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Urbain Vitry
Urbain is a name of French origin which may refer to: ;Family name * Achille Urbain (1884–1957), French biologist * Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist * Ismael Urbain (1812–1884), French journalist and interpreter * Jacques Urbain, Belgian scientist * Jean-Didier Urbain (born 1951), French sociologist * Walter M. Urbain (1910–2002), American food scientist ;Given name * Urbain Audibert (1789–1846), French nurseryman * Urbain Boiret (1731–1774), Canadian priest * Urbain Bouriant (1849–1903), French egyptologist * Urbain Braems (born 1933), Belgian soccer player * Urbain Cancelier (fl. 1988–2012), French comedian and actor * Urbain de Maillé-Brézé (1597–1650), French military officer and diplomat * Urbain Dubois (1818–1901), French chef * Urbain Gohier (1862–1951), French lawyer and journalist * Urbain Grandier (1590–1634), French priest * Urbain Johnson (1824 –1917), farmer and politician * Urbain de Florit de La Tour de Clamouze (1794–186 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Urbain
Achille Joseph Urbain (9 May 1884 – 5 December 1957) was a French biologist born in Le Havre. Biography In 1906 he obtained his degree from the national veterinary school at Lyon, afterwards attaining a bachelor's degree in natural sciences (1912) and a doctorate of sciences with a thesis involving plant physiology (1920) During his career, he worked in a military veterinary research laboratory, and in the meantime, conducted studies as a microbiologist and immunologist at the Pasteur Institute.La Recerche, L'actuealite des sciences The forgotten founder of Vincennes Zoo Bois de Vincennes In 1931 he resigned from military service, and in 1934 was appointed director of the |
Urbain Gohier
Urbain Gohier (born Urbain Degoulet, December 17, 1862 in Versailles – June 29, 1951) was a French lawyer and journalist best known for his publication of the anti-Semitic forgery ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' in France. His pen name for two books was Isaac Blümchen. Orphaned as a young man, Gohier took the surname of his adoptive father, and the issue of his family origin remained a lifelong personal issue. A brilliant high school student at Collège Stanislas in Paris, he obtained a BA and a law degree. In 1884, he became editor of the royalist daily ''Le Soleil''. In 1897, upon the foundation of the socialist daily ''L'Aurore'', its director Ernest Vaughan called Gohier to join the writing team. He became a leading journalist there, along with Georges Clemenceau. An indefatigable pamphleteer, Gohier - a "monarchist-unionist" - maintained a policy that was pro-Dreyfus, anti-Semitic, anti-militarist, and socialist. He took a strongly anti-military posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Cote Round Barn
The Urbain Cote Round Barn near Dunseith, North Dakota, United States, is a round barn that was built in 1943. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. (pages 27-28 in North Dakota Round Barns TR) and History The owners, the Cote family, were French-Canadian immigrants from Eastern Canada who immigrated and purchased the farm in 1943 and built the barn the same year. In the years before World War II, the Cotes specialized in barn construction; they modeled the barn after the Levi Glick Round Barn in Surrey, 100 miles southwest of Dunseith. The Glick barn was built in 1923 with hollow clay tile walls and a central silo. The Cotes Barn was constructed of masonry walls, "double mow floor, gracious stairway, decorative shingling, lack of interior silo, and opposing dormers for ventillation." It is significant due to its dual use of housing cattle on the first floor and dances on the second. Its hay loft floor has "double floor boards, an unusual expendit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Métal Urbain
Métal Urbain (meaning ''urban metal'') was one of the first French Punk rock, punk groups, formed in 1976 in Paris. Career They were heavily influenced by the Clash and Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to ''Metal Machine Music'' by Lou Reed. They relied on heavily distorted guitars and replaced the traditional rock rhythm section of bass guitar/drums with a synthesizer and drum machine, a then-unique approach that foreshadowed the experimental possibilities that were explored by later post-hardcore bands such as Big Black. They were also known for their radical image (the color scheme of albums always being a stark black, white and red), and subversive lyrics sung in French language, French. They were met with some enthusiasm in the United Kingdom, particularly by John Peel and the Rough Trade Records, Rough Trade label. (Métal Urbain's single "Paris Maquis" was Rough Trade's first release.). In 1977, their first single "Panik" was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Ozanne
Urbain Ozanne (May 8, 1835 – August 11, 1903) was a French-born American political organizer, sheriff, and businessman. He was a Republican Party organizer and served as sheriff in Panola County, Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. He later became a businessman in Nevada operating a mail route and hotel. He served at the January 1868 "Black and Tan" Republican Party convention held in Jackson, Mississippi. He and other participants were disparaged viciously in Democratic Party and Confederate-sympathizing newspaper accounts. As sheriff in Mississippi toward the end of the Reconstruction era, he tried to stem rampant Ku Klux Klan paramilitary violence. The Mississippi Plan helped restore Democrats to power in 1875 and " Radicals" standing in the way of a restoration of white supremacy were ousted from office by the "redeemers". Biography Ozanne was born in France. In 1865 he wrote to the governor of Tennessee on behalf of a "colored" couple whose children remained ens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Olivier
