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Lecomte (horse)
Lecomte is a French surname. Lecomte * Reel (horse)#Breeding career, Lecomte (horse), American racehorse 1850 * Lecomte Stakes, American graded horse race * Lecomte (archer), archer in 1900 Olympics * Amine Lecomte (born 1990), Qatar international footballer * Benjamin Lecomte (born 1991), French footballer * Benoît Lecomte (born 1967), French swimmer * :fr:Bernard Lecomte, Bernard Lecomte (businessman) (born 1943), French businessman * :fr:Bernard Lecomte (écrivain), Bernard Lecomte (writer) (born 1949), French writer and journalist * Felix Lecomte (1737-1817), French sculptor * :fr:Gérard Lecomte, Gerard Lecomte (1926-1997), French professor of Arabic and other Eastern Languages * :fr:Georges Lecomte, Georges Lecomte (1867-1958), French writer, member of the French Academy * Hippolyte Lecomte (1791-1857), painter of French history * :fr:Isabelle Lecomte, Isabelle Lecomte (born 1967), Belgian writer * Manu Lecomte (born 1995), Belgian basketball player in the Israeli Basket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reel (horse)
Reel was a thoroughbred race horse, and one of the greatest American Thoroughbred broodmares in history. Racing career Reel was born in Alabama at the farm of James Jackson, although both her sire and dam were imported from England. Before he was purchased by James Jackson's stud farm, Reel's sire Glencoe won the 2,000 Guineas and Ascot Gold Cup during his English racing career. Glencoe was not only was the sire of Reel, but also of the great broodmare Pocahontas, considered to be one of the most important female lines in history. Through Pocahontas, his is the blood that runs through three great sires and racehorses: Stockwell, Rataplan, and King Tom (horse). In America, Glencoe was the leading sire in 1847, 1849, 1850 and from 1854 to 1858, inclusive. During his first American season in 1837, Glencoe covered Galopade. She had already produced two fillies that would become successful broodmares when crossed to Glencoe: Fandango and Cotillion (both by Leviathan). Galopade ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Le Comte
Louis le Comte (1655–1728), also Louis-Daniel Lecomte, was a French Jesuit who participated in the 1687 French Jesuit mission to China under Jean de Fontaney. He arrived in China on 7 February 1688. He returned to France in 1691 as Procurator of the Jesuits. His ''Nouveau mémoire sur l'état présent de la Chine'', which was published in Paris in 1696, caused great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy. By 1696, he had been appointed Mathematician to the King of France. See also *Jesuit China missions The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and other work of the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, between the 16th and 17th century played a si ... Notes References *N. Standaert ''The interweaving of rituals: funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe'', University of Washington Press, 2008, , * Xiping Zhang, Deshu Ding, Jinping Ye, Xiping Zhang, Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loana Lecomte
Loana Lecomte (born 8 August 1999) is a French cross-country and mountain bike cyclist. Career In her first season as a junior in 2016, Lecomte became French champion and won several races of the Coupe de France de VTT. In her second season as a junior, she won silver in cross country at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the UEC Mountain Bike European Championships. After moving to the U23, she was once again on the podium at the World and European Championships in 2019. In 2020, Lecomte raced, and won, her first World Cup race as an elite and then went on to claim world and European championship titles with victory in the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships – Team relay at the 2020 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang and the U-23 race at the European Mountain Bike Championships in Monteceneri. She followed this up when on 16 May 2021 Lecomte won her second consecutive UCI Mountain Bike World Cup race after victories in Albstadt and No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alter Eco
Alter Eco refers to two alternative trading organizations, founded in 1998 by in France, and followed by Mathieu Senard and Eduoard Rollet in the United States, and Ilse Keijzer in Australia. Alter Eco France Alter Eco France specializes in fair trade and "responsible" food products. The organization is part of the fair trade movement and offers its products in several French mass retailers such as Monoprix, Cora, Match, Système U, E.Leclerc and Carrefour. , there are over 100 Alter Eco Fair Trade products on the market, sourced from 42 cooperatives in 37 countries. Some Alter Eco Fair Trade products include coffee, tea, rice, sugar, quinoa, chocolate, olive oil, juice and cotton balls. In 2006, Alter Eco France approached Brazilian retailers to sell Brazilian products in the country under Fair Trade terms, creating the first South-South Fair Trade experiment. In Europe, all Alter Eco products are FLO-CERT certified and bear the International Fairtrade Certification Mark. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Lecomte
Tristan Lecomte (born October 1973 in Reims) is the founder of Alter Eco and PUR Projet. Biography Born in Reims in 1973, to a military father and an English teacher mother, he graduated from HEC Paris in 1996. In the same years, in 1993, he created the Solidarité France Nepal association, a law student association. from 1901 for humanitarian purposes. He made his debut at L'Oréal in South Korea. In 1998, he founded Alter Eco, a pioneering fair trade and organic brand, and succeeded in having it distributed by Monoprix. He led the company from 1998 to 2011. From 2007, he launched projects via agroforestry. This approach led him to found PUR Projet in 2008, a company which develops projects for the regeneration and preservation of ecosystems in partnership with local communities, and supports companies using the Insetting approach, which consists of compensating within even from its value chain all the impacts of its activity linked to sustainable development. Since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henri Lecomte
Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord, Vosges – 12 June 1934, in Paris) was a French botanist. In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In addition to his teaching duties, he worked in the botany laboratory of the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle'' ( French National Museum of Natural History) under Philippe van Tieghem. Lecomte obtained his doctorate in 1889 and subsequently took part in scientific expeditions to North Africa, Egypt, the Antilles, French Guiana and French Indo-China. In 1906, after having volunteered his time for some twenty years at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Lecomte was formally appointed to head the spermatophyte department, a paid position, succeeding Louis Édouard Bureau Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional sports, professional competition in Israeli sports club, club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal ( he, ליגת ווינר סל), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup Basketball, EuroCup (formerly calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manu Lecomte
Emmanuel Lecomte (born 16 August 1995) is a Belgian basketball player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Baylor Bears and Miami Hurricanes and for the Belgian national team. Career College He played two years at Miami, before transferring to Baylor. He scored 7.7 points and dished out 2.3 assists per game while shooting 42.5 percent from the field as a sophomore. However, he saw his minutes fall playing alongside Ángel Rodríguez. As a senior at Baylor, Lecomte averaged 16.2 points per game and was named to the Second-team All-Big 12. Professional He went undrafted in the 2018 NBA draft but signed with the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Summer League. He joined the Agua Caliente Clippers of the NBA G League for the 2018–19 season after being selected 20th overall in the G League draft. On 28 March 2019 he signed with Liga ACB team UCAM Murcia. Lecomte joined Gran Canaria in February 2020, averaging 5.4 points a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Lecomte
Hippolyte Lecomte (28 December 1781, Puiseaux – 25 July 1857, Paris) was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet; the caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter. Principal works * ''Napoléon Ier se faisant présenter à Astorga des prisonniers anglais et ordonne de les traiter avec des soins particuliers, janvier 1809'', 1810, Palace of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, Yvelines, Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 19 ... * ''Reddition de Mantoue, le 2 février 1797 : le général Wurmser se rend au général Sérurier'', Salon de 1812, Palace of Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
