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Violette
Violette is a female given name and a surname which may refer to: Given name * Violette Cordery (1900–1983), British racing driver * Violette Huck (born 1988), French tennis player * Violette Lecoq (1912–2003), French nurse, illustrator and resistance member during World War II * Violette Leduc (1907–1972), French author * Violette Morris (1893–1944), French multi-sport athlete, and spy and collaborator for the Germans during World War II * Violetta Napierska (1890–1968), sometimes spelled Violette, actress in German silent films * Violette Spillebout (born 1972), French politician * Violette Szabo (1921–1945), British Second World War agent in German-occupied France * Violette Trépanier (born 1945), politician in Quebec, Canada * Violette Verdy (1933–2016), French ballerina and director of dance companies * Violette Wautier (born 1993), Thai singer-songwriter and actress Surname * Banks Violette (born 1973), American artist * Cyndy Violette (born 1959), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banks Violette
Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York. Biography Violette was born in Ithaca, New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2000. Work Violette's work has shown internationally at galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Museum Boijmans van Beuningeng in Rotterdam, the Migros Museum in Zurich. He participated in the "Greater New York" exhibition at PS1 Center for Contemporary Art in New York City and "USA Today" at the Royal Academy in London. His work is featured in several prominent collections including the Musee d'Arte Moderne et Contemporain Geneva, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Saatchi Gallery in London, and MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum, both in New York City. He is represented by Team Gallery in New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Lecoq
Violette Lecoq (1912 – 2003) was a French nurse, illustrator, and a resistance member during World War II. She is known for her drawings from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, which were also used as evidence at the first Ravensbrück Trials in 1946. World War II At the outbreak of World War II Lecoq worked as a nurse with the Red Cross. She was also affiliated with the French resistance movement. She was arrested in 1942 and held one year in isolation, and then brought to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1943, as a Nacht und Nebel prisoner. She worked as a nurse at block ten, the block for tuberculous and mentally ill. From this hut she witnessed the murder of women who were not longer capable of working. Lecoq managed to organize pencil and paper, and made several illustrations from the life in the camp, with the intention of publishing the drawings some day. She was evacuated with the Swedish Red Cross in April 1945. In 1946, she was a witness at the Ravensbrück ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Leduc
Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French writer. Early life and education She was born in Arras, Pas de Calais, France, on 7 April 1907. She was the illegitimacy, illegitimate daughter of a servant girl, Berthe Leduc, and André Debaralle, the son of a rich Protestant family in Valenciennes, who subsequently refused to legitimize her. In Valenciennes, Violette spent most of her childhood suffering from poor self-esteem, exacerbated by her mother's hostility and excessive protectiveness. She developed tender friendships with her grandmother Fideline and her maternal aunt Laure. Her grandmother died when Leduc was a young child. Her formal education began in 1913, but was interrupted by World War I. After the war, she went to a boarding school, the Collège de Douai, where she experienced lesbian affairs with her classmate "Isabelle P", which Leduc later adapted into the first part of her novel ''Ravages'', and then the 1966 ''Thérèse et Isabelle''. During her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Morris
Violette Morris (18 April 1893 – 26 April 1944) was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for violating "moral standards". She was invited to the 1936 Summer Olympics by Adolf Hitler and was an honored guest. During World War II, she collaborated with Nazis and the Vichy France regime. She became known as the "Hyena of the Gestapo" and was killed by the French Resistance. Early life Violette Morris was born to Baron Pierre Jacques Morris, a retired French Army cavalry captain, and Élisabeth Marie Antoinette Sakakini, of Palestinian Arab origin. Morris spent her adolescence in a convent, L'Assomption de Huy. She married Cyprien Édouard Joseph Gouraud on 22 August 1914 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They divorced in May 1923.Ruffin, RaymondViolette Morris raymond-ruffin.over-blog.com Morris learned how to drive during World War I and during the war she d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Wautier
Violette Wautier ( th, วิโà¸à¹€à¸¥à¸• วà¸à¹€à¸—ียร์; born October 10, 1993) is a Thai-Belgian singer-songwriter and actress. She made her singing debut with the audition on season 2 of The Voice Thailand in 2013. Then started off her career in both singing and acting. Her notable milestones are winning the Suphannahong Award for Best Supporting Actress in Thailand (2016) and her first English album ''Glitter and Smoke'' (2020). Career Wautier first appeared on season 2 of the singing competition ''The Voice Thailand'' in 2013, and went on to record songs for several films and television series. She appeared in productions with studio GTH/ GDH, winning the Suphannahong Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in ''Heart Attack'' (2015), and co-starring in '' A Gift'' (2016). After several years under Universal Music Thailand, she left to become an independent artist and launched her own record label in 2018. In 2018, Wautier released her first En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola (plant)
''Viola'' is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing between 525 and 600 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some ''Viola'' species are perennial plants, some are annual plants, and a few are small shrubs. Many species, varieties and cultivars are grown in gardens for their ornamental flowers. In horticulture the term pansy is normally used for those multi-colored, large-flowered cultivars which are raised annually or biennially from seed and used extensively in bedding. The terms viola and violet are normally reserved for small-flowered annuals or perennials, including the wild species. Description Annual or perennial caulescent or acaulescent (with or without a visible plant stem above the ground) herbs, shrubs or very rarely treelets. In acaulescent taxa the foliage and flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta (given Name)
Violeta (, ''Violeta'', el, ΒιολÎτα, Violéta) is a female given name. Notable people with the name include: * Violeta Andrei (born 1941), Romanian actress * Violeta Ayala (born 1978), Bolivian film director, producer and writer * Violeta Chamorro (born 1929), Nicaraguan political leader, former president and publisher * Violeta Dinescu (born 1953), Romanian composer, pianist and professor * Violeta Isfel (born Ana Fanni Portolatin, 1985), Mexican actress and singer * Violeta G. Ivanova, Bulgarian astronomer * Sati (Lithuanian singer) (Violeta JurkonienÄ—) (born 1976), Lithuanian singer * Violeta LaužonytÄ— (born 1955), Lithuanian textile artist * Violeta Luna (born 1943), Ecuadorian poet, novelist, essayist, professor and literary critic * Violeta Manushi (1926–2007), Albanian actress * Violeta Maslarova (1925–2006), Bulgarian artist * Violeta MenjÃvar (born 1952), Salvadoran politician * Viki Miljković (Violeta "Viki" Miljković) (born 1974), Serbian singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peanuts
''Peanuts'' is a print syndication, syndicated daily strip, daily and Sunday strip, Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. ''Peanuts'' is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, ''Peanuts'' ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the Yonkoma, four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. ''Peanuts'' focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults unseen character, exist but are never seen and rarely heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)
''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!)'' is a 1980 American animated adventure comedy film produced by United Feature Syndicate and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez and Phil Roman. It was the fourth full-length feature film to be based on the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. ''Peanuts'' creator Charles M. Schulz wrote that he came up with the idea for the story while visiting the ''Manoir de Malvoisine'' in Le Héron, where he was stationed briefly as a soldier during World War II. The castle plays a large role in the film. Paramount Home Entertainment released this film on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995 in 4:3 format, and released it to DVD (cropped to widescreen) on October 6, 2015. The film was also released on Blu-ray for the first time on March 15, 2022 in the US. Plot At Charlie Brown's school, Linus Van Pelt introduces to his class two French students, Babette and Jacques, who will be spending two weeks there in order to get accustomed to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violetta (given Name)
Violetta is a female given name. Notable people with the name include: *Violetta (performer) (1907–1973), real name Aloisia Wagner, German performer born without arms and legs *Violetta Blue, a name previously used by the American pornographic actress now known as Noname Jane * Violetta Bovt (1927–1995), Russian-American ballet dancer *Violetta Caldart (born 1969), an Italian curler *Violetta Elvin (1924–2021), Russian prima ballerina * Violetta Kolobova (born 1991), Russian fencer *Violetta Napierska (1890–1968), Italian film actress, also active in German silent films * Violetta Oblinger-Peters (born 1977), German-born, Austrian slalom canoer * Violetta Parisini (born 1980), Austrian singer * Violetta Quesada (born 1947), Cuban retired sprinter *Violetta Villas (1938–2011), Polish singer and actress * Violetta Zironi (born 1995), Italian singer Fictional characters *Violetta Valéry, main role in Verdi's opera ''La traviata'' *Violetta Castillo, the titular protagonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viola (given Name)
Viola is a female given name, a variant of the given name Violet. Nameberry.com List of people Academics * Viola Birss, Canadian professor of chemistry * , American anthropologist * , American biologist and zoologistActivists * , (1914–1965), African-Nova Scotian civil rights figure *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violet (given Name)
Violet is a female given name which comes from the eponymous flower. As with other such names, its popularity has varied dramatically over time. Flower names were commonly used from about 1880 through about 1910 in the United States, with usage dropping throughout the next 80 years or so; ''Violet'' was the 88th most frequent girls' given name in 1900, dropping below position 1000 by 1960. In 1990, the name appeared again in the top 1000 at position 289 and subsequently increased in popularity; it was the 69th most popular girls' name in 2013. The cognates in other languages are ''Viola'', ''Violeta, Violetta'', or ''Violette''. These are common girls' given names, whose popularity varies by time and country. Name variants *Violet – English * Violette – French, English * Violetta – Italian, Belgian, Dutch *Viola – Latin, English, Italian, German, Swedish * Violeta – Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Lithuanian, Albanian *Виолета / Violeta – Serbian *ВР... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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