Urbain Olivier (1810, Eysins - 1888) was a Swiss writer. The brother of Juste Olivier, he was well known from 1856 onwards as the author of numerous popular tales of rural life in the Canton of Vaud, especially of the region near Nyon Nyon (; outdated German language, German: or ; outdated Italian language, Italian: , ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in Nyon District in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilomet .... External links * * 1810 births 1888 deaths People from Nyon District Swiss writers in French {{Switzerland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Mbenga
Urbain Mbenga Mpiem Ley is a leader in the Community of Christ. He is the president of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy. Biography Mbenga was born in Mamou, Guinea. He emigrated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and was educated at a school in Kananga and at universities in Kinshasa. Mbenga went on to teach high school in Beno Beno is a name of various origins. In the Bible it appears in 1 Chronicles 24:26–27 where the Hebrew word is rendered as "Beno" in some English translations and as "his son" in others. Beno is also a short form of Benedict in various languages. I ... and was a high school principal in Kinshasa. He later became the head of the geography department at the Université Pédagogique Nationale in the DRC. As president of the First Quorum of the Seventy, Mbenga oversees the Community of Christ's Africa and Haiti Mission Field. External linksCommunity of Christ: Who are the seventy? cofchrist.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Mbenga, Urbain Democratic Repub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Lippé
Urbain Lippé (July 21, 1831 – December 20, 1896) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He represented Joliette in the House of Commons of Canada from 1891 to 1896 as a Conservative member. He was born in L'Assomption, Lower Canada, of German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ... descent, and was educated at the college there. In 1870, he married Marie Louise Lèvesque. Lippé served as clerk for the circuit courts for Joliette district and Joliette county and for the lower court (Cour des Commissaires) at St-Jean de Matha. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science. Biography Early years Le Verrier was born at Saint-Lô, Manche, France, in a modest bourgeois family, his parents being, Louis-Baptiste Le Verrier and Marie-Jeanne-Josephine-Pauline de Baudre. He studied at École Polytechnique. He briefly studied chemistry und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain De Florit De La Tour De Clamouze
Urbain de Florit de La Tour de Clamouze, SS.CC., (born ''Alphonse de Florit de La Tour de Clamouze''; 7 October 1794 – 2 August 1868) was a French nobleman and later lay brother of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church. He was part of the Roman Catholic mission in the Gambier Islands from 1835 until his death in 1863. He founded and headed the Re'e Seminary College on Aukena, one of the earliest institution of higher learning in the South Pacific, where native Mangarevan boys were taught Latin and French as future clergymen. The young King Joseph Gregorio II Joseph Gregorio II (french: Joseph Grégoire II; born 26 April 1847 – 21 November 1868) was the last King or '' ʻAkariki'' (paramount chief) of the island of Mangareva, and other Gambier Islands including Akamaru, Aukena, Taravai and Temoe ... was also educated at the College. References Bibliography * * * * * 1794 births 1868 deaths F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Johnson
Urbain Johnson (January 27, 1824 – April 13, 1917) was a farmer and political figure in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. He represented Kent County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1869 to 1870, from 1874 to 1882 and from 1895 to 1908 as a Liberal member. He was born and educated at Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, the son of Simon Johnson and Geneviève Vautour. Johnson was a descendant of Scottish immigrants who had first settled among the Acadians in the Chaleur Bay area. In 1856, he married Nathalie Leblanc. Johnson was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in an 1869 by-election held after Owen McInerney was named to the Legislative Council. Johnson was defeated in the general election which followed in 1870. He opposed the Common Schools Act which banned religious instruction in the province's school system based on the principle of Separation of church and state. He attended the convention of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste conventi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbain Grandier
Urbain Grandier (1590 – 18 August 1634) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun possessions". Most modern commentators have concluded that Grandier was the victim of a politically motivated persecution led by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu. The circumstances of Father Grandier's trial and execution have attracted the attention of writers Alexandre Dumas père, Eyvind Johnson, Aldous Huxley and the playwright John Whiting, filmmaker Ken Russell, composers like Krzysztof Penderecki and Peter Maxwell Davies, as well as historian Jules Michelet and various scholars of European witchcraft. Life Grandier attended the Jesuit college of La Madeleine in Bordeaux. His uncle was a priest who held some influence with the Jesuits there. They held the right to appoint the parish priest for the Church of Saint-Pierre-du-Marche in Loudun, and in 1617 chose Grandier. They also had the right t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
