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Pascal Comelade
Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade (born 30 June 1955), is a French musician. Comelade was born in Montpellier, France. After living for several years in Barcelona, he made his first album, ''Fluence'', influenced by electronic music and by the group Heldon. Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is characterised by the sounds of toy instruments, used as solo-instruments and as an integral part of the sound of his group, the Bel Canto Orquestra. In 2007 he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon. He has collaborated with many singers and musicians from diverse genres of music including Robert Wyatt, Dani, Faust, Christophe Miossec, Toti Soler, Jac Berrocal, Pierre Bastien and P.J. Harvey to mention just a few. Discography * 1975 : ''Fluence'' * 1978 : ** ''Séquences Paiennes'' ** ''Vertical Pianos'' * 1980 : ** ''Paralelo'' ** ''Ready-Made'' * 1981 : ''Slow Music'' * 1982 : ** ''Sentimientos'' ** ''Irregular Organs'' * 1983 : ** ''Fall Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to: People and fictional characters * Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name * Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and theologian Places * Pascal (crater), a lunar crater * Pascal Island (Antarctica) * Pascal Island (Western Australia) Science and technology * Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure * Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth * PASCAL (database), a bibliographic database maintained by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information * Pascal (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia Other uses * (1895–1911) * (1931–1942) * Pascal and Maximus, fictional characters in ''Tangled'' * Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape * Pascal College, secondary education school in Zaandam, the Netherlands * Pasca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syldavia
Syldavia ( Syldavian: ) is a fictional country in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Borduria. Syldavia is depicted in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' (1938–1939), '' Destination Moon'' (1950), ''Explorers on the Moon'' (1952–1953, briefly), ''The Calculus Affair'' (1954–1956), and ''Tintin and the Lake of Sharks'' (1972), and is mentioned in ''Tintin and the Picaros'' (1975–1976). According to Harry Thompson's 2011 ''Tintin: Hergé and Its Creation'', Syldavia "was an idealised portrayal of central Europe between the wars – a benevolent monarchy, peaceful village life, sturdy peasants puffing on large pipes." Hergé claimed that the country is heavily inspired by the real-world countries of both Albania and Montenegro, and may also be based on larger Balkan nations such as Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. Overview Syldavia is a monarchy, ruled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pau Riba
Pau Riba (7 August 1948 – 6 March 2022) was a Spanish author and Mallorquín versatile artist. Riba was born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 7 August 1948. He started working during the 60s in the context of the counterculture. Riba died from pancreatic cancer on 6 March 2022, at the age of 73. Records * 1967: ''Taxista'' (EP, Concèntric) * 1967: ''El Nadal no té 20 anys'', Maria del Mar Bonet, Maria Amèlia Pedrerol, Lluís Llach and Pau i Jordi (EP, Concèntric) * 1968 ''En Pere Gallerí'' (Pau i Jordi) (EP, Concèntric) * 1968: ''Noia de porcellana'' (EP, Concèntric) * 1968: ''Folk-2'' (Pau i Jordi and other members of the Grup de Folk) (LP, Als 4 Vents) * 1972: ''El rei de Xauxa'' (Single, Concèntric) * 1972 ''L'home estàtic'' (Single, Concèntric) * 1969 ''Miniatures'' (with Jaume Sisa, Cachas and Albert Batiste) (EP, Concèntric) * 1970: ''Dioptria I'' (LP, Concèntric) * 1970 ''Ars eròtica'' (promotional single) * 1970: ''Mareta Bufona'' (promotional single) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Pla
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Albert (given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enric Casasses
Enric Casasses i Figueres (Barcelona, 1951) is a Spanish poet who writes in the Catalan language Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as ''Valencian'' (autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spa .... Casasses published his first two books of poetry, ''La bragueta encallada'' (1972) and ''La cosa aquella'' (1982), in alternative editions. In 1991, Casasses published a second edition of ''La cosa aquella''. Casasses has written over 25 books of poetry and received awards for: ''No hi érem'' ( Premi de la Crítica in 1993), ''Calç'' (Premi Carles Riba in 1996) and ''Plaça Raspall'' (Premi Joan Alcover in 1998). References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Casasses, Enric Spanish male poets Writers from Barcelona 1951 births Living people 20th-century Spanish poets 21st-century Spanish poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Manuel Pagan
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
