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Jourdan
Jourdan may refer to: *Carolyn Jourdan, American author *Claude Jourdan (1803–1873), French zoologist and paleontologist *David W. Jourdan, businessman *Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762–1833), French army commander *Murders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla, Jourdan Bobbish (1994–2012), prominent American murder victim *Jourdan Dunn, British fashion model *Jourdan Lewis, American football player *Louis Jourdan (1921–2015), French actor *Phil Jourdan, writer *Pierre Jourdan (1932–2007), French actor and director *Jourdan Urbach, retired violinist See also * Jordan (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan (29 April 1762 – 23 November 1833), was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napoleon I in 1804. He was also a Jacobin politician during the Directory phase of the French Revolution, serving as member of the Council of Five Hundred between 1797 and 1799. One of the most successful commanders of the French Revolutionary Army, Jourdan is best remembered in the Revolution for leading the French to a decisive victory over the First Coalition at the Battle of Fleurus, during the Flanders campaign. Under the Empire he was rewarded by Napoleon with the title of Marshal and continued to hold military assignments, but suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Vitoria, which resulted in the Empire's permanent loss of Spain. In 1815 he became reconciled with the Bourbon Restoration, and later supported the July Revolution and served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Paradine Case'' (1947), '' Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (1948), '' Gigi'' (1958), '' The Best of Everything'' (1959), '' The V.I.P.s'' (1963) and ''Octopussy'' (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production ''Count Dracula''. Early life Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France, in 1921, one of three sons of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner.Louis Jourdan profile FilmReference.com; accessed June 5, 2014. He was educated in France, Turkey, and the UK, and studied acting at the École Dramatique. While there, he began acting on the professional stage, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jourdan Dunn
Jourdan Sherise Dunn (born 3 August 1990) is a British model. She was discovered in Hammersmith Primark in 2006 and signed to The Squad Management in London. She began appearing on international runways in early 2007. In February 2008, she was the first black model to walk a Prada runway in over a decade. In April 2014, it was announced that Dunn was signed as the new face of Maybelline New York. As of July 2014, she was declared an icon by models.com. Dunn is considered to be one of her generation's supermodels. Early life and discovery Jourdan Dunn was born in Brent, London, and grew up in nearby Greenford with her mother. She attended Elthorne Park High School in Hanwell. Jourdan is of Jamaican, and Syrian- Lebanese descent. She admitted to being self-conscious as a teenager, due to her height and weight. She stated growing up, people would often tell her she should become a model, but she was apprehensive as she was not really sure what a model did. She commented that sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jourdan Lewis
Jourdan Julian Lewis (born August 31, 1995) is an American football cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Michigan, where he was named First-team All-American and First-team All-Big Ten in 2015 and 2016. Lewis was drafted by the Cowboys in the third round of the 2017 NFL Draft. Early years Lewis was raised in Detroit, where he attended and played high school football at Cass Technical High School. As a junior, he tallied eight interceptions and 11 touchdowns. As a senior, he had 751 receiving yards, six touchdowns and 742 return yards with three touchdowns on special teams. He and Lano Hill anchored the Cass Technical defensive backfield that won back-to-back (2011 and 2012) Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 championships for coach Thomas Wilcher. College career Lewis accepted a football scholarship from the University of Michigan. As a freshman he appeared in 13 games, registering 17 tackles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jourdan Urbach
Jourdan Urbach is an entrepreneur and retired professional violinist/composer. He was born in Roslyn, New York and currently resides in New York City. Early life and education Jourdan Urbach was born on Long Island, New York to Deborah and Victor Urbach. He started playing the violin before he was 3 years old and was playing the violin professionally by the age of 7. His debut was at prestigious Carnegie Hall at the age of 6. At age 7, Urbach and his parents started Children Helping Children, a charity organization, which performed at locations such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. Concerts for a Cure, raised over 4.7 million dollars by the time Urbach started attending college at Yale University. At the age of 9, he became involved in Alzheimer's research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Later, Urbach attended Juilliard, where he was featured in Teen People's 20 under 20 list at the age of 13. Urbach entered Yale at the age of 17, where he received a B.A. in libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Jourdan
