Le Landeron is first mentioned about 1209 as ''Landiron''. Prehistory The first traces of human habitation near Le Landeron were the remains of a pottery workshop (961-957 BC) discovered on the banks of the Thielle. At Les Carougets there is a grave from the late Bronze Age, a Roman villa and traces of the foundations of huts from the Early Middle Ages. Furthermore, several Roman statuettes have been discovered, including Hercules, a rooster and what may be a peacock. Middle Ages The name Le Landeron appears for the first time around 1209, as a place name mentioned in the fishing rights of the neighboring Benedictine monastery of St. Johannsen in Erlach. Since it was given as a place name, it appears that the area where the town now stands was not inhabited. The nearby houses were up in the Jura hills and were grouped under the name Nugerol. The area around what is now La Tour was once the site of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combes, Texas
Combes is a town in northern Cameron County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,895 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville and the Matamoros–Brownsville Metropolitan Area, Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areas. Geography Combes is located in northwestern Cameron County at (26.245051, –97.727028). U.S. Route 77/Interstate 69E passes through the town, leading south to Harlingen, Texas, Harlingen and north to Raymondville, Texas, Raymondville. It is the last town U.S. 77 and Interstate 69E pass through in Cameron County going northward before entering Willacy County, Texas, Willacy County at Sebastian, Texas, Sebastian, about 8 miles to the north. Combes is home to the eastern terminus of Texas State Highway 107, which leads about 6 miles (10 km) west to Santa Rosa, Texas, Santa Rosa, and eventually to Edinburg, Texas, Edinburg, 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Combes
Charles Pierre Mathieu Combes (26 December 1801 – 11 January 1872) was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower. Biography Early life Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes was born on 26 December 1801 in Cahors. His father was a senior policeman named Pierre Combes Mathieu. He joined the Ecole Polytechnique before the usual starting age of seventeen on 1 September 1817 and completed his studies in 1820 when he was admitted to the School of Mines. Combes completed the three-year course in just two years. He graduated on 1 July 1822.Eulogy Speech on his tomb, Annales.org, in French, accessed April 2010 Career In 1825 he became a teacher of mathematics at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Combes
Émile Justin Louis Combes (; 6 September 183525 May 1921) was a French statesman and freemason who led the Bloc des gauches's cabinet from June 1902 to January 1905. Career Émile Combes was born in Roquecourbe, Tarn. He studied for the priesthood, but abandoned the idea before ordination. His anti-clericalism would later lead him into becoming a Freemason. He was also in later life a spiritualist. He later took a diploma as a doctor of letters (1860). Then he studied medicine, taking his degree in 1867, and setting up in practice at Pons in Charente-Inférieure. In 1881 he presented himself as a political candidate for Saintes, but was defeated. In 1885 he was elected to the senate by the ''départment'' of Charente-Inférieure. He sat in the Democratic left, and was elected vice-president in 1893 and 1894. The reports which he drew up upon educational questions drew attention to him, and on 3 November 1895 he entered the Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois cabinet as minister ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Combes
Laura Combes was a professional female bodybuilder from the United States. Born on October 19, 1953, in New York, New York, Combes moved to Tampa, Florida in 1966 at age 13. As a teenager she played many sports, including fencing, sailing, archery, canoeing, horseback riding, water skiing, and tennis. Combes attended St. Petersburg College Prep School, and then went to the University of South Florida in Tampa. In the late 1970s, she began lifting weights to rehab injuries to both knees suffered while playing rugby. Soon, she became involved in the fledgling sport of women’s bodybuilding. She won the first NPC Nationals in 1980, and won the AAU Ms. America title in 1981. Combes made a dramatic national television appearance that year on the NBC series Real People. After the airing of a taped segment about female bodybuilding in which she had been featured, Combes carried host Skip Stephenson onto stage in front of the studio audience. Combes competed in three p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Combes
Françoise Combes (; born 12 August 1952) is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the Collège de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014. On 15 September 2017 the 'City of Success' school at Montpellier was renamed as 'High school Françoise Combes'. Education Françoise Combes studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1971 to 1975. In 1975, she obtained the Agrégation and a PhD in Physics from Paris Diderot University, writing her thesis on the dynamics and structure of galaxies. Research Her research works are about galaxy formation and evolution, in a cosmological context. This work includes: galaxy dynamics, their spiral and barred structures, and interactions between galaxies, studied both through multi-wavelength observations and by numerical simulations. Additionally, she has published extensively on the interstellar medium of galaxies. In particular, the molecular gas which gives birth to new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Combes
Michel Combes (born 29 March 1962) is a French businessman and current Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank Group International ("SBGI"). Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer at Sprint, and has held CEO roles at Vodafone Europe, Alcatel-Lucent and Altice. Early life and education Combes was born on 29 March 1962. He attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, then graduated from École Polytechnique in 1983, Télécom ParisTech, Paris Dauphine University and Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam).Michel Combes, in ''Who's Who in France'', 2009 Career After holding several positions at ministries, France Télécom and TDF, Combes served as CEO of Vodafone Europe from 2008 to 2012. On 22 February 2013 the Alcatel-Lucent board of directors appointed Combes as the company's CEO, succeeding Ben Verwaayen (effective April 1). On 19 June 2013 Combes announced plans to focus Alcatel-Lucent's operations on networking products and high-speed broadband in order to cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Combes
Les Combes () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Population See also * Communes of the Doubs department The following is a list of the 571 communes of the Doubs department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Doubs {{Doubs-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
