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Cour De Rome
Cour is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Ajeet Cour (born 1934), Indian writer * Glenys Cour (born 1924), Welsh artist * Pierre Cour (1924–1995), French songwriter See also * Coursera (NYSE: COUR), American online education company * * Cours (other) * La Cour, a surname * De la Cour, a surname {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajeet Cour
Ajeet Cour (born 1934) is an Indian writer who writes in Punjabi. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India. Biography Ajeet Cour was born in the family of Sardar Makhan Singh in 1934 in Lahore. She had her early education there. After the partition, her family came to Delhi, where she earned an M.A. (Economics). She has written novels and short stories in the Punjabi language on social-realist themes such as the experience of women in relationships and their position in society. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985, the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2006, and the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar award in 2019. Her works include 19 short story anthologies, novellas and novels, as well as nine translations. She has also edited over 20 works. In her autobiography, ''Weaving Water'', translated from the original Punjabi into English and published in 2018, she discusses surviving domestic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenys Cour
Glenys Irene Cour ( Carthew, born 1924) is a Welsh artist. Biography Cour was born in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1924. From 1945 until 1948, she studied at Cardiff College of Art under Ceri Richards and married the sculptor Ronald Cour in 1949. From 1963 to 2000, she taught painting and architectural glass at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, and the University of Wales, Swansea. Cour has been a member of The Welsh Group for a number of years, taking part in many of the group's exhibitions, including its 50th anniversary in 1998. She was elected Royal Cambrian Academician in 2009 and is also one of the founding artists of Swansea's Mission Gallery. Artwork Cour's artwork is primarily concerned with colour and light, using landscape, flowers, various culturally charged objects, like ancient Greek artefacts or Celtic stones, and mythology, especially the mythology of Wales and the multiplely layered tales of the Mabinogion. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Cour
Pierre Cour (5 April 1916 – 22 December 1995) was a French songwriter who wrote songs for several generations of artists. He wrote a number of successful songs in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Among those who recorded his songs are Dalida, Roger Whittaker, Petula Clark, Vicky Leandros, Paul Mauriat, Nana Mouskouri, Claudine Longet, German Montero, Jean-Claude Annoux and Enrico Macias. In the 1960s, he co-wrote (with André Popp) three songs for the Eurovision Song Contest – Tom Pillibi, which won the competition for France in 1960, Le chant de Mallory which came forth for France in 1964 and L'Amour Est Bleu (''Love is Blue'') which came forth for Luxembourg in 1967. In the late 1960s he began a collaboration with Roger Whittaker Roger Henry Brough Whittaker (born 22 March 1936) is a British singer-songwriter and musician, who was born in Nairobi to English parents. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs in addition to radio airplay hits. He is be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coursera
Coursera Inc. () is a U.S.-based massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects. In 2021 it was estimated that about 150 universities offered more than 4,000 courses through Coursera. History Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Ng and Koller started offering their Stanford courses online in fall 2011, and soon after left Stanford to launch Coursera. Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania were the first universities to offer content on the platform. In 2014 Coursera received both the Webby Winner (Websites and Mobile Sites Education 2014) and the People's Voice Winner (Websites and Mobile Sites Education) awards. Finances Coursera's revenues ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cours (other)
Cours is a French word that can refer to: * Cours (TV production), a unit of production in Japanese TV programs equivalent to approximately 11 to 13 episodes Places Cours is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: * Cours, Rhône, in the Rhône departement * Cours, Lot, in the Lot department * Cours, Lot-et-Garonne, in the Lot-et-Garonne department * Cours, Deux-Sèvres, in the Deux-Sèvres department * Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, in the Nièvre department * Cours-de-Monségur, in the Gironde department * Cours-de-Pile, in the Dordogne department * Cours-la-Ville, in the Rhône department * Cours-les-Bains, in the Gironde department * Cours-les-Barres, in the Cher department * Le Cours, in the Morbihan department * Magny-Cours, in the Nièvre department * Mas-des-Cours, in the Aude department Other * Cours (Byzantine general), Byzantine general of the late 6th century See also * Cour Cour is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Ajeet Cour (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cour
La Cour is a French-language surname meaning "the court". People with this surname include: *Ask la Cour, Danish ballet dancer * Emil La Cour (born 1991), Danish footballer *Janus la Cour (1837–1909), Danish painter * Lise la Cour (1944–2016), Danish ballerina *Poul la Cour (1846–1908), Danish scientist *Niels la Cour Niels la Cour (born 14 November 1944) is a Danish composer. Life La Cour did his A levels in 1963 from the music branch of the Aurehøj Grammar School with organ as his speciality. Between 1964 and 1969 he was at the Royal Academy of Music in C ... (born 1944), Danish composer * Nina LaCour, American author See also * De la Cour, a similar surname {{surname, La Cour French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |