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Tour De L'Ardèche
Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed by a guide * Walking tour, a visit of a historical or cultural site undertaken on foot Entertainment * Concert tour, a series of concerts by an artist or group of artists in different locations * Touring theatre, independent theatre that travels to different venues Sports * Professional golf tours, otherwise unconnected professional golf tournaments * Tennis tour, tennis played in tournament format at a series of venues * Events in various sports named the Pro Tour (other) * Tour de France ('), the world's biggest bicycle race Places * Tour-de-Faure, Lot, France * Tour-en-Bessin, Calvados, France * Tour-en-Sologne, Loir-et-Cher, France * Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France * Tours-en-Savoie, Savoie, France * Tours-en-Vimeu, Somme, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring (other), touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tour (other), tours. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes". Tourism can be Domestic tourism, domestic (within the traveller's own country) or International tourism, international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Tourism numbers declined as a result of a strong economic slowdown (the late-2000s recession) between the second half of 2008 and the end of 2009, and in consequence of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours-en-Savoie
Tours-en-Savoie is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Savoie department The following is a list of the 273 communes of the Savoie department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Savoie {{Savoie-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touré
Touré is the French transcription of a West African surname (English transcriptions are '' Turay'' and '' Touray''). The name is probably derived from ''tùùré'', the word for 'elephant' in Soninké, the language of the Ghana Empire. The clan existed as kings of Zaghari on the middle Niger before the Moroccan invasion of Ghana. A theory of their origin holds that the Touré are descended from the "Roum," pre-Arab North African soldiers, and local women.Massing, Andrew W., ''The Wangara, an old Soninke Diaspora in West Africa?'', Cahiers d’Études africaines, 158, XL-2, 2000, pp. 281-308, https://web.archive.org/web/20070628220805/http://etudesafricaines.revues.org/docannexe6104.html, accessed 11/30/2020 People Notable people with the name include: *Touré (born 1971), American novelist and music journalist * Ahmed Touré (born 1987), Ivorian footballer *Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922–1984), Guinean politician, first President of Guinea * Aïda Touré, Gabonese poet, artist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tour (other)
The Tour may refer to: *The Tour de France cycling race * ''The Tour'' (album), a 1998 live album by Mary J. Blige *'' The Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network'', an album also known as The Tour EP * The Tour (Kiss and Mötley Crüe), a 2012 concert tour * ''The Tour'' (film) (''Turneja''), a 2008 Bosnian/Serbian film See also *The Grand Tour The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tuto ..., a tour of Europe and the Holy Land conducted by British gentleman in the 18th and 19th century * ABBA: The Tour, third and final concert tour by ABBA * Streisand: The Tour, unofficial name of Barbra Streisand's fall 2006 North American concert tour * Anthems: The Tour, debut headlining concert tour of Kerry Ellis {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latour (other)
Latour may refer to: People * LaTour, American musician Surname * House of Baillet **Alfred de Baillet Latour (1901–1980), **Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876–1942), Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee **Maximilian Anton Karl, Count Baillet de Latour (1737–1806), a general in Austrian service ** Theodor Franz, Count Baillet von Latour (1780–1848), Austrian soldier and statesman *Bertrand Latour (born 1963), French writer published by Éditions Denoël *Bruno Latour (1947-2022), French sociologist * Georges de Latour, founder of Beaulieu Vineyard in Rutherford, California *Hanspeter Latour (born 1947), Swiss football manager and former goalkeeper *Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), French painter and lithographer *Joseph Latour (1806-1863), French Romantic Drawer and painter *Jason Latour, American comic book artist and writer * Jean Théodore Latour (1766–1837), composer * José Latour (born 1940), Cuban crime fiction writer *Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tour (other)
