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Victorine may refer to: People * Victorine Q. Adams (1912–2006), first African-American woman to serve on the Baltimore City Council * Tory Dent (1958–2005), American poet, art critic and commentator on AIDS * Victorine Foot (1920–2000), British painter * Victorine Goddard (1844–1935), New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper * Victorine du Pont Homsey (1900–1998), American architect * Victorine Meurent (1844–1927), French model and painter * Victorine Gboko Wodié, Ivorian lawyer, magistrate and politician * Sasha Victorine (born 1978), American soccer player * Victorines, a group of philosophers and mystics based at the School of Saint Victor The school of St Victor was the medieval monastic school at the Augustinian abbey of St Victor in Paris. The name also refers to the Victorines, the group of philosophers and mystics based at this school as part of the University of Paris. It ... * Victorines, monks attached to the Abbey of St Victor, Marseille and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Q
Victorine may refer to: People * Victorine Q. Adams (1912–2006), first African-American woman to serve on the Baltimore City Council * Tory Dent (1958–2005), American poet, art critic and commentator on AIDS * Victorine Foot (1920–2000), British painter * Victorine Goddard (1844–1935), New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper * Victorine du Pont Homsey (1900–1998), American architect * Victorine Meurent (1844–1927), French model and painter * Victorine Gboko Wodié, Ivorian lawyer, magistrate and politician * Sasha Victorine (born 1978), American soccer player * Victorines, a group of philosophers and mystics based at the School of Saint Victor * Victorines, monks attached to the Abbey of St Victor, Marseille and its daughter houses Other uses * Victorine (ship), missing Australian schooner * , also known as USS ''Victorine'' (SP-951), a fishing trawler used in World War I as a patrol craft * Victorine Studios a French film studio located in Nice See also *Louise-Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tory Dent
Victorine "Tory" Dent (January 1, 1958 – December 30, 2005) was an American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis. Life Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981. She was diagnosed with HIV when she was 30 years old. Dent spent most of her adult life in New York City and Maine. She married writer Sean Harvey in 1999. Throughout her adult life she produced poetry, often about her struggles and experiences living with HIV. She died on December 30, 2005, in her apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan of the AIDS-associated infection PML. Career Dent was the author of ''Black Milk'' (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005); ''HIV, Mon Amour'' (Sheep Meadow Press, 1999), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and ''What Silence Equals'' (Persea Books, 1993). Her honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the New York Foundati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Foot
Victorine Anne Foot (1 May 1920 – 2000) was a British artist who worked in oils, watercolours and pastels. Foot is best known for her work during World War II on military camouflage and for her post-war career as an artist and teacher in Scotland. Early life Foot was born in Knowles Bank near Pembury in Kent and studied at the Central School of Art in London between 1938 and 1941. World War Two After the war began, the Central School of Art was evacuated to Northampton in 1941 and Foot gave up her studies to take a job as a Junior Technical Assistant in the Naval Section of the Directorate of Camouflage based in Leamington Spa. Her duties included painting camouflage designs onto models of ships. The models were all based on real ships; if the real ship was sunk or lost the model was retired from further use. Whilst at the Camouflage Directorate, Foot drew and painted her colleagues at work, both at Leamington Spa and at the docks where they painted their camouflage sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Goddard
Victorine Goddard (née Rogers; October 1844 – 12 October 1935) was a New Zealand homemaker and hotel-keeper. She was born in Waiwhakaiho, Taranaki Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano of Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont. The main centre is the city of New Plymouth. The New Plymouth D ..., New Zealand, on 5 October 1844. References 1844 births 1935 deaths People from Taranaki 19th-century New Zealand businesspeople 19th-century New Zealand businesswomen {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Du Pont Homsey
Victorine du Pont Homsey (November 27, 1900 – January 6, 1998) was an American architect and member of the du Pont family. A principal in Victorine & Samuel Homsey, she was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) in 1967, the first woman architect from Delaware and only the eighth woman nationwide to achieve that honor. Life She was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Antoine Biderman (or Bidermann) du Pont, Jr., and Mary Ethel (Clark) du Pont. The Du Ponts were an old and well-to-do family; her great-grandfather was the industrialist Alfred V. du Pont. She attended Wellesley College, where she earned her undergraduate degree in 1923. She went on to receive her certificate in architecture in 1925 from the Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture for Women (which was not yet a degree-granting institution); ten years later, after the school became affiliated with Smith College, she was awarded the M. Arch degree. After completing her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Meurent
Victorine-Louise Meurent (also Meurant; February 18, 1844 – March 17, 1927) was a French painter and a model for painters. Although she is best known as the favorite model of Édouard Manet, she was an artist in her own right who regularly exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. In 1876, her paintings were selected for inclusion at the Salon's juried exhibition, when Manet's work was not. Biography Victorine-Louise Meurent was born in Paris on Sunday, February 18, 1844, to a family of artisans. Her mother was a milliner and her father was a patinator of bronzes. In 1860, at the age of sixteen, Meurent began modeling in the studio of Thomas Couture and she may have studied art at his atelier for women. Meurent first modeled for Manet in 1862, for his painting ''The Street Singer''. Manet was first drawn to Meurent when he saw her in the street, carrying her guitar. She was particularly noticeable for her petite stature that earned her the nickname ''La Crevette (The Shr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Gboko Wodié