Carolyn Jourdan is an American author, USA Today, Audible, and six-time Wall Street Journal top-ten bestselling memoirist, biographer, and mystery writer. Biography Jourdan's first book, a memoir, '' Heart in the Right Place'', was a ''Wall Street Journal'' No. 7 bestseller in 2012 and No. 9 bestseller in 2017. ''Heart in the Right Place'' is the true story of a spoiled, high-powered United States Senate lawyer who gives up a glamorous life in Washington, DC and comes back home to the Great Smoky Mountains to work as an inept receptionist in her father's rural medical office. It was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 2007 (hardback) and 2008 (paperback). According to WorldCat, it is held in 912 libraries. ''Family Circle'' magazine chose ''Heart in the Right Place'' as its first ever Book of the Month, and ''Elle'' awarded it a Readers Prize. It was honored in Michigan with a One City One Book in the ''Capital Area Reads One Book'' in 2010. ''Medicine Men: Extre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jourdan
Claude Jourdan (18 June 1803, in Heyrieux – 12 February 1873, in Lyon) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. In Lyon he was a professor of zoology to the Faculté des sciences, and a professor of comparative anatomy at the École des Beaux-Arts. From 1832 to 1869 he was director of the Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet in Lyons.Jourdan, Claude (1803-après 1869) Compléments historiographiques, Biographies As a zoologist, he conducted studies of living and extinct vertebrates, including (elephants and their ancestors). In 1840–48 he is credited with uncovering 2000 fossils at various excavation sites in France. As a |
Murders Of Jourdan Bobbish And Jacob Kudla
Jourdan Bobbish and Jacob Kudla were two white American teenagers tortured and murdered in Detroit by two black males, Frederick Young and Felando Hunter, who were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2015. Victims Jacob Kudla, 18, was a student at Schoolcraft College. Jourdan Bobbish, 17, was a high school senior. Aftermath When Kudla and Bobbish were reported missing, an area-wide search was mounted. Their bodies were discovered in a vacant parking lot by a waste picker. They were later found to have been unusually brutally murdered. Details of the murders emerged during the trial. A witness said that she heard the victims begging for their lives, and that the suspects told them they could leave but killed them anyway. Before being sentenced Young gave a statement to the court saying "I'd like to say sorry to the family of Aiyana Jones, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and I want to apologize for them for not being able to get justice for their loved ones who were murde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Jourdan
Phil Jourdan is an author, musician and publisher based in the UK. His literary work is often experimental in nature, and he has been called "an avant gardist through and through". His first book, ''Praise of Motherhood'', was noted for its unconventional approach to the genre of memoir, as well as Jourdan's refusal to ‘allow the constraints of perspective or chronology to guide the text’ and "painfully honest". He is the author of three books: * ''What Precision, Such Restraint'' (2013, Perfect Edge Books) * '' John Gardner: A Tiny Eulogy'' (2012, Punctum books) * ''Praise of Motherhood'' (2011, Zero Books), a 2012 IndieFab Award Finalist. Translated into Spanish as ''Madre in memoriam''. His work has been featured in Chuck Palahniuk's anthology, ''Burnt Tongues''. He fronts the rock band Paris and the Hiltons, whose song "Quentin Will End Up Killing Himself" was a winner in the 2013 Independent Music Awards. His translation of Portuguese novelist Jose Luis Peixoto's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Jourdan
Pierre Jourdan (21 September 1932 – 16 August 2007) born Pierre Gendre in Cannes, was an actor and director. Honours * CableACE Awards, 1987 Filmography As director * 1968: ''Phèdre'' * 1972: '' Le Trouvère'' * 1972: '' Un danseur: Rudolph Nureyev'' (''I Am a Dancer'') * 1974: ''Norma'' * 1974: ''Tristan und Isolde'' * 1977: ''Aida'' * 1979: ''Fidelio'' * 1982: ''Ciboulette'' (TV) * 1990: ''Manon Lescaut'' (TV) * 1990: '' La Légende de Joseph en Égypte'' (TV) * 1991: ''Henry VIII'' (TV) * 1992: '' Christobal Colomb'' (TV) * 1994: ''Une éducation manquée'' (TV) * 1994: '' Le Songe d'une nuit d'été'' (TV) * 1994: '' J'aime le music-hall'' (TV) * 1994: '' De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre de 1958 - 1991'' (vidéo) * 1994: '' La Colombe (télévision)'' (TV) * 1995: ''Le Domino noir'' (TV) * 1996: ''Mignon'' (TV) * 1996: '' Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez'' (TV) * 1996: ''Médée'' (TV) * 1997: '' Les Noces de Figaro'' (TV) * 1998: ''La Jolie Fille de Perth'' (TV) * 1999: '' Pel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David W
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel. In the Books of Samuel, he is described as a young shepherd and harpist who gains fame by slaying Goliath, a champion of the Philistines, in southern Canaan. David becomes a favourite of Saul, the first king of Israel; he also forges a notably close friendship with Jonathan, a son of Saul. However, under the paranoia that David is seeking to usurp the throne, Saul attempts to kill David, forcing the latter to go into hiding and effectively operate as a fugitive for several years. After Saul and Jonathan are both killed in battle against the Philistines, a 30-year-old David is anointed king over all of Israel and Judah. Following his rise to power, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