La Tour may refer to: Places Canada * Port La Tour, Nova Scotia France * La Tour, Alpes-Maritimes * La Tour, Haute-Savoie * La Tour-Blanche, Dordogne * La Tour-d'Aigues, Vaucluse * La Tour-d'Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme * La Tour-de-Salvagny, Rhône * La Tour-de-Sçay, Doubs * La Tour-du-Crieu, Ariège * La Tour-du-Meix, Jura * La Tour-du-Pin, Isère * La Tour-en-Jarez, Loire * La Tour-Saint-Gelin, Indre-et-Loire * La Tour-sur-Orb, in the Hérault Switzerland * La Tour-de-Trême, Fribourg * La Tour-de-Peilz, Vaud United States * La Tour, Missouri Other uses * ''La Tour'' (comic), comic book by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters * La Tour (surname) * Château Latour, a French wine estate in the north-west of Bordeaux * LaTour, American musician, disc jockey and voice over artist See also * * Latour (other) * Tour (other) Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Tour (other)
Grand Tour is a tour of European cultural centres that once was a standard feature of the education of the European elite. Grand Tour may also refer to: Entertainment Music * ''Grand Tour'' (Big Big Train album) * ''The Grand Tour'' (album), 1974 album by George Jones * ''The Grand Tour'', a 1993 album by Aaron Neville * "The Grand Tour" (song), title track from Jones' 1974 album * ''The Grand Tour'' (musical), a 1979 Broadway musical * ''Grand Tour'', a 1959 musical with music by David Shire * '' Grand Tour: The Classic'', a 2013 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa * '' Grand Tour: The Return'', a 2012 Asian live concert tour of South Korean boyband Shinhwa Other entertainment * Grand Tour (novel series) (1985–2017), series of science fiction novels by Ben Bova * '' Grand Tour: Disaster in Time'', a 1992 science fiction film (a.k.a. ''Timescape'') * ''The Grand Tour'', a British motoring television series * ''The Grand Tour Game'', a 2019 video game O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours FC
Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), is a French association football club based in Tours, the capital city of the Indre-et-Loire department. The club was formed in 1919 and currently play at the fifth level of French football. Tours plays its home matches at the Stade de la Vallée du Cher located within the city. History Tours Football Club was founded in 1919 as under the name ''AS Docks-du-Centre''. After two years of playing under the moniker, the club changed its name to ''AS du Centre''. The club spent 30 years under the name as French football entered professionalism in the 1930s. In 1951, the club changed its name again to the current Tours FC. Under the Tours emblem, the club achieved success in its infancy reaching the Round of 64 in the Coupe de France thanks to player-coach Alfred Aston that same year. Tours was promoted to the first division in 1980. Prior to the start of the season, the club signed prolific striker Delio Onnis from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tour (surname)
La Tour (as distinct from Latour) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (1593–1666), French Governor of Acadia * Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter * Frances de la Tour, English actress * House of La Tour d'Auvergne, French noble family * Henri de la Tour (other), multiple people ** Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1636-1721) ** Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730) **Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (1679-1753), Count of Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace **Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne (1743–1800), French officer under Napoleon * LaTour, stage name of American artist William "Bud" LaTour * Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788), French Rococo portraitist See also * Latour (other) Latour may refer to: People * LaTour, American musician Surname * House of Baillet ** Alfred de Baillet Latour (1901–1980), **Henri de Bai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tour
James Mitchell Tour (born 1959) is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Tour is a top researcher in his field, having an h-index of 165 with total citations index over 125,000 and was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. Education Tour received degrees from Syracuse University (BS, 1981), Purdue University (PhD, 1986) and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1986–1987) and Stanford University (1987–1988). Career Tour's work is primarily focused on carbon materials chemistry and nanotechnology. Tour has over 700 research publications and over 130 patent families, with an H-index of 150 with total citations over 107,000. Tour's work on carbon materials is broad and encompasses fullerene purification, composites, conductive inks for radio frequencies identification tags, carbon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tours-sur-Meymont
Tours-sur-Meymont () is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. See also *Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department The following is a list of the 464 Communes of France, communes of the Puy-de-Dôme Departments of France, department of France. Intercommunalities The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ... References Tourssurmeymont {{PuyDôme-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