Victorine Gboko-Dailly Wodié (born 1954) is a lawyer, magistrate and politician from the Ivory Coast. Early life and education Victorine Wodié was born in Abidjan. She was educated at the Lycee Classique de Bouake. She gained a bachelor of law degree in 1977, and in 1978 a master's degree from the University of Aix-Marseilles. In 1978 she obtained her certificat d'aptitude à la profession d'avocat (CAPA) qualification, and in 1979 a diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS) in judicial process. Career In 1980 Wodié started at the Court of Appeal in Abidjan, interning with Bâtonnier Eugène Dervain from 1980 to 1982. From 1983 to 1985 she was a partner with Mondon-Kone-Wodié. From 1986 she headed her own law firm. From 1989 to 1993 she was a member of the Council of the Order of Lawyers, and in July 1992 was a founding member of the Association Ivoirienne de Défense des Droits de la Femme (AIDF). From 1996 until 2002 she practiced at the Abidjan Court of Ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasha Victorine
Sasha Caleb Victorine (born February 3, 1978) is an American former soccer player. He spent his entire professional career in Major League Soccer in the United States, making over 100 appearances for both Los Angeles Galaxy and Kansas City Wizards, before finishing his career with Chivas USA. He also made four appearances and scored one goal for the United States national team, and represented his country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Career Youth and College Victorine was born in Santa Ana, California. He played high school soccer at Rio Americano High School, and college soccer at UCLA, leading them to the NCAA title in 1997, and being named a first-team All-American in 1999. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the first round of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft. Professional Victorine spent five years with LA, winning the U.S. Open Cup in 2001 and the MLS Cup in 2002; his best season was 2001, when he scored seven goals and five assists. He was traded to Kansas City W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Of Saint Victor
The school of St Victor was the medieval monastic school at the Augustinian abbey of St Victor in Paris. The name also refers to the Victorines, the group of philosophers and mystics based at this school as part of the University of Paris. It was founded in the twelfth century by Peter Abelard's tutor and subsequent opponent, the realist school master William of Champeaux, and a prominent early member of their community was Hugh of St Victor. Other prominent members were Achard of St. Victor, Andrew of St Victor, Richard of St Victor, Walter of St Victor and Godfrey of St Victor, as well as Thomas Gallus. Under the rigorous supervision of Hugh, St Victor offered a coherent and structured approach to learning through the cultivation of personal virtue rather than the requisition of knowledge for its own sake. This is exemplified in the schema for the liberal arts laid out in Hugh's ''Didascalicon'', in which he exhorts the reader to ''Omnia Disce'', or to know all. By 1160, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of St Victor, Marseille
The Abbey of Saint-Victor is a former abbey that was founded during the late Ancient Rome, Roman period in Marseille in the south of France, named after the local soldier saint and martyr, Victor of Marseilles. History The crypts of the abbey contains artefacts indicating the presence of a quarry that was active during the Greek period and later became a necropolis from 2 BC onward until Christian times. In 415, Christian monk and theologian John Cassian, having come from the monasteries of Egypt, founded two monasteries at Marseille — the Abbey of Saint Victor for men in the south of the Old Port of Marseille, Vieux-Port, as well as the Abbey of Saint Sauveur the other for women in the south of :fr:Place de Lenche, Place de Lenche. The Abbey of Saint Victor was later affected during the fifth century by the Semipelagianism, Semipelagian heresy, which began with some of Cassian's writings. Both monasteries suffered from invasions by the Vikings and Saracens, and were destroyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine (ship)
''Victorine'' was a schooner of 70 tons built in Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ... and registered in Hobart. Owned by Edward Lord, she disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1822. On 24 August 1822, the schooner, under command of Captain William Risk, left Sydney bound for Mauritius. Carrying a crew of seven or eight the ship disappeared en route and was presumed lost.'' Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser'', 29 March 1823, p. 1 References 1788–1850 ships of Australia Schooners of Australia Individual sailing vessels Missing ships Ships lost with all hands Maritime incidents in 1822 1822 in Australia Merchant ships of Australia Missing ships of Australia {{Merchantship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorine Studios
Victorine Studios (French: Studios de la Victorine) are a film studio in the French city of Nice. They are also known as the Nice Studios. Several small studios have also existed in the city. Originally built in 1921 in an attempt to create a Hollywood-style studio on the French Riviera, the major figures behind the new venture were the producers Louis Nalpas and Serge Sandberg. Initially constructed in the early glasshouse style, the facility was soon converted into a more modern electrified design. It had seven sound stages. They worked in parallel with the other main French studios which were clustered in Paris. A key figure in the development of the Victorine was the producer Louis Nalpas. A second studio complex was located in Nice, Saint-Laurent-du-Var Studios which existed from 1920 to 1944. During the Second World War, the studios took on greater importance. Following the defeat of France, half of the country was occupied by Germany including the capital at Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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