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Lamy (other)
Lamy is a German fountain pen brand and producer. Lamy may also refer to: * Lamy (surname) * Lamy, New Mexico, United States **Lamy station * Fort Lamy N'Djamena ( ) is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a special statute region, divided into 10 districts or ''arrondissements''. The city serves as the centre of economic activity in Chad. Meat, fish and cotton processing are th ..., former name of N'Djamena, Chad * Lamy River, former name of the East River, Guangdong, China * Lamy (and Rinck), catalogue of Peruvian stamp cancellations See also * Lami (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy
Lamy is a German pen manufacturing company. Josef Lamy, who was a sales representative for Parker Pen in Germany, founded the business in 1930 by purchasing the Orthos pen manufacturer. Lamy was a pioneer in the use of moulded synthetic plastics to make their products. Lamy was run by Josef Lamy's son, Manfred, until his retirement in 2006. He was succeeded by Bernhard M. Rösner. Products manufactured by Lamy include fountain, ballpoint pens, and mechanical pencils. History In 1984, newspapers reported that Lamy's export share increased to 33 percent of turnover. In 1986, Lamy, Montblanc, and Parker held among them 70–80 percent of the West German market. Export markets then consisted of the United States, Japan, and Austria. Lamy hoped to expand that export share to 50 percent of turnover, which stood at approximately 40 million Deutschmark (DM) for 1985. Turnover for Lamy increased to 48 million DM for 1987, then employing 350 people, increasing to 54 million DM in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy (surname)
Lamy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–C *Alexandra Lamy (born 1971), French actress *Alfred Lamy (1886–1922), French archetier (maker of bows for musical string instruments) * Amédée-François Lamy (1858–1900), French military officer * Benoît Lamy (1945–2008), Belgian motion picture writer and director *Bernard Lamy (1640–1715), French theologian and mathematician *Brigitte Lamy (born 1950), French curler * Charles Lamy (1857–1940), French actor *Charles Lamy (New York politician) (1849–?), U.S. merchant and politician *C. Josef Lamy (' 1930s–?), German pen manufacturer, founder of Lamy * Claude-Auguste Lamy (1820–1878), French chemist D–I *Étienne Lamy (1845–1919), French political writer *François Lamy (politician) (born 1959), French politician * François Lamy (theologian) (1636–1711), French Benedictine ascetical and apologetic writer * Gérard Lamy (1919–2016), Québécois-Canadian politician * Guillaume Lamy (1644– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy, New Mexico
Lamy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States, south of the city of Santa Fe. The community was named for Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy, and lies within the ''Bishop John Lamy Spanish Land Grant'', which dates back to the eighteenth century. Lamy is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 218 at the 2010 census. The former Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad (ATSF), now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), passes through Lamy. This railroad, usually called just the "Santa Fe," was originally planned to run from Atchison, Kansas, on the Missouri River, to Santa Fe, the capital city of New Mexico, and then points west. However, as the tracks progressed west into New Mexico, the civil engineers in charge realized that the hills surrounding Santa Fe made this impractical. Hence, they built the railway line though Lamy, instead. Later on, a spur line was built from Lamy to Santa Fe, bringi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy Station
Lamy station is an Amtrak station at Santa Fe County Road 33, 152 Old Lamy Trail in Lamy, New Mexico, United States. It is served by the ''Southwest Chief''. Until 2014, it was the southern terminus for the Santa Fe Southern Railway. The station was built in 1909 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Since the 1960s, the station has also served as the intercity link for the state capital of Santa Fe, to the north. Motorcoaches operating under the Amtrak Thruway brand, shuttle passengers between Lamy station, Santa Fe, with service continuing onto Los Alamos. History The one-story Lamy depot was built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1909, replacing a two-story wood-frame structure erected in 1881. When the new passenger station opened, the original was converted into a freight depot and served this purpose into the 1940s. The Santa Fe originally planned to run from Atchison, Kansas., to Santa Fe, and then west to California. As the track-build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lamy
N'Djamena ( ) is the capital and largest city of Chad. It is also a special statute region, divided into 10 districts or '' arrondissements''. The city serves as the centre of economic activity in Chad. Meat, fish and cotton processing are the chief industries, and it is a regional market for livestock, salt, dates, and grains. It is a port city located at the confluence of the Logone River with the Chari River, forming a transborder agglomeration with the city of Kousséri (in Cameroon), capital of the Department of Logone-et-Chari, which is on the west bank of both rivers. It had 1,093,492 inhabitants in 2013. History N'Djamena was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil on 29 May 1900, and named after Amédée-François Lamy, an army officer who had been killed in the Battle of Kousséri about a month earlier. It was a major trading city and became the capital of the region and nation. During the Second World War, the French relied upon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy River
The Dong River is the eastern tributary of the Pearl River in Guangdong province, southern China. The other two main tributaries of Pearl River are Xi River and Bei River. The headwater is located in Mount Sanbai () in Anyuan County, Jiangxi. The Dong River is a major source of water for megacities in Pearl River Delta, including Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. The Hong Kong Government has purchased Dong River water from Guangdong since 1965. Over 70 percent of domestic water in Hong Kong is imported from the Dong River. Its discharge totals roughly . Historical findings A dinosaur egg fossil dated back to the Late Cretaceous was discovered by primary school student named Zhang Yangzhe while playing near the Dong River in 2019 in July. The boy's mother, Li Xiaofang, later contacted the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum members, and under their excavation guidance more than 10 dinosaur egg fossils each about 9 centimeters in diameter and dating back to 66 million years we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamy (and Rinck)
In Peruvian philately, Lamy (infrequently Lamy and Rinck) refers to a catalogue of cancellations found on classic Peruvian stamps, from the first issue in 1857 to the end of the use of imperforate For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. Methods of separation include: # perforation: cutting rows and columns of small holes # rouletting: small horizontal and vert ... stamps in 1873. Georges Lamy published his initial study in 1955 and was joined by co-author Jacques-André Rinck in the 1960 trilingual edition entitled, ''{{lang, fr, Perou: étude des obliterations postales sur les émissions de 1857 a 1873''. Only 330 copies of the book were printed, and there is at least one pirated edition. For collectors, the utility of the catalogue is in its illustration of 147 cancellation types, the cities and towns where they were struck, together with an estimate of how rare is each particular cancellat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
